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Pictures show an enormous boulder that was thrown through his window, look at that. this is never acceptable. he needs to stop immediately. with just two weeks until the most important midterm of our lives, by the way, over differences need to be solved at the ballot box. no democrats are condemning this. if anything, their rhetoric is encouraging it. they should be more responsible. brand-new reports on three democrats, including two facing off in tight races, we start with senator cory booker,...

Midterm cycles combined. used to be that you got way more people on opening day for presidential election. but the early voting this week in texas is brushing up against the early voting even for 2016 which is the presidential year. its just crazy. this is your election. you are living this, two weeks out. that does it for us tonight. we will see you again tomorrow. as time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel. guess who has already early vote...

White house press secretary should understand their words matter. thus far, they have shown no comprehension of that. thats probably one of the more serious attacks weve heard from jeff about the president. we were speaking to senator jeff flake just a few minutes ago, before you were talking to aaron, and it was about the same thing. about this rally tonight. jeff flake says hes glad about what the president said earlier today, and as you and i were discussing, is it going to change when he get...

Knew about it, none of the key players on capitol hill who would have to be involved knew about it, but what you are seeing in the background are lawmaker aides that the president had to have happen in the presidency. >> sabrina, in your mind and reporting, any parallel to this in terms of a midterm on behalf of the president? >> i certainly think that a lot of their rhetoric on immigration and is fairly unpress dend, but y you, but there was a crisis president trump had to, revolved around the ...

Hes stuck to it through the campaign, will it hurt him with the midterm voter? it depends. >> im watching florida and i would have said, no, andrew gillum is not going to be a strong state wide candidate, and hes turning out to be a strong state wide can dad. >> cruz probably has a wide margin, but were seeing enthusiasm that is hard for polling to detect all over the state of texas. i think the biggest calculation for anyone in my position is to convey some sort of certainty about this race, it...

They feel like espoused their ideas. this is a white nationalist telling me this. its not as if white nationalists are trying to hide this. i think the president has settled on this strategy of fear, this strategy of misinformation as the midterm closer and its working. ive been in districts where people are literally repeating what president trump is saying to them, saying that the caravan will be here before we know it and people will be overrun and its simply not true. >> joe, back when we we...

And auto dialing. a lot of those text messages are being sent by hand using special programs. folks doing those can send up to 10,000 an hour. expect more of those to pop up on your phone. most of us reads those ads. a study shows 90% of those are checked within five minutes. most of us will ignore a phone call from a number we dont recognize. we always answer or at least look at our text messages. thats true. popping up, as well, on instagram and facebook. let me ask you quickly about something...

Message. and ive had the same question, especially about what mcconnell was saying this week. its sort of four or five years ago, maybe even more recently, republicans could put that obamacare repeal message out there, and it might land a certain way with the base. but the politics of that seem to change when republicans got the presidency in both chambers of congress and tried to move on it. and that mcconnell move to me felt sort of like a pre-2017 on the republican part. it worked in the last...

Case perhaps bombs against you. we have lost the ability to just have a normal conversation. thats okay for law enforcement. we have to find out who did this. we have to get them in quickly. we have to make sure there are no other packages in the mail. and we want to send a message to all americans. this is not the way you resolve any personal political differences. we have a midterm coming up. if you have a problem, go vote with your hand. put an x on the box. dont send the bomb through the mai...

Try to make it happen. trump did sort of come up with this tax cut seemingly out of the blue. no one in his administration knew about it, none of the key players on capitol hill who would have to be involved knew about it, but what you are seeing in the background are lawmaker aides that the president had to have happen in the presidency. >> sabrina, in your mind and reporting, any parallel to this in terms of a midterm on behalf of the president? >> i certainly think that a lot of their rhetori...