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Weve got some really stunning new numbers on midterm fund-raising. heres the headline. this is expected to become the first midterm election ever to surpass $5 billion in total spending. while democrats have slightly outraised republicans, the most recent campaign finance disclosure showed they had more money on hand, $337 million, compared to the democrats $285 million. so, with 15 days to go, could it come down to who has more money to spend? here to weigh in, founder and president of next gen...

Joe, willie and me. if you want to join us, have a cup of coffee and join the conversation, go to joe.msnbc.com. and that does it for us this morning. chris janice picks up the coverage right now. >> thank you, mika, hello there, i am chris jansing, in for stephanie ruhle. fort night battle royale. both parties are breaking out the heavy hitters. both have something to work with. a new poll shows democrats with a nine-point advantage. even as president trumps job approval rating is at its highes...

Sitting at the big boy table. >> thats what we call it, actually, the big boy table. >> hey, wait a second. >> the axios one big thing is republicans trying everything before the midterm. so theyre feeling the heat knowing that they have both an enthusiasm gap and a gap on the ground. so every day and we see it on your air something new. so you were just talking about the presidents tax cut and hes saying that were going to have a kavanaugh election, milking that. hes talking about the caravan e...

Senate. in the house, sort of this home of the blue wave where democrats were going to take over with a huge margin they could still take over but with a much tighter margin. around 20, 30 seats which could get them there but kind of just barely. part of the reason why we see trump seeidoing this is good. its almost completely accuracy on that. you see that the president is a huge force in these midterms. every midterm is about the president in some ways. this one and hes trying to get his peopl...

Michael has come and gone but the damage it has caused lingers. well tell you how the storm could have an impact in voting on the upcoming u.s. mid term elections.

Turnover following the midterm congressional elections and is really bracing for what thats going to mean. white house counsel don mcgahn has left. a new counsel in the white house. theyre looking for a new u.s. ambassador to the united nations. that process is going on. even beyond that, and getting the new u.s. u.n. ambassador confirmed theres a bunch of other people in the west wing who have been eyeing the exits, waiting for the midterms to be over, perhaps for the end of the year and a whol...

That the details are scarce. >> we are looking at putting in a very major tax cut for middle income people, and if we do that it will be sometime just prior i would say to november. a major tax cut. we are going to be putting in and are studying very deeply right now, around the clock, a major tax cut for middle income people. not for business at all, for middle income people. i would say sometime around the first of november, maybe a little before then. >> well, theres one reason why it will be...

It is. the democrat party has become an angry, ruthless, unhinged mob, determined to get power by any means necessary. the democrat party has become too extreme and too dangerous to be trusted with the power that they want. i need everyone here today to cast your vote, ideally today. how about raising your right hand. do you promise you will leave this site, go out and cast your vote right now? this november, vote for jobs, not mobs. >> we heard the president play to a number of central themes i...

Becoming very prolific. >> obviously theres a great deal of attention, fred, on what russia has been doing. the u.s. president, as you pointed out, says russia has not honored that treaty. tell us, what has russia been doing? >> reporter: well, i mean, in this sense in terms of the inf treaty, the americans are saying -- theyve been saying this since the obama administration, since the second term of the obama administration, that the russians are seriously beefing up their capabilities in the e...

>> they threw their leftovers at him. >> get out of here. >> you see there kind of in the corner in that booth, thats senate majority leader mitch mcconnell being hem heckled whi out to dinner with his wife. president trump has scenes like this to open up a new line of attack against democrats labeling them an angry, unhinged mob. no party has a monopoly on inzifi incivility just ask nancy pelosi. >> look at this piece of [ bleep ] pelosi. get the [ bleep ] out of here. get the [ bleep ] out of ...