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Wishful thinking. >> professor de soto this morning on "morning joe" echoed something in your lead. she said the poll data is not reflected. she thinks its going to be within the -- right now they are running neck and neck. >> because of the turnout model. the $38 million hes raised is being deployed to turn out those unlikely voters. about 1.6 million folks theyve registered. so part of what we need to see here is that beto orourke is exciting people who we dont ordinarily think are the people ...

Voting as of yesterday. heres the headline in the atlanta journal constitution. turnout soars on the first day of early voting in georgia. in the last midterm election in 2014, so four years ago, on the first day of early voting, about 21,000 people voted. yesterday, look at this, over 69,000 people voted. thats an apples to apples comparison with the last midterm. over 69,000 people cast an in-person early ballot in georgia yesterday, compared to 21,000 on the same day in the last midterm. that...

Democrats registering. we said the same thing in 2016. >> its not quite apples to apples, its a midterm versus presidential. >> in raw numbers theres actually less, about 25 million new people who have registered or updated their status in 2018 versus about 40 million in 2016. so youre absolutely right, youre going to get less. but what we really care about is looking at the partisanship: its all about the ground game, chris. so, you know, we really want to see the rate of democrats versus repub...

Mcmahon and i dont remember that particular arrangement ever before and in your previous job you know how those seats get assigned and is it happenstance that after this controversy he is seated between two women. >> no, i dont believe. so and my best recollection is the secretary of the state and the secretary of the defense or the treasury would occupy those seats. yep. >> and exact ly. >> and whether this is a full cabinet meet og for the partial one, but you make the fair point. i was really...

Ballots that were mailed in, so its both the people who shade up to early vote in person, you add in the mail-in ballots, more than 129,000 georgians have voted already in advance of the november 6th election. and again, make the comparison with the last midterm. this time four years ago, the number was just over 46,000. now look at it. so mail in and in-person early voting, the numbers combined this year are nearly triple what they were in the last midterm in the great state of georgia. so ther...

Multiple countries with operatives with a bonesaw, individuals connected to muhammad bin salman. it may be the saudis knew all along theyd be caught and knew all along as we have seen at least heretofore that the trump administration would be with them every step of the way. and what pompeos visit to riyadh underscored is that we havent seen any rupture and its unclear if we will. >> i spoke to a former intelligence official who said -- i asked him why would mbs have done this? and he said simpl...

The many tens of thousands, record numbers. actually, when you add in the ballots that were mailed in, so its both the people who shade up to early vote in person, you add in the mail-in ballots, more than 129,000 georgians have voted already in advance of the november 6th election. and again, make the comparison with the last midterm. this time four years ago, the number was just over 46,000. now look at it. so mail in and in-person early voting, the numbers combined this year are nearly triple...

Voting as of yesterday. heres the headline in "the atlanta journal constitution" -- "turnout soars on the first day of early voting in georgia." in the last midterm election in 2014, so four years ago, on the first day of early voting, about 21,000 people voted. yesterday, look at this, over 69,000 people voted. thats an apples to apples comparison with the last midterm. over 69,000 people cast an in-person early ballot in georgia yesterday, compared to 21,000 on the same day in the last midterm...

Being good and until mr. khashoggi -- no obvious foreign policy crisis. so it is partly a referendum on trump. >> and its pretty simple. if they win, trump is going to say its because he was on the ballot. if they lose, hes going to say it had nothing to do with him. >> might pick up one senate seat. >> that could happen. >> that could happen. he will do -- look, he could be pretty good at this. he will go out and say, better than the usual midterm. often you lose both houses. >> mark was on cnn...

What about your tax returns, they have to do whatever they do, and ill do whatever i do. and i have had the most successful two years. is that what he really feels about it ? >> going into the midterms, going into the next two years, to your point about politics, he is looking to 2020. he wants to talk about the preside democrats who want to run against him. hes not phased by any of them. he wants to be on the campaign trail more. so i think he wants to -- he does not what about to suggest any a...