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top of the hour. nice to have you have us, im eric hill. on this very busy monday morning. election day, if youre not counting, just 15 days away. early voting already breaking records in at least one battleground state and this week there will be a number of major debates in key match-ups around the country. first up is florida where ron desantis is set to scare off with charlie crist tonight. well have more on that in just a moment. were also following this unprecedented rise in rsv ...

Thomas is a defender of former president trump on the court. when a court declined to hear a case of republicans seeking to disqualify certain mail-in ballots. and this past january, he was the only justice to vote against the lease of trump white house-related documents. and joining me now is nancy gurtner, former u.s. district judge of the district of massachusetts, currently a senior lecturer at the harvard law school. so, the question i guess, judge, is this, should justice thomas have recus...

47 months is only one or two of sentences coming to manafort. hell be sentenced in a federal court on d.c. on wednesday. joining us now what paul manafort could face next week and how to understand the 47 months sentence is nancy gurtner, is currently a senior lecturer at harvard law school. >> good to be here. >> judge ellis, says "the court must take into account the characteristic of the defendant." here is how judge ellis expre expressed on manafort. the defendant has no criminal history. he...

Interfered in any way with the special counsels investigation. >> that was the line from matthew whitaker, the acting attorney general also testifying that he had provided no insight about the mueller probe to the trump administration. whitaker refused to discuss his conversations with trump among other issues. prompting jerry nadler, joining me for more on whitakers testimony former federal judge nancy gurtner. there has been universal condemnation of this testimony as ill advised and ill prepa...

>> well, you see, i actually think they went for the death penalty in part. if you recall, when this case happened, there was enormous pressure to talk about making this go before a military tribunal, having him go before a military tribunal, and it was critical to show that a civilian court could do this. and i felt that they were pressured to accept a death penalty, to go for the death penalty. but they had an option at any moment, we know that now, to accept a plea of life without parole. wou...