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>> the country tonight is in the midst of what may be the most serious constitutional crisis in its history. >> an investigator appointed to investigate scandals was fired because he insisted on investigating scandals. >> i am joined by nbc presidential historian michael beschloss. thanks for being here tonight. >> my pleasure. >> mid-term election. firing of jeff sessions. replaced by what looks like a loyalist who is on the record for narrowing in this probe. where does this rate in comparison...

But we just talked to an official, an election official here in louden county. he said they had roughly 50,000 voters just cast ballots just this morning, as of 10:00 a.m. eastern time. he says thats way up from the midterms of 2014. so you get an idea, these battlegrounds are absolutely crucial, especially in these house races. kate. >> great to see you. thank you so much. joining me to talk about the races to watch, political analyst rachel bay. forming adviser to four presidents, political an...

Bent on narrowing to the greatest extent possible. and reducing the avenues of humanitarian admission that have always exist ed in this country, reducing them to the greatest extent possible. >> we have to wrap it up there. always appreciate it. thank you very much. two races, two different states, too close to call, a house campaign in california and senate raise in arizona. well talk to our election experts about what works in the final sprint to turnout the vote. checkout is at four. enjoy yo...

Independent voters in those states? whats he done, and particularly the tactics hes used, the demagoguery, to put it mildly. >> fearmongering. >> yeah, the fearmongering. your poll shows some tightening in those races. places like missouri are more tight, indiana. i think, you know, again, we have to wait for the results, but absent the last couple weeks, it would have been the senate moving to republicans or continuing with republicans. the house of democrats. i think there is a chance that so ...

All three of them, democrats are running 20 points better among college educated white than non-college whites. mid 50s or higher. especially women, but not exclusively women. thats really unprecedent and that is the root of the republican risk in all of these suburban areas where the maximum danger is. donald trump may be energizing as the republican base, but he is narrowing. under donald trump, they are trading suburbs for rural, blue collar for white collar, younger for older. that is a trad...

American problems overcome the problems of civil disorder and make it possible for their populations to not have to pick up and run to the united states. that is not where they are now, and as long as thats the position they are in, people are going to keep trying to go elsewhere because if youre in a position where your child is certain to become a gang member or to be recruited on pain of possible death to join a gang, or if you have a daughter who may be subject to sexual assault by gang memb...

>> the best estimates right now are between 25 and 40 but that seems to be narrowing as well how president trump characterizes at all? . >> with a net gain of two to take control of the senate and with those prognosticators and taking over control to put a caveat at the bottom the polls could be wrong and there was a decent chance there were all these caveats with a lot of races to call. >> so there was another question to discuss does nancy pelosi win the speakership on

>> so theyre increasing now by a margin of -- this is a stat that honestly blows my mind. in the 2014 election, seniors outnumbered younger voters by a 9-1 margin. thats coming down to 5-1. youre seeing a real narrowing of the gap. youre also seeing a big surge with latino voter, african-american voters and women and seeing a lot of first time voters ler the elector a the -- electorate. its really unprecedented. >> democrat or republican youre seeing more of a relevant change? >> when we look at...

Joining me now white house correspondent with "time" magazine and jonathan allen, msnbc political reporter. good morning to you both. >> tess, im going to start with you here. earlier in the broadcast we mentioned the survey by the washingt"washington post." but the favorability among registered voters has been narrowing since august by a few percentage points. whats behind the narrow do you think? >> trump has been doing an aggressive campaign swing throughout the country as you were talking ab...

And you say it is a tool for learning, roving, and constructive community building, but its unrivaled too in the spread of lies, narrowing of interests and erosion of common cause. please give us some examples of that. >> with the internet we are now individuals are kind of curating their information diets, theyre curating their news consumption in a way that they can tune out anything that doesnt fit their pre-existing worldview. they can tuck themselves into echo chambers where they only hear ...