Sunday, be involved. the nonvoters hold the power. they control the outcome. you own america on tuesday if you re a nonvoter. get out and vote. get out and vote and show how powerful this is. and can i say one more thing let s do it after the commercial. and when we come back, a couple of things. barack obama said today this is the most important election of our lifetimes. and what i like about the way he said it is he said i know politicians always say that. this time it s really true. i ve been through a lot of elections in my lifetime. this is the one that s really true. when we come back, we re going to do that. i also want to talk about the picture of you that was on the van belonging to the man who was accused of sending the pipe bombs around the country. the fbi has talked to you about that picture of you and the way you might be threatened by him and others. and if you re surprised donald trump s former lawyer
In i don t know 40 years who got bumped off the voting rolls in massachusetts. and then when he discovered it, it was too late to register. so we do everything we can to get in your way as a voter in this country. right. and it forces the voter to take on a real job. and the reason why it s made hard is because those in power who are beholden to the rich, to the wealthy who control this country, who buy our politicians in our elections, the last thing that the top 1% want you to do is to show up and have your voice heard. because there s so many more of working people and poor people than there are rich people. so the more that they can make it hard for people to have their voice heard, the more they can continue the status quo. so to upset that status quo, you have to get out there. and most people watching your show are probably going to vote. so what i would say to them is think tonight who are are the five people you know, friends or family, that are nonvoters.
He says i volunteered for bernie sanders. i went to many rallies. i was at the first presidential debate in las vegas. and then when he folded and immediately went to defend hillary, a person who s been campaigning against him for 18 months, that just really killed it for me. i just have no respect for that. and he is a political science student. okay, his last line is this. he says so would i vote in the future? i don t know. if somebody came along that was exciting like that, yeah, probably. so can you talk to voters who don t think their candidates are exciting? is there a reason to vote even if you don t find your candidate exciting? the non-voters are the largest political party in the country. trump caught 63 million votes, hillary 66 million. and usually mid-terms over 120 million. they re the largest political force. so what i would say to aaron and
Other nonvoters is first of all i understand why a lot of you don t vote. i understand why you think the system is corrupt. it is. i understand why you think the candidates sometimes look like a bunch of old party hacks. they are. i understand why you re fed up, and especially where i come from in the midwest, why you re so upset how the system has failed you. but here s the good news, and can i just speak to aaron directly? please do. aaron, you have more power than lawrence or i or anyone else because you belong to the largest political force in the country. all the nonvoters out there, you need to understand you hold the power over this election. you control it. you can show up on tuesday and stick it to the man in a way nobody s ever been able to do it because you, these nonvoters, lawrence, are going to control this election. now, just imagine and aaron lives in georgia
Vote for a democratic candidate in 2016, in 2018 they feel like the candidate is talking directly to them. here s a student i talked to about what beto o rourke is doing to talk to her generation. the fact that beto has a presence on social media platforms, like with his facebook lives videos and his presence on other social media probably encouraged other young voters. reporter: that s the style argument for beto that some of these students are making. on the substance, i d make note of the fact that every student i ve talked to has mentioned gun control to me. if gun control is an issue that is motivating people in texas politics, that is a new development, and that may be the kind of thing that gets some younger voters, gets some non-voters to come out. frankly, the idea of gun control being a motivating factor on the left in texas is a new element to texas politics, and that s what beto o rourke needs if he s going to overcome what is an
Governor has done that impacted their lives directly. it feels more at home than sending someone to washington. in the case of sending someone to washington, i want to go to missouri. it s a steep hill. claire mccaskill has to hold her seat. she s a democrat. she runs an ad, she s standing up she s not a crazy democrat. we ll see how that works. she needs her base to come out, too. she s voted against some of the supreme court nominees and voting alongside other democratic leaders. we ll see how voters in the state the attacks she s trying to fend off. stay with us throughout the week. up next, we share why nonvoters might actually hole the key to many of these midterm elections. , so shark invented duo clean. while deep cleaning carpets, the added soft brush roll picks up large particles, gives floors a polished look, and fearlessly devours piles. duo clean technology, corded and cord-free.
Not have a self-correcting mechanism, like our new modern automobile, has a mechanism, if you go into a skid, it can pull out of a skid. democracy doesn t have a mechanism if it goes out of the skid. just voters, just us. just us. we re it. we re it on november 6th. we re the some thing that can apply the brakes. and everybody should be thinking every day what am i doing to get non-voters, people who don t usually vote, in these midterms out to vote? it s the most important thing. and so i m sorry to have no. i don t want to be a buzz kill about this, but we are we may not pull ourselves out of where trump has taken us. and we have one last chance. and it s less than 12 days away. all right, michael moore, thank you for being with me. thank you for being here with me. next, believe it or not, both sides know the real issue that matters in 12 days is health care, which explains why the republicans want to talk about anything else. senator chris murphy has thoughts and
You go into a skid, it can pull out of a skid. democracy doesn t have a mechanism if it goes out of the skid. just voters, just us. just us. we re it. we re it on november 6th. we re the some thing that can apply the brakes. and everybody should be thinking every day what am i doing to get non-voters, people who don t usually vote, in these midterms out to vote? it s the most important thing. and so i m sorry to have no. i don t want to be a buzz kill about this, but we are we may not pull ourselves out of where trump has taken us. and we have one last chance. and it s less than 12 days away. all right, michael moore, thank you for being with me. thank you for being here with me. next, believe it or not, both sides know the real issue that matters in 12 days is health care, which explains why the republicans want to talk about anything else. senator chris murphy has thoughts and he joins me in two minutes.
Have these moments in the history of the country where we can actually change the course of our pattern, the direction. we can actually be otherwise, ents it seems to me we have always historically chosen to double down on a notion of whiteness. and here donald trump is putting it before us again and it seems that every single time that we do it democracy takes a body blow. so here we are in this moment where what we think is a blue wave, which i think will be determined by those unlikely voters, those nonvoters, may turn into a trickle because people are choosing to be racist, jonathan. they re choosing to act on the basis of their fear and that fear is rooted in the fact that white people think that they can t have the life that they should have as white people. some of the polls tightening might be the natural inclination where people come home to their parties during the stretch run
Last march to reinstate the citizenship question in the census. and the administration said it was going to do that. it hasn t been done since 1950. it was immediately challenged by several states and the groups. they said it was unlawful. what they wanted to do is sit down and interview or depose ross. why say it is unlawful why? because it will scare people away from taking part in the census? right. they want to get at his rati rational. he said it was done to comply with the voting acts right. but they said the real reason was to scare nonvoters from coming forward. that s why they wanted to talk to him and hear about it. but it wasn t a total loss for them. because the court did say that other department of justice official could be deposed, as well as some discovery. but this was a win for the trump administration for now. do we know if brett