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44 million americans have already cast an early ballot. polls are now open in 49 of our great 50 states, hawaii opens last in about 59 minutes. each and every vote cast will make up a small part of what our political landscape will look like for the next two years. democrats have been facing increasingly bleak chances in the mid-term elections. president biden even admitting last night it will be an uphill battle for dems. >> what do you think about tomorrow, sir? >> president biden...

now, john. >> all right. important update there, chad. thank you very much. a sudden departure this morning by a key figure in the january 6th investigation. tony ornato, the sis tachbt director of the secret service left the agency on monday. it comes two months after his name came up in explosive testimony by former white house aide cassidy hutchinson. she said ornato told her then president trump was furious with his security detail for refusing to take him to the capitol on janua...

the national archives has been trying to get donald trump to return documents since the end of his presidency. im john berman. brianna is off. cnn chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins is with us this morning. this timeline we just keep getting more data points. >> its like every day you learn that the conversations on getting these documents back goes back further than we thought. >> it was a problem it seems from the beginning. an email from the national archives indicates ...

all of the nearly 22 million jobs lost since the start of the covid pandemic. president joe biden and his signature aviator sunglasses took a much deserved victory lap earlier today. >> were almost had 10 million jobs. almost a 10 million jobs since i took office. thats the fastest job growth in history. today, there are more people working in america than before the pandemic began. in fact, there are more people working in america at any point in american history. >> in a relief for d...

on a very busy wednesday morning im todd piro. >> carley: carley shimkus and marianne rafferty covering all the keys this morning, marianne, good morning. >> good morning carley and todd appear in primary starting in new york where jerry nadler won decisive victory over congresswoman carolyn maloney after redistricting three term democrats and powerful committee members against each other. meanwhile, the patrick ryan winning a special election and an important swing district. ryan focu...

records that were taken by the twice-impeached ex-president when he left office in january 2021. the new reporting also details team trumps months of resistance led by the ex-president himself to handing over records containing some of the countrys most important and guarded national security secrets. it reveals that the search of trumps private resident was actually many months in the making and really just the latest chapter in a long, simmering investigation. heres what happened whe...

elementary school auto could have been stopped within three minutes if it wasnt for the indivisiveness of the on scene commander. in a special hearing with the texas senate, the states director of public safety testified that police had everything they needed to take the shooter down minutes after he entered the school. at least seven officers were in the building. at least two of them had rifles. and the classroom door was likely never locked. instead, uvalde school district police ch...

unleaded gas, 24 cents per gallon of diesel. the national average for regular unleaded hovering around $5 a gallon. lawmakers in both parties say they arent really certain this would make much of a dent. south carolina senator tim scott is skeptical. >> unfortunately the way that gas is ticking up every single week, that reduction in price is eliminated in about 12 days. what we need is to have certainty and predictability so that those energy producers feel like they can invest billio...

put out another fire. >> forced to walk back military intervention. >> this is amateur hour at 1600 pennsylvania. >> inside out, foul. the baseball landed in a beer cup and he just the whole beer with the ball in the cup. ♪ ♪ >> georgia then it would all make sense. all eyes are on georgia, texas. minnesota. where else can we look? >> alabama. >> brian: arkansas. >> ainsley: texas. >> brian: not a lot. but i think a lot of people looking at georgia. >> ainsley: sarah huckabee sande...

december 31st, 1971. no lying up about your age. that actually happened. nominations are open until august 1st. but sooner you submit, the better. head to forbes.com to nominate someone today or nominate yourself. chief content officer of forbes media and editor, randall lane, thank you very much. it is now one minute past the top of the hour. the fourth hour of "morning joe." and today is primary day across a number of southern states including georgia, alabama, arkansas and texas. ...