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In the house, democrats need to gain 23 seats to take control. yesterday the cook political report released its final ratings with 25 republican-held seats and five held by democrats. and a 41 open seats held by republicans, 15 are rated tossups. or leaning toward the democrat. while only five, joe, lean republican. >> its going to be a huge day. lets look at some of the headlines. "the washington post," uncertainty rules as the midterms reach the wire. the washington globe, donald trump says he...

Votes coming coming from i4 corr and thats why president trump campaigning in georgia said this is one of the most important elections ever. >> this is one of the most important elections of our life time. theres electricity in the air since i havent seen since victories we have had together. [cheers and applause] >> we saw time and time again in primary the trump bump, ron desantis getting a visit over the weekend from president trump, we will find out if he can narrow the races as they come to...

>> leland: will wait to see the effect of president obama down there as well yesterday. phil, thank you so much. >> laura: as the migrant caravan coming up from mexico southern border continues moving towards the u.s., president trump is sending troops south to prepare for his arrival. rick leventhal is in texas with the latest. it looks like you have a wall of barbed wire behind you. how is it going? >> reporter: the wire stretched here by the u.s. military, some of the first arriving troops he...

That. its my expectation he will do that at sometime. >> next week in terms of the priority its the wearing of the wire and what else? >> its the fact that we have had a number of meetings which is what mr. rosenstein suggested. well meet and talk about all of these things. we said no, you have to be under oath. it has to be a transcribed interview with questions and answers given. we also had public hearings where he refused to answer questions. so, this is an important opportunity in the appro...

19 days out, does this change the subject in a way republicans can jump on? >> look, there are a lot of issues out there. to cast women voters as caring about one issue over another is kind of unfair. if youre someone who is fired up to come out and vote against donald trump, you felt that way the day he got inaugurated in january 2017. if youre someone starting to tune in and you dont like the way the democrats have treated brett kavanaugh or some of the angry mobs are more extreme tactics, you...

Of fallback friday with method man from the wu-tang clan. >> yes, method man is here from me, the grammy award winning rapper from staten island. theyve sold over 40 million albums worldwide and hes got hit songs with mary j. blige and redman and recurring roles in "the wire" and "deuce." ive been getting hit up a lot about this guy thats on msnbc that just, you know, knows all the lyrics to mostly all the 90s hip-hop songs. kudos to you. >> that means a lot. i grew up on your music. >> thank yo...

Testify. so im a little surprised that rod wouldnt do it. >> many aides say there remains an impasse over the terms, because they say the allegations rosenstein thought to undermine the president are so serious versus our briefing or a former meeting with no paper trail. republican committee member said chairman goodlatte needs to take a firmer stance because the department has also refused to comply with the committee subpoena to provide the memos documenting the may 2017 meeting where rosenste...

>> on friday, "the new york times" alleged that last year rosenstein discussed recruiting cabinet members to invoke the 25th amendment to remove mr. trump from office for being unfit and then raised the idea of wearing a wire to secretly tape the president. smart. yes. the wires really smart because, think about this, if trump were caught on tape saying something horrible, he could win the 2016 election. how do you win at business? stay at laquinta.

Intelligence correspondent catherine herridge. she is live for us in washington. catherine, you are hearing the white house has reservations beyond that "new york times" article. >> well, trace, a source familiar with white house discussions over the weekend tells fox news that they focus on whether rosenstein was, quote: compromised based on what they describe as multiple conflicts of interest. rosenstein is a likely witness in any obstruction of justice case against the president over the firi...

Maddow, she walked through, maya, the timeline that makes it sound like whoever it was, because they werent in the room who leaked this information to the "new york times," may have, we dont know their motive, one motivation possibility is that it would trigger donald trump in the paper hes most obsessed with, to then have a pretext to fire rosenstein, which they want him to do, a lot of the folks at fox want him to do. trump tweeted about the idea he would release these unredacted wire taps fro...