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we are in it now, the final full day of campaigning in the last hours of this election, as we come on the air, with our nbc news team, all across the country, covering it all this hour, live, we ve got reports from our campaign correspondents, with the candidates talking to voters, and breaking new reporting on the races that are going to decide the balance of power in washington. a balance of power that tens of millions of people are already weighing in on. you ve got some 40 million ballots already cast, right? sure, election day is tomorrow, but a lot of people are not waiting. this comes after lawsuits are already coming in over absentee and mail-in votes and a potential first for congress, the new faces who could be headed to washington, and why there s never been anybody like them in congress before, we ve got a look at that later on in the show. i m hallie jackson with you now from our election headquarters in new york city, we ve got our nbc news team set up acr ....
Joining us on the couch is zac petkanas. Not from fbn. He worked under Hillary Clinton and was an adviser to the dnc. He is outnumbered as we say. Glad to be with you guys. You wore your special socks lets get to it. Lets put him to work. Another change to the president cabinet. He fired his veteran Affairs SecretaryDavid Shulkin and so not naming the white house physician. His departure was wildly expected following ethics scandal charging taxpayer for travel expenses. Shulkin said the big problem was his resistance to the administrations goal to privatizing care for veteran. He elaborated that today. Last few months, it really has changed not from congress but from these internal political appointees that were trying to politicalize the v. A. And make sure the progress stopped. Its been a difficult environment. Its ....
Weve been talking about it overnight in our breaking News Coverage. John mccain, 60 years of service including his military time, his time in the u. S. House, the u. S. Senate, of course, a president ial candidate nominee twice, in 2008. But his father and grandfather were also navy admirals. He was a navy fighter pilot, obviously, a p. O. W. In vietnam for five and a half years. Just a remarkable legacy of service he leaves behind. Griff it is a morning to wake up and be grateful that we had such a patriot and the remarkable things he did that embody and personify the american spirit. Tucker carlson did an obit package, and he looks back on the legacy of senator john mccain. John Sidney Mccain iii was born on a military base in the panama canal zone. Mccains grandfather accepted the Imperial Japanese surrender in tokyo ....
Situation room at the white house. She now says she also recorded the president s daughter and soninlaw, who are both senior without advisers, without their consent, they were recorded. She said she was offered 15,000 a month after being fired from the white house on a contract that essentially required no work from her but it would include a nondisclosure nondisparagement agreement that would preclude her from talking about her time in the white house or her colleagues there. She also says the president is mentally unfit for the job. She says he is unaware of most of what happens in the white house now and she says she has heard recordings of him using the n word at a work setting at his former job on a tv show. Every once in awhile, i just have to step back, right . As i said, this registers as a fair to middling day for this administration. Because apparently our political si seismo seismog seismographs dont work anymore, so we just keep working, pretending this is just monday. Toda ....