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in for carley shimkus. officials at cook county jail recruiting prisoners to vote illegally. here jackie ibanez. >> the nine-candidate field is likely to prevent one person from getting the 50 plus percent necessary to win. officials say we should have a clear winner this weekend. it is uphill battle for incumbent mayor lori lightfoot, accused of coercing inmates to vote for her. guards are recruiting prisoners to vote for lightfoot. reporter william jay kelly spoke to one inmate. >> i said, no, i'm registered in another jurisdiction, i can't vote. >> you can vote for mayor. >> that ...

News coverage is provided. In key races and swing states. This temper Troy Balderson who locked in a surprisingly tight battle with Danny Oconnor for tuesdays Special Election for ohios 12 Congressional District which the president won by 10 points in 2016. Mr. Trump spoke for more than an hour even though the Air Conditioning apparently took the night off. Is 110 degrees in this crazy room. [cheering and applause] if you can take it, i can take it so much for my brandnew beautiful suit. Reporter despite the heat, the president has promised many more rallies in the runup to this november elect...

Would not want to be a juror. >> todd: i am wondering if the reason we saw the splatter that you discussed and two-shooter theory, if we saw it at this point because prosecution basically gave the defense open because prosecution did not, they focused on motive. okay, that is their strategy, they didn't focus on the forensics, okay, we will talk forensics and tell the are story so it gets in the minds of the jury. >> ashley: do you think the prosecution did a good job? >> todd: i haven't watched every single moment, i think they should have done all parts of the case, not focused on financials...

You have to point to counterpoints on the documents. rick gates will really know is on the record that apparently he is the individual that has told the accountant to put in false statements in those tax reports. arthel: rick gates is he was following instructions of manafort. also david bruno, they are 23 projected evidence, 23 email exchanges between manafort and rick gates. how is this looking to you? >> gates is going to be huge. there was some uncertainty whether the government was going to call them initially. a question at the judge at one point. prosecutors said they did not know then ...

Support that, they want to keep defense open for a year. they want to start their war on women in this budget. and they want to also begin to erode the environmental protection agency. so there are many issues outside that the republicans want to attach to a continuing resolution. the democrats have come more than halfway. >> i'm sorry. i interrupted you, congresswoman. but you're saying even that one-week extension, you're saying that planned parenthood and the epa and other riders were going to be part of that one-week extension? >> part of the republicans' one-week extension, yes. and also ...