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Good morning. Im melissa harrisperry. Brandnew news that democrats may rather not hear when it comes to their partys chances to maintain control of the senate after novembers Midterm Elections. There are 36 senate races this year and republicans just need to win six additional seats to gain control. A new nbc news marist poll out this morning underscores the challenge of facing democrats. In Arkansas Senate race, republican come cotton leads the democratic inkoum bent mark pryor by five points. In kentucky, mitch mb connell leads allison london grimes by eight points. One bright spot for the d...

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Honestly, and ridiculous that we as a government don't have the data. every single conversation about law enforcement and use of force by definition is uninformed. i cannot tell you whether shootings are up, down, or flat because we don't have the data. >> joining me now from columbia, south carolina, marcus claxton, retired nypd detective and director of the black law enforcement alliance. this man works for the president. he was speaking at the president's former employer, the university of chicago. he was speaking at one point to one of the president's former campaign strategists. he seemed...

national committee to the activists offering the dnc's support for a town hall on social and racial justice. the letters were sent to the two different groups boat at the forefront of the movement. the #blacklives' matter network, which shares its name with the broader movement and operates as an umbrella organization with local chaptersp cities across the country, and campaign zero, a separate group that has coalesced around a ten-point agenda to reduce and eliminate police violence. the dnc's recognition of both groups signals not only the growing influence of the voice of this mov...

Understand about the choices that they may be making that they're facing. there's been a lot of conversation about potentially when martin o'malley was governor he set activities in process of arresting every person who you see who is so and so so-called disrespectful. we know that this happened when freddie gray made eye contact. but to go to officer claxton's point, why are we arresting people for eye contact? can't we have a little more internal capacity than that? >> i can't disagree entirely because i don't know all the facts. but freddie gray was not arrested because somebody looked at h...