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Exploring issues that affect leaders in the U. S. And around the globe. Lenders considered for a job in the white house. Well head to the courthouse in a few minutes for more on this developing story, what it means for the president and the Mueller Probe. As big as that legal story is for the presidency tonight, well begin with a Political Development that might be bigger for him and his party because it is happening at the ballot box. You are looking live at people voting in ohios 12 Special Elections where tonights results could show a looming disaster for republicans in november. Recent pol...

Welcome back. to might on "meet the midterms," the ohio 12 isn't the only place where ohio voters are voting. it's primary day in four states. pretty significant states, real ones. all our states are real. kansas, michigan, missouri and washington. you know what that means? got to bring in my pal, fellow's elections nerd msnbc's steve kornacki. brother, we have a ton i'm obsessed with. we agreed to narrow it down to three things. i'm focused on two. we'll start in kansas. kansas kof, trump endorsement chris kovac, a sitting governor replacing sam brownbeck. i'm not convinced what trump's endor...

Star witness. he spent today detailing, sometimes tediously, how he and manafort committed these financial crimes. gates testified how manafort directed him to lie about his income and fake company records. now, manafort's defense team is in the middle of cross exam eng gates, trying to convince jurors that gates who is cooperating with prosecutors to reduce prison time can't be trusted. we heard president trump's name come up, the campaign came up because the jury saw evidence that manafort tried to leverage his connections on the trump transition, aka, his friendship with rick gates to curry...

Battleground approaching 80-some seats. if republican troy balderson can eke it out, the republicans could claim a bit of a survival, that they would need to win a seat like ohio, the ohio 12 in order to save the house. the president might say we'll see. we don't know what tonight's results might bring. either way you'll see some major fallout tonight. certainly what everybody is going to be staying up tonight to follow. eric headache is on the ground in ohio. also with me tonight's panel, lee ann caldwell, cornell belcher, msnbc political analyst and democratic pollster. garrett, i think the ...