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robberies brought several democrats are now backing away from defending police movements, both sides are now ramping up their messaging and up several tight races including in georgia. eric: is a topic and charles watson is live in atlanta with a look at how crime is affecting some of the races in the peach state, hi charles. >> had good afternoon eric and arthel. republicans appeared to have found their footing and have a winning message with voters, certainly in terms of rising crime and trying to connect democrats to lawlessness. >> stacey abrams said yesterday funding the police....

hey, everybody, i'm yasmin vossoughian in for hallie jackson, with me now is nbc white house correspondent mike memoli, "the washington post" and msnbc political analyst, ashley parker, also with us "new york times" politics reporter, lisa lerer. mike, let me start with you on this one and talk about what we heard from the president around the 1:00 hour. essentially the message is get out there and vote, especially if you are for abortion rights because we can help codify it come january. talk us through that, three weeks out now from the midterms. >> yeah, that's right, yasmin. i th...

crash saying republicans will crash the economy if they win control of congress in 12 days. plus the january #th committee closing in, new this hour, the key testimony the panel is pursuing which could be its final act. the new data that should quiet questions about the u.s. in a recession but can it stop the federal reserve from a new big hike in interest rates. hello and welcome to "the lead." i'm john berman, 12 days left until the midterm elections and president biden is sharpening his closing argument. you're looking live pictures talking about his administration's toefrts g...

what is the latest? >> well, certainly a significant, significant development here, something that the families have been wanting. and this is the most important thing really in this story. this community, the parents here, they have suspended, the school district now, moments ago in a press release, announcing they are sus ppending their schl police department. several officers at this police department. of course they have faced an enormous amount of scrutiny in their response for taking no action at all. they were there, had knowledge of the school, stood around and did nothing. s...

rate rose by more than 4% from 2021 over 2020. but that report is missing some critically important data. for some reason police departments in the biggest blue cities are not submitting their numbers to the f.b.i. the bureau has to resort to estimating how much crime is happening in crime-ridden cities like chicago, philadelphia, los angeles, and new york. question, is the crime crisis much worse than even we think? here are some actual stats from those cities. overall crime is up 37% in chicago. 26% in philadelphia. nearly 12% in los angeles, 32% in new york city. let's take a live...