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Regardless of what they make possibly investigating. thank you very much for speaking with us on atlanta on that. let's go to mccaskill and josh harley. nbc morgan radford is joining us right now. do you have a sense of what people are doing and psyched up for this race? >> reporter: alex, people are fired up. there is also no straight ticket voting. there is no tip of the hat so to speak in terms of which way the race is going to go. make no mistakes, these two are locked in a dead heat. mccaskill is in the political fight of her life, she has to convince voters that she's able to move across...

And sports editor for the nation, dave xyron. dave, let me get a sense from you of the importance of this game and the degree to which politics has been involved in championships like this before. >> no, absolutely. i mean, this is alabama versus georgia. they're both teams from the southeastern conference where college football is at its most rabid, and they would take that, certainly, as a compliment. and so, while the eyes of the nation is going to be on this game, the southeast of the united states, more particularly, is going to be looking at this game. and of course, we've seen sports an...

Welcome back. i'm david gura. sports fans across the country are anticipating monday night's s.e.c. face-off in atlanta for the college football national championship, and the possibility of president trump attending the georgia versus alabama game, two states he carried in the 2016 election, have many wondering if this is a political play. alabama voters dealt trump a blow last month by electing democrat doug jones, and for months, the president has battled the nfl over players kneeling to protest social injustice. remember trump's war of words with georgia congressman john lewis, in which he...

National championship in atlanta, but the presence of donald trump could steal the show. what the commander in chief hopes to accomplish. we begin this hour with some breaking news. steve bannon apologizing to president trump and his family for remarks he made in michael wolff's new book, "fire and fury." well, that apology includes, "i regret that my delay in responding to the inaccurate reporting regarding don junior has diverted attention from the president's historical accomplishments in the first year of his presidency. that first year documented in salacious detail in "fire and fury," ...

We will have -- we welcome the visitors to come to atlanta for this game. we welcome the players. you know, they have a lot at stake. they all serve at the pleasure of their coaches. and as the previous speaker said, you know, they have a lot on the line. they've been wanting to be here for all of their football lives, and we wish them all the best. we know there will be one winner, and the best will come out at the end. but the president, again, is just grandstanding. all he talks about how bad atlanta is. if it's so bad, don't come. >> david zirin, last question to you here. there's been so ...