arizona hospitals are affected by this. migrant families, women come, have their children, automatic passport and american citizenship. your view? >> then we see the chinese coming over because there's a whole fraudulent way to do that. i appreciate the president bringing this up and the abuses of it. if we actually secure our border and crack down on the illegal immigration and close these loopholes we wouldn't be having this conversation. he's highlighting things that have been abused. >> laura: is the 14th amendment covered? >> i'm not a constitutional expert but i think we close the loopholes we would stop it from happening. >> the lawsuit against president trump. six kids are in it. number of honduran nationals saying what the president said in part, mentioning our show, the legal problem with the terms plan to stop caravans of persons from entering the country that seek asylum, and goes on to say that trump simply cannot stop them from legally doing so or using the military or anyone. >> you can't make this up. this i

so he was on the ballot in arizona. and it was an interesting aspect that's been going on out there. i can we don't pay enough attention to it. that is this, one of the elements mark sanford calleds for for the republican party to try and reclaim is civility. we just saw civility with martha mcsally and with crenshaw on "saturday night live." >> and, you know, willie geist, what does mark sanford and jeff flake have in common? weren't good enough for donald trump. they were not loyal enough for donald trump. they didn't balance enough for donald trump. even though they voted with him 90%, 95% of the time. now trump drives them out and he has two democrats in south carolina and arizona that he's going to be dealing with for the next two years. >> yeah. waits interesting in june when mark sanford lost his primary and we asked him about advice and he said don't cross donald trump. he said that was his advice. he wasn't willing to do that and he lost his seat because of it, he thinks. if you look at what happened in arizona

voters at the day of the dead festival spoke of the dark state of politics in arizona and around the u.s. they say they're ready to move on the question is in which direction. and if you look at arizona's turnout numbers among early voters there appears to be a late surge among democrats who've already cast a ballot at the polls democrats say that's a sign of enthusiasm among their ranks though notably still more republicans have turned down early voting is in comparison however the the two candidates the republican candidate who are vying for that senate seat in arizona are at a statistical tie and this is a seat that democrats must pick up if there's any hope of winning the majority in the senate so he will certainly find out what the results.

i wish her all success as she represents arizona in the senate. and i also want to say thank you to everybody who supported me in this campaign. my staff and volunteers and everybody who voted for me. i'm so grateful for you my wingman and this journey. i'm so thankful for you. as i traveled around this state i was so inspired by the many people that i met, and i think convinced arizona is the best state in the country and our best days are still yet to come. and i'm going to continue to pray for our success. thank you so much. >> that was the entire concession speech. and of course the dog's name is boomer, and boomer is now my nominee for best performance by a dog in a senate election concession speech. here is tonight's big winner. kirsten sinema, the first democrat to claim victory an in arizona senate election since 1988. >> it won't be easy, and it won't happen overnight, but we can work together to meet the challenges our country faces. we can do this differently for our country, for our future, for senator mccain and for each other. i thin

arizona is also a nail-biter. kyrsten sinema's lead has grown to 30,000 with roughly 300,000 votes to be counted. that could end up being a democratic pickup. governor's races we're headed for another florida recount. ron desantis has a narrow lead over andrew gillum. yesterday andrew gillum rescinded his concession. it's going to a machine recount. we'll see if it falls into the threshold for hand recount. and brian kemp has a narrow lead over stacey abrams. that could go to a recount to see if it needs to go t a runoff. in the house, 11 races have yet to be called. the democrat leads in six of those contests, the republican in five. that's why our protection is plus or minus five at 231. okay. let me start with florida and rick scott and bill nelson already with a war of words. take a listen. >> it's clear, we've got some left-wing activists, we've got some democrat d.c. lawyers, they're down here for one purpose, to steal this election. >> clearly rick scott is trying to stop all the votes from being counted, a

>> he won arizona. he energizes republicans. >> reporter: sinema has voted to fund the border wall but opposed thete. >> reporter: why should voters who agree with his agenda vote for you on election day? >> well, i vote for issues the president agrees with when they're right for arizona and against issues when they're wrong for arizona. >> reporter: women around the country are running in record numbers. 23 women on the ballot for u.s. senate and 235 in house races. and while there's a lot of focus on female candidates, even more critical could be female voters who are shaping up to possibly be one of the most consequential voting blocks this year. a recent national poll shows

steve, how did arizona end up electing a democrat? >> yeah look, there were rumblings if you look back in 2016 and the presidential results in arizona. donald trump carried the state but only by a couple points. democrats have been talking for a while about arizona potentially being a target for the future for them. the story here really, it's maricopa county, it's phoenix, the phoenix suburbs. this is well over half the state population-wise and you can see there's still some votes to come in here, a very late counting state. sinema did far better in the phoenix suburbs than we were expecting. that's the difference for her state-wide. sinema going to win this thing. what does that mean in terms of the picture in the senate? you've got two races that are uncalled. republicans at the moment with 51, democrats with 47. we've got the issue in florida with the bill nelson race. rick scott leading going into the recount. the outstanding ballot issue we've been talking about. into are floor still uncalled and also mississippi. of course mis

an border of southern arizona and california. we will hear about the construction of parker dam and how the two states manage this important resource. the colorado river is essentially the only major river in this part of the world that will supply -- it supplies 40 million people total. it is a big deal. be major problems if this river dried up. this is the economy and the lifeblood of this area of the world. the colorado river borders two states, california and arizona. california and arizona have historically not gone along too well with water. in particular from the colorado river. waiver --e colorado river was authorized by congress. it needed to be ratified by all of seven basis states of the watershed within the colorado river. all states except for arizona signed right away. arizona thought california was getting way too much water so they refused to sign it. they continue to refuse to sign it for decades afterwards. parker dam was initially constructed in 1935 were completed in 1938. the primary reason for constructing t

>> he won arizona. he energizes republicans. >> reporter: sinema has voted to fund theor br wall but opposed the tax cuts. >> a vote for kyrsten sinema i a wasted vote. >> reporter: why should voters who agree with his agenda vote er you onction day? >> well, i vote for issues theg presidents with when arizona and for against issues when they're wrong for arizona. >> reporter: women around the eccountry are running ind numbers. 23 women on the ballot for u.s. senate and 235 in house races. and while there's a lot of focus on female candidates, even more critical could be female voters who are shaping up to possibly be one of the most consequential voting blocks this year. a recent national pollme shows n voters are breakingsor democry a margin of more than 2 to 1. a history-making contest with control of congress at stake. krist kristen welker, nbc news, phoenix. >> do not miss a minute of our wall to wall ection night coverage with lester holt, nd chuck toddrie leading the way. it all starts tonight at

staying on arizona, i think in some ways arizona has been undercover. we have not focussed nearly enough on the impact of this. thankl ly thankfully, cnn has a three hour election special tonight. arizona is the future of the democratic party and always has been. well, now, they have got their hands on it to an extent. this is democrats succeeding in the sun belt. this is also a much different result from what we thought might be happening to the democrats one week ago. >> yeah. first on arizona specifically, jackie mentioned '95. she's right. but the teetruth, it's the last time they had someone elected as a democrat was this same guy in 1976. so he got re-elected and retired in '94. but that's a long time ago. i mean, i'm 42. that's the year i was born. '76 was the last time they had someone. so we forget how solid i republican arizona was. on a broader point, right now you have republicans plus one. now, you have florida out there. rick scott is obviously ahead and we have mississippi. i would, despite her problems recently, i would suggest cindy hyd

. >> welcome to lake havasu city arizona. with help from our cable partners for the next 90 minutes we explore the communities literary life. located along the arizona california border, lake havasu city holds a population of 54,000 and is a major water sports location in the southwest. also home of the london bridge, the city's dominant industry is tourism. we begin our feature at the london bridge to speak with the local author rick kingsbury. >> a bunch of us got together when we heard the bridge because the data break stones 1st came in, after that it became routine but that 1st day was a big event . i had my 1st car which was a 53 chevy station wagon and we figured well, we can get some of these stones and throw them in the back ofthe station wagon and be gone before anybody knows what hit them . we're all sittingthere because we had to measure what we are going to take so we're all sitting there on the parade route . and here come the trailers of macola boulevard and these things were massive, massive. literally, the gr

in tucson arizona thank you. let's join much grossman he's the director of the institute for public policy and social research at michigan state university joins me now via skype from cambridge in massachusetts good to have you with us on the programming we reported a lot on the sort of numbers of people voting early on in this election can we make any assumptions about early voting considering even the pollsters got it wrong in twenty sixteen. well it confirms there are measures that show a high interest in the election and i think we're going to have any in turnout. midterm elections i wouldn't put too much stock in that relative strength of democrats or republicans in that early sense most people that earned it early would have voted out like should anyway ok to talk us through then some of the rather poignant salient points of this particular lecture because what we have to muslim women almost certain to win a record number of women really running for office for the very first time we've got to a transgender

for arizona. for every four families that move to arizona, within one year, three of them have left. and of course that first summer for a lot of people -- it was a real rude awakening if you're from a cooler climate. because it's hot here. it's hotter than phoenix. one of the hottest places in the united states. in fact, a record, i believe, was 128. so a lot of people can't take the heat. a lot of people would leave. over the years, it began to build. i think the reason they bought the bridge and brought it here was because they could. to make a very long story short. you might remember when long beach bought the queen mary. stevie wood, i believe it was, an amazingly talented man, they were there at that meeting talking about that. ok. apparently as the meeting was breaking up and they were all leaving, i think it was c.v. wood, might have been somebody else, but it was one of them, offhandedly said, by the way, is there anything else for sale over there? almost as a joke. and the guy says well

that's right the night is not over here in arizona nor to toward westwards towards california and on words and here there is a still a chance that democrats may pull an upset and flip this senate seat from republican to their corner we're looking at less than five thousand votes with these early returns coming in that are separating republican martha mick sally from her democratic challenger kiersten samina and that this is widely seen in arizona as a referendum on how trump has been addressing immigration this is a border state i'm standing just one hundred kilometers north of the mexican border and trump was campaigning here on the half a mic sally calling that caravan of central american migrants that are approaching the border an invasion he also promoted a racist political ad that tried to compare the members of the caravan who are in large part women and children with would be murderers in the u.s. and he's also been floating the idea of revoking birthright citizenship which is protected by the u.s. constitution that kind of rhetoric indeed sows division it is polarize of the e

from here graduated high school here, went to arizona state university. majored in communications at the walter cronkite school of journalism. from there i went to myrtle beach, south carolina. became the evening anchor in myrtle beach, south carolina. was wonderful place to be, particularly for the 2008 election. from 2006 on we had kids tripping over each other for two years, leading into that south carolina primary which is the second primary in the process and the first in the south. i actually grew up around john mccain all of my life. i've circulated brochures for him in his first campaign in phoenix, in the early ol's and we left yuma he was one of my last interview. we did a border story with senator mccain and i said i'm going south carolina. wi plight not see each other again. and six years later i got a phone call and i it was mccain on the phone same i'm coming to greenville so we drove up to greenville and for two years i saw him more in south carolina than i ever did here in arizona as he campaigned for that nomination. he won the south caro

all but arizona signed right away. thought that california was getting way too much water and they refused to sign it. refuse to signto it for years and decades afterwards. the dam was constructed in 1935 1938.mpleted in the reason for constructing the am was metropolitan water district of southern california to access colorado river water part of their entitlement on the river and to draw that to and down to san diego as well. when construction commenced the ,rizona governor benjamin moore ot like the paint, but he sent six militia from the arizona divisions and he wanted to find out what was going on. they sent them out to inspect progress. once they saw that california was actually starting to build arizona side, that started alarms it the governor 100 militia to say you are not going to do this. rectified fairly quickly. of nine all in a span or 10 months in 1935. the result was there was appear passed by congress called the rivers and harbors act that of orized construction parker dam behind me. everything was smo

torre of the cause behind the castro he's live for us in tucson arizona and the theme of race is also a whole topic way you all because the agenda that when the top the top issue. of the geographical reason is wells i was. sort of national repercussions. across the country. that's right because right here in arizona i'm only one hundred kilometers north of the border with mexico and immigration is coming up and again and again in my conversations with voters there are many latino voters here who may be immigrants themselves or just a couple of generations removed from immigrants and then you mix that with the white retire rees who flock here to arizona to live out their retirements is enjoying the sunny climate here and what you get is very little consensus on border policies and on what to do with the undocumented immigrants already in the country but what they're all telling me that they agree on is that immigration is a top issue here. the day of the dead a traditional mexican festival also celebrated here in the u.s. state of arizona across the border here amid who couldn't of the

democrats score a groundbreaking victory in arizona, flipping the u.s. senate seat from red to blue. >> i am so honored that arizonans chose our vision of a better arizona, and now it's time to get to work. >>> the wildfire death toll rises in california making the camp fire the deadliest in state history.inap to be making a nazi salute. >>> good morning from the studio 57 newsroom here in new york, good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. arizona has its first female united states senator, three-term democratic congresswoman kyrsten sinema won the state's open senate seat following a count that lasted nearly a week after the midterm elections. we have more from this. >> reporter: good morning, the race between kyrsten sinema and republican martha mcsally was highly financed. mcsally led narrowly on election night, but as outstanding votes were counted through the weekend and yesterday, sinema pulled ahead. >> i am so honored that arizonans chose our vision of a better arizona. >> reporter: sinema takes over the seat vacated by republican jeff flake. s

look at arizona. to the extent the progressive his the air time in the kavanaugh hearing they blew the potential for a blue wave. that's not winning it for democrats this year. >> laura: they don't want to talk about the caravan at all. thank you very much. the reaction to trump's moves on immigration over the last week resulted in a common refrain from the left. oh, it's racist! a border agent and a police officer killed by illegal aliens, tells us why they are offended. stay there. fast fast tums chewy bites with gas relief all in one relief of heartburn and gas ♪ ♪ tum tum tum tums tums chewy bites with gas relief displrch ♪ >> laura: we broadcast from the border state of arizona. where immigration will play front and center in the senate race. tight between mcsally and the democrat sinema. thousands are coming to claim asylum. the caravan. president announced a big change to the process. let's watch. >> illegal aliens won't get a free pass into our country seeking asylum. those who break our

representing arizona's east valley. as a member of the united states senate, senator flake serves on the energy and natural resources , foreign relations, on the judiciary committees. he's also the author of a conscience of a conservative, a rejection of destructive politics, and a return to principle. please join me in welcoming rizona senator jeff flake. mr. flake: congratulations to all of the award winners tonight. i have so much -- i so much appreciate the invitation to speak here tonight. if i'm a bit winded, it's because i've been taking the stairs all day. i've developed an aversion to elevators. [laughter] i saw the cnn camera next to an elevator in the russell building this morning and got nervous. this morning chris even suggested, there's surely got to be room for a television show that goes along the lines of jerry seinfeld's comedians in cars getting coffee. some decaffeinated version like, senators nellvaters with advocates. so wait for that one. there's an old joke that says when you're serving in the ho

asct, arizona. these are the steps behind us of the county courthouse where republicans, including martha mcsally held her last campaign event last night. before martha mcsally spoke, though, cindy mccain was actually here on-site, and she actually spoke. she did not endorse martha mcsally. she has notably stayed out of this race. but she called for republicans if they were to win or lose to stick together, and to be working with their allies and with their opponents. he want to play you, though, that mcsally sound bite i was referencing where she called out kyrsten sinema. this is what she said last night. >> my opponent, she doesn't actually want to be seen with the other democrats on the ticket. it's actually kind of funny to watch. no, no, get out of the shot, man. you know what i mean? she's in the liberal witness protection program right now, right? she doesn't even put a d next to her name. >> i vote for issues the president agrees on when they're right for arizona and i vote against the issu

in arizona are crazy and invites the blind sheikh's radical lawyer to speak at arizona state university and says it's okay for americans to join the taliban while you have served 28 years, six tours of duty while she was out organizing protesters, and i'm not making it up, with witches. how is it even a race with the people of arizona. >> sean, it is unbelievable. she is chuck schumer's top recruit with a lot of money, with tv ads, millions and millions of dollars she has been able to fool a lot of people. they are not aware of those things unless they are watching your show. i'm grateful you keep bringing it up. but the arizona media have been protecting her and so she is coming across as something she is not and the biggest political makeover in our history. we are down to the wire with six days to go. we can make sure we secure this victory with support from people all over arizona and the country. they can go to mcsally for senate.com. they can contribute so we can make sure we win and we need -- if you are in arizona, look, i'm asking for your vote. i'm asking you to send out an em

your assessment of what we are looking for in arizona and your assessment in arizona. >> the margin, even though it's narrow, is still over the 10,000 but limit where i really do not see the recounts affecting the final result, especially since now governor scott, soon to be senator scott, i think it is attention on shenanigans in those two go counties in southern florida. in arizona, though, it's very interesting. there's been this debate about strategy going from 2018 to 2020, should they rally the progressive base or move to the center? i think if you look at sinema and her success and you see that split to pick ticket voting, that shows for democrats moving toward the center since sinema did is a winning strategy. >> bret: kimberly, the opponents, they will say she is not a moderate. but she sure ran as one. if you look at the exit polls and the data coming out of arizona, it suggests -- and even the vote total between dougal and mcsally, she had a significant headway especially in tucson and phoenix. >> a very good retail politician. if you talk to republicans out there, some of

to the central one in arizona. speaking with voters here lauren that does seem to be the dominant issue here we're only one hundred kilometers north of the mexican border and whether it's latino voters who maybe immigrants themselves are only a few generations removed from immigrants or white retirees who flock to arizona for its sunny climate immigration is divisive and prevalent issue at these people's doorsteps now martha makes sally the republican candidate for senate she has endorsed not only by trump but also by the national border patrol council and arizona's border rancher's this again though is a state that has not you elected a democrat to the senate in three decades but that could change now because the democratic candidate kiersten cinema is polling at a statistic tie with make sally and democrats know that this would be a key senate seat to pick up if there's any chance of democrats taking over the majority in the senate floor and so tight race that you have a sense of which brought it has the momentum

. >> especially in arizona. and i think the last thing is we also have to pay attention to third parties. in this country, yes, obviously we're dominated by democrat and republican parties. george washington warned us of this. but we are seeing in george and it was the case in arizona where a third party candidate could make all the difference. so especially in georgia we're thinking many people think there might be a runoff because of a party that nobody is really thinking about but that is also a place for a lot of republicans who are frustrated with their own party, but they can't necessarily make that jump just yet to the democrats. >> and i'm looking at arizona and i'm just wondering, this is one of my questions, what will happen with voters. we cannot forget that arizona is the home sb 1070, the most stringent law after governor pete wilson in california. so this has created a whole generation of young people who can vote. they are the children of immigrants who because they have the -- they can still have

we have a gentler transition in the arizona senate race. let's start there. tell us about that race. >> well, craig, if we're looking the rule about talking about fight club, i can tell you this race was characterized early on by martha mcsally moving to the right in a primary. she faced two primary opponents and had to move more to the right. she ended up staying to the right to get -- when all said and done, we'll see that's what cost her. her opponent was able to focus not just on democratic voters, but independent voters, republicans turned off by the president and cobbled together a coalition that was able to win the senate seat in arizona for the first time since the 1980s. martha mcsally gave a concession speech, a much gentler tone than what we have seen in some of these other races and there is probably good reason for that. take a listen to some of mcsally's concession speech last night. >> everybody i just called kyrsten sinema and congratulated her on becoming arizona's first female senator. i wish her all success as she represents arizona in the

. >> in arizona, both sides agree on one thing. which is that they are going to be victorious. unlike in so many other of these races, they might be right. there are hundreds of thousands of balance yet to be counted. right now, kyrsten sinema over martha mcsally by 20,102 votes. it has gone back and forth since election night. sinema has taken this lead, though, postelection night, and is counting continues of the votes that came in via the mail, right now there are 62,000 ballots to go. republicans are trying to foul and accusing democrats of fraud. from president trump, he said just out in arizona, signatures don't match, electoral corruption, call for new election. from the president, we must protect our democracy. unclear where he got the idea there could be a new election. this could go well into next weekend this weekend as more counties report. this could go on for a while, shannon. november 14th is the latest date given by the counties for court settlement, and remember, this isn't the recount, this is just the first count

representing arizona's east valley. as a member of the united states senate, senator flake serves on the energy and natural resources, foreign relations, on the judiciary committees. he is also the author of a " conscience of a conservative" and return to principle. please join me in welcoming arizona senator, jeff flake. [applause] senator flake: congratulations to the award winners tonight. i have so much appreciate the invitation to speak tonight. if i'm a bit winded i have developed an aversion to elevators. [laughter] senator flake: i saw susan and to an camera next elevator this morning. chris coons suggested there surely has got to be room for a television show that goes along seinfeld's jerry getting coffee. senators in elevators with advocates. there is an old joke that says when you are serving in the house of representatives, you run toward the press at every opportunity. when you are in the senate, you run away from the press as fast as you can. my experience has been that's not a joke but an ax inch om. let

and the arizona senate race is proof. so let's get this right, all legally cast votes will be -- votes must be counted. when you vote by mail it may take a while. ballots come in up to election day, 7:00 p.m. but those votes are just as valid as those that came in earlier and if it takes a little while to count them, count them we must. that's what democracy demands. and the republican secretary of state in arizona explained why the process there took longer. and how important it was that the election results be accurate even if it takes a few extra days. that's just what florida officials should do. florida officials, florida g.o.p. officials, should follow the lead of their friends in arizona and count every vote fairly no matter what the outcome. that's what democracy means. governor scott needs to recuse himself, it needs to happen now. now lastly, why are we seeing this campaign of falsehoods, outlandish claims of voter fraud, and the bullying of election officials? because republicans know that if this recount is co

vaughn hillyard just back from arizona. and it seemed as if jeff flake's senate seat was going to remain republican. the president sounding dubious of the senate vote there as well. this is president trump last hour. >> now in arizona all of a sudden out of the wilderness they find a lot of votes, and she's -- the other candidate is just winning by a hair. >> what's happening in arizona? >> well, the president doesn't know what he's talking about when it comes to arizona elections right now. they didn't find ballots in arizona. these ballots are well-documented. we know where they are. these are early ballots we're talking about. there's essentially two buckets being counted right now, bucket a, early ballots that were turned in friday through monday. these were expected to go in sinema's favor. high democratic turnout. those were the ballots announced last night. more of those ballots are tonight. we expect her to expand that lead beyond the 9,000. then there will be bucket b, it will be interesting to see what he says abo

she called arizona meth lab of democracy. >> a great quote. >> called them crazy. that race of tight all along. the good news that we might get martha mcsally as replacement in for jon kyl, when he vacates that seat. kennedy: it is interesting. maybe a different candidate, i don't know that martha mcsaly. >> very positive, but i think -- >> i don't think it means arizona has flipped blue. but i think it boils down to is candidates do matter. and you should never concede or give up before the race is done, politics is general. >> a state like arizona everyone mails their ballot in it takes time to count votes, i think they did it right. kennedy: were they using abacuses too. >> probably and rocks and stacks of meth as she said in arizona. kennedy: probably passing it out. >> look, they got it right, they will get count right, she will be senator, and against two years another senate race, and president will be on ballot, he was not on ballot this year, people voted against the president, that is why martha mcsally, i thought she was pretty good, she made a few mista

here we are in northwest arizona, and we have neighbors that are about 60 miles away. so i think after they looked at the city and how beautiful it is, it just seemed like a natural fit. we are hoping they will expand over time. students major in and where do they go from here? >> communication, biology, psychology. they are adding some business majors as well, which i think will be helpful because that is something we really need here in lake havasu city. left at this lane. summer construction the city'sg? >> expanding quite a bit. we have about 55,000 residents today. expandtingly enough, we to about 96,000 residents. make a left at the light and go down. some people call this main street, some people call it uptown, downtown, it has all kinds of names but it is the central part of our city. this downtown area has kind of existed almost from the beginning. you see a lot of different kinds of stores, and if some had decided to buy two or three lots and expand. so it is becoming a very vibrant , which is exactly what we were shooting for 10, 12 years ago, to change the

please join me in welcoming arizona senator jeff flake. [applause] flake: congratulations to all of the award winners tonight . i have -- i so much appreciate the invitation to speak tonight. if i'm a bit winded, it is because i have been taking the stairs all day. i have developed an aversion to elevators. [laughter] suzanne in theaw cnn camera and i got nervous. coons eveng, chris suggested there surely has to be room for a television show that goes along the line of jerry seinfeld's comedians and cars getting coffee. a decaffeinated version like senators in elevators with advocates. wait for that one. there is an old joke that says when you are serving in the house of representatives, you run towards the press at every opportunity. when you are in the senate, you run away from the press as fast as you can. my experience has been that is not a joke, that is an axiom. let me get serious for a couple of minutes here. i'd like to say a few words tonight about the search for truth. which is what all of you here tonight are all about. it's wh

he tweeted out a little while ago in arizona. in arizona, signatures don't match. electoral corruption. call for a new election, the president questions? we must protect our democracy he says. he was also extremely critical today about what is going on in broward county, calling it a disgrace. melissa, connell. connell: we'll talk more about that in a few minutes. blake, thanks. right now to foreign policy. secretary of state mike pompeo, defense secretary james mattis, meeting with chinese officials today amid rising trade tensions between the two countries. our panel, jack and carol are back on that. a little birdie handed me a copy of "barron's" last weekend. the cover story of "barron's" so happens, auld arms race. military contractors guesting a boost by a superfast missile. i think it was written by a guy named jack hough. >> i get 10 cents from the editor for every time you show that cover. connell: working on the market is the economic slowdown. what is happening over there. >> if you look at china spending on defense, talk about local purchasing power, the

this is how it works and it's typical of arizona. i'm from arizona. i know that arizonans aren't cheaters. they want to ensure that everybody plays by the rules. that's what's happening right now. >> martha: go ahead, matt. speak really quickly, we want every ballot to be counted, every legal ballot. what you realize in these questions, there is all of these snap judgment calls with the provisional ballots. when they leave polling places past open the legal time when they close and you get provisional ballots, you make sure those go to the canvassing boards and judges shouldn't come in like a lightning bolt and make illegal ballots legal. >> if someone comes up and their name doesn't match the register or some kind of issue, in georgia they do this. go ahead and vote. we are going to put your vote in this box because we have to figure it out. we've got to make sure you are you. >> that's everywhere. it's not a crime to vote if you are not registered and you can always ask for a provisional ballot. when you get to the canvas later in the week, elected

state of arizona across the border here amid tokens of the dead talks of politics is very much a life because of the state of the country. i think that with president unfortunately it's i mean there's people that love him and that's great but there's people that despise him because of his attitude and the way he speaks trump isn't on the ballot but arizona will choose between congressional candidates who either support or oppose him i wholeheartedly support the president. of the national guard to the border i believe it's our duty to stand up against the president is doing something wrong trump one arizona in the presidential election outside urban centers support for him remains strong but in this state where one in three voters call themselves independents the midterm elections results are anyone's guess i'm kind of a little bit in both ways you know so it depends on where. that person stands for there's also the question of whether latinos lean democrat will turn out in high numbers arizona's pride of its mixed heritage is on display here with latinos making up thirty percent of th

to you gets underway in new york thank you for the time being from new york with thank you to arizona because a closely fought race could see the state's first democratic side. sir in three decades under the state border in mexico immigration has re-emerged as a defining election issue. has more. the day of the dead a traditional mexican festival also celebrated here in the u.s. state of arizona across the border here amid tokens of the dead and talks of politics is very much alive because of the state of the country. i think that with president unfortunately it's i mean there's people that love him and that's great but there's people that despise him because of his attitude and the way he speaks trump isn't on the ballot but arizona will choose between congressional candidates who either support or oppose him i wholeheartedly support the president moved the national guard to the border i believe it's our duty to stand up against the president is doing something wrong trump one arizona in the presidential election outside urban centers support for him remains strong but in this state

vaughn hillyard there in arizona where the polls opened at 8:00 a.m. eastern so i guess roughly 45 minutes ago. is that right? oh, no, an hour and 45. >> reporter: it's okay, you mentioned the number of ballots that came in, about 75 to 80% of ballots from arizona voters have already been mailed in, and so when you're looking at this race, i just want to throw up a little graphic there with kind of the numbers we're looking at. in terms of the ballots that have already come in, republicans have about a 7.5 percentage point advantage, but to note back in 2014, 2010, 2006, they had a 12% advantage so that number has dropped significantly in this race. i want to talk about the other part of the electorate here. it's not just republican independent voters. one-third of the arizona voting electorate here are independent voters. i want to introduce you to one of those individuals, kent butterman who we just met up here in prescott, arizona. this is what he just told us. are you registered to vote here? >> i am registered as an independent. >> reporter: how d

let's and now they are to castrate she's in tucson arizona that we were just. mentioning that. he was against ted cruz in texas next door see you he lost but it was a very close race wasn't it. that's right at much closer than many democratic candidates for senate in texas is recent history there has not been a democrat elected to represent that state in the senate in thirty years and so democrats will i'm sure they're feeling this loss heavily they're having a lot of enthusiasm backing a war is still significant the fact that he came so close to here in arizona the verdict is still out on the even closer senate race this would be open seat that used to belong to a republican and the republican candidate martha make sally she is still tied as we see these early results coming in with her democratic challenger here since cinema and this race here in arizona is being widely seen as a test of the effectiveness of donald trump's davis of rhetoric when it comes to immigration he was here campaigning on behalf of the republican as well as other border states calling the caravan of ce

they're now in arizona a closely fought race go see the state's first democratic senator in fair two years and with the state warring mexico immigration has reemerged as a defining election issue. reports. the day of the dead a traditional mexican festival also celebrated here in the u.s. state of arizona across the border here who can save the day talks of politics is very much alive because of the state of the country. i think with president unfortunately it's i mean there's people that love him and that's great but there's people that despise him because of his attitude and the way he speaks trump isn't on the ballot but arizona will choose between congressional candidates who either support or oppose him i. i wholeheartedly support the president moved the national guard to the border i believe it's our duty to stand up against the present raise doing something wrong trump one arizona in the presidential election outside urban centers support for him remains strong but in this state where one in three voters call themselves independents the midterm elections results are anyone's g