GOP hits crime as Dems talk democracy in midterm closing arguments

The Beat with Ari Melber

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🗓️ 27 October 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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MSNBC's Ari Melber hosts "The Beat" on Thursday, October 27 and reports on the closing arguments both parties are making in the last 12 days of the midterms. Plus, new development in one of the criminal probes into Donald Trump as video shows Trump lawyers entering a federal courthouse in Washington. Obama veterans David Plouffe and Chai Komanduri join, as well as veteran journalist Bob Woodward on explosive audio tapes of interviews with Donald Trump, and NC Senate candidate Cheri Beasley.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the beat everyone.
0:01.0	I am Ari Melber and Nicole was mentioning what's coming up.
0:04.3	We've also got the music.
0:06.0	Why?
0:07.0	Because it's on.
0:07.9	We are in the middle of early voting.
0:10.5	The election now just 12 days out at a moment.
0:12.7	We'll be joined by two former Obama campaign insiders
0:16.5	with the scoop on what's really going down
0:18.7	with Obama himself hitting the campaign trail.
0:22.1	Here are the numbers.
0:23.4	14 million people have already turned out
0:25.5	to cast early ballots.
0:27.0	That outpaces the same turnout in 2018
0:30.3	by over a million votes.
0:32.0	And it's easy to forget because a lot happened.
0:33.5	But 2018 was the first election after Trump became president.
0:36.8	There was a huge, huge resistance mobilization.
0:40.4	But we're above that.
0:42.1	Meanwhile, today you have voters also
0:44.4	very concerned about rising prices and inflation.
0:47.3	Economy did grow last quarter, ending
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