North Carolina is a haven for many abortion seekers in the south – for now. Will voters turn out to keep it that way?

WATCH Katie S. Phang’s explainer on the fragile veto power the state’s Democratic Governor has been using to quash GOP-led abortion bans.

“She depended on her government to give her advice about whether she was eligible to vote and if they got it wrong, that’s not her fault and she shouldn’t be prosecuted for a felony for their mistake.” - Attorney Mark Rankin on his client's voter fraud arrest on DeSantis' order.

“Reproductive freedom also means financial freedom.”

WATCH: Katie S. Phang’s commentary on why Dems’ midterm messaging needs to frame abortion as an economic issue, especially with pocketbook issues being top-of-mind for voters.

Fail. Flop. Bust. Those are just some words being used to describe Ron DeSantis’ big plan to stop alleged voter fraud.

WATCH Katie S. Phang break down a big legal blow to the FL Governor's election police force.

Former FBI Special agent Tracy Walder , who once worked a case involving the sale of sensitive information to China, reacts to The Washington Post reporting that found docs Trump was keeping at Mar-A-Lago contained highly classified intelligence info about China.

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I’ve gone old school this morning with some Tears for Fears to get me going.

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“This campaign, even though it was born of the events of January 6th and Marjorie Taylor Greene’s part in it, it’s really become about the district,” says Marcus Flowers.

“Not only has she not voted to help us, but she doesn’t even know what the issues are.”

“What I’m doing now is giving the people of Georgia 14th a choice in this election,” says Marcus Flowers of his race against Marjorie Taylor Greene.

“A choice between someone who said that 9/11 was a hoax, versus someone who was actually serving the country on 9/11.”

Shorter MTG to Kelly Loeffler: Hey, coup up?

Katie S. Phang explains.

“It’s still confusing, it was confusing to our colleagues,” says Sen. Jason Pizzo of the law Ron DeSantis has been weaponizing with his election fraud unit.

“Shame on any prosecutor who brings a case against that elderly woman, who was absolutely flabbergasted she was being arrested.'

Florida Republican @jeffreybrandes on election fraud arrests: “Clearly these individuals had no knowledge or intent, and the state, frankly, if anything, is a co-conspirator because they gave them the right to vote...without doing their job and checking their databases.”

The 1/6 committee’s subpoena of Donald Trump’s testimony is out, but…

“The odds are remote we ever see testimony from Trump to the select committee,” says @KyleDCheney.

“His lawyer said, ‘look, Bannon didn’t tell the committee to go shove it, he tried to negotiate with them,’” says @KyleDCheney.

“I said actually, Bannon, said worse than that, and repeatedly, throughout this process.”

Maryland will review about 100 autopsies of people who died in police custody involving physical restraint because of concerns about the state’s former medical examiner’s testimony in the death of George Floyd, the state’s attorney general says. nbcnews.to/3z17SJ2

Joining Katie S. Phang tonight:
Kyle Cheney on Bannon sentencing & Trump subpoena
Sen. Jason Pizzo & @jeffreybrandes on Florida election fraud arrests
Marcus Flowers on his race against MTG
Watch on MSNBC on Peacock: pck.tv/3v4K4RA

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