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As a candidate how do you think electoral history will view the presidents strategy of saying a vote for fill in the blank candidate im complaining for is a vote for me? >> its very interesting that trump looked at history, saw that first term presidents often lose seats in the house, and decided hes going to actually double down on a strategy of making this midterm election a referendum on himself and his record. so hes trying to buck history. in doing so hes trying to drive out loyal voters to...

Signal from the american voter that they dont like the style of president trump, they dont like his let rick -- rhetoric, they dont like the base level of political discussion weve seen over the last couple months and that they want divided government and they want to bring his agenda to a halt. >> jonathan, back up to the last point you were making about if democratic control happens. what will happen specifically? what do you think the first thing committeewise will be that we see? and how do ...

I didnt realize that base level in south africa is what americans would consider ultra political. i came from a country where you didnt have an option to be political. >> one of the more jarring memoirs in your book -- >> born a crime. >> yes, so youre innately, your survival becomes political. >> right. >> in that sense. >> right. so coming into america, i genuinely did not think i was as political as i was then perceived to be. and i think in many ways, trump has sort of course corrected peopl...

East. frankly even fundamentalist groups who say, look, the saudis can buy off the americans. so it is a critical moment to do the right thing. >> is it worrisome that just listening to that small portion of the president alluded to his importance, where he places some importance on money, on what will come, the benefits that will come from these financial deals, but his initial response earlier in the week, versus what is being said on this "60 minutes" interview, he does seem to be showing som...

He went to his siblings for a $30 million loan. and he said to me, i give you my word, i never borrowed from my siblings. but i had it. i printed it. he sued me. we went to court. and under duress and oath in a deposition, we showed him the documents that he had borrowed the money from his siblings. had they not given him that path in the early 90s, he would have been broke. and we would have been done with donald trump back in 1992. >> i could listen to you two talk about the corruption and the...

Potentially precarious position as questions continue to swirl around his credibility. "democratic efforts to highlight sexual assault charges that are more than 30 years old have been dismissed by supporters of judge brett kavanaugh as the dredgings of ancient history. the judges response to the accusations raised new issues that go to the core of who president trumps supreme court nominee is right now. his truthfulness, his partisanship and his temperament." joining all of us here at the table...

Developing stories right now. the continuing connotation/impasse this the senate over the confirmation hearings for brett kavanaugh and whether the senate will hear allegations from a woman who says that he sexually assaulted her when he was a teenager. were watching that develop over the course of this simultaneously we have watched and now into tonight the development of this story about rod rosenstein. whats your reaction to that base level reporting from "the new york times" today that rod r...

And those are new mexico, south carolina, and west virginia. but keep in mind, there are seven republican women who are leaving the house this year. four of them to run for other office, including two in tennessee, marsha blackburn and diane black, who will be replaced by men. so in tennessee alone, republicans are going to lose two of the 23 women who are currently serving in the house. theyll lose another in south dakota. meanwhile, democrats are poised to add four women in pennsylvania and th...

Billion or so in television ads. is there a correlation between higher spending allowance equating a win? is it guaranteed the more you spend, the more likely youre going to win? >> i dont think thats a one-to-one equation. mitt romney spent a ton of money, including some of his own money from his fortune, and he did not win. so you need a base level of spending to be able to be competitive, but it really comes down to candidate quality and also just the atmospherics of whether people are more i...

We are at a place where you sit down at dinner table and someone on the other side of of the argument you dont want to go there. because you cant come and have a reasonable conversation. how do we fix that? how do we change that? ed: enforce the laws we currently have on the books. pete: it is more nuanced you are totally right. we had a liberal on the show a couple days ago when you actually dig down deep they kind of are for open borders. abby: every single democrat? pete: no. but a lot of the...