a lot of momentum on the ground. it is a good multi-generational campaign. you have individuals and their kids and grandkids that are out knocking on doors and making phone calls. a lot of engagement. we ll win this race. bill: we ll follow the rally tonight. marsha blackburn, thanks. sandra: the president campaigning hard for republicans ahead of the november mid-terms. will the president be the decisive factor in several key toss-up races? karl rove has thoughts on that and will join us next hour. kanye west supporting president trump and to a saturday night live audience and why he was defiant for the backlash he received. i d like to take a moment
allowed the senate to dictate what the terms look like and what the scope of the investigation is. again, the white house isn t intervening. we aren t micromanaging this process. this is something it s a senate process and has been from the beginning and we re letting the senate continue to dictate what the terms look like. the supreme court begins its new term today without judge brett kavanaugh seated but the white house believes he will be joining them soon enough. sandra: president trump hoping to generate a red wave digging in on key mid-term races. he will head to tennessee today in an effort to give marsha blackburn a burst following the rally in west virginia saturday night and he took aim at joe manchin, a possible crucial swing vote on supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh and stumbled for republican senate candidate patrick morrissey. president trump: to continue
as the big orange president as marsha blackburn, he said the president can tell her to jump off the bridge and i went her to jump off the bridge. congresswoman blackburn is running for the senate and joins me live to respond. i hear that audio. congressman claims he was joking. what was your reaction? hurtful to hear that. steve is someone who was a colleague of mine in the state senate and we served in congress together. i worked with him on issues like infant mortality in shelby county and we serve in the same delegation. when you hear something like that it is hurtful and we haven t received an apology. he did say he was joking but i got to tell you there is an old adage that my grandmother used to say, it was never injured a friend even in just because some of the most hurtful things will
approaching the white house political shop and saying we don t actually want the president in our district, because some of the vulnerable republicans thinking of c carbellows from florida, they don t want him there. appealing to voters who don t necessarily appeal to the president s messages. jon meacham, the senate race between marcia blackburn, republican and former tennessee governor phil bredesen. popular in the state for a long time. how does it look like it will shake out in tennessee? the primary was last night. and it s bredesen versus blackburn. i think bredesen is up unusually. i think a little bit in most of the polling that i ve seen. as you say, very business friendly. very moderate democrat, very
november where trump will be in the state, doing these big rallies for blackburn, trying to keep that base moving. congresswoman blackburn is a figure on fox news. she s someone that campaigned for the president. he knows her. so you really do have a great microcosm, as you say, of what will be shaping the make upof the congress. all right. jonathan swan, thank you very much for your reporting, and coming up, ivanka trump says it was a low point for her, the separations of families from their children, and she also talked about whether or not the media is the enemy of the people. but the press secretary, given multiple chances, refused echo the sentiment on the media that ivanka put out. we ll talk about that ahead on morning joe.