been promised something? >> it's ridiculous. the irony is you look at the the other professional politicians in the race, every one from chris christie to ron desantis to nikki haley, they've been looking trump's boots for years for money and encoursements and chris christie, lobbying him. >> neil: to be fair, chris christie has not done it in this campaign. you're right. he was enamored years ago. >> that's what i'm saying. these professional politicians, they wave in one direction the wind is blowing. look at me. look at the polls in iowa. i'm run-away the second choice. if donald trump weren't in this race, i'd be winning iowa in close to a landslide if you look at the recent polls. it would be easy if donald trump weren't in the race, but i stand based on principal. we have to do the right thing for the country. voters should be able to decide who their president is. that's not too much to ask. that's what the united states of
policy maerlts but at the same ti -- maerlgtters, but at the sam time, klobuchar is fueled by this desire to defeat donald trump and that being the top priority for democrats. >> let me ask you lastly about the form in which in is happening. we are still in a primary. there are a lot of candidates vying for the nomination. they're trying to set themselves apart from each other. presumably, the focus you're prescribing will be the one that the democratic nominee is going to adopt. in other words, how worried should we be at this point in the cam ppaign there isn't that whole focus you writedas might pivot to the center toward the general election. you don't want becomes difficult or impossible to reach out to the moderates. there's probably 10 or 15% of republicans who are anti-trump, who are gettable as long as you
judgements were made on the facts. and anybody who looks at these facts can see plainly that donald trump is guilty as charged. and that is what we're seeing, the dysfunction in our politics. and capability of the legislative branch and the standard norms of how you deal with this. >> there is a lot of presence over arnold palmer in the back nine. there are people in the washington within the white house who are planning what the president's defense is going to be. there is a conversation on capitol hill about his managers going to be presenting the perfection for the democrats in the senate. what about in the white house? what do we know about from procedural perspective how things are proceeding? >> the senate is the moment where the president theoretically comes off the sidelines and is able to actually participate in the process. the president's lawyer will have an opportunity to argue on the senate floor.
to the sunflower state to run for senate. susan del percio is with me, francesca chambers covers the white house and o'dessa is with us this morning and bill sternberg, "usa today" editor. many americans think the country is heading in the wrong i don't understand the direction. question. these are data from the latest the. >> roger stone, are you going to poll from nbc news and "the wall pardon him, sir? >> am i going to pardon him? street journal." that sentiment has become more i haven't thought of it. >> haven't thought about it. he was asked the same question in february of this year. pervasive since donald trump was he had the very same response. inaugurated and an editorial hadn't thought about it. some months elapsed. this is "up". that is president trump refusing urg to rule out a pardon for his former operative roger stone. urges a focus on that. we'll see what the president ultimately decides to do, however, it appears he is they're saying democrats should focus on president trump as this reading a scripted answer. cam pan continues. here's what he said when asked a great line about how the about it in february. debates over issues have comes as the president's gearing devolved into what you might up for major legal battle with find in an academic department. the nation's highest court which
points on the economy and the stock market right now. >> the best is yet to come. ben rhodes, you read that in the tweet from the president of the united states and talking about how americans feel this and we know most americans aren't invested in the stock market. a lot have retirement plans, but what does it tell us about the health of the u.s. economy broadly? >> well, i think a coupling things. first i have to point out this recovery started long ago in the obama administration and the low unemployment he inherited, the rising stock market and he juiced the economy with a trillion dollar tax give away largely to wealthy individuals. it is not a surprise that if you drop a trillion dollars of a tax cut into an already growing economy you're going to get a this is "up." sugar high in the market. the problem is people's health care costs are once again rising because of what's been trying to i'm david gura. president trump's anger boils up do to undermine the affordable care act and people see him as over impeachment even as he's on not addressing the costs that vacation. mitch mcconnell says he's in no are going up. student debt is going up, health hurry to start the trial. care costs are going up.
to have -- which way do they and here we are months and think they can win best? months later finally getting to it. it missed all -- it's not like can you dream big and good for it all or you can go after the we're going to open up another investigation looking at taxes for all intents and purposes. swing states that you're going it missed the window of the to need to win the electoral hardest point of scrutiny. college. win california by five votes or and, look, he's either going to 5 million, it doesn't matter. you've got to go after those luck out because like ann said, the court is not as much in his swing states. favor or more likely is going to i think when you look at the health care issue, you can luck out because kavanaugh and really go after donald trump on roberts is going to understand it. in fact, he's in court trying to that they are very pro executive take away your preexisting power and privilege. conditions and keeping your and might just say it's no one's children on your health care. business. if not on this point of the taxes, on some others. so he's actually fighting against your interest. the delaying has helped donald that's a great argument and that's where the argument should trump. the courts have only helped donald trump. even if he loses, he is buying stay. you want to fix it, that's fine, but first let's figure out how months and months and months. to beat donald trump because that's the most important this the congress has had to go to the courts to get mulvaney. evening. >> chuck brewster in iowa, they never got mulvaney. there's the debate stage we've they had to go to the courts to seen as we talked about a moment ago. how about on the campaign trail,
me making him pay up on nato or candidates should be doing, all of this is really relevant. trade" he wrote. what has the president upset? >> in this piece, it comes up if news that canadian broadcasting you focus entirely on donald channel aired a version of home alone 2 without the five second camo at the plaza. 2 without the trump, you open the risk that camo at the plaza. you're only on the attack, you >> excuse me, where is the lobby? >> down the hall and to the are don't have in ideas. left. >> thanks. >> you have to have something. >> the edit in question is one we learned that the cut happened you can't just cam pan as years before he took office. somebody who is anti-donald he is angry but he's not. here's donald trump just days trump, you have to be for before this story began. something. i think that's fueling the more >> well, i'm in home alone 2. progressive candidates like bernie sanders and elizabeth warren. and it was a very big hit, but at the same time, voters will get tiresome of the litmus obviously. it's a big christmas hit. tests within the party, about one of the biggest. whether it's okay to have so it's an honor to be involved in something like that. onor to b in something like that fund-raisers, whether a wine hi i'm joan lunden. cellar and $3,800 bottle of wine. it what's going to happen with my health care and higher education. it shouldn't become trite to discuss those nitty-gritty
you have a brother in [the second battalion? yes sir. they're walking into a trap. your orders are to deliver a message calling off tomorrow's attack. if you fail we will lose sixteen hundred men. your brother among them. we need to keep moving. come on! there's only one way this war ends. last man standing. it is common notion that a good economy is a political winner for an incumbent president. and the economy heading into 2020 is on solid footing with a stock market rally in the green. cnbc reporting the s&p 500 is returning more than 50% since donald trump was elected. with approval numbers hovering in the low 40s, this current president doesn't seem to be reaping many many of the political rewards you would expect from such a strong economy.
agreed to hear trump's appeal of why is it important to set those lower court orders that require aside as we get into 2020? the accountants to hand over financial records to local >> the editorial was meant as a prosecutors in new york. bit of a reality check that this the case expected to be heard in is not going to be a normal march with a decision at the end of june just as the general issues-oriented election, that election season begins more in first and foremost it's a the limelight. ann, i start with you on that referendum on the conduct and point. the president encouraged this character of the incumbent. case to move quickly. happy that three cases are going to be heard by the supreme court in the coming months. and, therefore, if you think how pivotal could they be to donald trump is a threat to the this presidency and to executive power here going forward? nation, an unfit president, priority one, two and three out >> well, david, sort of something that is going to sound to be victory. so it great to have a plan for slightly counterintuitive, the everything, but if you don't win, those plans become rather white house and the lawyers acting on trump's bee half academic. and we were struck during the outside the white house, weirdly most recent debate in los sort of hope that this is a big angeles where they spent a good deal. chunk of time talking about even though these are cases about the president allegedly whether it's appropriate to have a fund-raiser in a wine cellar. trying to hide potential financial wrongdoing or at the very least conceal how much money he has or doesn't have. that ignored that the trump
focused on this big looming ball that is out of his control. and the degree to which nancy pelosi heightened the tension here and made it that much more difficult for the perfect ez to get a beat on what's going to happen in january. and although the new york interview was conducted with rudy giuliani and the decision was made to not send the articles of impeachment over immediately. and in that interview against -- and he can't really see the shape of. and now we see president trump doing the same thing on twitter. and presumably a trial in