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Well beyond that virginia courtroom and regardless, manafort faces yet another set of charges in another trial later, ed. >> ed: first big case, first test for robert mueller. leland vittert, we appreciated. the president second supreme court nominee, brett kavanaugh, took some time to meet with key red state senators whose votes he may need to get confirmed. senators joe donnelly and heidi heitkamp are both vulnerable democrats in states carried by the president by double digits. very few democ...

>> neil: all right. brett kavanaugh was open capitol hill meeting with some senators. not just any senators, a couple of democrats. what could that mean? eliza collins, what are we to glean from that? its a courtesy, i understand, but a number of democrats are saying they werent going to give him that. what are we to make of it? >> its a courtesy that only three democrats have given him. he met with two today and hes met with senator joe manchin from west virginia. the three hes met with at this...

So maybe to be continued on that front. but keith ellison right now will go into the general election as the nominee in minnesota for the democratic party. quickly, in wisconsin, a senate race here. tammy baldwin one of those democrats trying to defend a seat in a state that donald trump won. who will she face? she will face leah vukmar who won, former chairman of the college democrats 15 or 20 years ago, trying to win this primary tonight. the polling has baldwin ahead in this race by double-di...

Kasich beat president trump in the primary in ohio by double digits. >> and still ahead in the state of ohio and donald trump saying hes deeply unpopular. we thank jim havandehei. up next on "morning joe" new reports of blind lines we are seeing between private business and the presidency. how white house staffers are getting special perks at trumps golf club. thats still ahead on "morning joe." and well be asking heidi all about it. ♪

Today, one of those states, wisconsin, youve got a primary will on the republican side for the u.s. senate. tammy baldwin, a democrat. remember, trump is president, in part, because he was able to win wisconsin. we will see who the republicans pick there in wisconsin. now, the good news for democrats is, tammy baldwin right now, this one, so far, not materializing as the neck-and-neck, nail-biter race republicans were hoping it would be. baldwin against two opponents here. theyre leading by doub...

Double-digits. that means the democrats are going to look at that playing field and say, we have a chance in every sort of -- >> every time the republicans have won one of the specials theyve said how important specials are. >> congressional republicans are scared tonight. theres no question about that. put this in context. democrats have to win 24 seats to retake the house. 25 of those seats were won by hillary clinton, those districts were won by hillary clinton in the election. there are 17 d...

12. so youve got 59 plus 23. theres a good target list for the democrats. >> on top of that, look at the amount of spending the republicans did. they outspent democrats by 5 to 1. are they going to be able to match that overspend, not just in all the districts that trump won by double digits, plus the clinton-held district. how many districts are you going to have republicans outspending? if thats whats required to hold on to a district that went to trump by such a large margin that hasnt been h...

And when i read that about missouri and basically pushing back by a two to one margin, the state legislatures right to work law, did that give you any sense of what might be happening in a state like that where president trump won by, i think, double digits? >> yeah. i look at a result like that and i say uh-oh something is wrong in trump country. as you dig further in the state of missouri and talk to folks, what you realize what happened with this right-to-work initiative going down by two to ...

Republicans are giving democrats something that democrats have been yearning for, which is a corruption election cycle like they had in 2006. collins was arrested, took calls about inside stock tips at a white house picnic. a bunch of members of congress were also invested in this stock, but they have not been implicated. you have this major pro public ka story that talks about how president trumps friends were directing v.a. policy, although they said they werent profiting from it. paul manafor...

In paul manaforts trial. x business partner testifying the two conspires to commit bank and tax fraud. gates admitting to embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars for the former trump campaign chairman. and prosecutor selling them to expedite the case against manafort for not making eye contact. >> voters heading to the polls for primaries. michigan, missouri and the state of washington. >> a special election in ohio where a race to an open congressional seat is heating up. kristin fisher has...