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Clear tonight with the charges but the political fallout could be a boon to his ongoing presidential campaign. joining me now, ashley alison, director for the biden lsh harris 2020 cain, and doug hide, the communications director for the republican national committee. doug, well start with you since its your party. >> thank you. >> the people are raising questions. what were hearing from the trump team tonight, trumps calling this election interference. his campaign says its nothing more than a ...

Is polling only 55% against biden amongst people calling the economy good. that is the price of his behavior, and it is why we are on this knifes edge between this economy and the doubts about the way he has conducted himself. >> its such an important point. to your broader point there, if there was any other president, they would be headed toward a massive re-election with these economic numbers. doug, were still at an impasse over what the looming senate trial is going to look like. its not cl...

Lets open this up to conversation. joining me now political analyst and senior editor for the atlantic, ron brownstein, and former communications director, doug hide. doug, i want to read you how one reared has summed this up. the president of the united states has today alone retweeted two q non accounts, a pizza gait account, and an account that described obama as muslim scum. this insanity isnt even a blip on the news radar. doug, reremember those famous accounts of nixon talking to the paint...

I mean, they are establishing precedents that will come back to haunt them. there will be another democratic president someday. maybe as soon as 2021. republicans m congress are going to warrant to do oversight if they have a majority. they are saying they are willing to put their partisan loyalty over spoonlt and i think they are laying down some examples that will come back to haunt them. >> the pendulum swings back and forth. doug, going fully into 2020, was there an encouraging headline for ...

Quite enough. and he is shocked at the resistance that he faces, you know, that he continues to face. but i do think -- i mean, you know, to dougs point, its not everything is reassuring that came out of this, because i think the whole process on nafta is revealing of what ultimately is the challenge i think for president trump in the eyes of many americans. if the president was thinking about doing something as momentous as pulling out of the north american free trade agreement, normally, you w...

Going to be easier? does he deserve some slack? >> you know, look, i think what we just heard from president obama is that there is not one lever you can pull, one button you can press. there is a complicated kadri of things you have to do to be able to move the ball forward. note by president obamas 100 days, he had accomplished a myriad of successes that did not encompass just signing a bunch of executive orders. so i think what we heard from president trump in that interview from reuters was ...

If he didnt get his way, were just going to cancel the deal. its not that easy. and yes, there are very problematic things with the north american free trade agreement. u.s. wages were suppressed, u.s. workers lost jobs, you know, mexican farmers lost jobs. but donald trump and this administration has not taken any steps to really walk people through that, as ron said, and that is why his approval ratings are so damn low! >> doug -- simone, you always make me speechless in good and bad ways. dou...

Trump really needs to fix. whether we shut down or not, and i dont think we will. well pass a cr. but moving forward on the health care bill or whatever the issue may be, theres uncertainty from house republicans, and theyre tired of being on this rocky ground where they cant move forward. >> that is a fascinating take, doug. ron, let me bring you in for a little perspective. i mean, if you look -- if we stick on the government shutdown that wasnt, at least for a moment, for a second. if you loo...

Commentators kayleigh mackanin and doug hide is here as well. doug, the president to reuters, moving away from nafta, but heres one thing i wanted to get about capitol hill, government shutdown, the countdown clock that is not now. heres the quote -- "if theres a shutdown, theres a shutdown." and he added that democrats would be to blame. what kind of bargaining position is this in your mind? i mean, do you really think that the president doesnt care if the government shuts down? >> no, i think ...

His approval rating is so much lower than any other new president at this point, why hes the only president to not reach 50% in his first 100 days are more about competence, temperament and execution than ideology and you have a lot of people who are unnerved about whether the way hes approaching the job is suitable for the job. so, i agree with doug. a government shutdown at this point against that back drop would be devastating, but it is also kind of the drum beat, the inability to kind of ma...