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This is so far looking at the reelect, they seem to have a rule about who has the legal fees paid for by campaign donors. You have to be named donald trump. Did good thing for the trump family is they have two of those guys. Two people. Junior and senior. Ivanka needs anything, uhhuh. Kushner, do you get any money . Exactly. Poor mike pence, next week, is going to be raising money for the trump reelection fund. Hes raised money for his own pac and donated that money to the trump reelection fund ...

Opposition party, to which the president said this. >> think about this. what are republicans for? what are they for? name me one thing theyre for. >> back with us, for. >> back with us ej deon and norm orrinstein. the president also said in this press conference that the build back better legislation could be broken up into bits that might be managed through the senate so they can get some of that legislation. same thing with voting rights. he indicated there are ways to pass some elements of w...

They are strongly opposed to president trump. theyre approval rating is low for him. the favorablety is low for him. theyre more likely to say theyre very unfavorablunfavora. then heres the kicker. they are more likely to say they are definitely going vote. i think the number overall is 78% as they were higher than the average. so this is a reved up part of the electorate. its not a huge part of it. but its said that what happens in wisconsin and michigan and pennsylvania a lot of how trump won ...

Bipartisan to say its not okay to do that but then when you ask about the president doing it b, suddenly it falls into party lines? >> two things going on potentially, which is its not okay, is that an impeachable offen offense. that might be the distinction, but that question purposefully did not mention president trump by name. we didnt ask is is it okay or not for president trump to ask a foreign country for assistance and maybe we would have seen something different. i dont know. but anytime...

Be a reliable belief to hold? ej? >> yes, i think that the 2018 elections tell you that democrats are way more mobilized than youre exactly right in what you said that you know, the republicans got ten million more votes in 2018 than they got in 2014. ten million. democrats got 25 million more votes in house races in 2018 than they did in 2014. so i think my reading of all these numbers is the country, large part of the country wants to throw trump out of office. but democrats have to make it ea...

81% of voters say it is not okay for a political candidate to ask for assistance from a foreign government. half disapprove with the job the president is doing and just under half support the impeachment inquiry. but as one of my next guests argue, democrats would be wise to take the presidents chances of re-election seriously. quote, trumps madness is not enough to doom him in 2020. joining me now -- and ej deon. welcome both of you. ann talk to me about what you are doing or hearing from your ...

And he may argument some kind of privacy but im not sure it is a public fight to do much good but you could point back to other republicans like george w. bush, and they may not have been happy to do it but willing to release their tax returns. but i suspect hell use any means at his disposal to try to prevent it. >> and the central question people are asking is what is the president hiding by not releasing the tax returns. e.j. deon, thank you so much. well be right back. and if i can get comfo...

Closed doors inside of the trump organization. >> hes saying very clearly that he never directed you to do anything wrong. is that true? >> i dont think there is anybody that believes that. first of all, nothing at the trump organization was ever done unless it was run through mr. trump. >> joining me now, we have ej deon and columnist for the washington post. great to have you with us this evening. >> great to be with you. >> let me get your reaction to the move by the democrats to insist on go...

Development. e.j., ill start with you. >> well, every president of both parties has treated the federal governments collection of data as something almost sacred in the sense that these are valuable numbers when the go does this very carefully and you can move markets. a lot of people who get inside information on these numbers, which is why historically people dont, can make a lot of money ahead of the market. and so what he z just violated a number up to. >> yes, he has moved markets and in th...

Theres no way in hell president trump sits down with anyone related to the mueller team, especially not mueller himself, to have a conversation about his words and actions during the campaign and subsequently as president. its not happening. dont go down that rabbit hole, folks, and start believing that, you know, oh, the presidents trying to be honorable and above board about this. the president may articulate he wants to do it because he thinks hes smarter than everybody in the room, he can ha...