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Muellers office who everybodys interested to know what hes providing behind the scenes as part of this cooperation agreement or whatever cooperation hes providing to try to get a better deal when he gets sentenced later this year. >> all right, evan, stay with me. also joining me now, we have with us "new york times" white house reporter julie hish feld davis and a former aide to the trump campaign and paul manafort who is now cooperating with the mueller probe. let me start with you. how signif...

Them and do the samement anyone that has -- same. anyone that has sexual or abuse allegations against them, we should look at all of the history. and the same standard should apply for all of them. not just republicans going for the supreme court. we have democrats out there that also have allegations that they are facing. and we all should look at all of them. its not just the party issue. >> after -- after listening to them and asking for the investigation, still vote yes for brett kavanaugh. ...

In that context, will it not, and give fodder to those that say he is a partisan, not a neutral jurist. >> people are already saying that. the democrats say that anybody that trump puts on the bunch is acting out of partisan interests -- >> those were his words. he wrote that. >> sheldon whitehouse said im going to vote against kavanaugh because i think hes going to do the bidding of the corporations in the republican party. it wont matter who donald trump puts on the bench for the democrats to ...

In the nomination hearings. but dr. fords accusations are not theatrics. they are real. >> what about the intaking of the resumption? what about the intaking -- integrity of the resumption of innocence? i dont understand how you can say im in the judiciary when an innocent person is seen -- >> let scott finish, evan. >> he said he didnt do -- >> let me get now to alice and bring you back into the conversation. a control room, i dont know if you saw my e-mail. i need the sound bite from the excha...

To find out. he offered to resign to john kelly last week. >> offered to resign so the status of his employment, we could have having an update very soon. seeing if the deputy attorney general is arriving. i keep watching people any in and i have not seen him yet. lets go over to evan perez with more. evan, i think a lot of people have been wondering and there is so much conversation within the white house and beyond after the reporting came out on friday night. and rod rosensteins two denials t...

Amalgamation optical a series of local elections with local personalities of the candidates and local issues have a big role to may, dominant role to play but they occur within overarching narratives that either, you know, go with the wind or go against the wind. the republicans have no narrative other that whats up with trump? and that doesnt work for them. >> evan and david, thank you for joining us tonight. tonights last word is next.

Chaos, unhin jds tweets, or you know, youve got the bret kavanagh story which may or may not explode on the basis of these allegations that in and of itself only appeals to his evangelical base. you were in the middle. a lot of voters voted for trump with like im going to roll the dice a little bit. i dont like hillary, hes kind of wild, let me see what he does, those people are not rushing to embrace the republican party. it doesnt even exists exist anymore. no consistent philosophy except tax ...

Just 53 days left until the mid-term congressional elections. now president trumps campaign chairman has pleaded guilty and become a cooperating witness and the supreme court faces a new accusation of sexual assault when he was a teenager. joining our discussion the republican strategist, how to find millennials and urban voters. the republican party needs to survive. evan, from the republican perspective, the polling is about as bad as it gets. 538s congressional ballot average democrats 48.9%....

No kent ideology, no consistent agenda, except tax cuts for the rich. at this time trump party, evan, you are saddled with this, i know you dont want to be. this election is going to be referendum. the only thing republicans have going for them, two things, with is up gerrymander districts, one is voter suppression tactics. other than that, the wind and everything else is going against the gop. >> evan, the only known political strategy, if we can call it that, for a party when there are problem...

We have some major breaking news coming into the cnn right now in the russia investigation. lets bring in our justice correspondent. evan, what are you and your team learning right now? >> were told by a source familiar that paul manafort and his legal team are very close to an agreement with the special counsels office that would resolve some of the charges hes facing. jury selection is set to begin on monday. hes going on trial here in washington, d.c. on seven charges that hes facing. we expe...