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Is enshrined in the constitution with just a stroke of the pen. before we go any further, we should point out he cannot. more on that in a second. he also said he may order as many as 15,000 active duty troops to the border with mexico. thats 1,000 more than are deployed in afghanistan. the reason, he says, is the threat from a group of poor central american migrants, now about 1,000 miles away and coming on foot to seek asylum. >> its a dangerous group of people. theyre not coming into our coun...

Necessarily the hot button issues that you hear candidates talking about, its the economy. its jobs. second, its health care. third, changing how things working in washington. weve heard that frustration with government leadership. fourth, looking out for the middle class. >> which is basically the same as economy and jobs and health care, right. talking about looking after the middle class, its economics. >> the president says we have a middle class tax cut coming up. i say wear. not only is co...

The president travelled to pittsburgh tuesday in the aftermath of the massacre at the tree of life synagogue. immigration has been a thread through this midterm season and weve got the issue of the human caravan coming from central america, the president considering deploying active duty military in numbers as high as 15,000, perhaps, to the border to try to prevent the human caravan, as he describes it, from coming into the united states. its still days away from reaching the u.s. but immigrati...

Which is very tempting to do, to blame it on the environment, blame it on this rhetoric, that. in the end the responsibility lies with the individuals. comma, however, and its a big however. we feel this in our country. we feel this brokenness and the distance between each other that is constantly being exploited by politicians to get through the next election. inciting animosity, inciting division, inciting hatred pays political dividends for politicians, whether they are republican or democrat...

Today, shes in the all-important primary state of iowa, impossible to miss that significance. cnn political reporter maeve reston is just north of des moines and joins us now. maeve? >> reporter: hey, erica. so kamala harris was here today, talking to young voters and really voters of all ages on a community college campus. early voting, as kyung mentioned, is also underway here in iowa. right behind me, theres a very slow trickle of people headed in there. but thats why, ostensibly, kamala harr...

Brett kavanaugh, the caravan, law and order and common sense. >>chris: president trump now into his final midterm election blitz, trying to fire up his pace with what he thinks are the hot button issues. speaker gingrich, what do you think of the presidents strategy before the election? and the effort is made saying, when you go to the voting booths, pretend and act as if im on the ballot. >> normally i would say thats not a good idea but in this environment with this president, its the only way...

Needs to stretch the facts in order to make the fact for clamping down. >> my sense is that the president wants to stoke what you could call the culture are wars because at geoff bennett noted and everybody here knows, people vote when they are mad and scared. >> that is the game of the midterms, to turn ultimate your base, to try to get them energized in a way that the president has learned is an effective way of doing that. hit those hot-button issues. so talk about the nfl, immigration. >> ta...

Brett kavanaugh, the caravan, law and order and common sense. >>chris: president trump now into his final midterm election blitz, trying to fire up his pace with what he thinks are the hot button issues. speaker gingrich, what do you think of the presidents strategy before the election? and the effort is made saying, when you go to the voting booths, pretend and act as if im on the ballot. >> normally i would say thats not a good idea but in this environment with this president, its the only way...

Optimistic. i do think the democrats have a fair chance to get some of the seats theyre fighting for. arizona is looking less favorable but you have nevada, a battle in florida. there are other states that will be interesting. you have the hot button issues. healthcare, immigration, military is coming up a lot in some of these states. it will be interesting to see how voters, particularly independent voerts and women. we talk a lot about the women. it will be interesting to see how they vote. >>...

Multiple stops per day in the final week leading up to the midter midterms, especially in states that he won in 2016 where theres a democratic senator on the ballot. so the president is also framing the midterms as a referendum not just on him but really on a range of hot button issues that have been central to his pitch to voters. take a look at what he had to say last night in montana. >> this will be an election of kavanaugh, the caravan, law and order, and common sense. thats what its going ...