Exploring issues that affect leaders in the U. S. And around the globe. Finish line. And one of the president s first congressional supporters now faces criminal charges. Congressman collins cheated our markets and our justice system. Is a wider Culture Of Corruption Story Unraveling around the white house . This is mtp daily an it starts right now. Good evening, im chuck todd here on a very busy washington, d. C. Welcome to mtp daily. Is it really august . Once again welcome to a wild day of legal and Political Developments surrounding, who else, but the president. One of his top loyalists in the house was just arrested on Insider Trading charges on a plot that was so brazen, it includes the white house south lawn, by the way. As it was described by federal prosecutors today that you have got to see it to believe it. Weve have much more on this story and this Culture Of Corruption Stench thats starting to grow around the president coming up. But were also going to talk about the polit
i m going to get this tweet exactly correct. if anything, tonight s ohio 12 result reinforces our view that dems are substantial favorites to retake the house in november. so let me ask you to go another step. if you look at sort of what the night in general showed, right, with suburban turnouts in spokane and in st. louis and in columbus, what does substantial now look like in your mind? what is shows, chuck, is that the seat-by-seat forecast is catching up with our macro estimate which has long been that democrats are substantial favorites to win back the house. now, we see the trump zones, particularly in places like rural ohio last night, they did not turn out. in fact troy balderson owes his margin right now not to the trump zones but rather to governor john kasich who cut a last-minute ad. it s the democratic suburbs like franklin county that turned out at really high levels, and it was those delaware county suburbs last night that kept