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This hour. good monday morning. im sandra smith inside "americas newsroom." >> good to be with you this morning. im eric sean in for bill hemmer. president trump is accusing muellers team of looking for trouble after the report this weekend that white house counsel don mcgahn has cooperated extensively with the special counsels investigation. the president says it happened but with his approval. >> sandra: kevin corke is live from the white house. what about the presidents increasing frustration...

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Obviously a lot of big issues were going to be talking about this week with brett kavanaugh, executive power, abortion, gun control, those are three of the big key issues. where does he stand? >> its going to be a very difficult process, that we know. we know that the republicans on the senate judiciary committee are arguing that the heart of the debate over these documents is their desire to stall this process, drag this out through the mid-terms. while we do expect the boiler plate questions t...

>> why not commit to jeff sessions past november? >> for the first time president trump publicly reasoned that the weight of court cases involving republicans could be a drag on the midterm candidates and hes pointing a finger at jeff sessions, tweeting: "two long running, obama era, investigations of two very popular republican congressmen were brought to a well publicized charge, just ahead of the mid-terms, by the jeff sessions justice department. two easy wins now in doubt because there is n...

Concluded not only that the congressional districts in the state of north carolina were drawn unfairly, to help republicans, basically, to guarantee that republican theres win more seats in congress from north carolina than democrats will. but these federal judges appear to be indicating that not only should north carolina redraw its districts and fix this problem. they should do so right now. right away. before people vote in the mid-terms in ten weeks. this is from tonights "washington post" r...

The only exception to that rule in modern times was after 9/11, the shock of that attack and transformation of the country and politics there after were seen as highly unusual factorers that kept republicans from losing seats they might have otherwise been expected to lose in the 2002 mid-terms. with those extenuating circumstances, republicans really didnt lose ground in that first george w. bush midterm but republicans arguably paid double the next time around in 2006, after george w. bush got...

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Hanging over this administration with this ongoing mueller probe. he cant see past that. republicans have been trying to get the president not to take own actions before the mid-terms, because they know how explosive this would be. they are starting to basically real a iz the president is likely to make this decision at some point, so theyre trying to massage the messaging around it and say the president deserves to have someone he has confidence n. and this is not a permanent post and a lot don...

Of that claim. if its true, this is dangerous for trump and/orrer is an attack target for him because of. that trump will try to stamp anyone out anyway he can that he thinks might have credible, charging him with very egregious offenses. so i think thats whats going on here, its a strike before they hit you. trump is doing with you guiliani is here, at a higher level at this stake. >> all of this is coming into focus with new poll number, given how americans feel about the investigation, about ...