Midte Midterm News Today

The latest news from around the world with hosts John Berman and Poppy Harlow. Joe johns is outside. Were half an hour from this trial getting under way. What are we expecting today . I think at first were expecting more of the game. Gates was on the stand for about 45 minutes before they wrapped up late last night. Hell continue on direct testimony answer questions of the prosecution about what the government alleges is a whole pattern of illegal conduct that stretched out over years and years ...

Judges to bring to the supreme court. now it will be litigated in an election year. lets be clear, this is the -- president trump could just end this right now. literally just sign the paperwork to extend daca for recipients or negotiate with us, like we have in the past, to get immigration reform done. now we have to litigate this in the election season. in 2018 when this came out most numbers in the history of any midte midterm. and wait and see what happens in the general election. >> thanks ...

Ohio, places she wasnt given any credit for having gone and visited after the election because no one remembered that trip. and the reason was because donald trump went on the attack against kieser at the end of the convention, and thats all anyone talked about. at first we were disappointed that no one was covering her plan to stop outsourcing. and then we thought this sounds like a 80/20 to 90-10 decision to defend a gold star family against donald trump. thats not a sturdy or durable way for ...

Women voting in a presidential election. what these folks are trying to do is trying to turn that into record numbers during the midte midterm. about 95,000 african-american women during the midterms who have not regularly voted, they want to change that this year. craig. >> fascinating look there, rehema ellis, jackson, mississippi. thank you. wisconsin was key to president trumps election back in 2016. the margin, though, was razor thin. our road warrior shaquille booster is live in milwauke...

>> you did? >> im meeting an elected official, former elected. >> what do you thinks going to happen this year? >> i think its up for grabs. its trump and the republican party mantra before the citizens of this house district. >> what are the local issues that matter most to people here? >> one of them is health care. >> youre saying the same thing that an ethiopian family said to me in aurora yesterday. >> exactly. it really matters. >> in 2016 you voted for hillary clinton for president and mi...

Party. people leaving the republican caucus. hes trying to back up what he sees as anti-establishment populism quote/unquote although i struggled to show that it involves hedge funds. but putting the debate to the side he would argue that this is about trump but going through the bank shot of this first midte midterm. >> bannon made news when he talked about the june 2016 meeting at trump tower as treasonous. lets play that. >> if a candidate knows about that in advance then are they part of tre...

Between tweets of the candidates hes chosen in michigan and kansas. and i wonder what you think from republican candidates trying to win tough races, balderson in oh ohio, its interspersed. i wonder what you think their read is? >> i think theres a thematic consistency in the tweeting that is part of the broader political strategy of the president in the midte midterm. the tweets are aimed at the republican base to undermine the credibility of the mueller investigation. theyre not designed to re...

Took it to mean as an ideologicalt word fetus. the reaction was in credulous. people are saying, are you serious or are you kidding? >> well have to see the intention behind this. lena sun. thank you very much. after a boost in alabama, can the democratic party keep the momentum heading into the midte midterm. we weigh in.

Nothing you know do about it. >> historically thats been the case. she also made another great point, even if it does tax tax reform it might not be enough to make up, just the natural swinging tide. we know that close to a majority of americans wish that there was a viable third option, which theyre not going to have by 2018 or 2020, so people are going to forced to make that opinion. frankly with whats going on, see the partisan bickering, i i understand why americans are saying none of these ...

If were on the side of the dictator, were kind of proving al qaedas case, arent arent we? >> if you look at some al qaeda propaganda films, especially the beginning ones that came out around 9/11, half are about the regime of hosni mubarak. half of al qaeda senior leadership, over half are egyptians, are dissidents opposed to hosni mubarak. now if all of a sudden the mubarak regime was to change overnight and we had a democratic government in egypt that, maybe not 100% in love with the united st...