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Appreciate you being with us. nicole hammer as well. thank you very much. an important discussion well continue to have. coming up, with the midterm election a week away the president is pulling out all the anti-immigrant stops, using the military, migrants seeking refuge, and misinformation. the question of course is what impact is it having? will it work? well get into that next.

"were the only country in the world where a person comes in and has a baby and the baby is essentially a citizen." that also is not true. dozens of countries have the same situation. but you dont have to take our word for it, that the president cant overturn the 14th amendment, or even the word of legal experts from coast to coast. listen to the republican speaker paul ryan. >> you cannot end birthright citizenship with an executive order. like when obama tried changing immigration laws with exe...

Amendment is pretty clear. >> joining us no you is cnn chief white house correspondent jim acosta. jim, it seems pretty obvious about why the president is suddenly talking about, you know, an executive order about the 14th amendment. it just seems a week before the midterm its not a coincidence. >> its not a coincidence, anderson. it is part of the presidents playbook for the mid terms. hes been advised by people inside and outside the white house to go after this immigration issue. this is an i...

Suggesting that president trump can amend the 14th amendment by himself, but the president of the united states has a seat at the constitutional table. the president, members of congress, the supreme court all swear an oath to uphold the u.s. constitution, and i think what the president is doing here is essentially saying we are going to start the legal process with this executive order he says hes going to sign and that legal process we know is going to go to the courts and eventually, chris, i...

Republicans think they can win on? >> i think that often the president pursues executive orders to draw attention to specific topics. im certainly not a legal scholar and dont think you can overturn the 14th amendment by executive order. i would be uncomfortable with the policy. i think politically it is really not wise. i think there is a large number of republicans, democrats and independents who want to secure the border. >> thats a really interesting take. i wonder how do you think that this...

Such a move would be unconstitutional and would certainly be challenged. and the challengers would undoubtedly win. president trump on twitter this morning seemed to welcome that legal challenge. its not clear whether or not there are actually even any plans for him to sign anything. it seems that this might just be about having this conversation six days before the mid term elections, teeing up the presidents 11-rally blitz over the next several days in which a key issue for his base is this is...

-- ex- urban and the playing field for the house are so big, there are so many districts where its unfavorable, its hard for republicans to hold on given the politics of the districts, that this message be reminds voters that may like some trump policies but dont like him why they dont like him. and as weve seen, some of the numbers on the house side of the ledger tilt back toward the democrats over the past week to ten days, its coincided with the president becoming the center of attention, his...

Ofcampaigning. he will hold 11 ral states, the strategy it appears to drive republican turnout with hard line rhetoric on immigration while warning about the danger of a democratic takeover. joining us is abby philip. quite a turn around to the kind of rallies we will see. >> reporter: the president is really off to the races here before the mid term elections heading out this afternoon for florida, the first of 11 rallies he will hold before next tuesday. now, the president, if you look at the ...

Average american family is saving about $2,000 a year as a result of this tax cut. most democrats are running on repealing the tax cut, so thats $2,000 they would lose right there. >> catherine, during the campaign, youll recall trumps critics all said that he would be terrible for the economy. here are just a few of those that we pulled. >> economists on the right and the left and the center all agree, trump would throw us back into recession. >> i can say with 100% certainty that theres a real...

Two sisters, saudi citizens, found dead, duct-taped together, washed up on the banks of new york city after applying for asylum in the u.s. what is the saudi government saying? we begin with president trumps final midterm blitz. hes hitting 11 cities in eight states, all in just the next six days. up until the midterm election day. the president moments ago speaking to reporters on his way to his next rally, and well bring those remarks as soon as we get them. the stakes this election, i dont ...