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Something changes in the next couple weeks, just the effect that can have. the same effect without the john podesta e-mails and everything swirling around in the 2016 context. >> what the president wants the midterm to be about, looking at this statement, the involvement the groups had trying to shake the conversation here in this country. how perilous is that still? talking its democratic message. another group shaping the way the electorate looks at the election in a few weeks? >> any lingerin...

Which is unpopular, isnt your position any longer. play two is fear. usually what they do is use racism or sometimes homophobia. were seeing the threat or fear of brown and black people, immigrants, muslims, which is what donald trump did in 16, using the fear of the other, youre losing your country to those brown and black people. play three is break the rules. were seeing this too. suppress the vote. so georgia, texas, north dakota, you just change the rules to suppress the other sides right t...

And ill tell you what. this country doesnt want them. we dont want them. >> now for a closer look at the presidents rhetoric on the road, heres nbcs hallie jackson. >> reporter: less than 200 miles from the border in arizona the president is pushing immigration as a top midterm issue. hes pointing to a caravan of migrants escaping poverty and violence making their way to central america. >> they might as well turn back. theyre not making it into this country. >> thats part of his closing argumen...

Plus, paul manafort in court and sentenced while still cooperating are robert mueller, what this tells us about where the russia probe is headed. new this morning, president trump stumps in arizona. with 17 days before the midterm, the president is returning to his rhetoric on immigration in an effort to gin up his base and rev up supporters. >> democrats want to raise your taxes, impose socialism in the country, turn us into a venezuela, turn us into another venezuela, take away your health c...

For any midterm ever. >> david frum and nina joining me tonight. place, the xfinity xfi gateway.

Democrat and try to excite that bait. i think the issue for republicans is politically convenient at that time because democrats have been pushing health care. and also weve been hearing a lot about the cavanaugh bump. i dont know if its going sustain itself roughly two weeks after he was confirm and two weeks before the midterm. so the republicans need something to be angered about and moetz vatzed. >> real quick. we heard the president at his rally say dep -- democrats create mobs, republicans...

The kavanaugh dust settled. stories suddenly began to pop up that pelosi, schumer, and company, would concern that latino voters were insufficiently enthusiastic in the midterm. which could doom democrats chances to take the house. then, like magic, a few days later a story appeared out of nowhere about another caravan of central americans heading from honduras. >> [speaking spanish] >> [speaking spanish] >> laura: a former honduran left-wing politician even joined the caravan for a time before ...

The president said he will veto it if he doesnt have it and hes willing to shut the government down after the midterm is over. it highlights something that all these people running for election havent stopped up about. >> >> eric trump: two months ago all they talked about was century cities and immigration. >> abolishing i.c.e.! >> eric trump: they wont mention those three topics now. guess what, lets not use the century city word anymore or that i.c.e. word anymore. because those issues do not...

The u.s. senate. balance of power now going into a mid-term thats 18 days away its 51 republicans, democrats at 49. president trump four state swing through monday putting illegal immigration front and center. kayleigh mcenany with me now. whats the strategy on immigration here? >> the strategy is to put immigration in the forefront. we saw a definitive change in polling when democrats started calling for the abolition of ice. in that moment when mainstream democrats calling for the abolition of...

Incident and advocate for justice that is timely and in due process. we are saddened to hear of khashoggis death and offer our deepest condolences from his family, fiancée and friends." from sarah sanders. judeth? >> that is an acceptance if not endorsement from riyadh. the hope this will blow over and we will move to the midterm and the country has other challenges. that jamal khashoggi reaches the outlet phase but we have to ask ourself what is kind of country are we doing business with? what...