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Motivate his base and carry significant crossover appeal to independent and moderate voters. is it smart? it seems to me like the economy is a much more uncontroversial way. but maybe it doesnt rally people as much. >> i think the economy is the issue where you traditionally -- or lately have been seeing the strongest numbers for the president, the strongest numbers for republicans. so it is much safer territory. on the other hand, theres a lot more intensity, i think, on the right than on the l...

Out well for you. >> ill call you when i get the glass house and the custom made mercedes. >> there you go. >> i love that. >> right. >> good luck. thank you, maam. there it is. there it is. >> she made my day. polo, thanks. good luck to her. thanks for being with us. have a great weekend. im poppy harlow in new york. >> im jim sciutto. "at this hour" with kate bolduan starts now. >> hello, everyone. im kate bolduan. it may not fit well on a bumper sticker, but president trump thinks its the clo...

Regime for the apparent attack. >> voters also got to hear other issues president trump wants to highlight for the mid-term, and he is talking about a caravan of migrants from honduras and wants to blame the democrats. >> i heard he body slammed a reporter. any guy that can do a body slam, hes my kind of -- >> this will be an election of kavanaugh, the caravan, and law and order. its going to be an election of those things. >> heres the deal. its a friday, and whoever is in the control room thin...

Some lawmakers are planning to defend the president by mounting a smear campaign. >> the president also rolled out -- i guess you could say it was the rest of his midterm message. listen. >> this will be an election of brett kavanaugh, the caravan, law and order and common sense. thats what its going to be. its going to be an election of those things. >> all right. not subtle at all. also not subtle is the shouting match between john kelly and john bolton. it was so loud were told it could be he...

The ad showed an open letter to heitcamps opponent congressman kevin cramer. at least five women said they did not give their permission. some say they werent actually victims. heidi heitkamp called it a mistake. steve: meanwhile, president trump is blasting the second caravan of migrants heading toward our border and says its a big issue for republicans heading into the midterms. ainsley: the president tweeting, quote: hard to believe with thousands of people from south of the border walking un...

Last midterm. you have to figure out, when the numbers go below 50% and theyre always below in the midterm elections, the calculations of who bothers to vote is the key one and it is so hard to do. >> bret: which is why the president is out almost every day answering every single question, doing interviews with all kinds of people because he knows that he is not on the ballot but he is on the ballot. >> he is on the ballot. it is very different from the fact that other presidents make. if you lo...

In a midterm and its very different dynamic. the other point is this, their preopening investigation i think she speaks to many americans who want to see and accountability here around whether in fact sexual harassment, sexual abuse took place in the idea of respecting survivors. >> martha: wimmer topic. an editorial today made a really interesting point about the world economic forum has named the united states the number one most competitive country as far as positive environments for business...

Trump is. you will be democrats be shocked. >> laura: michelle, final word. >> it really is the jobs versus the mob mid-term and if dr. greyson were honest she would acknowledge that there has been a referendum on the very agenda that she has laid out and her own husband who is i think the god father of democratic moddism somebody who accused republicans to be likened to al qaeda who harassed peaceful republicans that came under criticism by other democratic leaders for how out of control he was...

Particularly in the senate there may be a way to crack the compromise to deal with some of these issues. not everything, but some of them. and that is going to take political garbage, very short supply in washington right now,t like you see, 4,000 people coming to the border. on the other side you see these stories, and by the way, some of those 4,000 probably have a legal asylum claims. and we have to be able to adjudicate that. >> harris: they have three countries to work around before they ge...

He added this coming the assault on our country and our southern border, including the criminal elements and drugs pouring in is far more important to me as president than trade or the usmca. hopefully mexico. this onslaught onslaught at the northern border. all democrats fall for weak law laws. 4,000 honduran migrants marching through got guatemala towards the mexico border. those threatened president thro pull back aid from any country that let the caravan and keep going. this appears to be a ...