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Ordinary midterms. This is the age of trump. Forget the adage that all politics is local, right now all politics is national. Typically midterms are referendums on the sitting president , and, well, that is more true than ever this election year. Heck, we just saw the governors race in florida last week get winnowed down to a person that was a trump clone versus a democrat who was an impeachment progressive. It has nothing to do with whether President Trump has to stay in office or not, but welc...

And however much her father and boss savaged Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail, tonight the Senior Adviser to the president , a Public Servant who also happens to be the president s daughter, has an email problem. Specifically, the Washington Post reporting that ivanka trump, quote, sent hundreds of emails last year to white house aides, cabinet officials and assistants using a personal account, many of them in violation of federal records rules according to people familiar with a white hous...

Deal. What she did to win over dissident democrats. Her challenger last time, tim ryan, will join me to talk about his 180. Alleged Foreign Agent maria butina in court to plead guilty, but to what . We have a team out this morning. First our new msnbc reporting, donald trump telling those close to him that he is alarmed by the possibility of impeachment as the seriousness of whats been going down starts to sink in. An ally of the president is telling nbc news, quote, the entire question of wheth...

Transfixed on beating donald trump and that question of which democrat is best positioned to do it. Joe biden does the best. 5142 in our poll. Secret stash. Prosecutors in the Jeffrey Epstein case reveal a trove at his mansion, pile of cash, diamonds, passport issued to epstein from another country under another name. They did not say which country the passport was issued from but he had an address, residence in saudi arabia. Obviously, that raises a bunch of questions. Unrelenting in his attack...

Plus, there were discussions about a proposed trump tower in moscow leading up to the 2016 election. Probably up to could be up to as far as october, november. Its our understanding they went on throughout 2016. And breaking news, the democratic field for president gets a little bit bigger as senator Kamala Harris announces she is running. I am running for president of the united states. Yeah. And im very excited about it. Very excited about it. We got a lot to talk about. We start today with wh...

Trace. There were meetings at the Justice Department in which it was discussed whether the Vice President and cabinet could be brought together to remove the president. I never heard of it. Frankly, i find any suggestion of it to be absurd. Last night, our colleague, shelby and Ranking Member filed a text of a bipartisan bicameral legislative agreement. I talked to the president and the Vice President. I told him i knew it was not a catchall deal but a downpayment. Declare victory for the fundin...

History of baseball. For people who dont know baseball, my, talk about why that deal is a bargain for the angels. The trout deal, yeah. All longterm deals are bad unless youre talking about possibly the greatest ball player since babe ruth. No doubt that hes a generational player, generational talent. Had he waited to go into free agency in another year and a half, the bidding would have started around 6 million. Yankees would have been all over him. Best player in baseball at every age he has b...

Barisbari burisma. In a matter that would only serve to help donald trump and that could affect 2020 if stolen information trickles out during the course of the campaign. We all remember her emails. More immediately, though, it can have an impact on the impeachment trial. Burisma and attempts to dig up dirt on the bidens are, of course, at the center of the entire affair. Joining me now is Nbc News National Security and intelligence correspondent ken delanian and correspondent natasha bertrand. ...

Effective at diluting these big impeachment moments with whether its suddenly the ig report is ready, bill barr. I mean, theyve done a good job diluting the conversation with other parts of this controversy. And we can talk about the misinformation, disinformation and all of those things. That just is. This is a reminder how far well this administration is willing to use their power, whether you think its ethical or not. I dont want to prejudge any of it, but if you say its getting diluted, ever...

Democratic republic of congo. You are watching cnn, im brooke baldwin, thank you for being here. We begin this hour with those internal conversations between the white house and the pentagon. The conversations that led the president to call off a pending military strike against iran, after a massive u. S. Drone was shot down in the region just one day ago. First, the president s own candid explanation on why he pulled the plug with only 10 minutes to spare. They came and said, sir, were ready to...