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Suburbs, where democrats turned out in droves. The election has underlined a serious Enthusiasm Gap between the two parties headed into 2018. Democrats clearly animated over health care and the president s divisive language. Republicans, meanwhile, struggling under the weight of poor messages, agenda misfires and a president whose polling is in the 30s. Two reports now on whether virginia is a bellwether for next years congressional elections, lets start with capitol hill and nbcs capitol hill c...

On a monday night, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters. Day 697 of the Trump Administration and just hours from now the president s former National Security advisor will be sentenced in the russia investigation. As weve been getting our best view yet of flynns fbi interview as were learning more about the crime he pleaded to. This comes as wired magazine highlighted 17 known trump and russia investigations. It comes as we get a look at a pair of new reports today that detailed...

On the strength of the economy. He also woke up to ominous poll numbers from his most favorite network, fox news, that show him losing to all of the top Democratic Candidates for president in 2020. Here are those numbers. Biden beats donald trump 50 to 38. Bernie sanders 48 to 39. Elizabeth warren 46 to 39. And senator Kamala Harris 45 to 39. And on that topic are the president s political vulnerability, the Washington Post reports mounting signs of Global Economic distress this week have alarme...

The pro-democracy protesters in hong kong. "the times" notes his, quote, cautious distance from hong kongs pro-democracy movement has left him politically isolated from both parties in congress, the state department, european allies, and his most hawkish advisers at the white house. and of if those two stories werent enough, trump showed interest in purchasing greenland to which the islands government said no thanks. north korea just launched two new missiles and rejected the idea of talks with ...

>> so phil ricker the question i guess becomes does that change any mind? will anything be different tomorrow because he said that today? >> you know, i dont know that any minds are going to be different on capitol hill tomorrow. its important to keep in mind the context of that impromptu statement from comb comey. he was coming out of a closed door hearing. he was dealing with questions from a lot of republican lawmakers about hillary clintons e-mails and some of the issues that president trump...

The constitution of the united states so help me god. >> that last part was too easy. with us to talk about it tonight is pulitzer prize winner phillip rucker. former republican member of congress, david jolly. welcome to you both. phil, what must it be like? the question you asked me, looming government shutdown. the ongoing twitter war with elements of his own government and now the economy, which is starting to pop up on the radars of a good many folks who when they last checked things were h...

Republicans. >> our thanks to phil and david for coming on our broadcast tonight and helping us understand what happened today. coming up for us, alarming new details about how trump supporting russians schemed to mislead americans on every social media flat form out there and its still going on as we speak. tonight the story when we come back.

What politicians do. today marks one year since donald trump was elected to be the 45th president of the united states. so, were taking stock of the promises he made and has kept. and so far which ones he hasnt. stick with us through this on the other side well talk to phil ricker -- phil rucker, excuse me, to put it into context and talk about why it exactly matters. first, promises made and promises kept. >> were going to cancel the paris climate agreement. >> reporter: trump made good on this...