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Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. Comments are anything to go by. The New York Times reported that the serving White House Counsel Don Mcgahn has done more than 30 hours of voluntary interviews with the special Counsel Robert Mueller and his team of prosecutors. Shortly there after we got new reporting from the times about the president s personal lawyer being sqozed, for look of a better term. The Wall Street Journal is first on the story as they have bone the c...

The nuts and bolts job that youve got to do. the trump era in republican politics is very discontinuous with previous eras in republican politics. the president on trade, on fiscal issues, on dare i say like family values issues, on a lot of matters, not to mention all the scandal stuff he is dragging around is a real departure from what a lot of traditional republicans have been able to run on in traditionally republican parts of the country. do you have to try to tactically separate some tradi...

The next two years. we want to own them. and on top of that, we have 24 democrats who won by five points or fewer, and we have 26 republicans who won by five points or fewer, meaning those are our countries. opportunities. we can look at those 26 seats that republicans barely won and go after those. so what i would say is you look at every district in this country, and were not going to leave any battlefield district uncontested or unprotected. that will be our goal over the next two years. >> w...

Lot of matters, not to mention all the scandal stuff he is dragging around is a real departure from what a lot of traditional republicans have been able to run on in traditionally republican parts of the country. do you have to try to tactically separate some traditional republicans from trumpism? do you try to create a wedge there? is it already there and you just try to leverage it? >> so in a take like mine that donald trump won, i look at it as there were people who were willing to try donal...

Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories.

Getting obama era financial regulations. it was a trump campaign promise which kevin sheridan and the washington director of moveon.org. nice to have you. is this a notable victory or something republicans are taking the box on. >> eight years, we got 20,000 new regulations. donald trump has a long way to go in unwinding the stifling economic regulations that he put in place, 80,000 pages of new regulations in the registry. he has a long way to go. you are seeing it in the stock market, the stoc...

Easier for the clintons then its going to be for president trump. >> richard: i agree with you. i think you should have done this a long time ago. a smart move the president. what you do is create two tracks. an agenda track, whats happening, what you need to move. on the other track, dealing with all the scandal stuff. what do you think about it, gre greg? >> greg: hes dealing with a media and a party working together -- that married couple that lives above you thats always arguing really loudl...

Easier for the clintons then its going to be for president trump. >> richard: i agree with you. i think you should have done this a long time ago. a smart move the president. what you do is create two tracks. an agenda track, whats happening, what you need to move. on the other track, dealing with all the scandal stuff. what do you think about it, gre greg? >> greg: hes dealing with a media and a party working together -- that married couple that lives above you thats always arguing really loudl...

The scandal stuff and the other team that was working on the agenda. if the president has to double track right? one track dealing with russia, maintaining his surrogates, making sure all of his surrogates are saying the right thing. on the other track he has to fulfill his make it america great again agenda which is failing because he cant seem to get ahead of his own leaks and scandal situation going on. >> martha: with regard to jared kushner, mike huckabee let me go to you on this. the sugge...

She is on top of bernie sanders in some of the iowa. honesty and trustworthy, absolutely. do people care? or did they say she is the one? >> one thing i would say about what you are looking at? slip it a little bit and look at where bernie sanders is. it almost looks like joe biden is doing more harm to bernie sanders than hillary clinton. >> biden was at 17% in that poll. >> and he is not even in the race yet. >> this is poplar until you get in the race. i think you make a good point. some of t...