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News, analysis and interviews with politicians and observers. Back in the jury room. So how this all unfolded, just after 11 00 a. M. , the jury did send a note to the court asking the judge, judge, what do we do if we cant come to a unanimous decision on one of the 18 counts. That implies that perhaps they have reached a decision unanimously on the other 17 counts, but they havent said that definitively. What the judge had to do was he had to come up with instructions to give the jury as it per...

Anti-corruption party. this dove tails into the messaging theyve had this notion of corruption throughout the administration, but one of the things that does make the messaging on this easier for democrats is that the evidence really is in what the president already said in that summary of the call that his own white house put out in public, which really is the president explicitly asking a foreign leader to investigate his political opponent. thats a lot more cut and dry for people than the rus...

Require agreeing to some level of spending. and when you have deadlines like they are facing on the debt limit and on the budget caps agreement itself it really becomes a forcing mechanism. all the principle goes out the window in the service of just cutting a deal. its sort of the opposite of the drain the swamp message that we often hear from president trump. but thats what ends up happening. >> thank you very much julie. i appreciate your time. >> thank you. and next dr. sanjay gupta on one...

He wants to make it us against them. and the establishment, you know, in this case, the democrats, are exploiting this situation for political gain. theyre going after him because theyll go after you. and they will go after all of us unless we stand up to them. thats the message in effect. hes conveying to his base. and it obviously has a certain receptivity among the audience, among the people who have rallied behind him on this drain the swamp message of his. at least some people are seeing it...

>> we can go on, if you want. >> mitt romney. >> ouch. exactly. i think she knows that shes got to define herself as someone whos a reformer, someone whos a pop ulist, not merely the harvard law professor. i think thats the effort today. you run against d.c. you call it a stinky swamp. and you kind of embrace some of the rhetorical strokes that trump did in 2016. she knows shes going to get hit hard from the right with all the usual bug-a-boos and she has to get out early in defining herself. he...

Republican who is running against john tester in the senate this year and is going to make the case that hes keeping his promises. and its so interesting because when i was texting with republican strategist as it was happening, they were saying that pruitt had just become too much of a liability in some of these midterm races in the sense that he cut completely against that drain the swamp message that trump had in the campaign and will continue to have. there are people over here on this quadr...

Podesta, loretta lynch, the queen to have swamp, hillary clinton, in particular to watch nancy pelosi and chuck schumer stand there announcing drain the swamp message as we are learning about the fbi, obamas fbi spying on trump campaign via the fisa process and via informant, ironic and perhaps democrats should find a good message. >> what happened here is president trump took the democrats message because thats what we ran on in 2006 during midterms so actually it was ours first. do i think its...

>> if they had spies in my campaign, that would be a disgrace to this country. >> plus, the swamp thing. >> the swamp has never been more foul or more fetid than under this president. >> president trump has become the swamp. >> have democrats found a drain the swamp message too? and stacey versus stacey. how the ideological fight for the soul of the democratic party is playing out in tonights gubernatorial primary in georgia. this is "mtp daily" and it starts right now. good evening. im chuc...

Answer and they cant answer it. its appalling. >> nunes last night talked about impeaching christopher wray. >> thats in the tool box. hopefully they will comply long before we have to go that route but it is in the tool box that we have there. certainly contempt of congress is the first step. >> scott pruitt. do you think he should resign? >> absolutely not. scott is doing a great job. this town is filled with all kinds of you shouldnt do this and shouldnt do that. you can pull up any rock and ...

I have not relied on russian funds for my businesses. i have been fully transparent in providing all requested information. donald trump had a better message, and ran a smarter campaign, and that is why he wo won. suggesting otherwise ridicules those who voted for him. it is an honor to work with president trump and his administration as we take on the challenges that he was elected to face. >> also tonight, at the national boy scout jamboree in west virginia, president trump took his drain the ...