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And keep the public safe. welcome back. were very excited about a new initiative here at meet the press. were calling it county to county. from now until election day, were spending time even more granularly than we normally are in five counties in five of the closest battleground states across this country. these places are going to tell the story of this election and a group of voters that will have a critical impact on who wins the white house. we picked our five counties because they help ...

Did last week and employ the same strategy. >> mike viqueira, joyce, brett, ben, talk to you in a little bit. coming up as more and more damning evidence as more is revealed in the impeachment quality. how much longer will republicans in congress defend the actions? a handful of swing counties that could inform where purple states may be headed in next years general election. years general election. ahh no, come on. i saw you eating poop earlier. hey! my focus is on the road, and thats savin...

>> i know you looked at pennsylvania. why is that important? >> take a look here. they both voted for barack obama. both voted for donald trump. and in 2018 they both voted for the democratic candidate for governor tom wolfe. if im looking forward to donald trump and im trying to get an understanding of how different groups potentially are moving, these two particular groups have a lot of white voters without college degrees specifically white women without college degrees. lets see how these gr...

The tribalism of american offering a very disruptive politics is our next topic and campaign, and the question is 25%. bernie sanders with 14% a we have a great panel to talk can you beat disruption with distant third and kamala harris about it "morning joe" is coming right disruption and for a lot of voters theres back ♪ ♪ put me on a plane is in fifth place and fallen a question about whether or not hurry hurry before i go insane elizabeth warren can beat trump eight points since july. she...

Are. >> and i think just at a strategic level, the political strategy, and its disgusting but the strategy is to paint the democratic party as extreme in their policies. but race -- and i dont know what they tell the toddler in chief, but the actual politics of being thought of as a racist are devastating in swing counties. i think the strategy, and, again, its disgusting. but at its best, the perception is to paint the entire democratic party. i saw some of the reporting, i think axios has it, ...

We will see if that pans out. >> you look like a political operative. i think the strategic level, the political strategy and its disgusting, the strategy is paint the democratic party as extreme in their policies. and i dont know what they tell the toddler in chief, but the actual politics of being thought of as a racist are devastating in swing counties. i think the strategies -- and its disgusting but at its best, its conception is to paint the entire democratic party as extreme in their poli...

Is we dont care about you and youre less than human. democrats and really most americans understand that that is not who we are as a country. and detroit, mr. mayor has done a great job. thank you for having us. >> doesnt this city look great? this is terrific. >> everyone is talking about that. lavora, to that point. and im thinking about mccomb county, the counties in this swing state that are swing counties. one of the things im hearing this morning is, well, if president obama was too far ri...

You dont sit on it and hope it hatches. you want to be moving forward, and by the way, for joe, his opponent is not kamala harris. they dont say we need somebody who can beat kamala harris. its joe biden. remember joe said about rudy giuliani, his idea of a sense is a noun or verb in 9/11, every seasons has to be a noun, a verb and donald trump. if im working for joe. >> madame chairwoman. tell us about michigan. its an interesting state because in 2016, donald trump won it. no republican had wo...

Do more than that. does he know how to do that or go to the rally and tell the people what they want to hear? >> hes incapable of doing that. susan talked earlier about his ceiling, its at 46%. hes never received higher than that in the gallup approval poll and in order to win, republicans anticipate losing the popular vote again. in order to overcome that, what they have to do -- what the trump campaigns plan and is what the rnc is spending tens of millions of dollars of doing is identifying pe...

Trump faces an unfavorable news cycle, he loves to change the subject. now, i think depending on what muellers testimony is, thats hard to do, brian. if theres damming stuff there. hes going to try. i do think, though, one thing i learned from the reporting we did on this piece is while trump has a lot of weaknesses, he is still stronger than you might think in some of these swing counties, these counties where you went for obama, obama and then trump. he hasnt broken yet. i think thats going to...