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Also tonight, donald trump is wasting his time in the bronx, following a Head Spinning week as a criminal defendant. Purveyor of nazi rhetoric, and bald faced liar that he was a target for assassination. Plus, how ron desantis fresh from his humiliating president ial campaign, is coopting the Civil Rights Era term Freedom Summer, to push his hateful agenda. We begin tonight with a very stark reality in america. Elections have consequences. And because this country elected donald trump in 2016, w...

Manchin and other centrists, but i think what youre going to see is joe manchin demand a number closer to $1.5 trillion or $2 trillion, and democrats in the senate are going to have to decide if thats enough, if theyre willing to take that or if they want to hold out and keep applying pressure. of course, the later it gets into the cycle, the more difficult it is to get done, especially if swing state senators start to get worried and representatives about their races. so this is a race against ...

In the brett kavanaugh situation. do you expect a similar outcome when it comes to party support? you got a lot of senators who complain and concerned about the process but ultimately come around and support the republican position? >> i think this is a little bit different than brett kavanaugh. but at the end of the day, i do think most -- most senators fall in line with their parties. but i would still keep a close eye, particularly on susan collins and lisa murkowski. and mitt romney on the r...

Man of faith. hes walking around with not so much as anyone who has anything to lose, because i think he feels a heavy burden in this moment especially. but as someone who might find it easier to shrug off a lot of this stuff. that was certainly my sense of him. he seems to,s a said in t as i enjoying this moment. i think he likes the moment that people are paying attention to him butnd feels empowered to do so. >> i think one interesting question is romneys unique in many ways, former president...

Myself if this set of facts were to be in front of me and the president was president hillary clinton as opposed to president donald trump, would i be viewing this in a different way. because if i do, thats wrong. >> amen. but -- >> yeah. its kind of hard to see where that all goes. when you look at those trend lines in the polling, you understand how the pressure really falls the way we always knew that it fell, on those swing state senators, on those swing district house members, because you s...

Everybody to refocus on. what we have right now is so objectionable, so unnecessary. theres a lot of room for us to appeal to moderates, independents and frankly republicans on immigration and other issues. >> senator, by the way, just a clarification, weve also been fans of your performances of late, think your running a very good, very disciplined, very tough campaign. wanted to ask you, though, more specifically on immigration, just so you get a chance to put it out there. what are your views...

That. the fbi has done that. we all agreed they would take a week to do that. lets look at what they found instead of preemptively finding this institution is worthless and further eroding the faith we have in our institutions. >> sabrina siddiqui, republicans have accused democrats of predeciding on kavanaugh, but the fact is, you had statements from many republicans, white house chuck grassley as well, already confident in him. that was predictable. what really matters is what those swing vote...

Murkowski, two key republican votes, remain undecided. democratic senators joe manchin and heidi heitkamp who face tough re-election races in red states are also on the fence. so how will this play out with just weeks to go before the midterm elections? joining me now is larry sabato, director at the university of virginias center for politics. larry, thank you so much for being here, ive been looking forward to talk to you all day the about this, about the midterm elections. lets start with tho...

>> joining us is politicos daniel litman. those comments from trump, mcconnell raising a lot of eyebrows are they likely to do more harm than good among republican voters, both in the midterms in general, but also among some of those senators that are still on the fence like a susan collins or lisa murkowski? >> i think those comments are clearly meant to give some support to the republican base, you know, to make them feel like not all is lost. but in terms of attracted moderate voters or helpi...

We have a party thats trying to keep itself together, realizing the top of the ticket is dragging swing state senators and congressmen down. thats a real problem that they cant ignore. >> does donald trump understand the turmoil hes causing or does he really care? >> i dont think he cares at all. i dont believe that anyone has asked more of the republican party than donald trump actually as a candidate ever. in american history. the republican party has done so much more for donald trump than he...