Oh my gosh. This is amazing. Were so much closer to home ownership. Welcome to kasie d. C. Im kasie hunt. Were live 7 00 to 9 00 p. M. Eastern every sunday from washington. Tonight, the president campaigns in pennsylvania, but there is new reporting out hes already getting cold feet about the republican candidate. Well take you inside the remarkable race with former governor ed randall and boyle and costello. And Anthony Scaramucci joins us as more and more Trump Campaign insiders like hope hicks find themselves outside the white house. And just out tonight, brandnew reporting on the
future of ivanka trump and Jared Kushner in the white house. But first, the president begins the week with major wins for his agenda, signing his tariff plan and announcing a meeting with kim jongun. A potential breakthrough, but also a huge gamble. But in the background the advancing mueller investigation. The public melt down of a former staffer on live television, the exit of gary cohn, and reports trum
lamb the sham, right? lamb the sham. i hear he s nice looking. i think i m better looking than him. i do. i do. personally, i like rick succone. i think he s handsome. [ cheers and applause ] do me a favor. get out on tuesday. vote for rick succone and we can leave right now. so, that s what he s saying in public. but privately the president reportedly has not been so generous. according to new reporting just in from jonathan swan at axios, trump is trashing succone behind the scenes. why? trump thinks saccone is a terrible, weak candidate according to sources who have spoken with the president. the president nearly piling on after politico reported earlier this week that leaders in the republican party had also turned on saccone. they ve been telling me that as well this week. nbc s vaughn hillyard is with us from carnegie, pennsylvania. how bad is it on the ground for saccone?
if there is a district where the candidate agrees the president should go, he s going to go there and treat it like it s 2016 all over again. so, it s going to be the frenzy, the energy which is maybe positive, but it s also going to be all of these statements once the president leaves the drilkt, the candidate may not want to answer for. do you agree the president thought that the olympics wouldn t have been fun if south korea had been nuked? that s not something a candidate wants to have to respond to. right. well, they should get used to answering these questions if they want to win. dave wasserman, how much do you buy this idea this is candidate based or should republicans view this as a reason to panic? crazy thing republicans trashing the race. that is going to be the opposite of most races this fall. but in this case, democrats to their credit have largely stayed out. dccc has not spent in recent weeks helping connor lamb. they have run they have let him run his own campai
what do you know that might not be obvious to those of us here? reporter: kasie, i want to start with connor lamb. he had about 300 mainly union workers, coal miners, a ruckus rally down the road. was also with connor lamb here in carnegie. they had canvassers. the campaign hadn t talked to but they were coming in off the streets, going out canvassing, phone banking. it was an operation much like we saw with doug jones in alabama in those closing days. compare that to the get out the vote effort for rick saccone. outside of the rally he has been nowhere to be seen this weekend. nowhere yesterday, we don t know where rick saccone is today. we don t know where he ll be tomorrow. he had the get out the vote rally. about 15 individuals showed up for that event. i want to put this in perspective. connor lamb s campaign has spent more than four times what rick saccone has on television. paul ryan s super pac has put comparatively more than $2
in the final week of the race, a jolt from trump to kind of light a fire under republican voters to turnout because that s been their biggest problem in these off-year elections. yeah. ed rendell, last word to you on the tariff question. is it your sense the president brought this issue up specifically around the politics of it as it plays in pennsylvania 18? and do you think this is a positive for the president, is this a policy that is going to earn republican votes? well, he brought it up to help mr. saccone. he s not doing it because connor lamb came out and endorsed the tariffs as well. connor lamb is endorsed by the local steel workers. that is not a strategy likely to help very much. the steel workers are solidsly behind connor lamb. as far as the president coming into districts, kasie, i d like to invite him into congressman costello s district to campaign. congressman costello s district that is looking to change dramatically for the worst for mr. costello.