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Alex Witt hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Two items, the Collusion Case and the obstruction case. What would the president consider sitting down two with the approval of his attorneys . How much has this conversation evolved . Well, i think we have to take everything Rudy Giuliani says with a grain of salgt. And when were only hearing about these conversations from him, it is very unclear to me how accurate he is in relaying those conversations. But...

Make sure that there was at least some daylight between the two of them and i think he saw that balderson has been openly supportive of the president, although hes more recently started to part with him a little bit on things like tariffs and those kind of things. >> and the seat is open because p current congressman was leaving to head a business group. >> and let me ask you this question. when you see a 10 point swing toward democrats as it relates to this election, what do you think that is f...

Should not be much of a race. the open seat gave an unusual circumstance. but, yeah, it has been about a ten point swing. i think danny oconnor, the democrat, he is a young franklin county recorder. a lot of it has been getting him more well-known in the district. and i think democrats nationally seem to be kind of sitting back and waiting to see how well he performs. i think they have been impressed. he has been outraising troy balderson, he is doing a pretty good job of getting his name out th...

Lets take that as a jumping off point here just to talk about the way i think you could say cynical way in which the president is using something like this. >> well, racism and race wait bawait -- race-baiting is clearly the best tool he thinks he has. this is a changing country. nonwhite children outpace the birth of white children. the country is changing. now, you can be someone more like barack obama in this way and you can actually appeal to peoples better angels and say listen, there is no...

Rally in pennsylvania this week noted that most of that speech during that rally was devoted to attacking the media, to talking about police electoral victory. how much does he need to talk about ohio specifically in his speech tonight? >> i dont know. i mean he -- normally that is not his style. he will come in and im guessing that he will talk a little about troy balderson and about the race, but i suspect a lot of speech just like when mike pence was here a couple days ago will focus on his a...

Months time. given all of that, what import do you assign to this race? what will it tell you about the midterms that are just 90 days away. >> i do think that every district is different and i think that every candidate matters. so it really does make a difference when you have two good options as a voter. and that makes things competitive. but also the president and the republicans in congress have been consistently sticking to their base. they are only -- their strategy is double down, triple...