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thinking isn't a guns situation. >> when "all in" starts right now. >> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. one week after we learned robert mueller had brought indictments against two top trump officials, announced a guilty plea for a third, all eyes on a former high-ranking official in the trump administration itself, michael flynn. a man who spent 24 days in the white house as the president's national security adviser. nbc news exclusively reporting that shmueler now has enough evidence to file charges in the investigation into flynn and his son michael flynn jr., according to multiple sources familiar with mueller's investigation. to be clear nbc news is not reporting who might be charged, only that there is sufficient evidence to file charges in that investigation. three sources tell nbc news that investigators plan to soon speak with multiple witnesses to gather more information about flynn's lobbying work, including whether he laundered money or lied to federal agents about his
overseas contacts. that news comes as the two former trump campaign aides facing indictments -- that would be paul manafort and his deputy rick gates -- were back in court today. the federal judge ruling they must remain under house arrest with her movements tracked by gps as they continue to negotiate a possible bail package. the president weighed in on manafort in combination with sinclair broadcast group. >> the reputation i felt was good. i had him for a short period of time. he was only in there for a finite period of time. but, you know, i feel badly for him. i always found him to be a really nice person. >> were mueller to file an obstruction of justice charge against the president, it would likely be flynn at the center of it. former fbi director james comey says the president pressured him to drop the investigation into flynn over flynn's conversations with the russian ambassador during the presidential transition. remember, flynn denied discussing u.s. sanctions against russia with the ambassador during several
exchanges, including, according to "the washington post," during an interview with the fbi. but intercepted communications reportedly contradicted flynn's account. now comey says he refused to drop the flynn investigation. shortly afterwards, trump fired him. which led to mueller being named special counsel. >> do you think he would ever consider trying to have mueller removed? or have you pledged to just stay out of that? >> well, i hope he is treating everything fairly. and if he is, i'm going to be very happy. because when you talk about innocent, i'm truly not involved in any form of collusion with russia, believe me. >> after the presidential campaign last year was over, flynn, just like the now indicted paul manafort, retroactively went on to register as a foreign agent. during a period when he was attending secret intelligence briefings with then candidate trump, flynn was being paid more than half a million dollars to lobby on behalf of the turkish government. even had the audacity to write a pro turkish government op-ed in
which he called recep tayyip erdogan chief antagonist, a muslim cleric living in exile in pennsylvania who erdogan blames for last year's failed coup. a senior law enforcement official tells nbc news's ken dilanian that in the weeks after trump was inaugurated, they were asked to extradite guillen. it's not clear whether the request came from flynn. i'm joined by the national security reporter who has been doing some amazing report thong story. let's start with that we learn head got half a million dollars to represent turkish interests through an intermediary. do you actually think about expediting fethullah gulen which is a key goal of erdogan. what do you know of this extradition that would have happened after flynn was actually in the u.s. government? >> just the very, very basics, chris, just what we said in the story, which is that the fbi was asked during the trump administration while mike flynn was the national security
adviser to take another look at this. and they had no reason to reexamine it because they had already looked at it during the obama administration and had no evidence to fulfill turkey's extradition request for fethullah gulen who lives in the poconos and is like public enemy number one for turkey. mike flynn at one point in the wake of the turkish coup actually gave a public statement saying the turkish coup could be a good thing. and then he completely 180 changed when he began being paid on behalf we now know by the government of turkey. and he published that op-ed on election day, which basically had turkish government talking points. it wasn't even disguised. a lot of people look at that and said obviously mike flynn didn't think he us going to win the election. because why would he publish that on election day? that's one of the really important things about this story is we are now saying that mike flynn's conduct as national security adviser is under scrutiny by robert mueller in connection with this gulen
arrangement. >> be a little clear there and then we'll move on to the reporting about sufficient evidence. because to impact that the key there is this is an unregistered foreign agent that is established to represent turkish interests writes a op-ed. and there is some question about whether that overlapped while he was in the white house. we don't know. i'm not saying that's the case. but it seems to me that that's a road investigators are looking at. >> that is absolutely at issue according to our sources is what official acts mike flynn took that seemed to align with his financial interests in terms of orchestrating the extradition of gulen to turkey. >> which, i should noted a big deal. and as law professor steve vladeck pointed out, if the case were to be proven a felony. let's talk about the idea sufficient charges in the flynn investigation. explain that reporting a little bit for us. >> yeah, chris. and we're not trying to be cute here. obviously both of these men, mike flynn, the former national security investigators and his son appear to be in serious
criminal jeopardy. we just don't have the precision of sourcing. we're not saying charges are eminent against both men. what we're saying is mueller has the evidence sufficient to file charges. charges could come. charges may not come if they are negotiating a cooperation arrangement. >> right. >> if they reach a deal to cooperate, we may not see charges, chris. >> all right. ken dilanian, thanks for being with me. former federal prosecutor renato mariotti, a frequent guest on the show. let's talk about flynn jr. and the behavior of flynn and flynn jr. this is flynn jr. who was -- it's not just that he is his father's shoefnlt was a partner in their business enterprise. he was his adviser. he was originally going to be brought in to get security clearance as a staffer to his father, national security adviser. him this morning, flynn jr., the sjw route, the disappointment on your faces when i don't go to jail will be worth all your harassment. i believe that was yesterday.
he also retweeted something accusing robert mueller of having conspired with hamas. what do you make of this as behavior from someone currently under investigation with possible criminal exposure? >> it's unbelievable. it's something i have not seen before in my experience as federal prosecutor. not only in my cases, but observing other cases. typically when people are facing a federal indictment, they're crapping their pants so to speak. they're very concerned. it is a big deal. it's a scary thing. usually you are not trying to upset the prosecutor. you're usually trying to see if you can convince them not to indict. so this sort of thumbing your nose at the prosecution, it tells me that either these people are extremely foolish or they are angling for a pardon in some way. >> or maybe they think they're totally innocent, and the government has nothing on them. >> you know, that's really hard to believe. i'm sorry. i don't really believe that. i think that, you know, they've got smart lawyers. michael flynn seems like to me he's had a very intelligent
lawyer, i mean, the father does. i think that they're very soberly explaining this to their client. if not, they're not doing their jobs. mueller and his team have amassed significant evidence. if this reporting is accurate, which i presume it is with all the sourcing, they're telling people either flynn or these lobbyists that they're potentially trying to get to cooperate, that they essentially have the goods on flynn. they're going to be pursuing indictments. >> we should note, it jumped out to me that there are two things that reporting indicates flynn has done, which is lie to federal investigators when they asked him -- when the fick first questioned him about the conversations he had with kislyak about sanctions. and also didn't register as a foreign agent. >> right. >> both of which are, you know -- that's what george papadopoulos pleaded guilty to lying, and not registering as a foreign agent is one of the things that manafort is being indicted for. >> and the second one, not registering as a foreign agent is a very straight forward thing for a prosecutor to prove. that's the sort of charge
prosecutors love. because either you register order you didn't. it's the sort of thing, maybe there is some way in which flynn could say i wasn't really a foreign agent. but if that's something that mueller can prove. >> when you go and retroactively register, it hurts your case. >> either you did or you didn't. things that require intent or the intent to defraud, that can be complicated or corrupt intent we've talked about on the show before. something like this is a fairly straight forward thing. how does mike flynn intend to beat that charge? it's hard to see. >> one of the dynamics that is at issue here is the idea of pardons. because the person at the center of this is the president of the united states who has this incredible power under the article 2 of the constitution to pardon. federal crimes. and the signals being sent back and forth, i want you to listen to what he said about manafort and get your reaction to it in this most recent interview. take a listen. >> what was it that convinced you he had to be let go? >> well, i think we found out something about he may be
involved with certain nations. and i don't even know exactly what it was in particular. but there was a point at which we just felt paul would be better off. because we don't want to have any potential conflicts. and if there was a conflict, i don't want to be involved any conflicts, even though it was -- i could have kept him longer, i don't think anybody would have complained. but we don't want to have any potential conflicts of interest at all. >> no potential conflicts of interest. >> it's kind of weird, right? it's not at all what we've seen from this president so far. we had the head of the ethics walter shaub leave because he was so concerned about the conflicts in the administration there doesn't seem to be much interest in clearing that up. in fact i think his assets have not yet been moved to really a blind trust like they should be. so that's hard to believe. you know, i think a lot of the things we're hearing from the president right now are hard to believe. he has been going around saying he is not under investigation. which anybody with two eyes can see that he is. i mean, if his lawyers are telling him that he is not under investigation, they're
committing malpractice. >> one thing i would just remind people of, the original sin here that started all this was that phone call between flynn and the ambassador that they lied about. if they hadn't -- that got the ball rolling. so there is something at the beginning of this, it's useful to come back to remember where flynn was. renato mariotti, it's great to have you here in new york city tonight. >> thank you very much. >> joining me now conservative "washington post" columnist jennifer rubin and independent presidential candidate evan mcmullin. and jennifer, it's striking to me that the american first campaign appears to have had a number of high level officials who were essentially secret foreign agents. >> yeah. it's very peculiar. and most of them are connected to russia, which is even more peculiar. you know, if you talk to people who have been on presidential campaigns -- democrats, republicans, they have never seen anything like this. there weren't people communicating with the russian government during the bush campaigns or during any other campaign. and then you have on top of that
the financial web that entails jared kushner, entails trump's son, entails trump himself. now we learn that wilbur mills has a connection. so it's a lot of coincidences, if that's what it is. but we've never, i would suggest, had either a campaign or certainly an administration that was this intertwined with a hostile power after an election in which that hostile power intervened on their behalf. and that just stinks to high heaven. >> well, and that -- that pertains to russia, which is sort of true to the bulk. but evan, one of the things that is interesting to me here, because i think it sets a -- it gives you a sense of the general atmosphere around this campaign is the turkey part of it, right? there is no reason to believe that turkey did anything like russia did in the campaign and intervened. but here you've got a guy who is one of the senior advisers to the presidential candidate of one of the major parties. and on election day, he is using that opportunity to write an op-ed on behalf of essentially
his foreign client. it's hard to conceive of that in another presidential campaign setting, or am i wrong? >> no, you're absolutely right, chris. what you have here is an example of how much leadership really matters, both good and bad. and when you have a presidential candidate who sets the tone in the way president trump did, not releasing his tax returns, encouraging russia to interfere in our elections, then the signal is received by especially his team. and indeed it was. and not only, by the way, that signal received by his team, it's also received by interlocutors around the world, foreign governments, especially authoritarian or dictatorships that people are for sale in washington, at least in that campaign and potentially in the administration in the case that president trump won, which he of course did. so it's a signal that goes out far and wide. and it sells out country out, our integrity, our interests. most importantly, the
sovereignty of the american people to choose their own leaders and have them serve in their interests and their interests alone and have them be accountable to them, the people. that's what is for sale now under this administration. >> not only, that jennifer, i am reminded of the fact that a central campaign theme was that hillary clinton was essentially a foreign agent, that she essentially had outsourced american interests to whoever had given cash to the clinton foundation or something like that. and meanwhile we've got paul manafort. these are guys who are at the very, very top of this campaign, which was small campaign and not that many people. you've got two people at the very top who are functioning literally cashing checks on behalf of representing the interests of foreign governments. >> and that tells us a few things. first of all, it reminds us that they had no competent people on that campaign, and very few people in the administration. because he was toxic. most of the foreign policy professionals on the right or the center right really were writing letters, correctly as it turns out, saying he is unfit to
serve. so he didn't have quality people. second problem you had is apparently no one was vetd. it was well-known that paul manafort represented all kinds of horrible people, dictators, authoritarians, thugs. so did trump not know than? was there any vetting process? and third, there is a question as to how much they knew about flynn during the transition period. >> yep. >> were they told? did they know? did they not know? who exactly was told? and that also involves the vice president and governor christie. >> evan, there has been some interesting speculate of polling recently in the wake of the mueller indictment that reflects actually awareness of what happened with manafort's indictments relatively high. people who think the president committed a crime is quite high. it's interesting because people thought well, this is not really mine. polling has changed a bit. i wonder how central you think this is, at least for republicans or conservatives that you know, how central is
their understanding of this story to their evaluation of the president? >> well, i would say among republicans, it's still -- it's still the case that most republicans are supporting the president. i mean, you see that i think 64% of americans are now saying that they believe the russia investigation is important and that i think there may have been a serious wrongdoing there. but then there is 32% that are in the camp that say no, we don't think it's that important, and it shouldn't be investigated. my hunch is that that 32% is also 32% that supports president trump. these are probably people who are consuming conservative media that is not just conservative media, but conservative media that has really become trump media. it's less conservative. it's just trump media. and so they're receiving a steady diet of lies and misinformation about the importance of this and about the progress of the investigation
and they're receiving disinformation about the alleged wrongdoing of trump's political opponents. it's very hard. those people will still skeptical. i think what happens, though, in moderate districts that are held by republicans, it's a problem there. and it's a problem for republicans there. they're going have a hard time i think increasingly. >> yeah. >> holding on to those seats. and those seats are the majority makers. so at a certain point, first republican leadership will say hey, wait a second, we have a problem. i don't think they're going to be able to dig out of it for 2018. but you're still going to have members from deep red districts who have -- are supported by constituents who are unfortunately being misled by other outlets. and that's going to present an ongoing challenge, i think. >> all right, jennifer rubin and evan mcmullin, thanks to you both. >> thank you. next, the trump's latest surprise disclosure on russian ties. new revelations that a top member of the trump administration has shared business interests with the family of vladimir putin.
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if you're keeping track of trump associates who have got undisclosed connections to russia, you can add commerce secretary wilbur ross to the list tonight. thanks to the leak from the paradise papers which are making a splash around the world. we now ross retains to this day an interest in a shipping company that makes millions of dollars a year from a russian energy company whose owners include vladimir putin's son-in-law. and nbc news found that ross, quote, failed to clearly disclose those interests when he was being confirmed for his cabinet position. in a statement, the commerce department said that wilbur ross recuses himself as secretary from any matter regarding transoceanic shipping, which would seem like something maybe the commerce secretary should not be eare cuesed from. in an interview with cnbc today, ross denied there was anything
wrong. >> there is not anything wrong at all. it's just an example of the press trying to find anything they can however remote or silly to attack the president and somehow link him to russia. this is nonsense. >> however, the "new york times" pointed out, quote, while several trump campaign and business associates have come under scrutiny, until now no business connections have been reported between senior administration officials and members of mr. putin's family or inner circle. ross does share something in common with those previously discovered ties. we only seem to learn about these connections once the people in trump's orbit have already been found out. only then does the administration come clean. congressman eric swalwell of california on the house intelligence committee is conducting one of several vexes into russian election interference and potential trump campaign ties. congressman, secretary ross says it's nonsense, that this is essentially you're look -- the press is looking for these connections and manufacturing them no matter how tenuous. what do you say to that? >> good evening, chris.
what's nonsense is he was asked about his business connections to russia by the senate and did not disclose these business ties to putin's family. and, you know, just add him to the growing list of people on donald trump's team or in his family or from his businesses who had prior business or personal or political relationships with russia. and they all failed to disclose it. >> i should list those. "the washington post" did a really good job of sort of running those down. >> do you have an hour? >> well, i'll do a quick version. we have paul manafort. we have michael cohen. we have donald trump jr., carter page. we have jared kushner, michael flynn, george papadopoulos, jd gordon, who is in that infamous meeting we've all seen pictures of, and jeff sessions. that is the nine people who had some kind of connections that they did not disclose or they denied that later came to light. and now you have wilbur ross as well. senator richard blumenthal has
called for ross' resignation or an ig investigation. do you agree with either of those calls? >> yes. absolutely i do. i also think he should be a part of our investigation. as a side note, chris, this week incidentally, you can't make this up, we're debating tax legislation that would make it even easier for businesses as the tax policy center says to offshore their profits and use shell companies like this, making it harder for us to expose these types of relationships. >> there is also some -- we got -- some of the transcript back from carter page's marathon session with your investigators. i don't know if it was in front of actual members or committee staff. i want to read first what he said. i want to play what he said to me about denying any official meetings or meeting with any officials when he was in russia. take a listen. >> again, i had no meetings, no serious discussions with anyone high up or at any official
capacity. >> let me ask you this. >> it's just kind of man on the street, you know. circumstances that true? >> no, false. completely false. >> i can't believe he lied to me. >> i know. i know. chris, this was a member in an interview. and we were able to corroborate a number of allegations in the dossier. so he in july 2016 met with the deputy prime minister of russia. he met with officials from gas prom and rosneft, energy businesses in russia. sam clovis asked carter page to sign an nda. and a few months later he told sam clovis he was going to moscow. he did not tell him not to go. when he got back, he briefed sam clovis, as well as a number of other officials on the campaign about his trip to russia. >> what you make of carter page? >> you know, carter page is another team member who was eager to use his relationships
with the russians to help the trump team. and he even was asking the trump campaign what he should say when he was over there in russia. and just like george papadopoulos, he was trying to arrange a meeting between donald trump and vladimir putin. now this is a theme that we've seen throughout the campaign team. not just papadopoulos. remember, felix seder back in december 2016 is telling michael cohen if we can get donald trump and putin together, we can engineer this and make our boy president there is a theme of trying to get dirt on hillary clinton, trying to connect donald trump and putin. and of course failing to disclose it to anyone. >> there is a reporting today saying there is a bit of a split in the diplomatic corps about the president's upcoming meeting on the side lanes of a summit with vladimir putin. they're scheduled to meet face-to-face. obviously there are some who feel that obviously this is a nation that we have a lot of different issues with. we have to talk to them. there is others who feel that it will send the wrong signal. do you have a strong feeling on that? >> i have a very strong feeling
on this, chris. what have we gotten out of this relationship with russia? they have received all the benefits. until the president wants to speak straight with vladimir putin and tell him we know what you did, you're going to pay a price for it. and until you stop -- because i don't think they have stopped -- we're not going to welcome you at the stable of responsible nations. >> all right. congressman eric swalwell, thanks for your time. >> my pleasure. next, the horrifying attack on the texas church that killed 26 people. and the president's very telling reaction, after this quick break. parents aren't perfect, but then they make us kraft mac & cheese and everything's good again. more!
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77 years old. people that were worshipping on a sunday. the mass shooting comes just one month after what was the largest mass shooting in modern american history, and that was when a lone gunman used multiple firearms, apparently all legally acquired to shoot and kill 58 people and wound more than 500 people who were taking in a concert. and so horrifyingly, here we are again. president trump in japan today on the first leg of his five-nation tour of asia said that the massacre that occurred in texas is not a gun issue. >> i think that mental health is your problem here. this was a very -- based on preliminary reports, very deranged individual. a lot of problems over a long period of time. well have a lot of mental health problems in our country, as do other countries. but this isn't a guns situation. i mean, we could go into it. but it's a little bit soon to go
into it. this is a mental health problem at the highest level. it's a very, very sad event. these are great people, and a very, very sad event. but that's the way i view it. >> in the wake of mass atrocities, the president appears to have two modes. if the assailant is muslim, the president hardly waits until the bodies are counted to politicize and to criticize and to hector and to blame. and if the assailant is not, well, then, nothing, or something like that. compare his rhetoric this morning to his reaction to last week's violence in new york. >> we need quick justice and we need strong justice, much quicker and much stronger than we have right now. because what we have right now is a joke and it's a laughingstock. >> mr. president, do you want the assailant from new york sent to gitmo? mr. president? >> i would certainly consider that, yes.
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this week with a truck. evil is evil is evil, and will use the weaponry that is available. >> joining me now senator kirsten gillibrand of new york. senator, your colleague ted cruz was down in sutherland today. he was quite passionate that democrats and others shouldn't be politicizing this, angry that people would be invoking guns or talking about guns in the wake of this mass shooting. what's your response to that? >> well, i think he is wrong. our heartbreaks keep breaking over and over and over again. we cannot keep allowing this to be the new normal. and i think it is outrageous that congress has done nothing, has done nothing over the months and months that we've seen gun violence, you know, terrible, unbelievable, heinous crimes being committed, and literally done nothing. >> what do you say to people who are watching this who just feel defeated and despondent on this issue there is the ritualization of it, the ritualization of the reaction to it, the
ritualization to the backlash to the reaction. people feel like politics are just not functional, right? there is nothing that can be done. what do you say to someone who is feeling that way right now? >> well, i hope they speak out. because nothing ever changes in washington unless regular people speak out and demand action. i think this whole country should be crying out for common sense gun reform. the reality is that you don't need another disaster like this to happen to know what has to be done. we should be banning assault weapons. and these military-style magazine clips. we should be banning the kinds of guns that are being used in these crimes. we have to snake sure we have universal background checks. we have to make sure we have an anti-trafficking statute. these are the kinds of things we should be doing regardless of today's news. it's something that i cannot believe the congress has failed to do anything. in the five largest mass shootings in our nation's history, three have happened in the last 17 months. >> why could you think that is? what is your understanding as a
legislator, as someone who has to think about solving policy problems? what is your understanding of that? >> i can't tell you, chris. i don't know. i just know that congress is doing nothing. because they lack the courage to take on the nra. they simply lack the courage to stand up and say this is about our communities. this is about safety. this is about what's important to us as a nation, and that we are not going to be beholden to an industry that puts profits first. and that's what we are up against. too many members of congress do not have the courage to stand up and say no. >> you represent -- you came up in politics in an area of the state of new york, the state you now represent where there are a lot of gun owners and where the nra is quite powerful. i wonder what your relationship is to them as an organization and to gun owners as a constituency? >> well, you can have the second amendment and you can protect hunters' rights. but what i would urge all americans to understand is that is not where the american people are today. they want to make sure we end this kind of gun violence. and you ask nra members, you ask
citizens across this country, overwhelmingly they support this kind of common sense gun reform. and just as advice to someone who doesn't necessarily see the issue this way you just need to talk to someone who lost a family member to gun violence. you just have to open your heart for a minute and feel for a second what it is like when someone is taken away from you because of gun violence. when you meet a mom whose child was killed in a park in brooklyn who is 4 years old you, have you to do something. it is time past. it is not about hunting rights. this is not about the second amendment. this is how do we keep our communities safe? and all of us should be fighting for it together and demanding these members of congress to do something. >> while i have you here, i want to ask you about a distinct but in some ways related issue as we learn about the shooter's relationship to domestic violence, violence against women, a common thread we have to say in many of these mass shootings, committed almost without exception by men. the sort of daunting awareness about sexual harassment and sexual predation that we've seen sweeping across a variety of
places. the ap reporting capitol hill in particular. and something that you've talked about i think quite honestly and talked about sort of trying to approach legislatively the environment that you yourself work in congress. >> well, right now congress doesn't have a good set of policies either. and what we've seen, chris, over the last several months, whether it's hollywood, whether it's news media, whether it's the nfl, whether it's college campuses, whether it's the u.s. military, we do not have transparency and accountability for sexual harassment or sexual violence. and we need to speak out and do better. i think the me too campaign is one of the most powerful campaigns we've had because it's giving men and women the courage to tell their stories so people can understand this is pervasive. and it is prevalent. we have to do something about sexual assault, sexual violence and sexual harassment in society in all places. i'm working to make a bill that congress does a lot better than it does today.
>> the policies that we can follow up on at some point are sort of opaque. senator kirsten gillibrand, thank you for taking time. >> my pleasure. thank you. still ahead, what we now know about how senator rand paul ended up with five broken ribs after a dispute with his neighbor. that story coming up. plus, tonight's thing 1, thing 2 starts next. what powers the digital world. communication. that's why a cutting edge university counts on centurylink to keep their global campus connected. and why a pro football team chose us to deliver
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senator rand paul is recuperating at his home in bowling green, kentucky tonight after sustaining serious injuries on friday. it looks like he will not be in the senate for an extended period of time. on his facebook page, he gave a somewhat vague explanation of what happened. kelly and i appreciate the overwhelming support after friday's unfortunate event. thank you for your thoughts and prayers. the unfortunate event in question is that while paul was riding his mower at his home wearing sound-muting earmuffs, mr. paul's next-door neighbor, mr. boucher, came on to mr. paul's property and tackled him from behind, knocking him to the ground, which according to the senator's chief of staff resulted in five broken ribs and bruises to his lungs. boucher was initially charged with fourth degree assault, released saturday on a $7500
bond. but given the extent of paul's injury, prosecutors are reportedly considering upgrading the charges. meanwhile, the fbi is now involved as an assault on a member of congress is a federal crime. what possibly could cause boucher to attack rand paul, sitting u.s. senator, a man he has lived next door to for 17 years? a statement, boucher's attorney said, quote, it has absolutely nothing to do with either his politics or political agendas. it was a very regrettable dispute between two neighbors over a matter that most people would regard as trivial. "the new york times" jonathan martin reports that two kentuckians tell me rand's neighborhood fracas stemmed from a dispute over some sort of planting or flora issues around the properties. one big question now is how long paul's recovery might take, and whether five cracked rib others a flora issue might affect the outcome of, say, a tax reform. meanwhile, in virginia, there is is a vote tomorrow. the big question there can the trump playbook work on a
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democrats. the president has a 35% approval rating there and gillespie previously ran for u.s. senate in virginia in 2014, losing to incumbent senator mark warner. by running a campaign in which he's managed to weaponize immigration and challenging his democratic opponents on things like confederate monuments, gillespie has, according to steve bannon, closed an enthusiasm gap by rallying around the trump agenda. if that's the case, democrats better be very, very worried. tom perez is the chair of the democratic national committee. i guess, tom, a lot of people watched gillespie run this race and white identity politics and the monuments and the question
is, what has the democratic party figured out in the year since donald trump was elected about how to successfully counter that message? >> it's all about getting out there and talking to people, chris. we made a massive investment in organizing. we've got to be talking to people in every zip code and that's exactly what we're doing and what we're hearing is very simple. i want to keep my health care because i have a relative who's opioid addicted. i want to make sure public education works for everyone. i want to continue the progress that tear rry mcauliffe has brot to this state and i want a america that we can be proud of. that's what i'm hearing day in and day out. i put 700 miles on the car just this weekend. that's what i'm hearing and why i feel very, very good because the energy is everywhere. >> you know, you talk about competing in every zip code and there's been a big investment in democratic challengers.
a lot more than in years past. but in everything you're ticking off there sounds a lot like what the clinton campaign ran on and i wonder if you feel there's an enthusiasm issue that the democratic party facing in getting its voters out in an off-year election like this. >> well, we always have to make sure that we're turning people out in these off-year cycles. and you mentioned something a couple of minutes ago, a couple of seconds ago, chris, that i think is so important. i think it's not a secret weapon but i think it's an enormous weapon in this race and that is the number 88. there are 88 democrats running for the house of delegates. now, in an ordinary cycle, if you go back the last four or five cycles here in virginia, there's been 40 or 45 democrats that have won. to put it differently, we have seeded half or more of the house of delegates. no opposition. and not only do we have 88
democrats running and i have spoken to almost all of them, all of the challengers, they're spectacular and they are out there. there's a candidate down in roanoke whose fiance was tragically murdered in an incident she was a local broadcast journalist and a disgruntled employee came in and shot her on the air. it was just a horrific incident. >> remember it. >> her fiance is running and he's running a spirited race. we're poised to elect the first two latinos in the state of commonwealth of virginia to the house of delegates. and i'll tell you, the energy that is generated and i was out with elizabeth guzman who is running here in northern virginia and you have the dnc and we're all in. with that sort of energy, it's a secret weapon. >> i want to ask you about
something you just said, when you talk about seeding or not running anyone in half the house delegate races. this year there was this real effort to be competitive everywhere and it dovetails with the critique of the party that is in it donna brazile's book and which is essentially that the party institution was bankrupt financially, that it was not doing the things it should, it wasn't doing the things like helping to field candidates in every race and it was essentially busted out. is that an accurate characterization of the dnc that you inherited basically less than a year ago? >> well, the old dnc was about electing a president every four years. the new dnc is about electing democrats up and down the ticket from the school board to the oval office. we're all about making sure we take off year out of the elects lexicon of the democratic party.
we made voter contact via phones, texts and other social media with another 500,000 people. we have to do that because today's school board member is tomorrow's mayor, is a decade from nows president. we're doing it now. >> i want to talk about the messaging stakes for tomorrow. gillespie barely dealt a primary against corey stewart. corey stewart ran hard on preserving monuments to the confederacy. gillespie has adopted that. kneeling during the national anthem, sent out mailers about that. what message has said that if that message works in defeating democrats tomorrow? >>. >> well, that message isn't going to work. phil murphy is going to win going away and we'll make history with the first
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