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Isn't going well, we're going to go, if this isn't going well, we'll just walk. which kind of tough talk bluster. you feel on some level like the north koreans are like, you know, okay. we can walk, too. we can walk first. you're already laying the table down or setting the predicate for walking. why not let them know we can do that, too. >> joining us now from capitol hill, white house correspondent for bloomberg news, shannon petty piece and cofounder of axios mike allen. you write in your new piece for bloomberg news, quote, president donald trump and his legal team are planning to use the ...

Jobs and other things that, again, let's do what we can to help those that are hurting right now. >> right. >> but we need to have an economy that's looking forward. >> congressman, tim ryan, thank you very much. thanks for being on this morning. still to come on she show, axios got a firsthand look at the trump campaign's plan to get the president re-elected in 2020.

Blankenship responding to president trump's call for his defeat in today's republican u.s. senate primary. joining us now, national political correspondent for nbc news and msnbc steve kornacki. editor in chief of axios, nicholas johnston and political reporter for nbc news and msnbc, alex us. >> the story that's emerging in the last couple of days is in west virginia. it's the late momentum that blankenship has in this race. a three-way race, when you look at the public polling, it looked like he had faded back to third place, ten days ago. it looked like the effort from the republican establ...

>> it would be another data point in that favor in just a few months. before donald trump backed roy moore he backed luther strange remember in the primary in alabama. he failed to get luther strange across the line. mitch mcconnell and gop super pac spent millions of dollars trying to back luther strange, stop roy moore, they didn't succeed then, that was just in december and one counterpoint to that. we talk about a democratic civil war, there are no real primaries happening in the senate on the democratic side. this is largely a republican phenomenon and i assure you don blankenship -- mitc...

The u.s. congress the way macron did, since bibi netanyahu. >> admiral james tavridis. thank you very much for being back on the show. coming up, senators dick blumenthal and jeff flake will be here, they both will cast critical votes today for mike pompeo as secretary of state. also a new headline from axios just moments ago. white house sources tell axios that they expect white house physician ronny jackson to withdraw as president trump's nominee to run the veterans affairs department after democrats on capitol hill circulated harsh new allegations. we'll be following the developments i...