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For this reason. alabama has a split republican party among populous lines. sessions base is in the church going rural republicans. shelby is the guru of the affluent republicans in birmingham and montgomery and mobile. and his signal to them is to all you birmingham law firms and other people in the republican establishment, sessions is our guy. we need him for nasa in huntsville, the medical center in birmingham and the ship building industry in mobile. i love the way you talk, hal. i love this inside stuff, thank you. and robert, as always thank you for your analysis. up next it looks like republican lawmakers are taking a page from the trump play book, attack the investigators. with evidence continuing to pileup, real evidence that may be their only option to save at ....
And the washington post reports that the president has even joked to senators and white house aides he would move to alabama and compete against sessions himself in the primary. what does that mean? for more i m joined by robert costa, and hal raines. robert, why would a president talk about going down and competing in a primary in a senate nomination when he s already president of the united states just out of spite? just a few days ago on the way to that kentucky rally trump was musing to his allies about senator sessions and his reentry to politics later this week saying he shouldn t get involved, he didn t want to mess with his own voters in a state like alabama, but he certainly wasn t going to endorse senator sessions and he made sure senator sessions through different emissaries got that message. you re a local down there in ....
Counsel is going to forget that remark. okay, since you ve got them, let s see them. so it s not within the normal rules of political combat, congressional procedure, certainly jurisprudence to see the targets confessing in plain sight. haven t seen that before. we ll take a break. michael schmidt, thank you for joining us with your breaking news report. we really appreciate that. ned price, thank you for joining us. hal raines is going to stay with us. we ll hear from him later. and as we ve been talking, rachel maddow has been making her way over to this studio. she will join us next. i can t believe it. what? that our new house is haunted by casper the friendly ghost? hey jill! hey kurt! movies? i ll get snacks! no, i can t believe how easy it was to save hundreds of dollars on our car insurance with geico. i got snacks! ohhh, i got popcorn, i got caramel corn, i got kettle corn. ....
Request or him needling the press knowing that you would get outraged by it. you are one of the loudest critics of china and its human rights abuses. is it okay for him to ask to say that i don t think it s a real i think he did it to get you guys, to provoke you to ask me and others and get outraged by it. joining us now is ed mcmullen, former cia operative and former independent presidential candidate. co-founder of stand up, republic, and hal raines is back with us. evan, your reaction to marco rubio today. he thinks it s funny. he was laughing about donald trump asking china to help in his re-election campaign. well, first of all, just say it was highly disappointing to see senator rubio answer that question in that way. you know, senator rubio is someone who from his role in the senate, from his position there, has led our in many ways our pro-democracy efforts around the world. he s been a vocal advocate for for freedom globally. ....
That donald trump has decided to subordinate to his own personal and political prerogatives. hal raines, new york times, michael schmidt, doing more great reporting tonight. advancing the story. and then we see the congress then taking sometimes what we ve discovered in newspaper reports, advancing that. have you seen this kind of rhythm before unfold in in these kind of stories? yes. there are echoes of watergate and of the clinton impeachment. first i want to say, though, lawrence, those of us who worked in washington and these previous times know there are certain days when you can feel the grinding of the gears of history. and those gears have now caught the coattail of donald trump. that doesn t mean he can t survive. he s an escape artist. but this is deadly serious. and michael with his great scoop about the second whistle-blower ....