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Shellackin. This is the lead, election day in america. Right now, an election showdown with big consequences for the commander in chief. Im not on the ballot this fall. Make no mistake, these balances are on the ballot. Republicans are taking control of the u. S. Senate and the president s agenda is on the line. Were all battling against the establishment of the democratic party. Its a day of bitter matchups. Shes called president obama a dictator. Obamacare. This is his washington record. Im nobodys yes man, nobodys rubber stamp. We dont need to import a senator who will export american jobs....

Himself. I then have which frankly i think is very unfair to the president. How do you take a job and then recuse yourself . If he would have recused himself before the job, i would have said thanks, jeff, but i cant you know, im not going to take you. President also accuses fbi james comey as using that dossier as leverage over him and issues a warning to the special Counsel Robert Mueller about delving too far into his familys finances. This comes as were learning tonight dates are set next week for hiss son, don junior, his soninlaw Jared Kushner and former Campaign Manager Paul Manafort to...

Fascinating, wideranging interview that you have. He talked about Jeff Sessions, whom he seems to have soured on. Lets play that for our viewers and then you can comment on it. Listen to this. Sure. Sessions should have never recused himself. And if he was going to recuse himself, he should have told me before he took the job and i would have picked somebody else. He gave you no heads up at all . Zero. So Jeff Sessions takes the job, gets into the job, recuses himself. I then have a which which, frankly, i think is very unfair to the president. How do you take a job and then recuse yourself . ...

I would say yes. By the way, i would say i dont i cant answer that question because i dont think its going to happen. It might be happening. Joining us now, mike the schmidt, one of the times reporters on todays breaking news, jeremy bash, msnbc analyst and former chief of staff at the cia and the pentagon. At the table with us rick sting l, former under secretary of state for Public Diplomacy now an msnbc analyst. Jan palmieri former communications for the president obama white house. And john heilman is here, nbc news and msnbc National Affairs analyst. Mike schmidt, let me start with you an...

And two doj insiders telling me today that the president s account about his status in the Mueller Probe would represent a departure from the normal flow of information about the special counsel investigation. One Senior Justice Department official tells me that any information about the president s legal status would have been delivered to the president s legal team from the special counsels office directly, not from the Deputy Attorney general. This official adds that the president s scenario most closely resembles the dramatized scene from the showtime series billions than anything that wou...