Page 2 - Wanda Summers News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

National political reporter monica alba, "new york times" white house correspondent annie carney and wanda summers. great to have all of you here. annie, we mentioned your article and i thought this also from your article was particularly fascinating and important so i'm going to quote it. brad parscall has been telling people that it's very hard to persuade voters in the current hyper partisan political landscape. mr. trump's reelection strategy instead is to solidify his base and increase turnout. how do these attacks play into that strategy? >> these attacks do help him. these attacks do re...

Correspondent pete williams is in our washington bureau. elliot williams, attorney general, ann bremner, susan del persio and wanda summers, national political reporter for the a.p. and kimberly atkins, senior washington news correspondent for npr. a ton of news breaking within the last few minutes. pete, help us set the stein and understand how we got to this point. a lot of questions being raised about acosta's role after the new charges were filed, the new indictment here in new york city. >> well, i think the problem here is the news conference that he had two days ago, the one you attende...

Critics. one is his statement that the u. s. attorneys' office could let him walk oren tkors this deal where he would have just a year basically in and out of prison. but ignoring the fact, or not -- down playing the fact that the federal government could have filed its own charges and kept investigating. many people thought his explanation for why the government didn't do that, why he didn't endorse further investigation and charges wasn't persuasive. and secondly, his decision to basically say if he had to do it all over again, he would have done the same thing. not saying perhaps in retrosp...

Can he bring whoever his opponent is in 2020, we have seen him win with the numbers before. >> steve kornacki holding it down at the big board. steve, thank you. mica pew toe, wanda summers for "the associated press", and tim alberta, chief political correspondent. great to have you with us. mark, let me start with you. the president is in florida. as peter alexander touched on, looking it seems to fire up his base with more deportation. people talking about later in the show. do you think that is going to work in orlando or the rest of florida, for that matter? >> well, that's a complicated q...

President trump will do well in states such as florida despite what some people think otherwise. >> wanda, we have heard the president make anti immigrant threats before. it leads up to election day, talking increasingly about the issue of undocumented immigrants in this country, what he wants to do. back to before the 2018 races, the congressional races. and the president incessantly talking about the migrant caravans. we will talk more about the mass deportations next week. the president is referring to something that has been in the works for a while. sources tell us it is exaggerated. >> t...