May be too late. Then congresswoman Maxine Waters on the latest on Donald Trumps finances and why the president invoked emergency power to go around congress to sell weapons to the saudis. Thats peanuts for you. When all in starts now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. The president of the United States has unleashed his trusted attorney general against career Law Enforcement and intelligence trump sees as his enemies. Last night attorney general william barr has been given free reign to investigate the Law Enforcement officials and intelligence officials who began the russia investigation and to unilaterally declassify intelligence helpful to trump that he might find. We know the president championed the narrative that the investigation into his campaigns intersections with russia was illegitimate from the jump. I hope they look at the oranges, the oranges of the investigation. The beginnings of that investigation. You look at the origin of the investigation, where it started, how it started, who started it, whether itmccabe or comey or a lot of them. The Mueller Report i wish covered the oranges, how it started. The beginnings of the investigation. How it started. Barr can squeeze that orange. Trump has every reason to believe barr will use his powers to aid the president s antideep sta propaganda efforts. He told confidants he had my attorney general. Barr has been criticized from across the spectrum as a lackey in a position of independent powers and trump giving barr unilateral authority over classification is just a huge deal in the world of intelligence agencies. Barr will be able to override other agencies independent classifications or determinations and the goal seems clear. Its basically to give sean hannity material for his television show. Selective declassification has already been used here by congressman devin nunes when he was chairman of the house intelligence committee. You may remember the antitrump bias and the russia investigation, or maybe you dont. There wasnt much to it in the end. How the selective release of information can work is none other than bill barrs piece meal. He quoted part one of a sentence making it seem Trumps Campaign had nothing to do with russia. Weeks later we saw the complete sentence. It became clear this couldnt have been further from the truth. All of this comes in the context of the president claiming that the guy who used to run the fbi is guilty of treason, a crime punishable by death. The constitution said treason is punishable by death. You accused your adversaries of treason. Who specifically are you accusing . A number of people. If you look, they have unsuccessfully tried to take down the wrong person. If you look at comey, if you look at mccabe and probably people higher than that. If you look at strzok. They wanted an insurance policy that should she lose, 100 million to 1. Maybe he said 100 million to nothing. But should she lose, well have an insurance policy and get this guy out of office. Thats what they said and thats what they meant. Thats treason. Just to be clear, one of our own reporters raised that treason carries the Death Penalty and someone can be computed and killed for that crime. When asked specifically who hes talking about, he just names a bunch of people, including the former fbi director. The plan is essentially a kind of purge of the ideologically suspect members of the intelligence apparatus. Thats a sentence uttered in any other context would be deeply terrifying and raise concerns about the rule of law. Joining me now, a man with a deep understanding about the importance of classification, john brennan who served under president obama. How big of a deal do you read the portion of the executive order last night that appears to give barr the unilateral authority to declassify . I see it as a very, very serious and outrageous move on the part of mr. Trump, trampling upon the statutory authorities of the director of National Intelligence and heads of the independent intelligence agencies. Its unclear to me what mr. Barr actually is going to do. Is he investigating a crime . Well, whats the predication of that crime . Or is he just looking for information . As you rightly pointed out at the top, mr. Trump can just give to some of his defenders on the right and cherry pick information that could be taken out of context. More fundamentally, the concern is that very, very precious and sensitive sources and methods of the United StatesIntelligence Community as well as our partners and allies abroad. Those who share this Sensitive Information with us is mr. Barr who doesnt have the understanding of the equities involved. Is he going to release information that he deems appropriate for mr. Trumps defense . This is very serious and know that my former colleagues in the intelligence agencies are looking upon this with great concern and worry. Its interesting you said that. Sometimes the president will issue an executive order that ends up being more of a messaging document than actually conferring power. You appear to see it the same way. I want to read the believe r director of National Dan Coats statement to get your reaction to it. Much like we have with other investigations and reviews, the Intelligence Community will provide all the appropriate information for review of activities related to russian interference in the president ial election. As part of that process, i am confident the attorney general will work with the Intelligence Community in accordance with long established standards to protect information publicly released would put our National Security at risk. What do you think of that statement . I have a lot of respect for dan coates. He is trying to protect the men and women of the Intelligence Community. He said they will provide the appropriate information. I think thats critically important. What is that appropriate information . What is the basis for those requests . I hope they stand up to this effort by mr. Trump that does seem to go into the sensitive files, the very sensitive technical or human source files and to pull out of that information that they may see fit as to defend mr. Trump. I implore dan coats and gina haspel to stand up to this unprecedented act on the part of mr. Trump who doesnt understand nor care about the National Security concerns of the Intelligence Community. I want to read you a section from the column in the New York Times about you and your russian intelligence and ask if this is an area of concern for you. This is about john brennan, yourselves, who would bring reports about a source in the russian government to the white house, keeping that on the president s Daily Briefing for fear the document was too widely disseminated. Instead he would place them in an envelope for mr. Obama a tiny circle to read that provided intelligence before leaving office and mr. Putin himself was behind the russian hack. Are you worried about the exposure of sources that are giving us intel on russia . Im not going to get into the specifics as you can imagine, but i am deeply, deeply concerned about what is going on right now and how mr. Trump is authorizing what appears to be his personal attorney to pursue these efforts in the intelligence agencies and to uncover and potentially release this information that could, in fact, put peoples lives in great jeopardy as well as put very sensitive and very exquisite u. S. Intelligence capabilities at risk. This is something i think the committees and the Senate Intelligence and house intelligence committees really need to exert their appropriate authorities and to stop any reckless and irresponsible release of information that could harm this country for years to come. What do you say to folks that say the Intelligence Community is capable of wielding classification and secrecy like a sword to protect its turf and keep committees of oversight away from them, to fight intramural battles for supremacy within the government and maybe its good to give someone the power to get in there and override that. Well, the women and men of the intelligence communities do their utmost to keep their fellow citizens safe and secure, and they do their utmost to keep the capabilities whether they be technical or whether they be human sources safe from harm. So to say that someone else should come in and just release things almost willynilly, i think, is a reckless, reckless initiative. I do believe the intelligence committees in the congress are the appropriate ones to make sure the Intelligence Community is carrying out its responsibilities in accordance with the law as opposed to someone with a political agenda. Final question for you about the effect of all of this. Here youve got folks who started a very secret counterintelligence investigation that had it leaked would have been explosive politically and did not leak. They get it completely secret during that period of time. What will it do to folks who work in counterintelligence in the back of their head that if they pursue them, they may find themselves on the wrong end of an internal investigation . I hope they stay strong. The attempt here is to try to intimidate those who might go against mr. Trump and the members of his administration. Its critically important that the counterintelligence professionals continue o carry out their responsibilities and resist these unwarranted and very, very irresponsible efforts to undermine what they are doing. Also i am concerned about those human sources around the globe who put their lives at risk for this country. They are watching the spectacle in washington right now and watching mr. Trump expose all of this information to try to keep him safe from the appropriate investigations that are under way. I really am concerned that this is going to harm our National Security in a manner that we have not seen before. John brennan, thank you very much for sharing your time and expertise. Thank you, chris. For more on the president s weaponization, senior fellow with the ethics and policy institute and former aid in the reagan white house, michael steel. Brennan is a cool tempered individual, generally. He seems not to be faking his concern here. Right. Look, part of the problem is that william barr, who until he was appointed as attorney general under this president had a sterling reputation and people believed he was acting in good faith. Hes now really called that into question. He seems much more willing to do the bidding of trump and to serve trumps political interests rather than sort of the detached position of upholding the rule of law. And so its reasonable to doubt that he will perform a fair evaluation of whatever evidence hes looking at, that he might cherry pick and release things that will be helpful to the president s case. Michael, youve been around washington and classification battles happen all the time between government. But giving someone i mean, this is the sort of thing, a slug fest between agencies about what can be classified and what cant. Giving someone the authority is an enormous deal, right . It is a huge deal. This is sack sanctity to the executive. He doesnt dish it out to other members of the administration to go off into the Wild Blue Yonder and decide we will now declassify. There is a concern and quiet rumblings on the hill about what this potentially means going into the rest of the year and the fullthroated aspects of the president ial campaign where youve got the attorney general now surreptitiously and sometimes not so surreptitiously putting information out on the street that may be beneficial to the president s overall narrative about no collusion, et cetera, etc. When you stop and think about it, chris, this could be worse than hacking our government by the russians. The president through his operatives are willynilly putting it out on the street. Thats a big concern right now. I just dont see any incentive for the people that participated in this in 2016. Either the Trump Administration and the Campaign Going like this to the russians and the russians mucking around, it doesnt seem a lot of distance for either party at this point. Disincentive to do what . To do it again. You know what i mean . It doesnt seem to have dawned on many republicans who now suddenly having been strong opponents of the russian state and before that the soviet state, they have thrown all that aside to dismiss any concerns of meddling for trumps sake. The next time the russians interfere, it could be for the democrats. You can imagine a world where putin gets mad at trump and leaks some new email that hasnt come out before. Exactly. What will the republicans say then . Will they say no collusion . Right. Michael . I was going to say, the narrative that is beginning to develop here in washington is the position that china potentially could be taking in this election. Visavis the democrats because they do not like the president s tariff policy. The democrats tend to be more user friendly with their perspective on that front. We are opening ourselves up to have our government and our elections managed by these foreign enemies. Chris, do you know whats staggering is that this is the response of the Trump Administration to the release of a report they claim is a total vindication and exoneration. Right . So theyre going around shooting the survivors. Thats exactly right. Doesnt look like they mean it. Right. When he says its personal, they went for the wrong person. They came for the wrong person. Its about extracting revenge and giving sean hannity programming. Its actually very serious. In the first few years of this president s tenure, he had very bad instincts and he had evil intentions, if you will. But he was so incompetent at wielding power that it didnt really amount to much. But hes getting better. Hes learning. And that should worry us. The consolidation of power, the administration has declare two emergencies. One to build a border wall without congressional approval. Today for some arm sales. Well get to that in a little bit. They are not complying with subpoenas and turning over documents. Thats a kind of consolidation that is troubling, i think. Absolutely. Two points are critically important, i think. The first is what we are seeing unfold realtime is the deconstruction of the administrative state. This is what bannon and the president were talking about as they came into the city to lay out what their plan would be. They were very upfront and direct about it. This is it real time. The motion important point in the second point, that there are no consequences. So far the congress has not meted out. The Senate Republicans havent. The president left unchecked will continue to do what hes doing. Test the fence. Thank you both. Next, congresswoman Maxine Waters on the thousands of trumprelated documents the committee has received and the white house is losing deutsch bank battle. 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He lost on monday when a federal judge upheld congresss power to investigate a president including getting its hands on Accounting Records from a firm he used to work with. Then he lost again when another Federal District judge ruled that Deutsche Bank and capital one are indeed allowed, mandated to hand over trumprelated financial documents to congress. Donald trump, three of his children, and the Trump Organization are now appealing that wednesday decision. But since the judge already said in the decision that trumps claims, quote, are not sufficiently serious as it relates to Supreme Court precedent, the president s odds may not be great. We also know that at least two banks, wells fargo and td bank have already handed over trumprelated financial documents to congress. Here with me now, democratic congresswoman Maxine Waters of california, chair of the Financial Service committee which subpoenaed those financial documents. As the chair, i have not had an opportunity to talk to you about your reaction to federal courts ruling in favor of the subpoena Going Forward on wednesday. Well, i am very pleased that judge ramos ruled against the preliminary that trump was trying to keep the from hearing Deutsche Bank. They did not want Deutsche Bank to release the documents, im sorry. Im so pleased about all of this. Im really in a state of shock about it. But they tried to keep Deutsche Bank from giving up the documents that we subpoenaed. And so the judge said, no, he did not agree with them. Now, the judge didnt rule on the merits of the case. And so now that trump has appealed, and i understand he filed an appeal as of today, then were going to have to deal with that appeal. And so the judge will rule on the merits of the case later on after the briefs have been done. Were hoping in july there will be oral arrangements we were we will win on that. Do you view this as an attempt to run out the clock . There is a concern that the process has been slowed in the courts and even if you are winning in the courts, the administration is able to hold things out and run out the clock for a long period of time. Yes. As a matter of fact he has a reputation for running out the court. It is sad that during the time he has been involved with all of these cases that have been filed against him over the years by contractors and others he cheated that he did not want to pay, he would outlast them in court. I think he is trying to use the same tactics and trying to get up to the Supreme Court. The documents that have been subpoenaed, can you describe them . They have to do with the businesses. What is the project that you are looking for . What is the goal here and what are the categories of documents youre seeking . Were absolutely concerned about Money Laundering and concerned about illicit funds and the loans that hes gotten from Deutsche Bank. No other bank would lend him money and he sued deutsch bank at one point. But somehow Deutsche Bank has been lending him and his family huge sums of money, and at the time of his election he owed them about 300 million. So we want to understand that relationship, we want to understand his relationship to russia. We want to understand his finance and financing. You have been very early in your call for impeachment. Its been a question that has hung over the caucus. Nancy pelosi oppose it at the moment. I want to ask you about an argument that they made. Since your committees are winning in the courts, theres no reason to move forward on an impeachment inquiry and you should let the Court Process play out. No, i think we can do both. Ive been for impeachment for a long time, and a growing number of members of congress are thinking we should have impeachment inquiry at least. But i think that we have a responsibility in our committee, its a constitutional responsibility for oversight and investigation. We should proceed with the courts and let information unfold. If wedge to a decision, that somehow we know enough, theres new information that the dots have been connected in ways we did not think they would be connected, then we can move with impeachment if wed like. So we have options here and i think we should move down both paths. Final question about the banks that have complied with your subpoenas. Were they just not targets of lawsuits . Have they been useful to you . Has your staff had time to review it . No, we have not reviewed all of the information, but we have reason to believe that there is information of interest to us. Congresswoman Maxine Waters, thank you so much for being with us. Have a great weekend. You are so welcome. Thank you. Next, the fight to get Robert Mueller to testify in front of the American People. 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Attorney Preet Bharara to tweet what many people are thinking. Now theyre saying mueller would agree for the transcript of the closed door and that raises the same problem as the Mueller Report. With trump lying again and again and again basically about the facts and consisting of muellers investigation, communicating the truth openly to the public seems to be an urgent need. Joining me now, msnbc political analyst michelle goldberg, columnist from the New York Times, former white house cabinet secretary chris lui who also served as deputy secretary under president obama. You are giving me a wighteyed stare of anxiety. I thought that was a remarkable revelation on the part of jerry nadler and made me wonder what is going on here . Its really bizarre and disappointing. The only explanation is that mueller is one of the only leading intelligence figures in the country who has not been dragged through the mud and been subject to the evisceration of his public career and he doesnt want to jump into the lions den its his job to do that right now. Its a big sacrifice, but he has no choice. Particularly when he himself has acknowledged that bill barr has misled the country about the contents of his report and created a misleading impression that the release of the almost full report cant sort of wash away just the impact of that press conference. Matt miller has been saying in the white house about just because the president s efforts to manipulate the department of justice are failing on their face, doesnt mean theyre not working in a broader sense in the incentive struck they create. I wonder if you agree with michelle that he has created a situation in which if you go and testify, you will become enemy number one for the president and propaganda apparatus. He absolutely should testify. That being said, the president s going to say whatever he wants to say about Robert Mueller. Hes already said it for the past two years whether he testifies around. Maybe he i would caution people about this. Robert mueller when you wash him watch him testify is a fairly careful speaker. He doesnt speculate. Theres a difference between the legal case of removing donald trump and the legal case. You can make the legal case with the transcript himself. I would say this. Overall democrats are winning this battle. I would rather be where they are investigating issuing subpoenas. Because the court cases are falling on their sides, documents are coming over, and witnesses, people who want to cooperate cant testify. So yes, i realize this is slow and frustrating to people on the outside, but democrats have the upper hand right now. You dont agree . I mean i sort of feel like donald trump is consolidating his executive power that he wants to deploy in authoritarian ways, this move by bill barr to be given Carte Blanche and out assets and selectively leak things in the way weve already seen him do what he selectively released the Mueller Report. The although sentence that got the although cut off. Were at a moment of extraordinary danger, and everybody weve identified as adults in the room is gone at this point. Think about it. Imagine if we had been talking about this the day after the election. I think i was here. We said for two and a half years now, donald trump will have purged the entire leadership of the fbi. Everybody who has come out against him or he thinks had a investigated him has had their public career destroyed. Sure and theyve been fired. Right. Hes sending troops, things are out of control in so many different vectors. He is sending troops to the mideast and he is on television saying people who investigated him should be executed. We all roll our eyes at this point, but thats because were all marinating in it. Things are really, really bad. I saw this tweet saying the guardrails have failed. You dont feel that way. What are we missing . Look, its not that i dont feel that way and i never disagree with michelle or anything. What i would say is this, we have seen two federal courts this week side with democrats. Not democrats, but congress. The reason why is because the laws are on congress side. Congress has broad oversight responsibilities and the first case from the judge in the d. C. District court said congress not only has the power to investigate the president s conduct while in office, but before office. And this is exactly whats supposed to happen. Article one and article two have a fight and article three is the referee. Right now theyre siding with article one. My response to that and thats true, article one needs to assert its powers. They have the power of the purse. You can initiative showdowns and an impeachment inquiry. I dont know if that matters. But theres the brute playground politics of force against force. The one thing i suspect is trump is willing to go all the way with whatever agenda hes pushing and democrats are reticent and cautious and hedging and worried about what some kind of imaginary median voter is thinking. That gives trump who is willing to be maximally aggressive a huge advantage. The steps that have been taken this week, another Emergency Declaration today. There are now two Emergency Declarations, not handing over documents, defying subpoenas, defying a statutory request for documents. And there are too many possible holes. They are going to allow it to come forward. A dutch boy with his finger against the dike trying to stop the water from coming out. In new york state theyre going to allow his state tax returns to come forward. I might be naive, but i have faith in nancy pelosi. She is playing the long game and she has the strategy here. You both make compelling cases. Thank you both for being with me. Enjoy the weekend. Still ahead, the president once again devise congress this time invoking Emergency Powers to continue americas role in the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. That story and the bipartisan condemn nation ahead. Tonights thing one, thing two starts next. Your worst symptoms including nasal congestion, which most pills dont. Flonase helps block 6 key inflammatory substances. Most pills only block one. Flonase. Calyoure gonna love this. Rs. New coppertone sport clear. Not thick, not hot, not messy, just clear, cool, protected. Coppertone sport clear. Proven to protect. 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There are others as well including this very highly edited depth video from trump tv which was spread on twitter by one of the most notorious per vayer of this, the president of the United States. There are videos out there in which trump looks like these drunk or slurring words. I hope they now go and take a look at the oranges, the oranges of the investigation. The beginnings of that investigation. God bless the United States. Thank you very much. Thank you. Both of those happened to be real. We will help you learn how to spot the fakes. Thats thing two in 60 seconds. Here i go again on my own goin down the only road ive ever known like a drifter i was born to walk alone keep goin man you got it if you ride, you get it. Here i go again geico motorcycle. 15 minutes could save you 15 or more. Here to talk about zeflt edited videos. Its hard to tell which are real and which are doctored. Take this video of donald trump saluting a north korean general. 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Its a bill that includes nothing to address the clear National Emergency and humanitarian crisis at the southern border. Finally, this is a 19 billion bill that is not paid for when we are racking up 100 million of debt per hour. We are not spending enough money and the second part is we are racking up too much debt. Keep in mind this brave demonstration of fiscal restraint comes exactly one day after the president and his party stood up in the white house in front of a bunch of farmers and farmers and announced his 16 billion bailout to farmers to help cushion the blow to those hurt by his own trade war with china. We checked the website of chip roy to find his objection to this, to no avail. It is a funny thing, the question of how are you going to pay for it in washington. Somehow it always seems rather selectively applied. G strips and lets make it work theyre tool free and they hold strong. Or change your mind damage free. Like a pro. Command. Do. No harm. 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To be clear, the humanitarian crisis in yemen is so ghastly and shocking to the conscience that both houses of congress with huge bipartisan majorities voted for the first ever invocation of the war powers resolution to stop the saudiled war in yemen. The president vetoed that. Congress would never have approved this arms sale to Mohammed Bin Salman whose men hacked a u. S. Columnist to death last october. So the administration took the extraordinary step of draeclari an emergency with the intent to evade the law. Why is it an emergency that we need to sell arms to saudis . Its not. Its just like the fake border emergency, a transparently cynical attempt to evade the constitutions checks and balances. Joining me, congressman ro khanna who vigorously opposes this move by the Trump Administration. Are you surprised by this . I am, when you have a hawk like Lindsey Graham saying this is a morally bankrupt policy and has no constitutional basis, you can see how inept the policy is. I mean, basically they are defying the senate and the house, which voted against any aid to the saudis for bombing yemenese civilians and theyll be providing the saudis with bombs to kill women and civilians in yemen and frankly for use by al qaeda again our own troops in yemen. Its clearly unconstitutional and hopefully even republicans will oppose it. Whats remarkable is the bipartisan opposition in congress to the yemen war and increasingly the saudis, marco rubio, Lindsey Graham, and others, to think that Mohammed Bin Salman sent his goons to murder a Washington Post journalist, did change the representation government gets on capitol hill. And this white house is beholden to the saudis, theyre willing to take this step to sell some weapons. Chris, youre absolutely right. Unfortunately the starvation and famine in yemen didnt awaken the conscious of congress. But the Khashoggi Killing did. And you have rubio and Lindsey Graham saying theres no moral clarity. They have no stake of calling for American Values if were continuing to arm the saudi regime. And they are appalled by what mbs is doing and they frankly understand also that the saudis are aligned with al qaeda, fighting our own troops in yemen. So the administrations total alliance with the saudis, where theyve been willing to sell nuclear energy, theyre basically goading the saudis into a war with iran and think that theyre an ally of ours, is a policy that is opposed by bipartisan majorities on capitol hill. And one has to ask what is the link, why is the president and the administration so embedded with the saudis . The congress, michael mccaul, who is the lead republican on the House Foreign Affairs committee, says, i would have strongly preferred for the administration to utilize the long established and codified arms sale review process that requires the president to submit a formal notification to congress. Mike pompeo saying hes determined that an emergency exists which requires the proposed sale. In the National Security interests of the United States and thus waives security requirements. Is there an emergency . Is this entirely a fiction . It is a total fiction. Look, chris, you know, because youre one of the few journalists who has been covering yemen, the saudis have been involved in a proxy war in yemen for the past three or four years, and nothing has changed on the ground. There is no greater threat to anyone in yemen, to anyone in saudi arabia. So it is total fiction. Its totally made up for the president to invoke this. It has no basis. Congress needs to do two things. We need to make it clear that we wont fund it, we wont fund any of these arms going to the saudis, and we can cut off the funding. And second, we need to pass in our committees that this is unauthorized, and then it would go to the courts. Even this court, as conservative as it is, has to recognize that you cant have an executive branch totally defying the will of congress in matters of war and peace. It does seem to me the power of the purse becomes more urgent by the day, if this president is going to be checked. Speaking of which, an announcement that 1,500 new u. S. Service members will be deployed to the middle east. Your thoughts on that . Its scary, the administrations argument is that our troops in the middle east are under threat. So you would think that the last thing we would want to do is send more troops to put them in harms way. The president s own National Security strategy says our big competitor is china, hes fighting a trade war with china. China is 15 of global gdp. Were 24 . Iran is 0. 55 of gdp. The idea that we want to get into a war with iran is ludicrous. Thats why you see china and other powers having nothing to do with getting entangled in the middle east. I have a broader question for you here. This announcement today is part of a longer chain, the president declared an emergency to try to build his war at the border. Hes now declared an emergency to avoid in both case bipartisan congressional rebukes, trying to get around them. Hes defying subpoenas, defying statutory requests for tax returns. How do you rein this president in . I think we have to go to the hope. My hope is Justice Roberts, Justice Roberts clerked for judge friendly, one of the great jurists of the 20th century. I think he understands that the courts credibility is at stake, and the case law is so overwhelming, the president doesnt have the ability to use the military to enforce domestic law in the case of the border. The president doesnt have an ability on matters of war and peace. And i hope the Supreme Court will vindicate us. If the court becomes corrupt and doesnt follow centuries of precedent, then i think we really have a crisis in this country. Congressman ro khanna of california, have a good weekend. Thank you very much. That does it for all in. Catch us every weeknight at 8 00 right here on msnbc. Good evening. Im donny deutsch, and there are 528 days until the 2020 president ial election, and tonight well break down the weeks top stories and see how theyre strategically shaping the panel for the white house in 2020. First up, infrastructure melt down. The president throws a tantrum in the rose garden and Speaker Pelosi says, thank you, sir, may i have another . Plus, less is more. Joe biden is enjoying his lead in polls. Is one of his strategies staying out of sight . And president ial candidate Steve Bullock has turned the red state blue. Ill ask him why he thinks he has the long shot to the white house. Lets to cover