Enthusiasm among likely voters with the Midterm Elections just 23 days away. Nc well have a live report just ahead. I want to begin with that voter enthusias enthusiasm. 77 of voters surveyed say they are certain they will vote those elections. Compare that to october 2014, the last mid terms. Thats up 12 percentage points. 54 surveyed say they disapprove of the president s performance. Tonight an interview airs on 60 minutes. Here is one interesting exchange. The president was asked if james m m mattis is going anywhere. Will more people go . I have some people im not thrilled with and i have other people im beyond thrilled with. He may leave. At some point everybody leaves. People leaves. Thats washington. Thats washington. Joining me is jeff bennett. Jeff, let me start with you and ask you for your take away that we saw today, how does that enthusiasm translate to the midterms here three weeks from today. Reporter officials here at the white house, at least sources ive talked to who advise the white house feel pretty good about those numbers. Im told that the president does want the midterms to be a referendum on him. He thinks this is a fight he can win. He told his supporters on the campaign trail that if democrats take the house and senate, it means no border wall, no more conservative justices. Even a president ial impeachment should democrats choose to do that. Hes deploying the key tenent of trumpian politics which is to reduce everything to a partisan choice. Youre with us or against us. The president s advisers think that worked well in 2016, they are deploying the same strategy in 2018. I want to ask you about the gender gap. This is something you have written out recently. Its wide and getting wider. We have seen gender gaps before. Different pry yiorities are important to them. Weve never seen one that looks like the one well see in three weeks. More likely to support the idea of impeachment and much more likely to say they will vote for a democratic candidate than a republican one. We hear about the kavanaugh effect. That is not netted out the data we saw today. Whats your sense of how that will drive voters to the poll come november . I dont think we really know what the kavanaugh effect is except to say its definitely energized both democrats and republicans. I think well see this in the senate races because its the senate that confirms judges. President trump has made appointing conservative judges a hallmark of his administration. Youll see republicans campaigning saying, look, youve got to keep the senate in republican hands because we need to control judicial no, maam nei no, maminations and youll democrats say we had a travesty, in their opinion, we need to put democrats in charge of the senate. Unlikely the democrats will take the senate. I think that the bottom line is that the kavanaugh effect is to just gin up enthusiasm among voters of both parties and were also seeing that reflected in the polls as you mentioned. I suspect maybe a relationship between the president s Approval Rating ticking up and the media blitz screen hes put forward. He will appear on 60 minutes tonight. Whats he trying to do here . As we reported at the daily beast this past friday, the fact youre seeing the president crop up not just on the Campaign Trial but across different tv networks and publications he doesnt do as much as fox news is no accident. In midseptember, he told some of his top advisers including Sarah Huckabee sanders and bill shine that he didnt think he was doing enough tv or print interviews. He wanted to do something akin to flooding the zone in leading up to the 2018 Midterm Elections. Were not sure if him doing as many interviews as possible will amount to anything much more than president ial therapy for him. If it will translate anything to akin to getting his message out or drive republican enthusiasm. He and his closest advisers know the closest thing they have is the wave of democratic enthusiasm. Even if it doesnt retake the senate, it could launch to a democrat house with subpoena after subpoena seriously hobbling his second part of the term. These are national numbers. You look at elections for senate and governors for states across this country. Its an interesting question. President trump will be on the stump this coming week. Hes going to three states in support of republican gop senate candidat candidates. Hes going to try to help the republican who is trying to unseat the two term incumbent john tester. Her own political life had to cling closer to donald trump and refashion herself as a trump supporter. The consequence of that is that race between her and the democrat is seen as a toss up. Later in the week he goes to elko, nevada in support of dean heller. In fighting for dean heller, donald trump is fighting for his own political future because hes made clear what would happen if democrats take back the senate. That is refashioning once as a trump supporter. Last night you had Mitch Mcconnell on stage in kentucky. The president calling him a tough cookie. Embracing him on stage in kentucky. Whats your sense of degree in which the president is helping as we look at these races going to the election . With President Trump tough cookie is high praise especially with a guy with whom he was very critical of Mitch Mcconnell after the debate over repealing the Affordable Care act didnt pass. Theres only trump republicans. It seems to me every republican just about running in this country fashions themselves as a trump republican. Thats a real switch in just two years. A degree to which President Trump has become the face of the Republican Party and has injected himself in a Midterm Election in a way that we have not seen previous president s do. Just went through the schedule that the president has. President s with Approval Ratings of only 41 do not spend four or five days a week out on the stump. Were seeing this president doing that. Turn out this year, its always about turn out when you look at the midterms. Lets look at texas. Voter enthusiasm nonwhites, 72 in this survey. It was 48 in 2014. Turn out is important. Its democrats who are counting on an energized voter race especially minorities, young people and women. Those are groups that traditionally dont turn out as much. They also dont turn out as much in midterms. Democrats will need to boost that enthusiasm to get their candidates across the line. You raise the cruzbeto orourke race. Hes trailing in the polls. They will need all the help they can get. Lets put a bow on the week, i dont know if you watched what happened in the oval office when this newly freed pastor came in. Theres a circus quality at the oval office this week. With that going back to kanye west visit just a few days previous. Absolutely. That feeds into what the president of the United States has been trying to do with these past couple of weeks and with the weeks forward in terms of the upcoming elections. He wants to command as much attenti attention, particularly on cable news. Hes engineering these different events including the kanye west press in the oval office because his rallies just arent getting the tv time that they used to in terms of uncut and carry ied without abbreviation. What is the sense of how that went . Was that a victory for the president . It was in this way. I was talking to someone close about this. Someone called him a racist. Hes now able to point to two prominent black supporters, kanye west and jim brown who sat across the resolute desk in the oval office. If he ever needs to bring up any two names, he can go back to that moment. In this discreet, political way it was a win setting aside the nonsense that kanye west disputed and all the the questions that resulted from it. It was a whole lot of that. Big thanks to all of you on this sunday afternoon. Coming up, burning questions. What the president s legal team is reading to answer that perhaps more tellingly what questions they are not expected to be asked. Re not expected to be asked. These people, they speak a language we cannot understand. [ telephone ringing ] whoa. [ indistinct talking ] deductible . Definitely speaking insurance. Additional interest on umbrella policy . Can you translate . Damage minimization of civil commotion. When insurance needs translating, get answers in plain english at progressiveanswers. Com. 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That comes after months of back and forth between the two of them as the president continues to deny theres anything for him to talk about. Are you preparing written answers for the special counsel team . Are you preparing . I dont talk about that. I just say this and Everybody Knows it, no collusion. There never was. There never will be. F the real story may be dw questions they are not tackling. Barbara, let me start with you. I want to pull out a piece from Jonathan Turley who teaches law. The argument he makes in the piece is he doesnt think will be a charge of obstruction. He outlines three reasons why that is. The first has to do with the criminal code. None of the allegations raised fit within the criminal code. He points out if Robert Mueller were investigating obstruction, he and Rod Rosenstein should have removered themselves. The third thing is bob mueller didnt ask about obstructions in those questions we have seen leaked from the lawyers. Your reaction to this. We can take it one by one. Lets start with the criminal code and the difficulty of charging one with obstruction. It is a difficult charge but it is charged from time to time. Not infrequently. What you have to show is someone attempted to impede an investigation and they did so with a corrupt intent. I disagree with professor t turleys argument that the president cannot obstruct justice. I think you can if the facts bear that out. The other two arguments he makes are interesting. One is that Rod Rosenstein did not recuse himself. He did draft that memo that President Trump based his decision to fire jim comey. I dont know thats dispoz positipo dispositive. It may be a calculation by Robert Mueller in which trumps team said we will not answer questions about that. He is locking him into whatever he can get. Giving President Trump a chance to tell his side of the story so he can move on with the investigation whether it does or does not include investigation. I want to get your read of where we are at this point. Weve had no shortage of reports over they are. The source more often than not is the not the special counsels office. It comes from lawyers representing the president of the United States. Your reaction to this. The latest reporting of what the legal team is tackling. Its hard to know what to credit when youre only hearing one side of the story and thats the side from the president s lawyers. They have an obvious agenda because they are playing to cou to the court of Public Opinion and not the court of law. What is bob mueller want from an interview with the president and what does bob mueller need from an interview with the president. What he wants, i suggest, is more evidence and direct evidence of the president s intent when he was engaged in certain conduct. That is when you asked director comey to lay off flynn, what was your purpose . What was your intent . What was your motive . When you went onto fire director comey, what was your intent, purpose and motive . Its always better to have direct evidence rather than circumstantial evidence. I think thats what bob mueller wants and the other thing that he wants is to give the president an opportunity to have his side heard which i think is going to be important once bob public scho mueller tips his hand and discloses his findings. Then hell be able to say i gave the president the opportunity to be heard. What does bob mueller need out of an interview, i suggest he needs relatively little because hesita hes elected up so much information about what the president has done. Every tweet is evidence of his intent that koulcould be used against him. I suspect he doesnt need much to wrap up his i venvestigation this point. Bryan kemp is running for governor, secretary of state has called into the rquestion the registration of some 53,000 africanamericans. Without question its modern day Voter Suppression. This goes to the question of was there a discriminatory intent of creating the exact match law. We dont know that. We know its had a discriminatory impact given the percentage of africanamerican voters. Now knowing that kemp is in charge of this Voter Suppression initiative while being candidate for governor. If it stinks, it stinks. Thats whats going on in georgia right now. David, this is a two decade strategy, if you will, really sin since the advent of Newt Gingrich when republicans began to focus on state capitals to figure how to jergerrymander ant protects republicans. Barbara mcquaid was talking about this suit against bryan kemp. Lets listen. The challenge is twofold. One is that we know this is a flawed system that has a disproportionate affect on people of color. It had the ability to erode trust in our system. This has been a theme over many months here many the u. S. Kwha whats your sense of the case thats being argued here. The brief that was filed in georgia. The idea of eroding trust is matter of Public Policy and a matter that voters ought to care about. Thats what theyll be looking for is a violation of equal protect they can argue. If they can show an impact on special groups. In this case africanamericans. They may have a case there. Its part of a larger trend we are seeing across the country, an attack on voter rights. When one Party Controls the state government, they also have the ability to change voting districts and gerrymander wing ways that can skew the outcome of leks. Elections. This is part of a bigger issue. This is part of a bigger issue. This is part of a bigger issue. This is part of a bigger issue. This is part of a bigger issue. This is part of a bigger issue. This is part of a bigger issue. This is part of a bigger issue. This is part of a bigger issue. Thats where i want to go with david jolly. Theres a piece in the washington post. The headline is Midterm Elections are likely to change the calculus for post2020 census redistricting. You were talking about state capitals a moment ago. Help us understand whats at stake here. Whats at stake in redistricting. This happens every ten years. Congress has influence over the census bureau. I served on the committee with oversight. Ten years ago it was to sartarv the bureau so they couldnt get the most accurate information. The current debate is ask over someones current citizenship. You create a fear over the minority communities so they dont answer the census. What that does is we dont have an actual census of the size of the communities. As a result, those numbers get translated to proportionate reputation and you naturally have fewer people of color counted. It would seem to benefit republicans. This is p nnot a new strategy b donald trump. Its being aggressively pursued by the Trump Administration now and congress is supporting that, republicans in congress. The fall out from Hurricane Michael continues across the southeast. 19 deaths are being blamed. What did you see along the way . Whats the scene look like there . Reporter david, smaller cities in the panhandle are also left utterly devastated. I spoke with the mayor earlier today. She tells me 95 of the homes here were damaged. In these circumstances is when you start to see communities ban together through resilience and hope. Its really remarkable what we have found here. This is a Community Led effort in the back of their city crumbled hall where thousands of people are lining up for food, supplies. This is all community organized. We have seen thousands of people sign up for temporary shelter, tsa vouchers. Its incredible to see people you ni unite. Mexico beach, theres nothing left. So many areas are lit just as hard. There are people stuck in homes. My son had somebody come up to him yesterday saying help my find my dead sister. Theres old people stuck in homes far out. We had a small group of people all the way from south walton up to bade said enough, we need help because these people are being forgotten. All they talked about on the news was mexico city. We came here and people were stuck in homes. They are still trying to saw people out. We fleneed everybody. We need all the help we can get. Im grateful to the president he is sending everything. Im proud of him. As he comes here tomorrow, what is your message to him . Please dont give up on us. Dont leave in week or two and say we have fema here. I understand they take days to do things but the problem is you have to fill out paper work. You have to do all these things. Thank you. I got to let you go. Thank you for the work youre doing. Please everything, send everything. Thats the message for President Trump tomorrow here from the ground. Thank you. Escalating tensions. Saudi arabia responding to a message from President Trump. 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President trump promises to take action if they are known to have taken action. Any action against the kingdom will be responded to with creator reaction. Joining me is former governor of new mexico bill richardson. Good to see you. I want to play a bit of tape from marco rubio from florida. I dont think we should continue as business as usual until we know whats happened here. He walked into that consulate and never came out. I dont think any Government Official should be going and pretending as its business as usual. Help us understand whats at stake. How things might change . There is a very important relationship that we have with saudi arabia. Theres a military relationship. Theres a huge energy relationship. Theres all kinds of business relationships that are taking place. At the same time, i think senator rubio is right. It cant be business as usual. We have to send them a very strong statement. They have to be accountable for what they have done. At the very least the secretary of the treasury should not go. American Business Leaders should not go to that investment conference. If it seems like the saudis are digging their heels and saying not just denying but saying theyre going to reciprocate with economic measures against the United States, i think we have to reevaluate our relationship. Theres a lot of people who say we have turned a blind eye of human rights abuses. We have let too much stand when it comes to what saudi arabia does. The relationship isnt as important as that. Help me understand that. Well, i think part of that criticism is that even though crown prince has come in and he said hes going to let women drive. Hes going to be a reformer. He still has this war in yemen taking place killing thousands of kids. Hes still jailing journalists. The women that protested on the driving were jailed. Hes sending very, very mixed messages. The worst part is this action, taking action and sending a signal that if you oppose me, if you fight me, this is how you will end up. We have to get all the facts. All the facts are not in. The United States is a beacon of democracy and human rights. If we dont stand for that and say this arms deal, you want to give it to the russians, so be it if you continue taking human rights actions like you just did against a human being, o journalist that is simply reporting what he sees or she sees. I want to you about what we saw in the oval office yesterday. What do you make of the president toward those three countries . The first thing ill say, ill give the president credit for getting personally involved in the release of americans. This is good. I work on that a lot. Thats positive. At the same time kind of sending a message that its the autocrats like kim jongun, like others that are producing these deals with me. That sort of sends a message. The saudis that okay, being an autocrat is good if you do some human rights initiatives with us. Thats not a good tone he should send. I will give him credit for getting involved with the north koreans. Getting the three americans out there. Getting this kid in venezuela out with an autocrat there. I give limb credit. Last question. I want to draw up on your experience as a former u. S. Ambassador. Nikki haley said she will be leaving that post at the end of the year and politico says theres two women who are in the running for that position and the white house is looking at. You have kelly knight craft who is the ambassador to canada. Who should the president be looking for . Broadly, one. Somebody that has political statur stature, that is known as a heavy weight. Theres some reports they will not keep it cabinet level. Third, somebody that has, in my view, the ear of the president. I dont know if those two individuals do. I think sending a woman, a minority to the u. N. Is a good idea. The u. N. Is 195 countries. I think most importantly somebody with political stature like a nikki haley that can be with the president and with the secretary of state, secretary of defense, cia, a member of National Security cabinet. My thanks to bill richardson. Coming up, boarder brder ba. President trump accuses the democrats of wanting to open the border to thugs. Saturday night live does it again with this send up of kanyes visit to the oval office. Now you have chiraq. The murder rate is going down by 20 . In chicago, some people call it chiraq. The murder rate is going down 20 every year. Pretty soon its going to be a negative murder rate. Well be digging bodies out of ground. R rate well be digging bodies out of ground they baptized me in mud and christened me on rock, so i got tougher. They fostered a love of learning, so i got smarter. Taught me to appreciate the finer things in life, so i became more civilized and refined. 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That was President Trump before he left for kentucky last night praising family separation at the border as a way to keep immigrant s of the united state. It represents an abrupt about face considering what he had to say about the policy at the past. I hate the children being taken away. The democrats have to change their law. Its their law. Its your policy. Thats the democrats law. I didnt like the sight of families being separated. Its a problem thats gone on for many years. The democrats forced that law upon our nation. I hate it. I hate to see separation of parents and children. Joining me now is john brunette. Hes the southwest correspondent for npr. Let me ask you whats being considered here. Its something called binary choice. It would give parents a choice to stay in family detention with the child or years or allow children to be taken to a government shelter so other relatives or guardian can seek shelter. Help me understand this. We heard about that when in federal court in decision when the government was talking about this and it would be different from forced family separation which we saw earlier this year during six weeks. When a family comes across the boarder and they are apprehended and put into family detention, these limited bed space they have for that, they would be given the option they could either stay with their children in family detention but stay longer than 20 days, which is the Court Ordered time period now that they the government can keep them detained. Or they have the option to allow their children to go into a child shelter run by health and Human Services. It would be a consentual choice as opposed to forced separation that caused this International Outcry and this federal court case and the president had to sign an executive order to halt it. Would it be legal . You look at the piece in the post, the white house said it would. I dont think the judge in decision did approve it. He was faced with a limited question about what that particular case was about. He did not comment. Hes been made it clear he was not deciding whether family detention is lawful. There will be lawsuits about it. I think even before the lawsuits it will be enormous public outcry because the one thing is its only consensual in most hyper technical way. The government doesnt have to keep them in detention. Under the obama administration, they came up with a plan that was 97 effective. The Trump Administration just scrapped it. We dont really think its much of a choice for parents here to decide im going to keep my child in this horrific Family Detention Center or lose my child to some distant relative or not even a relative. There will be an enormous push back on this. How did you react to what you heard the president say admitting this is a deterrent . I think the one thing if you ask experts is its not a deterrent because when you have a family thats to scared and fearing for their life, they will come any way. Ive talked to parents who come here and asked them point blank, would you have come any way if you had known in advance that your child would be taken away. They just shrug and say what choice did i have. I cant let my child be killed. I cant stay there. Even if it were a deterrent, in the United States at some point we dont do everything that could be a deterrent no matter how inhumane. Thats why i think this is the First Administration, democratic or republican thats ever tried to separate families like this administration. John, i want to turn to you last. Youve been doing a lot of reporting on the logistical hurdles. Help us understand the degree to which the government is expanding. You still have fair number of unaccompanied children coming up by themselves. As the manager told me, private contractor, its like a restaurant where you have patrons who are coming in but none are leaving. Where do you put all these kids . Health and Human Services has this shelter out there in the west texas desert by the port of entry. It was built for several hundred children. It wasnt up to 1200 kids and now its ballooning to 3800 beds. They are moving children from all over the United States ages 12 to 17 and putting them in this child shelter which as they showed reporters on friday, they have recreation opportunities, they have lots of meals, they have medical and Mental Health care. Its still a locked facility. The kids cannot leave. The problem is the other side of health and Human Services is using such a high bar to find sponsors for these children to leave the governments custody, this is where the backlog is happening. Under obama, the wait in these child shelters was about 30 days. Under this president and administration its approaching two months and the kids keep coming and these shelters are getting bigger and bigger and they are not being sent to their sponsors fast enough. Thank you very much. Thats exact right. The last point is critical. They are not being leased to sponsors. One of the reasons they are not being released is the Trump Administration is putting all these necessary procedures that are delaying release. They are requiring these finger prints of every one in the household but its taking forever to do the finger prints and it shouldnt. They can go like that. Secondly, they are trying to arrest people in the household, the adults. Of course sponsors are not coming forward and they dont want to be arrested. This is First Administration to do this. If they would just release the children, there wouldnt be this build up. There woun ldnt be a need for this horrific tent city. Thank you. 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Will it be enough to help the republicans keep control of congress. Lets go on the western swing. I want to start with montana. Thats the First Destination the president will head to. What are you going to be watching for as he makes his way to montana . That tester race is actually, hes one of the less endangered red state democrats. Hes a very solid kind of montana guy. Hes very, very accessible to his constituents. Hes got a challenger whos a little problematic, this guy matt rosendale. That has been one democrats are less worried about than some of the other red states. Trump is going there and hes going to give it his all. Its where the university of montana, kind of the more liberal part of the state. I dont know why they chose that location, but it will provoke a lot of interesting protests in addition to one of the big mega crowds. Its a place hes been to a number of times already. Lets go to mesa, arizona. Hes fridays destination. That is arizona. Thats jeff flake. He is resigning, stepping down from his senate seat. Its one that democrats very much think they have a chance to pick up. Their candidate is krist kristen sinema. Whoever win, a woman will be representing arizona in the next senate which is exciting. That race has been extremely close all the way along. President trump delivering his star power over there to Martha Mcsally could be a big boost. So far sinema has been running a little ahead. Final stop on the swing is nevada. Jackie rosen with 35. 3 help dean eller with 45. 3 . Democrats thought rosen would be doing a little better. Dean heller is the least trumpy and the two have not seen eye to eye. Dean heller was very offended by trump after we found out about the access hollywood tape. It hasnt been a great marriage and hes tried to position himself as a moderate. Now hes embracing trump. We havent seen that he is in the polling weve looked at. The race looks tight. It is something the democrats have high hopes for. If they cant win of the states, either arizona or nevada, knock off a republican indumb becumbes going to throw a lot on their strategy to take the senate or even advance their position there. Before this happens, hes going to go to florida. We heard a moment ago talking about the expectations for the visit there. Lets talk about it in the political context. Florida is a state well be watching closely. Sure. Its the biggest most important swing state in any president ial election of course. In this midterm its very important. Theres governors race, senate race. Bill nelson is getting a really tough challenge there from rick scott, the republican governor. You dont want to be total le political ever when youre dealing with these horrible tragedies and natural disasters, but just the president showing up is going to give a lot of oomph and in this case its rick scott. Well be right back with much more. You are watching msnbc. 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Will it be a successful scare tactic as the president suggests or another nightmare at the border . Here we go. We keep hearing that the white house is in chaos. Its so false. Its fake news. Can i ask