A majority of voters want a check on the president United States. 51 of voters say the next congress should be a check on trump. 42 say the next congress should do more to help trump. Democrats need 23 seats. There are 25 House Republicans in districts that donald trump lost in 2016. And eight of those 25 republicans have already given up and are not running for reelection. If democrats win control of the house, adam schiff would become chair of the house intelligence committee. Elijah cummings over the house. And the new york congressman jerry nadler would be the chair of the House Judiciary Committee where impeachment proceedings originate. How likely do you think it is that Robert Mueller will find donald trump committed crimes or impeachable offenses . 59 say it is likely Robert Mueller will find donald trump committed crimes or impeachable offenses. 34 say not at all. But impeachment is not the number one issue on voters minds. Voters named health care as their top issue in the midterm election. 51 of voters have a favorable view of obamacare, and the fox news poll asked voters about the United States moving to the most socialistic option for health care financing, medicare for all. And the poll found that more people favor medicare for all than oppose it. 46 favor medicare for all. 31 oppose it. 23 are undecided. Almost a third of republicans actually support medicare for all. But not a single republican member of Congress Supports it. Only one republican has flirted with medicare for all. Everybodys got to be covered. Universal health care. I am going to take care of everybody. I dont care if it costs me votes or not. The uninsured person. Right. Is going to be taken care of. How . I would make a deal with existing hospitals to take care of people. And you know what . This is probably who pays for it . The government is going to pay for it. Joining us now, president of the center for american progress. Professor jason johnson, msnbc contributor and david jolly, former Republican Congressman from florida. And when you look at these issues that are important to voters to discover, the Sleeping Giant in there is health care. Is something that its easy to be surprised by given that thats not where our News Coverage is every night. No. But obviously over the last couple of years and particularly over the last year and a half, voters have seen a rise in premiums. They, you know, even though it doesnt dominate the news every day, donald trump has tried and worked very hard to sabotage the Affordable Care act. Republicans voted to undo the individual mandate, which has actually increased the premiums. Most importantly in the races that are up in these congressional races, these republicans almost to a tee voted to gut the Affordable Care act, to deprive, you know, 20, 21, 23 million americans of health care. And those votes are going to haunt republicans this fall. And jason johnson, one of the Big Questions for democrats has been in the campaigns for congress, how much do they emphasize or how much do they avoid the subject of impeachment . Thats in a country where a huge majority believes that Robert Mueller will find that donald trump committed crimes or impeachable offenses. It is interesting lawrence, that the republican image of the democrat running this fall is saying were going to impeach donald trump and grind washington to a fault, force your kids into gay marriage. Thats the democrat theyre running against. Thats not how democrats are running. Theyre running on health care, checks and balances on the government, cleaning up corruption. Impeachment, thats a longterm goal. Thats after you have already made the playoffs. Thats after democrats retake the house by maybe 30 or 40 seats and then possible retake the senate. I think impeachment is way, way down the road. Democrats are very smart to not be running on impeachment unless it works in your particular district. Democrats are keeping these locally based campaigns on the issues that really matter to people. David jolly, another part of this poll indicating it is all about trump. Quinnipiac poll question, is it important that a house candidate shares your view of trump . 58 yes. 39 no. And its 66 of republicans say yes. 63 of democrats say yes. Thats basically same within the margin of error. So that certainly tells you that donald trump is an issue. Donald trump is the number one issue. And as much as we like to have debates over policy issues and we should, if you look at just the republican primaries and special elections, we know among republican voters, the singular issue is the cult of personality that is donald trump. For democrats there is a lot of currency in suggesting that we oppose donald trump, his leadership and what he stands for. I want to go to jasons comment a little bit. I think its been smart to talk about corruption and releasing a list of items they would investigate. But i think democrats have to be careful not to be too cute by half here. We do have a president who confessed to participating in an action that a federal judge entered into a judgment as a crime in the Michael Cohen case. And it is important that democrats at least recognize that and be willing to talk about how they might approach impeachment in january should they take control. Will democrats focus on corruption or open an investigation into whether this rises to the level of impeachment. We cant ignore the impeachment conversation altogether. To davids point, the impeachment question changed in federal court when Michael Cohen not only pleaded guilty, but he described his conduct in that courtroom, as did the prosecutor, and they included, they both included donald trump as a coconspireing criminal in that very same action that Michael Cohen was describing, about paying off these women during the campaign to affect the result of the election. It seems very difficult to try to steer away from what do we do about the president of the United States being accused of a crime when youre running for president after that happened. Yeah. No. I think david is 100 right. Look, we do have situation where the president of the United States is essentially an unindicted coconspirator as determined by a judge. That is very serious. I think the Mueller Investigation is very serious. Look, i think candidates should be really honest about this. But the point is, impeachment is at the end of the process of investigation. Robert mueller has not issued his report. I think people should say, i think candidates should be honest and frank and say we have to go where the law and facts are. The fact of the matter, though, is that we have evidence already in front of our eyes of corruption not only by the Trump Administration but by several members of congress, several republican members of congress and there is no investigation of that. There is no investigation. The Republican Congress is not lifting a finger to hold anyone in their party accountable. And that is number one the number one thing that has to change. So obviously democrats should hold the president accountable. They should members of congress accountable. And if Robert Mueller reports indictable offenses, they should definitely take up those proceedings. Jason, a couple of months ago it was clear that the republicans believed that if they accused the democrats of wants impeachment, thats good for the republicans in the midterms. It is no longer clear to me that that is good and for the republicans in the midterms, if it ever was, but theyre not doing it. Theyre not really out there actively accusing the democrats constantly of being for impeachment. Theyre not sending activists into Democrats Campaign events and saying, you know, raising the issue of impeachment as an embarrassing thing for the democrat. I dont see republicans any longer running with confidence that impeachment works for them and not for the democrats. Yeah. Its hard to say im running in favor of a corrupt president that pays off prostitutes and insults women. It doesnt work for the republicans, just like their tax plan didnt work out the way they thought it was going to work out. This is sort of also the larger issue here. Every Single Campaign is a slick, dynamic experience, right . The candidate has to be able to pat their head and rub their tummy. I think the smart thing that i have seen the democrats do is keep their races local and understand what matters to those particular voters to get them to the polls in that district, regardless of what anybody else does nationally. What worked in august might not work in september, october. We will find out in october. Were going to leave it there. Thank you all for joining us. Coming up, the day donald trump stood beside Vladimir Putin and said he trusted Vladimir Putin more than his own cia director and the american Intelligence Community. And the most surprising moment yet in the White House PressBriefing Room. And later, some highlights of my favorite moment of my workday, which of course is when i get to chat with my dear friend Rachel Maddow. burke thats what we call a huge drag. Seriously, thats what we call it. Officially. And we covered it. Talk to farmers. We know a thing or two because weve seen a thing or two. We are farmers. Bumpadum, bumbumbumbum at booking. 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My people came to me, dan coats, came to me and some others. They said they think its russia. I have president putin. He just said its not russia. I will say this. I dont see any reason why it would be. I have great confidence in my intelligence people. But i will tell you that president putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today. That provoked former cia director john brennan to say Donald Trumps press conference in helsinki rises and exceeds high crimes. He is wholly in the pocket of putin. Republican patriots, where are you . Here is more of our coverage of that extraordinary day on the world stage and how members of the Republican Party reacted, including the late senator john mccain. History was made today, and many observers tried to place this moment in history, including republicans. Newt gingrich said today that donald trump made, quote, the most serious mistake of his presidency. Republican senator ben sass said this. Lets not mince words. Today was a terrible day for the american brand, for the American People and for all of our allies. We did not negotiate from a position of strength. We acted from a position of weakness. As a result, one of the worlds worst despits walked away today with a win. Jeff flake said this. I thought it was shameful and i never thought id see an american president throw the Intelligence Community under the bus like that and agree with a dictator authoritarian like he did, so it is not a good day for the country. No republican was more forceful than senator john mccain, who issued a written statement saying, todays press conference in helsinki was one of the most disgraceful performances by an american president in memory. The damage inflicted by President Trumps naivete is difficult to calculate, but it is clear the summit was a tragic mistake. No prior president has ever abased himself more abjectly before a tyrant. Joining us now president ial historian and author of the bestselling book the soul of america, the battle for our better angels. And Richard Stengle is with us. He once had the opportunity to interview Vladimir Putin. He is now an msnbc political analyst. And john, place this day in history for us. John mccain has issued language about it that is as forceful as what any as any condemning language that weve heard all day from anyone. The only thing i would i have said to senator mccains statement is i dont think its in memory. I think it might be in history. I think it goes far beyond the living memory of the country. Just two points, one looking back, one looking forward. This is what Many Americans feared in the 1790s. One of the great divisions when we set out on the National Experiment and in the constitution was that the federalists would be captives of britain and the democratic republicans might be captives of france. There was a fevered that shaped the first decade of our political history. Whats different now is that it may not be a Conspiracy Theory at this point. Its becoming ever more evident that if the president is not an asset of a foreign power, then he really is the onus is now on him to explain why he continues to act this way. And so sometimes when a duck quakes like a duck, its a duck. The other point in looking forward is it seems to me that the unfolding narrative here is one in which this day will be an incredibly important moment on a time line. And that to me thats what scariest. What is it that putin really wants from this relationship . I dont think weve seen him cash the check that he clearly has in his pocket. And, rick, john mccain went on to say, coming close on the heels of President Trumps conduct towards our closest friends and allies in brussels and britain, todays press conference marks a recent low in the history of the american presidency. I think we have a National Security crisis going on as some people have said. You have an american president that must take care that the laws are faithfully executed. He stood next to a foreign dictator and sided with the dictator over our own intelligence and Law Enforcement and Justice Department. Why is that . It is very strange. What happens now to all those people . You are talking about dan coats, tens of thousands of men and women serving in these agencies in washington. He betrayed all of your interests for reasons nobody knows. What is it like to be sitting in the room with Vladimir Putin . I think we have a photograph of you doing it. What is it that donald trump is falling for . I dont know that hes falling for anything. He does seem to admire autocrats. If you were Vladimir Putin, there would be a chill, cold air hitting me right now. Henry kissinger said to me beforehand you will be surprised how little he tries to charm you. There is no affect that he has at all. I want to give you a line from john mccain because i think john mccain was trying to place this in our history. He said not only did President Trump fail to speak the truth about an adversary, but speaking for america to the world, our president failed to defend all that makes us who we are, a republic of free people dedicated to the cause of liberty at home and abroad. Well, thats the Great American insofar as we are an exceptional country, that is where our exceptionalism has been. General powell once said we have gone abroad. We have projected force and all we have ever asked for is the ground on which to bury our dead. And there is a lot to that. Im not saying were a blameless country. Far from it. But we have, in fact, defined ourselves as what lincolns called us the last best hope and president reagan, who, lord, god knows what hes thinking at this point and saying the last best hope of man on earth. And i think that we have reached a point where there is a significant its not irreparable, but it is a hugely significant breach in our ongoing faith with the global community. What worries me most is the known unknown as donald rums felt might put it. Look at this whole week, five, six days in total. What happens if putin launches military action against, say, the baltics . What is it that President Trump what about his comments at nato suggest that he would follow an invocation of article five and actually project American Force in defense of the values that not only do we have intellectual and moral ascent to, but a contractual one, a treaty one. I think thats the great question going forward. We really appreciate your invaluable perspectives on this tonight. Thank you very much for joining us. Coming up, what President Trump did that led tom freedman to declare it is code red on america. And Rachel Maddows favorite moment when chatting with me this year . 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In february, Robert Muellers staff announced the indictment of more than a dozen russians accused of conspireing to hack the Democratic National committee and Hillary Clintons president ial campaign. President trump did not attack the russians who were indicted. Instead, President Trump attacked the investigation that led to the indictment of those russians. And he never attacked Vladimir Putin who ordered those Russian Military officers who were indicted to attack our democracy. That stunned New York Times columnist tom friedman. He gave up his weekend to write a column. He joined us to talk about what he called code red in america. Our democracy is in serious danger. That was the first sentence of an extraordinary column by tom friedman. It describes the Trump Presidency in truly threatening terms, threatening to the United States of america. Tom was not scheduled to public a column, but at the end of an extraordinary weekend, tom felt compelled to say something. Tom friedman. You might not agree with everything you read. But you will always learn something important in a friedman column. They are a continuing nonpartisan search for the worlds best ideas. That is a search that is usually optimistic in the friedman view. Those columns are read closely by leaders around the world. But it is entirely possible that the president of the United States has never read a tom friedman column. He certainly sounds like someone who has never read a tom friedman column. But if he reads just one, we should all hope its this one, which ends this way. This is code red. This biggest threat to the integrity of our democracy today is in the oval office. And joining us now is tom friedman. Tom, thank you very much for joining us tonight. My internal friedman clock told me this is out of sequence. Hes not scheduled to write right now. Is he . This isnt his day. Tell us why you were moved to do this one. Well, lawrence, it was the holiday, and i picked up the paper like everybody else and saw that Robert Mueller had indicted 13 russians and several russian organizations for basically intervening in our last election. Both to poison our politics and to tilt the election toward donald trump. I waited to see what the president would have to say about this. And he had nothing to say about it. And that truck me as not only appalling but actually frightening because up to now donald trump, hes violated the norms that we expect in a president. His tweeting, his incessant lying, his general, you know, what he speaks about people, his diminishing of others in different countries. Hes violated the norms of the presidency. But when the president of the United States does not react to a clear and present danger, then hes violating his oath of office. Then he is not defending, protecting and defending the constitution and the country. And that struck me, as i said, not only appalling, but extremely dangerous. And it needed to be called out. And i think judging from the reaction of leaders, a lot of people felt exactly that. I want to read something that the president tweeted this morning. He said i have been much tougher on russia than obama. Just look at the facts. Total fake news. Whats your reaction to that tweet . Well, it is probably lie number 2,342. The fact is that the congress has imposed sanctions that he has not imposed. What would it look like . I think, lawrence, we have to step back and say what would a real president do in this situation . He would do real things. This came after our leading intelligence agencies all testifying to congress that not only did russia intervene in our election, they were still doing it and they plan to continue to do it in the next round of elections. And when asked, the fbi director what had the president instructed him to do therefore, he said nothing. So what would it look like if we had a real president , not someone who is running the Trump Organization and seems to moonlight as president of the United States . Heres what a real president would do . Hed give a speech to the country explaining the problem to people in a language and way that would be both compelling and illuminating for people so they understand the nature of the threat. Secondly, he would call together all the stakeholders, state and local election authorities, all the social networks, all the people who run our federal elections, leaders of the two parties and basically lay out a plan of defense for how we are going to prevent this intervention in the future. And the third thing he would do would call in his National Security team and lay out an offense. Why are we sitting here every day reading about russian intervention in our election . How putin is basically using lies to divide us and poison our democracy. Why are we not selling the truth about him, all the money hes stolen, all the people hes basically made disappear from russian politics. Why are we not using the truth to undermine his autocracy while he is using lies to undermine our democracy. Thats what a real president would look like. Donald trump did none of these. And it is appalling. He should be ashamed of himself. Tom, i always look to friedman columns for something that is hard for me to find in my own view of things. That is at least a glimmer of optimism. I am very bad at finding that when i look at things. And this is the friedman column i would say where i cant find the optimism. I dont think it is in this column. But do you see something here for which we should be optimistic or can hope to be optimistic . No, i dont, lawrence, because many readers pointed this out. Why am i the one raising this . Where is the Republican Party . Where is his own party which claimed to, for so many years, be the daddy party, the National Security, the adults in the room that not a one of them has come out, none of their leadership, and basically called the president out on this. Thats disgusting. And its deeply troubling. I wish i could find a glimmer of hope in this. You know, an israeli general once said to me, tom, we know why youre an optimist. Its because youre short. He said, yeah, it is because you can only see that part of the glass thats half full. Thats usually the case, lawrence, but this time i cannot see any of the glass half full. We have a president thats either compromised by russia hr hes such a fool that he believes that putin told him no and he believes him. Thats the president who said hes done more than barack obama . Thank you very much for joining us to expand on your column at this extraordinary point in our history. Cant thank you enough. Thank you, tom. 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Its just a kind of conversation that happens naturally from something she has just said or something that im going to talk about on my show and sometimes its just this thing that happens. And here are some highlights of what we have had to chat about this year. That does it for us tonight. Well see you again tomorrow. Good evening, lawrence. Good evening, lawrence. Good evening, lawrence. When a guy takes too many days off from work, this beard thing happens. I am 98 in favor of the beard. But i am 2 curious as to how it would look if it was just here, just this, the mustache down to the jaw line. Rachel, you are never going to know. As you can see, the beard is gone. I know you voted for the berd. But the voters that were voted against it used two words. One was older. It was very disturbing. And the other even more disturbing was the word bannon. Oh so no. When you think of all the country names in the world, its nambia. Whats wrong with normie . Secretary of health and human services, white house chief of staff, a Deputy White House chief of staff. When we talk about tv talking heads, most of us expect to see the talking side of the head when were looking at our tvs. Instead we get that beautiful, thick head of hair back there. Yeah. We have this list. I got to make sure. I get it. I get it completely. At some point we will come to the end of this cycle because fox news is a big organization, but they only employ so many people. Once they get through the interns and stuff, they will have to either start cycling people through for a second time or come up with a new strategy for how to bring new people in. At this rate, that will be by the next Christmas Party at the white house. Oh. Thanks, lawrence. Thanks, rachel. Thinking about a little bit the president and the porn star story but havent even mentioned it on this show. And then listening to your analysis of it, you raised a point i hadnt considered, which is a very important point about who paid the money . I put on a nose bag and glasses with those aviator sides on it any time i read this story. No distractions. You have read more of it than i have. I dont want to talk about it. Thats all the people who donald trump has found the time to attack. And Stormy Daniels name is not up there. Another name not up there, rachel daniel. The Stormy Daniels of msnbc. Hes so afraid of you. Thats what it means. Hes so afraid of you, he doesnt want people to know you exist. Also there was that shark week thing between us. Thats right. Thats exactly right. Donald trump said today, by the way, and i really thank him for this. He said infrastructure is sexy to him. I might put the word sexy up behind me on the wall for a whole hour. You can only do that on infrastructure day. Good night, lawrence. Tomorrow it is, it will be my first ever New York Times cross word. For this moment, this is just extraordinary. This is history making. I couldnt be more thrilled for you. Thank you very much. Im a childless, middleaged, pot bellied lesbian. I dont have much to be excited about. But there is this freaking cross world puzzle, and i am very excited about it. We will all remember when we first heard this. Roger and i were treated like crap by donald trump. Was this the thing where you watched and you understand less than you did when you started watching. Im not going to jail. Come on. It was bizarre. You are in on my secret that my workday does not begin at 8 00 a. M. But today it did. Our Justice Department should be looking at that kind of stuff, not the nonsense of collusion with russia. Wed talk to you all day, but it looks like you have a million things to do. I know you are neither an early riser, nor a drinker, but part of me imagines you in a bathrobe and a glass of wine drinking. Rudy giuliani went on the other network, went on fox news and he stayed on longer than he should have because thats when he got to the Stormy Daniels admission. The president repaid it. He did. This really does feel to me like in the movie the plot is over. Like we know what happened. Bad guys got caught. We have transparency now. We get how it all pended. Usually in the movie were getting ready for the credits. At this point i still think the credits are a long way off. Good evening, lawrence. Oh. Good evening, rachel. I was reading the end because i want to see how the investigation turns out. Oh, yeah. So toward the end of this book, james comey says i am writing in a time of great anxiety in my country. I understand the anxiety, but also believe america is going to be fine. So theres that. Sleep tight, everyone. Someone, someone believes america is going to be fine. Someone who knows an awful lot about exactly where america is right now. 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And so when White House Press secretary, the White House Press secretary tried to escape a very sharp line of questioning from Hallie Jackson by calling on jordan fabian, the most Perfect Moment of White House Press corps team work unfolded and jordan fabian no doubt to the cheers of millions at home who have been waiting for this kind of moment, showed us how its done. Why should this credit have any credibility if three hours later this white house comes out and says just kidding . First of all, thats not what i said. I was interpreting what the president s intention was and stating the administrations policy. Thats not exactly what you just explained. We never. Just kidding. And i think that you you can take fact the president has credibility because he saw that he had misspoken and he wanted to clarify that yesterday which he did. So when he sees that hes misspoken, he comes out and he says it. Just to follow up on my second question. You told us the president has been moving on to jordan. Go ahead. Sorry. Hallie, go ahead. Actually, im going on take a question from jordan. I dont think any of us rain time when the president has publicly called up Vladimir Putin. I think by stating the fact the president said that russia interfered with our election, thats a pretty bold callout of another world leader. Jordan, go ahead. And then jordan fabian did ask his question about possible sanctions against russia. And this was tweeted. This was a nice moment of press corps solidarity to which Hallie Jackson tweeted, classic move by jordan fabian and big a thanks to him. Followup questions are a part of our job and it is helpful to be able to ask them. And i just cant tell you how shocked and delighted i was by the jordan fabian moment in todays press briefing. So joining us now is jordan fabian, White House Correspondent for the hill. And jordan, you got a standing ovation from me watching it alone at home. Im sure you got it from around the country. We have watched. We have watched these things, watched the corps yell over each and the precious moment of being able to ask that question is so important that no one seems to care what has just been asked or no one seems to care that Sarah Sanders is using the next question to evade the last question. How did you decide this was the moment . This was the moment where you wouldnt play the game and you would hand it back to Hallie Jackson and let her have your opportunity. Thank you. A lot of us in the press corps have been talking about press corps unity and sticking together and making sure all of us can do our jobs and get the questions that were asked and answered. And i thought that was the moment to let hallie ask her question and get it answered. Sarah sanders was dodging the question. We all have our questions, and the briefings are fewer and far between. If were talking about unity, it is important that we practice what we preach and hand the mike over if someone isnt getting their question answered. There was another extraordinary moment that followed your question where april ryan was trying to fight her way in and normally theres all this yelling over each other. There was a moment where it is like the seas parted. Everyone stops talking so april ryan could actually get through. Sxfg they refused to answer her question. Ive never seen that before. Where everyone got out of the way and let her have her moment. Is this a recent decision thats happening among the group . You know, i dont think it is a conscious decision where we all get together in a big group and decide, you know, this is the time well do it. But i think a lot of reporters have seen how the briefings are going and have seen times when people are shouting over each other, people not getting their questions answered and i think a lot of us have taken internally, ourselves personally, the attitude that were all in this together. And that we all have a job to do. The briefings can seem like televised circus. But it is a group of 49 reporters trying to get their questions answered and do their job. So in order for that to happen a lot of us have taken attitude that look, we all have our jobs to do. And Everyone Needs the opportunity to do it. Jordan, it is very clear for people watching at home that Sarah Sanders has been exploiting the process and trying to use reporters against each other. To evade the pressures of what goes on in that room. 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