adam schiff. bret: to your point, leslie, you know, obviously you have what the former vice president, vice president at the time said on tape about how he dealt with the prosecutor and that raised a lot of eyebrows. peggy noonan writes in the wall street journal this about impeachment. nobody knows where this is going. the politically obsessed may think they do but something wild and unpredictable has been let loose. the charges are serious and credible. but america is as divided as it was in 2016. america is still in play. and it s all up for grabs. everything. the entire outcome will depend on public opinion. in the end, and purely practical political terms, the one person who will be hurt by this story will be joe biden. every telling of this story necessitates pointing out that mr. biden s son hunter had cozy financial relationships with other countries including ukraine. it s real swamp stuff. it looks bad. say the former vice presidents friends no it is
on the defining issue of our age, the democrats seem hell bent on nominating someone for president who is totally compromised by our greatest enemy, china. as we have often showed you, joe biden took over a billion dollars in bribes from the chinese regime in the form of payments to biden family businesses. #joechina. we saw the view genius of this country in 2016. america elected as president the only person who was prepared to confront its greatest challenge. president trump is not only the real populist. he s the successful populist. where he followed tax cuts and deregulation the results have been great, is specially for working americans.
the presidential election county by county. look at all the little lines. more than 4,000 count kniss the united states. see all the red? a center-right country, conservative especially the heartland than democrats think. watch in the midwest. back to 2012. see all the blue? this is 2016. america went even more into the red, especially in the heartland in 2016. hillary clinton had a lot of problems. did not get the percent of college educated women she thought. macomb county, michigan, that that s red tells you quite a bit. donald trump did well with blue collar union voters, traditionally democratic voters. a lot of problems for hillary clinton but could have 1068 sol them with one solution. macomb county, 67% of the vote is huge, except the raw numbers matter. a lot of african-americans simply didn t come out to vote. next door to wisconsin. down here. look at milwaukee. lost the state by the tiniest of
york mayor s race. it may be just a dress he herselfal for chris christie for a really, really big election that s three years from now. erin mcpile has that for us now. reporter: new jersey governor chris christie is headed for a landslide victory to re-election. another step on the way for what many say is a run for president in 2016. america is going to be watching new jersey. reporter: the latest poll shows him doubling his lead over his opponent. the whole country is watching. they re disspirited about the way government works. they look at the mess in washington, d.c. reporter: he s road testing that anti-washington message. i can do this job and deal with my future. that s exactly what i will do. reporter: next year he ll run the republicans governor s
after hours trade. that is it for now. we are firsts in business worldwide. now it s back over to hardball. hillary clinton in the general election can beat john mccain in florida, she beats him in ohio, shoo he beats him in missouri. this is about winning the election on november 4th and helping the down ballot races. she has won the 208 congressional districts key to us winning to keep the house of representatives. tomorrow something new could happen. nothing s impossible. welcome back to hardball. you may have thought the hot governor s race in virginia was about terry mcauliffe versus ken cuccinelli. it s actually about hillary clinton. that s because republicans are using the virginia race to test drive attacks against hillary ahead of her potential run for president in 2016.