whistleblower complaint shortly after the the wall street journal explosive new report. it says in part, president trump in a july phone call repeatedly pressured the president of ukraine to investigate joe biden s son, according to people familiar with the matter. joining me now is democratic antoine seawright, former senior adviser to hillary clinton s campaign in south carolina, and attorney and conservative talk show host shondell summer. great to have you both this morning. good morning. let s talk about these implications for president trump, for congress, and for the country. how bad are these revelations, if true? oh, they re bad. but let me be crystal clear about a few things. one, if you re upset about this and you did anything other than vote for 2016 hillary clinton, you bear some responsibility. this is the leader of the free world, the leader of the united states, who has had love letters with kim jong-un and foot sy
precedent how we do elections and the political process in this country. so i hope that republicans will not make this an issue. in this situation, you don t want them to go into looking into these allegations against joe biden because they re very similar to what they did already. they did already. they re similar to president trump. he asked the ukraine government to fire their prosecutor and withheld aid until they did. fact check. that s been fact checked. it s not true. eight times donald trump pressed the ukraine leader to dig up dirt on his political opponent. i would say until i m blue in the face. it is crazy for to you say on a saturday morning there is nothing wrong with that. it s ukraine tomorrow. it could be russia against next week and you will all ukraine t and russia next weeken. and then you come back and say nothing happened and they hacked our elections. antoine, hold on, i want to get to what house speaker nancy pelosi said. she s been rather cautious a
the stakes are phenomenally high let s bring in ali vitali, political reporter, beth foo for nbc news and antoine seawright, a former advisor to hillary clinton s 2016 campaign in south carolina. not at the table but important wherever he may be, charlie syk sykes, former and editor of the bullwork and an msnbc contributor. great to have all of you here. these speeches laying out sweepingly different views of what america should be these ideological differences are nothing new. we ve heard them before. but you could absolutely make an argument that in this campaign they ve taking on a new urgency. we all know president trump won in 2016 because he shifted from the established gop message into a full-throated america first populist message talking about dwayne the swap.
and all the negative publicity he s getting about the tariffs and how it will affect the economy it s not surprising to see the polls reflecting that. based on the numbers and the cold hard facts that the u.s. consumer is going to bear the brunt of any tariffs that end up actually going into effect. antoine, do you think the democrats see an opportunity here in terms of a weakening economy? it s a double-edged sword. it may work into their advantage for a campaign but it s not good for the americans that their economy goes south. my leader, majority whip jim clyburn says in politics the important thing is knowing how to count. when you look at this economy, you would know that voters have zero confidence in this president and the confidence in this economy is not high at all. the middle class is soly becoming the working poor in this country all because of how donald trump has chosen to goven this country. and when you think about the issues, the border issues that
morning. of course, that could change hour to hour. we re getting updates and we ll keep you posted all day here on msnbc. now to 2020 and a new quinnipiac university poll called trump s worst 2020 poll yet by the washington post. among the findings, a surge in voters souring on the economy. for the first time since june 2016, more are saying the economy is getting worse at 37% than getting better. that is up 14% since june. joining me now is democratic strategist antoine seawright, adviser to hillary clinton s campaign in south carolina. and conservative and radio talk show host sean dell. good morning, guys. good morning. sean dell how concerned should the president be? he doesn t need to be too concerned. given what s going on with china