change minds even on abortion. that s a headline. another, as a candidates descended on iowa, a piece asking could iowa asians latinos be the drivers of trump s worst political nightmare? red, white and you on this sunday. 2020 presidential candidate beto o rourke spending a lot of time talking about his senate campaign stop in king county, texas, known as the most conservative county in america. in the 2016 presidential election the county backed trump overwhelmingly with a 93.7% of votes and then in the 2018 midterms o rourke earned 6 out of 131 votes. and still says he was not and is not afraid to speak in red towns but is strategy paying off for him right now? garrett haake went to see for himself. every one of the 254 counties of texas. reporter: he really loves to tell this story. so going to a place like king
have had unintended political consequences. brewing talk of a trade war with china could devastate rural voters who backed trump, providing an opening for vulnerable democrats in red stateth sta states. for more, i m joined by eugene robinson, column list for the washington post, and an msnbc news contributor. michael steele, former chairman of the republican national committee and, ashley, let s start with the news analysis here. trump seems to be thinking if i raise the heat, it s good for me. is he riding off of his higher poll numbers? what s about this steaming up of his politics in every direction no china, mexico, everything. well, the president is coming into his own as the president. he was a little tentative and hesitant at the beginning and he would defer more to his advisers, especially on issues that weren t gut visceral issues for him.
i could go on, but we only have so much time in this broadcast. matthew, let s talk about your reporting. it connects two big stories this week, the data harvesting from cambridge analytica and john bolton. what are you learning? well, bolton was one of cambridge analytica s kind of first and earliest customers. and you look at the paperwork. they signed up specifically for this kind of psych oh graphic profiling that cambridge claimed it could offer. how effective that was is still a huge question. but they were really close. there was a point in october 2014 where cambridge analytica was writing talking points for bolton to explain his work with this new company and their ability to psychologically profile voters to give them very specific messages. i think some of this is that robert mercer, the very wealthy republican kind of patron who backed trump, he also backed bolton s pac. he s going to connect a lot of republicans to cambridge analytica because cambridge analytica was his
did opportunity matter to the evangelical leaders that backed trump. don t lump them all together. let me say something about the state of the union tonight. one spaesh, no matter what it is, won t change anything. it took me a long time winning an election to be able to build support among the people from across the board. there is soe much polarization that the left won t listen and no matter what the right will like it. it is just a mess and i have never soon it like that. it is just really a shame. you know what hope is, though? those people in the middle who are neither far right nor far left reacted to trump an the people in the middle, and there are so many of them, and the my
president donald trump saying today that his immigration order will make the country safer. is the president right? speaker paul ryan backed trump s vetting measures saying trump is right, though he says the rollout of the travel ban was confusing. but senator john mccain doesn t agree. he says the order could undermine anti-terrorism efforts. here s what he told me last night. wonder what would have happened if there had been notification to the leaders of congress, the usual vetting by the agencies that are involved rather than this kind of out of the blue explosion that took everybody by surprise. it seems that the m.o. of this white house is on a shakedown cruise. ten former diplomats and national security officials, most democrat, told the court of appeals the order, undermines the national security of the united states. john mclaughlin was acting director of the cia under president george w. bush, now at