Chris Matthews debates hot political issues with politicians, newsmakers and Washington leaders. Legal strategy. This is a political strategy. It seems to me its designed not to help the president when it comes to his legal troubles with Robert Mueller. In fact, its likely to make them worse. Its designed to set a different kind of landscape for anything that mr. Mueller finds out to be received, to convince at least his own supporters that nothing it wasnt illegal or anybody does that, and by the way, i didnt know anything about it. These are this is an attempt to set a context where people wont take seriously or at least wont be convinced that if there are serious if theres a serious report from Robert Mueller, which is what we expect, they should take it with a grain of salt. We know from polling that President Trumps core supporters are persuaded by this, that theyre inclined to believe this is a witch hunt. And that hes being treated unfairly. Whatever the findings of the Special
A look at the days latest news and headlines. He was not aggressive or violent. Normal just like us. Martha we have a forensic profiler to shed light on what might have happened here. Dale, thank you for being here. How does someone with no prior escalate so quickly to this kind of behavior . First of all, we dont know what his behavior has been. It just means there has never been an investigation or arrest. Just because someone hasnt been you know this. Someone hasnt been arrested doesnt pine they havent been involved in bad behavior. Obviously from the evidence, it is clear he was stalking her at some point because the car was seen around the home where she was staying. So ultimately, you know, i think the evidence clearly shows he went to try to interact with her. As a young male would. From the behavior this was aggressive behavior. This was not normal flirtation. You are following her in a car. As you point out, that kind of thing would show up on laptops or any kind of Computer E
congress if it is the two-thirds concurrence but there has to be the appetite. maybe if you are someone like kevin mccarthy a bigger margin to lose. where do things stand right now? he think the last point is the critical one. the margin of control is so tight that district george santos represents is a democrat leaning district. if there were a special election republicans couldn t count on holding on to it. if you are kevin mccarthy or most of the republican conference are you willing to reduce your margin for error by 20% in order to get rid of this guy? the answer at some point might be yes but it is not there yet. if he ends up being a seriously prosecuted in brazil, if the financial improprieties we seem to see hints of in his campaign finance here become real criminal cases, then maybe we eventually get there. but right now where you sort of have this embarrassing, unsightly, dishonest character in your conference it is not the first time in history that
country. john berman joins me to take a look at the race that could seal the deal or not. you decide. any one of them could seal the deal. as you said there are 11 uncalled races. they re ahead in four. let s look at a couple of them in california. california s 3rd congressional district, this is a up are of had leaning district. also in california, incumbent mike garcia, he s 13,000 votes ahead with 72% reporting, a win in either of these races where they are counting right now would give republicans control. i just want to show you what happens if things end where they are right now. everyone ahead right now wins. republicans security 221 seats, democrats would have 214, where does that rank in terms of the closeness? it s pretty close. this past congress, democrats had 222, republicans 213.
you can see republicans lead in six, they only need three. democrats lead in ten, but they need to win 14. it s easy to see where the republicans could get those three seats they need. in california, where a lot of these seats are, you think the blue state of california, the republicans could cross that threshold with just california races. you have california s third congressional district. this is a republican leaning district. r plus one and the republican there is ahead by 9,000 votes. if you go down to california s 41st, the long-time incumbent holds a 5,000-vote lead. this is a republican leaning district. just win those two and they re right on the cusp. there are seats, california s