as we saw in 2016 with the republican primary, if you have this endless primary where everybody attacks each other, people like dthd trump will walk into the office at a time where there needs to be unison, cohesion, some kind of unity and uniting the democratic party. putting forward someone whose message is completely the opposite of the base of the party right now and with the warren and sanders waning, demotivating your base is not the way to beat donald trump. part of that here, i was looking at the numbers from some of the swing states that are also in the new york times poll, you look at north carolina, michigan, florida, wisconsin. you know, joe biden is doing quite well still. the thing is, as kurt was alluding to, it s been up and down as opposed to up or just maintaining up. sure. this is going to get more and more competitive. this race will be decided by probably within five points in those swing states. there s not a democratic candidate that s going to rahn way wit
materials. the judge said his own officials had already publicized o much of that stuff to then claim it was a secret. and that was the case where the obama officials had disclosed materials in, we could say, a measured way, a contrast to the loud, even chaotic presentation by president trump about his dealings with jim comey. president trump himself blabbing about it on twitter, talking it up in tv interviews, even allegedly to the russians in the oval office. that s according to sources in trump s own administration who spoke to the new york times. so, joining us now to give us a deeper tutorial is barbara mcweighm mcwade, former u.s. attorney. thanks for being here. glad to be here. how much does dthd trump s style of public rhetoric affect his potential claims to executive privilege regarding jim comey? well, he may have doomed any claim of executive privilege on this matter with his public comments. you can t assert privilege if you ve already talked about it in the must b
john mccain used the comments time and time again against then-senator obama as well. we ll get more of senator mccain s thoughts when he joins the conversation on morning joe coming up. in an interview with cbs news, president trump suggested he still stands by his widely refuted claims that president obama illegally wiretapped him during the 2016 campaign but the interview came to an abrupt end when john dickerson pressed him on his claims. did president obama give you any advice that was helpful that he was very nice to me but after that we ve had some difficulties so it doesn t matter. words are less important to me than deeds. you saw what happened with surveillance. he was very nice to me with words and when he was with him but after that there s been no relationship. you stand by that claim sdwli don t stand by anything. you can take it the way you want. i think our side has been proven very strongly and everybody is talking about it. you re the president of th
over the weekend the president tried to apply pressure while in pennsylvania. i ll be so angry at congressman kelly and congressman moreno and all of our congressmen in this room if we don t get that damn thing passed quickly. they ll get it done. meanwhile a vote could come as early as tomorrow on a budget. in an interview president trump made a bizarre statement about the american civil war and the nation s seventh president, andrew jackson. take a listen. had andrew jackson been a little later, you wouldn t have had the sifl war. he was he was a very tough person but he had a big heart. and he was he was really angry that he saw what was happening with regard to the civil war. he said, there s no reason for this. people don t ask that question, but why was there the civil war? why could that one not have been
said journalists are do the presidents know about those comments and his record when he extended the invitation for him to visit the white house? the president gets fully briefed on the leaders he s speaking to, but the number one concern of this president is to make sure we do everything we can to protect our people. i m not going to tell you every single thing in his brief but he s well aware when he speaks with a leader, he gets briefed on a lot about their what they re doing, what they ve done. that s all part of the brief. now, republican senators john mccain and lindsey graham are speaking out over president trump s invitation to president duterte and his invitation to meet with kim jong-un. i would caution about that simply because you re in power, anybody you meet with, if he can find a way to stop north korea from developing an icbm with a nuclear weapon on top to hit