David Gura hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Conflicting information from weekend to weekend about what the president may or may not do, david. Geoff, thank you very much. Appreciate it as always. Geoff bennett joining us from the white house. I want to turn to my panel. Joyce, let me start with you. Bearing in mind, youre not an expert on election law, but i want to stick with one point that geoff just raised there about the dangers, the legal dangers of taking a meeting with representatives of a foreign country to offer dirt here on an opposing candidate in a u. S. Election. Help us understand the legal consequences of that. Theres a very specific statute that prohibits this kind of conduct. It makes it illegal to accept or to solicit a donation or a contribution related to a u. S. Election from either a foreign citizen or a foreign government. So on its face, that prohibition would seem to apply pretty clearly. If, for instance, while run
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we have to elect troy. well, president donald trump at a rally on saturday for troy balderson, republican candidate in that special election in ohio s 12th district tonight. the race as we ve been telling you, we are currently saying too close to call. balderson leading democrat danny o connor by less than a percentage point. voters will not learn the final vote till all the absentee and provisional votes are counted. maybe the reason we have such suspense, maybe there s a recount as mandate bid state law. the president has already declared victory. earlier tonight he tweeted when i decided to go to ohio for troy badder son, he was down 64-36. that was not good. after my speech on saturday night, there was a big turn for the better. he wins a great victory during a tough type of the year for voting. he will win big in november followed by another tweeting congratulations to troy badder son on a great win in ohio.
we must elect more republicans and we must elect troy balderson. we have to elect troy. well, president donald trump at a rally on saturday for troy badderson, republican candidate in that special election in ohio s 12th district tonight. the race as we ve been telling you, we are currently saying too close to call. balderson leading democrat danny o connor by less than a percentage point. voters will not learn the final vote till all the absentee and provisional votes are kouned. maybe the reason we have such suspense, maybe there s a recount as mandate bid state law. the president has already declared victory. earlier tonight he tweeted when i decided to go to ohio for troy badder son, he was down 64-36. that was not good. after my speech on saturday night, there was a big turn for the better. he wins a great victory during a tough type of the year for
case other allies argue there is no need to worry. what has them riled up is feeling cornered and it s not clear to me that they re necessarily cornered as much as there s a fact finding expedition. reporter: the president turned the attention to special elections across the country from kansas where a fellow hard liner on immigration is running for governor to ohio where the gop candidate appears vulnerable in a district mr. trump won himself by 11 points. we must elect more republicans and we must elect troy balderson. we have to elect troy. so get your friends. get your neighbors. get your family. and get out and vote for troy on tuesday. reporter: democrats smell an upset so former vice president biden has entered the fray with a last-nunt robo call. electing danny to congress puts up one step closer to taking back the house and making sure we have leaders in washington to fight for our