so much can happen between now and gearing up to 2020. jonathan, you touched on the polls here. there are those conducted in march. he s behind former vice president joe biden in a number of key states. we have them listed there, pennsylvania, wisconsin, florida and trump leading by in texas. what s the take away from these early polls. at this point is this the democrats race to lose. keep looking back at 2016 i wouldn t go that far, frances. i think that number one, we re very early in this race. number two, as i was saying a moment ago, the model for a trump victory is very different than what you would have seen in the past from a candidate. a model for a trump victory involves finding people who didn t vote last time. if they re able toe do that, we re not going to see it in polls we re looking at in polls in march, april, may, june, july, august. they are modeled on what the
one graphic we ll show you, we talked about the advantages the president has. no greater advantage than this one. $109 million the president raised since taking office, dwarfing what his two predecessors made. 11 million for obama, 2.4 million for george h.w. bush. that s something putting him on a firm footing as he kicks off his campaign in orlando on tuesday. mike viqueira for us. thanks for starting us off. david leventhal and jonathan allen, national political reporter with nbc news. good morning to both of you as we jump right into this. john, here we are on a sunday ending an exhaustive week of news with the president. how does this fit in the first term of donald trump as he prepares to announce his 2020 run on tuesday? frances, i think it s hard to distinguish a busy newsweek
was in port in oman when the tankers were attacked. reporter: so as we said, the tanker courageous was in port over the weekend in uae. the other tanker held up by iranian boats, toeing it back from towing it back into port. we learned that the tugs were able to link up with it to begin the tow process back into port, but in the process of both while they were waiting to get access to the tanker, the damaged tanker, u.s. officials say that iranian military were able to get on the tanker, which begs the question were they able to get access to any of the forensics evidence that might prove who was behind this attack, frances. one of many questions still out there. courtney, thank you. joining me now is a columnist and member of the editorial board at bloomberg.
conversation going to be like? we can just imagine the case. to both of you, jonathan allen, david leventhal, as always, great to have you with me. thanks. massive protests are under way in hong kong, even after the government s decision to suspend controversial legislation that would allow suspected criminals be extradited to mainland china. janice mackey freyr is in hong kong where things appear to be growing. frances, there s no estimate on numbers i ve overheard people say they think there are more people here than for the march last sunday which drew as many as one million people. people say that it s important now to come to the streets to show exactly how badly they want to fight for freedom of expression and autonomy here in hong kong. it comes after the government here decided to suspend deliberations in voting on a
want them to think whatever they think. they do say, i ve seen and i ve read and i ve heard and i did have one brief meeting on it. but people are seeing the same ufos. do i believe it? not particularly. that was mike viqueira. there s more of that wide ranging interview, more of the comments on 2020. what was the president saying? you re right, frances. four years to the day, june 16th after that famous escalator ride descending the escalator in trump tower to announce what really was a long shot candidacy, the race now is going to be officially back on come tuesday. was it ever off? when the president goes down to florida, orlando, florida and officially kicks off his campaign. he will have that campaign rally in florida. the polls at this moment don t look very good for the president, much as they did not look good for him at the outset of the campaign in 2016.