Well be back tomorrow. Sayonara. Coming up, hardball with Chris Matthews. The charge of the trump brigade. Lets play hardball. Good evening. Im Chris Matthews in washington. Donald trumps cavalry is taking to the field against Hillary Clinton. Its boots and saddles with the bugle calling charge. The only question is which direction. Will trump head back to his winning message of standing up for the country, the nationalist and populist excitement that won him all the primaries . Can he focus his attention on Hillary Clinton . Can somebody keep trump, trump . The phenomenal figure who did defeat every rival to win the republican nomination . Tonight, we have as our lead guest, the somebody trump picked himself to do just that. His Brand New Campaign manager, kellyanne conway. Thanks for joining us. Heres the question. You probably have a lot on your mind but the question i have tonight is how do you do it . You have so many weeks between now right to the finish, you got to turn this bab
In syria, were not going to war, have a nice weekend. It was a surprise announcement from the president in the sense nobody knew he was going to make an announcement. When everybody realized what he wasnt going to announce, it was kind of a big deal. And an unexpected one. Well have more on that in a moment. And the Bob Mcdonnell jury is not done yet, but day are done hearing testimony from witnesses. The Bob Mcdonnell jury is now ready to hear closing arguments in that federal corruption trial in richmond, virginia. That means we are on verdict watch very shortly in the Bob Mcdonnell trial. Well have more on that ahead. Also, theres some big news to report tonight on a story that we first brought you here last night. It involves a bribery scandal and a guilty plea and the man who would like to be the next Senate Majority leader, Mitch Mcconnell of kentucky. Federal prosecutors are now reportedly moving on to other new targets in toptier republican politics after securing a key guilty
Is not done yet, but day are done hearing testimony from witnesses. The Bob Mcdonnell jury is now ready to hear closing arguments in that federal corruption trial in richmond, virginia. That means we are on verdict watch very shortly in the Bob Mcdonnell trial. Well have more on that ahead. Also, theres some big news to report tonight on a story that we first brought you here last night. It involves a bribery scandal and a guilty plea and the man who would like to be the next Senate Majority leader, Mitch Mcconnell of kentucky. Federal prosecutors are now reportedly moving on to other new targets in toptier republican politics after securing a key guilty plea in that bribery scandal yesterday. We have an update on that for you. Thats all ahead. But first, in the 2008 elections, a man named nate silver became very, very famous by being very, very correct. Nate silver is a stats guy. He came up through the sports world but had an interest in politics. And in that election, he ended up do
Watch very shortly in the Bob Mcdonnell trial. Well have more on that ahead. Also, theres some big news to report tonight on a story that we first brought you here last night. It involves a bribery scandal and a guilty plea and the man who would like to be the next Senate Majority leader, Mitch Mcconnell of kentucky. Federal prosecutors are now reportedly moving on to other new targets in toptier republican politics after securing a key guilty plea in that bribery scandal yesterday. We have an update on that for you. Thats all ahead. But first, in the 2008 elections, a man named nate silver became very, very famous by being very, very correct. Nate silver is a stats guy. He came up through the sports world but had an interest in politics. And in that election, he ended up doing deep data mining basically on polling, and on other predictors of electoral outcomes, and in 2008 when john mccain was running against barack obama for the white house, nate silver correctly predicted the outcom
Majority. How do you do . Sounds like youre inur strategy meetings. You are exactly right. Thats part of our focus. Im glad you added something to how does he do it and you talked about getting him to be trump again, the person that 50 of the country went for. Its important that he be authentic. I think we see with Hillary Clinton what happens when you try to be something youre not. This guy has to feel comfortable when hes out there on the trail. Its a combination of things. Its taking this campaign away from contentfree conversation into a debate on the issues. We feel the issues benefit us. When he talks about radical islamic terrorism or terrorism on monday, when he talks about middle class tax relief last week, when he takes his debate right into the communities of color on tuesday and challenges Hillary Clinton to show why and how after decades in public service, some of these measurements are not any better for all of us in our inner cities, then why should we have more of that.