Day 512 of the Trump Administration. It is the top of the gop field in 2016 is behind bars. Bawl manafort is spending his first night in a virginia jail after a federal judge in washington d. C. Revoked jail pref l privileges. His role in the campaign have made him a target for muellers team. He is standing by to join us, summed up the lest. Wow, what a tough sentence for Paul Manafort. What about crooked hillary and all of the others . Have unfair. Manafort a few miles from the white house. It has nothing to do with our campaign. I tell you i feel badly about it. I have known him a long time. We have great people. Paul manafort. He didnt need to do that. He said this is something special. Paul manafort has done an amazing job. Where is paul . Paul manafort. Rudy giuliani had his own thoughts telling the New York Daily News when the whole thing is over things might get cleaned up with some president ial pardons. Giuliani later wait. Listen. He is not going to pardon anybody in this inv
Confident. Turnout for this week. It means skip the good Economic News and channel the president. Caravan is coming. Some cheering them on. Dont be scared beto tells us. Scacaravans coming yet too liberal to care. Who is tough enough to secure our border . We begin the hour with the midterm math and new math in to control the senate. It is advantage republicans heading into these final days but perhaps a sliver of hope. If democrats would have any shot of seizing control of the senate they must win seats now in republican hands. Seats like tennessee, seats like nevada. Seats like arizona. They have to win two or three of those. New polling out here in the western states. Lets start in the state of arizona. First the democratic candidate right now ahead 5147 here. A four point race now. Democrats are ahead. Republican though is a little bit closer although talking to republicans the last 24 hours, they are worried about this one. Democrats still in the hunt they must win if they have an
It out. We are live at the white house. New overnight the special counsels drop in a kind of clue bomb telling a judge he is super busy this week. Is that a sign somebody may see his report soon . And don the diplomat, don jr. , it turns out he doesnt hate saying i told you so. We have our team saying we love all of it. Senior senator firing back in defense of fellow john mccain saying he has had it with the president putting down his friend. The president is going toe to toe with the person he calls the husband from hell as the white house tries to refocus on a state critical to the president s reelection. The Columbus Dispatch is greeting this morning with this head l headline. We are over at the white house also joining us robert costa. Anita and shannon for bloomberg news. I will start with you. Boy, the president has been up and tweeting this morning. Well see him when he heads out maybe taking some questions. We certainly hope so. Youre absolutely right. President trump starting
Involving trump. The Washington Post summing it up with this headline. Trump and his allies are blocking more than 27 different probes in an all out war with congress. The two sides could be headed for more clashes. Democrats are giving the irs and Treasury Department until friday to turn over six years of the president s personal taxes, and theyre considering multiple obstruction charges. The Trump Administration has decided to say a blanket no to any oversite whatsoever, no witnesses, no documents, no nothing. Claiming executive prifl for something they know there is no privilege for over the hundreds of thousands of documents. You cant have an executive privilege when youre not the executive. They know that vast categories are inapplicable to the privilege here, so theyre just stonewalling. Jeremy, another big week, subpoenas, deadlines for the Trump Administration, but will it still be more of the same . It certainly appears that way, fredericka. The battle lines are drawn, and the
Announcement this morning standing right next to his soon to be former boss. I called the president this morning, i told him i thought the right thing was to step aside. Cabinet positions are temporary trust. It would be selfish for me to stay in this position and continue talking about a case thats 12 years old, rather than about the amazing economy we have right now. I submitted my resignation to the president effective seven days from today, earlier this morning. For his part, President Trump wanted everyone watching to know, acostas departure was not his idea. I want to let you know, this was him, not me, because im with him. Hes a tremendous talent. Hes a hispanic pan, he went to harvard, a great student in so many ways i hate what hes saying now. Because were going to miss him. This is a person ive gotten to know. There hasnt been an ounce of controversy at the department of labor until this came up. Hes doing this to the administration, and i think youll agree. I said, you dont