impeachment proceeding and he is a political plus in some states. it will be interesting to see whether he s a political minus in states like virginia. well, michael, there would be an easy way to test this. to me democrats winning kentucky would be this is a coin flip race the whole time. i think they should win it. they should win kentucky. impeachment is the only reason they may not. right. but if the democrats won mississippi and kentucky tonight, then our conversation tomorrow flips from to oh, my god, the republicans can t even win races in mississippi. yeah. and by the way we always overcompensate, by the way. we re probably talking about it is a small slice of probably about 20,000 voters, 20,000 votes that will be the difference between impeachment is a plus and impeachment is a disaster. and what drives that, talking about that small margin, is because this is an off-year election, it really speaks to the whole point you raised about nationalizing th
of the union, if ends the shutdown and not keep 800,000 people hostage. ironically, mitch mcconnell said he would only put something on the floor if senate democrats and the president agreed. about to put this on the floor and it s clear the democrats don t agree. this has been a very interesting day. i m in for my friend kasie tonight but we re also in a pretty nice studio. this is the home on sundays to meet the press. the studio we usually host kasie dc in suffered a serious fire last night so they ve been kind enough to host us here tonight. we re not the only ones affected by this. chris wallace of fox news sunday had to relocate his show too as a result of that today. we should quickly say thank you to the washington fire dept, building staff, technical staff for all of their hard work. this was not the kind of day expected here at nbc. we re grateful nobody was hurt, minus the studio. when we continue, the president actually praises the special counsel as the office
trustworthy prosecutor. if that report is not accurate, not correcting it would have hurt him, hurt mueller i think. so they did the right thing, and it s good the president acknowledged that. and corinnareen, isn t there lesson for democrats. we heard from congressman castro and gillibrand, even after the fact, we have to get to the bottom of this, is there a risk for democrats to celebrate things so far in advance before actually knowing what the heck things s thi things are? let me say this, it doesn t surprise me democrats jumped on this. the past two years when republicans had control of congress, they didn t really put forth a legitimate oversight on this president. what we had to really look towards was the media, who did incredible, excellent reporting on what was going on. and that s where we were learning all of our information. now that s changed a bit because congress well, we have the majority in the house, so now things have changed.
want them to change, my question is not what mitch mcconnell does but what democrat doss now. do they propose a counteroffer of any legislation? a longer term daca fix. engage on immigration? actually engage or is the actual instinct to say you know what? we re not going any talking what so ever until you reopen the government. from what i hear, not doing anything until the president reopens the government. they look at this offer he made and say to themselves you ended daca protections, you ended tps protections and your conception to us is to undo some of the damage you created. that s not really a concession. why don t we open the government first? mitch mcconnell will bring a bill up when he wants to bring a bill up as this proves. maybe they can put enough pressure on him to bring a bill to reopen the government. got bring over democrats and keep all republicans together.
president, then candidate, to lie to them about what he was doing. more morale, a lot of questions, few answers. waiting impatiently for robert mueller s report to it be completed and questions after william barr s testimony, the likely new attorney general whether we ll actually see that full report. but is it sort of the risk for democrats that they focus so heavily on impeachment? is that the message from americans in the midterms? what s the message to democratic lawmakers? what americans want is for them to hold the executive branch accountable. whether impeachment and i hear from people whether they want impeachment or not that they want congress to conduct its own independent investigation and important is this buzzfeed story opens up a potential line of inquiry for michael cohen when he testifies before congress. and there may be an opportunity to probe this prior to the release of the mueller report. i might add, summernation of