Donald trump nationwide 14 points behind Hillary Clinton. 14 points behind . Now, that is not the only poll in the world, right . Theres another National Poll out also tonight from fox news that says hes only 3 points behind Hillary Clinton. Well be talking later on in the show with an expert about how to read the various polls right now. How to know whats right, especially when youve got results like these that are so disparate. In either case 13 points behind or 3 points behind, he is still behind. The headwinds seem very clear right now. Tonight at fivethirtyeight. Com theyre reading those headwinds for the president ial race and looking at the senate polls. Fivethirtyeight is giving the Republican Party a 68 chance of losing control of the United States senate this year. So that is just one of the problems that it appears the donald trump candidacy has created for the Republican Party. Heres another new one that i think nobodys been talking about thus far at the National Level but
Television can only make it clear that feelings are mentionable and manageable, we will have done a Great Service for mental health. Welcome to the am joy. Pbs has been on the republican chopping block for a long time. As recently as 2012, they wanted to shrink pbs funds. Candidate mitt romney said he wouldnt borrow money from china to pay for big bird. He said say he likes big bird a lot. In 1969 when they wanted to strip the service of federal funds, it was the eternal neighbor mr. Roger who is came to the rescue about the many, many Public Benefits that programs like his offer. He recited one of his shows songs. It is as relevant as it was then. Trump released his outline that proposes cuts to several departments and programs. One pitch was removing all federal funds from the corporation for public broadcasting that supports pbs and npr. For the Community Development brands that funds meals on wheels that feeds Senior Citizens including 500,000 military veterans each year. Later on
Thats right. Thats right. Well, i fully anticipate handing the gavel over to the next speaker of the house. And does the ryan departure signal that the blue wave is getting bigger . This is mtp daily, and it starts right now. Good evening. Good friday the 13th evening. Welcome to mtp daily im chuck todd here in washington where we are nearing the close of an extraordinary week even by trumpian standards, one that began with the fbi raiding the offices of President Trumps longtime personal lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen. And it ended with former fbi director james comey questioning the president s fitness for office. The president was already fighting a multifront war over the special counsels investigation. Fighting against resident mueller, against Deputy Attorney general Rob Rosenstein who is you no telling confidants he is prepared to be fired and against the d. O. J. Itself which raided his lawyers home and office and which now says his lawyer is under a separate criminal investig
Of summer, kind of a rough time for him. The House Judiciary Committee was holding impeachment hearings into the president s conduct in the watergate scandal. It was widely expected that the committee would approve articles of impeachment and send them to the full house. And by the end of that month, they would do just that. The white house was anxiously awaiting a ruling from the Supreme Court on whether it would have to hand over tapes of Richard Nixons secretly recorded conversations to the were you a were you a gait special prosecutor, leon jaworski. That would also come down at the end of july. For all those reasons in midjuly, 1974, Richard Nixon was less than a month away from resigning the presidency. Though of course no one at the time knew that. Even though all this was going on or more likely because all of this was going on, president nixon went on vacation. He boarded his specially branded air force one, the spirit of 76 and headed to california to leave the swamps of wash
New year, the field of democrats looking to defeat President Trump risks being shaken up. Starting with senator Bernie Sanders, who right now is lapping the democratic field in fundraising. Bringing in 34. 5 million. You see it right there in the final quarter of 2019. Thats nearly 10 million more than Pete Buttigieg. And nearly 12 million more than frontrunner joe biden. But those numbers pail in comparison to the 46 million donald trump raised. And that does not include money raised by the rnc. It was the president s best fundraising quarter yet. And his Campaign Manager credits impeachment with helping his reelection bid. Claiming its made the campaign bigger and stronger. A notion that, frankly, has worried democrats since the start of the impeachment inquiry in september. Meanwhile, another potential anxiety is facing democrats as their field just got narrower and less diverse. With former hud secretary julian castro. The only hispanic candidate in the race, announcing he is dropp