message which is won t be too difficult to do compared to trump because he s always so negative. just be positive and bring this country together again. thank you very much. i should tell you, talking with some other people, immigration, health care, education, foreign policy, all issues people here inr are saying they hope the president will touch on tonight. if you care about income inequality, you ve got to care about education. i want to get my panel in. it is an excellent one. msnbc contributor and washington post opinion writer jonathan kaypart. democratic congresswoman mikey sheryl from my home state of new jersey. and msnbc con trub biter, former director of strategic communications, of hillary for america, adrian aron. and a.b. stoddard. you leave us and get on a train to d.c. for tonight s state of the union. what do you expect? what do you want to hear? i really want to hear a
to stand up for thing, and when the president is off of the rail for trade, we should call him out. and talking about point stars for president and not tax policy and what we need to get done by the end of the year or what should have been in the omnibus. the enemy of the people is how the president of the united states called the free press in 2017. mr. president, it is the testament to the condition of our democracy that our own president uses words infamously spoken by joseph stalin to describe his enemies. joining me now are adrian elrod who was director of communications of hillary for america, and bob, a former congressman of south carolina and director of for republican.org. does this criticism help republicans who want to distance themselves from the president? i don t think that it may help us with our folks at a home basically to rethink what it is to be a republican. you know, we have gotten sort of sucked up into the populous
forthcoming? i have missed every one of you every day but i did something wrong and god s punishing me now. and that s just in the last two days. and then the new reporting, the senate intelligence committee stating that republicans on the house intelligence committee secretly leaked private text messages that were from a lawyer and a senator on that investigative committee, mark warner. nbc news says that warner and his counterpart richard burr took the unusual step of confronting speaker ryan about all this. and the conservative publication red state says the man behind it all devin nunez should step down or be forced out. we have the former director of communications of hillary for america, bill, it s been a messy two days. what does it mean? it s been such chaos, you can t tell what s serious, and what s trivial, who cares in a
down. in fact, the nominee left his trump tower fortress for a few minutes saturday to glad hand supporters gathered outside the building, but as elected republican supporters continue to defect, trump still has a debate to prepare for tonight. trump will square off against hillary clinton here in st. louis at 9:00 p.m. tonight. that creepy conversation on the bus with billy bush will surely come up, and trump will undoubtedly also have to address the fact that so many in his party are fleeing from him. let s bring in msnbc contributor e.j. dionne and a supporter of hillary for america and hugh hewitt. i m coming right to you, my friend. you are among the republicans who have defected from donald trump s support base. is there anything that he could say tonight during this debate that would change your mind? no. i believe he should leave the race for the benefit of the country, the party, his family and himself. tom cotton, the senator whose clip you opened with, is perhaps
the private sector. she said she worked in her personal capacity to help prepare for her transition from public service. no stranger to controversy. our marriage, like many others, has had its ups and downs. it took a lot of work. and a whole lot of therapy to get to a place where i could forgive anthony. in this campaign she is no longer in the shadows but in her own challenges, too as vice chairwoman of hillary for america. the question of her e-mails are what the clinton campaign believes is a pure partisan witch hunt but in a federal courtroom on thursday afternoon, the judge expects all documents from abedin to be turned over by next week though state department. part of another sign she is at the center of another clinton controversy. jeff zeleny, cnn, washington. speaking of controversy, u.s. reality tv star josh duggar is calling himself a hypocrite,