At morning, and welcome to the Sunday Edition of Morning Joe Weekend. It was another fastmoving newsweek, and here are some of the conversations you might have missed. I have, for 6 months since people have been freaking out, i am telling you every time, talk to anybody whos running the campaign, the big part of the campaign. I dont know what they are telling you, what they are telling other people. They act ing like people are holding four aces. How about this . Thats pretty bad. Oh, yeah. Looks really tough. Yeah. Is as a criticism . No, im telling you. They know something that i think a lot of us dont know. They look at numbers, they see where things are going, they have a theory of the case, and when they realize donald trump is going to be getting into the race, they understand that you win politics by raising money. They understand Donald Trumps numbers are way down in every way, and fundraising, and they say, no, they are not. And as far as organization goes, we all know anybody
Too. I have to say this is a big night. Let me start right here. This is who is going to be our guest tonight, and this is from page 184 of the book. On the evening of december 18, mark meadows, my because, Chief Of Staff, returned from a meeting of the oval office and abruptly asked if i wanted the detail i could go home. His detail quickly prepared the limo and left campus without explanation. Shortly after marks departure i walked down with molly to get a sense of the president s evening plans. Usually if the president went home i would stay at my desk but since mark had left early with such confidence i thought perhaps the president was wrapping up for the evening and i would get to go home early, too. When i walked into the outer oval i saw the president was meeting with general mike flynn, the former National Security advisor who had pled guilty to lying to the fbi about his involvement with russian officials, cutting a Cooperation Deal in special counsel Robert Muellers inquiry
Friction, all are welcome at the maddow home whenever you need to be. Thank you my friend. Thank you. Ill kick off my shoes and watch your interview. Have a great show. Thank you so much. I am a little nervous tonight, too. This is a big night. Let me start right in. This is who is going to be our guest. On the evening of December 18th Mark Meadows my boss chief of stf returned from a meeting in the oval office and abruptly asked if i could tell his detail he wanted to go home as if there was an emergency there. His detail quickly prepared his limo and he left campus without further explanation. Shortly after marks departure i walked down to visit with molly andet a sense of the president s evening plans. Usually if mark went home before the president went to the residence i would stay at my desk in case the president needed anything from mark or me. But since mark had left early with such confidence, i thought perhaps the president was wrapping up the evening and i would get to go hom
Known. This election marks the Largest Senate gains for a president s party in a first Midterm Election since at least president kennedys in 1962. There have been only four Midterm Elections since 1934 in which a president s party has gained even a single senate seat. As of now we picked up, it looks like, three, could be four, perhaps it could be two. But we picked up a lot. And most likely the number will be three. You people probably know that better than i do at this point because youve looked at the more recent numbers. 55 is the largest number of republican senators in the last 100 years. In the last 80 years a sitting president s party has only gained a cumulative total of
eight senate seats, averaging one per decade. So if we picked up two, three or four, thats a big percentage of that number, so in the lastle last 80 years you think of that. In president s Midterm Election he lost six senate seats including in the deep blue state of massachusetts. Republicans captured at least
Says, you can go to work. Its important to remember that the facts are clear. No president has ever, ever obstruct the congress in the manner that we have seen from President Trump. Will the Gentleman Yield . In a moment. Its always important to make sure that the facts are clear and that we dont muddy the waters by suggesting something that is so unprecedented that we have never before in the history of our country, just somehow part and parcel of the way things work around here. They dont. We know it and our Friends On The Other Side of the aisle know it. The American People know it, but mr. Johnson is right, sometimes its important to remind them of that. Will the Gentleman Yield for questions . I just wanted a postscript to underscore the very important
point that mr. Deutsch is making here. Article one of the constitution, that gives representatives the sole power of impeachment. That gives the senate the sole power of trial. United states versus nixon, the Supreme Court emphasize