his source. i should also say that my beloved magazine, the nation, that i worked at for years ran stories dabbling in this. this got to lots of places that were left venues that adopted it, there were conservative venues, all the way up to sean hannity and local news stations. this was everywhere. and we should point out, the trump white house. we have text messages from steve that is all in for this evening. tonight the president tries to distance himself from an old friend, a new york finance year and sex offender. while trump sympathizes with his labor secretary under fire for his handling of the initial case. plus the democrats are papering washington preparing to issue a dozen subpoenas to witnesses in the mueller report including some big names. the president has gone after the brits again labeling the british ambassador to the u.s. a pompous fool and the 2020 race changed again today. all of it as the 11th gets underway on a tuesday night. good evening once agai
through the report and elicit answers that are helpful and illuminating. i worry that the democrats and the republicans are going to try and go far field and mueller simply won t go there with him. cluchuck, don t make any tra plans for the next ten days. thank you for coming on our program again tonight. coming up for us, the man reviled by democrats. the republican who embraces the label of legislative grim reaper gets a challenger back home who says he is everything that s wrong with washington. she wants to start to change in kentucky. the story when we come back.
mcconnell now has a challenger in the red state of kentucky. he s being taken on by a marine, amy mcgrath. she announced today she intends to deny him a 7th term. everything that s wrong in washington had to start someplace. how did it come to this? that even within our own families we can t talk to each
perot left behind before he dropped out. but then he learned the lesson from that. lessons you can t actually beat the system from outside. so he beat it from inside. what donald trump did was rather than trying to create a third party is he kind of took over one of the existing parties, in this case the republicans, and he used that to kind of, you know, overturn the existing order in washington. so yeah, there is a lot of similarities. you point out the protectionism issue, the idea of jobs being sucked to mexico as being one of the most prominent ones. the idea of reform. the idea that washington was broken and needed somebody to come in and be a bull in a china shop. both of them sort of presented themselves in that way. and i think that, you know, it s an interesting argument whether there would be a donald trump if there had not been a ross perot. he was a lot of things. he was a patriot first and foremost. he made a ton of money. he also gave away a ton of money, philanthropis
in the red state of kentucky. he s being taken on by a marine, amy mcgrath. she announced today she intends to deny him a 7th term. everything that s wrong in washington had to start someplace. how did it come to this? that even within our own families we can t talk to each other about the leaders of our country anymore without anger and blame? well, it started with this man who was elected a lifetime ago, and who has bit by bit, year by year, turned washington into something we all despise. back with us tonight to talk about all of it, robert costa, national political reporter for the washington post, and anita kumar, associate editor at politico. good evening to you both. robert, what should we know about this challenge to mitch mcconnell? this challenge is the latest effort by national democrats to