The 11th moThe 11th Hour gets on a monday night. Good evening from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 557 of the Trump Administration, 99 days now until the mid term elections. And this might go down as the day we witnessed a change resulting in the new defense strategy. On the part of the trump team. Its about something Rudolph Giuliani has started to say, and tonight, mark at the New York Times has put it this way. In the days after the 2016 president ial election, Donald Trumps advisers had an unequivocal message about contacts between russians and members of the campaign team. There were none. In the ensuing months as numerous such communications were revealed the message changed. There was no collusion with russias effort to disrupt the election. On monday President Trumps
Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Which was four of the six. That meeting never ever took place. It didnt happen. Its a figment of his imagin
but mia love gave me no love and she lost. too bad. he mentions a couple more. barbara comstock of northern virginia, peter rascomb, he publicly shames them and as you said earlier, dancing on their graves. it s ridiculous. and you lost the house, you should be sad. and too bad about congressman mike kofman, who has been a republican congressman, he s probably the only kind of republican who could have that seat. you re not going to elect a trump republican in the suburbs of denver. it s going to be either a moderate republican or what they have no, a democrat. and listen about mia love. they haven t called that race yet. she hasn t officially lost. she might ultimately end up winning that seat. so the idea that he s dancing on
seen given how much money they have at their disposal. which really raises a good question about what is the trump strategy going to be about rousing the base. is it going to be shutting down the government? i don t think so. he said he s willing to go out six days a week if that s what it takes. will there be interest? and what else? is it calling brian williams and jeremy peters and jim warren the enemy? i m not sure if that gets you there and we don t know what other possible event could happen that plays a part in all this. but what is the strategy? for rousing the base. and can it overcome what seems to be a pretty substantial lack of popularity, which is why people like peter rascomb, going for a sixth term, traditionally safe republican district just outside chicago, is running as hard as he can away from the incumbent president. well put. two very smart gentlemen helping out our conversation tonight. our friends jeremy peters and jim warren, thank you both.
see local news. i do the same thing with local television stations. how do you think this kind of thing would play in the great state of illinois, if people learned that this was the kind of shenanigans going on in washington. not well. let me tell you a firm grasp of the obvious. we still have 99 days to go. we re not sure what s going to happen. we journalists tend to find odd constructs, make dubious distinctions when reality is can be pretty obvious it s going to be a matter of how popular the president is and what kind of campaigns are being run. the illinois sixth district is the sort of district that a lot of us think is going to be key, even though a colleague of jeremy s made a case today that there s a different sort of district, namely a more working class, rural district that trump won rather than well enducated districts like the sixth. peter is running against a totally novice democrat, and as
hard as that novice democrat, a former clean air, clean energy executive, is running against trump, peter is running away from trump. and it, to me, is inconceivable in this district of about 125,000 median income 85% white, it is inconceivable that the republicans could win the house, retain the house, and lose this sort of district, which i might add if you hop into your car is a short drive from the district in wisconsin over the border of one paul ryan, speaker of the house. including the town of janesville. hey, jeremy, what s the 60-second version of the headline some people might have seen today involving steve bannon on one side, the koch brothers on the other and the modern day definition of what s becoming president trump s republican party on the other. the koch brothers made the decision that because of trump s positions on trade and the