trying to convince those people who were there for the show to like actually show up on the first tuesday after the first monday in november. jonathan, he is working awfully hard toward the midterms. he s got two more rallies on this western swing. and yet i saw him across from you in the oval office. i read the quote saying, i don t own it if it doesn t go well. that s right. first, the trigger to get him to retell the story of the 2016 election night is a day that ends in why. no proding for him to do that. fair point. but certainly, yes. certainly sort of the ultimate trumpian construct here, where he ll embrace the win and want nothing to do with the defeat. it s that branding he did as a businessman, as a celebrity and now as a politician. he is not going to associate himself with this. we asked him, we brought up the example of president obama in 2010 when the democrats were dealt huge defeats in that midterm election. and he owned it. he said, this is in part my
president tried to dissuade us from any notion that he has any kind of financial involvement with saudi arabia in a quote saying for the record i have no financial interest in saudi arabia or russia for that matter. any suggestion that i have is just more fake news of there is plenty. adam schiff, the ranking member on the house intelligence committee says trump says he has no interest in saudi or russia but they have interest in him. don jr. in 2008 russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross section of a lot of our assets. trump in 2015, saudi arabia they buy apartments from me, they spend 40 million, 50 million. what fox research found in 1991 the president sold a yacht to a saudi prince. 2001 he sold, 25th floor to the saudis. june of 2015 he said i love the saudis, enemy trump tower. august of 2015 they buy apartments from me. spend 40 to $50 million as adam schiff said and in 2017 saudi lobbyists spent $270,000 at the trump d.c. hotel. the bottom line is here
remember, this is a district the president won by 20 point. if the republican loses there, it will set off further panic within republicans. it will make congress more unwilling to work with the president on his agenda item, and it will start a flight to the exit for republicans who are trying to save their own seats. and that is not what this white house wants so they have set this up as basically their litmus test. dana: police, politico was reporting on the chairman of the national republican congressional committee. apparently he was worried about it for awhile, this district. quote saying, warning described by two people familiar with the stkug was intended to put the candidate on notice. the national gop would be helping him out substantially, but if saccone didn t start upping his fund-raising game and getting his sluggish campaign in order, he could lose a race that should be a gimme for the party. in some ways rick saccone, in some ways he benefits from
this one word? specifically they re trying to continue they re trying to set the right tone when it comes to north korea. president trump sometimes has very loose lips and sometimes gets in his own way, whether on twitter or in interviews. so in this case he s been out there taking a very forceful approach to north korea. all of a sudden you have a quote saying, i probably have a good relationship with kim jong-un. that flies in the face with what he s been saying recently, so maybe they re trying to walk it back. i think broadly what we ve seen over the past year is an attempt to discredit all news outlets, any news outlet that dares to defy the president. in this case it s the wall street journal and rupert murdoch. but we ve seen this on cnn and other outlets in the past year, all as a strategy to say you can really only trust trump. you can really only trust trump and his aides and what he says on his twitter feed. for the most part, that s an effort that has not worked, but
that s what china is looking at. china doesn t want north koreans rolling across their border. and i think that the place to watch for, whether this turns out well or not, is perhaps less washington and more beijing. a quick question. a serious question for people who have come upon this late. how is it that the only nation to have used nuclear weapons kind of tries to decide who can and cannot have them and certainly tries to pass judgment on it? we became the world s most significant power in the history of civilization. not to be too grand on a friday evening, in august, you could say in july of 45 when the bomb worked. there was a quote saying, i have become death, the destroyer of worlds. to whom much is given, much is