Know, he could have started doing that really weeks and weeks ago when he was so far ahead and declared himself the presumptive nominee but hes made no real effort to court the supporters of other campaigns. Its a mystery. You know ted cruz very well, obviously. At the very end of the campaign, ted cruz put it all out there, just very, very direct and impersonal comments castigating donald trump. What would it take, what would donald trump have to do to get ted cruz to turn around and say, i support him for president . I think hed have to show contrition but i dont think hes capable of. Remember, steve, i think ted cruz was fully aware he was going to drop out while he was giving that press conference. He had his entire staff there, they knew what the polls were, barring some miracle that night, he was going to lose. He knew that. He knew that i think he would have known he would have dropped out. He seemed to have shut the door pretty closed tight on the idea of supporting trump. But
Intel committee wants to know and wants all of us to know. So far only two states have come forward. And later, american Otto Warmbier died due to his treatment in a north korean prison. What should the u. S. Do to retaliate . Its a total disgrace what happened to otto. That should never, ever be allowed to happen. This is mtp daily, and it starts right now. Well, good evening, im chuck todd in washington. Voters are headed to the polls right now in the highly anticipated expensive special election. The victorious canned dit will become part of the u. S. House of representatives. The other party will receive a loud wake up call and the issue of healthcare will be shaken up regardless of who comes out on top. Democrats will see their best chance of a special election win slip through their fingers probably for an entire calender year. And that was before he was officially under investigation. Democratic donors will likely be limited and wasting effort, and could exasperate the ongoing i
Where the former chief of staff to the Top Republican of the senate, Mitch Mcconnell, his former chief of staff is issuing threats to President Trump that if he doesnt back off to do what hes doing to attack other republicans, he may find himself facing impeachment in the senate sooner rather than later. Unnamed republican sources are making serious allegations to the New York Times tonight that beyond the allegations already being investigated, that the president may have pressured the fbi to drop its russian investigation, beyond its existing investigation into whether or not the president obstructed justice when he fired the fbi director to try to stop the russia investigation, unnamed republican sources are telling the New York Times tonight that the president may also have tried to block the investigation into the russia matt are thats being conducted in the United States senate by the investigating committees in the United States senate. In fact, these allegations tonight from th
Could go home and say listen, ill meet with the president , his door is open to me, i have met with him, i have talked to him. For me when i need to get things done for my state, it sends a very powerful message to democrats. Jon you had an interesting item in the playbook this morning that say democrats may be too giddy about the prospects and the 2018 elections and 2020, that despite the president s unpopularity ratings, it doesnt seem particularly good for democrats as well. Democrats have not been able to knock trump down a notch with a thought they would be able to do. His disapproval ratings are low, but he has democrats have not been able to knock him off his perch with the voters that matter. More immediately if you look at 2018, democrats are getting what they want and thats important here on capitol hill and ive talked to a lot of republicans have said to me in the last week, why are we handing the keys over to democrats . We waited a decade to get majorities in the white hou
Michigan school of public policy, former democrat tick columnist harold ford jr. And chris tip anderson, columnistened new poll numbers on the president we will get to and paul ryan as you know still seems to be like staying right in a very, very clear lane away from criticizing the president. Frame the morning for us. Well, you know, first of all, you talked about the sweet smell of tax cuts. We had bob corker on several kwooex weeks ago, even before his feud with President Trump. He was talking about how this was going to make trying to Pass Health Care look like a spring picnic and bob corke will be on today, hes sounding the alarm on the hymn. He wants tax cuts to pass. But at the same time he knows they will try to close 4,000 of loopholes, lots of luck. We will be talking to bob corker there. Mika, i think barnacle and willie would both agree, the most important story out there was an incredible world series, mark barnical, it was a homerun derby. It was like a midsummers treat a