sorry, not sorry. and second, i would say the days of meddling in american elections are over and we will take any undermining of our democratic processes as an act of hostility and aggression. all right. 36 past the hour. joining us now, former u.s. senator and now an nbc news and msnbc analysts claire mccaskill. how do you like these hours? i feel like i m on a campaign, no sleep. exactly. and white house reporter for the washington post and msnbc contributor ashley parker who comoderated last night s democratic debate. i will not congratulate you for four women on the stage because that shouldn t be news. ashley, what are your big takeaways from the debate performances last night? a couple takeaways. one was i was sort of surprised that there was no major moment of the candidates really going after each other because in the days and weeks leading up to the
farms were trying to immediate until our elections shouldn t be news. but the indictment is a good reminder that that was happening. i think we have to be careful. the mueller investigation isn t going to prove or disprove anything about whether or not tucker: i guess, here s my perspective. i m not surprised the russians, they ve been doing this for 100 years. but where i sit in d.c., you have the mexican government that has massive influence in our immigration policy, the suddenie government that has massive influence on our foreign policy pushing us to war in syria and lebanon and it s working. nobody says anything, anything about it. and yet we re mad about russian facebook accounts. insang to me, anyway. it s insane. obviously the impetus behind the special counsel, the impetus behind this whole investigation was partisan from the get-go. that what is we find out with the congressional probe of the fisa warnlts and the authorizations that warnlts and the authorizations the
until our elections shouldn t be news. but the indictment is a good reminder that that was happening. i think we have to be careful. the mueller investigation isn t going to prove or disprove anything about whether or not tucker: i guess, here s my perspective. i m not surprised the russians, they ve been doing this for 100 years. but where i sit in d.c., you have the mexican government that has massive influence in our immigration policy, the suddenie government that has massive influence on our foreign policy pushing us to war in syria and lebanon and it s working. nobody says anything, anything about it. and yet we re mad about russian facebook accounts. insang to me, anyway. it s insane. obviously the impetus behind the special counsel, the impetus behind this whole investigation was partisan from the get-go. that what is we find out with the congressional probe of the fisa warnlts and the authorizations that warnlts and the authorizations they got to spy on carter paige.
change minds of those people who have been offended by the way he s governed. so it s going to take a lot, even if he s no extremely successful with this piece i do hope he recognizes what america looks like. the fact that the leadership in houston is multiracial, coming to the aids of americans, that volunteers are saying i m going to rescue you, regardless of who you are or what you may believe in. hopefully that s his take-away when he walks out i have to say, it is amazing. i feel like we re almost putting so much pressure on the folks in houston, because we re all going, isn t this great, people are working together. oh, my god, look, one person from this ethnic group helped this person. and that shouldn t be news. we are putting this pressure that houston is going to somehow bring us all together. nonetheless, it s been impressive. it has been remarkably impressive. and a reminder of what we can be. anyway. stick around, we re going to continue to monitor the
effectiveness in the red states, talking to jan brewer, former governor, asking about the idea that the clinton campaign is testing and driving up hispanic voters. jan brewer said, no. they don t vote. so talk about bulletin board material. used by democrats in fund-raising appeals and things like that. but look for the hispanic vote and whether that can change in arizona. watch that especially in early voting. pick a state, close with this, any state almost and republican dysfunction is easy to find. bad news, but even more so, early voting is more and more important in elections. big news in ohio, for example, the state republican party is voting republican for president. huh? yes. a given all the state party feuding with trump and his campaign, chairman matt borges fell compelled to vote a straight republican ticket. shouldn t be news, but it is. this this morning from a friend from dallas.