Leans and giant caravans, you better vote republican. Inside politics, the biggest stories sourced by the best reporters, now. Welcome to inside politics. Im john king. To our viewers in the United States and around the world, thank for sharing this important sunday. Two days, now, until America Votes and gives President Trump a midterm report card. His late push focuses on key senate races. His tweets and rally speeches, full of racially tinged attacks and appeals. Its no surprise that joe donnelly is holding a rally this weekend with barack obama. Barack obama. Caravan after caravan is forming unvetted illegal aliens trying to flood into our country, on your dollar, overwhelming your schools, depleting your resources, and endangering your community. Democrats are confident of retaking the house, but the senate map, much more difficult. When we win, and we will win. And again, i say to some of the commentators who are maybe not on the ground or listening to the ground, we will win. An
New yorker, quote, this alleged event from 35 years ago did not happen. The people who knew me then know that this do not happen and have said so, this is a smear, plain and simple. I look forward to testifying thursday about the truth and defending my good name. The white house issued a statement in response to the allegations in the new yorker. They say quote this 35yearold uncorroborated claim is the latest in a coordinated Smear Campaign by the democrats designed to tear down a good man. With me to discuss this, Princeton University professor and msnbc contributor, eddie glaude junior and msnbc contributor Betsy Woodruff and we have politics editor at the daily beast and contributor sam stein. The former chief Nominations Council to the u. S. Senate committee on the judiciary, greg nunziata, capitol Hill Reporter leanne caldwell. National Political Correspondent Steve Kornacki is in new york and Kristen Welker joins me by phone. We have an allstar team here, all hands on deck as we
Running to serve you as the next president of the United States of america. Hes got money. Hes got crowds, but will early buzz translate at the ballot box . Inside politics, the biggest stories sourced by the best reporters now. Welcome to inside politics, im Phil Mattingly in this morning for john king. To our viewers in the United States and around the world, thank you for sharing your sunday. Pr President Trump celebrates the end of the Mueller Probe. He claims it clears him and the entire investigation was a fraud. This was nothing more than a sinister effort to undermine our historic election victory and to sabotage the will of the american people. They did it all because they refuse to accept the results of what the greatest president ial elections, probably number one, in our history. Plus a president ial pivot. To health care . Republicans wondering why the white house is picking another fight on an issue many see as unwinnable and helped them lose control of the u. S. House. I
I also asked him about the moment the world is waiting for, the Mueller Report being released any day now. How concerned are you that there will be information in this report that will be politically damaging . Were not concerned at all. Not at all . Not in the least. I mean, Robert Mueller engaged in a detailed review of all of the facts. He concluded that there was no collusion, and it wasnt his job to exonerate any particular point of view, but reviewing all of the evidence that he assembled, the attorney general and the Deputy Attorney general determined that there was no obstruction of justice. If you feel that confident about it, then should the American People see all of the evidence that went along with this report for full transparents toba transparency to back up what they said. The American People are always entitled to have the facts but in this case its important that we protect grand jury confidentiality. We begin this hour with the president who has long railed against s
that, little me, right now is to vote against what he stands for or who s standing behind him. with me this preelection sunday to share their reporting their insights, maeve reston, mike sher of the new york city, mike zeleny, and sun ming kim of the washington post. a midterm election primer in the hydro, beginning with the plman who has the most at mistake. president trump has energet energetically embraced the obvious. this midterm vote is overall a referendum on him. the trump brand is strength and swagger, but in this final weekend, he acknowledges a giant weakness. his party is on the verge of losing its grip on the house, meaning democrats could soon not only have the power to block the trump legislative agenda, but also the power for aggressive oversight and investigations. it could happen. could happen. we re doing very well. and we re doing really well in the senate. but could happen.