You say it as if its a bad thing, hallie jack sson. Msnbc headquarters here in new york. A day after the midterms, still a number of races to decide, enough results for both parties to take a victory lap. President trump will take his this hour, the president scheduled to appear in the eastern room of the white house for a News Conference roughly 30 minutes from now. Today hes already touted himself as the magic man for last nights senate wins. Never mind losing the house, though. President trump also had a message for the Incoming Democratic majority in the house. Investigate me . We investigate you. We also heard from Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell just a few moments ago. The Democrats In The House will have to decide just how much president ial harassment they think is good strategy. Today is more than about democrats and republicans, its about restoring the constitutions checks and balances to the trump
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elsewhere. the fact that you have so much diversity, men and women, and tom as the father of three women has always been an evolved man, but you re seeing that this is ebs te extending to a lot of other people in the country. mr. robinson, looking at the results from last night, democrats takeaways, you ve got guys like andrew gillum in florida, stacey abrams in, beto o rourke who came up short in texas. if they had won outright, clearly the party was being pulled to the left, well, they all lost. what does that mean for the future? they all lost, but they were all clearly stars of the president and i believe of the future of the democratic party. look, the party is in the process of redefining itself and figuring out what it s going to be, and we ll see that evolve as we head towards 2020. you know, when control of the
room right now. we expect others will gather shortly. we have no indication exactly when this will start. i want to punctuate some of the points you were discussing with tom. it s obvious that the mueller investigation is on the president s mind. only an hour ago focussing on one of the statistics that cake out of the exit polls last night. about 46% of americans who were polled said they thought the mueller investigation was in fact, politically motivated, effectively saying more people thought it was politically motivated than thought it was justified at this point. the president realizes that this is an issue that he thinks that relitigation of it, the use of the word witch hunt repeatedly has benefitted him. has changed opinions. this is a guy who casts himself as a master brander on that topic. it s obvious that he thinks that branding of it, of the mueller investigation is a witch hunt is an item that works. i suspect we ll hear that from him again over the course of the news con
you say that he faces the proce prospect of a two-year partisan war with a democrat house, and empowered to block his legislative agenda. are you contending that things are actually about to get uglier there in washington? oh, yeah, i think we ve only been in the preseason up until now. we re about to head into the regular season, and it s going to be a real grind on the field. you ve got for the first time power is not all in one party s hands since trump took office. that means he s going to either have to negotiate or fight. he likes to fight, and the democrats are in a position where they want to fight back, and they ll now have power to do it. that means that you can see a lot of investigations, obviously, subpoena power. we ve talked a lot about that this morning. you know what you haven t seen yet is how the president will play off that. that s one of the strengths he likes to have an adversary. in some ways this gives him an opportunity that he didn t have when he had to figh
this president and the possibility that there was collusion between the president, which he absolutely denies and the campaign and other transactions that were also illegal and certainly unethical. that investigation has not yet come to a close. i don t know how it s going to turn out, but i think it will have an enormous impact one way or the other, so we can talk all we want about how this is going to play out in the next couple of months, but until we hear from mr. mueller, we can t make an accurate judgment. if there s no indictment, if there s no conviction, tom, do you think that even findings by the special counsel, which would indicate that president trump did, in fact, collude or there was obstruction but there already have been. i mean, michael flynn, look at paul manafort, michael flynn, people very close to him, gates, this already has been michael cohen, people all around him in