quiet paul ryan? his nationalist push might come at the expense of voters. but it s all calculated. sure. it s very deliberate. he knows what he is doing. and i m convinced internally he said we can t maintain control of the house so this is what we re prepared to do. and by the way, look out if it works with regard to the senate. imagine what that means 2020 will look like, at least through the eyes of the white house. a tripling down. correct. he is not wrong in the basic assumption that if you go negative, you wind up benefitting it from. that s as old as the political game itself. what a great panel. thank you very much. you know, when we come back after the break, we re going to talk about why the governor s races are more important this time than ever before. usually it s an eye roll. i don t think it is this time. 46 governorships are in play. and i think they could be the key to 2020. and we re going to talk about why with somebody who understands the map very w
for nothing. in a high-stakes gambit to the president pushing his immigration agenda from sending thousands of troops to the border to deal with the migrant caravans to possibly finding a way to end birthright citizenship, is that going to be a plus or minus? will ask texas senator republican ted cruz, he s here at a fox news @ night exclusive. here s a chief national correspondent ed henry, with the latest on immigration. critics are saying these are all about the president trying to rally his base in the midterms but he promised a lot of these steps back in the 2016 race and is following through on that campaign promise to finally crackdown on illegal immigratio immigration. he is getting a dramatic nonpartisan boost tonight from defense secretary james mattis who does not always see eye to eye with the president. it started out as the president sending 5,000 troops to the southern border but he he declared tonight he s tripling down, vowing to send 15,000 troops to deal with mul
all right, pamela brown, thanks so much. outfront now, wesley lowry, pulitzer prize winning reporter for the washington post, david gergen, former adviser for four presidents, democrats and republicans, and andre bauer, former governor of south carolina. wes, you ve covered race relations in this country extensively. what s your reaction to this president trump, you know, doubling down, tripling down, calling himself a nationalist. well, first of all, it was really interesting watching this whole riff where he s talking about globalists versus nationalists and in many ways, it s language that echoed steve bannon, and for anyone who s read breitbart.com, that s the exact type of framing and language that s often used, very often anti-semitic undertones to it, racist undertones. so you have two things. the president was giving voice and word and a term to his
it. jennifer, let me go to you first. we heard from the president there, questioning the motives of the accusers, questioning the attorneys. you heard the president speaking there moments ago, he said you should look into the lawyers here. he s clearly pointing to politics. what do you make of the strategy shift? i don t think it s helpf fufo them. what you re looking for to tell if a witness is telling the truth is corroboration. it s very hard for the president or anyone else to say someone is or isn t telling the truth before you ve had a hearing or any investigation. i hope that that s kind of where this is headed. we ll see. he is obviously not thinking that way right now but that s the only way we ll get to the bottom of this. and it raises the point that we raised, which gives brett kavanaugh the opportunity of answering to this and having a fair hearing as to whether there are facts behind this. molly ball, i wonder if i could ask you, the politics, of course, central to th
welcome back. this morning, hundreds of u.s. newspapers coast to coast are banding together with a clear message the message, we are not the enemy of the people. meantime, minutes ago the president tweeted this, quote, the fake news media is the opposition party. it s very bad for our great country but we are winning. let s go to anchor john avlon who joins me now. reality check time so necessary this morning. a reality check with the president s tweet. he s doubling and tripling down, there s a broad pushback. we ve got around 350 american newspapers linking arms and taking a stand publishing condemning president trump s attacks on the free press to