Smerconish in philadelphia, the final day of voting is four weeks from tuesday. And even without my showing you the latest polling, you already know the State Of Play while Vice President Kamala Harris has a slight edge over former President Trump at a popular vote the seven widely recognized Battleground States are within the margin of error this after a long strange trip in which nothing has moved the nation from an intractable divide when it began, there was a lot of talk about a third Party Factor but they couldnt find a ticket to meet the moment. And the fresher face from florida never got the traction that some had anticipated so trump cruised to the nomination without ever having to debate his opponents and was actually bolstered by four indictments and suffered know setback among republicans, even after being convicted. The general election field, then took shape. Age was immediately a factor. The only thing these candidates could agree on was to debate at the start of summer a
one can only imagine. kate, please stay with me. i want to bring in former nixon counsel john dean. john, obviously when you think about this personally, especially from the perspective of the first lady, look, this is sad and depressing story on many levels. it is important, though, for the president and his presidency. we have now heard karen mcdougal s story. on sunday we ll hear stormy daniels story. how damming could that be for the president? well, they don t help, obviously. and i m sure it s publicity not only that effects his family life and his children, but it effects his presidency. the effort to keep these women quiet has not worked. we ll see if 60 minutes goes ahead on sunday with the interview with anderson. but mcdougal was really devastating interview. i listened to it yesterday. and i m sure it was very difficult at the trump
represents a possible crime in jared kushner s case because he did not put it on his original disclosure forms. so at some point, the trump administration has the decision, do we want to see this thing come out in the middle of a house hearing that jared kushner is the witness at, where it lands as a bombshell on jared kushner, or do we want it to come out before that and maybe come out with donald trump jr. being the star of the article because donald trump jr. doesn t face the same criminal liability as jared kushner does. yeah. you know, they re shaping up for a very interesting thanksgiving dinner in the trump household. i mean it does feel to me, lawrence, kind of like you implied, that perhaps this story was put out and hung on donald trump s son to move it away from donald trump s son-in-law, who definitely has more legal exposure, who is right in the heart of the white house, who s in the middle of all these policy matters, who played a role in firing director comey, who supp
yeah. you know, they re shaping up for a very interesting thanksgiving dinner in the trump household. i mean it does feel to me, lawrence, kind of like you implied, that perhaps this story was put out and hung on donald trump s son to move it away from donald trump s son-in-law, who definitely has more legal exposure, who is right in the heart of the white house, who s in the middle of all these policy matters, who played a role in firing director comey, who supposedly is one of the people who advised the president to fire director comey, who has been threatening your colleagues here at msnbc with bad stories and all these things. it may well be, as incredible as this is, that this was an effort by the trump white house to hang this on donald trump jr. and move it away from jared kushner. jill, the other part of this story that is still unfolding is what exactly what are the words in that e-mail that have been described to the new york times ? the new york times article
president himself if his long-time attorney michael cohen who apparently taped his conversations with president trump among other things, whether he s ultimately criminally charged by federal prosecutors in new york. we don t know if that s going to be an issue for the president himself. we still don t know how that is all going to play out. everybody s watching that very closely. but with this guy, if alan weiselberg has been subpoenaed, if this report in the journal is right, that honestly has way bigger implications than just the case against michael cohen. allen weisselberg is not a household name but he is in the trump household. he s in his 70s. he s worked for the trump family his entire adult life. he started off working for the president s father i believe in the 1970s. he has been at the trump organization apparently since its inception. he s known to be not only a very trusted very senior figure in the trump organization, he s also been directly involved in a number of finan