ow. in a moment we ll be joined by two former obama campaign insiders with the scoop on what s really going down with obama himself hitting the campaign trail. here are the numbers. 14 million people have already turned out to cast early ballots. that outpaces the same turnout in 2018 by over-1 million votes. it s easy to forget because a lot happened become you 2018 was the first election after trump became president that was a huge, huge resistance mobilization, but we are above that. meanwhile, voters today also very concern about rising prices and inflation. the economy did grow last quarter, ending what was a nix month documented slump. is that what people are feeling? not yet. meanwhile, the candidates are out trying to make their closing arguments. by january i m going to be feeling even better. [ cheers and applause ] but he will still be a fraud. i just want to save as many live as possible. i think that s the goal of a pro life policy. you re saying you don t
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Collusion to the potential territory of conspiracy. Do republicans on the hill see this as dam sng. That depends on whether or not he has evidence to back up this claim. Right now, it is a public credibility war. Cohen, if he is able to come forward with either tapes or emails or if someone else who was in the room when trump was given advance notice of this trump tower meeting, that could be a game changer. It is the clearest evidence of day that he was willing to accept help from the russians on behalf of his own. If its cohen versus trumps words, its a nothing burger. I dont think its going to change much in the public court of opinion. Ozzie, how crucial might the Finance Chief be in the cohen investigation and what kind of information might he be able to
offer short of the president s tax returns . He knows a lot. He has been with the Trump Organization many years and, as we have seen with Michael Cohen, peop
Lets bring in our leadoff panel for this friday night. Franco ordonez, White House Correspondent for mcclatchy newspapers, covering immigration and foreign affairs. The New York Times katie benner, pulitzer prizewinning reporter who covers the Justice Department. And yamiche alcindor, White House Correspondent for news hour on pbs. Thanks to all of you for being with us. Katie, let me start with you. We have that reporting tonight about some movement on that issue of reunifying parents with children, at least some of them. You cover the Justice Department, the legal end of this. It sounded like there was still plenty of confusion when that Executive Order was issued the other day by the president about what that was actually going to allow in terms of reunification. How clear is that now . Absolutely. So as you say, this was another selfinflicted wound by the Trump Administration not thinking through clearly enough a directive before issuing it. So we saw a lot of confusion last night.
technical sense. historically speaking in the first election, after a new president has moved into the white house, that president s party gets slacked in the midterm elections. and you know, don t ask me why. it s what american voters like to do. they like a candidate and a party enough to put them in the white house and immediately next chance they get two years later they change the preference to the other parties controlling congress. i don t know why it goes this way, but it always goes this way. if you look historically since world war ii, the party that is not the president s party has picked up an average of 26 seats in the house. in the mid term elects. the average since world war ii is 26 seats. and recently, it s been worst. in president s trump midterm democrats picked up 40 seats and president obama s first midterm republicans picked up
including the obama campaign. david, you will not be directly supervising chai in this segment, but you outranking him is established. welcome to both of you. we love it when we have the alumni together. david, the first question, the most straight forward. turnout way up. i mentioned that s beating the first trump midterm, which is something. but what to you make of it? is it possible to glean anything from the mobilization? i think it s a little early. if you re a democrat it s good news, but a lot more people are going to vote early now than did in 2018. probably going to have more democrats voting early than 2018. all things being equal, we re probably in a moment in american history when turnouts are going to be higher than we ve seen. 2018 wasn t just high, it was the highest in a century. certainly i never thought we d see numbers like that. i don t know whether we re going to approach that in 2022 but clearly we re going to have very