Our viewers, who face a very tough weekend in that part of the country. This, too, is breaking as we speak, a barnstorming tour for President Trump. Hes on the stump for tax cuts just like ron reagan. He starts next wednesday in springfield, missouri. Its now a handson, allout push for the centerpiece of the trump growth agenda. Varney company is about to begin. Stuart well, youre looking at a happen of the race in the gulf of mexico that may be affected by the storm. Theres a lot of them, as you can see. Perhaps more important, onshore in Corpus Christi alone there are five refineries, some of which have shut. That will affect the supply and price of gasoline over a very wide area. But, you know, look, i dont want to make this a financial story, because its not. No. Stuart this is a human story. Our viewers are facing this thing. Yeah, this is of biblical proportions. When you talk about 20 inches, some computer models say up to 40 inches. Tremendous amounts of rain stuck over the sam
You got that. Anything. So rachel, joe biden because hes not a president ial candidate today, he was not at that forum that joy reid comoderated with the president ial candidates, and that means he was not one of the men who was asked why women of color should vote for him. Joy reid will join us later in this hour with a lot of highlights from her forum today, which was really fascinating watch. It was stunning. An interesting turning of the tables in so many ways. Its a fascinating thing for Democratic Politics and democrats coming to terms with their electorate and the needs of their electorate and who they are and who had he need to stand for. As a political event, it was astonishing and the tape was amazing. I hope theres a lot more of them coming. We have so much news to cover tonight and we are lucky tonight to have pro iffer Laurence Tribe with us, Harvard Law Schools constitutional law professor on a night when the president invoked the Supreme Court. The president s belief tha
Their electorate and the needs of their electorate and who they are and who had he need to stand for. S as a political event, it was astonishing and the tape was amazing. I hope theres a lot more of them coming. We have so much news to cover tonight and we are lucky tonight to have professor Laurence Tribe with us, Harvard Law Schools constitutional law professor on a night when the president invoked the Supreme Court. The president s belief that he can get the Supreme Court to stop the impeachment process, professor tribe has much to say about that, and what is likely to be now a protracted legal battle between the house of representatives and the president of the United States. And at the end of this hour tonight, we are going to have another episode of political hypocrisy theater. This time with senator john thune. Senator john thune has had nothing and i mean nothing to say about the revelations in the Mueller Report about the lies told by donald trump including lies to the America
when we come back the unintended consequences of having a huge majority in the congress. why republicans having a hard time governing and why that may not change any time soon.
data download time, as we have seen president trump and the republican party are finding it s a lot harder to govern than they thought it would be. why? the party is deeply divided and at times it looks rudderless. let s look at the poll numbers. the gap gallup daily tracking poll shows it sitting at 40%, robbing him of leverage you would want to have by popularity. the coalition in congress is increasingly fragmented with not a whole lot holding it together. look at the house. the republicans won 241 districts in november. that s a huge number. their largest majority in over 100 years. on one extreme 29 of the 32 free freedom caucus members outperformed president trump in the districts back in november but they re not feeling the political pressure back home to get in line behind the white house. now you understand. on the other extreme, 23 districts that elected republicans to the house but also voted for hillary clinton for president. so these divisions aren t just abstract. they re