generations. we know in our bones that our democracy is at risk and we know this is your moment to defend it, preserve and protect it, choose it. i want you to know we ll meet this moment. every freedom loving american needs to understand the time stands up to this growing left wing tyranny is right now. if you want to save your rights and liberties, you have to start by dealing a humiliating rebuke to the radical left of this election. this is so important, this election. the current and former president delivering their final speeches of this midterm campaign. but donald trump had a lot more than this election on his mind. we re also going to hear the closing pitches from the candidates themselves and several key races that could determine the balance of power in washington. plus, how speaker nancy pelosi gives her first interview since the brutal attack on her husband. we ll have all of that for you straight ahead. good morning. welcome to way too early on this tue
Chris Matthews debates hot political issues with politicians, newsmakers and Washington leaders. Not to pay off women so his marriage would be in tact. But to get himself elected. That is an amazingly particular charge that gets to the heart of the president s lack of credibility. I am thrilled that you honed into that specific part of it. This is not just a pay off. It has to do with the campaign itself. When you have Something Like this, could Michael Cohen perhaps testify against the president of the United States. Who knows and we may never know. One thing that under lies testimony and makes Michael Cohen potentially credible here, is that we are talking about payments which means there are transactions which means there are records and documentation. Not own are the things that Michael Cohen allocate to are damning. But these are banking allegations, things that have
but today was a costly day. Trump is directly like the center of the spokes of all of this wheel of implication of
options to negotiate, something that until now the ukrainians have really rejected. and so a lot of developments just in the last few days. vivian, tell us more about possible other conversations. you also report that the u.s. and russia are holding planning to hold meetings of the bilateral commission. president biden and putin are expected to attend the g-20 in indonesia next week. at least for now though, u.s. officials say the biden likely will not meet with putin. that s right. as far as we know, there is not going to be a president to president meeting. but the fact that they re going to start talking about arms control, the new start deal in particular is what we re talking about here. arms control has been something very significant both for the u.s.-russia bilateral relationship and the biden administration in terms of the foreign policy outlook and particularly with russia. it said all along that believes that the u.s. and russia have areas that they need to cooperate a
under a new republican majority. joining us now, national security reporter for the wall street journal vivian solama. good morning. in the backdrop of all this news, russia s assault on ukraine, of course, continues. you ve got exclusive reporting in the wall street journal that details previous national security visor s previously unknown contact with high level officials in the russian government. what have you learned? what are they talking about? hey, jonathan, good morning. the stakes have been so high, obviously, since russia invaded ukraine. and even in the weeks leading up to that invasion. and so jake sullivan, president biden s national security adviser, has taken to being in contact with the russians which is news because we weren t aware of that contact before. the white house chose to keep those channels confidential because of the fact that they wanted to preserve them and keep the lines of communication open. and so what we learned is that essentially jake has b
european leaders this afternoon to brief them on what s happened in this conversation today because that has been an earth that the white house has tried to make to keep them all on the same page when it comes to the response between the rising tensions with russia and ukraine so he will be calling the leaders of germany, italy, france and the united kingdom after this to tell them what he and.putin talked about. appreciate you giving us a call. joining our conversation with some important insights, white house and national security correspondent for the new york times david sanger, national security reporter the wall street journal vivian solama. you guys are much more wired on this issue and everyone has very low expectations about this call. what s the best possible outcome until that putin is not going to say, sure, mr. president, i m going to walk away and pull my troops back from ukraine. what s the best possible outcome for the president s perspective? the best possible