phone call with french president emmanuel macro emmanuel macron. peter: reacting to the energy at his west virginia rally. heather: anyone who thinks the president has his back against the wall better think again. it is significant but what is more significant to the governor of west virginia never could have drawn a crowd like this on his own. to ride the coattails of donald trump. i defy you to name a single democrat on the national stage today who could pull off what donald trump pulled off tonight. the people who are writing trump s obituary today are to think twice about it.
the coat tails of donald trump. and i would defy you to name a single democrat on the national stage today who could pull off what donald trump pulled off tonight. i think the people that are writing trump s obituary today might want to think twice about it now. dana: maybe you can weigh in on that. do the democrats get concerned that the president nine months into a presidency pulls a crowd like this in a state that went for him big time. enough to you have a governor switching parties to join, i guess jump on the train. am i concerned that a billionaire mining executive in a state that went for donald trump by 42% is switching parties? i mean, no. we re not concerned about that. dana: okay. i appreciate the tactic today going after the russia investigation. it may fulfill a political need for him. but he has very serious legal concerns. this is the third grand jury that has been impaneled, subpoenas are going out. so this may be a smart political strategy. but he has legal co
a new report from politico that said leaders were in touch with supporters trying to sway electors. i ll talk to former clinton campaign spokesperson finney. the pope taking on bureaucracy. his blasting resistance to reform inside the holy cee saying it s inspired by the devil. weighing in on trump s size and even ronald reagan s mental health. remember this in august when he talked about writing trump s health report during the campaign. he says the clinton organization was going to publish a letter onealth and i know her physician and some of her health history, not so good. so i said, why not? i would do that too. you totale. nobody s hurt, but there will still be pain. it comes when your insurance company says they ll only pay
steven shepherd also wrote about trump this week in an article titled trump s soft underbelly writing trump s lead in national polls at this point of the campaign is hardly predictive of a glide path to the nomination. even if he maintains that edge going into iowa, there s evidence the caucuses can scramble the race, even if the winner doesn t become the eventual nominee. for more, we re joined by steven shepherd. thanks for being here. my pleasure. trump was on meet the press and chuck todd asked him about iowa where ted cruz has caught up in the polls. take a listen. i m doing really well with evangelicals who i love. i m doing really well with every group, the tea party groups, everybody. i can only speak for myself. we really have a good team in iowa. we ll see what happens february 1st. your reaction? well, look, evidence of trump a ground game in iowa is difficult to say. the iowa caucuses are a low
credit for writing trump s tweets until this one. trump s tweets are official statements, according to his own spokesman. are president trump s tweets considered official white house statements? well, the president is the president of the united states, so they re considered official statements by the president of the united states. they are considered official statements by the president of the united states. except for when they don t like what it says and they want to blame it on one of his attorneys for the first time in 3,000 tweets. he tried one other way unite today, saying, in an interview, the president cannot obstruct justice, because he is the chief law enforcement officer under constitution article 11, and has every right to express his view of every case. he s admitting the case was obstruction it sounds like, but the president can t be charged with it because he s the president? is there any sense inside the white house that this attempt to