time now for our great reporters to share a page from the notebook and tell us about an under the radar story in the year ahead. catherine, you re badding leadoff. in the first part of the year is the ongoing fight over president trump s efforts to keep his financial records private. there have been congressional and criminal subpoenas seeking records and the supreme court has agreed to hear cases relating to these expected to come in march. if these records if the courts rule against the president, this could have long-reaching implications for presidential power and also have an impact on the 2020 race. and the timing is significant because currently a ruling is expected to come in june. which is right at the height of the campaign. it is a good point. it is not just about president trump s records, it s about the precedence it sets as well with.
doesn t know what she s doing. a lot of people think that, a lot of people have said it. we re in a very good position. ultimately that decision is going to be made by mitch mcconnell and he will make it. he s going to do what he wants to do. very smart guy, very good guy and a very fair guy. now, the president is absolutely right about at least one thing he said, that mitch mcconnell is probably going to do what he wants to do. and his strategy for the moment, shrug off or maybe laugh off, is a more apt description, pelosi s attempt at leverage and leave any decisionmaking until the new year. she s apparently trying to tell us how to run the trial. you know, i m not anxious to have this trial, so if she wants to hold onto the papers, go right ahead. it seems to me a rather absurd position to say after you ve impeached the president you won t send the papers over. look, we re at an impasse. we can t do anything until the speaker sends the papers over. so everybody enjoy the holiday
the partisanship, maybe taking a few votes that actually ends up siding with democrats on certain witnesses here or there. but ultimately that frustration, those votes do not say anything about whether they re actually going to say overall this wasn t a fair process or i m going to vote to convict the president. that s a far cry from where they are right now. and lisa murkowski is used to being the first voice out. she was with kavanaugh. and so the question really is does she bring anybody along with her, does mitt romney follow suit or susan collins, and it s not clear. because she s not saying here s a hard red line of everything i think is wrong. she s saying i m disturbed by the tone. i m okay with the function. and there s a lot to fall in between. it does seem like a fairly comfortable place. i just want to ask you because you have the best sense of the political landscape right now. i want to play an ad from an anti-trump group that s seeking to pressure vulnerable senators.
the history of the world. nobody talks about it? why would anybody be talking about catherine, you cover the white house. is there ever any reason to talk about something else? has anybody given anybody any reason to talk about something else than the economy? the rally makes a point. the president does talk about the economy. he talks about it on twitter and at his rallies. but when you do a two-hour rally you have a lot of time to cover a lot of material. and there s no evidence that he s going to exclusively talk about the economy for the next year, whatever republicans would like. and we ve seen this movie before. in the run-up to the 2018 midterms, republicans, especially vulnerable republicans, really wanted the president to focus on the economy, stay away from more hot button issues. at some point he basically told reporters that he couldn t keep a rally going just talking about the economy for the entire time. so that s not going to happen. but the campaign recognizes tha
counties before i knew just how far apart some of them were. but the point of this, which is you should learn something about me, i kept my promise. pl plz [ applause ] the drives can be long in iowa. the minnesota senator said she wanted to prove every corner of the state to prove she s ready to be a president for all of america. senator cory booker says iowa is where he ll make his stand, but unlike senator klobuchar, booker failed to qualify for the next debate and appears unlikely to qualify for the next one. his poll numbers too low. but he has raised enough money in recent weeks for a new iowa ad campaign and insists he sees something happening on the ground. our campaign on the ground in iowa is incredibly strong. it s outrageous that i m not on the debate stage when we ve got one of the top campaigns on the ground. we intend to upset in iowa and i am so excited about our pathway forward. keep your eyes on iowa.