Former GOP representative Joe Scarborough and Mika Brezinski interview newsmakers, politicians and pundits about the issues of the day. Thats 1,754 votes ahead in a sdlact h district that has been in gop hands for three decades. The official outcome way not be known until other ballots are tallied and the race could be headed to a recount if the k candidates end up within 1 of each other once the votes are certified. This morning, balderson is claiming victory. Oconnor has not conceded. Regardless, well see a rematch when they compete for full term in congress. Welcome to morning joe. It is wednesday, august 8th. With joe, willie and me, we have Associate Editor of Commentary Magazine noah raufman. Former treasury official and morning joe economic analyst Steve Rattner and National Political correspondent for nbc news and msnbc news, is he still away, Steve Kornacki. But you see this same thing happening. Theyre bleeding. Republicans are bleeding so badly right now in suburbs, and then
Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. What it does is put a huge number of seats in play for democratic enthusiasm. Now, thats going to result in a lot more republican spending than we had before. Maybe both sides get motivated on the money but republicans will have more money. So thats a big concern for democrats. I think the ground game in a close election like this matters. That infrastructure is there, and we have the money for that. Its more speaking with the voters. Like i said before nancy pelosi could be the speaker, they could have Subpoena Power and essentially grind to a halt. Things are going well. They need tawao wake up and understand democrats are motivated. If we can motivate our base i believe that can happen in november. They all know its an election in november and we tend to turn out in higher numbers in midterms. The Complacency Thing is
november in almost every one of these races. Its about district. You know
Chris Cuomo asks the tough questions to newsmakers in Washington and around the world. Chris Cuomo asks the tough questions to newsmakers in Washington and around the world. You know, i think it is like that red herring where the more time we spend kind of debating any one individual person or figure is less time that we spend talking about medicare for all, tuitionfree public college, and a great new deal. I think what we really need to do is have discipline on winning back the house. We need to spend more time talking about the issues that Americans Care about and the issues that are going to get more money in the average americans pocketbook and less money spent on totally Expensive Health care and education. So you go from the organizational structure of who are our bosses to the substantive. Now, emilys list, which youre very well aware of, they put out an organization that said we want to promote women being in politics. Theyve done very well. And in fact, some of their candidate
Promised there would be no Ground Troops used if iraq or syria. And shes gotten some criticism from people who say shes taking an important option off of the table here, anderson. She said that she would support american troops, Special Forces, doing reconnaissance assisting, indigenous or local forces and providing advisory roles which is the terminology currently used by the white house. Some also thought that by not acknowledging that some Special Forces are currently in combat situations in iraq and syria, she was also, you know, sort of perpetuating this idea that there are no troops who are in harms way. In fact, they are. Some of them have actually died. Dru donald trump hitting her on this saying shes telegraphing isis, she commented on donald trump not having a firm grasp of the facts when it comes to National Security and the issues that were discussed last night. Trump had an event earlier today. He also tried to address some of the things that were said in the forum last ni
The only people who use that many phones are usually involved in very, very and i mean very shady is activity. Rur see trump in typically colorful language there, accusing Hillary Clinton of shady activity. Hes going to go after the differences in his Foreign Policy vision versus hers. But hes also going to call for an end to the sequester and hes going to talk about what he will do to beef up military security and capacity. Hes campaigning in places that arent traditional for republicans today. Hell be in philadelphia and new york. Some call it colorful talk others call it hyperbolic and baseless talk. Well continue down this road. Sara, thank you very much. Hillary clinton returning the favor, pouncing on donald trump accusing him of concealing his foundations 25,000 donation to the campaign of floridas Attorney General, as she was considering investigating fraud claims against trump university. Now, were learning theres more reporting out there that this violation may not be trumps