Doing, a new high according to the recent poll by the Washington Post. And that be poll also Shows Nearly Half of americans favor impeachment proceedings. The president is reacting the way he knows best, with a flurry of unbalanced tweets attacking the russia investigation, the Justice Department, and the news media. And thats where we start this morning. Joining me now is erin delawamo and katy fang. Let me ask you, erin. What do you feel in the mid of the of all of this, labor day, usually as i said, is last stretch. Big elections in this midterm and we are unlike any other Labor Day Weekend dealing with will the Mueller Investigation release some bombshell . Will there be something that goes down in these trade battles, negotiations, nafta . The president disinvited from a senior republican statesmans funeral, as well as not having to deal with so many other issues. This is a different kind of labor day kickoff for the midterms than weve probably seen in our lifetime, certainly in and certainly in american history. Youre right. This is no quiet Labor Day Weekend, not for americans, not for reporters. We might not see a quiet Labor Day Weekend until President Trump is out of the office. This white house thrives on changing up the story. President trump loves taking to his twitter feed in the morning to reset the agenda. And theres no shortage of things for him to talk about. He can parachute himself into any midterm battle, house or senate, change the race like that by swarming reporters and people all over the story. We have these trade battles you mentioned, we have the Mueller Investigation. Theyre facing a september 7th deadline, according to a Justice Department guideline to get their findings out or theyre within that 60day wind ow of te mid determine. Theres not going to be a quiet. The deadline according to justice, september 1st i think according to rude jewel, deadline we havent seen any way, shape or form that theyre going to be ready for the 7th, but they could come with something. They clearly didnt make the giuliani deadline and it looks like the white House Counsel mcgahn who we learned two weeks ago had spent 30 hours being interviewed by the mueller investigators was dismissed or at least announced to be dismissed by twitter, wasnt even told personally. What does all of this mean in terms of the legal standings of the president in terms of these investigations . So the september 1st deadline that you mentioned by Rudy Giuliani is not the first time that weve had legal fictions created by Rudy Giuliani. There is no hard and fast deadline. As erin mentioned, its a 60day guideline. Its actually not even written downey where, it down anywhere. Its an unwritten agriemt so as to not seem that youre suggesting or influencing the outcome of an election that you will not as a part of doj release any indictments or any type of damaging information. We have to look the person whos behind the investigation and whos quarterbacking it, and thats Robert Mueller. And i dont think that hes going to be moving with anymore expedited sense of urgency. I dont see him racing to achieve a goalpost goal of filing something by september 7th. I think you probably will see another indictment, though, for example, roger stone. Hes eminently going to be indicted and so i think youre going to see a little bit of activity, but may not be on a huge level. But Robert Mueller is very respectful of traditions and principles. So if you dont see activity in the 60 days before the midterms, that does not mean that theres nothing there, because thats exactly what trump and his surrogates wants you to believe. Erin, thats the point, whether there is any revelations or not, theres probably going to be more proceedings and indictments. But this will be the consistent tral theme in of the most Midterm Elections. You saw andrew gillum, a progressive africanamerican candidate win the florida primary against traditional candidates. So there seems to be a rise among those that are progressive. But what will that mean in the general . Will we now see in florida, in georgia, in states all over the country it is who could get the rightwing crowd out on the right, leftwing crowd out on the left . Will they go centrist . And even in the center theyve got to deal with whether there was Russian Investigation and whether the president of the United States was in any way in collusion with that. Rev, heres what im looking at. That 60 disapprove for President Trump in the Washington Post poll, dig into that a little bit further and youll see that twothirds of independents think that mueller is correct to have an investigation here. Twothirds. Twothirds. And no one could win out independents or a sizeable portion of them. You need the independents because President Trump has his base. Theyre solid. Theyre with him through thick and thin. And the progressives are firing up their machine here and getting out for the Midterm Elections. Those independents are right in the middle. And if President Trump keeps taking to his twitter feed to attack the Mueller Investigation, to call it a witchhunt and a hoax, hes going to alienate these independents, his party needs to win. Katy, we hear witchhunt, hoax as erin just cited, but we saw this week alone youve got now the report that the owner of the National Enquirer has a safety box full of all kind of disparaging information on the president. We hear that another one of his close associates, his cfo was given immunity. It seems just from a nonpolitical, just from a legal perspective, that the mueller people have built enough of a case and then some to establish this is much more than a witchhunt or a hoax. Yeah. If this is a witchhunt, then its salem all over again. Heres the bottom line. Youve got personal people, this is not, you know, sam patton, the republican lobbyist who just pled guilty whose going to cooperate with the mueller team. These are people that are confidants. This is the personal attorney and Michael Cohen for donald trump. Its allen weisselberg, the long time c. F. O. Who worked with trumps father. Weisselberg, cfo. Exactly. He worked with trumps father when trump was a kid. These are people that are so close to donald trump and you know we hear the phrase they know where the bodies are buried. But from a legal standpoint, they provide so much danger. You also mentioned david pecker, the ceo of ami, the Parent Company for the National Enquirer. I do not think, reverend, that its going to be like when Geraldo Rivera open to the alcapone there was nothing there. I think if you look inside that safe that we hear about, theres going to be some juicy stuff in there. From a legal perspective, do we think that trump continues to perceive himself as a teflon don . And he has to be nervous. His kids are in the firing line. Muellers net and the noose is tightening. I believe if its not the Mueller Investigation it could be a criminal investigation involving the Trump Foundation that could bring him down. So, you know, trump should not be casual in terms of legal exposure. And then giuliani says hes going to prepare this report thats already halfway done to rebut muellers find sngs well how do they know what mueller has already found because we dont even know what mueller knows. Yeah. Hes going to rebut a report that has not been released. Exactly. And that he has not read. Shows you how credible that report could be. But, erin, is the democrats in danger of getting so involved in the weeds that they miss the real issues that they need to energize their base . You talk about President Trumps base. That theyre not talking about things that affect people on the ground and everyday america to give them a reason to come out. The economy, or how yes, unemployment is record low starting from the obama years. But wage stagnation and how were going to deal with Social Security and medicaid and medicare and healthcare, and the criminal Justice System. Is the democrats in danger of overplaying the trump possible scandals and underplaying what really will make people come out and vote . Rev, when i talk to voters they tell me that they want candidates to show them something to vote for, not something to vote against. They want a strong economic message. Whats going to happen to my healthcare premiums . Is my jobbing to going to be safe . Is my family going to be better off in five years than right now . President trump can get up on the campaign trail and talk about the economy, he can say the stock markets booming and that investigators feel emboldened. Democrats need to come up and say youre at risk here. Right. This tax reform, did you feel it in your paycheck . Thats what democrats need to come out and say. And you see a lot of democratic lawmakers shying away from using the i word. They dont want to talk about impeachment because that turns off a lot of democrat but mostly independent voters and it might fire up the republican base. Just to knock me out doesnt mean that yue you are a better alternative and that i think is the danger labor day 2018. The democrats face. Thank you, erin delmore and katy fang. Coming up, is the Democratic Party committed to candidates of color especially the number of women being elected for office. Be right back. 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That now makes three black progressive candidates for governor. Two of them in the deep south. With gillum in florida, and Stacey Abrams next door in georgia, and then you have ben gellus in maryland. And at the same time a Record Number of black women running for office. All of this feels regressive to me, just two years after a black president in the white house. A point i have to make. But the deeper question is whether the Democratic Party will commit resources these candidates will need to be successful in november. Joining me now is Democratic NationalCommittee Chair tom perez. Thank you for being with us, mr. Chairman. Its always a pleasure to be with you, rev. Now, about a month ago in atlanta black leadership summit of the dnc and people were concerned what a Record Number of black women run rearing Record Number of women running, where the Democratic Party would be in terms of its resources and dealt with it with you forthrightly and you came back very strongly saying well there, were going to put the resour resources there. How, in this increased number of black women running and others running that have, in many case, not been political before, how will the Democratic Party function where it is not a beltway down kind of engagement but really engaging and working with organic and grassroots candidacies . I think thats the key. Weve been working together with an array of partners out there in the progressive ecosystem, not just starting this year but last year. We were really proud to have played a role in the election of Keisha Lance Bottoms to be the mayor of atlanta. Vie lyles in charlotte. Our mission at the dnc is to elect democrats up and down the ticket from the school board to the oval office. And we recognized that African Americans, africanamerican women in particular, the backbone of the Democratic Party, we needed to put our money where our mouth was. Thats why we invested in those races. I mentioned. Thats why we invested in doug jones race in alabama and obviously the africanamerican vote was the key for that victy. And here in 2018 earlier this year just by waive example, we made a sixfigure investment in rural organizing of africanamerican voters in georgia. Because one thing we learned from looking at the data is rough lay third of African Americans in georgia live outside of major metro poll ton areas. Thats right. And frankly, historically, we did not invest enough in those areas. So youre going in areas that have been neglected before, which is critical. Let me ask this as well. There was in the recent conference of the dnc in chicago a real change in how we deal with the rules and inclusion of people, the battle over super delegates. And this was something that progressive raise and the Congressional Black Caucus and others said, oh, youre going to bring down our power and you led the fight and by a very impressive margin was able to bring down the influence of super delegates and bring in more people that may not have that status. What was the reasoning behind that and what do you think will be the impact of that . Our reasoning was growing the party if the was uniting the party and it was increasing trust in the party, reverend sharpton. Because super delegates have never decided who has won the nomination. Theyve been in place since 1984. But they have affected peoples sense of whether the process was fair. And theyve affected peoples sense of whether the process was fair because lets go to the iowa caucus, the first time when people vote in the primary. If youre a week or two out of the iowa caucus and nobody has voted yet, and yet one candidate has 300 delegates to the convection, people ask the question, how can that be fair . Nobodys voted yet . And so what we did in this super delegate reform was to send a very Important Message to voters. Especially young voters who share our values but are more reluctant to join our party. And the message was, we trust the grassroots. And the message was, were listening to you. And we know in 2020, reverend sharpton, were going to have a lot of candidates for president. If we have, say, 15 candidates, we know 14 ever them arent going to make it to the mountain top. What i want to make sure we do seine sure that everybody who participants, im not just talking about candidates, but voters, feels like their candidate got a fair shake. Im proud of the fact that these reforms were passed overwhelmingly. This is going to help grow our party. And when we grow our party, that is how we win. Now, the president of the United States said, donald trump, that they could lead to violence. Yes, he said to violence if there was this blue wave or if the Midterm Elections reaped a large majority in the house less known the senate. How do you react to the president saying that . Once again, its the politics of fear. Hes been putting fear on the ballot his entire campaign for president and since he has governed. And what were doing is were putting hope on the ballot, reverend sharpton. We are talking to people in every zip code and were saying were fighting for your healthcare, were fighting to make sure if you have a preexisting condition you can keep your healthcare. Were fighting to bring down the costs of prescription drugs. Were fighting for quality education. Were fighting to make sure that we have a criminal Justice System that is fair to everyone. Were fighting to make sure that you have the right to vote. Were fighting to make sure wee have a