Investigation would soon be winding down. However, there are signs to the contrary. Axios is reporting that, quote, members of Robert Muellers team are reaching out to former Republican National Committee Staff who were familiar with the digital campaign. The goal is to determine if the joint effort was related to the activities of russian trolls and bots aimed at affecting the american electorate. Ty cobb said all of the interviews with the special team are over. However, former colleague said i would be shocked if he was done with the inner circle. All of these indictments, guilty pleas and interviews could be round one. Joining me is Jonathan Swan with acti axios. Thanks to all of you for joining. Barry, the resident former prosecutor here, let me start with you. You have this report from the Washington Post saying that if
point is that its a question that a lot of people close to the situation are asking themselves is why did mueller allow for this prosecutorial vulnerability . Bec
plate people are going to say, remember that it s a democrat in the senate right now because of roy moore. we don t want to be associated with him ever again. david, what i m hearing kyle say, i m thinking back though over the last six or seven years, i feel around the country at different points we ve heard versions of that, you know? sure. if only republicans, mike casso in the senate race in 2010. if only they hadn t gone with mourdock. not a loss. is there a point where pragmatism it seems to me like there s this anti-establishment energy that s unabated in this party for almost a decade now. this is the problem with the republican party right now. it s the angry base that has captured it. mitch mcconnell is right. listen, if you re not a good candidate, then you don t get to make policy. to the earlier comment, all of the energy, all of the energy right now is in the left.
narrow win for doug jones but it was not like, you know, something we saw in virginia where it s going to come down to a coin flip. this was one-half percent difference and it wasn t, you know, while that might look close, it s not close enough to trigger a recount. the only thing they had were all these bogus claims of voter fraud. it just looked childish. it looked petulent. he looked to be a sore loser. i don t think anybody in alabama wants to be associated with that. david jolly, put yourself in the shoes strategically speaking of mitch mcconnell. on the one hand he loses a senate seat in alabama. his margin with this certification it s 51/49. it s razor thin. on the other hand, roy moore is not going to be in washington next year as a leading member of the national republican party. is that a better outcome
the left cannot wait to vote in november of 18 and that left is a very multi-cultural issues. roy moore said god is in control. somebody said he didn t realize that tuesday night god was an african-american woman going into november of 18, republicans cannot hold a diverse constituency across the country. they re going to lose because of it. becoming a true i mean in politics, nothing motivates the base. kyle whitmire, ayesha moody and david jolly, thank you for joining all of us. president trump s feud with hillary clinton still going strong. we ll look at that straight ahead. this is hardball where the this is hardball where the action is. to activate my body release it, like it s supposed to. trulicity is not insulin. it comes in a once-weekly, truly easy-to-use pen.