Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. The issue of adoption, did that come up . Like i said, that was the primary thing we had spoken about in the meeting. Thats not the premise that got them in the room. Then it was essentially a bait and switch to talk about that 6789 everybody has basically said that in. The already. There is this another intere interesting thing over the weekend. Hope hicks boarded Air Force One and flew to the president s rally in ohio and back. You may recall, hope hicks resigned from the white house one day before a Congressional Committee that she had told white lies on behalf of donald trump. She is now living here in manhattan and she too has come under scrutiny for crafting that
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Chris Cuomo asks the tough questions to newsmakers in Washington and around the world. But they won, and if you look at why the women won, almost to a person they were much closer to the center and the Traditional Democratic views than what were seeing with the new crops, you included. Do you think that is a reflection about how much change your party can take and how soon, that more of those candidates are winning because theyre huing more closely to Traditional Democratic standards . Well, i think you have to take a look at two things. Where the American People are at and then also what wins campaigns. And its no secret that while Grassroots Campaigns absolutely are have their place and are very strong in Voter Turnout when they are able to turn out voters. Money does win elections. So when you have pac groups that are able to pour in half a million to a Million Dollars per race, that absolutely makes an impact. However, nothing changes the fact that the majority of americans believe
A recap of the days news. I dont know where the evidence is that would suggest that. The fact is that thats what they used against conor lamb in the special election in Western Pennsylvania which trump won by 20 points and conor lamb won. They used it over and over again with Danny Oconnor in ohio 12 who, by the way, is still running in november against mr. Balderson and danny managed to collapse the trump margin from 11 down to less than 1 . Im not sure where the evidence that that is the case, that that is an effective appeal. Its certainly their standard playbook move in eeach and ever instance. Again, to be redundant and repeat myself, they want to hear about what theyre going to do to lower Prescription Drug prices and protect people with preexisting conditions. Build infrastructure that will move this economy strongly throughout the rest of the 21st century. Finally get americans a raise. These are the things they want us talking and proposing. They want us being practical and wo
Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Washington post also reports tonight the white house is preparing an Executive Order that authorizes the president to punish foreign interference in u. S. Elections. The post writes, quote, the eightpage draft order appears to be an effort to stave off aggressive legislation, including a bill introduced in congress this month and to quell criticism that trump seems to give more credence to russian president Vladimir Putins denials of interference than to u. S. Intelligence agencies conclusion to the kremlin sought to undermine the 2016 election. That comes to us as Florida Democratic senator bill nelson, whose running in a tough reelection fight, tells the tampa bay times, quote, russian operatives have penetrated some of floridas Election Systems ahead of the 2018 mid terms. He said any further information is classified. Today the white house actually did impose new sanctions on
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Chris Matthews debates hot political issues with politicians, newsmakers and Washington leaders. Legal strategy. This is a political strategy. It seems to me its designed not to help the president when it comes to his legal troubles with Robert Mueller. In fact, its likely to make them worse. Its designed to set a different kind of landscape for anything that mr. Mueller finds out to be received, to convince at least his own supporters that nothing it wasnt illegal or anybody does that, and by the way, i didnt know anything about it. These are this is an attempt to set a context where people wont take seriously or at least wont be convinced that if there are serious if theres a serious report from Robert Mueller, which is what we expect, they should take it with a grain of salt. We know from polling that President Trumps core supporters are persuaded by this, that theyre inclined to believe this is a witch hunt. And that hes being treated unfairly. Whatever the findings of the Special