i can t remember the exact quote, but remember when churchill said britain needs an ass kicker. churchill said many wonderful things. those particular phrases i don t remember. you re the historian, not me. everybody attributes everything to churchill, and then like the greatest churchill quotes ever, he didn t say. all the things churchill said but didn t say, i m laying claim to them. take them. tim ryan took that one, though, and i think he owned it quite well. it is a close race that could determine the balance of power in washington. the democratic nominee, congressman ryan will join us in just a moment. but first, nbc steve kornacki is standing by at the big board to break down where things stand with the midterms less than a month away. we are at go time. the rage is here, and i m a little nervous. he s pissed off, look at him. he s trying to hide it. i know. we re following the latest from ukraine as russia escalates attacks on civilian areas. g7 leade
base he is counting on may be softening in a very big way. that s a look at the end of the week at the path to 270. president obama is back on the campaign trail today and making the case for hillary clinton and going after the republican party. donald trump is a symptom of a major problem in that party. i m glad that some of them said this is really bad. i guess we need to walk away. if you are doing it just for political expedience because you are looking at poll numbers saying that might get me in trouble, that s not enough. if you are about family values, you have to be about values all the way through. the argument that president obama and his wife, michelle, have been making in a way that maybe hillary and bill clinton can t. joe biden is speaking out against trump and part of that interview that will be on meet the press this sunday. this guy as i said has