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trump is already scrambling the map this year. in utah where the mormon electorate is especially unfavorable to trump his lead is down to 5.5. prompting the campaign to dispatch mike pence to salt lake city less than two weeks before the election to do damage control. he s there tomorrow. mitt romney himself a mormon won utah by 48% in 2012. given trump s polling deficit his lack of ads it came as a surprise that according to the washington post trump has stopped holding high-dollar fund-raisers and relying on online donations which tend to be much smaller. that s after campaign financial reports show more money spent than raised in the month of september. reports add to growing speculation that donald trump is not in very deep psychological sense running to be president of the united states so much as he s running to build up a fan base for donald trump. with the advent of trump tower and then i could advertise a project that i m doing. like doral or something. and spend ha ....
wanted to have them all in this same meeting in the same room here to discuss all this with the president. but still, even though the vote is scheduled for this evening, expected this evening, other republicans i m talking to here and on capitol hill say they would nobt at all surprised if it was set aside or pushed back. that happens, that s a sign there is a big problem. john? that s an understatement to say the least. jeff zeleny at the white house. let s bring it into the room. house speaker paul ryan was supposed to speak to reporters this morning. he s delayed that until this afternoon. horse trading behind closed doors, wheeling and dealing, the very thing republicans criticize the democrats for doing when they passed obamacare but we ll put that aside for a second. what does this tell you that the president is meeting and gets a standing ovation from members of the house freedom caucus who at the moment you can make the case are undermining the president on priority numb ....
while 30% say it has given them a less favorable one. 61% said it had no impact. and finally, this is the most troubling number 46% said they feel that president trump fired comey to slow down the russia investigation. and 38% buy the original explanation from the white house, that it was done over legitimate concerns over how comey handled the hillary clinton e-mail issue. and there s a report that a frustrated president trump is considering firing many of his top white house aides. it adds up to a week, at best, the administration has a communications problem. or at worst, it is facing accusations of obstruction of justice. i was going to fire comey. donald trump contradicted his white house aides and his vice president, adding to questions as to why the president chose to fire fbi director james comey when he did. no one from the white house. that was a d.o.j. decision. he took the recommendation but the president needs to back off and let the investigation go forwa ....
general. here is the president campaigning for luther strange in september by telling republican voters they could vote for the other guy. and by the way, both good men. both good men. and you know what? and i told luther, i have to say this, if his opponent wins, i m going to be here campaigning like hell for him. donald trump s endorsement did not help luther strange who lost in the primary to steve bannon s chosen candidate roy moore and roy moore accused of sexually assaulting a girl when she was 14 years old and trying to date other girls while they were still in high school and roy moore was a 32-year-old assistant district attorney. republican senator richard shelby withdrew his support of the republican ticket and voted for someone else, the republican the senate republican political action committee stopped funding roy moore s campaign. mitch mcconnell, leader of the senate, said an ethics investigation of roy moore would begin immediately if he was elected to t ....
a new book. things that matter is not a confessional memoir or scandalous kiss-and-tell. it s a collection of newspaper and magazine pieces from the pulitzer prize-winning columnist. or maybe it s more than that. are you decoding my book? i am decoding it right now. like it s entirely about me. [ laughs ] but it s all written in hieroglyphics. well, it s not quite as impenetrable as hieroglyphics. let s start with part one of your book, and it is titled personal. and in there, the first column is really an incredibly moving piece about your brother. marcel krauthammer died of cancer. he was 59. charles writes this about his older brother. he taught me most everything i ever learned about every sport i ever played. he taught me how to throw a football, hit a backhand, grip a nine iron, field a grounder, dock a sailboat in the tailing wind. and how we played. it was paradise. tell me about that. it was a paradisiacal childhood. my brother and i were inseparab ....