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and trump, you know, tweeted about it yesterday, but did not mention kelly and really that s the first time we ve seen a public break with kelly. there s a lot happening behind the scenes, but it s probably too short a segment for me to get into. alex, do you think there s an expire by date for kelly? it seems like there s an expire by date for everybody in trump s orbit. they ll do something or say something or just be being around too much, their time has come. i think probably a lot of people, perhaps including general kelly himself, have been disappointed that he hasn t been able to implement more order and stability in the white house and that could be coming to a head at some point. jonathan swan, alex, thank you both. we re going to talk to you in a little bit. much more on the looming government shutdown, including how the children s health insurance program, c.h.i.p., is factors into the fight. we re going to explain what
romney by 17 points. this is a quintessential trump country district. we re talking just outside of pit pits, southwestern pennsylvania. the democrats technically outnumber republicans, but they vote like republicans. it s blue collar, white, working class. so this is a great test of whether those trump voters will turn out when trump is not on the ballot and whether trump, by going to a district like that, can pull his people over the line. he wasn t able to do that in alabama, but maybe he can now. republicans are watching closely. democrats are not investing a lot in this district. they came up short in every single election last year. they re preserving their money for november when they feel a lot better. and really the big question with regard to the midterms is does trump still have the political capital that he carried in 2016, should they be marching him out on the campaign trail heading up to november. before i let both of you go, jonathan, the criminal trial for trump s fo
people from the soviet union who had purchased properties from mr. trump. one of them bought a derelict estate at an extreme markup in florida. he testified generally speaking the patterns of activity that we thought might be subjective of money laundering. efforts to disguise the identity of the buyer. this as it s reported that two unnamed sources familiar with the matter say the fbi is investigating whether a top russian banker and putin ally illegally funneled foreign money to the national rifle association to boost trump s campaign. alexander torchin met with donald trump jr. on the sidelines of an nra event in may of 2016. he could not establish the extent of any potential evidence that robert mueller s team may have reviewed. the nra reportedly spent a record $55 million in 2016 and more than three times on trump than they spent on mitt romney back in 2012. back with me, national
rorshak test. i think that could change, depending on how each side plays out the narrative. in the past, the democrats would suggest are in a worse position. they re trying to extract a concession on daca, which doesn t have to do directly with government funding. a similar approach didn t work out in 2013 under president obama. but on the other hand, donald trump s approval ratings are so low, the congress s approval ratings are so low, america might just give the doubt to the opposition. jonathan, what do you think is the best case scenario here looking ahead to this government shutdown? best case scenario is they do some sort of a short-term arrangement and then a miracle descends from the heavens and