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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 NationalCommittee 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 wit ....
Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. As has peter baker, correspondent for the New York Times thanks to all three of you for staying up late. Congressman, again, just a civics and kind of a Physical Plant question. The winner gets to be an incumbent member of congress. The winner will go, will get really bad office space. Theyll be on the bottom of the seniority list. Hell get his predecessors office. You do inherit the office space . How does that work . I replaced the most Senior Member of congress. For eight months as a freshman, i had the best office on capital little. You had a beautiful view of the dome. Then reality sets in. But they cant move in. They cant feel as much as anyone can move in with a twoyear term. Lets say its 12 weeks before the next election. House is out till labor da ....
Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Remind folks what that means . Yeah. Theres a question about the status of the ballot. Maybe a question about the status of the voter. They tend to be, i keep saying, they tend to be democratic ballots. They tend to be voters, especially in franklin county, from delaware county. Oftentimes, you find that sometimes in nonwhite areas. You start having i. D. , voter i. D. Requirements. Maybe it is folks who wont have i. D. So you end up getting a situation. When you look at the provisionals, they tend on come more from provisional counties. I think the number was Something Like 1,400. Came out of franklin. I think it may have been in the
democratic part. A lot of them end up being counted. Theyre cast provisionally and then theyre reviewed afterwards. All ....
Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Will not be counted. If it is received tomorrow, lost in the mail, if that ballot gets in, it will be counted. So some are going to be counted terms of Absentee Ballots favored oconnor. You would expect that whatever comes out of this would give him a little boost. And there are going to be a couple hundred, we would think, a small number of military ballots. It may be a bigger wedge the provisions and all of that math im talking about does have the potential. I dont think to etrace 1750 for. But to get it inside half a percent. To cut it in half. It seems to have potential. So we have to wait. And again, state law saying they
have to wait ten days before they can even look at counting these provisional ballots. Just a terminology question. Our viewers have heard us talk about provisional ballots all night. Remind folks what that means . Y ....
Getting away from donald trump, as well, there s no way he can win pennsylvania and ohio and wisconsin and these other states that delivered the white house for him. this is a bad omen not just for november of 18 but for 2020 if we don t find a course correction for republicans. mike, how does the party work in the gop? who decides where they re going to dig in and declare what congressional races as firewalls? we re just going to defend, defend, defend? we re going to try not to lose this one? well, it becomes resource allocation. what you re going to hear out of republicans is that our pelosi campaign works and we won this seat but as david said, you know, we re 60 seats into the republican list. so winning seats like had don t hold the house. step one is guard resources and they ve probably admit there are a dozen to 15 seats that we can try to defend but it will be really hard. it will be that second dozen ....