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If this republican environment carries on to november, is the gop looking at a midterm disaster? joining me now at the big board is, who else, but nbc news national political correspondent, steve kornacki along with our panel, phil bump, elise jordan, jonathan alter. steve, first to you. take it away. well, you mentioned the governor s races there in the upper midwest. minnesota, interesting story there. pawlenty obviously going down, quite a fall for him. two-term governor, former presidential candidate loses this republican primary. you mentioned the trump dynamic. johnson certainly trying to run to pawlenty s right in this thing. trump became a bit of an issue and both of them had very negative things to say about donald trump back in 2016. in 2018, it seemed they both wanted to get as far as they could away from those comments. but jeff johnson knocking off tim pawlenty and republicans thinking the reason they worked so hard to recruit pawlenty into the race was they thought, hey ....
Time now for the lid. the panel is back, phil bump, lea elise jordan to take omarosa out of the headlines today. let s talk about omarosa. clearly they re worried about. the president s worried about it. he s tweeting about it. they pulled up the john brennan thing today, even though it was dated july 26th. politico, living in fear of omarosa s next tape. this may become a new head with the release of the book, it s fascinating to see the dynamic since 2016, someone s got dirt and they trickle it out. it started with hillary clinton e-mails, wikileaks did the same thing. and now the russia investigation, trump a little trickling out of the russia investigation, but this is the new standard in washington, d.c. now it is being turned against ....
Americans, then i ve got a bridge to sell you. it comes at a moment when the white house has lost control of the political narrative. one of the president s top aides, omarosa, is out there releasing secret audio tapes accusing the president of conspiring with wikileaks and confirming she spoke with bob mueller s team. the president s former campaign chief, paul manafort, is facing the possibility of life in prison for bank fraud and conspiracy. we re going to have a lot more on both of those stories ahead. but yeah, color us skeptical when amid all of that, the white house makes a list of its most outspoken political critics, retaliates against the person that is perhaps the most outspoken critic, threatens to retaliation against everyone else, and brazenly argues that there is nothing political about it. ned price is an nbc contributor and former spokesman for the national security council. he joins tonight s panel. phil bump is washington post ....
They have a dead zone that prosecutors use before elections in some cases, six weeks, eight weeks where they don t want to jim comey, notwithstanding, generally the policy is they don t want to do things that might aren t we in that time zone already? it sort of starts in september. but it is what you just said about michael cohen, they re not nearly done in mueller s office. so the idea, giuliani is dreaming. it s not going to happen in the next couple of weeks. it s worth remembering, too, that most everything we re hearing comes through giuliani s and trump team. i said this, he said this. we don t know what mueller is doing or thinking. keep in mind, all this back and forth is solely coming through the lens of what trump s team knows and says. so you think rudy giuliani might not know the facts? leave it on that. phil, elise, john, guys, thank you very much. ahead, fire and furious. ....
you know, what i really wanting to know is what he said in that private meeting for two hours. we know what he said on the record which is pretty outrageous as far as i m concerned. no u.s. president let s just be clear about this. it s fine to meet with adversaries. we did it during the cold war. it s fine to have summits. but generally throughout the last 70 or 80 years, our presidents have pushed back on our adversaries. they don t make jokes about them like they re nice competitors as the president did. and again, the president of the united states, his job is to advance the american national interest. that was not done today here in helsinki. phil, we re going to ask this every single day and i m not sure anyone can give an answer. why is donald trump doing this? you re right, we don t know an answer. there are lots of theories out there ranging from the exotic to the sort of benull. i think one of the theories is that donald trump feels as though any hint that he didn t w ....