Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. Comments are anything to go by. The New York Times reported that the serving White House Counsel Don Mcgahn has done more than 30 hours of voluntary interviews with the special Counsel Robert Mueller and his team of prosecutors. Shortly there after we got new reporting from the times about the president s personal lawyer being sqozed, for look of a better term. The Wall Street Journal is first on the story as they have bone the criminal intrigue surrounding president trumps long time lawyer Michael Cohen from the very beginning. But following the initial reporting a couple weeks ago that the potential charges Michael Cohen might be facing, now the New York Times as of yesterday and the Associated Press as of today, who have both match that had story. So the Wall Street Journal and the ap and the New York Times, all now reporting that Michael Cohens legal vulnerability may be at least in part rehated to
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the nuts and bolts job that you ve got to do. the trump era in republican politics is very discontinuous with previous eras in republican politics. the president on trade, on fiscal issues, on dare i say like family values issues, on a lot of matters, not to mention all the scandal stuff he is dragging around is a real departure from what a lot of traditional republicans have been able to run on in traditionally republican parts of the country. do you have to try to tactically separate some traditional republicans from trumpism? do you try to create a wedge there? is it already there and you just try to leverage it? so in a district like mine that donald trump won, i look at it as there were people who were willing to try donald trump. if you remember that speech he gave fairly late in his campaign where he was saying i think it was to an african american audience, what have you got to lose, i think people in a district like mine where more than 60% of the towns i represent are a tho
the next two years. we want to own them. and on top of that, we have 24 democrats who won by five points or fewer, and we have 26 republicans who won by five points or fewer, meaning those are our countries. opportunities. we can look at those 26 seats that republicans barely won and go after those. so what i would say is you look at every district in this country, and we re not going to leave any battlefield district uncontested or unprotected. that will be our goal over the next two years. when it comes to playing offense and looking at additional opportunities to unseat republicans who currently hold house seats, i wonder how you think about this thing that we spend so much time jawing over it in this country. i wonder from a tactical perspective how it comes down to the nuts and bolts job that you ve got to do. the trump era in republican politics is very discontinuous with previous eras in republican politics. the president on trade, on fiscal issues, on dare i say like family v
lot of matters, not to mention all the scandal stuff he is dragging around is a real departure from what a lot of traditional republicans have been able to run on in traditionally republican parts of the country. do you have to try to tactically separate some traditional republicans from trumpism? do you try to create a wedge there? is it already there and you just try to leverage it? so in a take like mine that donald trump won, i look at it as there were people who were willing to try donald trump. if you remember that speech he gave fairly late in his campaign where he was saying i think it was to an african american audience, what have you got to lose, i think people in a district like mine where more than 60% of the towns i represent are a thousand people or fewer and 85% are fife,000 people or fewer. i think they went to the poles. you and i were talking about galesburg earlier. i talked about the plant that closed a decade and a half ago. still all these years later, the wages