So no matter where youre going. Were right there with you. The powerful backing of american express. Dont do business without it. Dont live life without it. Welcome to kasie d. C. Im kasie hunt. We are live every sunday from washington from 7 00 to 9 00 p. M. Eastern. Tonight august in washington feels even hotter than usual. President trump today publicly roaring as one paper puts it. Speaking out on twitter about that trump tower meeting. Possibly putting himself and his son in front of legal jeopardy. The president also ramping up his campaigning ahead of november while taking a shot at ohios favorite son ahead of a highstakes Special Election. Plus, when governor jay inslee was asked whether hell
take on trump in 2020, he said hes running against him already. Ill ask him what that means when he joins me live. And congressman Seth Moulton Turning fellow vetd ranz into members of congress. He joins me live as well. But first President Trump who is spending his sunday at his golf club
Reports and interviews that give viewers a look inside the corridors of power in Washington, D. C. My panel. Joining me on set political reporter to axios, jonathan schwan. Greg bauer, former u. S. Attorney and fbi assistant director. Ken dilanian who covers security and intelligence for nbc news. And White House Correspondent for bloomberg news, Shannon Petty piece along with Ashley Parker doing white house duty for the Washington Post at trumps summer get away in new jersey. Thanks to all of you for being here on this sunday night. I want to set the stage with you first, mr. Brower, about the potential legal jeopardy the president is putting himself in or not. How do you assess the statement that jay sekulow made there essentially saying that its not illegal . Do you think that they are now in a worse legal position than they were . Well, they are certainly not doing themselves any favors with statements like this. Ive said it before, ill say it again. Its a really bad idea for the s
welcome back to kasie d.c president trump has been ramping up his campaign travel as he tries to stave off a blue wave in november. but as the gop continues to try to put the focus on the economy, a nonstop deluge of headlines of tweets and the russia investigation continues to muddy up that message. joining me is democratic congressman seth moulton of massachusetts. congressman, it s great to see you. thanks for being on the show. no problem, kasie. i want to start with one of the last times you and i spoke on the air was on morning joe, and i asked you at that point who you thought the leader of the democratic party was. let s take a look. i m going to ask you the same question again. who is the leader of the democratic party? who is the leader of the democratic par if i? yeah. that s what you asked? she asked you that.
roots, a gathering of progressives. she s running against cuomo in the gubernatorial primary. she had something to say about how democrats should present themselves. i ll show it to you and then talk about it. okay. the establishment is terrified of that word, socialism. but if we learned one thing from the obama years, it s that republicans are going to call us socialists no matter what we do. so we might as well give them the real thing. do you agree with that, congressman? new york city i m not a socialist, i m a democrat. and i think that it s important that we are a party that embraces a diversity of ideas and is willing to embrace people like cortez who won the special election, the primary in new york, and also amazing veterans like mike just like in new jersey who is a much more centrist democrat who can actually win a tough seat and take it back from a republican.
among them 29-year-old of latino and arab decent running against duncan hunter. a congressman in a republican california district. he joins me now live. sir, it s great to have you on the program. thank you for having me on. i want to start by asking about your former boss, the former president of the united states. he was somebody who in the kind of waning years of his presidency when i covered midterm elections in 2014, having him on your side wasn t necessarily something people were eager to advertise. especially democrats in swing districts or republican areas like where you are now. how do you see this fitting into your dynamics in your race and your attempt to knockoff duncan hunter. i m honored to have the president s endorsement. he believes this is a critical seat we need to take back to flip the house and have somebody that will be a check and balance against president donald trump. i m honored to have the president s endorsement but for me this isn t about president ob