socialists. and steve bannon says the president actually has some world clout. even if democrats can t be on the campaign trail, and demes being the new majority in the house, he says trump might valley an vachblgt sdplz i think he comes out in a more battle hardened position. i think it will get him very focused. so, maria, do you think it s going to be that? i think it s the biggest mistake democrats can make, even though we came off a huge win after we took back the house of representatives and democrats got nine more votes than republicans, which is more than a mandate. i think we would be very mistaken if we think that taking out trump in 2020 is going to be a slam-dunk, that it s going to be easy, because it s not.
totally false and deliberately libelous. i have never met julian assange or anyone connected to him. i have never been contacted by anyone connected to wikileaks, either directly or indirectly. i have never reached out to assange or wikileaks on any matter. and in a strongly worded tweet, wikileaks says they are willing to bet the guardian $1 million and its editor s head that manafort never met assange. manafort was not officially in the visitor s logs for the alleged meeting, but ecuadorian intelligence sources reportedly showed the newspaper a document listing manafort as a guest. the meeting came just a few months before wikileaks published their first batch of democratic e-mails that were stolen by russian military hackers. the president repeatedly praising wikileaks on the campaign trail. wikileaks! i love wikileaks! reporter: cnn has also learned that mueller has been investigating a meeting between manafort and the ecuadorian president after the election in 2017. the spe
road. thank you. turning now to overnight breaking news. a federal judge has tech rampor blocked the trump administration from barring asylum from migrants who enter the country outside a legal port of entry. trump stated that anyone who crossed the southern border illegally would be ineligible for asylum. that was challenged in the court by the aclu and the center for constitutional rights. a federal judge ruled the policy is likely in violation of federal asylum law. the block remains in effect until december 19th, at which point the court will consider arguments for a permanent order. two days ago trump tweeted that the united states is, quote, ill prepared for this invasion of migrants coming from south america. this is something the president played up extensively on the campaign trail before larging dr
viewers might see this. because i was in dc when the whole acosta trump thing happened and i saw how average viewers saw it. i got a lot of their feedback. many clearly see the president was hostile to the press, however, others said acosta was too aggressive and some think he s making himself the story. but that s a two-way street because the president makes reporters the story. he singles them out. he did with sara murray on the campaign trail and called a third rate reporter, said i m boring and cnn should fire me. when a president makes the reporter the story, how do you handle that? i think that is a conondrum and that s on display with acosta. it s true, some people don t like his style or he s too aggressive or opinionated but the point is trump shouldn t get to decide. cnn should get to decide if acosta s style is right and i
win. and all ushd the pressure of a nasty and hostile media. continuing to take aim at media there. but why is he touting success? for a couple reasons. one, because some of those very tight critical states where he actually went and campaigned personally turned out red. they turned out for the republicans. he states from indiana to missouri, we went on some of those trips with him. so from his perspective, that reaffirms the fact that there s still strong support for him for his policies. and of course, it underscores the fact that when he s on the campaign trail, he s going to argue it can make a difference. butt other thing that white house officials are telling me is there was no blue wave. a lot of folks were reare predicting that s what was going to happen. and he staved that off. so they are going to cast this as a victory for him. but the bottom line, the reality