two weeks out and a busy president rallies his base. >> this will be an election of kavanaugh, the caravan, law and order and common sense. >> plus one way to make friends for 2020 is to help big in 2018. >> november is coming. >> there is so much at stake. >> the power of the people is only greater than the people in power. >> and testing time for u.s. saudi relations. allegations of a brutal murder. >> we made clear to them we take this matter very seriously. "inside politics," the

biggest stories sourced by the best reporters now. welcome to "inside politics." i'm john king. to our viewers in the united states and around the world, thank you for sharing your sunday. president trump says saudi arabia has lied and deceived about the death of jamal khashoggi. members of congress say the explanations don't add up and there must be a strong response, the president defends the crown prince and the u.s./saudi relationship. >> it's a first step. it's a big first step but it's a first step. we need them as a counterbalance to iran. it's not a simple solution. it's not the simplest situation to be in, but i think we're doing very well. i think we've come a long way in a short period of time and it will get solved. it will get solved. okay? plus two weeks to election day and the president focusing on key senate relations and on

rallying the trump base. >> they will try to plunge our country into a nightmare of gridlock, poverty and chaos. you know that. as we speak, the democrat party is openly inviting millions of illegal aliens to break our laws, violate our borders and overwhelm our nation. >> and is there really a big blue wave coming? we'll look at the races that offer the biggest clues this the midterm climate. >> a vote for my opponent will be a vote for the nancy pelosi liberal agenda. on health care she's in favor of obamacare, price is up 150% and $5,000 deductibles and she and nancy pelosi want to go beyond that. >> whether congressman bratt knows which democrat he is, in fact, running against. i am not the democrat who supported single payer, i am not nancy pelosi and i am not president barack obama.

>> with us this sunday to their their reporting and insights, julie hirshfeld davis of "the new york times," jonathan martin of "the new york times" and cnn's kaitlyn collins. a horrific murder, shifting explanations from the saudi royal family and the confusing response from president trump. saudi arabia now admits it killed journalist jamal khashoggi. argument turned fist fight turned accidental death they say, but insist all carried out impulsively not at the orders of the crown prince mohammed bin salman. known to be key lieutenants of the crown prince, mbs, as he is known. the crown prince himself will lead an overhaul of saudi intelligence services. utter bulls hichhit was the res

of the post's editor. what they're saying doesn't add up and there needs to be an independent investigation and severe punishment by the you state. what does the president think? seems to depend on when you ask. a good first step, he said and made clear he doesn't think ending arms sales to the kingdom should be part of any sanctions package. yet he also said this just yesterday, last night to the washington post. obviously there's been deception and there's been lies. nobody has told me the crown prince is responsible. no one has told me he's not responsible. i would love if he's not responsible. he is a strong person. he has very good control. he's seen as a person who can keep things under check. i mean that in a positive way. there has been lies and deception by a regime run by the crown prince but he's a good person, strong person and he should stay.

huh? >> this is the contradiction we hear from the president a lot. he admires leaders who he feels have a strong reign on their country, who have strong control over their people. in the past that has included kim jong-un, vladimir putin. he praises all of them for being strong leaders. what do they have in common? they brutalize their people. what happens happened to their journalist and what mbs may have done himself. he's really hoping that he can keep that alive. what that also does is make a very strong statement to the rest of the world and this country that it is not intolerable for him to imagine that a person would -- that a leader would sanction and, indeed, carry out the capturing of journalist, brutal interrogation of a journalist and ultimately the killing of a journalist. the fact that he's acknowledging that there's lies and deception

here really does mean if they reach the logical conclusion, and u.s. intelligence agencies have this information that, you know they do believe that the saudi regime was behind this event, he clearly is not buying that. >> but what he's saying is, yes, the human rights thing, he doesn't care about. he has shown that many, many times. you can kidnap, torture and kill a journalist, but anybody. any human being. we focus too much on the fact that it's a journalist. any ai human being. you can kidnap, torture and kill a human being, lie to the united states about hadt and you're a good person. >> and still going to get your arms deal? yesterday he's saying lies and deception. 24 hours ago, maybe not even, said he found their explanation for what happened, that this guy who was 59, walked into a consulate and got into a fist fight with two dozen men and somehow it's his fault that he was killed, he said it was credible yesterday t comes down to this arms deal. he's not letting anything get in the way of that.

he has made that pretty clear, even talking about what the potential consequences could be. these aren't mutually exclusive. you don't have to cancel the arms deal and not condemn saudi arabia for what they did. so far, president trump has not done that. he said it's bad stuff, serious stuff. we want to get to the bottom of it. he has not said any critical word of any of them, the crown prince, who he says is a great leader. pretty much everyone else says there's no way that he didn't know about this murder. >> the united states does have influence here. he's what, 33 years old? he's essentially the defacto king. we're talking about a 20, 30, potentially 45-year reign in saudi arabia. they believe he orchestrated this, directed this, responsible for this and the president of the united states says he's a good person. members of congress disagree. to say i'm skeptical of the new saudi narrative about mr.

khashoggi is an understatement. the claim that he was killed while brawling with 15 men from saudi arabia is not at all credible. if he was fighting with those sent to capture or kill him, it was for his life. if the administration doesn't lead, congress must. >> there will be some shifting, there will be some contradictions. in many ways this reminds me of the way that president trump dealt with russia's meddling in the united states elections. maybe offering a conspiracy theory there, the 400-pound person. here it's rogue killers and you want to get to the bottom of it. the totality of the message, what comes through if president trump is offering quite a bit of skepticism about the united states intelligence, evidence that keeps fi s piling up and s level of credulity adding up.

>> now the idea being spread by supporters of the president, this is a bad guy. who cares? >> i'm not whispering anything when i talk about this. i'm shouting it from the rooftops. this, in a nutshell, is an attempt to damage donald trump's foreign policy by making him cave and renounce a close relationship with saudi arabia. it is also about militant islam and the muslim brotherhood of which jamal khashoggi was a practicing, active member. he and osama bin laden were buddies. >> don't have time to fact check that in complete but it's not true. but accept the argument that jamal khashoggi is a bad guy, okay f they had grounds to arrest him, arrest him. if they had grounds to

interrogate him, interrogate him. but now rush limbaugh is saying you can take him into custody, interrogate him, cut him up, lie to the world. how do you hold them accountable for this? >> that's just a political bit for president trump there. >> it's a great standard to set. >> look, i'm not surprised that the president does not really care about any kind of punitive action on mbs. i think it reflects everything we're talking about here, the russian president. it's just how he operates. what i'm curious about is what congress does n so many of these examples we talk about, what are they actually going to do? they have the power of the purse, right? they have a huge impact on foreign policy funding, on foreign aid, on improving military spending. what will they do? will they act? there's a bipartisan chorus condemning the saudis' conduct. what are they going to do in the lame duck if anything, when they come back from the election to

address this issue? they can force the issue here and force the president to act. the question is, will they actually do that? >> will they have the spine? we had other issues. they pushed him on russia to a degree. >> they did. >> saudi portfolio -- >> by the way, he signed the sanctions against russia. remember that? >> he did. >> and he hated doing it. >> he said so. basically. >> one other interesting wrinkle here, the saudi portfolio belonged to jared kushner, the president's son-in-law. trump acknowledged that he and the crown prince, both in their 30s, are relatively young for the amount of power they wield. they're two young guys. jared doesn't know him well or anything. they are just two young people. >> who gave jared that position? the president. mbs, whatever. the president is not in control of him. he can condemn him. we have a will the more leverage with the saudis than the president is acting like. we could easily have someone

else be in charge. jared kushner is someone that the president put in this role as senior adviser and decided to make the middle east his thing, and forged that close relationship with this authoritarian leader who is chillingly authoritarian and reckless. he is the one who forged that close relationship, hosted him, rolled out the red carpet when he came to washington. he is with the one who convinced president trump to make saudi arabia his first trip as president. just because now things have gone really poorly doesn't mean he gets to step back and not face any criticism for this he wants to be on the front line until something goes badly and then he steps back. we haven't heard him say anything publicly, which isn't that unusual. even in the administration, he has really stepped backwards and tried to help shape their response to this but other than that, he hasn't had a role. he went to new york at his brother's wedding and wasn't at the white house during a lot of this going on. >> that happens a lot.

>> they just disappear. >> socialize. >> talking earlier this year when he's talking about middle eastern countries that have been reformers. one other wrinkle, 11 democratic senators wrote a letter to the president asking him to disclose any and all financial ties between his personal business to saudi arabia. elizabeth warren and cory booker are two of the democrats on that letter. >> i would like to keep politics out of this but you lied, you deceived, but you're a good person. got it. >> three rallies this week and more to come. big part of the midterm campaign close. it will be one of the best votes you've ever cast. it will be the second greatest vote you ever cast, the first greatest vote was for me! cal: we saved our money and now, we get to spend it - our way.

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the democrat party has become an angry, ruthless, unhinged mob, determined to get power by any means necessary. so democrats produce mobs. republicans produce jobs. that's become a hashtag. that's called hashtag. >> that's called hashtag, the president says. that's elko, nevada, yesterday,

aimed at driving up republican turnout in key senate races. nevada yesterday, arizona before that. the president started in montana. if the republicans can flip montana, hold arizona and nevada, there is no way the democrats can take control of the senate. in fact, it could help republicans actually build. i was talking the blue wave. republicans could actually ad. we have republicans favored to hold the senate. they could actually add to their majority. the president has decided in the midterm election it's all about him. to make it all about him. very busy on the road. these are his rallies just since labor day. three, six, nine, 12, 13 states just since labor day, montana twice. most of these have big? senate races, texas, wisconsin, north carolina in the week ahead. the president will be out several days a week all the way through the election. it is a referendum on him. in the closing message, the democrats want to talk about health care. the president's overwhelmi inin emphasis? immigration. >> crazy democrats refuse to support any form of border

security legislation to fix our absolutely horrible, old-fashioned, loophole ridden immigration laws. as we speak, the democrat party is openly inviting millions of illegal aliens to break our laws, violate our borders and overwhelm our nation. the democrats don't care that a flood of illegal immigration will bankrupt our country. >> again, the fact check machine. democrats openly inviting and at one point suggesting they were paying for the migrants to come forward. the idea being that the president is trying to gin up republican support and reach independent voters. >> he is returning to his roots this is the issue that catapulted him in 2015. he is speaking to this primal anxiety of white older voters.

social conservatives believe they lost the culture war and there's a demographic that makes older people nervous. that brought them out to the polls. there's a danger that he could wake up hispanic voters. they're doing everything to get this voting bloc out. they made up about 7%, quarter of the eligible electorate made up 7%. if this bloc turns out, president trump's effort koss backfire. >> why isn't it secure? could have had a deal with democrats for his wall funding last year. the president doesn't just say he doesn't want illegal immigrants. he attacks the people coming. most of them are fleeing violence, poverty, try to feed their families or get to a safer life. that's not how the president sees it. >> some of these people are hardened criminals, not good people.

these are some bad people coming through. these aren't babies, little angels coming into our country. >> what evidence do you have that these are hardened criminals? >> oh, please, please, don't be a baby, okay? take a look. just take a look. >> it's a striking departure from the modern history of the presidency. you don't see american presidents talking like this about immigration. and in that sense, it's remarkable. secondly, i would say, democrats have played into this by veering to the left on the immigration issue. talking about issues like abolishing i.c.e. they don't talk about it as much in the general election but certainly in the primaries talking about that issue. i think it sort of gave the opposition a weapon that you're seeing them use here in the general election. >> there are republicans even criticizing the president who say to a degree it's working.

>> yeah. look, it's an issue that gets their base fired up. that's what they had to do this election. democrats were more enthusiastic. this is an issue that does stir the republican base. i'm not sure if it's going to be enough but in places like arizona and nevada where the president was over the weekend, this is the issue for -- >> exactly. >> older, white voters. this discomfort with the changing nature of the country and their states in the so-called californiaization. you hear that a lot in nevada and arizona. we can't become like california and they know what that mean. >> the president was always going to come back to this. this is his political sort of touchstone and has always felt like was a very good political issue for republicans. he said that earlier before he started going at in rallies. with this talk of abolishing

i.c.e., democrats don't want to touch this issue. we don't hear pushback from democratic leadership or candidate. >> ignore it. >> about the caravan. they want to pivot to health care, economic issues, friendlier terrain for them and things that they think people care more about. that may be correct but poll numbers are instructing this view. this issue scares people if they can get them focused on potential crime, economic hardship, all these other things that are associated with immigration, that voters are actually -- not just republicans, independents and some noncollege educated whites who are more in the middle are susceptible to this argument. democrats have also been holding back on making the counter argument. >> another play from the president, a related play. early voting is under way. 37 states plus the district of columbia has it. the president tweeting on his way home from the trip, all levels of the government and law enforcement are watching carefully for voter fraud,

including early voting. cheat at your own peril. violenters will be subject to maximum penalties, both civil and criminal. should we not be encouraging voting, not discourage voting? >> i like how he's now concerned about election security now that this caravan is heading to the united states. we could see him use this after the midterm elections if there is a pretty big democratic takeover. he will say this is part of this and why that happened. i think the president is genuinely frustrated by the carav caravan. he sees these images play out, he's genuinely frustrated by this. he is sending a message that if you elect democrats, you are going to have hardened criminals in our country. that's why he's using those phrases. he doesn't know if these people are hardened criminals or not. that message is working for his base. if he continues to bring it up.

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all 435 house districts on the map and how cnn rates them today. we fill it in with live election results and get the answer in 16 days. here is the question. is there a big blue anti-trump wave about to hit or are republicans right when they claim late momentum and hold out the possibility that they keep control of the house? it's complicated but some races and regions on election night will tell us more than others. let's go to the map. 23, a net gain of 23 to pick up the house is what democrats need. new england plus new york state, they think they can pick up as many as ten seats or as few as five. maybe republicans can pull it off. if the democrats get off to a big early lead, that would help them. just in pennsylvania, just in pennsylvania, democrats think they could pick up as many as six or seven house seats. if the republicans can hold it to three or four in the state of pennsylvania, which has redrawn

lines, that will tell you. early clues on election night who is winning pennsylvania. virginia, democrats are favored in this republican-held district now over the river in the d.c. suburbs. they think it's a no brainer. another big test. is it a moderate blue wave, big blue wave? your incumbent republican and his opponent, this district has suburbs in it, then stretches tout rural areas. it is a tough fight. if democrats can win seats like this, they're on their way to the house majority f republicans can hold seats like this, we may be counting all the way to the west coast. this race is very close. listen to dave brat who called this an unforced error, speaking to incarcerated felons who have drug problems. dave brat saying, you know what? you should empathize with me. they're running negative tv ads against me. >> i've got $5 million worth of negative ads going at me. how do you think i'm feeling? nothing is easy.

>> the idea that someone in a position of elected office, someone in a position of power would sit before people facing incredible challenges like substance use disorders and their own recovery and compare it to an election experience is just beyond the pale for me. >> hard to argue. he later said i'm not trying to say their problems are the sa im. the reason we focus on the race, not just because of the hard-to-explain remarks but that's one of the districts that could give us clues. is there a ripple, wave, a tsunami? >> he couldn't afford that error in a really competitive race. if he does lose, that will be one of those things that probably put the nail in the coffin. it's a great example, john, of a bellwether district. in northern virginia, much more

of a tilting seat, that's a different animal than the brat district. here is why. it reflects other seats around the country. because of jurymandering, has about half a dozen rural counties as well. in that combination we see in house seats around the country where there are these places that have big democratic energy in the suburbs but the seats stretch into the countryside. can can they turnout to overset their losses in the countryside? if you see that flip on election night and kentucky flip as well verks similarly. amy mcgrath, big liberal college town but with half a dozen counties around it. if we see those two seats flip,

i think we'll know what will happen election day. >> and if they get suburban turnou turnout. >> much more narrow path. >> that's true but to your point exactly, if they can win that because suburban turnout overwhelms rural turnout, the path becomes very difficult for republicans to retain. dave brat, that was eric cantor's old seat. he won the primary, okay, he's the congressman-elect. >> real fast, so many seats like this that were drawn in 2011 to be safe gop seats because they based them in these suburbs that historically were very republican. >> but the president is toxic. >> correct. >> it's all about college-educated women. >> let's flip to the senate. heidi heitkamp. tough state. north dakota. she's a democrat. trump won the state by 20-plus

points. she thought she could fight this one out. her campaign, unforced error, runs an ad in a newspaper, identifying survivors of sexual assault without their permission, naming some women who say they're not survivors at all, that this is just a mistake. democrat who is already in trouble has to apologize. >> the last thing i would ever want to do is cause trauma to any victim of violence. my parents taught me if i made a mistake to take responsibility and try to make things right. >> that's one vulnerable democrat in trump state. o'donnelly has to win. this tells you something, that joe donnelly is nervous. >> for the most part i'm an easy-going guy but not when mike keeps lying about my record i

split with my own party to support funding for trump's wall. liberal left wants to chop defense spending. no way. >> split with my party on the wall, liberal left. that's the democratic candidate for senate. it tells you something about the split election. house climate favors the democrats but senate seems to be trending late to the republicans. right? >> we were talking about how democrats feel vulnerable on these issues in immigration and the border wall. that was one of the issues he chose to pick out and say i'm not like the other democrats. i'm for this state and i'm your senator. but there's no question that he is feeling the pressure. the heitkamp race, you could argue -- you could look at the numbers and see that heidi heitkamp was in a world of hurt before this unforced error. and i think if she loses, which looks likely, this will clearly be pointed to as a big reason why. but the fact is that the structural advantages for republicans in a lot of these

places are just really hard to overcome. when you have the president this involved in intensifying republican sort of energy and trying to get them out, it does put people like joe donnelly in a pretty precarious decision. position. so if they're able to hold on to se seats like that, that's great for the democrats. if not that's the ball game for -- >> heitkamp ad was so bad. >> so bad. >> i think she was genuine in her apologize but it was a mistake you cannot make. even one of the women who was featured in it and obviously did not want to be, did an interview with cnn this week. she said she was going to vote for her but is not voting for her now. she said even though she apologized and accepted it. it was a really bad mistake. >> democrats now lose a seat or two in the senate. >> some republicans think, yeah, they could gain two or three. fascinating night. stick with us. election night we'll have clues on the east coast but stay up with us all night.

kamala harris, cory booker, all on the road this weekend. the final days of 2018 are very much a 2020 preview.

campaigns are kind of like old-school tv programming, plus a tease or two or ten about what next season will bring. >> we are the party of we, not the party of me. we're the party of social caring, the party of medicare. we're the party of medicaid. >> instead of having a tax bill that is all about lifting up the top 1%, let's give that money to the working people of america. >> nobody, nobody should have to work two jobs to make a living in the united states of america. >> we are going to stop the pharmaceutical industry from ripping us off. we are going to stop the drug

companies and the insurance companies from ripping us off. >> yes, just this weekend a half dozen democratic prospects out on the campaign trail. some fresh faces, some more familiar. this is striking and i guess predictable. high energy in your party right now. it's getting to know you time. >> yeah. and, look, they're trying to gather chits for their own future campaign. it kind of helps them in the long term. i was with bernie sanders in ann arbor, michigan, college town in michigan. he obviously had his enthusiasts there. he was more focused on his piece than he was the ticket in michigan in 2018. >> you saw the political headline with old bernie people saying don't run again.

>> great story. >> story about will he have some sort of meeting with warren and others to figure this out beforehand? we did a poll. bernie sanders says he's an independent. just among democrats who identify themselves as liberals, biden, harris, warren, sanders. sanders tied with beto o'rourke. there's tension within the ranks, if you will. >> if you add to that to a recent iowa survey, which bernie folks believe was too moderate, but showing that biden ways well ahead of the rest of the field. these early surveys, yes, it's a test of name i.d. but bernie sanders has name i.d. he ran across the country two years ago for president of the united states. the fact that he is not at the top of these surveys does tell you that 2020 would be a very different campaign for him. >> you look at the democratic primaries this year. ted cruz looked at the

republican primaries and that's why he decided to run in 2016. so they don't always carry over. but young, diverse. joe biden was out yesterday, had one in vegas, one in elkove. boom. >> about to be shredded. shredded by a president who is all about himself. it's all about donald. it's not about anything else. >> sleepy joe biden. we call him 1% joe because he ran at least twice -- i think thee times. they say twice i think he ran three times. he never had more than 1%. >> the president often falls into the same trap of these democrats, he wants to talk about 2020 more than the election in two weeks. >> privately he is much more concerned about who is going to run against him. not just privately. because obviously he's going against joe biden publicly. aides and allies constantly he's

asked who do you think will run against me? they're like please focus on the midterms. we're trying to save our butts and he's continuously focused on 2020. >> this is about name recognition. democratic party is becoming a party of millennials and women. 13% next in the poll, sanders, there's a good argument to be made that he will play a kingmaker role. it's the same issue set he has been talking about 30 years and the democratic party is moving in his direction. >> he already won the war, sahil. >> sanders rival for progressive wing, elizabeth warren. she's made it clear she wants to run in 2020, including this dna test, which she says proves she has at least part of native american heritage. here is her debate. >> the whole notion of confidence in government has really gone to a low point. fo r me what i've done is i've just tried to put it all out

there. i've put out ten years of taxes, my hiring records, all the papers that anybody could find. i put out my family story. shoot, i even took a dna test. it is there. i am an open book. >> some people think that open book hurt herself. >> some people wish that particular chapter had not been written or had come later in the midterm election. donald trump is setting the script for these 2020 hopefuls, that they are responding to him and he has called her pocahontas so she takes a dna test to prove she's not faking her native american history. it's not surprising to see them coalescing around this debate. >> never start too soon? i don't know about that. pretty good election this year. >> there we go. hear hear! record turnover at the white

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one last time around the "inside politics" table, and ask our reporters to dive into their notebooks. >> the white house is looking at a potentially active period of

turnover following the midterm congressional elections and is really bracing for what that's going to mean. white house counsel don mcgahn has left. a new counsel in the white house. they're looking for a new u.s. ambassador to the united nations. that process is going on. even beyond that, and getting the new u.s. u.n. ambassador confirmed there's a bunch of other people in the west wing who have been eyeing the exits, waiting for the midterms to be over, perhaps for the end of the year and a whole other crop of people for this white house, which has already experience aid pretty large degree of turnover, who made a two-year commitment at the beginning about and are also waiting to go out the door. we're waiting to see a big turnover and that could have a big influence as to how this white house operates under a new congress. >> for good reason, we're fixated on the house and senate races in washington. and obviously that's going to have a huge impact on the future of the country and president trump's first term. i'm fascinated by governor's

races in this country, and here is why. folks that win it this year will be in office after the next census. most governors will have a role in the redrawing of the lines across the country, which will shape house politics for the next decade. i was in michigan over the weekend and the democrats there have a good shot at winning the governor's race. that, combined with a ballot measure to crow ate a nonpartisan reapportion commission. that helped solidify lines for the next decade. if the same thing happens this year for democrats, 2018 could be hugely important. >> midwest a big, hopeful sign for the democrats. we'll see if they can pull it off. we're hopeful they do. >> the need to cut social security for the long haul.

painting republicans as the party that wants to rip a hole in the safety net. mcconnell did say it's unlikely that a unified government can go after medicare. democrats want to go in the spakt opposite direction, expand social security, medicare to all and raise taxes to cover t this is shaping up to be a significant battle between two ideologies in the long haul. >> and the president with a third view. if democrats take the house you'll have three derch opinions. >> i don't think there's any doubt in anyone's mind that at some point sarah sander is going to leave. it would be normal for her to leave around this time. people speculated she might leave after the midterms but no speculation about who is going to row pla-- replace her. i think we've had two press briefings since labor day and the president has been on a media blitz where he's talking

almost every single day. he's all over the place. and there hasn't been an uproar over press briefings because you hear from the president so much. will people really care when the press secretary does leave? >> he's doing the job himself at the moment. we'll see if that continues. a new group hoping to make 2018, still hoping to make 2018 a third-party movement. bill walker suspended his campaign the other day and endorsed the democrat after his running mate bowed out for making inappropriate comments to a woman. united america now the latest third-party effort to learn how difficult it is for reasons ranging from bad luck to strict ballot access laws to lay the building blocks for sustained success. that's it for us for "inside politics."

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