>> you would want dog like that. leland: people love you more. on that note, mike emmanuel has made it to new york he and eboni williams will pick it up. ♪ >> president trump taking twitter to continue taking away security clearances including senior justice department official all days after pulling access direct cia director brennan who is directing criticism at the commander in chief. hello welcome to inside america's news headquarters, i'm mike emmanuel. >> and i'm eboni cay williams, the president will move quickly to remove credentials of current doj officials bruise ohr as we learned new documents showing ohr's connection to antitrump dossier. the president's threat comes on the heels of his decision this week to remove john brennan security's clearance.

the former cia chief firing back in an interview last night. >> the other people in so-called enemy's list is another example of mr. trump trying to frighten and intimidate others, i can tell you having worked in national security and intelligence community for many years these are not the type of people who will be bullied or intimidated someone the likes of mr. trump. >> fox news security correspondent jennifer griffin with muff more. >> eboni, democrats have called it enemy's list, admiral navy seal who saw bin laden raid compare today mccarthy era tactics, in an interview with rachel maddow speak at length after having security clearance revoked. >> there's been a health cry from many intelligence professionals not to support me but to support the principle

that security clearances are something that's very, very solemn and sacred and they never ever should be used for political purposes either to grant friends for clearances or revoke clearances of your critics. >> among those now in the president's sights former head of fbi james comey, former dni james clapper among others, washington post reported last night that the white house had drafted orders from the president for more security clearances to be revoked of particular note is justice department prosecutor who works in the organized crime division who most people had not heard of until recently, bruce ohr demoted by rod rosenstein early on in the mueller probe afters revealed that he had contact with christopher steele, the former mi6 spy who compiled unverified dossier that included allegation that is russia had dirt on president trump, ohr's wife nelly worked for fusion gps, opposition research firm

hired by clinton campaign to investigate any ties trump had to russia, president trump hinted at what is likely to be his next move while leaving the white house friday. >> ic bruce ohr is a disgrace, i think that bruise -- bruce ohr is a disgrace with wife nelly, for him to be in justice department and for him to do what he did, that's a disgrace. >> bruce ohr to testify on capitol hill on august 28th, order to revoke clearance drafted in july but conversations from the white house suggest that it was announced this week to distract from the new book by omarosa which was producing bad headlines for the president, eboni. >> thank you, jennifer. mike. mike: eboni is alex little, alex, good to see you. >> good afternoon. mike: there's debate of whether forrer officials like john

brennan need security clearance or it's courtesy, take a look at tim scott and i will ask your reaction. >> we are fighting whether or not he has it or whether or not we are taking it. the question is how is america safer because he has it and the answer is there really isn't a good answer, why does he have it? there's not a good answer to that question and taking away seems plausible and logical. >> alex, your thoughts. >> i would hate to be republican and having to defend the president on this, tim scott is smarter than that. when you have someone with a career that has relationships around the world like john brennan, he brings incredible amount of insight, if you're still at cia, you're still with national security council and you want to ask brennan his thoughts on what's going on, he needs to know what's going on, he needs to have the clearance so you have a discussion with him because people like him make the country much safer because of their knowledge, because of the relationships. mike: what about those who make the argument the president is using clearance as weapon or trying to silence john brennan's

criticism, what about that? >> he's admit today that. that's the admission to wall street journal, reports about that washington post as well. the president has the power to use classified clearance processes to revoke or grant but when it does it this way undermines who we are as country, national security is the most important thing. president trump could legally strip democrats of security clearances and incredibly despicable path and that's the path he's walking on. mike: then the president plan to go take security clearance of bruce ohr, wife nelly, contractor for fusion gps which worked on the dossier about the president during the campaign, where are you on ohr's clearance? >> one that he can't do is he can't fire bruce ohr, he has protections, has to be fired for good cause and the president appears to find way to inflict pain on those who he disagrees with. this is what happens when you have, i think, an individual who appears to be reacting and not

acting very presidential. there's no president, democrat or republican who has ever reacted this way towards civil servants who are doing job to protect the country and uphold system of justice we have. anyone on either side of the aisle and looks at this and are not disgusted need to reorder priorities. >> blocking the president from revoking security clearance, sees security clearance as punishing and intimidating the president's critics, is that more a protest from top democrat on the senate intelligence committee? >> mark warner will put republican colleagues to the test, is congress a separate and equal power of government that will put checks on this president or are they just going to be the way that they've act sod far which is to let president trump pretty much do what he wants. we have tariffs, problems with the trade wars and we will see if they actually will take the challenge an put sol real restraints on the powers of president trump.

mike: i'm going to ask you to take for a moment to get reaction on the latest development on the paul manafort trial, eboni. >> jury deliberations are set to resume on monday morning after judge received threats over the case. >> a big reason why the fbi opened the investigation into possible collusion between trump campaign and russia in the first place. former trump campaign tweeted guilty to lie to go fbi agents and special counsel robert mueller's team recommended the judge sentence papadopoulos to up to six months in prison along with a fine of $9,500, according to mueller's sentencing memorandum, papadopoulos lied in order to conceal contacts during campaign and made false statements to investigators on january 27th, 2017 early in the investigation when he investigated decisions including who to interview and when were being made.

papadopoulos is scheduled to be sentenced on september 7th, next week, though, former trump campaign chairman paul manafort is expected to learn his fate in the first two trials mueller's team has against him. after 14 hours of deliberations the verdict has not reached verdict and won't be at it again until monday morning, manafort saying at this point they are feeling confident. >> favors your client? >> i do and he does. >> denied request for a handful of media outlets to unseal the names of the jurors, he couldn't do without endangering safety because he has received threats himself and now has to travel with armed detail from the u.s. marshals, eboni. >> thank you, garrett, back to you, mike. mike: for more bring back alex little defense attorney and former assistant federal prosecutor, so is this jury deliberation stretching into a new week good sign for paul manafort and his attorneys? >> as long as the jury stays out

and doesn't return a verdict that's a good thing for paul manafort, when you get in long trials you want the jury to take time and hope that there's dissension about verdict. it's not unusual to go this long given the length of the trial but certainly help the defendant. mike: i want to play comments president trump made and get your reaction, listen to this. >> they should be looking at bruce ohr and his wife nelly for dealing with by the way indirectly russian, they should be looking at steele, all of the fbi guys who got fired and demoted, it's not us. mr. mueller has a lot of conflicts also directly yourself but you know that. mr. mueller is highly conflicted. if he was doing an honest report he would write it on the other side. >> with mueller handling mueller case would you be concerned if jurors heard comments and read the president's tweets this weekend while they are deliberating? >> i think the mueller team

would be concerned about that, i think, we have to look at broader picture, never in american history is the u.s. president really defamed a prosecutor in the midst of really high-profile case like this. we have to use president trump as president when makes statements and he's the target in many ways of investigation and so he's not acting presidential, he's not acting like the president, he's acting like somebody who is under scrutiny, the jury hears that there's going to be problem, issues earlier where the jurors may have been expose today external information, this judge will have a handle on that, he will ask them monday if they ever talked to anyone about the case or heard about the case, we have processes for that in court system and i hope they'll follow those. >> you also worked on prosecution side of things, how nervous prosecutors are right about now? >> it's the most nerve-racing time, you worked on case for months, built it and present today jury and now it's out of your hands, wait for those 12 people to come back, they'll not get a lot of sleep and

second-guess everything they did until the verdict comes back. mike: what if they fail to get conviction here, does that increase calls for special counsel to wrap things up? >> it's odd because this case really was unusual on now normal it was, this bus a basic bank fraud and tax fraud case that could have been brought in any courtroom in the country in federal court and in some ways it probably wouldn't have much effect, the next trial of paul manafort is much more critical because it does involve contacts with russians and much more closely aligned with the campaign but i think both sides will find things to complain about or to crowe about when the verdict is read. mike: are you surprised judge ellis revealed that he has received death threats an being protected by federal marshals? >> no, in high-profile trials it has happened before and the reason he told folks he's explaining why he wants to shield the jurors, judges really try to protect the jury as best they can. judge ellis will do and needs to provide context as to why he thought it was necessary. mike: what about george papadopoulos with the recommendation he gets up 6

months of jail time? >> well, what's most interesting about the recommendation is what the prosecutor about the things that papadopoulos had done to really lie to the prosecutors and to try to tort their investigation, so if i'm a federal judge i don't like the fact that that's the way papadopoulos treated investigators and he's got a real chance of spending some time in jail. mike: alex little, thanks a lot. >> tensions escalating as president trump increasing pressure on turkey over the american pastor being held captive there, here is how the nato ally is responding plus trump administration is launching a new strategy to curve urban's dangerous activity, what the white house is hoping to accomplish. >> from aspirations of nuclear weapons it's support for terrorism, its cyber activity, proliferation of ballistic missiles and much more, the iran

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mike: tributes pouring around the world following death of first black african secretary general, passed away in switzerland shortly after

falling ill, won nobel peace prize for far-reaching humanitarian work and served two terms as the un's chief, home country of ghana declared a week of national mourning in his honor. >> the iran action group will be responsible directing, reviewing all aspects of the state department iran related activity, will report directly to me, for nearly 40 years the regime in tehran have been responsible for violence and terrorism behavior against united states, allies and partners including iranian people themselves. >> that's secretary of state mike pompeo announcing a new task force focusing on iran, this is the trump administration moves forward with efforts to force changes in tehran's behavior, general anthony, former deputy commanding general with u.s. forces in afghanistan, also the author of the upcoming novel dark winter which hits

book sthestles -- shelves this october, so much with iran, endeavor -- devastating behavior, and it's, you know, no secret that the sanctions that president trump has talked about reimposing in faith of 2015 iran deal is part of the steps, from your experience outside of the sanction in position, what other things should we be doing to force some of the bad behavior from tehran in iran to deescalate. >> i think secretary pompeo has it exactly right, he and president trump establishing the iran action group. when you think about it, there are about four major elements of national power that this administration has shown more adept than any in recent history and what secretary pompeo is

doing is really pushing hard on the diplomatic piece and he's got mr. hook, we step addway from iran deal and trying to get a better deal and, you know, you think about it eboni, we signed the deal under president obama and we had no provision in there stopping support of hamas, hezbollah, the houthi rebels and yemen, any state-sponsored terrorism. that's what this administration is trying to do. and then, you know, try to renegotiate another deal and that's -- that's what's happening now. >> general to your point of your resetting which i think most everybody could agree is needed at this point, president trump has said that he's willing to sit down and speak with the president of iran, you know, under certain circumstances but iran, tehran seems to be saying that the best way to a great nes

he's demonstrated and i think iran is afraid of that and what they want is all the other levers from the european powers to be able to with europe primarily with cars and airplanes and precious metals, that's the first sanctions to hit. oil is the next set to hit. >> i don't think you're at all

alone, they think it's a very bad deal with few assurances, i don't know much of any evidence we have seen that the deal itself has decreased the escalation from violence with iran but do you see another way for the talks to reengage? >> yeah, for economy to implode as is happening for the revolution that is bubbling there but does get no mainstream media coverage because, you know, it supports president trump's actions and so they are not going to cover it. so what is really -- the two options for iran are their economy implodes and the revolution picks up steam or they engage with president trump and find a path forward. >> excellent, i want to ask you before we wrap here, it's been reported that iran's navy has mounted a locally-built advanced defense weapon and that's for the first time, how dangerous? >> very dangerous. >> bypassing some of those weapons because they can't get them, embargoes around them so

they are having home-grown weapons? >> the persian gulf is one of the key strategic channels that our navy has to keep open and if they confront our navy they will be on the losing end but we could also have casualties involved there and that's something that the military element of power, you remember i talked about diplomatic information, military economic, it's all about leveraging those and that secretary pompeo with the task force is really pushing forward with diplomatic which should be happy about which means we are not leading with the chin of american servicemen and women. >> doesn't seem that we should have to be doing all alope as you mentioned european forces that are part of iran deal that have separate interests than ours but common interest in making sure that they denuclearize and don't get any further in nuclear, do you see any buy-in from european allies here? >> i think eventually, nato and

other types of collective security arraignments require one alpha to lead it and so president trump and the united states now is reasserting itself on the world stage and, you know, we had 8 years of a philosophy that weaker america make for stronger world, lead from behind, that kind of thing, now we are resetting that and we have president trump and the united states leading from the front and people are having to adapt to that and get used to that again, you know, sort of like we did with president reagan and takes some time for people to understand that that's a good thing and so president trump leading nato forward, leading in the southwest asia, leading around the world with north korea and other areas, it's all good thing because there are so many geopolitical hot spot that is the president has force today take on and he's doing in great fashion. >> thank you so much, please pick up his book out in october, thank you. >> thank you, eboni.

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>> a new report saying former trump white house staffer omaros has what's being described a trove of recordings, emails and text messages shedding light on her time in the trump administration, ellison barber in berkeley hieghts, new jersey not far from the president's

golf club where he will be all weekend. >> hi, mike, the white house made it clear that this should not be in the news and not something that we should focus on but omarosa has made it clear that she has more to say and perhaps more to show. >> things that i write about and things that i will share when the time is right. the president, he's different than the person i met back in 2003. he has some serious mental impairment. >> according to new report in the associated press there could be more than just audiotape, stash of videos, emails, text messages and other documentation supporting claim in tell-all book, person described it as treasure troll, they say she's

violating 2016 confidentiality agreement, the publisher of book unhinged responded in a letter sent to the president's legal team, they say they are acting well within their right here and their client will not be intimidating but what they call hollow legal threat, the president says the former aide is deranged and trying to paint her as liar and someone without any credibility. >> he has absolutely no respect for women, for african americans as evidenced by him instructing the chief of staff to lock me for two hours in the situation room to harass me and threaten me that things could get ugly to me and damage to my reputation, he's unfit to be in this office. >> he was somebody went out and spoke on behalf of the president, said glowing things up to including after she was fired from the white house and how amazing he was doing for the african american community, what he was doing for the economy. >> new york times is reporting

newman could have up 200 secretly recorded tapes, mike. mike: ellison barber live in new jersey, thanks very much. eboni. >> president trump slamming social media sites accusing them of clamping down on conservatives, the president tweeting, quote, social media is totally discriminating against republican, conservative voices speaking loudly and clearly for the trump administration. we won't let that happen, they are closing down the opinions of many people on the right while at the same time doing nothing to others, ellen, bureau chief for talk media news and fox news contributor. thank you both. >> thank you. >> so i'm going to start with -- i'm going to start with alex jones, right, talk about some of that with what's going on with him and his twitter account and other censorships there but i will eventually talk about more

traditional republicans and the shadow banning that president trump is tweeting about but we will start with alex jones, so initially, twitter did not censor alex jones, we saw facebook take down content and twitter ceo jack dorsey say that it was under the guides of hate speech, i will start actually with you, ellen, hate speech now we know this doesn't trigger any constitutional protections because these are private entities, but in general, would you say hate speech should be protected? >> no, i don't think hate speech should be protected, you can't burn a cross on somebody's lawn, you can't yell fire in a crowded theater. >> that's not hate speech. >> and i think that's fine. >> right. and just to follow up, matt, hate speech before it does deem to be legal although again we are not talking about legalities because these are private entities but when it does

trigger your example of yelling fire in crowded theater, something that would jeopardize safety, we cross threshold. we will pivot, i want to go on this, the alex jones scenario, do you think it does republicans and conservative voices favor to really distinguish themselves from someone like an alex jones who, yes, might hold himself out as conservative or republican or voice on the right but certainly goes very, very far with some of the things that he says, conspiracy theories, the hoax on newton, do you think it's better for conservatives and republican voices to distance or distinguish themselves from that kind of conspiracy theory? >> yeah, conservatives need to focus on the principles, the principles that have helped the economy, helped the american people to move things forward in a positive way. i think we have to be careful in terms of limiting, most americans, 80% thing hate speech is wrong but the interesting

thing for conservatives, conservatives often complain about the censorship or shadowing and so on but that's sort of like complaining about the philadelphia eagles winning the super bowl because they had bigger guys, the conservatives have to be better in terms of shaping message and getting it out there to the american people. the interesting thing also is that as we look at that especially moving into the midterms, there's a really interesting study in terms of what should be done in terms of that, the worst thing we can have happen is for the government to regulate all of that on social media, that's a disaster waiting to happen and part of that is because it's not really a platform problem. it's a people problem. mit did a study this year that showed that false news moves 70% more likely to be shared an move, confirmation bias problem and we the people problem that we need to be checking a lot

more so we don't let the extreme voices on the right or the left prevent us from having that we need to have as country. >> you know the old age news saying, bad news travel fast unfortunately. let me follow with the shadow banning, let's go to more traditional politician examples, we've got mark meadows, congressman from north carolina, jim jordan, congressman from ohio that they have been sensorred in a way, consumers would go to touchdown search functions their names didn't come up, they take issue with it, there's even been hearings in washington around this, do you buy facebook, excuse me, twitter's response that we are aware of it, this did happen, it was not okay but not intentional. >> listen, twitter has own ways of doing things as does facebook as does google, et cetera, and you can't interfere with a company in the way they do things, however, again, you can't have hate speech and if somebody is going to engage in hate speech they should be axed

out. >> i haven't gone through all of the timeline do we know that conservative voices were engaging in hate speech, alex jones example aside, that's why i got him out the way first, when we start talking about traditional, if you will, classical gop right-leaning conservative voices, let's give them the benefit of the doubt and some aren't engaging in hate speech, should there be some type of distinction in the way they are treated for progressive voices? >> absolutely not. i don't think so, all speech as long as it doesn't involve hate speech or going after a particular group, whether poor people, gay people or whatever should be allowed. >> okay, i see you on that. let me go to boyd, do you think it's a problem for social media companies? i remember it must have been a year and change ago where facebook, mac zuckerberg had to invite leading conservative voices to his campus in silicon valley, i know our own dana

parino, at some point accusation of this whether they are doing it or not doing it problematic for there's platforms? >> that's definitely a challenge, that's where we are going to compete in the marketplace and that's why zuckerberg invited conservatives to say no, no, you're welcome, if he doesn't, something else will emerge, a new platform will emerge, new opportunities, it's been like that throughout history and so for the businesses themselves, yes, it's important but it's also important that people don't get too distracted by that. if you're complaining and explaining you're usually losing and if thing that the president has to be careful of is getting into this grievance mode that if it's always negative, american people get angry, we get frustrated and yell and scream but then we move on, the president has to be careful that he doesn't get too hunkered down in this idea that i can get people riled up. one of the things i appreciate

about ellen, she's willing to call out the left or the right if she feels like they are off base and we need more people, we need more businesses, we need more social media forms that are willing to have confident -- enough confidence in principles to have a real conversation about it online. >> agreed, certainly, here, here. final question before we go, is this just kind of a big-nothing sandwich if you take into the premise that the leading voice on twitter by most standards and on most days is the president himself, certainly, right, and certainly he's not been censored on twitter that's measurable, do you take that in light, do we really have a problem here? >> i think that the president should be not on twitter but that's just my own viewpoint, i don't think it is good for him politically, period. >> the -- okay, boyd, your final thought on it. >> yeah, the american people are exhausted, they are tired, again, it's a left and a right problem, the president adds fuel

to that fire every morning about 5:00 o'clock and we chase it through the day but the more important thing the what's going on in the communities, the conversations that we should be having around the dinner table at the water cooler and over the back fence because those are principles and that's usually where we actually get to the truth as when we have those real-live conversations with folks and so i think the president needs to start pivoting, he's done the grievance thing, now pivot to the vision, the economy, the things that will make things better for the american people. >> well, certainly policy and substance are always going to rule the day. >> thank you. >> thanks, eboni. >> eboni, tensions escalating between the united states and turkey over the detainment of an american pastor. the trump administration now threatening to take new action but turkey says it will not cave to the pressure, where does the war of words go from here? >> turkey has in my opinion acted very, very badly, so we haven't seen the last of that. we are not going to take it

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correspondent for reuters, jeff, good to see you. i recognize it's a muslim country and he's a christian that would be easy step to ease tensions with the u.s., no? >> officials in the white house who have been pushing for this for some time including not only the president but vice president pence who has made this a really big cause who are dumb-founded really that turkey is not letting him go. it's turned to really a war of wills and personalities between president trump and between president erdogan, worth noting that turkey is a friend technically, turkey member of nato and u.s. ally and to have crisis like this with two countries that are aligned in many ways certainly in terrorism and national security within

nato is quite unusual and having major impacts on the turkish economy. mike: this is clearly an irritant for president trump who tweeted thursday, turkey has taken advantage of the united states for many years, they are now holding wonderful christian pastor who i ask to represent country as great hostage, we will pay nothing for release of innocent man but we are cutting back on turkey, is this about erdogan wanting to look tough on the international stage? >> well, i think both leaders are wanting to sort of hold their ground and look tough, certainly erdogan does not want to look like he's backing down to the united states, does not want to look like he's backing down to president trump and so they are both responding with very tough responses and that includes tough responses, the united states doubled tariffs on steel and aluminum and turkey put tariff on coal and threatened to boycott u.s.

electronic products, it's becoming economic conflict as well. mike: feel like tensions are building on the turkish side as well, erdogan attempted of economic coup, that sounds like erdogan is nervous, is that your read? >> look at what's happened to his economy, the lira, the turkish currency dropped dramatically and that undermines him and his government. it is something that if you were leading that country i would think you would be concern, that said his response has been not to sort of play ball as it were with the united states to kind of prevent those types of consequences from happening but to double down. mike: jeff, where is the escape, is there a logical foreign leader that could cut safe haven for erdogan?

>> that's a good question. the president of the united states, president trump is not going to back down about pastor brunson and erdogan so far has indicated he's not going to back down either and they have put demands on the u.s., they would like the united states to extradite turkish cleric that they think is responsible for a coup, whether somebody else steps with that, it would make logical sense that perhaps a european leader or somebody else in nato alliance would help out but so far there aren't any signs of that that that's going to happen. >> you covered the white house a long time and very well, what is your assessment during this and previous administrations of how good of an ally turkey has been in recent years? >> well, it's a good question and i think it's interesting that the president has been so critical of turkey because there are actually some natural similarities between the two leaders. president trump often has little more affinity with a more leader

like president erdogan and so this is not, he has not been critical per se of erdogan and one see slide in democratic values in turkey over the last several months and even longer than that. that's not a criticism point that the president has used before but now that they have this, you know, major thorn because of pastor brunson, you're seeing more criticism come from the president and generally from others in the trump administration. mike: and what about erdogan's handling of journalists and other people who are doing their jobs? >> well, his record on freedom of the press is one that deserves some -- some critic and criticism and it has gotten some, obviously that is a similarity with president trump as well, but there are certainly big differences there between turkey and the united states and erdogan amassed a great deal of power and consolidated some of

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>> new york university announcing both current and future medical school students will receive free full tuition scholarships, the school says the goal is to fight the shortage of doctors in lower-paying fields. bryan llenas with more details. or surprise announcement of free tuition for all current and future medical students during the the annual white coat ceremony in which 93 first-year students are given white lab coats for the first time and this was their reaction. >> i would tell people to give them full tuition scholarships

today, take that, multiply by over 100. this is about keeping people on the path to medicine. two, once they get into medicine, these crushing levels of debt can adversely impact physician decision making. >> annual tuition nyu is 50,000 a year, the association of medical colleges says there could be a shortage of up to 49,000 primary care physicians. nyu believes less and less doctors are becoming primary care physicians or pediatricians because physicians don't pay as much as other specialized fields, if student graduate with less debt would encourage them to work in much-needed fields. nyu first top medical schools to offer free tuition, they've raised 450 million of the $600 million it will cost to fund free tuition for every medical student from here on out at that school, let's go back,

though, to the students reaction, if you look at the video, if i got free tuition i think it would be running like my hair is on fire. i think they are pretty tamed for free tuition, incredible, though. great for them. >> i have to say, i'm with you. [laughter] >> i'm still paying back law school loans, absolutely. >> crazy, the average medical student in the country has $192,000 in debt, so good for them. >> absolutely, we certainly need more doctors, so thank you for that report, bryan. >> that does it for us, we will be back at 4:00 p.m. for more news. >> the journal editorial report is up next. mike: thank you. or if you forgot your bike was on the roof rack, you only pay one deductible -instead of two- for a claim involving both your auto and home. and when you save that much,

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paul: welcome to the journal editorial report. i'm paul gigot, primaries in four states tuesday giving us clear picture of stakes heading into november with the midwest shaping up to be a key battleground in the midterm elections. not just for the house and senate but for governor's mansions as well. we begin in minnesota where former two-term governor and up with-time trump critic tim lost to johnson, boast candidates acknowledging tuesday that the president played a role in out the race turned out. >> i support donald trump, i have always supported donald trump, it doesn't mean i always agree with him, we are going to differ sometimes but i think he's trying to take