trump. and the president decided to help them out. >> liberal democrats from outside of georgia are spending millions and millions of dollars trying to take your republican congressional seat away from you. don't let them do it. >> plus from turk tow north korea to syria. how the president is dealing with dictators. and the owner of the l.a. clippers is here. how he is grabbing the ball to make sense of government spending. >> we give people the ability to understand their government in action. not have to hear adjectives like we have a huge problem. we have a small problem. >> this is mtp daily and it starts right now. good evening. i'm chuck todd in election headquarters. it's a tuesday. why shouldn't i be here? it is a special election day in georgia's 6th district. thce to fill tom price's old

seat in congress. one of thest real competitive elections in 2017. polls close in less than two hours. georgia is on our mind, but also on president trump's mind. in the past 48 hour, the president tweeted about the race five times including in the last 30 minutes. he also recorded a robo call slamming the leading democratic candidate. >> only you can stop the super liberal democrats and nancy pelosi's group and in particular, jon ossoff. if you don't vote tomorrow, he will raise your taxes, destroy your health care, and flood our country with illegal immigrants. >> the president's late interest may be a double-edged sword for the tweets and the robo call is aimed at driving up republican turn out, but it may turn the race into a revereferendum on t white house. democratic ads for the

front-runner in the district tried to frame the race just this way. i approved this message because i will work with anyone to do what is right for the country. we can't let donald trump put us at risk. >> he will be joining us on the phone in a minute. last week on the program, he was asked if it was a referendum on trump. at the time he gave a mixed answer. >> there are certainly people in the community who have serious concerns about the direction of things in washington right now and the administration and i share those concerns. fundamentally my campaign is positive about a vision for our local economic development and values that bring people in the community together. instead of division and fear. >> until president trump got involved, republican attacks on

ossoff were what they have been running on for years plus a few personal attac on his background. they are running a typical campaign bause in that was a typical campaign for the district is an at least on paper a lean republican district. not a trump one. mitt romney won 61% and trump took 47%. one of the top polling republicans, bob gray's campaign office is plastered in trump signs. on this program yesterday, he said the president is more popular now than on election day. >> as i go across the district and knocking on doors and making phone calls, you see since november 8th election, more enthusiasm for president trump than you saw a few months ago. >> and we will be checking in with bob gray and his campaign in a moment. the big number to watch tonight is 50. the 50% mark. if the democrat crosses that threshold, he wins the race. if not, he will have to face a

run off against the top republican, most likely a top republican in this case in june. democrats may not have the numbers to win. there won't be any dynamite into the mid-term elections, but it's interesting to see how the race captured the attention of the white house. all get involved in elections early in their terms, but never as black and whitelily as president trump. especially where their involvement is not necessarily an asset. kansas made more sense. here? as he crosses the 50% threshold tonight, it could be a referendum on president trump. joining me now on the phone, one of the candidates is jon ossoff. welcome to the show. i know you are campaigning. >> thank you for having me. >> last week you were sort of back and forth on the idea of this is a referendum on

president trump. him tweeting against you today. do you think this makes this a referendum on president trump? >> well, the national coverage of the race has focused on the national implications and the implications for the administration. i have spoken to the serious concerns that many in the community have here with respect to the administration. i have spoken openly and forcefully about them. i have been focused on local economic development and trying to unite people around a message that promotes shared values and the vision that brings people together rather than dividing us. >> what matters to you tonight percentage wise. you want to win out right. if you come up short, is there a number under 45 that makes you more nervous than over 45? >> chuck as you know, special elections are difficult to poll and predict. anyone who claims to know what's going to happen tonight is spinning. anyone can happen. we are prepared and working as

hard as we can to get out the vote. there are a couple of hours until the polls close to win if possible. >> what do you say to people who say this is too soon to be the first office you are running for. you are 30 years old. what do you say to the person you are not yet qualified to be in congress? what is your response? >> it's a reasonable question, but we need fresh leadership and fresh ideas in congress. one of the things that united republicans, independents and democrats in this district is the idea that with fresh leadership we can breakthrough the gridlock and the constant negativity that prevented washington from delivering solutions that get things done for people at home. i would encourage other young people to run as well. i made the case to folks in the district that flesh blood in d.c. might be exactly what's needed. >> if you win tonight, do you feel as if the message you have

been sent to washington to obstruct president trump or sent toashington to be a bipartisan leader? >> if i win, i will be sent to washington to represent this district effectively. that means working with anyone who has this district's best interest at heart and standing up to anyone who doesn't. if, for example, the white house puts an infrastructure bill that georgia needs, i will support it. if they put forth proposals that are not in the district's interest or if republican oers democrats put forth those that are not in the district's best interest, i will oppose it. >> i will let you go back to campaigning. thanks for spending a few minutes with me. >> thank you, chuck. >> i am joined by a republican rival, mr. gray. happy campaign day to you. >> thank you. thanks for having me. >> what was your reaction today to having president trump, somebody that you have embraced

when it am cans to appealing to republican voters, do you welcome his attention to the race? >> i do. it is an important race. i think he will likely get involved as we get past the election tonight and i'm looking forward to that. >> how concerned are you that maybe there is too much infighting or whatever happened in washington is tamp downturn out. are you concerned about that and do you see that on the ground today? >> not at all. i think the democratses were ahead in early voting, but we pulled up. as i have been around the district today and reflecting on the last week or two, i think the republican turn out is going to set records. >> you embraced running on the trump platform. what does that mean? >> it means about growing the economy and cutting federal spending and it means national

security. if you put in the joint session of beginning, he outlined 22 promises. not a single one they disagree with. they are drawing the economy. >> if you win the seat, some will say you department run away from president trump and you embraced him. if he supports the health care bill, do you feel as if you owe it to him to sign on to it? >> here in the 6th district we have been waiting for the opportunity to repeal obamacare and there is great expectation that that will occur. i think personally we would be looking for the most conservative legislation we could get. they grew up under ronald reagan

when used 80% and better than 100%. i would like to see that as an operating principal. >> you just said what we can get. that tells me you are not somebody that upons to have ideological fights with members of your own party? >> if you spend your in business as i have in three decades all-around the world, you live with points on the board. they have political bickering and want to see them deliver results. that's my background and i'm going to d.c. with the way they do business. >> bob gray, we have campaign to get to. i appreciate you taking a few minutes with me. stay safe on the trip. let me bring in carol lee. bush white house staffer. joan walsh at the nation is an

msnbc political analyst. joan's daughter is working as an organizer in the georgia election. welcome all. let me start with you. when you saw president trump tweeting, what went through your mind? >> wow. why doesn't he try to stay out of this. you are not helping the cause. you are galvanizing people. >> you truly believe this? >> i think so. it is wreaking desperation that he has been all over twitter trying to mobilize in the final hours. it makes me wonder if the efforts of so many democratic activists who decent the on the district had the white house pretty nervous. >> let me put up the tweet at 4:38. after he gave the speech in wisconsin. just learned that jon ossoff doesn't even live in the district. republicans get out and vote!

>> again, it's the republicans get out and vote. somebody got to the president. >> right, but he is unpopular in the district. he barely hung on to win it against hillary clinton. this is an interesting district nationally too for democrats. it has the highest education of any direct represented by a republican in the country. >> let me put that up. we have a nice graphic. they have been putting up this. of the top 10, it is 10 and the only 1 that is republican, here's a list of the others. mostly coastal. >> right. that makes it a really interesting place and not a friendly trump place. it may help bob gray. that's interesting to think about. he is all through the race. maybe he gets a little bump and finishes second. that's good for him, but it's terrible. this is motivating the voters for sure. >> you are in the press room

every day. obviously president trump is well aware of what's going on in politics. he loves to be more. president obama likes to pretend. special elections, i don't deal with politics. why are they so intent in embracing this referendum idea? >> it's all about blocking them. they want to buy time. the president doesn't need all the other head winds he is facing. a referendum that rejects everything he has done for the last three months. so they are getting involved to keep them from getting 50% and to buy time. what i thought was interesting, both candidates were talking about compromise. that's not something we heard from washington. >> this district is a suburban district in the old school way we used to think of suburban

districts. >> they played up being outsids in different ways, but ossoff is a young exciting fresh new face and gray in the sense of being a businessman and the script we heard from donald trump for so long. >> when scott brown won the senate race, it derailed -- didn't derail health care, but it was a precursor to what 2010. could this derail his legislative agenda or put a massive speed bump? >> i think his legislative agenda is dead because he himself has shown they are not doing anything to draw in the health care bill. it's a microcosm of what's going to follow. they had unrealistic expectations they cannot fulfill when it comes time to get down and dirty. >> exactly. >> he needs momentum and it's not going to give him any if it

goes to democrats. >> you guys are sticking around and we will do more in a little bit. >> foreign policy, a fumble. president trump faces criticism for what appears to be a congratilations phone call to the turkish president. and it's also tax day. where are your tax dollars really going? the owner of the l.a. clippers, a former microsoft founder launched a new project to bring transparency to government spending on all levels. stay tuned. there's nothing more important to me

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another chaotic day of swirling crisis facing president trump. the guardian reports that the u.s. military is considering shooting down north korea missile tests. mattis has briefed congress on that option. he is facing criticism for personally congratulating a world leader for consolidating power by weakening the strong democratic system. the white house said that trump congratulating him for a referendum in turkey closer to a government by granting sweeping

now powers. they said mr. trump did not mean to suggest he supports the changes in the government and turkey. mr. trump's phone call comes amid protests who partner with the u.s. and issued a scathing assessment of the referendum's legitimacy. the foreign affairs committee put out a statement that turkey's creeping authoritarianism continues with turkey's key that should be concerned about the elimination of important checks and balances in the turkish system. i am joined by that congressman. mr. chairman, welcome to the show. >> thank you, chuck. >> let me start with the statement you put out in turkey. what president trump did. do you believe that was a learning mistake or something more in.

>> i have concerns about it because here's what i would observe. you have issues raised by election observers who had concerns about this close election. that would be concern number one. concern number two, the model that turkey sets for the muslim world is in which you had a secular democratic turkey with checks and balances. i think anything that moves us away from those checks and balances probably moves turkey away from the interests of the turks themselves. they have done quite well under the most democratic model as well as the capability of turk tow more closely with the united states and other allies. >> let me play devil's advocate. i get what you are saying and why is it our problem? >> why is it our problem

presumes a short-term look at this. if we look at turkey long-term, it's obviously in the interest throughout the middle east to have stability. it's obviously in our interest to have a model there that works not just in order to show that stability and other countries's interest, but the democracy of intolerance in the interest of others. that was the original concept behind a more secular turkish state. >> your statement and what you have been saying to me just now, the statement out of the state department is in synch. what is out of synch is president trump's statement. do you think he needs to almost back off and make a statement lecturing turkey about this? >> my assumption is maybe part

of this response is concern that turkey is an ally obviously, in this fight against isil. the impulse for the policy makers is to look more short-term. let's continue to engage. real friends, i think, can be more direct and honest. i think if we are going to be -- acknowledge the importance of turkey long-term, we should speak frankly with the turkish government about the consequences of this kind of push. and as well as what happened with respect to this election and the suggested irregularities. it was too soon to make. there should be a suggest.

>> another thing i'm curious about. did the western world not put enough attention on this to turkey? did the western world not raise enough alarm bells about the tep back? i know many folks were talking about this turkish referendum. do you think there should have been more speaking with. >> it's awe tough question. in theory, these are decisions to be made by the turkish people. at the same time you did notice when the turkish government or when the president of turkey began to campaign outside of turkey across europe, the voices were raised. turks could vote in the elections. as a consequence, you do see that european leaders in countries across western europe did raise this issue and did attempt to provide some sort of

platform. the other thing you will notice is that in a society where the news and media becomes under the control of the head of state, it is very, very hard to have a balanced and fair election. to have the liberty type of program that would give a platform. >> before i let you go, can you confirm if he briefed you guys on the idea of preemptive ly. >> i have not been briefed on that and i will be surprised by that. i am the author that has a sanctionorked on south africa. it was signed into law by the former president.

those sanctions if deployed by the financial institutions would cutoff all the financial support that right now sustains the program in north korea. that's the approach. financial pressure and diplomatic leverage. >> if he is briefing congress, you would have been in that briefing as chairman of house foreign relations? >> that is fair to say and i have not been briefed on this. i do not presume to be correct. >> chairman of house foreign relations, thanks for your time. >> thank you, chuck. >>a the eurasia group, mostly and usually not here. traveling around. let's go first. you heard the congressman and what i thought was striking, he didn't give president trump leeway on this. he seems concerned. >> on turkey, yes. at the same time we heard very consistently from trump that when the united states is

telling other countries the way to run their internal affairs, we should look at ourselves first. this is for all of the flip flopping from trump and on this issue, he has been consistent. even though the state department is whacking them and hitting the turks on the referendum, he is not. his view is going to be why am i going to make that statement? let's assume there are not voting irregularities just like in brexit and like in this country. >> this urban split is real everywhere in the western world and even turkey is sort of a cross roads. >> germany is the exception. in germany, you have the

globalization. everywhere else this is what you are seeing. you are not seeing it in china and india. the places that see themselves as being major beneficiaries and free trade and all of that sort of thing. this was not a fair election. after we saw the failed coop, they simply destroyed the free press and took continues of thousands of his opponents and detained them. >> this is where you wonder and i get what the congressman was saying. everyone is looking at the short time. turkey is a necessary ally to deal with this. individuals spoke out about what he was doing. there was not a -- i think the

previous president would be more vocal. >> just like us being vocal in the arab spring. it undermines your relationship in the last year of the obama administration. the problem here was not that the united states was not saying anything. the problem is that the europeans invited turk tow come in and be members of the union. they got membership status and no one ever really meant them to get in. the turks knew it. they were not good enough. under developed and islamic conservative. they were not good enough to be europe. you found a leader who ran this on the united states versus the west. we are going to get all the votes in germany and the netherlands. those countries don't want us. that is as real as trump talking to the royal communities in the

u.s. >> what are he has done is cemented power for at least 12 years. that's how many years he can stay in power. he is now the lifetime leader of turkey. >> that's interesting. when you look at heads of state, presidents around the world, every single one in power today that has been in power for more than 12 years has manipulated the rules with the exception of liberia, the one female. >> what are about angela merkel? >> chancellor. i meant president. changing the rule set happens a lot. all over africa and he decided his model is not european. >> always a pressure, sir. >> thank you. >> i'm obsessed with this special election and it's not the one you are thinking of. stay tuned. just imagine if all the machines at work

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it's the special senate election coming up in alabama. that's right, folks. it is rare. special elections for senate seats held in off years and not in november? these are rare finds, folks for your political junkies. the kinds of things that we geeks get excited about. going back to 1992, we only had six of them across the entire country that have not happened in their scheduled november even numbered year. wow. this will be the seventh. go back to november of 1991. these special elections are like little islands and are extraordinarily competitive no matter the state. it's a bit lower and always unique dynamics. the new governor set the dates to fill the seat held by jeff sessions. the primary is on august 15th and a run off on september 26th and a general election on december 12th. the former attorney general luther strange was nominated by

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boy, congressman royce was really tough on the president here. he didn't give him any leeway on this. >> no, and that's how republicans feel and democrats feel and the previous administration felt about president ergdon. it was a very strange thing to watch, that the president would call the president of turkey and congratulate him. there are many ways in which they could have done that phone call and read out that phone call. in fact it differed from what the state department said was also unusual. but i will say that the president obama and president trump -- turkey is the kind of place where we are willing to make bargains and trades, right? you have -- it's a key ally against the fight against the islamic state. they need turkey. increasingly with the administration overlook certain things. >> carol is right on this, he's been a necessary evil is how he's been described. >> there are a lot of necessary

evils. i don't see president obama cking uphe phone after the world is in mourning about what happened in turkey and saying, good job, congratulations, bro. >> it's very hard for the white house to walk this back considering they led with -- in their press release the first sentence was he called to congratulate. so, how do you put another spin on that when you yourself put out the message that it was congra congratulatory? >> to me, doesn't it show no coordination? who is handling this in the communications world? >> it raises a lot of questions. the one thing we saw in the way president obama and the obama administration handled turkey, they wouldn't necessarily embrace what he was doing and they maybe didn't criticize certain things. i went with vice-president biden the last time when he visited turkey after the attempted coup. and he made a point not to criticize some of the crackdowns. they didn't then embrace him in the same way. >> what you're describing is basically how every president has treated china. when you go there, don't say anything. >> about human rights.

we know there is trouble but we're here for a reason, we have things we want to get. we have things we're willing to give and one of them is silence about a lot of that. no, i mean, no one is pretending that the president has inherited an easy situation, whether there or syria. it's just that there's no overarching policy that seems to be emerging and there's all these gestures, whether it's a nice phone call or 59 tomahawk missiles without any, anything filling in the blanks. >> we haven't seen any discipline with the inter agency process emerge at all. and i think that, yes, it is a messaging problem, but i just always go back to at the end of the day this is about policy and the entire administration is confused about what is actually the policy that they're trying to implement and get -- actually get results from around the world. >> this pressure that come from the hill is people want a strategy and a policy and something broader and none of these pieces -- look many of them they're still doing an

islamic state review. that is not finished. they're doing a russia review. there are a number of different policies where they haven't sorted it out. >> ed royce is not a component of president trump. >> no, not at all. >> he's somebody that would work with president obama, was tough on him in the iran deal. he wants to be an ally. sounds like the trump administration is making it hard for ed royce. >> he's making it hard for a lot of republicans. people are going to be out start blowing horns like that. they really -- they see this lack of certainty about what we really believe in and what we're trying to accomplish. >> elise, 30,000 foothill. there is a troubling moral authority. if the united states doesn't speak out about regression and democracy, who does? >> no one. i think that we are -- you have -- like france will pickup the baton, u.k., western europe, australia. you'll have various countries stand up, but that's also we surrender our vantage point as being a force of moral authority

around the world. the idea of american exceptionalism on many levels i do think what president trump american exceptionalism suffered a far greater blow than ever with barack obama. >> that's a tough statement, but i know some conservatives that would agree with you on that. all right, thank you all, joan, carol, elise. after the break we're headed into overtime. stay tuned. think again. this is the new new york. we are building new airports all across the state.

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hockey fan. if you tuned into the playoffs last night you were rewarded with all four nhl nail-biters going into overtime. if you were rewarded if you could stay up late to see the ending. there is no set time for intermission between the regular times and overtime. pretty much as soon as the ice is cleared it's game on. playoffs, whole different story. estimated two minutes after the regular play period to 15. the playoffs overtime periods jump from 5 minutes to 20. that makes for a long night. and for the washington capitals and toronto maple leafs, each of their three playoff games has end in overtime. one game went into double overtime. it's been four years since all four games went into overtime. kids have bed times to obey, number one. bigger kids have work in the morning. fans and players need a break. but here's what's most frustrating to me. every other sport, you wait a couple minutes you start overtime. you wait 20 and i fall asleep. i've missed three straight

overtime endings. anyway, maybe that's on me. come on, nhl, can we shorten these final to overtime? that's all we have for tonight. my little in case you missed it rant is over. we'll see you tomorrow with more on mtp daily. for the record starts now, greta. >> thank you very much. we begin tonight with an update on former president h.w. bush, hospitalized tonight in houston, his spokesperson says president bush will be okay and was admitted as a precaution. the 41st president was admitted to the hospital in january. he did the coin toss at this year's super bowl in houston. just last week he got a visit from his old friend, president clinton who said they talked about kids, grand kids, old times d new times, and even socks. we will be monitoring thestory. of course, we wish president bush well. and tonight, democrats all fired up, but is it enough to felipe red seat in georgia? this could be a new measure of how much democrats have gotten energized by opposing