happy monday. don't think of it as an hour less of sleep. think about it as an extra hour of daylight at the end of the day. this is a new book from investigative reporters. that book comes out tomorrow morning. mike and david are here tonight in person for the first interview they are doing about this book. that means not only do you get to see michael and david, that means this show tonight is the first opportunity we have to break some of the news that is in this book. so that is coming up in moments. stand by for that because tonight one of those wacky coincidences, tonight, the night before "russian roulette" comes out, house republicans decided to surprise everybody by announcing with no warning that they're not doing any more interviews in the russia investigation, that in fact,

their whole investigation is over as of today, surprise, and having declared the investigation over today, they somehow today also completed their 150-page report on the results of their investigation. what they have concluded is there was absolutely, positively, no collusion by the trump campaign and russia for sure. and maybe putin wanted hillary to win. who could say? people who are supposed to be intimately involved in this investigation, they had no idea this was happening or coming tonight. "the wall street journal" was first to report the white house might be quitting the russia investigation and just announcing that it's done. in response to that reporting from "the wall street journal," the democrats on that committee were like, what? they're doing what now? the investigation's over?

a senior democratic staffer on the committee telling the w"the street journal" as of this afternoon, quote, we have not been informed that there will not be any more interviews conducted or that the investigation has ended. but then, poof, the republicans ended it on their own claiming no collusion, while the democrats weren't even under the impression that things were wrapping up. this is called unsubtle. now, with all due respect for the leadership of the intelligence committee and the house, particularly its republican chairman, who was part of the trump transition team, i'm not sure anybody was waiting with baited breath to see if congressman devin nunes was going to get to the bottom of anything here. but unless democrats can retake the house in november and restart the investigation under different and perhaps more

committed leadership, this means as of today there is no congressional investigation into the russia scandal anymore, at least not in the house. republicans on the judiciary committee in the house said, no, they wouldn't look into it. republicans on the oversight committee decided they'd prefer to keep investigating hillary clinton instead. in the house intelligence was basically it. that was all they were doing and they have now shut that down. now, the top democrat on that committee, on the intelligence committee, put out a blistering response tonight saying republicans, quote, placed the interests of protecting the president over protecting the country and history will judge their actions harshly. congressman adam schiff also in the statement tonight, it interesting, he also left some bread crumbs -- kricriticizing republicans really harshly but

also leaves bread crumbs about where the investigation was going. quote, we have learned a great deal about countless secret meetings, conversations and communications between trump campaign officials and the russians. on a whole most of investigative threads, our work is fundamentally incomplete, some issues sinvestigated and others remain barely touched like allegations of russian money laundering. raspberry ha republicans have decided they would rather not know. there are minor political explosions tonight over house republicans shutting down the whole russia investigation at a time when democrats who are part of that investigation say among other things there are credible allegations of russian money laundering that may indicate russian leverage over the

president of the united states but republicans are refusing to look at that. so we're going to have congressman adam schiff here tonight in just a few minutes with more on that. with the house investigation should down, though, there are obviously still some other games in town in terms of getting to the bottom of the scandal. in the senate, the investigation precede as pace. the investigation is led by republican richard burr and democrat mark warner. they've been silent as church mice in recent week but we think their investigation is still plugging along. maybe. there's also obviously the special counsel investigation, which has so far produced dozens of felony charges against trump campaign officials and a whole bunch of russians. interesting new reporting today that the trump campaign may be trying to bring on a new blue chip lawyer to augment the strength of the president's legal representation for dealing with the mueller team. we'll have more on that ahead tonight. there's also some interesting new reporting from bloomberg

news tonight about how mueller is proceeding and what he still hasn't done. bloomberg reporting tonight that neither donald trump jr. nor his sister, ivanka trump, nor long-time trump bodyguard keith schuler have been interviewed by robert mueller yet. you might imagine that all three of those people would ultimately be on deck for him and his team but none of them have been interviewed yet. so the only investigation in the house just got killed tonight. the investigation in the senate is a black box. the mueller investigation is an even blacker box but at least they pop into the light every few weeks and indict a whole bunch of people. but you know if we the american people are going to get a clear view of what happened to us as a country, what happened to us in the 2016 and who done it exactly, well, you know how we've gotten most of the information that we've had thus

far. most of the information that we've had thus far as american citizens has been from the other investigation, the investigation that runs parallel alongside what's been done by the house and the senate and robert mueller. where we've learned the most is from the investigation that never stops, from the one that can't be shut down by republicans, from the investigation that can't be fired. it's the one that has taught us almost everything we know thus far about this scandal. it's of course the investigation that's being done by journalists, investigative journalists. the best book written about what went wrong getting this country into the iraq war in 2002 and 2003, that was a book called "hubris" written by david korn and michael isikoff. it is the seminal book about what happened in the leadup to that war. that's the last bik that they

wrote together. and now is tcoming is the releaf the next one, "russian roulette." one of the things they've got is the reaction from president obama when he was first briefed on the steele dossier and the somewhat pricely reaction from vice president joe biden when he first heard after the election on intelligence reporting. quote, on thursday january 5, 2017, the day before its public release, the intelligence chiefs briefed obama and his senior staff. white house officials were taken aback. it was the first time all the pieces came together for us, one senior official said. it seemed a much grander conspiracy than it was during the election. this was an intelligence failure and a failure of the

imagination. when vice president joe biden was briefed about intelligence reports on the connections between various players in the trump orbit and the kremlin, biden had a advice ra visceral . he said, quote, if this is true, it's treason. a few days earlier, national security adviser susan rice encouraged james clapper to tell president obama about the golden showers allegations. that's one of the salacious claims in the christopher steele dossier about alleged russian dirt on then candidate donald trump. obama turned to rice and said, quote, why am i hearing this? he was incredulous. what's happening, he asked. susan rice said the intelligence community had no idea if this golden shower story was true but obama needed to be aware that the allegation was circulating. you doesn't really expect to hear the term golden showers in the president's daily brief a

participant in this meeting later said or that the guy who is going to become president may be a manchurian candidate. so in those little two paragraphs of reporting we get the president's response to that piece of information, why am i hearing this, and news that a senior official operating at that level of clearance in the white house believed that trump may be a manchurian candidate and that joe biden said if those allegations were true that, would be treason. on the subject of the aforementioned golden showers, the book knocks down a few peg, the odds that that particular thing ever really happened. you can read this however you want, but they have lots of new detail about that allegation. first in moscow isikoff and corn report that the night he stayed,

he stayed at the ritz hotel in moscow and he stayed in the same room obama what stayed in when he visited moscow years earlier. at the same time, though, david corn and isikoff also get very specific about the window of time in which this alleged activity would have had to take place. and it not a big window of time. isikoff and corn report in their new book that donald trump was at a party in moscow until 1:30 a.m. local time on the one night that he was in the moscow. he was at a party with other people until 1:30 in the morning. he was then due on set for a photo shoot the next morning at 7:45 a.m. and that was his only one night in moscow on that trip. and so if he was leaving the

party at 1:30, had to be somewhere else at 7:45, that gives him a 2 a.m. to 7 a.m. window and maybe that's time to get up to some serious shenanigans in the tape library of the fsb but that's a pretty tight time frame in which this would have had to happen. corn and isikoff also quote the author of the steele dossier, christopher steele, as asserting less confident in the golden showers tape allegation than he has in the rest of his dossier. "steele's faith in the sensational sex claim would fade oaf time. much later, christopher steele would say he believed 70 to 90% of the broad assertions in his reporting were true. as for the likelihood of the claim that prostitutes had urinated in trump's presence, however, steele would say to

colleagues, it's 50/50. he would later wonder if there was a connection between trump's 2013 visit with emin agalarov. he didn't know. now, that reference to the appearance at the act night club,s that in the very first chapter of their book. they were in las vegas, they wept went to a night club called "the act" in las vegas. the group included trump and emin, rob goldstone, the reigning miss universe and outgoing miss usa. the owners discussed whether they should prepare a special performance for trump, perhaps a

domina dom inatrix that would tie him up on stage. since isikoff and corn released an excerpt of their book making those claims, at least one photo of trump inside that night club that night has emerged. so the reason everybody calls the steele dossier a salacious thing is because there is this sexual activity allegation in the dossier. it's important for the allegation that the russian government had evidence of this thing that it might use as leverage against the president in an ongoing way. well, if you are interested in that part of the russia scandal and that part of the steele dossier, david corn and michael

isikoff have in this new book turned up more than anybody ever wanted to know about it. they have more fully reported that part of the scandal than anybody else has. both what could have happened in russia and where that allegation might have come from if it didn't come from the president's actual behavior in moscow. all right. while i'm scaring my mom with all this kind of talk, let me also give you one of their steve bannon quotes they turn up. during the campaign trump announced his foreign policy advisers, steve bannon reportedly had a very robust reaction to that announcement specifically clincluding the announcement of george papadopoulos, who would later plead guilty in the mueller investigation. after the list was released, steve bannon called up a friend on the trump campaign saying, quote, these people are a bunch of clowns. as for papadopoulos, bannon asked his friend, quote, how the

f did he get on this list? corn and isikoff also have a scoop on what george papadopoulos later told robert mueller and his investigators about how trump reacted to papadopoulos's efforts to set up a putin meeting for him. on march 31st, papadopoulos attended the first meeting at the old post office in washington under construction to become the new trump international hotel. the members introduced themselves. when it was his turn, papadopoulos mentioned he had contacts in the u.k. who could set up a meeting between trump and putin. papadopoulos later told investigators he believed trump gave him encouragement. according to sources familiar with papadopoulos's account, trump said the idea was interesting and looked at sessions as if he expected sessions to follow up. sessions nodded in response. so that is what george

papadopoulos has reportedly told mueller's investigators, that trump was encouraging and wanted follow-up when pop was tapadopo trying to get him together with putin. here's another strange reporting about trump's reaction to another russian overture. this is where we saw the interaction happen on tape but we didn't get the reporting about how this was seen on the trump campaign until now. this was the interaction from during the campaign. >> okay. let's go. >> sorry? >> yes, ma'am. >> eem from russia. >> ah, good friend of obama, putin. he likes obama a lot. >> my question will be about foreign politics. if you will be elected as the president, what will be your foreign politics especially in relationship with my country and do you want to continue the politics of sanctions that are damaging of both economy or you have any other ideas?

>> okay. obama gets along with nobody. the whole world hates us. >> that's the start of his answer. he goes on for a long time, about a five-minute answer. this is how it reported in the new book. quote, at freedom fest, maria butina, a tall, striking redhead, stood up and questioned trump during a q & a session. she said i'm from russia, do you want to continue the poll tuxitf sanctions damaging our economies? trump said i know putin. putin has no respect for president obama. big problem, big problem. obama's policies had different russia to ally itself more closely with china and this was a horrible thing for the united states he said.

i don't think you'd need the sanctions. i think we'd get along very well. much later trump's campaign advisers would watch the video of this encounter and wonder about it. steve bannon raised it with rnc chairman reince priebus. how was it that trump was there and happened to call on her? trump's response was odd, bannon thought, that trump had a fully developed answer. trump's own campaign was weirded out by that interaction. that's in "russian roulette", which comes out at midnight. there's a lot more. not cool. freezing away fat cells with coolsculpting? now that's cool! coolsculpting safely freezes and removes fat cells with little or no downtime. and no surgery. results and patient experience may vary. some rare side effects include temporary numbness,

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was that report from yahoo news michael isikoff, who would report months later sure enough they said about trying to enter the without to lift russian sanctions unilaterally. about six weeks after he reported that investigation, david corn had a different kind of bombshell. he reported quote a former senior intelligence officer that specialized in russian counter intelligence said he provided the bureau with memos that contend to the russian government for years has tried co-opt and assist trump. that scoop way before it's time was a week before the 2016 election. those memos described in that mother jones report would come to be known as the steele dossier. these two reporters keep advancing the story well before

anyone else catches up to what they are doing and now michael and david corn have written a new book together called "russian roulette." it comes out tomorrow which is very, very soon. it's very, very good. congratulations, gentlemen. >> thank you. thank you for supporting us. >> it helps me. i cover this stuff intensively. i learn new stuff and helps me put it in context in a way i wasn't able to do before reading this. you advanced my own understanding. >> that was part of the point. this is a story that's been going on for a year and a half if not longer and goes in different directions and we get great scoops from reporters but they are a bit here and there and the way this world works, we seem to forget things so quickly they come and go so fast. we thought this is a particularly good moment in time to bring together in a narrative weaving together of everything

we do know up through the election and beyond. it seems tonight it's very appropriate because while the house intelligence committee says the republicans will have 150-page report, we don't know what will be in it, we have a 300-page report that's more extensive and comprehensive than they are putting out. >> the surprise announcement. >> it doesn't have to go through a declassification review. you can read the whole thing. there will be no blacked out pages. >> but you can add them yourself new want to feel intrepid while reading it. let me ask you about specific stuff in here. you guys do a better job than anybody else has about talking about some of the unusual characters that ended up on the trump campaign. page and papadopoulos ends up with narrative about them in context of how they ended up on the campaign and contacts with russia. you have a great quote from obama's assistant secretary of state, she says the moment when she heard trump hired paul manafort to be the campaign ceo and chairman, she thought quote,

manafort, he's been a russian stooge for 15 years. manafort, page, papadopoulos have very unusual russia ties end up in the trump campaign. did you end up with a more ho k holistic understanding about how these people came to be on the trump campaign? >> trump staked out ground. you go back to the miss universe pageant where he goes to moscow. he's obsessed with meeting vladimir putin. he can't wait. is putin coming? have we got a phone call from him? have we heard? that seems to be his primary focus. he was trying to do a business deal with the russian billionaire oligarch known as putin's builder that

co-sponsored the miss universe pageant and wanted to build a trump tower in moscow. he knew he needed putin's approval and one way to get it is saying flattering things about him and ignoring the really nasty things about putin's regime. once he had done that, he staked out his ground with the russians, the kremlin knew where this guy was coming from and i think that gave them the opening to everything that came afterwards. >> to shove people in his direction who might be able to -- >> to cultivate those people. >> that's who he attracted. who became his top national security adviser? michael flynn. who in december of 2015 had gone to the famous rt celebration and sat at a table with putin. >> and was paid $40,000. >> one point you make is that was seen as a big propaganda coup for the russian government to get the head of dia to come over and be part of this event. >> a top spy chief in american society and american government to come and sit with putin

who -- >> and applaud r.t. >> the propaganda outlet that putin knows is part of this massive information warfare operation he unleashed. they are working in coordination with the internet research agency in st. petersburg. they knew russian hackers were trying to get into democratic targets. maybe they haven't decided what they would do with that information. when flynn is applauding r.t., i would love to know what putin thought. lyndon had a phrase, useful it idiot. here's a guy applauding r.t., which putin is now using in this campaign against americans. >> that's 2015, december 2015. as we reveal in this book, in 2014, the u.s. government had a secret source inside the kremlin that was providing a ream of information about what putin was up to and his plans for massive cyber attacks information

warfare against western democracies and the united states. this was all being reported through channels to top u.s. government officials. so it was known at the highest levels of the u.s. intelligence community what putin was up to and, you know, one of the sad conclusions of the book is there really was massive intelligence failure here. >> we'll take a quick break and come back. i want to ask you about the source. that was the first thing that made me close the book and talk to my staff about this. that stuff about the source deep inside the kremlin with access to putin's circle i found terrifying. we'll talk about that when we come back. stay with us. are defined by the things we share. and the ones we love. who never stop wondering what we'll do or where we'll go next. we the people who are better together than we are alone...

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institutions and under mine western democracies to include cyber attacks, information warfare, propaganda. it fet putin -- it fit putin's strategy to destroy nato and european union and seriously harm the united states. two things are amazing, the content of the warning, the seriousness of the warning but the fact there is that kind of source inside the russian government talking to u.s. intelligence at this point in 2014. >> not to u.s. intelligence. he was not a spy per se. he started out as providing gossip. always go on in kremlin circles and started giving more important information about plans that putin had for the invasion of crimea and talked about how putin regarded barack obama. sometimes as a weakling, sometimes as a super manipulator who could do anything in russia

to try to get putin and also, you know, the people around putin talking about obama and very racist terms, calling him a monkey. >> using the "n" word. >> and then as he evolved, some of it was chitchat i think but it became a lot more serious when he started giving warnings that did go through the channels and still remains a mystery today why the u.s. intelligence community and agencies did not take this and some other indicators they had around that time frame in the years since. >> to recognize what we were up against. >> he was not a u.s. intelligence asset in the formal sense but he was reporting to a u.s. government official who was reporting through the intelligence channels. and if you know anything about the way the u.s. government works, the rivalries among u.s. agencies where the committee would look down on that which is

being reported by other agencies. so it's possible and likely that this guy's reports, which were all documented and we talk about how they were top secret was kind of dismissed by some in the intelligence community because it wasn't one of their guys. but this is part of what i said before was this massive intelligence failure. >> it's like 9/11. you remember the famous line, there was a failure of imagination. we see the indication hiding in plain sight what the internet research agency were doing was reported first in the russian media and "the new york times" in 2015 in 2015, laid it out. >> none of this registered. we reported -- >> didn't seem like links in a single chain. it all felt like individual strange stuff. nobody was taking a strategic look to recognize the real risk of what happened including in the highest level of obama administration. >> they defend, the policy makers depend on the intelligence community to

provide information and when the russian attack was under way, they were getting good intelligence in terms of the cyber attacks, cutouts. they got good intelligence mike first reported on about russian efforts to penetrate and probe state election systems but on this -- >> this concerned them a lot. >> on the social media front, they were totally lost and all those deliberations they had in the summer and fall, not once at the high level trying to figure out what was going on did they focus on what was happening in the social media front. >> one thing you want to read this book for, friends at home is the list, this very concise list david and mike turned up things that the obama administration considered doing, put on the menu as options to brush russia back, things they did not do but could have. part of the take away is those things conceivably could be on the menu. the book is called "russian roulette, the inside story of

putin's war and the election of donald trump." congratulations to both of you. >> thank you so much. >> thank you, thank you. you guys are doing a big launch tomorrow on cbs. appreciate you being here first. >> happy to be here. >> don't tell them.

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house republicans surprised books by announcing they have concluded, wrapped up their russia investigation. democrats on the committee participating expressed surprise at the republicans decision they had not known it was wrapping up. adam schiff said today the house majority has announced it's terminating the russia investigation leaving to others the important work of determining the full extent of russian interference in our election. it concludes, "in coming weeks

and months, each time new information becomes public, republicans will be held accountable for abandoning a critical investigation of such vital national importance. joining me is adam schiff. congressman, thanks for joining us. i know this is a big and important night. >> thanks, rachel. good to be with you. >> i was struck by this rocket you fired off tonight to your republican counterparts on house intel. you say "history will judge their actions harshly." how blindsided were you by them announcing this thing was over as of today? >> well, not completely surprised, only in the timing of it being today. they have signalled really for weeks now that they were under immense pressure to end the investigation and it became apparent really from very early on from almost a year ago with that midnight run to the white

house that the republicans on the committee viewed their job as protecting the president, not investigating what took place. and so they would call in witnesses i think to go through the motions of doing a credible investigation and ask them questions like did you collude with the russians, did you conspire with the russians? and if the answer was no, they were content to leave it at that. they were not willing to subpoena records that would prove or disprove what witnesses were saying. when witnesses like steve bannon were stone walling us, they would beat their chus aests and refuse to get answers. not a surprised but a grave disservice to the country. essentially it's the intelligence committee majority saying we'd just rather not know if it's going to be bad news. and that is, i think, a betrayal of the promise that was made that we would follow the facts wherever they lead.

>> i was struck by the way that you closed your statement on this tonight. you suggested that in coming weeks and months new information will continue to come out about this scandal, whether it's from journalists or from special counsel indictments, but you also said some of the new information could come out through continued investigative work by committee democrats. that suggests that you are not stopping your work, even if the republicans on the committee have. >> that's right. we're going to continue to do the investigation. it will obviously be much more difficult. we've never had the power to call in witnesses, but we've learned a great deal when the majority would. at the same time there are others that come forward to the committee and come to committee democrats with information and we'll continue to put pieces together as we learn things publicly, through investigative journalism and the work of reform and we learned details from the last indictment, for example. what i mean by holding the

republicans to account is there will be revelations as there was just within the last week that witnesses that have come before our committee like erik prince may not have been fully truthful. a witness has come forward, george nader, that said this was an effort, at least reportedly, to establish a back channel with russia. that's part of the core of our investigation, to see if that was going on. and the republicans will have to answer why they're not interested in finding out is erik prince telling the truth or is george nader. we should get to the bottom of this and we'll continue pressing them and in the days to come, we intend to demonstrate all of the investigative leads that need to be followed, the witnesses that should have been called, the documents that should have been produced in hope that it will guide journalists, our colleagues in the senate and may be of assistance to bob mueller. >> congressman, let me ask you a big hypothetical. i'm thinking about this in part because there's an important and high-profile congressional

special election in the 18th district in pennsylvania tomorrow. it was a trump plus 20 district, democrats think they may have a shot of taking it tomorrow. if the democrats, if your party does have a big night in november and does take back the house, that would put you in line to be the chairman of the house intelligence under a democratic speaker of the house. would you expect that in that circumstance you would reopen this investigation, that you would do it the way you think it ought to have been done in the first place? >> what i'd expect is that we will look at the work that's been done. if the work has been done by the senate intelligence committee or by special counsel bob mueller and we've done a full investigation, that may not be necessary. and if it hasn't, then we'll have to evaluate what work remains to be done to protect the country. one issue that concerns me, rachel, for example is that we were not allowed to investigate whether the leverage the russians have over this president is money laundering,

whether the russians did here what they did elsewhere in laundering money through the trump organization. the senate is not investigating that either. i hope that refoobert mueller i. but should issues that like that expose the country to leverage or president of the united states not go investigated, we would need to. i want to say one other thing that really stands out to me about this sad chapter in our committee and that is i think many of us could see that donald trump was going to be a very poor president. what we couldn't see is how many people would be complicit in that, how many people would be willing to resign their obligations under the constitution in our system the checks and balances in the service of that deeply flawed president. our constitution is only as good as the people who uphold it. by shutting down this investigation, it shows the people upholding it are really not living up to their responsibility. >> congressman adam schiff, the

top democrat on the intelligence committee in the house. the russia has just been shut down by the republican majority. thank you for being here.

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last week this retired russian military officer was found slumped over and unconscious on a park bench in england. years before he'd been jailed in russia for passing russia state secrets to the united kingdom.

four years later in 2010 he was one of four prisoners released by russia in exchange for ten russian spies who had been picked up in the u.s. by the fbi. after that prisoner swap, that retired russian officer came to the u.k., for whom he had been spying, he was living in the u.k. and that's where he and his daughter were discovered barely alive on that park bench last week. scotland yard announced the two had been poisoned, finding traces of a nerve agent in their systems. they are calling it an assassination attempt. and today we learned about the nerve agent from the top, prime minister theresa may. >> it's clear they were poisoned with a military grade nerve agents manufactured by russia.

the government has included it is highly likely that russia was responsible for the act against them. this attempt was not just a crime against them, it was an indiscriminate and reckless act against the united kingdom putting the lives of innocent civilians at risk and we will not tolerate such a brazen attempt to murder innocent civilians on our soil. >> british prime minister saying she is willing to consider a response from russia. but without one she said she's ready to debate the full range of measures the british government could take in response to what she called this unlawful use of force by the russian state against the united kingdom. that language is important, unlawful use of force against

the union oted kingdom. at the heart of the nato alliance is a commitment to article 5, collective defense. it says an attack on one country in nato is seen as an attack on all countries in nato. if the u.k. was saying this was an unlawful use of force by the russian government against the u.k., a state attack, that has serious implications not just for them but for us as members of the nato alliance. they say they're going to debate this as of wednesday. this is really important for britain. it's really important for us, too. watch this space.

i mentioned this a few moments ago with congressman adam schiff that we have come to another election eve. this time it's the 18th congressional district in pennsylvania, right outside pittsburgh. this is a seat that was once held by a republican congressman named tim murphy, a famously anti-abortion congressman who resigned his seat after he tried to convince the woman he was having an affair with that she should get an abortion. this is a solidly republican district. donald trump won this district by 20 minutes to 2016 so this should be an easy seat for republicans to hold onto. they're not acting like it, though. early on they dispatched vice

president mike pence to go rally. this weekend they sent president trump to the district that seemed drunk if you were sober and a horror movie if you were tipsy. then today donald trump jr. was on the ground. republicans spent over $10 million to hold onto this seat. trump won it by 20 points. now the state's republican party chairman is trying to play off this race as taking place in a democrat district. a democrat district that trump won by 20. there is optimism by democrats they could have a shot at taking the seat, according to the latest poll from monmouth university. depending on the turnout if it matches what other election turnouts have looked like or if the turnout is a little bit lower in any of those circumstances, the poll is showing the democrat ahead in this race. the same poll asks about trump's job approval. this was a district that trump

won by 20 minutes to 2016. now they're split on how well they think trump are doing. 49 strongly approve and 49 say they poles close at 8:00 p.m. in pennsylvania tomorrow. that does it for us tonight now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell". >> tonight's episode is going straight to the broadcasting just because we heard you say golden showers four times in the first 15 minutes but because it is the mid summary of where we are on the russia investigation where we have been teaching us every night and leading us. watching you lead the discussion with david and michael isikoff about their new book. this was a, let's stop, collect our thou