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i know what you're thinking. we don't look a day over six months. with just three weeks until the midterms we're watching massive waves converge. a new "washington post"/abc news poll is revealing a surge in voter enthusiasm from this time four years ago in almost every major demographic. a 77% majority of registered voters say they're certain to vote next month or have already voted. up from 65% in 2014. that number is up 18 points among democrats. and just 4 points among republicans. according to the poll, certainty to vote is up 24 points among nonwhite voters. 25% amo 25% -- and president trump is doing everything he can to make the races all across the country about one thing. himself. this past week the president campaigns for republican candidates in iowa, pennsylvania, ohio and kentucky. and this week he'll make three

stops out west. montana, arizona and nevada. and as the president's break-neck campaign schedule continues, it's worth remembering this assessment from his eldest son. >> so many of our voters say i can't wait to vote for trump 2020. what's going to in november? they don't know their congressman. they don't have that same emotional connection with my father. but the reality is for them, trump is on the ticket in 2018. >> and with that, i want to welcome in my panel. former adviser to jeb bush and former spokesperson for john boehner, michael steele. chairman and steve strategist for hillary clinton, guy cecil. tiffany cross. with us from boston, house editor for the cook political report. and republican congressman ryan costello of pennsylvania. dave wasserman, i want to start with you and then get a guys' take on the senate landcape. but you specialize in looking at

the house across the map. i just am interested to know, you know, you have changed some of your ratings in recent days. you've been looking at how the kavanaugh fight has shaken out in some of these suburban districts in particular. what is your assessment of how big this wave is that democrats are going to be able to ride this november? >> well, the question is what type of wave is this? is this purely a blue wave? some people have called it a pink wave because of the number of women fueling this democratic surge. is it a green wave now that democrats are outraising so many incumbent republicans? it's an uneven wave. democrats are doing really, really well that's a 20-minute drive from a whole foods market. in some hispanic -- >> the dave wasserman whole foods index. but in a lower income, in more rural, in more hispanic areas like the central valley of california, south tex aeven parts of south florida, we're

not seeing the same types of numbers pop for democrats. i still think democrats are the clear favorites for the house majority, but they're also dangerously close to getting their clocks cleaned in the senate if some of these rural states start breaking heavily for republicans. >> congressman ryan costello, you are watching this up close and personal with a lot of friends and colleagues facing the voters coming up. of course, you have made the decision to retire but i'm wondering how you sue the landscape shifting over the past couple of weeks and whether you think this -- what some have interpreted as a post-kavanaugh bump for some gop members is going to turn into a sugar high. >> i don't think it will be a sugar high. i think it reminded a lot of voters similar to comey reinstituting the clinton investigation on the eve of the 2016 presidential race. it reminded a lot of republican voters why they do not want to vote democrat.

leading all aside dr. ford and kavanaugh, there were a lot of us that felt the way that some democratic senators acted was inappropriate and off-putting. and that energized republicans. and it gives us the message as follows. do you want the next two years to be about investigations and impeachment or are you happy with the economic growth and some of the other things we've been doing in spite of the fact that president trump drives you crazy with his tweets and some of the things he says and does. so i do think it crystallized things but i don't think it crystallized things negatively against republicans, even in house races. >> what are you hearing in chester county, and is there a split between women and men when you go back home and talk to them about this president? >> well, we do have a whole foods in exton now. it's not just out in paoli where you were from. and as a consequence, it is -- where i am is one of those republican suburban districts

where it has probably been more against the president than just about any other republican congressional district in the country. there is a split between, yes, male and female. but even there, it's really more between those with college and graduate degrees and those who do not. >> michael steele weigh in here. you've seen a lot of house races in your day and where is this going? >> there's no question that kavanaugh has given a surge of enthusiasm to republicans across the board. particularly in those less well educated, further away from the whole foods. near the whole foods you have a phenomenon where they may not like the president achs but they like their local congresswoman or congressman. you see this in mike kaufman's seat, barbara comstock outside of the d.c. suburbs in virginia. these are the places where -- >> you're making a reverse argument of what donald trump jr. was saying. >> i'm saying both. in the rural, redder districts, popularity of the president is a

huge plus for republicans and that's big in the senate races in particular because they are concentrated in those big red states but the republican house members running in the more suburban districts have done a terrific job focussing on the issues important to their constituents, building an independent profile, occasionally breaking with the president where it's politically smart and that's why they're well positioned going into these last couple of weeks. >> do you think barbara comstock is going to win? >> yes. >> absolutely not. >> do you really think so? >> yes. >> not a chance. >> you think barbara comstock is going to win? >> she's been a great representative for them. i think the attacks on her opponent have been effective. y i think there's a chance she can win. >> she's down double digits. >> look, i would -- i would echo what -- go ahead. >> no, please go ahead. >> i will -- >> i'm so sorry. we're crossing all of our wires here. dave wasserman, you go.

did we lose -- okay. congressman costello, please to you, sir. >> i'd agree with what michael just said. for kaufman or comstock, the last two weeks -- bringing it home message is going to be how they differentiate from the president. the challenge here in a lot of polling is voters like their member of congress, but they don't like the president, and they are deciding whether they need to do an institutional check and balance vote against congress or whether they'll stick with their member of congress. so you'll see a lot -- you'll see that closing message, which is why i do think barbara comstock is going to win and mike kaufman is going to win. i don't think the democrats take back the house. i've not seen data that shows they're going to do that. obviously, the generic ballot says what it says, but right now they pick up a dozen seats or so. there's three weeks to go. so things could change but i don't see a blue wave. i see a green wave but not a

blue wave. >> dave wasserman, your take on that? >> look, i don't think the popularity of individual republican members is counting for much this year. there are some cases where republicans are staying above water because they've been vocally opposed to trump in blue districts for quite some time. people like barbara comstock, mike kaufman, peter roskam, mimi walters in california, they are trailing their democratic opponents because this midterm has become a referendum to trump. the upside for republicans is that helps republican incumbents in some districts that trump carried. >> guy, cecil, you guys have been waiting here patiently while we sort out everything. >> is it sorted? >> i think so. how do you see the senate map in all of this. that's a much tougher road for democrats. >> you're dealing with two fundamentally difference maps. one driven by suburban voters and one driven by red states the president won, in some cases, by

double digits. the fact we even have five or six races within the margin of error in these republican states is a mark of how difficult the cycle has been for democrats. the one thing about "the washington post" story you focused a lot on enthusiasm. there were some other telling thing tlss there. independent women favor democrats by 33%. if those numbers hold going into early voting and election day then we have a shot in some of these redder states like missouri or indiana, but there's no question that it's a very difficult map. >> those close to chuck schumer would say majority leader is more likely in 2020. how muddy to make the midterms and 2020. former attorney general and potential 2020 candidate eric holder came under fire from republicans this week after saying this while campaigning for democrats in georgia. >> when they go low, we go high.

no. no. they go low, we kick 'em. when i say we kick them, i don't mean we do anything inappropriate or illegal. but we've got to be tough. >> of course, it was a comment that fed right into the republican narrative that democrats have been using overly aggressive rhetoric as the midterms approach. and it's true that many high-profile democrats have been, shall we say, talking tougher lately? >> when they go low, i say we hit harder. >> he seems to think that if he keeps doing that, somehow he's going to shut me up. it hasn't worked in the past. it's not going to work in the future. >> please, don't just come here today and then go home. go to the hill today. get up and please, get up in the face of some congresspeople. >> you cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for, what

you care about. >> rnc chairman ronna mcdaniel cited many of those quotes saying holder wants the mob even angrier and that word mob has seeped into language from mitch mcconnell who says lawmakers have been under assault to the president who has boeen on the midterm trail. >> you don't hand matches to an arsonist, and you don't give power to an angry left wing mob. i need your help this election day, november 6th, to stop the radical democrat mob from trying to take it away. >> republicans believe in the rule of law, not the rule of the mob. that's what it is. it's a mob. >> and as some republicans try to paint democrats as you saw there as the angry, violent mob ahead of election day, take a look at this video from republican pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate walker. >> between now and november 6th

you better put a catcher's mask on your face because i'm going to stomp all over your face with golf spikes because i'm going to win this for the state of pennsylvania and we're throwing you out of office. >> hmm. many republicans have repudiated those comments but, tiffany, what is the sort of larger project here for democrats as they try to think about taking on the president? there's a real argument going on right now, i feel, inside the democratic party. led in some ways by michael avenatti, of all people. but how -- how much -- where's the line here? what is acceptable? what's necessary? and what is wrong? >> i want to caution everybody to not make this false equivalency between eric holder speaking mess forically and the president of the united states who has invited his follow eerso incite violence. one of them ended up getting arrested and going to trial. there's a huge difference here.

democrats would be wise to sharpen their elbows a bit. you have people of color who are increasing -- as registered voters. younger people. those people want to hear politicians who can inspire them and incite this new electorate we see. that's how you see cortez who picked off in new york city and iona presley in boston because they were able to speak and not try to appeal middle of the road. this also speaks to what is electability. we often think it's being able to appeal to these white swing voters. maybe it's being able to inspire some of these newer, younger voters who are not fans of trump and who want to have more people who look like them in congress and in the senate. we're seeing that. i really hate when people try to make the equivalency between rhetoric and actual acts of violence we've seen come out of the right. as you greatly showed with the congressman who created that ridiculous ad or gubernatorial candidate who created that

ridiculous ad. >> i felt like i felt that reflected in some of the background conversations i've had with those working for potential 2020 hopefuls that some are saying the lesson that many democrats learned from 2016 was we need to win back rural white working class voters. there's also a school of thought that's frustrated by that and says, no, actually, it is these young women. it's people of color we need to focus on. what's the winning strategy? >> i don't think this is an either/or. that gets to the core of the problem. the idea that ex-urban white women who care about raising their kids, putting food on the table, having a paycheck that can cover the costs of their kids' college education is the same hopes an african-american woman in africa has. we can do both of these things at the same time. the frustration is the idea that being tough is the same as acting ugly. and the idea that democrats are going to take a lesson from

donald trump about what it means to be civil. i don't know if chairwoman romney mcdaniel has ever met the president of the united states. but the idea that she is going to lecture us about what it means being civil and use elizabeth warren saying she won't shut up as a primary example of incivility? it really just defies every sense of common sense. we're going to be tough, draw a contrast and talk about the differences between our party and their party. but i believe we can do it in a way that does not mean we become another version of donald trump. and that's how we win. >> fair enough. congressman costello, you've been at the center of this. you and i have spoken about this because, frankly, the threats that members of congress of all political parties have been facing has been on the rise as this climate has become more polarized. i'm interested in your take. do you think this is a partisan phenomenon? as republican leaders are presenting they are saying democrats are doing this against them.

i personally have talked to members in your shoes on both sides of the aisle dealing with this. what's your assessment? >> i think guy makes some good points about the fact you can look to some things the president has said. i'll be honest. as a republican member in a competitive district, i had activists come and take over my office. i've had some very untorrid things, not just said about me but things happen in front of me, to me, to my staff. i think there's a way to be tough, to draw distinctions but not encourage voters to get up in people's faces. not talk about kicking people and i'll say it about the republican gubernatorial nominee in my own state. not talking about taking cleats and shoving them in people's faces. there's a way to be tough and talk tough but not provoke activists to do things that create a very physically uncomfortable situation for elected officials on both sides of the aisle. >> all right. before we go to break, some

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final quarter before the 2008 iowa caucuses and the new hampshire primary. still, o'rourke appears to have faded in the polls and "the washington post's" paul cain shows democratic candidates are expected to outspend republicans by nearly $50 million in the 70 top house races. sheldon adelson is making an 11th hour push contributing 10s of thousands of dollars to a pair of superpacs backing congressional republicans. there's one place where democrats still lag on spending. the latest google ad report shows conservative groups double, triple or even quadruple democrats in digital ads for some races. billionaire donor tom stire is spending money to try and turn out young liberal voters. guy, that is your tweet we were just showing on the screen. do you think democrats are falling behind on this digital ad score, and i want to talk to you about betto also.

>> i think we've been behind on the digital ad score. it committed $50 million in digital advertise -- >> and priorities is a group you work for. a democratic superpac. >> for the last three or four cycles we've seen republicans investing more online and democrats still spending too much on television instead of investing where young people and people of color are getting their news and information which is online. we are outspending in many cases republicans on the air, on television. we are building unprecedented ground operations in places like florida where it has been historically difficult to do so. this is one glaring example where democrats need to get it together and need to invest now as we head into the early vote period. >> this is one thing that beto o'rourke is use something of his $38 million to do. investing in google ads. what is your take on what they're doing down in texas. is he -- does he have a long-term future as a potential 2020 contender or eventual

presidential contender even if he loses this race? >> he's focused on winning this race. no question this race is down five or six points. we've seen it fluctuate over the last couple of weeks. but he happens to be running against one of the single most unlikable people not just in the democratic party but in the republican party. and he is organizing people on the ground and knocking on doors and making phone calls in a way texas hasn't seen. no, i don't think his focus is on 2020. it's on trying to win this race. i'd just remind folks obsessed about the polling, what happened in 2016. i'd also remind people that are focused on the red states that a one week out from the election in north dakota in 2012, there was one poll out that showed heidi heitkamp losing by ten points and heitkamp is running for re-election. i'd caution us into reading too much into an isolated poll here or there and look at the averages which are still margin of error for democrats in a lot of red states. >> i'm thrilled every time we

get another glowing profile of beto o'rourke. i'm thrilled every time somebody sends another dollar to beto o'rourke's campaign. ted cruz has the charisma of day old egg salad. he's not an appealing person or candidate. if there was a way to keep the senate majority without ted cruz, i'd be thrilled. >> a lot of senators would say they'd do that. >> he votes the right way for texas. beto o'rourke does not. this is not a winnable race for democrats this year. >> the polling does not reflect the new electorate that's registering in florida. i don't know if i'd champion this enthusiasm that you have. in 2010 and 2014, republicans outvoted democrats by almost a million in texas. beto has done a great job inspiring people. he came out hard out front on the nfl issue. this is a race where there are two starkly different people. ted cruz is the personification of the tea party politics and beto is a progressive.

i don't know that polling is something we can trust because he has to depend on younger latino voters in texas. he's doing a great job of turning out those people and they don't get counted in polling. >> one thing that's been discussed as well is the effect that beto o'rourke's success in fund-raising and other things will have on down ballot races in texas. >> that's right. look, my prediction is beto o'rourke has a higher chance of running for president in 2020 because he'll come under pressure from his religious following that booker and kamala harris would do anything to have. that's a higher chance than him actually winning this race. the reason is latino voters. if i were beto o'rourke spending that $38 million it would be on field organization in south texas at this point. >> congressman costello, your colleagues with beto o'rourke in the house. what's the take in the hallways on what he's managed to do in

texas. this is a lot of money. he's become a huge hero to progressives, and cruz is -- i would not say necessarily the most popular person in the capital. >> i'm not endorsing beto here, but we served on a committee together. i consider him a buddy. he's a good dude. he's running a very authentic campaign. i think to tiffany's point, in a race like that, it's very difficult to rely too heavily on polling. it's a shock. the $38 million. but i think any of your other commentators would say that the second president trump was sworn in, the midterms became nationalized. act blue, the fund-raising portal allows anyone to raise money from across the country. beto has gone and raised a lot of money. and he has, i think, changed the game in terms of future senate races, particularly when you can

run against someone like senator cruz who, before donald trump was probably public enemy number one to the democratic party and there were, obviously, a lot of republicans that he didn't make happy either. >> didn't necessarily make a lot of friends. thank you so much to both of you. appreciate it. coming up -- no power. no water. people on the florida panhandle say it's like living in the days of the frontier. search and rescues continue days after one of the worst hurricanes wrecked the gulf coast and a massive swath of the deep south. kasie dc back after this. ♪ ok here we go guys, you ready? hi! cinturones por favor. gracias.

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as the midterm elections rapidly approach, there's been a rash of voter identification conflicts in states across the country. in north dakota, a new supreme court decision requiring residents to provide a street address in order to vote has been criticized for discriminating against native americans. some tribes argue that street addresses aren't always assigned on native american reservations. in missouri, a county judge stripped a voter law of several provisions including the statute forcing people to show photo i.d. in order to cast ballots. in arkansas they upheld a

message requiring photo i.d. at the polls. they are new suing brian kemp, georgia's secretary of state and also the republican candidate for governor for voter suppression. after an associated press investigation discovered that some 53,000 new applications have been placed on hold for not meeting his office's standards. the state's exact match protocol requires information on voter registrations to precisely match the information on file with other state databases. like the dmv. critics say the policy targets and discriminates against authorities. others say you can still vote. you just have to show an i.d. kemp is locked in a tight race with stacey abrams. she was asked about the impact this controversy will have on the election. >> we know this is a flawed system that has a disproportionate effect on people of color. it also has the ability to erode trust in our system. i know that secretary kemp is well aware of this. and it's part of a pattern of

behavior where he tries to tilt the playing field in his favor or in the favor of his party. this should not require the erosion of public trust. >> are you confident this is going to be a fair election in november? >> i am. >> joining me is greg bluestein, political reporter for the atlanta journal-constitution. it's great to have you back. this is a great race you've got going to cover. what is the real impact in your view of what's going woith brian kemp. it's very unusual situation that he's going to be overseeing an election that he's running in. >> we have a poll that came out showing a statistical tie between the two candidates. you're seeing both candidates use this to mobilize and further energize their bases. stacey abrams t s telling her supporters to vote no matter what even if you think you're on this pending list. if you show an i.d. you can cast

a normal ballot. and kemp is saying to his base, this is stacey abrams lying and drumming up a manufactured controversy. she's trying to take the election and he's trying to energize his base. you're seeing more base charging emotions here with this newest controversy. >> tiffany cross, can i get you to weigh in on this because this was something where and stacey abrams talked about this on "meet the press." she'd been part of a lawsuit that said you aren't allowed to do what brian kemp is doing. >> this is something brian kemp has been doing for a long time. he's pulled voter suppression out of the jim crow era. i'm very excited to be on with a political reporter from the ajc. he sued stacey abrams when she started the new georgia voter project, long before she was his opponent in the race. he also in a predominantly black school district went down and interrogated the two new black people who won and ended up arresting 12 voter activists. and one even contemplated

suicide after he arrested them. an asian american organization in georgia in 2010 and he interrogated them and alluded they had done something illegal, which they hadn't. this is not something new. people of color in georgia make up over 50% of the population. when more people to show up, republicans lose. they don't make up half the voting electorate. stacey abrams' campaign has excited a lot of new people and brought them into the process. this is something brian kemp is very nervous about. this is a razor-thin race and raises concerns because there's nothing on the books that says he cannot oversee his own recount in this race if it's too close within a margin of error. this is something kristin clark with the lawyers committee for civil rights who is suing him, this is something everybody has to keep a close --. >> you mentioned the polling is incredibly close. how much are you seeing of this voter mobilization efforts? as we know, we have seen, i think, guy mentioned this earlier in the show. obviously, polls have not always been exactly correct in

predicting outcomes of late. how much evidence do you see as you're going about your reporting that there may be a swath of new voters that come into this process in your state? >> we're going to find out very soon. we already have absentee ballots up dramatically. early voting in georgia starts tomorrow. if we start seeing giant jumps in those numbers than traditionally in 2016, more than half the georgia electorate voted in early voting. if we start seeing a dramatic rise from even 2016 levels then we know there's a lot of energy behind this race. that's really where stacey abrams' strategy relies. motivating vast swaths of the left-leaning electorate who skip these midterms. she's trying to get them to go to the ballots. >> and you also had written about independent voters in georgia which seems like a very small swath of what we're dealing with right now but they could be decisive? >> yeah, our polls showed only 4% undecided and only about 10% independents. independents generally in this poll were breaking towards stacey abrams. so she sees that as a good sign

while white women were breaking towards brian kemp. and stacey abrams, another plea of hers, has been expanding meds cade which she thought would attract more suburban women. we'll see if that happens. our polls show white women and trump's approval rating in general was up about 4 or 5 points since the last time we did the poll. >> and all of the kavanaugh hearings taking place in between those times. greg, thanks for being with us. cecil, tiffany cross, michael steel, thank you. michael, you are the one person on our very first ever show and here for our first anniversary. >> clearly a glutton for punishment. we're going to talk to one of the key democrats trying to help flip the house. katherine clark is co-chair of the red to blue program. the magnum opus, one of the signature segmentes over the years. senator john kennedy said what? >> you don't walk in and slap your opponent and call him an ignorant slut.

i'm going to vote for it. i'll be on it like a hobo on a ham sandwich. >> is this health care compromise dead? >> i wouldn't call it dead, but it's sucking wind. >> this is a great dane size wis down the leg of every taxpayer. >> but our folks every now and then, like a free range chicken. they just kind of move on off on their own. >> he's crazy as a loon, as well as being as sly as a fox. >> this isn't a country for creepy old men or creepy middle aged men. the way we've done things around here pretty much stuks. it's the reason aliens won't talk us to. i'm not a fan of putting fresh paint on rotten wood. these are people i'm not going to name names, but i'm not sure they have a soul. i don't think their mother breastfed them. i think they went right to raw meat. >> if you think this is a search for the truth, you probably

ought to put down the bong. i don't mean any disrespect, but he's acting like a moron. >> everybody up here has politics in his blood. kind of like herpes. today is the day you're going to get motivated...

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getting your assessment of where some of these racists stand in the wake of what happened with judge kavanaugh, dr. christine blasey ford. the emerging wisdom is this made it harder for democrats and paved the way to flip the house of representatives. what are you seeing in the districts that you're watching? >> well, first, i want to thank you for having me on and happy anniversary, kasie. >> thank you. >> i can tell you what i'm seeing across the country is that this unprecedented wave of enthusiasm and new voters coming out and helping these campaigns and connecting with the incredible candidates that democrats have running is not dissipating. it is picking up steam as we go, and it's very rewarding to see that that connection to the issues that families facing at home is being made by our

candidates and is fueling their campaigns. >> one of the reporters we were just talking to is down in georgia, and he mentioned that in the governor's race anyway, there was some sense that white women potentially were breaking in favor of the republican in the wake of what happened with kavanaugh. are you seeing anything like that at the end of the races in suburbs for example? is there any of that phenomenon in the polling or the opposite? >> what we're seeing in the polling is that generic democrats are actually gaining ground, and i can tell you from the conversations that i've had that the students i've talked to, moms, suburban women, they are outraged at what they saw with the judge kavanaugh hearings, and they are turning out to volunteer to be part of what they see as reclaiming congress and making sure that congress is working for them

again. >> you are paying close attention to these individual candidates as we are heading for election night. what are going to be what you're looking for if x candidate wins their race, you know it's going to be a huge tsunami. >> i think some of the bellwethers are we are looking at georgia and not only how stacy abrarms is going to do but lucy and caroline. i'm going to be looking at florida following those races and over in texas and we are even going to be looking in kansas, which is not a state or a congressional district that the been on our battle field in a long time but shareece davids out in kansas city is electrifying people and she is exactly the type of candidate that people are eager to send to congress, someone who is native

american. she is a distinguished attorney, and she's also a mixed marshall arts fighter and people know that she's going to bring her experiences to really fight for those families of kansas, and that's the type of kiss strict that we have not seen in play in a long time. >> fight perhaps literally. one line of attack republicans have been using is a familiar one. i feel like it's several cycles old anyway but nancy pelosi, a big focus for a lot of their ads, she of course, pretty unpopular polls show. is that effective at this point? the ads they are running against, they are running that hit pelosi? >> in a word, no. the republicans are bringing this out from their playbook for two reasons. the first is nancy pelosi's an

ineffective leader and they know it and the second is they don't have anything else to talk to voters about. they were hoping to run on a tax bill but it is impossible because that tax bill was for the wealthiest of americans and for large corporations and it left them out of it. and they were hoping to run on health care and that is going to be the defining issue of this election because americans watched as republicans in the house took away health care from millions of them, made preexisting conditions, made it okay to discriminate insurance against that again and these are issues that people talk about around their kitchen tables that they understand. so when there is nothing else to talk about that's positive, they revert back to talking about nancy pelosi. >> all right. congresswoman kathryn clark, you have a busy couple weeks ahead.

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president trump under pressure to deal with the disappoiearance of jamal khashoggi. >> do you know if he's dead or alive? >> i don't. >> he walked into the consulate and never came out. >> we cannot have an ally who murders in cold blood in their own consulate. >> an unacceptable thing. >> unacceptable. >> the khashoggi story is a tragedy. >> the story for khashoggi direction needs to be taken. >> if the allegations of saudi interference prove to be the case. >> is there any other explanation at this point? >> doesn't seem to be. >> just over three weeks before the midterm elections. >> just over three weeks. >> republicans remain energized. >> three weeks to go and i think the momentum is in the right direction. >> the debacle with justice kavanaugh is hugely motivating. >> the democratic party is confronting questions this week about whether or not they should

be using more aggressive tactics. >> eric holder said when they go low, we kick them. >> there is very little civil discourse in politics today. >> you never know what will happen in the next 24, 48 hours so stay tuned. >> indeed. welcome to the second hour of "kasie d.c." with me eli and "the new york times" reporter, a guide to the day in national politics and former policy advisor to mitt romney, host of the pod cast crossing lines. democrats are trying to hold on to this much touted way to retake congress. he is going to spend the next day greeting crowds of thousands in the campaign trail. the trail he has blazed reflects the vulnerable terrain on the midterm map. last week pennsylvania, ohio, kentucky, this week, montana, arizona and nevada, one thing is

clear. in many of these most critical places, the kavanaugh confirmation is providing some of the biggest applause lines and reshaping key races especially in the senate. >> america watched as we proudly swore in the newest member of the united states supreme court, justice brett kavanaugh. and we stuck with him all the way because we know the facts. we stuck with him all the way. >> for standing strong with justice kavanaugh and appointing conservative judges to the court. >> on brett kavanaugh! [ cheers ] >> wow. so we also are sifting here through this interview that the president did on "60 minutes" and one of the things he did was defend her mocking saying it contributed to getting her across the finish line. >> is there a question?

[ laughter ] >> you know, i have thoughts on this, casey. yeah, i mean, i think certainly the republicans and president trump, we know if he knows one thing, it is his base and we know his base, there is polling that shows they are more likely to believe there is prejudice and so-called reverse racism and prejudice against white men. tapping into that sentiment in his base helped provide an argument and support for them to get justice kavanaugh through. they also helped close the enthusiasm gap. we've seen that in the midterms. you know, the question is whether that enthusiasm gap stays closed. three weeks as everyone said is a long time in this news psychoand will there is a flip side of that which is it's hard for anyone to believe democrats, particularly democratic women could be more enthusiastic at voting but i was in michigan for events for the democratic candidate for governor out there and i can tell you democratic

activists said they were super sonic charged is what the words of one of them. i think there is a flip side to this which you're ginning up the democratic base and we know independent women are not breaking for the president. >> how do you think this ultimately falls out? this is one of the first times since the president was inaugurated that i can remember sort of everyone playing on the same team, a lot of republicans in washington didn't like the comments he made necessarily about dr. blasey ford but they were on board with the project but lisa makes a good point perhaps republicans are at risk of losing women for a lot of years to come. >> yeah, i think the question during the trump era has always been that, which is what are the short term gains versus long-term potential losses and the racial coalition republicans had the potential to build, gender coalition they may have bui built. these are open questions. what the president is doing now is saying we have a base. we're going to steak to the base

because motivating the base is the quickest way to here to winning a midterm election. independents traditionally do not show up in midterm elections so this is about motivating the base and will predict the outcome. >> elih, you've covered a lot of campaigns, presidential and midterms. this president has on on the trail to make it about himself to get to the point that lonnie is making to try to get people who believe they are voting for him instead of congressperson x. >> i was at two of the four rallies last night. he does offer state specific policy items in iowa. he was talking about ethanol last night and coal in kentucky. for the most part, this is the trump show revving up trump supporters and telling them hey, you got to go out and vote for republicans or democrats will destroy everything. it's over the top, the rhetoric but nothing we haven't seen from this president from the moment he rode down the escalator.

a lot of places he's going, they are based rallying places. next weekend he's going to go out west. you see on the map he's going to nevada. he's been to vegas twice but that's not where most of the votes are in nevada. it's where a lot of conservative people are and he needs to make sure that they actually go out and vote. the race last night in kentucky is more of a suburban district and a district the incumbent facing a tough fight won by 22 points. he said it was a swing district next to trump. it's a swing race because of trump and they have a descent candidate but largely because the republican advantage in the plus evaporat evaporated. >> as the jet fuel was there, the confirmation of 15 more judicial nominees and cheuck

schumer made sure they could go and campaign. mcconnell savered that win last night. >> 84 new federal judges already this congress.ored that win las night. >> 84 new federal judges already this congress. that's already a record, mr. president. keep sending them. >> not everyone knows mitch is a great guy. he's a great people. there is something that happens to you when you grow up in kentucky, i guess, right? he's a great people. >> could there be two more different politicians on the same stage? i can't get over it. mitch mcconnell has made this the absolute mission of his entire career in washington and it really, i mean, people sometimes short handed by saying mcconnell plays a long game but he does. >> he's a remarkable strategist. you've seen that play out certainly if you agree with that

sentiment, these are judges word confirming and for leader mcconnell, that's a big part of bolstering the president's argument and the president's point was always, look, you may disagree with my personal style but i'll get these things done and these midterm elections, to the extent there say referendum for conservatives, it's a referendum where he'll do well because they look and say you have the judges and tax cuts and regulatory reform and you did this stuff with coal and energy. these are things the voters care about and focus on. >> yeah, lisa, the other interesting piece of this, i think, too, is the role that the president is going to play in some of these future races. mitch mcconnell wants to run for reelection again in 2020 and lindsey graham. they are suddenly the best golfing buddies. >> there is an understanding that this is trump's republican party and under scored that, she made it extremely clear and put

up a billboard saying i'm not running in 2020. she literally said this guy. there was a lot of talk around getting her in, that she could primary him and he would be one that has the reputation to run against the president and i think what that shows you is this is trump's republican party and there is an understanding that unless something happens to him and he's no longer in office, he's taken over this party. he's maintained strong support among the base and there is no going up against him only hurts your political career. and i think that's what we see. >> elih, sometimes when you put this question to people, they say if the president runs for e reelection in 2020, where does that skepticism come from? because he's saying that behind closed doors. >> he's all in for 2020. he's never given any eindicatio. he thinks a lot about the second material and we know how much he views of winning and losing. that's a measurable thing.

that's a huge election on his mind and if you hear speculation about whether he's going to actually be able to run, it has more to do with the cloud of russia probe and other things that may hang over this administration that may prevent him from running but at this point, even in crisis, he doesn't back down. he doesn't shy away from it and i think 2020 is the slam dunk unless something catastrophic happens. >> i feel like if there were a cloud for mueller, it might not stop him. >> might not. >> speaking of presidential races, the kavanaugh confirmation appeared to animate the me too movement in some places but i also wanted to talk about some comments from former secretary of state hillary clinton that aired today on cbs this morning. >> what role, if any, did you play in criticizing the character of the women who have accused bill of sexual misconduct. >> none, none. >> no role. >> no role. >> i take responsibility for my life and my actions. >> she also stood by his side as he was impeached after lying

about his affair with a white house intern. some today said he should have stepped down. >> in retro spect, do you think bill should have resigned in the wake of the monica lewinsky scandal. >> absolutely not. >> it wasn't an abuse of power? >> no, no. >> there are people that look at the incidents of the '90s and say a president of the united states cannot have a consensual relationship with an intern. the power imbalance -- >> she was an adult. let me ask you this, where is the investigation of the current incumbent against whom numerous allegations have been made in which you dismisses, denies and r ridicules. as i believe came out in the right place. >> senator said nearly a year ago in november that bill clinton should have resienlgnede

residency. that's how it should have unfolded perhaps the standards were different then. are we cursed to live in this hillary versus trump world? >> i don't think we are. it feels that way. i spent a lot of my life with it and covered hillary clinton's campaign and many years focused on hillary clinton but i think that the me too movement meant their period on the stage that's over, it's more over. that she, they are not right with this moment in the democratic party. they are not where the grass roots of this party is. they are not where certainly the women that provided a lot of the momentum and energy behind the mid materialterm elections. i had the senator tell me recently that she does not believe that anyone who, any

democrat who does not fully understand the implications of the me too movement could be the standard bear for the party. i know she's not alone in the sentiments. there is a lot of top female democrats think that and top male democrats think that, too. clearly based on the remarks and the remarks president clinton gave in the fall. >> with craig melvin. >> the "today show." they are not right. >> it's a difficult moment. >> yes. >> just in, president trump is weighing in on what he thinks made the difference in the kavanaugh confirmation process. we were just referring to this. take a look at this piece of the interview that just aired on "60 minutes". >> you mimicked professor blasey ford. you mill mamicked her. >> she didn't seem to know anything and you're trying to destroy a life of a man who has been extraordinary. >> why did you have to make fun of her? >> i didn't really make fun. >> they were laughing. >> what i said is the person

that we're talking about didn't know the year, the time, the place. >> professor blasey ford got before the senate and was asked what is the worst moment and she said when the two boys laughed at me, at my expense, and then i watched you mimic her and thousands of people were latching at her. >> they can do what they -- i will tell you this. the way now justice kavanaugh was treated has become a big factor in the midterms. have you seen what's gone on with the polls? >> but did you have to -- >> well, i think she was treated with great respect. i'll be honest. >> do you think -- >> she shouldn't have been -- >> do you think you treated her with great respect? >> i think so. i did. >> you seem to be saying she lied. >> you know what? i'm not going to get into it because we won. it doesn't matter. we won. >> wow. is there a sense, i mean, i feel like a lot of the reporting

after said at the time she he should not have said what he said. they do feel it turned the tide. >> mitch mcconnell is upset about the tweets and yesterday i was sitting there on the tarmac in kentucky and they were embracing the senate and majority leader and the reason for the jubilation is the fact they got kavanaugh through the fight. you heard the president say it's not new for him to look at things in terms of wins and losses, right? it's a zero game and this is a guy who won and so the end justifies the means for him and he doesn't really, this is not a guy that tried to worry about questions of values, questions of what. we had to at the end of the day to be treated her at the rally and you could see the coordin e coordinated strategy on the republican side. they didn't want to grapple with the sustainbstance of her allegations. they wanted to turn it around

and make it political and talk about feinstein leaking things and turn it into a political fight. that is probably what got kavanaugh in the supreme court. >> still to come, the president is reportedly set to get one new lawyer to run the white house and david joins me live onset of what he does best, digging into the president's personal finances. we're back after this president'l finances we're back after thi . place, the xfinity xfi gateway.

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interfered in the 2016 campaign, election? >> they meddled and china did, too. >> why do you say why that? why don't you say the russians meddled? >> because i think china meddled also. >> you're diverting the russian thing. >> i'm not. >> i'm saying russia and china. >> president trump weighing in on the 2016 campaign moments ago on "60 minutes." there are reports that president trump is expected to replace don mcgahn with axios and "the washington post" and said a reporter is filling out paperwork. trump announced it in august after a tense run. joining us for more on this is carol who led "the washington post" reporting on replacing don mcgahn.

i saw the president who is trying to argue again that china also meddled in our election. this white house. handle and about this guy and is the thing is it, making it harder. >> i don't think he's making it harder for himself legally in terms of criminal exposure for things that are partially accurate and partially inaccurate but i do think you hit the nail on the head how important this job is going to be going forward. running the premiere legal office for the entire administrati administration. this will be fending off slings and arrows after this election and at tif the democrats take t house it will be an ugly battle because there will be subpoenas that and investigations galore and every member of congress and every chairman of the house

committee will have a sling of questions and those will be answered or ignored. >> so what do we know about mhi? skills does he bring for the job? there is not a lot of people who are chomping at the bit to go work in the white house. >> that's really a good point and it's a lot like when the president lost john dowd how long it seemed to take for somebody to step forward and be willing to be his lawyer. pat was advising the president's personal legal team. the president has a few months to get comfortable with him and now this fellow will be the white house counsel in an official role representing the white house. what do we know about him? he's a conservative christian activist and god father to laura ingraham at fox news and a person who's really involved in waging war against regulatory

agencies on behalf of the big corporate clients. so he doesn't have the typical resume for a white house counsel. lots of government experience, former prosecutor but he's won the president's trust. >> what are the risks for republicans and facing all these legal challenges and subpoenas that? >> anybody working at a regulatory agency better get ready to respond. the congress, the democrats at the house presuming that's the chamber they take, they are going to use all means available to investigate the trump administration that means there is going to be a constant barrabar barrage of investigation. >> yeah, lisa, do you think the white house is prepared for it? >> well, i know the democratic grass roots is going to demand

it. you see already democratic candidates are out there promising investigations of c kavanaugh and everything. both parties are on war footing whether the legal team is equipped for the sheer number and force and political force behind these investigations, particularly given they will move into a presidential year. given their track record it's hard to believe they are fully ready for this. >> elih, what about jeff sessions and rod rosenstein and the future of both of them? how does it play into a potential? de democrats shade fiaid firing on them would spark a crisis adding to it. >> a lot of people would argue they are in a constitutional crisis of sorts because of the uncertainty surrounding the justice department. the president's influence and whether or not he's going to make changes and how much he'll meddle with the investigation. that's part of the consideration for voters now. i think what whatever happens with sessions and rosenstein, if

2019 is all about investigations and the democrats really trying to get something on the president, just investigating the president, i think from people who have spoken to in the president's campaign world head to 2020, they would love that because then trump can go out there on the rallies and say look, they are doing the same thing trying to resist and fight me and they have nothing for you for the people. they are not focused on policy. they are focused on me and i think that plays very much into the president's hands politically looking to 2020. we've seen the sense of crisis from the beginning in terms of the government and the public reaction has been static. the polling doesn't shift. i don't know that the president is that worried about if he decides to make a change at the justice department that suddenly the bottom will drop out of his support with congress or the people. >> so if elih is correct then democrats would need to actually find something on the president for these efforts to be fruitful in their view. carol, what's your sense of the most dangerous line of questioning is for the

president, like if house democrats go after x thing, it's most problematic. >> i think elih is really smart in summarizing how the ball hasn't really moved a lot with various scandals but the one thing that does resonate is corruption and swamp-like behavior and you have seen in this administration the series of events that unprecedented using the military jet to see the solar eclipse and going to rome to view the amazing beautiful things and $1,000 of your money, the taxpayer taxpayers. >> good point. thank you so much for your time tonight. >> of course. >> appreciate it. just ahead we'll zero in on the critical races of the senate. we'll be joined with comments

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analysts are watching to see if the house and senate could be moving in different directions. they have a 4-in-5 chance. and a 1-in-5 chance of winning. ally and joining us from phoenix, vaughn. it's always a good day when i get to see the both of you. ally, you were just in north dakota among several places but let's start with the race. the timing interesting. a lot of people saying while she was already in trouble, her vote on kavanaugh may have put this away. >> prfrom the time we started covering the race, we said we're aware we have a tough one. this is a trump state. he won here in 2016. this seems to be a crystallizing moment for him. the cramer folks and people said

they were ahead. even though there were iffy sound bytes, it seems to have jived with what republican vo r voters were thinking. heidi tried to turn this into explaining her vote. take a look at what she had to say. >> those children. >> what am i hearing? >> my mom did. and i think it affected my mom her whole life and it didn't make her less strong and i want you to put this in there. it did not make my mom less strong that she was a victim. she was stronger and made us stronger and to suggest that this movement doesn't make women strong and stronger is really unfortunate. >> so in talking to folks, they would say this is a vote she made not because of the

political quickness. >> let's sum it up. >> she talked about her own mother having been sexual assaulted and this came out in an emotional way. >> when you can hear her personal experience talking act her mom. it helps you put into context why she would vote that way because it's not the political thing to do in a trump state. folks said this is a vote she took to look in the mirror the next day. when you think of that, there is easy ways to look at the polls and say maybe they know something we don't. >> arizona, ron is out there and had the chance to catch up with governor mitt romney about who i spent quite a few of my years

covering. they are tieing themselves in knots to figure out where they are as regards the elephant in the room, president donald trump. take a look and vaughn, i'll ask you about it. >> which one would you consider yourself aligning more of? senator jeff flake, president donald trump. in terms of what types of republicans. >> i'm a martha mcelderry ssall republican. i'll fight for the things that mat tore our state. >> i'm a george romney republican and a sarah mcsally republican. >> a george romney republican. vaughn, not ug toeager to say t are members of the party of donald j. trump. >> on friday she stood alongside mitt romney and up on stage she made no mention of donald trump but guess who is coming to town friday down the road in mesa? donald trump. we'll be paying attention to see how her message changes, but i want to bring up kirsten.

she's the democrat. i want to bring up the future, is it moving away from the rust belt? does it move west? this is the election democrat haves been waiting for. be beto oc beto. the question for kirsten and this race is she tried to paint herself through the summer is western independent on the form of a john mccain mold but her past is now what is coming up. back when she was much more to the left. this is martha mcelderry sally he pushing back against the old. >> she was passing out flyers in one of the many, many protests depicting our troops as skele n skeletons and saying we're the ones committing acts of terror. what? that is out of step with arizona values and american values, right after 9/11 she's protesting military action

against terrorists and did you see what came out today? she's on the radio show saying she doesn't care if an american joins the taliban. it's okay with her. did you see yesterday when she was talking to a group and said arizona is crazy? did you see that? did you see that? well, why doesn't she move to california then? today did you see another video came out where she basically said they say the states are the labs of democracy and equated arizona to being a meth lab. she's making fun of us. she's making fun of us. you can't make this stuff up. how is she in a dead heat with us right now? i mean, give me a break. one after another is disqualifying. >> you know, our campaign is 100% focused on the work we're doing in this election and that's listening to arizona voters and trying to answer concerns. that's what i'm focused on.

>> kasie, that response was back in august. when i asked her the very question do you have any political regrets and as you heard she gave a very non-answer but as she would bring up, as the campaign brought up, more that mcsally wouldn't even say she voted for donald trump two years ago so watching that evolution of them is coming to a head here and as you heard mcsally say, how are we so close in the race? that says a lot about the politics of the west and arizona right now. >> indeed it does. vaughn, we're getting to the home stretch here, bud. maybe we'll see you back in washington. thank you so much. when we come back, how far will the president test our relationship with the sud daudi over the disappeared journalist. that's next. the disappeared jo. that's next. it was like that feeling when you're mowing the lawn on a sunny day... ...and without even trying, you end up with one last strip

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jamal khashoggi, the journalist, the saudi journalist, was he murdered by the saudis and did the prince give the order to kill him? >> nobody knows yet, but we'll probably be able to find out. it's being investigated. it's being looked at very, very strongly. we would be upset and angry if that were the case. as of this moment they deny it. >> president trump concerned about the impact on a potential arm's deal with the house of sauds. the kingdom is shown to be

behind the death of columnist and contributor. the saudi government has denied and condemned the allegations that it killed khashoggi and denied threats. the kingdom warned that it would respond to steps taken against it with quote greater action. joining me now for more is political reporter david. the options against saudi arabia, i want to ask about the president's conflicts and how that may influence what he decides to do. is the trump organization intwined with saudi arabia? has his relationship been like before he became president. >> he had business relationships with saudis that go into the early 1990s. they were buying assets when he was a desperate seller in financial straights. they benefitted from doing business with the saudi

government that paid for $270,000 of rooms and catering and also with a lot of saudi travelers. the trump hotel in new york and chicago have generally not been doing well as other customers have left, those have been pushed from internal documents by upticks from saudis. >> convenient. the glitz. so the president said this arm's deal with the saudis should go forward because it's better for americans than if the chinese or russians do. i want to look how the president posed this and how a critic is looking at it. >> well, what i don't want to do, boeing, i don't want to hurt jobs. i don't want to lose order like that. there are other ways of punishing. >> our moral credibility, our

ability to call putin a murderer and assad a murderer because he is and these other human rights astr atrocities all of that is compromised if we decide because an ally important did that we'll not call it out. >> i was watching this morning on "meet the press" with chuck todd, it's interesting how you frame this. it seems like there will be incredible pressure if it seems saudi arabia did this and there is no video of him leaving the consulate. it seems clear this is something that happened. what's the moral responsibility? >> significant. moral leadership is a big part. if you think about how we deal in the region, there is a strategic element of this which is why the relationship is important and the united states sets an example for the rest of the world and that's the point senator rubio is making. you cannot call out putin and

ping if you endorse the activity. we don't know all of the facts but we know seems damming for the saudis and so i think the united states has to be careful in thinking about how we approach this. it's not just about arms sells. this is about where does the u.s. stand relative to other countries around the rest of the world and if we take a leadership position, what does that mean? >> can i ask about the crowned prince who has been seen in someways as a reformer and who has a very close relationship with jared kushner but who is apparently rather gristly said we're getting a view of, i mean, what's -- how is this playing out behind the scenes at the white house? sq >> clearly raises questions about the exact lines of the relationship. it's clear the white house never said look, we're having closer ties. we want to build this relationship with you but there are lines you cannot cross and things you cannot do and that's not done and if it was, it wasn't done effectively because they find themselves not only in

this difficult political sit waste, th situation, but this embarrassing situation for the u.s. so i think it really raises questions about what exactly, how that relationship came together and what is that relationship? >> yeah, and david, administration at this point still is not polled the treasury secretary steven mnuchin back from this conference that's being held i find somewhat creepily at the hotel where they imprisoned a bunch of wealthy saudis for awhile. >> the crazy thing to me is administration is acting like we don't have leverage. like there is no middle ground between in pressure on them and cutting off ties completely. maybe they don't want to use the leverage they have. >> thank you, as always, for being here.

we'll have much more "kasi "kasie d.c." coming up in a minute. "kasie d.c." coming up in a minute

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there's magnolia. watching tonight. and nina godfrey, our intrepid graphics producer and her dog, roxy. we're going to talk about what we're watching in the week ahead. lonnie cheng what are you watching for? >> the u.s. economy, given the turmoil we saw in the stock market, we're going 0 get more economic news and see how things are doing vis-a-vis china and the trade situation, i'm interested to see whether last week was just a blip or are we headed for some kind of market downturn which could affect the mid-term elections. >> lisa? >> i'm keeping a close eye on florida. a gubernatorial race there and a senate race both of which are extremely crows and a destructive hurricane that just came through. in florida, hurricane politics are everything. particularly this close to be a election. i'm going to be seeing what the fallout is politically. great point. the president is going down there we'll see if he sticks to hurricane or politics. i think the big thing is ka showingi and whether the white house changes its response and

gets tougher on saudi arabia. you're hearing republican allies on the hill, they're rhetoric is already at another level than the white house. i think they're talking to the white house behind the scenes this is a president who has expressed his admiration for dictato dictators, who doesn't understand the importance of america soft power, will he do something? >> i'm looking at what the president had to say about robert mueller in the "60 minutes" interview. apparently not pledging to end that investigation. it is really hard to believe that it's already been one year year here on the air, we want to thank you for watching as we grow. if you thought this year was intense, wait until 2020. that will do it for us tooth on kasie d.c. as we say god night, we want to look back at the last year on kasie d.c. it's sunday october 15th and the first-ever edition of kasie d.c. >> this, this, this is kasie d.c.

>> i hardly know where to begin. >> we start with the drama. >> the federal government is shut down. >> for an anonymous op-ed. >> line items, tariffs and bears. >> people are eating laundry detergent and omarosa is back on tv. >> tim kaine. >> senator rand paul. >> kirsten jillen brand. >> ben folds zblrks i caught up with romney. >> beta o'rourke. >> congratulations on your new show. >> let's start by talking about this republican project of -- >> do we have to. >> you can put the hat on there we go. >> what was your ac/dc "long road to the top." >> as you roll your eyes. >> i'm not rolling my eyes. >> we will see. >> that was pretty weird. >> questions. >> kasie? >> what is your view of what happened. >> did we learn anything?

what exactly is going on behind the scenes at the fbi? >> what's going on with your party? >> this is only a two-hour show. >> does the president have the power to pardon himself? are we in a new cold war? >> the results out of arizona do they concern you in your senate bid? >> i was flying in, i haven't seen them. >> five points, it was 21 points for trump. >> how long it does take the president to do his hair? >> is this your whole life? >> does he have any sense of history? >> no. >> i can tell you i never thought i would be having this conversation, let alone on tv. >> where does this end? >> breaking news, we have this just in. >> brand new reporting just out. >> you just spoke to gina haspel, the nominee to be the director of the c.i.a. >> we'll switch gears here, any chance you would be a candidate in 2020? are you running for president in 2020? >> i'm focused on 2018. >> would you give it a look at 2018? >> i'm looking at all of these fabulous people out here. >> we've been highlighting the

record number of women running for office this election cycle. an historic year for women in politics. my name is jimmy carter and i'm running for president. >> like donald trump, he ran against the washington political elite. >> i never was part of the political establishment. >> but carter was no tv celebrity. he rose from nowhere. >> i was going to run for president if i only got my vote and rose's vote. >> i don't claim to be better than anyone else. >> can we imagine in what we're experiencing now, a sunday school teacher seeking and winning the country's highest office. on a promise not to lie to us. >> when