i'm nicolle wallace. "mtp daily" starts right now. nicole, where are you? i got beer, i got happy hour, it's vegas. >> it's 1:00, it's beer time. >> watch out, watch out! it's a 24-hour town and early voting starts tomorrow so why not. thank you, nicolle. >> have a good show. >> you got it. if it's thursday, it's vegas. good day. i'm chuck todd here in las vegas, nevada. i'm coming to you live from beer park, right off the strip.

guess what they sell here. anyway, whatever happens in this hour is supposed to say in this hour. we'll see how they do. 19 days to go and we're another crucial midterm battle ground. this state could be something of a canary in the cole mine. democrats are betting big on turnout fueled by hispanic voters. if they don't show up in the elections across the country, including here in nevada, which is nearly 30% hispanic, it could be a big election night hangover for the democrats, which you'd probably call hangover part two, after what happened in 2016. boy, oh, boy, there is a lot of evidence that democrats are struggling to turn out his pan uk vo -- hispanic voters. and you're seeing a mini panic on the ground and signs they should be panicking in the polling data. in is all happening with a president that many democrats thought would drive record turnout from hispanics because

of his immigration rhetoric and policy. just today the president threatened to call in the military because of a, quote, assault on our country at the southern border, suggested he might shut off aid to southern american countries unless they stop a large flow of immigrants headed to the united states, which clincluded, he said, many criminals, and threatened to blow of his trade deal with mexico and canada over the issue. and yet latinos run toward the bottom of the pack when it comes to their interest in these midterm elections. just 49% have told us they have a very high interest in this november election. that's a number that is about the same as 2006, the last time democrats had a big midterm year when both the president and immigration issue were obviously very, very different. democrats are trailing here in nevada's crucial senate contest maybe, very narrowly.

democrats will say it's got to be even but we'll see. folks, this is a state that hillary clinton won. that is a sign that democrats could be struggling to energize the hispanic voters right here in the silver state if for some reason jackie rosen can't win. if i'm in las vegas, you know one of my guest is going to be john ralston, editor of the "nevada independent," and axios' police call reporter alexei mccannon and charlie sykes, contributor at "the weekly standard," elisa kumar. let me start here in vegas. maria, we're going to put your organization on the spot here.

john, let me start with you. hispanic voters, i've been hearing it in phoenix, i've been hearing it here, you hear it in the beto o'rourke race in texas. there isn't the surge. is it something we're just not seeing in polling and it's there or is this a real problem? >> i think sometimes in nevada as you know it doesn't show up in polling. that's been a problem for pollsters. but in 2014, hispanic turnout dropped off the faith of the earth after the so-called reed machine. reed got saved by the hispanic vote. he wasn't even supposed to win. the democrats are worried, chuck, that the polling you just showed, they're worried. it was 10% or below in 2014. you just pointed out 30% of the population. if they don't get it up two or three points, that's a problem. >> what's the number got to be, the percentage of the electorate when i get that exit poll back, the hispanic is what that will

tell you the democrats win? >> i have to give you a hard and firm number? if it's 15%, the democrats will do really, really well. 13 or 14 they might be okay, too. once it starts getting towards 10, they're in trouble. >> teens are everything. >> if they're in the teens, they'll probably do well. >> alexei, nationally democrats -- i feel the reason there's been a lot of reporting about the hispanic issue is a lot of consultants are nervous about this and they're trying to bring attention to the problem. >> president trump's rhetoric on immigrants is something a lot of democratic strategists had assumed would naturally fire up the latino community. as we all know and as candidates in campaigns should know better, they're not a monolithic democratic or voting block. they care about many different issues other than immigration. a lot of them are pro-life, which is something that goes against traditional democratic

campaigns. they saw in 2014 midterms and 2016 that latino voters are not as enthusiastic as other democratic base voters and i think they're sick of waiting until the last three weeks of the election for democrats to pay attention to them. >> i was with the democratic nominee in arizona, david garcia. maria, i'm very curious what you think of his theory as to why there's a little bit of -- i don't know what you want to call it. maybe it's fatigue in the latino community. take a listen to how he characterized the issue, maria. >> latinos have been asked to play defense over and over and over again, including coming out and voting against trump. what we haven't had in a long time is something to vote for. negativity suppresses the vote. >> as you know, we had negativity today, maria, just in the president's twitter feed. very tough. >> chuck, let's be very, very frank and transparent.

60% of registered latinos had not received a phone call from a candidate in a political party as of sunday. >> say in a number again, maria? >> 60% of registered latinos. how are you expecting for someone to come to you and basically vote for you if you haven't even contacted them? it's the basics. when people start saying there's fatigue, there's not fatigue. 60% of latinos are under the age of 33, the media age of latino voter is 18 years old, chuck. what happens unfortunately in all politics is people decide they're going to go ahead and call the high frequency voter. young, by default don't have a voting history. if you want to know how we change the politics, we have to reimagine who you are electoral is and hire consultants who

understand what the community is. because the community is so young, most people do not realize if you elect a member of congress, they can be that line of defense against the president. they believe the president is the almighty and they don't realize we have three branches of government that are literally of equal sorts. in the 2014 elections the reason the latino vote was so low, it was also at the point of the obama administration when it came to deportation. there was nothing to vote for at that time. and at the same time, it was the lowest across all americans in 70 years for that midterm election and it was also the very first time there was the voting rights act had been gutted by the supreme court. so all these factors. if someone wants to know how do you get a voter, it's not hard. you have to talk to them, you have to invest in the infrastructure. the challenge within the community is the way people build that infrastructure is by working very closely with the unions. but the unions do not have a stronghold in texas, georgia,

north carolina, arizona where the real growing population of the latino community is but also where the growing community of young professionals are. when you look at not just the latino vote but the young vote, sometimes interspersed together -- they're mixed apart but it's about investment and having those conversations. voter latino surpassed our voter registration numbers on monday. so there is enthusiasm but you have to talk to them. >> look, you are very passionate about this. has the democratic party just dropped the ball? that's what it sounds like you're saying. that this is a major fail. >> it's a major fail. in 2016, 50% of registered latinos had not been contacted, chuck. >> health insurance pothat's po. >> exactly. it's not enough to say this other person is bad, you have to connect the dots.

when pete wilson went after the latino community, there was a very clear message to the latino community, this is how you protect your family, you register to vote and become naturalized. that has not happened in this election nor in the 2016 cycle. >> charlie, you're conservative, liberals and conservatives can decide what party they're in. but the republican party under trump has made a decision to go ahead and trial to alienate h hispanics. there's a long-term price here. >> what you're describing sounds like epic malpractice on the part of democrats. when pete wilson pushed through the referendum vote stripping undocumented aliens of government aid, that was seen as a huge win for the republicans, but it really ushered in

one-party rule in the state of california. so there's no question that there's the long-term price to be paid for it. but a couple of points have been made here. the hispanic vote is not, in fact, monolithic. there are other concerns. they're much more socially conservative than i think the democratic party is. but i also kind of wonder, look, the trump administration has really -- has targeted the latino community. this is the not-so-secret sauce of trumpism to demonize immigrants, to talk about them as invaders, as rapists and gang members. i wonder whether or not there is a certain level of intimidation and fear here. keep your head down at a very, very dangerous time because if the republicans do retain control of congress, it's not going to be status quo. this will be a much trumpier congress, a much more aggressive federal government. so what you've seen so far would in fact i think be just simply a

prelude to the immigration crackdown that would come with an emboldened donald trump and emboldened republican congress. >> john ralston, dean heller sort of epitomizes the change. i feel like two years ago he was talking about comprehensive immigration reform and talking about the dreamers. he doesn't talk about that now, does he? >> dean heller has had just about every position you could imagine. suddenly he was a sponsor of comprehensive immigration reform. he was almost a never trumper and now suddenly he loves trump more than anybody in the world and he's adopted trump's rhetoric on immigration to an extent. but they are doing outreach here, the heller campaign. they're on spanish language tv. democrats do have one thing here, though, that doesn't exist

in any of the other states, that's the culinary -- >> that was maria's point. there's no unions in texas and georgia the way there is here. >> the kuculinary union is the latino turnout machine. they've registered many of those members. if the culinary union does its job, then heller and the governor's race have a lot to worry about. >> that's the interesting this evening when you mention spanish language ads. that's something i hear over and over again. that is not enough to maria's point, too. look at stacey abrams who made a concerted effort to push white working class voters to the wayside to focus on african-american voters who are not registered to vote and that really helped her in the primary. i can't think of a specific candidate, hispanic or otherwise who is doing a similar situation with latino voters.

>> stacey abrams is doing the same model she's doing in the african-american community in the latino community. she actually understands by focusing on these communities, bringing them together, that's what's going to help her go over the top. it's fascinating to watch. she's done a stellar job. >> brian sandoval as a latino, republican, he's been empathetic to dreamers on the immigration issue, but he tiptoes. does he want to be the face of the movement in the republican party that pushes back? >> he's never talked much about it, chuck, you're right. it's not something that's part of who he is. but he did just do a commercial, a very good commercial for dean heller, coming in late, embracing him, sending a message that this is a good guy just like me. sandoval has great numbers among hispanics. he has great numbers across demographic groups here.

he's a unique political figure in nevada, but he has never wanted to be out front on those kinds of issues. >> you don't think hispanic republican. you don't see it first when you think of brian sandoval. >> that's right. i don't think most people think of him in that way. they think of him as brian sandoval, a man for all demographics. >> how much will that help dean heller when he's on stage talking about the way he talks about immigration. >> trump coming here, very quickly -- let me ask maria. trump coming to nevada, how important is that to turnout for the democrats? >> i think it's huge. if you follow where the president's going, it's where he knows that it's neck to neck and where he actually may have a problem. he knows he's needs congress to pass his business. if you follow his trajectory, that's where you know there's vast opportunity among the democratic party. the fact that he's going to texas, that's not small, that's huge. there's no reason that cruz should be up only by 6 points.

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welcome back. president trump acknowledged this afternoon what pretty much everyone else has already concluded, that it appears the missing "washington post" journalist jamal khashoggi is dead. >> reporter: do you believe jamal khashoggi is dead? >> it certainly looks that way to me. it's very sad. it certainly looks that way. we're waiting for the results of about three different investigations, and we should be able to get to the bottom fairly soon. >> reporter: mr. president, what are you considering for possible consequences for saudi based on those? >> well, it will have to be very severe. i mean, it's bad, bad stuff but we'll see what happens. thank you. >> the toughest comments yet from the president and it came after treasury secretary steven mnuchin announced he's pulling out of a high-profile investment

summit in saudi arabia and off mike pompeo called for patience with the saudis. >> i told president trump this morning that we ought to give them a few more days to complete that so that we, too, have a complete understanding of the facts surrounding that, at which point we can make decisions about how or if the united states should respond to the incident surrounding mr. khashoggi. >> nbc news chief correspondent richard engel is in istanbul all over this story. let me just start here. what are the few days that the saudis need? is this about getting a story straight? are there facts we don't have? what facts are we going to trust from the saudis? >> reporter: well, there are so many moving parts to this story. as you saw president trump saying he thinks khashoggi's dead, the secretary of state saying we should give them more time, while the saudis are

reportedly looking for some sort of scapegoat, someone to pin this on. there are a couple of names that have surfaced of people who the saudis would like to label as a rogue agent, someone who was acting beyond their authority and may instead of just going after critics and pressure them into being not quite as harsh as they have been against the saudi crown prince to actually going out and killing them. so this is a very bizarre story on political levels because the saudi crown prince has had this meteoric rise over the last year, and now his reputation maybe even his own political future are tainted and potentially at risk. so what could happen over the next few days? seems like the saudis have to come up with a very plausible, very good excuse as to why according to turkish officials and others jamal khashoggi died

in the consulate here in this country. if that excuse isn't bought, the crown prince's rise could potentially come to a halt. >> richard, are you surprised, you're somebody who lived in istanbul for some time, you have followed erdogan's government from when it was this potential bright star of democracy to what it is now, are you surprised at how aggressive erdogan's government is being in trying to out the saudis on this? >> not really. the saudis and the turks have had their issues. the erdogan government has been quite sympathetic to the muslim brotherhood. it was very sympathetic to the muslim brotherhood government in egypt when that was overthrown by the military ruler in egypt, a military ruler who is backed by the saudi crown prince. so this issue of political islam, the issue of the muslim brotherhood, how much power it

should have has been at the center of a divide between turkey and saudi arabia. i think right now you're seeing turkey trying to use what perhaps could have been a mistake, certainly an operation that didn't go the way saudis -- the saudis thought it would, if in fact it was an operation, that the turks would be using this to gain their -- to get an advantage. and while all of these political maneuverings are happening, there's also some very interesting stuff happening that the police are doing. at the end of the day we're talking about an alleged murder. there are forensic teams under way and the focus seems to be be shifting. for the first few days this was about -- this was a who done it, who did this alleged crime. the turks came out, threw leaks to the media but also through some official statements with an explanation. they say 15 saudis flew in on these two jets, they say they killed khashoggi, cut him up

into pieces and the team left the country on the same chartered aircraft. the focus now is shifting to where is the body? and a turkish police officer briefed on this investigation, very familiar with the investigation, told us that they are focusing in particular on two location, that they think the body was dismembered and that the remains may have been disposed in different areas, one about 60 miles south of istanbul, the other area that they're reviewing cctv footage is in a large national park just to the north of the city. >> very interesting if the saudis would have decided to dump his body on turkish soil. seems to be a pretty dumb mistake among many that they may have made there. richard engel in istanbul. thanks very much. up ahead, how much power does

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of the democrat by just 4 points, obviously within the margin of error. our friends at the cook political report call the race a toss-up. earlier today i caught up with the democratic not kneminee. you may be surprised what he has to say about the republican governor. >> i think he's done a lot of good things. he's helped to try to fund education. he's gotten the ball rolling and i'm just going to keep pushing it down the hill. >> what's he done wrong that you want to change? >> there's few things more -- quite frankly workers rights, continue the expansion of what he's done. if i'm not elected, everything that he stood for is going to come to a screeching halt. that's one reason he's not endorsing my opponent. >> i know it term limits and all this stuff.

would you be running? >> i don't know. i really admire what he's done. i'd have to give that serious thought. i didn't run against him in the second term because i was so impressed with what he's doing. his popularity was pretty darn high. probably not. >> what do you make of the national image of the democratic party and how would you put yourself? if someone were trying to describe you nationally as a democrat, where would you put yourself? a progressive -- >> i don't like to define myself with labels. the only label i'm proud of is i'm a single dad, i have two daughters. the other labels i'll leave to the pundits to decide. >> does a national win -- where do you push back in saying, for instance, ice. where are you on the ice issue? >> we cannot break families apart. >> would you break up ice? >> i don't know if i'd break up ice. it's a federal issue. i'm more concerned with keeping

families together and not separating kids. i'm a dad. the thought of having a child ripped out of my arms is something i just can't even imagine. i want to be here to protect workers and protect families and make sure they have i had comin >> what do you think is the biggest misperception of us east coasters with nevada politics? >> that we're not involved. our school system is woefully lacking, we're always 49th and 50th. >> why is that? arizona has a similar problem. >> the fact that we've got teachers coming out that are entering the system making $39,000, to $40,000 a year to start is ridiculous. they have to buy their own school supplies. met a young teacher at costco buying breakfast bars to give to her kid because you can't learn

on an empty stomach. every one of them could make a lot more money but they don't because they care. >> where do you think you'll be able to work with the trump administration? >> if it's in the best interest of the citizens of nevada, we'll get along fine. >> trade issues, things like that? >> i'm going to hopefully work with him on immigration, so we can protect the people. hopefully we can get more help with our educational opportunities and expand opportunities available here. >> look, nevada's got everything here when it comes to close races. another race we're watching very close is the state's third congressional district, the third and fourth are toss-ups.

danny tarkanian joins me now. he's shaking his head no, no, no. >> that was an 8% margin of error. >> why is this stuff a close race? you lost by a fingernail the last time to jackie rosen. this is the district jackie rosen currently represents. she's running for the u.s. senate. why is this district so close? >> it's an evenly split district. the democrats have a 1% voter registration advantage. last election when i lost by 1%, there was 1.5% more democrats that voted. this race is going to come down to turnout. there's a lot of porelarizationn this district as there is across the country. >> a lot of people thought you were going to be a senate candidate. you and jackie rosen could have faced off a second time, this time higher up on the ballot. you chose not to run because

president trump asked you not to run. are you comfortable with that decision? >> i was going to get in the congressional race and run against jackie rosen again. but i was recruited by the people that supported president trump to run against dean hellnick because he hasn't supported the president. he calls me and says for the best part of my policies, it would be important if you run in the race for that. now he wants me to do something against my interests and i couldn't support him. i couldn't do it. >> you still feel good about the decision? >> there was no decision. i didn't have a choice. the whole reason for running in the senate race was taken away when president trump asked me to move out of that race. >> what do you think the threat of why are candidacy has done to dean heller's candidacy? >> i know he became very supportive of president trump after i got in the race.

>> you think him responding to you by moving to the right has actually made him more competitive now? >> if president trump is more well liked in nevada from what you've seen in the polls and most of the other states, all the other states beside the real red states. he lost the state by 2%. romney lost by 7, mccain 12. he actually overperformed in this state. he has a plus 2 approval rating in my district. furthermore, if you don't support president trump's poll, is you're not going to get the trump supporters to vote for you. >> i would say the number one issue generically in every house race in the country, atlace if y -- at least if you just look across america, it's health care. how do you do it? >> you do it with high risk pools. they had some before the affordable care act took place. the federal government needs to

be supplying the money for those. the federal government would be subsidizing those high risk pools at a much higher amount than they are under the affordable care act. the problem with the affordable care act is it's not affordable. my family's insurance went from 480 a month to $1,800 month. my son also had a stroke when he was 4 1/2 years old. he's going to have a preexisting condition the rest of his life. he shouldn't be penalized for that. >> nobody's ever happy with the health care they have but they're afraid of what it's going to get changed to. >> you don't have to start from scratch. you take the good things -- >> you would keep some of obama care? >> of course. i believe we have to get to free market principles --

>> expanded medicaid in nevada, would you want to see that go away? >> i think we need to provide health insurance for the people who can't afford it until they can get on their feet to afford it, whether it's through medicaid or another program, we should do it. we can service more people if we could drive the cost of health care down. >> danny tarkanian, stay safe on the trail and we'll be watching the race very closely. >> i hope i get another chance to be on with you, maybe on a sunday. >> up ahead, it's not just kid. political candidates say the darnedest things, too. live from the las vegas strip, keep it right here. (roger) being a good father is important to me so being diagnosed with advanced non-small cell lung cancer made me think of all the things that i wanted to teach my kids. (avo) another tru story with keytruda.

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broke the cardinal rule of campaigning in florida, never ask a pro fidel castro politics to speak on your behalf. she invited and disinvited barbara lee, who has praised fidel castro in the past to campaign with her. and lastly, iowa congressman steve king, you can do a whole segment on the things he's says. he tweeted an endorsement for a white nationalist candidate for toronto. obviously not the first time he's endorsed a white nationalist, and it was met with a torent of responses. the conservative publication and my friend charlie sykes' employer, the weekly standard dubbed king "america's most deplorable congressman" and declared him an embarrassment to

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this seems a bit ham handed, is it going to work? >> first of all, this was completely predictable. i don't know of a single republican who thought it would be a good idea going into the p so you're seeing republicans all over the country, you know, with ads and videos saying, you know, absolutely, despite the lawsuit, despite the votes against protecting pre-existing conditions, we are all there. i mentioned political malpractice before. this is political malpractice from the point of republicans because they understand what a magic bullet this is and it is going to hurt republicans all across the board. but the problem is, you know, how plausible are their claims to protect it when they had multiple chances during the congressional vote in which many of the governors have green lit a lawsuit that would eliminate obamacare and the protects for pre-existing conditions. it's a real problem. >> you know, maria, if -- i think if the democrats could have asked for a tweet from

president trump today it would have been this tweet. they would love to make sure the last subject being talked about is which party will protect pre-existing conditions. >> pre-existing conditions health care is something that goes across party line. it doesn't know any such economic status and something that believe it or not is resonating really a lot among the community in texas, arizona and the fact that the president said don't worry about the pre-existing conditions is because it's the republican party that has put it on the table time and time again. there is a huge level of cynicism by republican candidates now that had basically voted to basically dismantle it coming back and saying, no, i'm for it. the majority of the voters will be able to smell through it. they recognize that's something on the table and mobilizing them in a deep, deep way. >> and, alexi, it is -- if you're talking on the other person's turf that usually means you know you're behind and that

me is that tell from the president, that felt like a tell. i'm in vegas, we're gambling. poker. that felt like a tell. >> it september 11th is and it was just mentioned that all these republican candidates in gubernatorial races, house races, senate races are now after campaigning on repealing and replacing the affordable care act are saying i will do everything to protect pre-existing conditions, even those who voted to repeal the aca which would have done that. you know, democrats this entire cycle have said republicans don't have a leg to stand on when talking about health care. we are winning the message on health care. republicans know they can't talk about health care which is why this tweet is coming now which is way too little too late. they can't talk about the tax law so they're talking about immigration. this tweet i don't think is really going to help republicans. but the kaiser family foundation poll we found -- it was found that republicans rank immigration as a higher issue than health dare acare.

>> brian sandoval on this issue, how is adam navigating the expansion of medicare -- medicaid on one hand, on the other the national party was pushing him in another direction. how is he navigate had gone. >> it's interesting what he did. he came out and said he was against expanding medicaid. sandoval was the first to do so. a big deal for him. more than 200,000 people got coverage. laxalt was against it. a few weeks ago he did an interview in which he said he wouldn't roll back the expansion of medicaid -- >> a memo went out or polls came back. >> exactly right. the same thing that caused trump to put out that tweet on pre-existing conditions. as alexi said they are getting killed on the issue of health care and laxalt knew that was cutting it. >> all right. my apologies to the rest of the panel, jon, i have you near. the interesting little intraparty spats that are in your state, sandoval, laxalt, sandoval sisolak. will he end up endorsing him?

>> he will not endorse sisolak but has no regard at all personally professionally for adam laxalt. >> and wants everybody to know it or he doesn't care. >> he's been consistent. laxalt, one of his positions he took was to undo this very painful thing for sandoval. sandoval passed the largest tax increase in history and laxalt wanted to repeal part of it and upset sandoval. he's also gone around sandoval on a lot of lawsuits filing amicus briefs with other states without telling him he was doing it. he does not like adam but won't go so far as to endorse sisolak even though sisolak is implying they has. >> it's unbelievable. then danny -- he didn't warmly embrace dean heller. he want to run in the primary. he backed down and made it clear, the president asked me to. >> the president put out a team, danny tarkanian probably would

have beaten dean heller. dean had to be threatened publicly by the president, wasn't quite as in love with trump. danny has been a trump guy the whole way and would have won that primary. >> very interesting. jon ralston, alexi mchammonds. all a wonderful panel. quick programming note, don't miss "hardball." former attorney general loretta lynch talks with chris matthews about the issue of voter suppression. "hardball" at 7:00 eastern on msnbc. be back with more "mtp daily" on the vegas strip, baby.

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