stories of the week. i turn it over to rechbld al sharpton in "politicsnation." good evening and welcome to "politicsnation" in our new time slot of 5:00 p.m. in case you missed it, we had a live show yesterday as well. so, yes, "politicsnation" is now twice a week, 5:00 p.m. on both saturday and sunday. tonight's lede, the picture gets clearer with two weeks left until midterm elections a. new mbs "wall street journal" poll shows democrats with a 9-point lead among likely voters over republicans in congressional preference. the push coming from women,

latinos, and younger voters. but the enthusiasm on both sides and the president's job ratings is at its highest yet, 47% approving as he continues to stump for republican candidates ahead of november 6th. tomorrow he goes to houston for a rally with incumbent texas senator ted cruz as he tries to pad his lead over democratic opponent beto o'rourke. this as thousands of central american migrants approach the texas/mexico border, allowing the president to conjure his favorite boogie man on the campaign trail, immigration. joining me now, syndicated radio host, mark townsend, and republican strategist and author

nicole napour. i'm sorry, i said nicole, i meant noel. don't give necessity right to change his name. i'm sure republicans are happy with the president's approval rating going up, but they are double digits behind on preferences at ninety points. tell me how you view it as of today. >> i'll tell you what. it's getting a lot more tighter and i don't think republicans are very happy about that because i think that they are looking at the job that president is doing and i think they think he's doing a really good job. with that said, i think that the other side, the democrats, i think that they are capitalizing on momentum building from the group you just mentioned,

latinos, women, and the youth vote. and i think that that is the gap where republicans are missing out. so i think they're really having to make a play for those three sectors. if we can lasso those sectors, we have a chance to keep everything in play. but right now what i've noticed -- >> in play or in place? >> in place. but right now what i have noticed is small donations are taking on both sides. it's not like you're a big giver. a small donation, if somebody's giving $20, that's a vote, that's a voice. >> it's a commitment. >> it is. >> mark thompson, what i don't hear in this latest poll is a lot of enthusiasm matching the youth and the latinos and women and the black community. what's going on in your opinion with the black vote? you and i both do syndicated radio and both of these

activists. what's happening with the enthusiasm of black voters? we had charms from the congressional black caucus, house committees, three blacks running for governor. why aren't we seeing the polls demonstrate the enthusiasm? >> i have to think, by the way, congratulations on your new time slot. i would have to suspect that the polls may be missing something. we know what we've seen in the past. whenever voter expression has been an issue, that's brought about great enthusiasm amongst african-americans when it's all said and done. and i think we're going to see that in georgia, florida, maryland, some of these other states as well. joe ana hayes in connecticut. i would be skeptical to think that there's a lack of

enthusiasm. frankly, when we look at women and youth, there's an overlap of african-americans when it comes to that. >> absolutely. there are many black women in that women polling and many young african-americans. bill, you have probably been more accurate than most i've talked to in the past. the president at his highest approval rating in a while, if not ever since he's been president, and he's whipping up the whole question of migrants coming in across the mexico/texas border, the boogie man, is that going to help in terms of not only texas voters, but in terms of a lot of people that are center, right of center, in saying, wait a minute, we better vote and we're going back to the rhetoric of the wall? >> hi, reverend al, i don't

think republicans ought to pop the champagne yet about the approval rating of donald trump going up to 45% or 47%. the real clear politics average today is 45% among all the polls. that's still below 50%. i would like to point out in 2010 barack obama's approval rating was 45% and republicans won 63 seats in the house. if democrats follow that pattern, democrats are going to be all right. the average for the opposition party is winning 36 seats in the house when the president is below 50%. democrats need 23 to win, so just if the averages hold out, democrats ought to do okay in the house with donald trump right where he is today. as far as the immigration goes, reverend, this is the same playbook we saw, the same m.o. in 2016. he started his campaign calling all the immigrants from mexico

rapists and murderers. he's repeating that thing today, calling these 4,000 family members who are working their way north -- by the way, some of them are seeking a better life, risking their lives. >> he's rhycriminalized them, they're all criminals and thugs. >> these are people fleeing probably the most dangerous country on the planet looking for a better life for themselves and their kids. some of them stay in mexico, some of them may ply ply for asylum in the united states. but the way to deal with that is to deal with it intelligently and compassionately and not make it a political football. i hope that the american people will see through donald trump's attempt to fear monger on this issue. >> noel, the president is going to texas tomorrow. don't republicans feel a little awkward to see him going go and campaign for a man who he accused his father of being

involved in the assassination of president john kennedy? how do you even spin that? he outright attacked senator cruz's father and his wife, yet he's going out there tomorrow. i mean, you're good, but how do you spin that one? >> i tell you, it's a problem. >> i'm so glad you admitted that. >> texas is a red state. i take my candidates first stop, texas. ted cruz should be miles ahead of mr. o'rourke, and the reason he's not is because what do you think of when you think of ted cruz because donald trump? you think of lyin' ted. you can't get that out of your mind. edg he comes with the label lyin' ted. i don't know, but i got to tell you something, republicans are nervous about this because this should be a no-brainer. we should not have to spend so much money in this district to

keep this senator. and part of the problem is donald trump in the primary damaged ted cruz's brand because ted cruz, you can't look at the guy and think -- lyin' ted. they love donald trump and abbott but they may not be sold on lyin' ted. >> mark, when we look at the florida race, we see gillum is up in the pools as the gubernatorial candidate, but it's real tight in the senate race there. is this going to be a problem in terms of the democrats trying to take the senate? most of the polls, including the nbc wall street poll today, say they are 9% up in terms of where we are looking for the preference in congressional races. >> right. >> will that help carry over the senate, and will florida be a situation where it's possible

that gillum, the democrat, could win for governor, and nelson loses for the senate? >> i don't see many gillum voters with all enthusiasm. he has splitting. i think desantis probably turned off a lot of moderate republicans and women and youth. >> you talk about winning first, what is the next day he talks about we have to monkey this up, certainly had racial overtone and was very insulting. >> right. if there's strong democratic enthusiasm, but obviously there is, and democratic voters don't split that ticket, they vote gillum/nelson, then you have a number of republicans who may split, they'll probably vote gillum/scott. hopefully the democrats will carry the day. when andrew first won the primary, the thinking was that nelson, even though he's the

incumbent, might as well be riding andrew's coat tails rather than the other way around. >> bill, we talked a lot in the first few minutes about inside politics. but what's at stake here? we're talking about the health care in terms of preexisting conditions. we're talking about how we had attacks that's now going to eventually hit a lot of middle school as lower class taxpayers as the rich are going to absolutely benefit from this. i mean, there's a lot of issues here at stake. we're not just talking about who's up and who's down. we're talking about how it's going to hit the american people. we're looking at some of the global concerns from what's going on with the killing of a virginia resident, journalist from saudi arabia, by the saudis in istanbul turkey. the president today saying he's

going to break this nuclear pact with russia. these things matter. are people getting the message out particularly from the democratic party on what's at stake here? >> you know, i think mitch mcconnell did us all a favor just a couple days ago, reverend al. he said very clearly that give the republicans hold on to the senate, they're going to try to repeal obamacare yet again. they tried five times and failed. even preexisting conditions, out the window. they want to get rid of all of it. and he also said that the reason we got this big budget deficit is because we were not successful in cutting medicare, medicaid, and social security, and that those things are going to be the priorities for republicans again if they hold on to the house. >> he said why haven't we talked about cutting them before, and i don't know i've heard the democrats effectively bring out -- they're talking about cutting medicaid, medicare,

social security. i mean, that has ban third rail. we're going to talk about it more. >> they've been talking about that for 25 years and now they want to do it again. >> they want to talk about it with a megaphone controlling the three branches of government, it would seem the message should be lowered, more amplified by the democrats. >> amen. >> i'm not hearing it. bill, mark, and noel, stick with me. don't go anywhere. coming up, he already has mayor and cabinet secretary on his resume. will julian castro have his name on the ticket? just a second, we also have the mendez mediation. brian is going to take the lead just follow his- hello. uh, no i need it right now. yeah... success is a numbers game. and you're not going to win if you keep telling yourself to wait.

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with all eyes on the midterms in just two week's time, another democrat has meanwhile thrown his name into the conversation about the next election. the 2020 presidential race. julian castro is considered by many as a rising star in the democratic party. and with san antonio and cabinet secretary already on his resume, many are asking is a run for president next? and if so, what will set him apart from the rest of the field? with me now is julian castro.

he's also the author of his new memoir "an unlikely journey: waking up from my american dream." thank you for being with us. let me ask you straight up, are you running in 2020 for president of the united states? >> i've been straightforward with folks because i think that it's best that during these times that people should be, and i have said i'm seriously considering it and likely to do it, but that i haven't made a final decision. i'm going to make that decision after the november midterms. there are two things i need to do before then. one of them is personal, my wife, erica, and i have of course talked about the idea of my running, but we haven't had the long, drawn-out conversation that a family needs to have before you make that kind of decision. and the other is, i want to get

a sense of what message the american people are sending because i'm convinced that these midterms really do send a message and set a tone for the next two years. what i think is going to happen is, i believe that democrats are going to take back the house. i believe that we have a shot at taking back the senate and we're going to do well in state legislatures. the party is looking for a new generation of leadership, so i'm going to make a decision after november. >> well, you say that you are seriously considering it. i'll take that as a light "yes," but i'm not going to press you on that. but our staff here at "politicsnation" gave me a list, there are 33 people talking about running for president

possibly in the democratic primary. what would distinguish you from the rest? because one of the things i'm hearing around the country is that we don't have a messenger. we have a message, but we don't have a national aggressive messenger in this presidential race that is building up right after the midterm elections. what would distinguish you? >> well, if i decide to run, i hope that i'll have the opportunity to articulate a strong vision for the future. i got into public service in the first place because i felt very blessed with great opportunity in my life. i grew up on the besides of san antonio, went to the public schools with my brother, joaquin, and then had the opportunity to go the college and law school and come back and be a professional as an attorney and then serve my community. in each of the offices i've held i've had a vision for how to use

the levers of that office to create greater opportunity for folks. if i run for president, then i look forward to articulating a blueprint for 21st century opportunity in our country. >> let me hold you right there because you have run for office as young as you are, you have experience. but you've never gone up against someone like donald trump, that abrasive, that rude, no holds barred. you don't know anything in any way that he contains himself. how would you run against somebody like that? >> you know, i said earlier this week that i'm convinced we're not going to beat donald trump by trying to be donald trump, that if you watch sports, i watch a lot of boxing, for instance. often the people that are thought of as invincible are not defeated by somebody that has

exactly the same skill set that they do, but by somebody that has a different style. more specifically for democrats, history teaches us that the folks who have prevailed, whether it was kennedy or carter or clinton in '92 or ten years ago, barack obama, they have been part of the new generation of leadership that has inspired by putting out a strong, positive vision for the future. and so that's how i think that we're going to defeat donald trump, not trying to be as nasty or as abrasive. you have to call him out and you need somebody that can stand up to him, but not someone who wants to imitate him. the american people need to be the priority, and what they need in their lives, not scoring points against somebody who is so determined to be abrasive. the last thing i'll say, reverend al, is that that's his weakness in politics.

his weakness is that he's a fastball in baseball. you know that he's going to act like that. i'll give you a good example of that. a couple months ago when senator mccain died and people from across the aisle were praising him for his duty to country, service to country, obviously what he had been through in vietnam, approximate public service career he had after that and his bipartisanship and the spirit of that at a time when we needed that, it would have been tremendous, and the president would have gotten all sorts of accolades if he had been able to summon the ability to say nice things about a man who gave so much to the country, but he couldn't do it. he couldn't change. >> it's not in him. >> that's the equivalent of a fastball in baseball. it's a very fast fastball, but it's a nolan ryan fastball, but it's a fastball. >> it's his character, it's who

he is. and sometimes you can throw fastballs that are not necessarily strikes. you can throw them and they end up being a fast foul. >> that's true. >> you're there in texas. this whole boogie man around the immigration issue, the migrants coming in from honduras and mexico, is donald trump going to be able to whip that up and tilt the texas voters toward ted cruz more? and is it going to reverberate through other midterm elections in your opinion? >> i don't think so. i think ted cruz is in trouble. beto o'rourke has run a very inspiring campaign, folks saw that he had 55,000 folks that showed up for a concert with willie nelson a few weeks ago. he's visited every county in texas and now he's concentrating on a lot of counties like harris county where houston is, here in

san antonio, dallas, places where he's going to get out the base nation to getting crossover support. as your previous guests were saying, there are a lot of republicans that love donald trump, but they have reservations about ted cruz. and i'll just say that what i hear in the suburbs of these places, these cities, is a lot of defection. i think the defection rate of republicans going over to vote for beto o'rourke is going to be a lot greater than usual for texas. at the same time f beto o'rourke is able to get the base to turn out, and i think he will, then even though this has been a red state, we have a decent shot. >> well, you know, julian, i know you from the obama years and you've even visited mass action network. but you quoting the republican makes me feel like you're going to run because you quoted the

republican. thank you, julian castro. it goes without saying, anyone considering running for president in 2020 is invited to make his or her case on "politicsnation." still ahead, the u.s. senators working during a scheduled recess. i'll tell you what they're doing that can impact your life. ♪ ignition sequence starts. 10... 9... guidance is internal. 6... 5... 4... 3... 2... 1... ♪

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it is unprecedented to do it without permission from the minority. and all ten democrats on the committee say they asked that the hearings be rescheduled. senator grassley claims that senator dianne feinstein gave the green light, and that now democrats are just opposing the hearings to stall the process. either way, mr. grassley, federal judgeships need to be properly vetted. they need to be properly vetted through bipartisan efforts because they are lifetime appointments with tremendous influence on american life and lives. you derided the so-called, quote, erosion of our checks and balances when president obama was in the white house and warned that, quote, once the wall separating the powers allotted to each branch of government are eroded, they will not easily be rebuilt, end of

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race in the battleground state of virginia where republican candidate corey stewart trails democratic incumbent tim kaine by double digits in most polls and has struggled to close the fundraising gap and reboot a combative image after making several controversial statements over the course of his campaign. a few of those statements on this show. joining me again is virginia republican candidate for u.s. senate, corey stewart. mr. stewart, let me start with this. a caught part of your interview with anderson cooper friday. i want to play part of that interview for our audience and then get your reaction. >> mr. stewart, will you say that jamal khashoggi was not a good guy himself, what does that mean exactly, not a good guy himself? >> the thing is that he's kind of a mystery guy, but i think

the big question is this. we have regimes, and not just the saudis, but every regime in the middle east with the exception of israel is committing human rights violations. it's a mistake to undermine or rattle the saudi regime when it is one of the few absolutely pro-american regimes in the middle east. >> now, i'm going to give you a chance to respond to that because i don't think you answered the question. you said jamal khashoggi was not a good guy. he was killed, dismembered. is he not a good guy? do you have any evidence to back up your statement? >> nobody deserves to get dismembered, don't get me wrong. but "the washington post" from october 6th of this month said that the jordanians didn't want him in the country because they

thought he had doekconnections l qaeda. we don't know what he was involved in, but at the end of the day, let's just suppose he's an angel, do we want to undermine a relationship with the saudis, a pivotal relationship in the middle east, a very important relationship for the united states over this one human rights violation when we've known that not just the saudis, but every regime in the middle east with the exception of israel is responsible for human rights abuses on a daily basis. >> mr. stewart, you're talking about going to the u.s. senate. are you actually saying that they might have dismembered him, might be one human rights violation, but we don't need to break with them? so are you now saying if you go to the senate that human rights violations whether it's one or 100, doesn't matter, that we ought to engage in relationships with people even if they dismember people for their freedom of press or their use of

it while they're living in virginia writing for one of the most prominent american papers? is that your position? >> it matters and it's terrible what they did. it's gro theesque and gruesome and it's murder. but what are our options? ov overthrow the regime? >> you want to do something to show them we will not do business with people that engage in that kind of activity. that's one option. >> we've had sanctions against cuba since 1959, no effect. we had sanctions against iran since 1979, no effect. sanctions don't work. >> and we're we were not doing business. we do business with the saudis. it's one thing to have sanctions against people that you no longer do business with. we do business with them and we are talking about continuing. if, in fact, they are guilty, would you support sanctions or any kind of action against saudi arabia to keep the moral ground

of this country stable on a global level that we will not tolerate countries doing this and engaging in business with the united states? >> the united states has sanctions against north korea -- >> i asked you. would you support that in the u.s. senate? i didn't ask for an analysis of the united states. so your answer is "no"? >> yeah, trying to respond to you. sanctions don't work. if you try to undermine these regimes, look what happened in iraq. we undermined saddam hussein's regime and we got worse human rights abuses in a regime that's an at this time c antithetical to the united states. you have a whole country that is now corrupt and is a hot bed for terrorism. >> i did not say go to war, i said doing business with the crown prince and that

government. would you support dealing in a way that would sever some of the business relationships that we have with the saudis if, in fact, they have been found without a doubt to have been behind what they are admitting now, that he was murdered? >> no, i would not, because the only thing that would hurt are the saudi people, not the government, and american businesses and american jobs. >> so what do we do? just look the other way? >> there's nothing you can do about this. we have to stop getting involved in the business of other nations and start focusing instead on what's going on in the united states. we have our own problems. >> we're talking about who we do business with. let me go to another subject. vice president pence was in your state yesterday, but he didn't even take time to meet with you. are you embarrassed? are you offended? you are a big trump guy and it seems like they're shading you. >> no. we've been in contact with the

trump administration since the beginning of the campaign. he's retweeted me three or four times. >> he was in virginia. you're down double digits in the poll and you can't raise money, you need help. he was in virginia and he looked the other way. >> look, if i was that far behind, why is time kaine running ads against me. >> why isn't he holding your hand up saying this is our guy? >> just wait, you know. pence has been here. the president will be in virginia as well. i suspect the president. >> is the president scheduled to appear with you? >> i can't say anything else. >> that means it's not on the schedule. we only have two weeks. >> we'll just have to see. >> is there a scheduled appearance by donald trump with you? you said he's going to be in virginia. are you on that schedule? >> i can't say for confidence that he will be, but i'm pretty sure he will be, and i welcome him. he's done a great job on the

economy versus the crazies on the left that have taken over the democratic party, once upon a time a great party. people are jumping ship and they're coming to the republican side because they're tired of the whack jobs on the left. >> you sound like an abandon man by your own party. thank you, corey stewart. and a side note, we invited his opponent senator tim kaine to come on our show when we hope he can do so soon. we'll be right back.

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. we are back with syndicated talk show host and author bill press, host of serious xm radio's noelle nikpour. noelle you saw the interview with your republican candidate for senate in virginia. so one human rights violation, you know, means nothing. you know, can't even sanction them. even donald trump said that they had to be some severe answers or some serious answers. i mean, these are the kind of

candidates that the republicans are running in virginia for the senate. don't you feel a little embarrassed? >> i will tell you that i was sitting on the couch waiting for my appearance and i was not very happy with what his answers were. i think that, a, he wasn't prepared for that, and b, it's like he doubled down on something. it was bad enough with the anderson cooper interview and saying going forward with that and then you brought it up again and he doubled down on it and if he had a chance to redeem that statement, and he did not -- first of all, i got to be honest here. why did he even come on the show in the first place? i mean, this is not -- with what he said, he's got to realize the direction you're going to go in. it's a losing battle for him. when you brought up the deal about pence, oh, gosh, i got to

tell you. >> cross-country we're seeing candidates that really don't seem like they are really sharpening their message and mission. i talked to a lot of candidates, and the first thing they're used to being asked by people in both civil rights and media, since i do both, is what's your path to victory? my first question is, what is your vision for the country? what is your stand on the policies? and a lot of people can't come with it. and corey stewart is probably at the top of that list because they have not thought through what they're running for and why they're zung just running to be running. he's clearly not prepared. he didn't learn anything from the appearance, the clip you played on cnn with anderson cooper. khashoggi lived in virginia. >> virginia resident, that's correct, writing for "the washington post." >> right. but i think he may be naive

about or just did you mean about -- is that when you're running for statewide office, you are literally running for state-wide office and you have to put that first. so you're talking about, talking to virginians about a fellow virginian, while -- >> who can't even defend himself. >> and while at the same time, khashoggi being that fellow virginian, while at the same time, you have, as you said, pence and trump coming to that state, where he's running statewide, and he's nowhere in the vicinity. so it's a wrap. >> let me ask you, bill press. bill, not to belabor the last guess, stewart, let me ask you, as you look at this, though, these type of candidates are the ones voting to confirm supreme court justices, federal judges. they're going to have real power to affect lives. and if they have this kind of

attitude that things like human rights violations, dismembering members of the media, what are we dealing with? and how can people not be ready to come out and vote, whatever the party is, if we're looking at these people with these kinds of attitudes, that are going to be sitting there confirming people that, for the rest of their lives, will be determining how we deal with the law and determine the law in this country? >> you know, reverend al, i've got to believe that anyone watching your interview with cory stewart, republican or democrat, would have to say, this is the last person alive that we want deciding the fate -- the confirmation of federal judges. i mean, by his logic, you could commit murder and he would still put you on the bench, because, hell, what's one life, right? what's one murder? it was just appalling to hear that. you know what i remember, reverend al is, first of all, this guy is totally out ofstep with virginia today. virginia today is the -- terry

mcauliffe and ralph northam and mark warner. it's not the virginia of 50 years ago. this is the guy who ran statewide as lieutenant governor in 2013 and lost. he ran for governor in 2017 and lost. he's going to lose for the u.s. senate. and let's remember, also, cory stewart was fired from the trump campaign in 2016. you've got to be pretty damned extreme wacko to be fired from the trump campaign. that's cory stewart. >> noelle, the virginia that bill press just outlined is real, but it's also the place of charlottesville. where as the republican party reached out to minorities, blacks, whites who are against confederate kind of ideology and kind of praising confederate generals. where have they reached out to close the gap in terms of the

divisive problems that we still have in this country? is the answer a cory stewart? >> no, not at all. >> well, that's your nominee in virginia! >> but i mean, you can't -- you've got to understand this, you can't stand behind every nominee. you can't have a, look, for instance at alabama, look at roy moore. you really think republicans thought he was great? no, they did not. you've got to look for somebody. when he came on your -- >> you mean who the republicans voted to nominate? >> horrible. >> you mean the republican nominee that donald trump went down and campaigned for? >> but he had -- >> they said he was -- the president said he was a the good candidate. well, i don't -- i don't remember him saying he was a good candidate. >> he went to the border of alabama and campaigned for roy moore. donald trump. >> well, i don't, as a republican, i don't think that's the kind of nominee that we need. i don't think that we need

someone that's going to take lightly about somebody, a journalist, one of their own, a virginian being dismembered and insinuate that he wasn't maybe, a good guy. i think that is absolutely insane. so i don't think that everybody that's, you know, under the umbrella of the gop is great. i think that you have a few bad apples in the tree. >> well, do you think, though, mark, that the republicans are really showing and exposing that they are not with some of the bad apples? and are the democrats getting the message out that these are the kind of people that we're talking about in the election? >> well, i think democrats are getting the message out. i think that's why we're doing so well. i think that's why we can project today, tim kaine is going to win as a result of this interview. i don't think republicans at worst are not getting out the bad apples. at best, despite, with you know, the polls and the enthusiasm,

with all due respect to nicole, we're both reverends, so the doors of the church are always open. >> thank you! >> come on over to our side. but at best, and i'm sure bill would agree, despite this enthusiasm that's being shown in his approval rating, it shows that the party himself has some weaknesses, because the job of the party is to go into every state, including a virginia, and recruit and groom and develop candidates in a bench that is diverse. >> i'm going to have to leave it there. thank you very much, bill press, mark thompson, and noelle. up next, my final thoughts. stay with us. with quicksilver from capital one. you're earning unlimited 1.5% cash back on every purchase, everywhere. like on that new laptop. quicksilver keeps things simple, gary. and smart, like you! and i like that. i guess i am pretty smart. don't let that go to your head, gary.

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