those who are about to step into the breach, there's a wonderful line by the late tony morrison. as we are about to assume the role of trust and power, dream a little bit before you think. >> oh, god. that's too good. my thanks. most of all to you for watching. that does it for our hour. i'm nicolle wallace. "mtp daily" with chuck todd starts now. ♪ ♪ if it's wednesday, it could be a big game changer. we are going to tell you what happened today that could give the democrats a chance to run the table next november. that's right, you heard that right. democratic control, the house, the senate and the white house is now actually possible. plus, one night only, the polls are in, and it appears all the democratic candidates will face off on a single night.

what that means for the next stage of the campaign. and is impeachment inevitable? with his behavior growing more and more erratic, president trump is sure making it hard for democrats sitting on the fence in the house not to act. welcome to wednesday. it's "meet the press daily." good evening. i'm chuck todd here in washington. we begin tonight with a bombshell you probably weren't expecting. it's not the washington post reporting about the president dangling pardons to fasttrack his wall. but we begin tonight with a campaign bombshell. all of a sudden it's all in play for democrats in 2020. and what i mean by that is everything. it's been a slow burn to get here, but with republican senator johnny isakson of georgia announcing he is resigning his seat at the end of the year because of health reasons and with the president's behavior getting more erratic and divisive.

a window is suddenly opened up for democrats that gives them an opportunity to essentially run the table in 2020. i think what the republicans did in 1980 or barack obama led in 2008. of course if they pick the right candidate at the top of the ticket. still, this isn't a good day for mitch mcconnell because with isakson's retirement, republicans are now defending both seats of georgia in 2020. republicans have already have tough races. in colorado, north carolina, maine, and arizona. and as i said if democrats have the right candidate at the top of the ticket and sort of trump's behavior is in the wrong spot at the wrong time and things break their way, republicans would also be fighting to hold another level of senate seats, iowa, kansas, south carolina, texas, and possibly even montana. folks, the bottom line is this.

this is a cautionary tale for republicans is what happened to democrats in 1980 when the party out of power one, well, basically everywhere against a sitting president who was unpopular and widely viewed as ineffective. this new map for 2020 could dramatically change both parties' political strategies heading into the election and frankly heading into next month when they actually have to do some legislating. joining me are anne gearan, adrienne elrod, and for this conversation my pal mark bury, one of my partners with first read. so, mark, for me this was a tipping-point moment when the isakson news happened i went back to my map. and you sort of realize here we already knew the senate map was in favor of the democrats simply because this is the 2014 cycle of republicans won a big sweep

and a bunch of incouple benscou bentz. -- incumbents. >> depends on the kind of candidates they are able to get in a state like georgia. and i think you outlined perfectly the best case scenario for democrats. and in 1980 and also in 2008. and even in 2004 with republicans, sometimes a party actually gets all of ist best outcome where everything breaks your way, even if you run the presidential race divisively or in a close contest like 2004. but if democrats end up getting good candidates and a very strong presidential nominee in the political world frankly looks like the quinnipiac polls today where every democrat is beating president trump divisively in hypothetical matchups that, yes, you could see a situation where democrats get to 52, 53 senate seats in 2020. the prosecute em that democrats

have right now, though, is kind of a weak bench in georgia where the republicans -- >> a lot of states have a weak bench in these competitive races. >> you look at the people who are named for possible replacements who would be running for that seat for isakson who brian kemp the republican governor would get to a point. people like attorney general chris carr, those are bigger names than the people who are even running right now to go after the current seat that we were all focused on. and that is against senator david purdue. so democrats need a candidate, and then as you mentioned they're going to need a presidential nominee who is strong in georgia and the sun belt. >> what i'm wondering is when republicans -- this has been quite the month, there's been a mini exodus of just, you know, and, again, sometimes they have all made individual decisions. sean duffy made an individual decision. johnny isakson made an

individual decision. if you're mitch mcconnell you are going to have some nervous senate incouple kents. >> i think mcconnell will be i say slightly nervous because, to your opening, yes, the window is open, but there are still some heavy drapes. >> this isn't massachusetts, like, these aren't easy but they're not out of reach. >> so what that means though because they're still heavy draping in front of those open windows is that the democrats have to do some really -- if i'm the chairman of a democratic party, i'm talking to some of the folks who are currently on the stage next week in a couple of weeks for the democratic debate. i am talking to some ground troops around the country and putting people in place who can take those seats because that now becomes i think one of the more paramount moments for them. >> now, anne, there's an odd

problem that i think normally a president is uncomfortable if members of his own party have to throw him under the bush. if i've got to endorse you or you're an opponent, let me know. it's all about winning. this president doesn't handle that very well. so it creates i think a weirder dynamic, you know, a guy like thom tillis might need a little bit of breathing space from trump, but will trump give it to him? >> wbased on what we know of ho he handled the last election, no. i mean, he clearly wants republicans to win, and he wants obviously very much to win re-election himself. he can absorb a lesson and figure out what to do, where to go to raise money. he was willing in the 2018 cycle to go where he was most needed and to sort of quietly not go where he would be a problem. that didn't stop him from tweeting and sometimes insulting things about republicans he felt

had slighted him. and i would say stay tuned for more of that. >> adrienne, you guys are staring at an opportunity. but it is not -- like i said, these aren't -- it's sort of like you've got to tip you are trying to win in areas you don't normally win in. will this have an impact on the presidential primary voters? because more of the voters seem to be thinking about the process of this more than ever before. >> i think they are looking at the whole thing. this is a seat that we can win, democrats can win. obama got 45% of the vote in georgia in 2012. and hillary clinton got 46%. and as somebody who was on hillary clinton's campaign, i can tell you that we barely focused on georgia. we had resources invested but it was not a top tier state that we focused on. >> chuck schumer i'm sure is phone banking her at this moment. so it is a winnable seat for democrats. of course the atlanta suburbs are also trending more away from

trump and more toward the democratic party or at least, you know, an anti-trump environment. so it's ripe for the picking. but, you know, this is not something that we could have even dreamed about happening a couple months ago. then we would have another opportunity back in georgia besides of course the 2020 general. so you've got two chances here for a pickup. what if stacey abrams just happens to be the vice presidential candidate. >> democrats didn't see 1980 coming until the very last minute. literally, people were having to look up who is mack? what is this guy? [ laughter ] but my point is, is that -- and, you know, and it all happened fast. and it is one of those things, it's like the spread offense. you're like uh-oh. >> it's just like you said in the opening you get up today and you're kind of thinking about other things that are going to be politically relevant. and then a sitting republican senator from a state in which they have already got a seat

open says i am out of here at the end of the year, changes the dynamics a lot. and so the question i think is twofold for both parties. how are they best able to adapt to this ever changing environment? it goes to what you asked, anne, about trump. trump is the x factor. how he engages with some of these characters is going to be important. but you've got to have a base runway to start with. and i think that's where the republicans are back on their heels. >> this is what i'm curious about. what's the attitude when they come back, right? because, again, i think now more than ever again if i'm joni ernst or thom tillis, i've got to deal with the suburban issue a little bit. >> and you can add some issues there that they are going to be confronted with which are important to those suburban voters including the potential for gun control. i really think that the senate is now starting to feel some of the pressure that house democrats have felt since taking the house to do something, to

get something done, to put something on the board that they can show to moderate suburban voters in the case of the senate the same way house democrats have had to put something on the board that they can show to progressive voters. >> i want to go back to this senate recruiting issue for the democrats. arizona they got an a-list candidate, mark kelly. there is no doubt about it. i think they feel really good about their main candidate. i want to say sarah gideon. and i know a lot of democrats feel good about m.j. hagar in texas. but everywhere else it isn't the most obvious candidate they have. they can't get bullock. they can't get abrams. it's not clear who they're going to get in iowa. it's not clear where they are in north carolina. they have some candidates running, but they are not barnstorming names yet. >> i think it's interesting that we are talking about georgia because that has been the one democratic field that has been lackluster. >> very lackluster.

>> beto o'rourke abandoned the presidential bid and ran for the senate. but when i look at who is running for texas senate, it's not just hagar, but you have royce west, that's a more impressive field right now than where democrats have for the one georgia race. now we're actually talking about two. they need to be able to recruit a top tier candidate to be able to have a chance to flip one, if not two of these races. but, chuck, to me the biggest story line of all is just how controlled the senate is going to be running through the sun belt. we talked about arizona. now north carolina a battleground state, that is going to be really important as well, too. and so if democrats are going to be at 50 or 51, they're going to need to do well in the sun belt, at least one of those states. >> is this the election we're going to find out the sun belt's the new midwest basically? the midwest has been moving to the sun belt to arizona and florida. i mean, if democrats win the

white house they are doing it through the sun belt, aren't they? >> absolutely. you guys just went through a tick of a list of really strong candidates. but i am a little bit worried about recruiting the right people for georgia. i know they are talking to john barrow as well who represented a very conservative democratic district. >> that feels like an old way of thinking. just saying. >> i doubt he's going to be the only one, but i think a lot of money is going to be infused into that seat and into that race. you're going to see it become like a national election, you have a lot of investment in georgia. >> that's the big change here. and that is that georgia is now firmly in the purple battleground. >> georgia was the one that got away twice in the senate and certainly it was already a big target that this opening makes it that big a target.

plus for democrats there is the sore spot of brian kemp, is he legitimate, did he still it from -- >> sun belt point, this georgia race. >> and don't forget alabama too. also in the sun belt. >> don't forget that, but to the point about georgia, texas is right behind. >> very quickly, mark murray, of the democratic seats in our competitive list, we know alabama stands alone. of new hampshire, michigan, new mexico, minnesota, which one of those do you think is most likely for republicans to put into play? >> tell me where president trump is performing well. and, again, like michigan, if he is able to pull off michigan again, i would actually think that the senate race would go pretty much hand in hand with the presidential contest. and of course, you know, new hampshire, chuck, i don't think republicans have a top tier candidate there. that is a very close and always

swingy state. >> yes, it is. it is probably the definition of swingy these days. mark murray, always fun when we can start talking senate maps and things like that. and thanks for having some fun with us on that. we have an update on the breaking news we obviously have been following all day. we just got the latest update from the national hurricane center. hurricane dorian is moving north of puerto rico and the u.s. virgin islands bringing heavy rain and wind. it is now officially a category one storm. let's go to my pal al roker right now. al, this isn't my neck of the woods. my mother lives north of orlando. how wet is she going to get? >> we are watching these tracks with each run kind of move a little further south. so maybe your mom is going to be okay. let's keep our fingers crossed and maybe folks will luck out. but this is the latest from the national hurricane center. 45 miles northwest of st.

thomas. 80 mile per hour winds. that's a 20 mile per hour jump since the 2:00 update. northwest at 14 miles an hour. here is the track we've we've got now. dodge the bullet. thank goodness. then it picks up, makes its way as a category 2 storm by friday. by sunday afternoon, chuck, it's a category 3, makes landfall from jacksonville all the way down into the keys with 115 mile per hour winds. this is the national hurricane center track. we bring in the american model and the european model landfall on monday and the northern florida coast with the american model. then goes up into georgia. so they are starting to converge, we saw some more convergence earlier.

>> i just had an andrew flashback. that path you just outlined, the european model, that's the andrew path it. >> just sort of all of a sudden went due west on us and came through and, oh, by the way i believe we are in late august. i had an andrew flashback. >> i don't blame you. so we're going to be watching this very closely. but we're seeing this -- it's going to be at least another 24 hours before we get a good idea of whether there's going to be consensus or not. we are talking about the highest winds for the u.s. and british virgin islands. chuck, those folks have gotten hammered. they got slammed with maria. and they're getting slammed again with this thing. we've seen some incredible video. and then heavy rain, isolated 6 inches or more for the northern bahamas. but let's take a look. 4 to 8 inches, but locally there could be 10 or 12. we are watching this thing depending on its forward speed, once it makes landfall that

could be a real problem. >> you are outlining an absolute labor day weekend mess for all our friends in the state of florida. >> especially central florida you've got the theme parks, all these folks there. >> this is the last big weekend. yep. a total mess. al roker, it's going to be busy. thank you, sir. appreciate it. up ahead with the latest erratic behavior from the president, can congress avoid an impeachment inquiry much longer? i am going to talk to one house democrat is now pushing for it. and we now know who's in the next debate but the democrats who are out, they are not going quietly. as soon as the homeowners arrive, we'll inform them that liberty mutual customizes home insurance, so they'll only pay for what they need. your turn to keep watch, limu. wake me up if you see anything. [ snoring ] [ loud squawking and siren blaring ]

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that's the last check. "the washington post" is reporting the president is now pushing back on that story, but he supposedly reported pardons. and just yesterday we learned his administration is diverting millions in fema disaster funds to the southern border just as hurricane dorian heads towards the florida peninsula. obviously he wants to host the next g7, which can you can call a flagrant use of the office. they will hold a hearing about it in september. we didn't even mention president trump's cheerleading of putin at the g7 or the trade war whiplash or ordering american companies to potentially leave china or calling the fed chair he appointed an enemy of his country or accusing americanews of being disloyal. everything i just mentioned all happened while congress was on

recess. raja krishnamoorthi is one of the latest lawmakers to come out. he serves on the intelligence and oversight committees. congressman, thanks for coming on. good to see you, sir. >> thanks, chuck. >> let me just ask this. why now? why did you wait? >> well, you know, last week chairman nadler formally requested cooperation from an investigative authority such as the oversight and intelligence committees on which i sit to cooperate with his impeachment investigation so i had to take a stand and decide whether i wanted to support these efforts. i really didn't relish the thought of, you know, beginning an impeachment or investigation or inquiry, but i decided i had to support it. i'm encouraging cooperation and i expect that our committees

will cooperate. >> what is the impeachable offense these days? nancy pelosi once said in her way of holding off on calling for an inquiry, she said he practically self-impeaches every day. she got a sound byte, sounds like she was ready to look at impeachment, but at the same time she's not ready to look at impeachment. what has he done that says, you know what, we got to question whether he belongs in office? >> well, i think that the mueller report, you know, documents in detail, for instance, the various obstruction of justice charges. i think are impeachable conduct. but really now we have to continue with the investigation. the impeachment inquiry or investigation has to continue to assemble the evidence necessary to decide whether to take the next step after that. >> well, what do you investigate? can i ask this? are you only looking at this through the prism of the mueller

report, or at what point do you look at the diversion of fema funds, what happens at the trump hotel, things like that. at what point in your mind does that belong in this process? >> well, i think that at the point that, you know, crimes are established or high crimes or misdemeanors are established. i think that questions of judgment are a different issue altogether. for instance, you know, a couple weeks ago he proposed buying greenland. you know, that's something that, you know, i think is a proposal that congress would put on ice, so to speak. but on the other hand, when the president actually commits crimes, that's a different issue altogether. i think that is impeachable conduct. >> so you look at the mueller report as sort of separate and above sort of the other stuff. i may ask you this. do you believe the president

making a case for putin to come into g7 is at all circumstantial evidence on the mueller report? >> well, i think you've raised a really good point, which is that i think the mueller report did raise the question about even though the linkages may not have established a criminal conspiracy on the part of the trump campaign to participate in russia's interference in the 2016 elections, those linkages have not been investigated for their counterintelligence risks. and i believe one of the counterintelligence risks created by some of those linkages may provide some of the motive for why the president behaves the way he does relative to putin. just as an example, in my questioning of bob mueller, he said that they did not form a counterintelligence assessment related to the financial dealings and ties between

mr. trump and the russians. and that's in part why we are delving into deutsche banks records. we may have learned that they may even possess some of those tax returns that we've been trying to look at. and the reason why that's important is that might help explain why the president wants to curry favor with putin, why he sides with putin almost in every form, and why he wants to bring putin into the g7. >> what would you tell your constituents if they asked you right now, what would you tell your constituents that you've been able to do when it comes to accountability and oversight of this president that has had an impact? >> well, i can point to one issue, which is very timely which is the census thanks to chairman cummings' leadership on the oversight committee, we brought great attention to the addition, the potential addition of the citizenship question to

the census and actually held hearings and inquiries into the true motives for why they wanted to bring that citizenship question onto the survey. i think that helped to highlight the fact that actually they are trying to bring a chilling effect on the counting of, for instance, immigrants and other hard to count communities. i think that the reason in part why president trump did not persist with trying to add the citizenship question even after the supreme court ruled against him was because of this great advocacy on the part of the wider community but also, for instance, chairman cummings and the oversight committee's leadership on this issue. >> do you think it's fair to say democrats have done enough on the accountability and oversight front as far as the public's concerned? or do you accept some of the criticism that's coming, hey, you guys need to do more, you're not doing enough. what would you say to some of that criticism? >> we absolutely have to do more. and we have to do more

unfortunately every single day as we learn more about what's going on, you know, you brought up the border wall. there are multiple outrageous pieces of conduct that emerge from that story. he's dangling the pardon power to encourage people to commit wrongdoing potentially. he is potentially violating environmental rules and regulations. he may be trampling on property owners' rights. >> that's a lot of potentially and maybes. how are you going to find out, right? >> yes. and that's why, you know, i think that it's so important for us to investigate, have hearings. if they don't cooperate in producing evidence and documents, then we have to issue subpoenas and go to the courts. i think in the courts we are seeing that they are upholding our right to oversight as they have for hundreds of years now. >> congressman raja krishnamoorthi, always appreciate you making time for us and sharing your view. thanks very much. >> thank you, chuck. up ahead, we're heading into

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welcome back. given that today was a deadline for debate qualifying, this is a

bit of predictable breaking news since we now have a ten-person debate stage next month. new york senator kirsten gillibrand says she is dropping out of the presidential race and she is citing the reason being she didn't qualify for this debate. here is her tweet. i am so proud of this team and all we've accomplished but i think it's important to know how you can best serve. to our supporters, thank you from the bottom of my heart. now let's go beat donald trump and win back the senate. adrienne elrod, the dnc rules have winnowed the field. that we know. is this going the way that the dnc hoped it would? meaning is this sort of how they hope the process would work? everybody got in early, and then it becomes a little bit harder? >> yeah, i think so. and a couple things, chuck. number one, networks are not going to allow for two debate consecutive nights in a row for a long time. prime time space is very crucial and very hard to --

>> the don't speak for the cable news channels. [ laughter ] i'd like to see debate every night on msnbc. so, come on, guys. [ laughter ] >> okay. so there's that. number one, and number two, look, the field has actually been winnowing on its own. i don't think they can sit there and say that the dnc is doing this. >> yes, they are. how are they not? >> because people are polling at 1 to 2%. that's a nonissue. but these are the voters who are saying i'm sorry, michael bennet, i am not going to support you or i'm sorry, tom steyer, you are not getting out of this. and then that of course draws out money and prohibits these guys from being able to hire the right kind of staff. but the field is national. i just don't think you can blame the dnc and the debate process because we simply cannot have 20 people on the debate stage in december of 2019. we've got to focus on beating trump. >> now michael steel, i will say this. as a former party chair. tom perez did something that i

didn't think he or any party chair would have the guts to do which is he created a process to win in the field. a lot of parties don't like to do that. normally you do it, we don't want to do it. >> and you look back on the '16 process. there were a lot of problem issues there. but, you know, the chairman decided, okay, let's just leave it and let it run its course. >> he didn't have the guts. and he fully admitted he didn't want to do it, he let others do it. >> the embarrassing kids' table debate. >> here's the problem with the way i think the dnc set this up. and it is a lesson for future operations. and that is we ask these candidates to run in national polling. but they're running in two or three states. they are running in iowa or south carolina or they are running in iowa and new hampshire. yet they're being engaged on how they are doing in california. well, if i'm bennet, i'm not campaigning in california yet, i don't know who i am. i am focusing on trying to get

out of the gate. so there's got to be some way in which you can do this process where the candidates that are running are actually running in a poll that matters. >> that would end up further empowering iowa and new hampshire, which is not something necessarily -- >> there is a way backseat driving. and just back on perez's choice to do it the way the dnc is doing it. that came on the heels of 2016 when the party was accused of crowning a winner. so i think, you know, the struggle for him, it was to chart a path where it looked like the democrats were allowing, you know, a big wide open field, but also not controlling the process from the top the way they were accused of doing last time. >> if i were to go back in time and say, okay, i think in hindsight, 1% turned out to have a yellow effect meaning when the 1%, old, bill de blasio, i can do this. so it looked like an easy -- one

wonders if you started at two where we would be. and the second, adrienne, i would ask this. if i'm tom steyer today. i'm frustrated because of this. had a poll been conducted publicly in the state of iowa in the last ten days, he would have qualified. i know of multiple internal polls that show that his money -- >> he's one poll away. >> and so he's got to be sitting there, in his mind he's a victim of the des moines registers editorial calendar rather than what the status is right now. i don't know if that's the fairest way to do it. >> look, hindsight is always 2020. and these are difficult decisions to make. and i certainly don't envy tom perez for having to make these hard decisions. but i also give him major applause for coming forward and trying to create a process that is as humanly fair as possible knowing the restraints that he has in place in trying to make it fair. look, it's not, you know, the process is not perfect. tom steyer probably hoped and

prayed there would be one more poll in iowa, but that didn't happen. but he can also still qualify for the october debate. >> you know what, we're not going to rely on media pollsters to decide who our national title. we're going to create our own. should the dnc have done its own polling in the early states? michael steele? or at least should they have decided when polls should have been -- should they have said, hey, we are going to make sure all the early states are going to have a relevant poll within the debate? >> i think that would have made it a lot more sense. you still avoid the problem or the perception that you somehow have the finger on the scale. and i think that again is a lesson learned. i applaud tom for doing the bold thing against a lot of inside consternation about the process. but i think there are still some good lessons to come off of this as you look at future

presidential primaries. >> you know, anne, it's interesting, this looks really messy right now. and michael bennet complaining. it's very possible we will look back and say, well, it was a messy summer, but that was '19. >> and nationally the democrats are counting on that that, you know, all these names that have -- they couldn't get 1 is and 2% very quickly fade from the scene and by the time the country is paying attention as we get long into the fall and approaching the first caucus in early 2020 that there will be a manageable number of something fewer than eight names for people to focus on. and, i mean, and that's a big field. i mean, if we entered iowa with

eight potentially viable candidates still in the field, that's about as many as people can keep in their heads. >> i don't know if people realize this. but it's very possible that more candidates will actually qualify for the october debate than this debate. >> that's true. same timeline, same criteria. >> because steyer only needs one poll. >> and tulsi gabbard probably will too. >> is that going to feel awkward? like, we go from winnowing, oh, wait, the field's bigger now? >> i mean, it might. >> yes, it does. we are putting her in such a box right now. [ laughter ] >> when does natural selection take over? >> exactly. >> the debates are not natural selection. the debates, for instance, if somebody falls flat on their face in this next debate, they have already qualified for the next debate. there is no incentive to get out. >> but can i also say this? historicallying, not one

candidate has polled at 1% at this stage in the game. >> is it 2% right in the summer of '75? >> jimmy carter at 2% but nobody at 1%. >> three debates in october, november, and december, take a break in january and have the bell ring and everybody on the ballot in february and let the voters decide. this process, the voters aren't deciding this. some news organizations that are talking to 500 people across the country are deciding who has the chops to become the presidential nominee for the democrats or the republicans? that's not a process that i think opens it up and gives the voters a chance to really -- >> i'd also like to get at social media too. >> and that's why andrew yang and he will be on the stage. >> and yet he used their rules to qualify for it. >> but he used, to your point,

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suspending parliament is not acceptable. all the prime minister is doing is a smash and grab on our democracy to force through a no deal. what's he so afraid of? >> welcome back. that was the labor party leader condemning british prime minister boris johnson's efforts to suspend parliament ahead of the ted lideadline. fast tracking the departure without a deal in place. it's johnson who requested parliament suspension, technically queen elizabeth who had to approve this request which she did. with me from london is matt bradley. this feels like, i'm trying to understand boris johnson

calculation here. it feels like he did sign a political death warrant for himself going forward. matt. >> i mean that's what the opposition hopes. jeremy corbin is ready to let him hang on this. he said he would try to move for a vote of no confidence. downing street kind of snickered at that. try, you're not going to win. if you win the no confidence vote you'll not have the time to convene a new unity government before we send you packing home to start a new session later in mid-october. only a few weeks before that brexit deadline. boris johnson is thumbing his nose at the opposition but members of his own party. it was brexiters don't just form members of the conservative

party. a lot of them were very much opposed to brexit. the majority were opposed to brexit. >> here they are called never trumpers. i think there never brexiters. >> they were exactly the same way way. >> right leaning party. boris johnson asking for this power tells me that negotiations did not go well with merkle last week and did not go well with macron. >> a lot of poeople will tell yu boris johnson never had any intention of negotiating. a lot of people would say that boris johnson said i've been working on a plan and trying to come up with something and it helps to think of this as a reset.

this new legislation started the speech in a couple of weeks. the whole idea is he gets introduced new platform. a new agenda. he's really kneecapping the parliament that's supposed to check him and have some kind of insight onto this accelerating move towards a no deal brexit just like throwing t ining it o cliff and hope you hit something soft. >> is there something that can be done to interrupt this attempt? >> they have about a solid week coming up. on tuesday they will come back into parliament and the next week they will be suspended. they will be sent home. in that week jeremy corbin could move for a vote of no confidence. that could see all of that suspended and boris johnson dissolve parliament. that wouldn't happen until after

october 31st. that's the date it charges out of the eu. that's not going to happen help. >> i have a no deal exit strategy which is the end of my show. thanks very much. that's all i got for tonight. we'll be back tomorrow with more meet the press daily. if it's wednesday we have a new chuck todd cast. the beat starts now. >> i was going to say if you get the queen to give you a few extra minute, you can have all the minutes you want. you just got to get permission. >> it's quite the investment. the russians got the queen involved in brexit. thanks. hel hello. we have a lot to get to tonight including multiple reports that donald trump is pushing staffers to disregard regulations and seize private lands to build his border wall while promising to pardon them if they break the law. former solicitor