danny tarkanian running against dean heller in nevada. firist of all, i don't think either one of them is going to win. in nevada, we would have real concerns about putting danny tarkanian up against the very the same democrat who gave him his fifth strikeout in a row in the last congressional election. i would be concerned about his competitiveness in a statewide race for that very reason. i don't think kelly ward will end up being -- i am not even sure she will end up being the primary opponent of choice against flake by those who are concerned against senator flake's opposition to trump. both of them have a real baggage that would be hard for them to be competitive in the primary, let alone in general. erica: just to be clear on the last point on tarkanian who just got into the race this week, were he to emerge from the primary, you will not support him? steven: i actually have no views about primary or post primary. tarkanian has only indicated he is interested in getting into the race. he has not said i am a candidate. i don't think

danny tarkanian got into the race shortly after the last health care debate. remember, heller voted the way the president wanted him to finally. >> ultimately. only after. >> after going through this and this and this. he had stood here in nevada where brian sandoval the governor saying we're not going to vote and we're not going to support the current bill. heller is in big trouble. his numbers here, his approval numbers are terrible. >> we'll see him later on today here in reno. >> he is right now as we are sitting here, he is speaking to a group here in las vegas called hispanics and politics and then he's going to get on a plane y believe, fly up here and speak to the american legion. >> at the same event president trump is speaking at. >> we'll see what kind of interaction they are having. >> their last interaction is a little awkward. >> the democrats are using that picture of him smiling and laughing and donald trump saying, hey, he still wants to remain a u.s. senator. >> very quickly before i let you go, harry reid is not in washington any more. he st

bring in our panel, amy tarkanian, the campaign manager for nevada, danny tarkanian former republicanevada chairman and amy navarro. how the president sets himself up, everybody talks about whether it's elizabeth warren or mark zuckerberg, how does the president set himself up for re-election? >> he's done an incredible job already by boosting our economy, by lowering the amount of illegal border crossings. everything he's campaigned on that he's promised, he's following through with. his base is very solid. here in the state of nevada he won our caucus, and the people working hard for him are meeting on a regular basis. i feel he's going to have an incredible shot at taking it in 2020, and if you're going to start throwing names out on the republican side such as governor kasich who only received one delegate at the time, i was standing there at convention as a trump delegate, amongst a number of the ohio delegation, and i was shocked when all of their phones beeped at the same time, and i asked them, what are you looking at? they were all in shock, their jaws dropped when they said

now, danny tarkanian is a son of the legendary basketball coach and run many, many times unsuccessfully. so he's kind of a known quantity, probably good for dean heller. >> absolutely. we did see donald trump personalize this with dean heller at the debate. ribbed him, you better do the right thing because your voters are watching. again, the problem is, members of congress wanted to be able to go home this august and actually talk about accomplishments. talk about accomplishments, talk about they're proud of health care and something they've gotten done, infrastructure to help constituents it's easier to answer for those, tweets, and some other behavior their constituents might not like and like to see from the president. they don't have any of that. they have to calculate now, how far out on a limb do they go when it may be this president turns against them. already saying quite a few things critical of congress. >> that's going to continue, i think. >> and a real fear. he can -- maybe insert pressure on them in that way but it could come back to bite him. if they don't feel they can

morning on fox news the anchor announced that heller is getting a primary challenge from the right, danny tarkanianoining us is professor of digital culture at ucla, taking a look at how the president gets his message out. a lot of people are familiar with it, twiter, facebook. you have all sorts of things happening, the fox news announcement about the candidate, sinclair broadcasting suppose lid putting together another t conservative metric. so my question to you is will anything in the p media world, the information world that americans receive their information from would ever be the same? >> i would actually say no, because every presidency and every election, major election in this country is partly a story about media, right? and the trump media strategy is fundamentally about media, it's about the takeover of social media, through messaging, the distrust of mainstream and journalistic media, and now the local television takeover, right, which is what we see sinclair occurring around with the fcc kind of backtracking on the loophole. so we have to think about what kind of media we want in th

danny tarkanian, a businessman and son of the famous jerry tarkanian, he said he would be a reliabletrump's agenda. heller dismissed him as someone who has run and lost five times. let's talk more about this. joining us from washington capitol hill reporter for "the hill" molly hooper once again. molly, is there concern out there from senate leadership about these challenges to republican senators and who has stood up to the white house? >> well, you know, it's hard to say. the thing is that what's really going to be telling in this election or what will set the tone, i guess, as to whether republicans are in favor or not has to do a lot with the economy. you know, president trump is popular. he has a base of supporters, obviously. they're very vocal, active, and they're very supportive. you know, according to the lawmakers i talked to, they're still very supportive. at the same time if you look at somebody like dean heller, he has run in very difficult races before. he has a crack -- a wonderful political team on the ground there that's going to make sure that he is taken care of, e

joining us right now is danny tarkanian, republican candidate for the u.s. senate. ficially announcing right now. go ahead. tell us what you are up to. >> i'm very excited to announce i'm going to run for the united states senate here in nevada against dean heller. steve: why? >> look, dean heller has had so many people that have contacted me over the past couple months saying have you got to run against dean heller. they understand, as i do, that we're never going to make america great again unless we have senators in office that fully support president trump and his america first agenda. dean heller wasn't just one of the first never trumpers in nevada. he was one of the most influential. he actually helped hillary clinton win the state of nevada. i fully supported president trump to the end of the campaign. and even after president trump has been he auto elected, dean heller has obstructed his agenda. that grandstand press conference he had derailed any momentum to get the healthcare bill repealed. we will need people to support the america first agenda and i will

danny tarkanian joins us now. vote not to reform an repeal obamacare, keep obamacare in place? is that why you're challenging? >> that is not it. that is part of it but not it at all. i think we have incredible opportunity here in america because we have a president willing to make great change in our congress. we have a republican controlled congress and gnat, we're not getting it passed, senators in office don't support the president and don't support american first agenda. dean hello are was first never trump per and opposing the president trump's agenda. stuart: as dean heller first surfaced who would not vote immediately repeal obamacare. the world came down and he was threatened with being primaried. that is what you are doing. is it going to happen with other senators who don't go along with obamacare repeal? >> you're only missing the point. if you focus on obamacare repeal that is issue relevant or important to voters in jon. dean heller broken promise to people of nevada on numerous occasions. he campaig

danny tarkanian said he would be a revival supporter of president trump's agenda.imes. let's go back to arizona for a minute. president trump has said himself the last couple of months that he would step out and push against jeff flake, flake's approval rating not great in the state of arizona right now. significant to have a republican president coming out against a sitting senator and threaten him. >> it's a swing state. or it could be anyway. we have seen it move more solidly. this is a situation where if they do succeed in pushing kelly ward forward, the potential primary opponent, she is somebody who has run on the fringes before. it would be probably considered potentially a candidate to lose the general election. so this is a thing where mcconnell is saying don't cut off behind the scenes, your nose to spite your face. the majority is so, so narrow. but the percenters are a very -- have interesting force. they are credited with getting ted cruz to stop crediticizing president trump. it's actually a remarkable turn of events. >> a couple fascinating races in