all of donald trump's big wins. donald trump promised his voters that they were going to get tired of winning because they were going to win the fight to reduce and eliminate our national debt, the $19 trillion national debt that donald trump talked about in every appearance as a candidate for president is now over $20 trillion and instead he's created through his tax cuts for the super rich the single biggest one-year increase in the national debt in history. and donald trump was the self-proclaimed king of debt in his businesses. he warned us he loved not paying those debts and now he is the king of debt in government, and he's not going to pay those debts either. taxpayers are eventually going to pay those debts, and that doesn't feel like winning for trump voters. so donald trump kaernt tacan't t the national debt now. donald trump can't campaign as a tax winner for the super rich because most of donald trump's supporters didn't get in that tax cut. they can't feel it. and for many it was a big tax increase. if you're

it's just 100% donald trump doing what donald trump wants. neera tanden, can anyone turn donald trump into someone who can appeal to voters who aren't already supporting him? >> i mean, the reality of this last two years is that donald trump has not built on his base. and i think that you pointed out the numbers amongst republicans, but i think what's an even more clear warning shot is how well democrats did across the country with independents. they won independents dicively even in places like texas. and david is right there are places democrats should focus on and try to shore up. but when you look at the breadth of the victory from one part of this country to basically every corner, democrats put together a winning coalition. a large scale coalition of suburban women, a lot of college educated white men, in fact it used to be the base of the republican party, as well as millennials who no one expected to turn out and luteenees because of the ret rrk around the caravan. donald trump is in a day's long fury because his strategy backfired. he

i have found it interesting stop donald trump, hatred of donald trump, feral of donald trump, that in the closing moments the biggest guns of the democratic party are not talking about donald trump, they are talking about the things you mentioned before, the substantive issues. they're basically saying you can't deal with this lunatic. what you can do is he's a liar and the way to deal with that is talk about health care, talk about jobs. >> how's andrew gillum handling what the president does every day? >> well, for the most part, lawrence, he's really trying to make sure he focuses on the issues apparently people care about. health care is obviously a big issue. and him responding to the issues that i guess trump brings up but not directly to trump himself. he's not going to necessarily comment on a particular thing trump says or does. but he's going to comment on the spirit of what trump is doing. you've seen that in his as and speeches and rhetoric. but again i marched near him when he was at the florida a&m homecoming parade a few weeks ago and not one person on the side was yell

. >>> well, today donald trump's lifetime obsessions have all come together in the mueller investigation. donald trump's personal lawyer was in federal court in manhattan again today pleading guilty to crimes again today, federal crimes that he said involved the president of the united states. crimes that were driven by donald trump's lifetime obsessions and reckless pursuits of three things -- fame, money, and sex. donald trump ran for president not to win the presidency. he ran for president to increase his fame. all inside accounts of his decision making about running for president indicate that he did not expect to win. he only wanted to increase his fame so that he could prolong his career in television so that he could continue to be famous, something that he has craved his entire life. just as he has craved money his entire life. and he told us on the "access hollywood" video that the sex is easier for him to grab from women because he believes he's famous. that's another reason he wanted to be famous. donald trump's three big lifetime obsessions all feed each other. donald trump was work

has more on the crown prince's reception talk was there going to be a meeting between him and donald trump donald trump being one of the crown prince's biggest international supporters we were told that that was off the table that donald trump certainly didn't have time in the show joe let's be honest if donald trump wants to meet the saudi crown prince donald trump will meet the saudi crown prince there will be a gap in the shadow created that to happen so the fact that donald trump isn't meeting him here is significant there were those who said that they were going to meet him and they canceled those plans among them but president murray did go ahead with the diplomatic niceties of greeting mohammed bin salman is the arrived ukraine has banned russian men between the ages of sixteen and sixty from entering the country for a month ukrainian president had trip or a shank kostas the ban will help to stop the formation of what he describes as private armies ukraine says are working alongside moscow backed rebels in the border area create impose martial law in a number of provinces for thirty days a

some of them are ignoring donald trump and fighting with donald trump and fighting with donald trump,for the future territory of the republican party as well. if they do well, that shores up the donald trump approach and if they struggle, it may encourage some of the more moderate, sensible, decent republicans to come out against him. what you say about the economy, it is the economy, stupid, that rules the roost essentially. there is no certainty who is going to inherit from angela merkel and was glad to bea from angela merkel and was glad to be a future candidate for leadership about the same time, the economy is doing tremendously. the germans are to be missing a boom time at the moment. if donald trump gets away with a successful economy, it will be immaterial for who will be fighting for leadership, the economic issue will rule the day.“ the democrats to take control of the house on tuesday, what will be the effect, how will they use that power, do you think? the only thing they will be able to do is use subpoena power and the power that shares of committees how to conduct invest

donald trump gets along with whitaker, the washington post said donald trump refers to him as a backslappingfootball loving kind of guy who likes to see him instead of jeff sessions who donald trump does not get along with very well. >> when it comes to the legal issues, anything congress can do to protect the robert mueller investigation? >> political pressure is one thing, republicans, a few have said it is important to protect the integrity of the investigation. it is worth pointing out that lindsey graham last year, a former colleague of jeff sessions, he said there would be holy hell if donald trump forced jeff sessions to step down and now lindsey graham says he looks forward to looking -- working with the president. on the democratic side, the head of the party in the house, nancy pelosi, and in the senate, chuck schumer, saying that the acting attorney general should recuse himself from the robert mueller probe given his past statements. with the newity investigative powers the democrats have starting in january of next year, with these committees they control in the house. we will s

this is typical donald trump but yet even now two years on from when he won the election we still sit back and we are still surprised and to a degree many people are still shocked that donald trump is donald trump indeed for the moment there are thank you for president drug says that he will have a much stronger opinion in the case of jamal khashoggi next week the saudi journalist was murdered in the saudi arabian consulate in istanbul last month but on the matter ignore than a month since the death of mr show you know here in this. very terrible thing do you think saudi arabia is guilty of of having to murder and if so we're going to marshal your opinion on that subject over the next week and i'm working very closely with congress we're working together some very talented people and we're working with congress we're working with turkey and we're working with saudi arabia and i'm forming a very strong opinion. all of the students kidnapped from a high school in cameroon have been released and took the seventy nine people from a presbyterian boarding school in demand that the regional governor says four people are still missing including the driver two teachers of the princ

i'm no donald trump, sir! i'm no donald trump. donald trump's the man. this election and what have been the big issues for you in arizona? definitely immigration. promises made and promises kept. it's that simple. i want to see the wall built. we've got to control the borders. no walls, no country. no borders, no country. it's that simple. i know you guys have seen some of that in europe too. many democrats took a different approach in this election, accusing the president of stoking racial hatred. the latino population of the united states, the voting population, has more than doubled in the past 20 years. but if democrats are going to succeed in the future in states like arizona, they'll need to persuade more hispanics to get to the polls. james cook reporting. let's go back to our washington correspondent, chris buckler, whojoined us now. chris, if these elections were a referendum on donald trump, what is the verdict of the american people? if you were to treat america is some kind ofjury, you would have to say that it kind ofjury, you would have to s

we'd had a conversation about donald trump, but not about politics. >> in donald trump, goldstone admitsw opportunities that had little to do with government. >> selfishly i thought if donald trump is elected president, that's amazing. there's lots of favors we could ask. i would like emin to play at the inauguration. i'd like to do a photo shoot with emin at the white house. those are the favors i would like to ask, not some random attorney that you have this bizarre scant amount of information, so i was really against this thing, but i managed him. >> instead of approaching candidate directly, he decided to approach the candidate's son, donald trump jr. that's when he typed out those 138 words that would later be scrupulously examined. >> good morning. emin just called me and asked me to contact you with something very interesting. the crown prosecutor of russia met with his father aras this morning and in their meeting offered to provide the trump campaign with some official documents and information. this is obviously very high-level and sensitive information. that is part of russia

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presidential election in two yea rs' a presidential election in two years' time, but donald trump is doing it and years' time, but donaldand he years' time, but donald trump is doing it and he is already laying the groundwork. and he can say he has had success this time by being out there and motivating his base. the problem for the democrats is that they need to find someone who can do the same thing on their side. so far, they are a party that has an old voice in barack obama, who came forward. you could argue thatjoe biden also made a difference at rallies. but they haven't got you leadership to take them into 2020, and that is something they will have to address quickly, because president trump is already thinking about that election. chris buckler, thank you. many democratic hopes had been pinned on florida, a key swing state. they did make gains in the house, winning two seats in the southern tip of the state, but they lost races for the senate and for governor. there was also a contest of big personalities for the governor's position in florida. you had andrew dillon for the democrats, who was looking to become t

donald trump now the new brand is -- lost last week. he had a big l on his forehead. donald trump is now loser. how has he acted since donald trump loser brand? interesting. just in the last five days, basically took shots as he continued to do at the basic pillars of our democracy. let's call the vote into question in arizona and florida. let's throw a reporter out of the white house office. and let's also put in a lackey for attorney general so let's attack the media, judicial and let's attack our electoral system. on top of that, two acts of coward he is and complete, complete lack of empathy we've been talking about the atrocious absentee show as far as he is semiconductor ai cemetery and the display to thousands of firefighters fighting for their lives out there and lives being lost and his reaction as our leader is to call into question funding at that moment. are people putting their lives on line? this is a way we're seeing a man who said after he lost, maybe he would shift behavior because he's now not donald trump winner, he is donald trump loser. he doubles down o

legally with this process when is he ready to present the evidence not only against allies of donald trump the donald trump himself that's probably going to be in the spring so that gives donald trump in his inner circle let's say four months to get him out to fire them before they have to face the music. so and that's actually not the only news that we have coming from washington because also yesterday during the president's press conference there was a dispute between the president and a c.n.n. reporter jim acosta asked the president about the migrant caravan headed north and things really heated up i like to play this video and then get your reaction there after that it is there we go well if you want us president that this caravan was an invasion as you know i despise your senator to be that as you know this president karen was not an invasion it's a it's a group of migrants moving up from central america towards the border with the u.s. thank you for to know what why did you why did you characterize it as such. and i consider it an invasion you and i have a difference of opinion do you think tha

the more that donald trump digs in on some of these immigration issues, the more he turns off independent and potential swing voters. >> there is one group no one is talking about that donald appeal to in his base, and that's people who are sick of washington. they could be democrats, and they voted for donald trump because -- >> they don't like left or right, and it's hard to get them to vote for anybody but a presidential candidate like donald trump. so he's trying to get those people who never show up, so they're not base voters. they're just people who never showed up. >> and they showed up in '16, that was it, that was the exception. >> can he also motivate those people to show up in '18 and by using immigration, he feels that is one of the issues that works best for him, and again, let's not fingeriorget, donald trump what's good for donald trump, not what's good for other candidates. he's letting people know i'm still on this issue. >> you saw the numbers coming out this last week on our economy, things look really really good, not the messaging coming from the white house or the campaigns on the ground when you look at right, but the flip side, you bring in immigra

donald trump, you simply had to vote against republicans. and the reality is -- even though there are more moderate republican members who are uneasy with what donald trump is doing, almost none of them -- in fact, pretty much close to zero -- have stood up consistently to donald trump. >> do you think that message got through? >> the midterm elections did not achieve what i hoped to achieve. i mean, they achieved part of what i wanted to achieve, which was to create a check and balance on donald trump, which you get from the democrats taking control of the house. but the elections are not going to separate donald trump from the republican party. in fact, the linkage is tighter than ever, because he has a narrative that he can sell to republicans, that he helped them to pick up senate seats, he helped them to pick up gubernatorial races, and that his kind of demagogic politics actually works. and so a lot of republicans will believe that. they're already imitating his style of campaigning. i think you're gonna see more of that in the next two years. >> my view is -- we would have a chance for building a robust party that sponsors the kind of ideas

gentlemen. 46th e welcome the president of the united states, trump.dent donald [ ♪ ] [ ♪ ] president donald trump prurm /* /- president donald president donald trump whoa, whoa. hello. it is great to be in indiana. not ad a big victory here so long ago. i'm thrilled to be back in the heart land. something t to see special? take a look outside at the thousands and thousands of that wanted to get inside. you got lucky. got lucky. incredible time for america, jobs are going, wages optimism is sky rocketing. and more americans are working ever before in our history. [ cheering ] . president donald trump: tomorrow the people of indiana going to send mike to indiana to keep you full speed ahead. he's a great guys, successful guy. wonderful guy. knows he went to harvard business school and did well. i shouldn't mention harvard, have to. at least it shows he has high aptitude tests, and that's okay. a good thing, he's a smart guys, a great guy. indiana. the people of indiana. mike braun. created the have best economy in the history of this is the single best economy in the history of our country. it is the hottest job markets on the

donald trump. yes well of absolutely i mean trump is technically not on the ballot but people are motivated on both sides to come out there either for donald trump or against donald trump we're a very polarized nation i will say that i think that the contentious kavanaugh hearings has been a factor to motivate both sides there were women who felt that they need to move men had gone too far that a innocent man in the united states could be accused by a mere accusation of sexual misconduct on the other side it galvanized democrats who were all for the me too movement that what i think that was really about was a conservative agenda with trump because trump if if we prevail and we absolutely could during this midterm i realize history is not with us now whatever if we did prevail it does provide the opportunity for two more supreme court justices to be nominated in the next couple of years ok unfortunately our time is up but we certainly appreciate you taking the time to talk with those tonight maybe most barker joining us tonight from washington d.c. lesser think you are aides here at the big table with me is tyson barker used program direct

far. >> no, no, no, who is practicing the worst kind of identity politics the democrats or donald trump? >> donald trump is. >> i think it's a contest a race to the bottom. sorry. i'm sorry. you have elizabeth warren. you put that one down, i'll do you el with donald trumply think it's donald trump i think he's appealing to our worst angels. he re3450i7bds me of annual exaggerated version. he's worse than jesse helms in 1990 in express it appeals and dog whistles. >> you hear all the whistles. >> he's a fog hompblt these aren't whistleles. it's an invasion of a hoard with rep recy -- leprecy. >> notice what he didn't talk about? all these people coming up on the caravan. >> it's over. >> there is no caravan. >> remember. >> demagoguery. >> when he went threw all his republican colleagues under the bus, his principal kindness is cruelty. he mobilizes it. >> confidently made. i agree about that. >> it's interesting. this goes to this wwe thing. there is a part of him, when he spars with the press, he'll say, i'm trying to give my people something, entertain them, forgetting the pipe bombs and fbi th

and b, litigate donald trump. donald trump is going to make that easy by talking a lot and doing a lot of things the media won't be able to not cover. but then you're going to have to have a litigation by the democratic candidate. >> i think litigation on policy. >> sure. >> he's the guy that tried to take health care away. >> that's exactly right. >> both as a sort of strategy, but also for the country. >> that's right. >> we should be debating those things. you said this, very similar to what joy just said, a nominee best situated to be able to ignore trump is one who commands a media ecosystem apart from him. >> there are two choices that democratic primary voters can pick in the primary that's about to begin. a no nonsense sort of bland, inoffensive candidate. in most cases it happens to be white male candidates that the media is thinking about in column a. and in column b, more stridently progressive but three dimensional characters in column b. if democratic voters drop to column b because that person is more inspi

ask you though i mean is it way way premature to even begin thinking about twenty twenty for donald trump. donald trump this forward thinking the day after his inauguration he filed the paperwork for twenty twenty so the campaign has been going full steam ahead since february of last year and that's one of the reasons that trump has been out campaigning so hard is that he understood that history is not with the party in the white house during midterms and it's really entrusting because normally people can't be bothered to vote during a midterm election and this time just with early voting in the twenty two states that allow it we saw a twenty one percent increase already over twenty fourteen and sixteen percent new voters so a lot of that is a trunk factor would be that it is a trump factor but you know your remember this is well as i do that two years ago during the campaign trump said that he was going to drain the swamp and he was going to get rid of all of these established these establishment politicians and yet as soon as he was elected he started campaigning again that's what the establish

donald trump recorridolas zonas devastadas por el incendio mÁs poderoso de los Últimos 100 aÑos. yomara lÓpez tienen los detalles. yomara todo. donaldÓla ciudad mÁs afectada por el incendio y muchos dicen que la ciudad de donald trump fue un alivio y una esperanza para ellos. el gobernador de california y el gobernador electo recibieron esta maÑana donald trump en la base de la fuerza aÉrea. ahora sÓlo quedan ruinas, destrucciÓn e investigadores buscando restos humanos. donald trump dijo que no pensÓ que algo asÍ sucedería. dijo que la prioridad es cuidar a las personas que fueron afectadas, el caso de ruby solÍs que perdiÓ su vivienda en el incendio. >> no lo puedo creer. yomara: ruby sintiÓ alegrÍa por la visita. >> quÉ bueno que mi vida le importa a Él. yomara: donald trump estuvo acompaÑado del alcalde, recientemente donald trump amenazÓ con cortar la ayuda federal a este estado, pero hace un par de dÍas declarÓ estado de emergencia en california. hoy dejÓ en claro que todos tienen que trabajar en equipo para prevenir los incendios. espera que este sea el Último incendio catastrÓfico que experimente california. beatriz: en la vi

was the only republican member of the senate to support donald trump he went down to alabama there was a big rally that was a big moment for donald trump as well and with jeff sessions getting behind him there were others who felt that they could support donald trump that he would push forward their agenda but really since the the whole thing about the russian inquiry and jeff sessions recusing himself blew up donald trump has vilified jeff sessions he's called them names he's called them beleaguered has given him a hard time on twitter and the story around washington was that jeff sessions gave donald trump a letter that was undated which was all about his all about his giving his rest resignation and there's no date on this letter no of course the other story over he's talking about whether they should or lot is about the media and we are part of the media and yet in the firing line again there's nothing new about what and how donald trump is treating the media but he seemed very on edge about the way the media were asking him questions that press conference. exactly and the most jaw dropping moment in a news conference that wa

house majority for republicans so to turn these around in places where donald trump one makes that kind of repudiation of what donald trump has been talking about particularly when you look at the places like iowa like wisconsin like michigan like pennsylvania like virginia places that donald trump needs to win to win the twenty twenty alexion so the democrats will be very pleased that the managed to turn those places around and they'll be saying look this is a repudiation of what donald trump has been doing donald trump has already said he would perhaps reach out to democrats and perhaps there's a way they could work together and he me will soften his tour or you remember before the last election he said that he would be more presidential than anyone you've ever seen that didn't quite pan out for him he may need to change is tone certainly could what with one areas like infrastructure and tackling the opioid crisis but after that you're running out of room of the areas that they can walk in and of course the democrats have said if he starts attacking health care in the united states then they would be simply agains

we are going to be evaluating paul ryan through the lens of donald trump and his decision to cooperate with donald trump. that is going to be a stain for a long time. paul ryan was involved in some very interesting rethinking of conservativism and american politics in the years before donald trump. as recently as 2012, he was talking about the difference between the makers and the takers. afterwards, he said i want to apologize for that. i want to change my perspective. i think that was an unfair way of looking at the american public. he began this interesting project to reach out to central cities, people who worked with poverty and said which programs might actually work? can we rethink the conservative approach to people who are not privileged, people who are struggling in this country. it was a very interesting project on his part that became completely invisible when donald rump came along. the question is, where was paul ryan going? part of his contribution is he was not rigid. he was willing to rethink some things. unfortunately, that got derailed with the rise of trumpism. you can kind of

donald trump is a creature of habit. if you worked with donaldr before donald trump always his explanation of why he did something it worked. he does not have the cognitive ability to relook at this situation and go no, no. yes he explained to you once why did i do the birther? it worked. nobody is going to talk donald trump out of what he's doing and remind him that no, sir, this time it won't work and actually didn't work the last time. he's stuck. he'll continue to be stuck and go down in flames as a result. >> willie, again when the electorate is talking about the enemies of donald trump because donald trump is not conservative, he's anti, anti-liberal. when donald trump talks about elizabeth warren or hillary clinton or get them talk being about dianne feinstein or cory booker, the democrats that are standing in front of kavanaugh, judge kavanaugh, now justice kavanaugh, donald trump wins. but since the kavanaugh hearing has been over, donald trump has worked 24/7 to make this campaign about him and when people are talking about donald trump

more now on the crown prince's reception talk was there going to be a meeting between him and donald trump donald trump being one of the crown prince's biggest international supporters were told that that was off the table that donald trump simply didn't have time in the show to let's be honest if it wants to meet the saudi crown prince donald trump will meet the sort of the crown prince there will be a gap in the created below that to happen so the fact that donald trump isn't meeting him here is significant there were those who said that they were going to meet him and they canceled those plans among them president mccree but president murray did go ahead with the diplomatic niceties of greeting mohammed bin some of these iraq. meanwhile thousands of demonstrators have been rallying in buenos aires in protest at the g. twenty economic policies the demonstrators are unlikely to get anywhere any of the leaders summit though because the police coast guard and border patrols have cordoned off a twelve square kilometer area around the convention center where the summit is being held ukraine has bann

and then of course there's donald trump. donald trump has been saying that he will run for president as a republican which is surprising since i just assumed he was running as a joke i. saw you hanging out with m.b.a. players like steph curry golden state warriors oh yeah you know it's got to make sense too because both of you like raining down bombs on people from long distances right and unlike me yes there can be sanders we are graced with there is a presence tonight everyone is there steps up to the podium i get excited because i'm not really sure what we're going to get you know a present briefing bunch of lives or divided into soft bugsy. it should since gans in this time don't research alone god. china has a serious shortage of women and a lot of. one on one east meets those desperately seeking any way they can on al-jazeera. descend on al-jazeera. from hospitality to hostility toward hotels towns dramatic stories about high comes a complex and last resort shall intense and defined it city's an exclusive interview with nobel

for anyone's types of time so they could get donald donald trump's tax returns within days of taking control of the committee this is going to put donald trump in a bit of legal jeopardy that is why he has been fighting so hard to try and make sure that the house stays in the hands of the republicans but as john was saying he seems to have given up that idea over the last few days and is concentrating mainly on the senate and that is why we're hearing from donald trump saying well i might change my tauren well you might have to because the democrats could be in for a very good night if those polls are to build believed and if they are and if it's true this would be a huge rejection of trump ism across the united states and fisher thank you very much. there's been major developments from turkey on the matter of saudi journalist. sources have told al jazeera that saudi arabia is willing to pay blood money to the family of including his fiance t.j. is. following developments from istanbul. more than a month since he was killed. body has yet to be found and there are more questions about his murder but turkish authorities have increased th

the journal reports that donald trump told michael cohen to quote, get it done. during the presidential transition after donald elected, donald trump thanked david pecker for suppressing the mcdougal story. the journal reports, mr. pecker granted immunity for his grand jury testimony, told investigators about mr. trump's involvement in the mcdougal deal. joining us now barbara mcquade, a former u.s. attorney and msnbc contributor. and david corn is back with us. barbara, your reading of the legal implications of this wall street journal reporting. >> well, it's a very painstaking walk through the very same criminal information that michael cohen pleaded guilty to. they filled in a lot of the gaps here and filled in a lot of the blanks. it is protocol at the just department when you're not going to charge someone to refer to them by a pseudonm. candidate one, executive one, et cetera. and based on the reporting we now know that president trump himself, if this report was true was intimately involved every step of the way which essentially makes him an unindicted coconspirator. they would certainly have all the

donald trump, they are mistaken. says no street journal one is going to rein in donald trump except donald trump, and only if he wants to. he only shows restraint when there is political interest. what is at stake and should be the concern is who is going to control policy in the house and how. >> when it comes to conservative press, what havee you seen? >> fox news conceded the democrats win in the house of representatives, but they deny there was any kind of blue sue nami taking over american politics. looking review has been ahead to what the preliminary results might mean for policymaking. nancy pelosi is asked acted to prioritize things like gun control and anticorruption legislation. trump is expected to be in the eye of the democratic storm. the democrats could threaten donald trump with subpoenas to force him to comply. the interest has been the focus on diversity and women. we can do it, you might even say we have done it. toen have been elected office. it is not just the candidate, there have been a real push by women turned off by trump's policies and his comments. rashida, who won her race for michigan. i

donald trump, as you know. this is kind of why he famously got the nickname of donald trump's fixer. d one of the things he was involved in during the 2016 campaign was minority outreach. and you're absolutely right that during that time when michael cohen was still on donald trump's team, he vouched for donald trump's character, and essentially went as far as to say that donald trump did not have a single racist bone in his body. here's a quick reminder. >> i've lost count as to how many times the disgusting liberal mainstream media have attempted to label mr. donald trump a racist, a zoxenophobe a bigot. >> this interview is one more data point and reminder of the complete 180 that michael cohen has done when it comes to donald trump. we know from our reporting over the last couple of weeks that michael cohen says he changed his party registration from republican back to democrat. when we bumped into him last month, michael cohen said that he wants every american to get out and vote against donald trump. otherwise we are going to see two to six years more of this craziness. that was

donald trump. he is indebted to donald trump. rump owns the guy tses here say question i have for you as a republican who says you have been a republican your whole life. do you think there was maybe a siefd the republican party that you were not seeing or choosing to not see? >> both both. look, i think two things happened, i think theres with a shifter in the base and a side of it ma that many of us didn't see including the 15 other republicans who ran for the republican primary. people like jeb bush, people like john kasich. but i also think trump brought out a different type of people, a different class of people. he brought out people who had not been engaged in politics before. >> trevor: right. >> without had not been motivated to vote. >> trevor: so when you look at, let's just say florida itself, let's look at the governor's race. you look at a race between andrew gillum, ron derant-- ron desantis and you see gillum exciting people in a different way, you see who are engaged with him not just on policy but also in the way

and that was bernie's argument, and that's, by the way, donald trump's argument. when donald trump, first week in office, took the united states out of the trans-pacific partnership, bernie issued a statement saying, "you know what? this might be one place where i could work with donald trump." >> right. well, bernie would've done it. hillary, based on what she said, would've done it. the problem with trump is, he's very good at offering a narrative that's critique, but then when he has to actually do something, he runs into some problems. so, how you solve the trade problem is not to throw a hand grenade into american agricultural policy, right? so, he's a little bit of a bull in a china shop. >> so, how do you argue with the results, though? 'cause now there's a renegotiated nafta, which bernie was always in favor of, which, frankly, comes back in favor of dairy farmers, one of the constituencies that bernie has long advocated for. he re-negotiated the korean free-trade deal, he's pulled out of tpp. how is donald trump not bernie sanders', i guess, ally when it comes to --

i have no problem with donald trump. i love donald trump, and that's why i'm here today. him, 100%. suburban women are supposed to be deserting donald trump. they're not asking suburban women. they're not asking me. i'm not. i support the president. pink wave or not, this election looks like reinforcing the realignment of american politics, where democratic strength is concentrated in the cities and their suburbs, and donald trump's america lies beyond. nick bryant, bbc news, newjersey. a short time ago i spoke to our correspondent chris buckler who's in hernando, mississippi, he told me what the feeling is there among the electorate. support from. they recognise that he has flaws and sometimes they get worried about the kind of aggressive language that he can use, but fundamentally, they believe some of the policies he is pushing. if you look at that hole supreme court row that was happening about cavenagh, they ultimately supported president trump in that because they believe issues like abortion, it is something they don't believe in, that right to life maybe something

democrats on that territory. >> juan: morgan, as jesse says, this is really about donald trump. >> morgan: everything is about donalds are intriguing because it's 80-plus percent of republicans back donald trump, but it's almost like business less calling republicans home for the midterms than it is calling donald trump and his tribal support home for the midterms. >> morgan: it's an interesting point. i think you've made it all about him which is a smart strategy. there's many great candidates running. there's no one that motivates the republican base like the president. to jesse's point on the media, i think they have played right into his hands on many of these things, and congress always historically has a very low approval rating and right now the media has an approval rating just as low as congress. there's no intellectual curiosity about why the american people may be frustrated. they blame it on the president without having any self reflection. one thing i would say would be -- we should be watching on election night and dana will break it down for us is the governor's races in state legislatures. we are tal