republican women candidates. they spent quite heavily in the republican race in north carolina yet the outcome was she lost by over 20 points to her opponent. that made me really question whether this issue, which i think there are some in the party that are sounding alarm bells over, can be solved by just recruiting and endorsing? can they endorse themselves out of this predicament? some $900,000re put into the race. have there been any after action reports or analysis about why she lost by such a big margin? of the peoplee speculating and i think there will be some deeper dives into the day that when they are available. what we see and what we heard anecdotally was there are deeper issues with the republican brand right now, quite frankly with women voters. women of color have voted overwhelmingly democratic. black women are the core base of the democratic party. erosionhave seen is an of white women support of republican candidates. to 2018, we saw a 10 point swing and how college-educated white women voted. t

because republican democrat after democrat -- republican president after democrat president through theyears have not been. iran is the biggest threat in the least, saudi arabia is not a great guy either so i worry about with these troops us getting further involved in a region we shouldn't get involved in. our men and women not to be home from afghanistan by now. we support israel and we have got to do what we can to encourage that part of the world to move toward a democracy but i don't like us placing resources in there, especially placing american troops. one final point, the trump administration, we are in this weird place where we don't believe what our own president says. think about that. we don't believe what iran tells us, we don't believe what saudi arabia tells us that the rest of the world doesn't believe what a united states president says. that is troubling. >> how would you handle u.s. army relationship? >> one thing that concerns me as he claims to be a noninterventionist but he is awful quick on sending those troops was a couple months ago he said after discussion with

but still, a two-point win for the republicans compared to a 12-point win for the republicans. unmistakable takeaway here is the suburban revolt that we saw in 2018 -- even in 2016 president trump underperformed mitt romney in the suburbs nationally. in 2018, that gets magnified hugely. nancy pelosi becomes speaker of the house. republicans are going to hold this seat tonight. in the post-election analysis, the republicans know they still have a problem in the suburbs. now they will say we won this race, whew, we have some time to try to deal with it. >> they're probably saying more than whew. >> probably. probably. >> probably. we won't go there. john king, thank you. stick around. we may need you. we're going to move on and get to our analysts. stand by, john king. as you know, this is our breaking news. cnn projects republican dan bishop wins the special election in north carolina's 9th district. that as a new poll -- new cnn poll gives president trump bad news about how americans are feeling about his presidency. look at this. it's all in the numbers, folks. only 39% of ame

and republicans are in the lead on that.ou've been telling the story in the airwaves, on the pages of your local papers, and we encourage you to continue to do it. because we've got so much more work to do. and the truth of the matter is, as the president said, we've got to lay out a republican agenda in the days ahead -- an agenda that makes our neighborhoods safer, our families stronger, our middle class bigger and more prosperous than ever before. the best is yet to come. and we've got to put out that positive vision. you know, i used -- i used to say back when i was in the house of representatives that if you can't communicate, you can't govern. and house republicans are -- you all represent some of the best communicators in america today. you're on the airwaves at home, you're on the airwaves nationally on a regular basis. and i just encourage you to let your voice be heard. talk about what we've done for the american people to date, when we had a republican majority. talk about what you've done as a -- as a principled

this congressional republicans. >> republican parties red sox because of him.nd people can't stand the party read. women can't stand the party round. people who live in the suburbs can't stand it and people of color can't stand the republican party brand. and as long as donald trump is there, that brand will suck. that's why it's important for people to challenge him in the primary now. so that weekend plant our flag and say this it's not who we are. >> thank you. you said that the turning.in your support for president trump hume after he met with latimer and his psyche he was widely criticized siding with horns. a lot of people think he is completely offended the post-world war ii international order. as president, i would you pick up the u.s. foreign policy policy were trump has left off. >> one correction. helsinki wasn't the turning.for me it was the final straw. it was the final straw with trump we need stood in front of the world and said i like that guy. ugly put in and not my own people. i say often, every day that donald trump is unfit. i believe that.

but again these republicans, i would date congress eight, 19 years ago, the republicans claim in the rule of law, they believe in limited government, and a restrained executive, the republican party establishment, i want to be careful what i say, i'm not lynette talking about republican party voters, but the establishment, they are a cult, they have abandoned everything that they believe in to worship the sky every single day. that should offend all of us. by the way the republican brand under this president is horrible. so i don't know why you defend him. they should not. >> governor, you called this ukraine business pro treason. supple. >> i think ukraine by the president is a combination of treason bribery and other high crimes and misdemeanors. the one thing absolutely clear is it's grounds for removal of office, university president of the united states essentially selling the results of an american presidential election in which he is a candidate in reading in his favor against another candidate corruptly. the end of them will report makes it very plain that inactivity the pres

candidates that made it past the runoff, a republican man and republican woman. the woman was heavily endorsed by a number of new efforts that had propped up in the republican party 2018. in the wake of 2018, which we kind of think of as the year of the woman, but it was the year of the democratic woman. womens of new democratic were elected in congress and state legislators across the country. the numbers of republican women dwindled. the numbers went from 23 to 13 in the house and 50 seats were lost by republican women in state legislators across the country. they started sounding the alarm bells and started organizing efforts to endorse and bring money in early to support republican women candidates. they spent quite heavily in the republican race in north carolina yet the outcome was she lost by over 20 points to her opponent. that made me really question whether this issue, which i think there are some in the party that are sounding alarm bells over, can be solved by just recruiting and endorsing? can they endorse themselves out of this predicament? some $90

the election will be the doom of the republican says my next guest. of the republican party. the new america is dooming the republicans. good to have you on. my goodness. >> thank you for doing this. i know you wanted to do this book and believe in it. everything that happened tonight is embedded in this book and the friends. >> you're making a bold prediction. 2020 election will result in the death of the gop as we know it. why do you say that? >> for the same reason that you woke up the day after the women's march and decided to do this show. every night produces a critique of the trump presidency. also a view of what the real america is. i got up every day writing this book and decided that i owed it to them the book is dedicated to the resistance and the women's march. i knew from understanding what was going on in the country the history of the republican party this party was doomed the trump presidency was actually the most extreme counter revolution battle against the new mark and it was it's uglying fight to the death battle against the new america was going to drive

and we can't even get from the republican party in the house or the republicans in the senate vigorousupport for this president in advance of an election that is now within the next year and a half. year and, well, 14 months. >> it's going to be a close election no matter what. people have to understand it's -- we could lose the presidency. trump has had a great presidency -- lou: people have to understand, what about the senators and the house and the republican party? >> we could lose the whole game. we have to get in this battle as deep as any i've seen in the last 50 years. there's a lot at stake here. the house is at stake, the senate could be at stake now. lou: so why in the world, what kind of person is sitting in the house of representatives or the senate who doesn't come back on their haunches and just roar like a damn lion and go get 'em? >> well -- lou: because there are no lion withs that i can see. >> and the two gentlemen who are in the senate on china, should be telling the chinese the president is being supported by the country -- lou: well, they did that. >> and we're

and we cannot even get from the republican party in the house or the republicans in the senate, vigorousupport for this president in advance of an election that is now within the next year end a half. >> is going to be a very close election. we specifically talked about it. and people have to understand, we could lose the presidency and trump is been a great president. >> people have to understand, what about the senators in the house and the publican. >> in this battle as deep as any as i've seen in the last 50 years, there is a lot of steak, houses at state, the senate can be at stake. >> why in the world, what kind of person is sitting in the house of representatives are the senate who does not come back and just were like a lion and go get them. there are no liens that i can see. >> in the two gentlemen in the senate who were in china should be telling the president is supported by the country. >> they did that and basically we will go back there and keep fighting. >> i've not heard anything public about it, give a press conferencing here's what we found out. >> i am getting tired of

a new poll shows republicans are more supportive of president trump and they are good republican partyarris poll 42% of republicans or independents leaning republicans and say they are more supportive of donald trump and the republican party. that's up three points from last month republicans who say they are more supportive of the party fell from 30% to 26%. joining us tonight rnc chair "rhoda" daniel and great to see you. let's start with this harvard harris poll. even though it has mixed news for the party the fact that you have a standard bearer like the president in these circumstances is about the best news there popular party has going into 2020, isn't it? >> the great thing for the party to have the president leading our party and someone who expands are based and attracts voters who have an eyes looked at the republican party. part of the reason why he won in 2016 and every candidate on the ballot in 2020 is going to benefit from that base of the president brings to the polls because he will help everybody down ticket and help us maintain our majority in the senate and win bac

republican line. i want ms. kohler to know, as an african-american woman, i am a republican and probably support president trump and the republican party. it is always astonishing to me therer my white sister say what black women, how black women usually vote. please believe me, not all of us are voting democrat. not all of us are liberals like that. by and large, are conservatives. they just have not had the message. the left-sided media has told them what to think, but they don't support abortion and are very strict on lgbt rights and things like that. i want to let you know and let the listeners out there know that there are so many of us african-american women who are republicans. we are proud republicans. so i thank you for listening. host: thank you, jo. your response? guest: i think we also have to have these caveats when we are talking about overall rate of how different demographic groups tend to vote, that that never encompasses everyone at the individual level. yes, as a voting group, afric

staying led the republicans puerto rico. but in each case, both of it be taking money out of need it places like the military, or putting it into the wall, were not being fair to puerto rico when it came to aid they had to relent and work with democrats. glad they did for the good of the country. so enough times have, leader mcconnell, chairman shelby, sit down at his side for you to sit down and negotiate withoc democrats on the wall forward. now there's another bright spot, well let's talk about the cr, the short-term cr. there is released last night. the continuing resolution is an important measure to keep the government open until late november and allow appropriators to get a bipartisan agreement for fiscal year 2020.ee one program that is not received enough attention is the agriculture relief program. the commonlyow is that chrome commodity corporation. it's an important program that should help all farmers suffering from certain ,residencies of the market. like price declines and natural disasters. importantly, the

of the republican party.rump: we are the party of the american worker, the american family, and the american dream. the republican party is having a major identity crisis right now. >> a conservative migrant commentator left the rally and discussed. >> watching all of my former friends off the line behind people who were as appalled as i was when trump was running for president in 2016, i can't figure out who these people are. it's like the invasion of the body snatchers. i thought they've had their brains sucked out and replaced with champion mush. >> a republican voter since 2001 was once picked out of a crowded trump party. trump look at my : african-american over here. look at him. >> he said he didn't mind at first. >> i just got it out and i am here. so everybody around me just was uproarious laughter because it was funny. if you were there, you would be laughing yourself. stream of racist rhetoric out of the white house drove him away from the party he had been voting for for almost 20 years. >> i left

he campaigned in wausau for the republican u.s. senate candidate who lost heavily against tammy baldwin, the democratic u.s. senator. >> host: as they ar we are talkg wisconsin politics in the battleground states, mark is the first out of new hampshire. good morning. >> caller: wisconsin being a purple state up for grabs, do you think that the challengers would have a chance next year in the primary for the republican party? >> that is a great question. this was the last stop. ted cruz did very well in the primary but since then, republicans are on board here in the state and it would be a heavy lift to beat him in the primary. for that part of the republican fracture coming together and wisconsin. >> host: before we leave the question, can you talk about the demographic trends in the state and what should viewers know about 2016 and 2020? >> it's like a lot of states in the upper midwest. that's no surprise in terms of politics, you know, republicans have done well since 2010 and finally broke the dam in 2016, but the state remain

republican party voters but the republican party establishment , they are a cold . they abandoned everything they believe in to worship this guy every single day. that should offend all of us and by the way the republican brand under this president is horrible. so i don't know why they're defending him, theyshouldn't . >> governor, you call this ukraine business quote, trees and pure and simple. >> i think the ukraine caper by the president is some commendation of treason, bribery and other high crimes and misdemeanors but one thing that's clear is that it's grounds for removal from office. you have a sitting president essentially selling the results of an american presidential election in which he's a candidate in the rigging it in his favor against another candidate corruptly. and of the mueller report makes it plain that any activity the president takes, this president to benefit himself or his family politically or financially is a corrupt action and this suspending aid and immediately calling up the president and the saying do this to kill biden and meanwhile $

you have the suburban voters who may not be part of the republican base, trump base but could vote republicanand are undecided on the president and what you just heard from scott walker amp bishop in your interview saturday is very important. republicans, but they were trying to do is set a binary. so you have a republican candidate and you have a democrat able to depict as a socialist and someone on the hard left to use bishop himself. i recorded this last week from the rnc chairwoman mcdaniel, resonates with suburban women to help republicans come back to the trump site or come back to vote for republican candidates. republicans able to have the binary weather to pick hard left. that is what you should expect from don -- donald trump from the rally tonight. >> neil: you need to focus on a singular, i get that and many in the race to challenge him, but, kevin i'm beginning to wonder when a man and woman espousing, getting rid of the president, gets to the wealthy come of that it means we will raise taxes. so how is that going to work in a general election? >> well, i think you will see peopl

the republican establishment do an autopsy. they have a great plan to win over the minority voters and hispanic voters and trump does the exact opposite we can talk about the destiny of that discussion but which of it is a deeply reported in spite of the rain documentation of the republican party doing everything they can to stop this trashing over their autopsy, doing everything that the consultants told them they couldn't and this brings me to my favorite quote in the book and i want you to tell the story behind it. the quote is mother is not going to like this. [laughter] please explain. >> judging by the [laughter] i am assuming some of you read the excerpt in the magazine last week. the excerpt in question is from chapter 16 of the book and what i was abli wasable to do is rece weekend of the access hollywood takes being released and on the morning of friday october 2, donald trump were held up in the 25th floor of the trump tower inside of the conference room td they were giving debate preparation because on sunday night

who the republican nominee is.ow at 88%, and it has been at 88, 89, 90%, basically, the entire trump presidency. this number just has not budged. a to put that number in perspective, obviously it's high. but here is a question. donald trump sitting at 88%. he has been around. he has been stable at 88% among republicans. what about past presidents, okay? past presidents who have received serious primary challenges, right? where were they with their own parties in terms of approval rating? how does it compare to trump at 88%? that's one way to gauge potential vulnerability to a primary challenge. so the last president who got a serious primary challenge, you got to go back to '92. it was george h.w. bush. and when his challenger pat buchanan got in the race was 75%. so not as popular as trump. the other thing with bush, that number had been extremely high because of the gulf war in early '91. it was already falling byt point in late '91. and by the new hampshire primary, it was down in the 50s. again, that's movement

republicans important political cover. they shouldn't need it because so many americans are for this but they do because of the power sometimes exercise rather ruthlessly by the nra. so the president can do it. this is a moment of truth. the president, leader mcconnell, and all of my republican colleagues the american people have spent up too many people are being killed across the country every day. just yesterday waiting at the airport a man came over and grabbed my arm and said to me that his nephew was a victim of gun violence and pleaded with me for action. it's affecting more and more people. their families, their friends, their communities. i imagine every one of my colleagues has met someone like this man, i don't know his name, over the past month. the mayor of dayton ohio, man whaley, joined democrats history of the press conference. another, incredibly compelling voice pushing for some progress on this issue. we invited her to speak at our caucus lunch today and i expect my republican colleagues have mayors in t

republican line. caller: hi. thank you very much for taking the call. i'm really disappointed with donald trump, where he's coming back and he's saying, i'm going to release the transcripts tomorrow. where the speaker, nancy pelosi, is talking about setting the bar now, saying that they were talking about impeachment. donald was stale mating nancy -- stalemating nancy and the senate and congress is trying to question about the mueller report, then the president gives a letter saying you can only answer questions pertaining to the report. everything about what he's done is very disappointing. as somebody backing the president, i understand that. i used to be in the military. we had to. but as a civilian now, i voted for both republicans and democrats. i want the best person for the job and right now he doesn't set the bar high enough to be voted back in. host: all right. here's carl on the independent line, calling us from lancaster, pennsylvania. go ahead, carl. caller: thank you so much. my name's ca

there's an old saying in republican campaign, why would republican abaco address the naacp? a republican presidential candidate. you're not can to pick up any more black votes and it is always it's not to pick black votes. to pick up the votes of what suburbanites who want to see you engage with the naacp. politics is a coalition business, and donald trump won the presidency in 2016 not just because of his base we all love to read about all of the story from middle america about the auto mechanic in ohio somewhere. those people matter obviously and their big support of the present but the present one is campaign because he had overwhelming support -- the president one -- traditionally republican suburban moderates. we know in 2060 they voted for him and we also know in 2018 by virtue of this democratic takeover at least a significant chunk of those republican suburban moderates flipped. they voted for democrats in the suburbs from salt lake city to orange county to detroit to lan all across the country. donald trump is playing with fire and is not because he's mobilizing the

it was drawn by republicans for republicans.o that it was that close has some republicans a little bit nervous. how did it break out? remember, the president's claiming credit and he should. he visited this part of the district late. in cumberland county, that's not a big win. move over here. dan mccready was on the ballot last year, that election never certified because of some fraud injuries. where the democrats are saying this is not a total loss for us is in this district near charlotte. look how well the democrat dan mccready did there. we have seen this throughout 2018, early 2019. the president's problems in the suburbs extend to other republican candidates. here's the conversation today. it's a win. dan bishop will be the congressman from the 9th district. if you're a republican on the fence about retiring next year, is there a clue here for you? a 2-point race. go back to the presidential election. not apples and apples but president trump won this district by 12 points not that long ago so there's something happening i

in the 1960's, the goldwater republicans against the rockefeller republicans. division has been a constant in the republican party, until now. at the 500 day mark of the reagan presidency he had the support of 77% of republicans, at the 500 day mark of the trump presidency he has the support of 87%. there's less dissent in the republican party than ever before. it's his party. which is why the -- those of us who care about the two party system think what should happen in 2020 is the republican party gets obliterated so that -- the old story about hitting the mule over the forehead with a two by four, it gets its attention and something needs to be dobe to -- needs to be done to get the republicans' attention. >> let me move on to your book. it begins in princeton, new jersey, where you earned your ph.d. in the mid 1960's. and you invoke the fourth president, james madison, and the 28th president, woodrow wilson, both of whom also spent time in princeton. and you write, my conviction is that properly understood, conservatism is the madisonian persuasion and my m

most republicans have been silent. one of the reasons they have been silent, the whistleblower's complaint has not been investigated or pair veri verif true. >> it makes them feel they should wait out a bit and figure out what happens as they voice their opinion. >> abby, we saw stephen miller on fox news. let's listen to that for a second. >> the president has the state department and the cia and the pentagon and a number of other agencies. why did he use three private lawyers to get information from biden from the ukrainian government rather than going through all the agencies? >> two different points. >> how about answer my question? >> john durham is investigating something different. stephen, i am asking you a direct question. why did the president use private attorneys, if you don't know, that's an acceptable answer but let's not talk about john durham. >> there were two issues they were brought up. >> why did they do it? >> chris, i understand you have your question and i have my answer. there are two issues tha

i'm not a republican or democrat. the democrats have done nothing but lie and start trouble and i don't know if he has done a good job. i think he has. they never -- they go against the president. we are supposed behind our president. not wanting to impeach him. that lady pelosi or whoever she is. what has she done? why don't they investigate everybody in congress. let's get behind our country and stop the starving and the cities going to crap. it's crazy. please don't impeach. who are they going to put in beto o'rourke. host: deborah in parker, colorado. democrats' line. caller: i wanted to say something in regards to the last caller, i don't understand why you can't see right from wrong. i don't see that he violates every law in the book and what he has done and what promise has he kept. why would you want to support a president who is lawless, a dictator, not me. i hope the democrats follow through and get trump impeached so all of his crimes come out. he should go to prison and i am convinced that the republicans

if the democrat's even close tonight, even if the republicans win and it close, republicans will have jitters. the president will be questioning can i get my voters out? you'll see a lot more republican retiremen retirements. >> is there any population center that you're going to be watching closely as the rest of the vote comes in that would be responsible for any big move? >> two actually. i'm going to start again over here. you look where the people are. this is the largest part of the detective here, meklenberg county. charlotte is not in the district but the suburbs are. so the largest piece of unaccounted for votes, uncounted votes are right here in the battleground part of this now battleground. never before but now battleground district. republicans have held this district since 1963. that i'm calling it a battleground tonight tells you everything you need to know. i suspect the counting is a slow right now. to come to the other end of the district, this was republican in the presidential race. if dan mccready can hold on by that kind of the margin, it tells you it's not just

of putin and kim jong un, higher among republicans. but it's still a small minority . i would say more i think that perhaps this presidential election more than others, people will i think be judging the character and the way the president comports himself to ourallies in the world . viewed more as these and a specific policy and aspecific leader and that's how it might come into play .>> other questions. in the back, right there and then will go to you. those in the center. >> karen hurley, my question has to do with on page 16 when we're looking at making the us say, maintaining us military superiority, i wondered if the panel would reflect on that finding in particular. and the current 20/20 democratic presidential field and the fact that joe biden is the only one who seems to bestanding fully in line with these findings . >>. >> i was going to say i'm not the right person to answer this but it's washington so what the hell. i mean, one, i think you have to attribute to candidates their own views and not just responsiveness to the voting public and so we shouldn't i

every republican, every one of them, needs to answer this question. the document also raises a host of new questions that i expect the house impeachment inquiry will seek to answer. here are some of them. do my colleagues believe it is appropriate after the ukrainian president brings up a request for military aid, for the president to say, "i would like "ou to do us a favor, though, before asking him to investigate a right wing conspiracy theory. president trump mentioned multiple times during the call he wanted president zelensky to speak with attorney general barr and rudy giuliani. what kind of conversations giuliani, andrudy president zelensky and other ukrainian officials occurred? did they speak to each other? what did they say? what promises or requests were made? president involve his personal lawyer, mr. giuliani, in what president trump claims was official government business? done to get around in theficial channels state department and elsewhere? there are many other questions, and those are just the ones that come from the document we wer

joe out of boston, a republican. caller: thank you. i want to say that i am amazed, i am assuming he is one of those never trumpers. you guys should be so embarrassed, you and bill kristol. ever since he was elected, you are putting things in front of him. so you guys are just unbelievable, and to me you are not asking the right questions. you should be asking joe biden those questions. withim what he meant withholding billions of dollars from ukrainians unless they fire the sky. why don't you follow that up? host: we will give you a chance to respond. guest: it is always interesting hearing a trump supporter using the term "unbelievable" since the president uses that term on a regular basis. this is where you get the dust thrown up. there is a clip of joe biden ukrainians in fact should fire their prosecutor, but if you go back and look at what happened, virtually the entire free world was putting pressure, the imf, the entire western alliance was putting pressure on the ukraine to say, you have to do something about your corruption.

i am republican. >> the republican party used to be just under middle-class, lower middle-class to middle-class, all the way up to high end. of made 100 $50,000, family four, you are a republican. trump has realigned the party and he has brought that number down. of annuale $150,000 income in a family of four, you will vote democrat. he is getting people that are not behaviorally republican, he is getting the lower middle class. >> he is also losing people. >> he is shaking out the poor democrats, the riches now democrats. the realignment is happening, but the republican might be smaller but the democrats will be smaller. he is getting votes that no republican has ever gotten. tim: the realignment is interesting, because -- >> they are walking and that is what is happening. see the issue is, when you a few months ago at the trump rally when people are chanting send her back to reference to ilhan omar. i was talking to the trump political team and his concern that for every one base voter that we mobilize for this thing, do we alienate a traditionally republican voter who has pulled the level --

we have a very strange phenomenon that both democrats and republicans are becoming more and more.one of the reasons republicans are becoming more traitors because they think it has an effective policy for promoting trade and so when you start digging deeper about what is it that we should be doing, you will have a much greater partisan difference but overall you now have a basis for thinking of trade has less of a political football that used to be. >> we are going to keep the questions and answers short. you write here third row in a blue shirt and then we would continue next. the microphone isn't working. do we have another? spin a >> i have a question at the intersection of military alliances with other countries and trade. there was a very distressing figure i'm a sick that some weapons to other countries makes us less safe. 74% think that military alliance makes us safer and 87% to take a first stab at that. americans don't like selling weapons to other countries. we asked about taiwan and whether it is a good thing or bad thing but. they are the bipartisan majority on page 3

[applause] but we need a republican majority to do it.ust need to be that plane about it in the next year and a half. talk about what we did in those first two and a half years. i have been through a few presidential elections. i have seen different presidential candidates. you have a president who believes in a team. what we will do for the american people, for greater prosperity and security and more tax relief and more regulatory reform and more energy independence, we will do together. by reelecting president donald trump for four more years and of electing a republican majority and the united states house of representatives. that is how we will do it. haschoice in this election never been clearer. the stakes have never been higher. democrat party today is dominated by left wing liberals who want higher taxes, open borders, free health care for illegal immigrants. the green new deal. .ate-term abortion it is astonishing. they are out of step with the american people at a level i've never seen before. they openly advocate an economic s

does the republican party revert back to the republican party we've known for the past 50 some yearsit now branded the trump republican party? i think that's a question they're going to be thinking about. something i think about, what if donald trump loses in 2020 and he sticks around and decides to run in 2024? does donald trump strike you as someone who blends into the background? >> he may not be able to do it from a jail cell if he gets indicted so -- >> this is a family, based on all the information that we've gathered, they were a democratic family before president trump ran in 2016. does it strike you as odd that they now want to become the face of the party they are didn't previously belong to. >> it's not about the party. it's about the power. that's pretty clear to anyone -- >> and he's passing it down, like he did with his businesses. his children worked in trump business and he think it is could potentially be something to pass down to his children. i also go back to i think flattery goes a long way with donald trump. >> do you think people will buy it? do you think his b

and the challenge i think the republican party coming out of this is how are they the california republicanarty? the california republican party battled the demographic problem, they lost every office and have only become more extreme if you look and see who has taken positions in the state legislature in california. how does the party react to being beaten despite their focus on the demographic problem and immigration when the country is saying, we are a multicultural country. the more you make the battle the more we accept our history and our diversity. i think we have two challenges, a challenge for the republican party, what did they do next? i used to think it was a battle between Ãband the tea party. but they've driven those segments out. i don't know what happens the day after. the question will be, do democrats look at this moment as well and take advantage of the opportunity? this is not a moment for bipartisanship. this is a party in disrepute. it is a party that the losing members that would be civil and able to be part of any kind of bipartisan effort. this is a period in which

so maybe as more elite republican -- republican elites start to debate less about the cause of it and talk more about thousand fix it. jane: richard wants to come in here, but i just would comment, this is not specific to the current administration. i mean i actually -- this will really date me, dinosaur that i am. i worked in the carter white house, if anyone remembers, jimmy carter wore sweaters to his conversations with the american people. and in the senate at the time, every other light bulb was -- it's funny we should talk about light bulbs these days, was turned off on the floor of the russell senate office building. this concern started a long time ago an it's gotten uneven attention over many years but i think at this point many more people see it as a crisis than used to, i'm sure that's fair. richard, you wanted to come in. and we still need to talk about china. richard: the really interesting thing on the republican side on the climate change issue is the generational split. i love james baker and i love george schultz but i don't think they'll be the van gard of changing

. >>> republicans get the wins they had to have. what two races in north carolina tell us about the 2020 campaign. >>> the fallout fast and fierce after the ousting of national security adviser john bolton. what it means for adversaries worldwide. >>> and a call to stop vaping after a sixth person died from a related lung disease. >>> also, rape allegations against troubled new england patriots wide receiver antonio brown. the accuser was his trainer. >>> welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. this is "early start." this is dave briggs. >> good morning. it's nice to see you. september 11th, the 18th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. it's 4:00 a.m. in new york. >>> we start with the gop in north carolina. the party held onto two seats it badly needed in order to slow democratic momentum going into 2020. cnn projects north carolina state senator dan bishop will narrowly defeat dan mccrewdy in the ninth district, keeping the seat they've had since 1943. voters in north carolina's third district elected republi

higher among republicans but it's still just a small minority. i would say more i think that, perhaps, this presidential election round more than others, people will, i think, be judging just the character and the way the president imports himself to our allies in the world so it's even more diffuse than a specific policy or a specific leader. that's how it might come into play. >> other questions? in the back, right there, and then we're going to you in the center. >> thank you. erin hurley. my question, on page 16 when we're looking at making the u.s. safe, maintaining u.s. military superiority. i wondered if the panel would just reflect on that finding in particular. and the current 2020 democratic presidential field in the fact that joe biden is the only one that seems to be standing fully in line with these findings. anybody? richard? >> i was going to say i'm not the right person probably to answer this but it's washington, so what the hell. one, you have to attribute candidates to their own views and not just responsiveness to the voting p