a.b., i want to put those numbers back on the screen.et's just dwell in this for a second and live with these numbers. look at the other end. eric swalwell whop frankly makes daily appearances it seems on this and other networks, castro, bryant, gillibrand all sharing zeros. these are some desperate numbers for the also rans on the democratic side. >> i do think as we move into the debates and beyond into fall before voting in january there will be some top seven. the low hanging fruit will leave at some point. it will consolidate more vote share for other people. but it is too many people right now. >> yes. >> it is too crowded. so you'll be stuck at 2%. a lot of people are running for a cabinet position, more of a spotlight. future cycles. but it didn't work for republicans in 2016. it's not going to work for democrats. they pretend it's great. a lot of energy. you know, huge, broad debate. but really they want it down to five or six or seven and i think that's what we'll see in the months to come. right now that is a very big lead for

a.b. stoddard, associate editor at real clear politics and the aforementioned sam stein, politics editor for "the daily beast." sam, you get to go first because your name was invoked. >> thank you. >> where do we stand tonight after a day of some epic falsehoods on the south lawn? >> it's a good question. with respect to mueller testifying, i believe that we are getting to a place where basically a good majority of each side of the political aisle now are pining for him to come to the hill to answer more questions. mueller, of course, said that he wanted the report to speak for itself and has resisted privately to come to the hill in part because he's worried about it being a political circus. today when my colleague and i went asking around to some of the members of the legal team for president trump, they had done a 180. prior to now president trump, of course, said he didn't want mueller to testify publicly on the hill. the standing line from the white house was that the case was closed

here with us tonight to talk about all things political jeremy peters and a.b.stoddard, columnist and associate editor at real clear politics. a.b., let's put the numbers back on the screen and dwell in this for a second. look at the other end. eric swalwell who frankly makes daily appearances, or so it seems on this and other broadcasts and networks, rather, castro, ryan, bennett, gill brand, all sharing zeros, klobuchar, 1%, beto, a guest in this very studio tonight, 2%. these are some desperate numbers for the also rans on the democratic side. >> i do think as we move into the debates and beyond into the fall and before voting in january there will be some top seven. the low-hanging fruit will leave at some point. that will consolidate more vote share for other people but it is too many people right now. >> yes. >> it is too crowded and so you're going to be stuck at 2%. a lot of people are running for a cabinet position, more of a spotlight, future cycles, but it didn't work for republicans in 2016, it's not going to work for democrats. they pretend it's gre

. >> nbc's kelly o'donnell is at the white house and also with us a.b. stoddard, editor and colorakocolum columni columnist. kelly, i'll start with you. the president, up to this point, he actually sort of seemed to have avoided deliberately taking on nancy pelosi, hadn't given her one of his nicknames yet. all of a sudden in the last few days it's gotten nasty. what are you hearing there as the president gets ready to take off for japan? >> reporter: that is an important point that although they've had plenty of political friction the president had not been as derisive in his way of talking about the speaker for the first months of her speakership. that has changed now. and i'm told from my sources that speaker pelosi intended to get under the president's skin with some of her remarks about the intervention and offering prayers and her taking him on in the way he handled that meeting that went nowhere on wednesday. also, the president seemed to be keying in on the issue of his own demeanor because democrats had suggested that he stormed out or that he w

a.b. stoddard, columnist at real clear politics. always good to see you, a.b. i want to start with this farm aid off the top. $16 billion, you know, the farmers, even the ones that supported president trump, some are saying, you know, we'll take the aid but we don't really want the aid. we want trade at this point in time. >> yes, this is a problem is that they need the bail-out money because they're facing staggering losses. senator moran of kansas said his ranchers and formers are facing long-term financial ruin. the industry will face long-term damage as a result of what's going on still with china even though some tariffs have been lifted on canada and mexico. this is really the problem here. you get a bail-out, you wonder when is the next bail-out come something will the government provide for that or can i plan for that? they want to plan on planting for next season. they can't. there's too much uncertainty. they want markets. they don't want bailout and support money. they want to g

i want to bring in a.b.rd, associate editor and columnist for real clear politics and the communications director for the democratic national committee. ladies, thanks so much for coming on. so the question when you go through all those names, all these different candidates getting into the race, is it helpful, a.b., or hurtful to the party to have so many candidates running at once in. >> it's hurtful, and it's going to be sochi's job to say it's great and everyone is entering with energy and ideas, it's great and will stimulate a huge debate and help the party ultimately, but what happened in 2016 was you had all these conterpco contenders and donald trump limping through the primaries and even though he secured the nomination he went on and won a bunch of primaries where he won by 90% and still only had a 45% vote share. bernie sanders could really hold a solid vote share that takes him all the way to the nomination. we could look at a brokered convention r.none of that is good for the ultimate nominee. >

and joining me greg brower from congressional affairs and -- eugene scott and a.b.al clear politics. greg i want to start with you. what is your reaction to this phone call and the president's read out of it? >> good afternoon, kendis. it would appear that the conversation, it was missing the things that should be in such a conversation and included things that probably should not be. look, international diplomacy is a very high-stakes game that needs to be executed by the president in a very strategic way. in a way that brings together all of his relevant advisers from the department of defense, state, fbi, et cetera and it needs to be a well thought out strategic effort. it doesn't seem as though that is the way this president does international diplomacy. it is off the cut and specifically to not bring up this ongoing effort by the russians, an effort we know is ongoing and we heard the fbi director confirm this just last week. is obviously missing an opportunity in my opinion. >> and let me pick up on that. with a.b., because you had the fbi director as you ment

>> a.b., senate judiciary chair lindsey graham is going a different route.r, asking if he wants to provide testimony about barr's characterization of their phone call, the phone call that happened to be about how barr put out thinks principal conclusions, and whether he was 100% accurate in those characterizati characterizations. he's saying do you have to testify about this? it seems like a narrow scope. >> and he knows very well that bob mueller's nickname is "by the book bob." his mandate is narrow, he's a man you foof words. he never writes letter like he did, which is why we know his concerns are grave. lindsey graham knows he will not make characterizations about a phone call with his longtime colleague and friend bill barr in front of the congress and he's not going to throw him under the bus in testimony about a phone call. this is the way of sane i have reached out to bob mueller, but obviously that's not the testimony the house democrats are looking for, which is a conversation about his findings and what he believed he was instructwood that narrow

a.b. politics and welcome back shannon bream fox news chief correspondent an corps of fox news at night and also the author of the new book "finding the bright side, the art of chasing what matters." which we are going to talk about in a bit and it's a great read. congratulations. >> thank you very much. >> bret: what do you think about this and this back and forth today. >> i think we need to have senator kennedy weigh in on everything. he always makes you -- hold on just a minute. what i thought about this today with the back and forth with these two is i thought about the attorney general and the speaker last week meeting up at this event where behind closed doors the two of them sort of chuckled where do you have your handcuffs with you, ha ha ha. sergeant of arms is here if i need to arrest anyone. that's how washington works. in public there is going to be bluster. everybody knows their roles that they are playing. behind the scenes they are really sort of friendly. you have to wonde

the reality is, a.b. you took this fact pattern and put it on a democratic president with a republican congress, we'd be there already. >> rod rosenstein, who was a republican deputy attorney general had articles of impeachment drawn up for him by republicans. who has bigger hands. >> but if a democrat's add, clause of the constitution that says we're going to do impeachment only if we can get the other team to go along with us, impeachment is a dead letter and exists no constitutional mechanism for removing a president from office that breaks the law. >> and i understand impeachment and introducing legislation are two different things but they're introdeu int introducing legislation that mitch mcconnell is refusing to vote on because he wants to name it socialist. >> their argument again -- i'm not arguing for or against impeachment, i'm saying if you accept mueller's report at face value, if you're any democrat trying to get him on capitol hill to testify -- why? if you want him to testify because you t

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>> it wasn't, but i'll take it. >> bill: thank you, juan, a.b. great weekend. >> we have to dig deeper on this. there are additional layers of the onion that have to be peeled. the people of chicago and illinois and the entire country are entitled to know why kim foxx dropped these charges. it was what myself and many other people call a slam dunk case and she gave him a slap on the wrist. >> bill: a chicago-based attorney on fox and friends earlier today. new details about the jussie smollett case. police in chicago releasing hundreds of new documents. a retired judge who wants a special prosecutor investigated why the charges were dropped heads back to court momens from now. ellison barber is in court where the judge will appear. what do you have? >> if you look behind me you can see the yellow jacket, the retired judge walking into court here right now. some court documents have been unsealed but that retired judge, judge o'brien says it is not enough. she wants a special counsel to look into the dismissal of charges related to jussie smollett

we have a.b. stoddard and robin byro. gianno. >> yeah, economists said that they've reviewed 12 polls that say the president will win re-election at a comfortable margin. we have to -- >> neil: keep many mind he thought hillary clinton was going to win elections. we all make mistakes. >> the polls that he's reviewed now, he believes president trump will win. the truth of the matter is and i tell my fellow republicans this, polls don't vote. people do. anything can happen. keep that in mind. this is what i believe will take president trump to the top. the democrats have been inept when it comes to policy measures that they believe the american people want, desire and need. look at the congress woman you just said. yeah, gdp is up and unemployment is down but that doesn't benefit all american. i don't understand where they get it from. this is the problem with democrats that they don't have a controlled message. the economy is thriving for all people. >> neil: robin, as a democratic strategist, i look at this with data comi

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>>> my thanks to alexi, elise, a.b. and nick. that does it for our hour. i'm nicolle wallace. "mtp daily" with chuck todd starts right now. >>> well, if it's thursday, president trump attacks robert mueller, totally mischaracterizes his public statement, and then makes an extraordinary admission that russia helped him win the white house. which he then retracted. >>> attorney general barr gets in on the act taking a shot of his own at mueller. all as more democratic lawmakers are now calling for the opening of impeachment proceedings. welcome to thursday. it's "meet the press daily." i'm chuck todd right here in rainy washington. bob mueller handed the baton to congress, and now the president and his attorney general are hitting mueller. the president not only attacked mueller's credibility, he soed disinformation about mueller's public statement. in a way you could say he was attempting to obstruct mueller's analysis of the case. >> he said essentially you're innocent. i'm innocent of all charges. >> if we had had confidence that the president clearly did commit a crime, we w

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things he's denying his interpretation of whether or not it it's actually a crime that at one point a.b. clubber sure reference a tweet from the president were donald trump alluded to the fact that his former personal attorney michael cohen's family had perhaps committed some sort of crimes and the point she was trying to get to is she thought that that was perhaps obstruction or witness intimidation or something like that nobody even debate anymore whether or not. the president should be saying things like that. right that's right and so what the democrats are doing here i think you're beginning to see a strategy emerge which is that they're going to use hearings like this to illustrate for the american people forget what the lawyers say what your president was doing was all the things you see in the in the crime movies in the in the mob movies right that they would take care of you right or you know i could i could throw your family in jail kind of thing that are using words like flint imitating motivating witnesses or using words like flip so so or like flip right ho ho if the things

cynthia, former federal prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst, barbara mcquaid attorney and a.b. stoddard associate editor for real clear politics and philip rutker u.s. bureau chief for "washington post." cynthia, i'll start with you. i think that the sort of operating procedure under which robert mueller has conducted this investigation is, frankly, what a lot of prosecutors think. and that is that it's easier to be taken seriously when you're not grand standing. it's easier to be taken seriously when you stay off cable news. it's easiest to be taken seriously when you do your job away from the prying eyes of the public. away from the prying eyes of the cameras. so, barbara, what do you make of the fact that robert mueller is now, for the first time, going to go before the cameras? >> yeah. i think it's a very surprising development. as you mentioned, he has always shunned the public eye. he does not see the media as part of his job. he tunes it out. he has certainly testified publicly before congress many times. but it may be that he wants to seize control here. he sees himsel

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he went to a.b. tech before that. he was in environmental studies. he loved the outdoors. he loved "star wars." he loved pizza, playing soccer. just a normal kid going to college. he was also enrolled in the rotc at u.n.c.-charlotte. what makes his story extraordinary are the accounts of police officers. when the shooting started, -- and if you understand this building, the kennedy building, there are a lot of people around, a lot of classrooms, a lot of potential victims. this young man actually charged the gunman, and most police credit him, although he lost his own life, with saving the lives of so many more. so on this sad day, and a day on april 30 that we will never forget, i wanted to come before this body and let them know and their family know we're praying for them. mr. president, i yield the floor. mr. lankford: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from oklahoma. mr. lankford: mr. president, typically when we talk about federal employees or federal agency, the story starts something like this. there was a mix-up in paperwork for our constituent who

jeanne zaino political science professor and senior advisor at applied economicist and a.b.r politics. let's see how much we can cross off the list. what is bill barr up to now? >> i think the big story with all this is -- goes back to 2016. what you saw after 2016 is the people who lost the election instead of regrouping and thinking let's think about the next election refighting the last -- the other side saying we want revenge for that. we don't want to put up with that. you've had a go at us. we'll have a go at you. that's what this is about. >> bill: is this changing the story and shifting now? >> i think that every single investigation must be properly predicated. if there are questions about that they have to be answered. we expect an i.g. report in the next month or so. that's underway. u.s. attorney huber out of utah has also been investigating this. this is the third investigation investigating the investigators. that's fine. i don't think we know the results, though. the people who are criticizing the way the d.o.j. and f.b.i. and counter intelligence investigatio