my thanks to donnie, a.b., the rev al sharpton and aaron blake, and most of all, to you for watching.our. "mtp daily" starts right now with steve kornacki in for chuck. >>> if it's tuesday, president trump and joe biden are on the attack against each other, trading very personal insults as they both stump in iowa, right now. this as a new poll shows biden leading the president by double digits nationwide. >>> plus, the full house just voted to escalate democrats' fight again

we have aaron blake, nancy cook politico. thank you, both, for being here. aaron, i want to start with you and have you react to what we're witnessing right now on capitol hill. this latest front by the white house escalating this standoff, basically. and bottom line, this is not neither side is backing down, right. we're just seeing this escalate day by day. >> that is the big take away here. the invocation of executive privilege which the white house has threatened and toyed with and now starting to do that. the other thing is, i think on the specific issue. this is really the sleeping giant of an issue. the census. last week we found out a late republican redistricting guru that had been involved in this process more than we discovered earlier. his daughter found the files that show that he was involved in this and a political element in this according to the political documents that were shared so far. to the extent that democrats can find more evidence that this was a political effort to somehow gain the system of redistricting through the census questio

joined by shannon petty piece and joe crowley and former chair of the house democratic caucus, aaron blake is a senior reporter at "the washington post." thank you for joining us. i have never heard -- i sometimes think trump has brought deviation to the norm. the speaker is saying he ought to be in prison. imagine you live in a rinky dircdink country that doesn't have democracy. we have the leader saying the other guy is in prison. this is what we used to see in pakistan. defeat the guy and hang him. >> i think it's in politics rhetoric. pelosi is speaking to a number of wings within the party itself. i think she has to be heard to be strong on this. she is taking a slightly different tactic. >> in other words, she said she really doesn't like trump, that makes up for the fact she is not impeaching him. >> right. i have been saying all along, she doesn't believe in a banana republic. she believes elections have consequences. impeachment shouldn't be used every time a person doesn't like the president. you hear about it all the time. it's almost the norm. the other party tries to impeach t

my thanks to donnie, a.b., the rev al sharpton and aaron blake, and most of all, to you for watching. that's it for this hour. "mtp daily" starts right now with steve kornacki in for chuck. >>> if it's tuesday, president trump and joe biden are on the attack against each other, trading very personal insults as they both stump in iowa, right now. this as a new poll shows biden leading the president by double digits nationwide. >>> plus, the full house just voted to escalate democrats' fight against the white house. we've got a lot of breaking news happening right now. and if it's tuesday, it is "meet the press daily." good evening, i'm steve kornacki in for chuck todd. and buckle up, because we have got a flood of late breaking developments. with president trump and joe biden both stumping in iowa, both today unloading on each other in some of the fiercest attacks we have seen yet. you are looking live at both the president and the democratic presidential front-runner speaking right now in dueling events in the state of iowa. this is the split screen everybody is talking about today. t