paul krugman the reason with journalist carl bernstein without any proof claiming president trump willtimize the midterms and question about if democrats win in republicans lose. let's get to the daily caller's deafening hamlin backs with us the daily signal kelsie harlan. what's your lead on this? >> liz i'm no doctor but it's clear they are suffering from an extreme case of trump arrangements is -- syndrome. it was predicted the whole u.s. economy would collapse if we ever had donald trump as president and this presidency we have seen he is completely wrong. in fact he is so dead wrong that barack obama's running around trying to take credit for trump's economy. he's also the same man who started to falsely push around this conspiracy theory i guess if you will about puerto rico and the colorado break that never actually happened. he lamed prison term for this so we have to take the prediction seriously wouldn't be a great idea. liz: as kurgman seven by the way krugman was a former enron consultant, he said there would be a local recession when trump one and that didn't happen. chels

over at the washington post, two rookie reporters would be boyhoodward and carl bernstein picked up the story. their investigation would unfold like a political thriller. so i thought the part they played would make a movie, maybe even a good movie. >> action. in hollywood terms,woodward and bernstein were the good guys. and their weapon was the written word. >> can we confirm it? >> absolutely. >> get it. >> i played bob woodward in the film. carl bernstein was played by dustin hoffman. >> one of the things i observed with carl is he smoked so incessantly and carl always had ashes on his tie and his shirt. i said, that's got to be in the movie. >> is there any place you don't smok smoke? >> 40 years later, the two investigative reporters are back in the washington post newsroom. i joined them for a reunion with ben bradley, their former editor. it's the first in decades we have all been together. it's tempting to think that watergate could never happen again. these two reporters and their editor know better. >> i wanted to dig deeper into their story and to see what, if any, impact it

. >> yesterday carl bernstein had this warning about what he's hearing from inside the white house about what could happen if democrats win. >> i talk to people in the white house or in touch with the white house on friday who believed if the congressional midterms are very close and the democrats were to win by five or seven seats, that trump is already talking about how to throw legal challenges into the courts, sow confusion. declare a victory actually, and say that the election has been illegitimate. >> carl bernstein from this weekend. and while our guests are standing by to join us we're going to begin a little differently tonight because we have new numbers on the coming midterms. that means our national political correspondent steve kornacki must be at the big board tonight to join us and start us off. hey, steve. >> hey, brian. yeah. and the idea it could be very close in terms of the battle for the house, our new nbc news/"wall street journal" poll suggesting yeah, there may be something to that. here's what we found. first of all, the headline number here, this one good news f

legendary journalist carl bernstein, and the toronto star's daniel dale. now, he is tasked, enviable or unenviable, it's up to your own disposition, to fact check donald trump in realtime. gentlemen, welcome to "primetime." mr. dale, that is one heck of a job you got yourself there. tell us, what is it like fact checking donald trump? have you taken a day off since he's been in office? >> i have gone on vacation, but then i have to catch up and that's even more exhausting. >> oh, the anxiety you must have when you're away. >> those are my worst days of the year, those catch-up days. >> am i right that we are in a moment right now that seems to be a little bit of a credibility kcrescendo for him, that he sees to be putting out a little more out there that is demonstrably false than usual. >> yes. i fact checked everything he said the last two years. i don't know that he's uttered more false claims this week than any other week, but the magnitude and complete fabrication that he's doing is different. so there are weeks where he's exaggerated a trade deficit

joining us for that is cnn political analyst david gergen, gloria borger, as well as carl bernstein. david, in light of the fact that some local officials thought it was an ill-timed visit with funerals taking place and maybe taking resources away, do you think the president was right to come here today? >> i think he was right to go to pittsburgh, not today. it became an extremely awkward day for the president. he did the right thing in wanting to go and comfort families. but the awkwardness started right after the fact that he arrived basically with his wife alone. he was not met at the airport. he was met with lots and lots of protesters in the streets. he did not apparently -- he met with the families of those who had been wounded. as far as i can tell. and this may be wrong, but i'm not sure he met with the families of those who lost their lives. and he left in silence. our presidents when they've gone to the days like this, you think of barack obama or george w. bush or bill clinton, they all spoke out and gave meaning to what happened and tried to be healers. they came to be k

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. >> joining us now as well as investigative journalists and author carl bernstein.ne believes the president is going to use this as an opportunity to pause or look inward, recess rhetoric that he has used. >> why would anyone believe that? that is not what he does in the four years he's been in the political arena and the white house. if anything he has gotten more political. he has doubled down more than what we used to see. he feels more egged on by what he says. he was saying, just as we don't blame leftists, that was his word, for mob violence, that's what they do. the questions about his rhetoric should not be made. i continue to be struck by the degree to which this president does not see the role of a president is not the same as a media network or an average citizen or a television commentator. it is a very different role. it is the reason there have been 44 of them over time. and this is not the moment where he changes who he is but it is worth noting. >> the president was bemoaning on twitter what he claimed with you a political downside of the bomb covera

according to carl bernstein, he's also considering casting the results as legitimate if the gop loses. >> i talk to people in the white house or in touch with people in the white house on friday who believe that if the congressional midterms are very close and the democrats were to win by 5 or 7 seats, that trump is already talking about how to throw legal challenges into the courts, sow confusion, declare a victory, actually, and say that the election has been ill legitimate. >> there's been a stark divide in the closing arguments for the two parties. health care is the top issue for voters. many republicans have responded by misrepresenting their record like candidates like month am's josh hawley falsely suggesting they fought to ensure coverage for people with preexisting conditions when in fact they're on a lawsuit that would end it. if there was any doubt where the gop truly stands, the trump administration itself put it to rest today. releasing a new rule two weeks before the midterms to allow states to add plans that effectively do not cover preexisting conditions. trump, the g

carl bernstein is here, abigail tracy and david kaplan. is the author of the book the most dangerous branch inside the supreme court's assault on the constitution. now, that is the name of a book. okay. thank you all for joining us. so, carl, i'm going to start with you because president trump has been remarkably effective in reshaping the court, not just the supreme court but even at the appellate level, right? even statewide he's been appointing conservative judges. so he's going to get a conservative justice now. so it's good for trump, but is it good for the country? >> well, i think this whole process has been awful for the country in the following way. i mean i listened like most americans, i think, to susan collins' civics lesson today. and what i did not hear from susan collins in this civics lesson was anything about donald trump and how he conducted himself through this search for justice, anything about what judge kavanaugh said that was an offense to the senators and an offense to the court as well as an offense to the truth du

. >> joining us now as well as investigative journalists and author carl bernstein.es the president is going to use this as an opportunity to pause or look inward, recess rhetoric that he has used. >> why would anyone believe that? that is not what he does in the four years he's been in the political arena and the white house. if anything he has gotten more political. he has doubled down more than what we used to see. he feels more egged on by what he says. he was saying, just as we don't blame leftists, that was his word, for mob violence, that's what they do. the questions about his rhetoric should not be made. i continue to be struck by the degree to which this president does not see the role of a president is not the same as a media network or an average citizen or a television commentator. it is a very different role. it is the reason there have been 44 of them over time. and this is not the moment where he changes who he is but it is worth noting. >> the president was bemoaning on twitter what he claimed with you a political downside of the bomb coverage. and h

let's get perspective now from david gergen and carl bernstein. strategy from the president, not surprising i suppose, disappointing to some, and to supporters, it's why they elected him. >> i don't think he has a strategy on almost anything. i think he plays it by ear. i do think he thinks it's working. he wouldn't continue it. but it's really worth understanding and remembering, there have been a lot of books recently about authoritarianism that have been creeping up across europe. how countries go down that road toward authoritarianism. and the books almost all agree, one of the first things you do is to silence critics, especially in the press. you try to delegitimize them and discredit them, so they won't be taken seriously in what they report, then you can run of them. that is, i'm reluctant to say this, it seems that's what we're seeing. >> that's the strategy? >> that's what he's doing. i'm not sure i would call it a strategy. >> do you think, carl, do you expect anything different from this president? i mean, it was fascinating last night

. >> carl bernstein, david bergen, we want to broaden discussion of words and deeds and climate of violence. later the president claims he can get around a constitutional amendment with a stroke of the pen. he can't. we know. that we'll talk about why he is making such a dubious case right now a week before the election. yaaaayyy!!! aww. yaaaayyy!!! aww. yaaaayyy!!! aww. we hide hotel names, so you can find four star hotels at two star prices. h-o-t-w-i-r-e hotwire.com sometimes a day at the ballpark is more than just a day at the ballpark. [stadium announcer] all military members stand and be recognized. no matter where or when you served, t-mobile stands ready to serve you. coaching means making tough choices. jim! you're in! but when you have high blood pressure and need cold medicine that works fast, the choice is simple. coricidin hbp is the #1 brand that gives powerful cold symptom relief without raising your blood pressure. coricidin hbp. thiuninterrupted streaminglogy brilliant sound clarity and life-like color. experience dell cinema on the xps 13. get up to $200 off select xps 13

carl bernstein. john dean. i made sure that before i left that institution, they canceled the conference before, we made sure i don't want to make it about me because there were a lot of folks that worked on this and we also had academic partners and we made sure there was a completely open, beautiful conference that talked about all aspects of nixon, his life and administration at the site within a few meters of the opening of the presidential library. so inclusivity for us, was a matter of including ideas and points of view. because inclusivity can be all kinds of things and we talk about all different elements of it. for this library, the challenge was to be inclusive of all ideas and points of view. >> i think we did it . >> since i live in the shadow of your mountain in home not to mention the big mountain next door, you live there, there is so much to include, this was a president of many talents and ambitions, just even on the estate itself and then many things that have been secret you made a big choice

i made sure before i left that institution, bob woodward, carl bernstein and john dean were there. the other thing was, they did not want an academic conference where any of the scholars were noted critics of nixon. they canceled the conference before. we made sure -- i don't want -- it's not about me. there were a lot of folks that worked on this. and we had academic partners. we made sure that there was a completely open, beautiful conference that talked about all aspects of nixon, his life and his administration at the site within a few years of the opening of the presidential library. so, inclusivity for us was a matter of including ideas and points of view. inclusivity can be all kinds of things. for this library, its challenge was to be inclusive of all ideas and points of view and i think we did it. >> leslie, since i live in the shadow of your little mountain and home, not to mention the big mountain, there's so much to include there, right? this was a president of many talents, ambitions, just even on the estate itself and then also many things that had been secret. so, ob