>> charlie sikes, you want to take a stab at that? >> i don't disagree with anything, but if truth really mattered in america politics, donald trump wouldn't be the fleft united states. we're living in a post-truth environment. keep that in a political context here. the report from the prosecutor is ludicrous because that whole process really was a kabuki dance. this is the question i had over the weekend. is there any sincere attempt to find the truth or are we just wanting to pretend to look like we're going for the truth? and the fact she did not insist on talking to mark judge, that she did not actually talk about her questioning of judge kavanaugh is just ludicrous and embarrassing. even "saturday night live" really caught how ridiculous and absurd that whole process was. but, it gives republican senators something to hang their hats on if they need some justification to vote yes later this week. >> donna, let me get you in on this. >> i think what's happened, first of all, mitchell was not acting as a prosecutor. she was acting

eddie, chairman of the center for african-american studies, and charlie sikes, host of the daily standard. mark liebovich. and author of the number two best-selling sports book in america on "the new york times" best seller list. congratulations. >> keep going. >> msnbc contributor jonathan lemire who conducted that interview is still with us. you conducted the interview at the center of the latest trump twitter fake media wham bam, thank you ma'am. take us through it. >> the associated press stands by the transcript. >> of course you do. >> the question is certainly there. we asked if he would share some blame if the republicans were to lose at least one house in congress. he responded with the first word being no. now it's certainly true that the president has been working very hard out there. that he has been rallying multiple nights a week he's going to a western swing tomorrow. many more in the next 20-odd days before the election. he is certainly -- sort of a slow realization to him, but how much his political fortunes are tied to what happens in the midterms. people around him are

charlie sikes, msnbc contributor and contributor editor to the weekly standard and kimberly atkins an msnbc contributor and washington bureau chief for the boston herald. let me start with you there in riyadh, tell me about this visit? >> reporter: good afternoon, craig. secretary mike pompeo keeping a pretty tight schedule and really running the gamut of the saudi leadership since his arrival around breakfast this morning. we know he met briefly with king salman. he got the chance to sit down with the saudi arabia's foreign minister as well as the crown prince of saudi arabia. what we understand from these meetings, the readout we've received is that u.s./saudi strategic relations were discussed and no more, no less. there hasn't been a press conference. they don't plan to give a press conference over the next couple of hours into the evening, and we understand that mike pompeo's going to get on a plane tomorrow and head to turkey. when we talk about this relationship, it's one that dates back to the 1940s. it's been a pretty solid relationship over the last few decades. they've been