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. >> charlie sykes, let me show you republican ads. they're not exactly running on hope and/or change. >> as a rapper, antonio delgato gave voice to extreme new york city values. he'd vote the same way in congress. >> working to infiltrate congress. he's used three different names to hide his family's ties to terrorism. >> what is abigail spanburger hiding? she doesn't want us to know she taught at an islamic school nicknamed terror high. a terrorist breeding ground. selling out americans, can't be trusted. >> i'm old enough to remember when it was controversial to have an image of ground zero in a political ad. what was that? >> well, that's the politics of fear. certainly not the politics of hope. but, you know, i mean, this is who donald trump is. this is the kind of campaign that got him elected. we shouldn't be surprised. you know, with egoback with go back to the use of the word, nationalist. donald trump, does he he not know, does he not care? that word can mean a lot of different things. the context of donald trump, it means, b

for more i'm joined by charlie sykes, contributing editor -- charlie, help us out here.tuitive thoughts about this like you do. what can you tell us about the people you talk to? bobby casey is not going to get beat. the president said at the rally the other day, it's too bad he kicked away a lifelong career in the house. he's gone. nobody is going to beat sharon brown and debbie, don't talk about that race. baldwin is going to win. why is the midwest went down or trump all the way, liked him, to the point of giving him the election, turned him off? >> well, i think we're seeing the limits of the transferability of trumpian appeal. look, these are not red states. these are either blue states or they are purple states. and this is kind of the reverse. when trump makes the election about himself, it is kind of the reverse of your previous conversation because, you know, yeah, that might motivate voters in tennessee and texas to turnout, but in states like pennsylvania and michigan and ohio and wisconsin, the key to those states is, are democrats going to turn out in big nu

and charlie sykes in wisconsin, it has narrowed the gap that the republicans in terms of the enthusiasmle for their candidate s in the midterms has gone up, and it is narrowing the gap and basically within the margin of error with democrats who had a big lead before this. >> yes, there is no question that there is a kavanaugh bump. conservatives have rallied around kavanaugh, and, you know, this is wone of the rare moment where even in to a anti-trump conservatives seem to have gotten on board, but i wonder whether it is a sugar high or a game-changer, because as we have seen, we have a short attention span in american politics these days, a and i'm guessing that whoever loses this vote this weekend will have the rage edge if in fact judge kavanaugh is confirmed. i think that democrats are going to be highly motivated and maybe, republicans are going to be feeling a little bit more happy and complacent, and so they will have that rocket fuel of anger which is the ultimate voter motivation, but we don't know, and remember, like two years ago this weekend, and are remember, we had the acces

him about, i did "morning joe" a couple of day in a row, he called me afterwards to talk about charlie sykestalked to me about billy shine and he gave him a resounding endorsement. >> before he got hired or after. >> this was after. >> let me ask you this. what would you have done, eric, listen, people should know that you and i have conversations like this before. >> sure. >> not on television. what would you have done if the former president would not come on fox news at all and the former president had endorsed my book or jake tapper's book or anders anderson's book or rachel maddow's. i am just throwing out people point wh. what would you think he would have done and other conservative hosts in the media. >> i think we did do that. >> if he had endorse books by journalists who you deemed to be left leaning. >> sorry, brian. >> this is don. so he tweets about a book. is this where we are getting hung up now. >> i am not getting hung up on it. i am just asking a few questions. >> i don't find anything wrong with it. if the next president, campanelkamala harris and he wants to talk about yo

those are exactly the type of people that i, charlie sykes and others on the radio talk show this is were worried about. and then when this rhetoric continued once the president was president. can we say definitively that's what motivated these men? we can't, but president trump and his defenders can't say definitively say it wasn't. it certainly could be. logic certainly has a factor, and yes, they do fit the trumpian template of the voter that he seems to be appealing to. >> christina, we can't say the president is dreirectly responsible but we can say he set clearly has in some ways given some kind of conflict to the those that the may be crazed, but that therefore feel like they are not outside of what is normal to now and do certain thing, and again, i am not blaming him directly for the act, but the climate that normal normalize s this and makes somebody on the edge feel i'm not on the edge, and these people feel the same. >> well, he has been out there sprinkling around the gasoline and he did not light the match, but it was spreading the gasoline and even before the birthers

he called me afterwards to talk about charlie sykes, believe it or not. he's called me about bill shine. bill shine is a friend of mine. he says, what are we doing here? and i gave shine resounding endorseme endorsements. saying the guy is wonderful for the country and for the administration. >> before he got hired or after? >> this was after. >> listen, eric, people should know that you and i have conversations like this before, right? >> yes. >> not on television. what would you have done if the former president would not come on fox news at all, and the former president had endorsed my book or jake tapper's book or anderson's book or, i don't know, rachel maddow's. i'm throwing out people that he won't come on as president. what do you think you would have done and other fox news hosts and conservatives media, what do you think would have happened? >> i think we did that. we did call president obama out for not coming on various shows. >> if he had endorsed books by journalists who you deem to be left-leaning. >> are we not splitting hairs here. >> thi

and morgan radford is joining us from ohio and charlie sykes, contributor to the weekly standard and also david wassermann, the editor for the "kirk reporter." and now n is so reporting, and it gets to the core of what the democrats are saying is a major issue for them and whether they have can or have communicated it to the voters is the next question. >> that is right, andrea, and this is an issue that the people are impacted by personally. so you can see that we are in lebanon, ohio, ahead of the president's rally tonight, and hours before the president has come, people are lined up with the maga hats and flags, and so you can see kind of the sup oport that he has in this area, and we have been talking to the voters, andrea, and asked them what was the most important issues they cared about and most people said health care, and a lot of the republican supporters said they believe the president or take him at his word that he is going to protect the people with pre-existing condition, and that on the other hand, we talked to the other voters last night, and they said that they cann

>> i'll tell you somebody that is not hopeful, charlie sykes.e this, the result is famili and across the board refusa to engage i any meanin self examination or fusa 5:00 noacknow failur hatred violence and bottomless hatred so will this will get wofrse. the president is the arsonist i. this w get worse. do you buy it, amy? >> i would hope -- i want to stick to joshua- i want to be on joshua. >> i do, too. >> but unfortunate wh get asked that question all the time. what is going to break this fever? where do we go from here? histor breaks it i someth really devastating. we brought together by events that are so overwhelmin and tragic whether it's a war, depres something like. i don't e case. for a unifying event that is s terrib but right now i don't see that one person is going to be ablei to up, heal all of the divisi and get us all on the same place. >> erick, you had to deal with conspieo tes on your site. someti people get mad at you thinki you help traffic these conspi theories. there are others that are -- but whose job is it to get rid o

hillary clinton's presidential campaign, and spokesperson for attorney general eric hoelder and charli sykes our msnbc contributor, and katy tur. and so i want to play some of what the president has said about some of the people targeted in these threats. >> crooked hillary is a great unifier. >> it is incredible the deep state where they don't look at her. isn't that incredible. >> maxine waters. you get that one? you get that? good old maxine, and low iq individual. low iq. >> did you ever see when the fake news interviews them and then try to cut it. they will go to a person who is holding a sign paid by soros or somebody, and that is what h happens. >> if you want the fake news media to finally investigate -- by the way, by the way -- >>. [ crowd chanting "cnn sucks" ] >> don't worry i don't like them eith either. >> and now obau isobauma is tal about -- >> what do you think when you are hearing this. >> in this, you lose your capacity to be shocked, but what this is a mass assassination plot to cause everybody to sit up in their chair and get freak ed out. we can't just treat this as po

>> my thanks to donna and charlie sykes. that did is it for our hour. i'm nicolle wallace. "mpt daily" starts now. hi, chuck. >> hi, nicolle. a lot of people love you out here in tampa! >> i love tampa! i'm jealous. >> she's an old floridian. you know, she's an old floridian, right, by transplant. >> that's right. >> anyway, florida says hi, nicolle. >> have a good show. >> you got it, thank you. >> well, if it's tuesday -- florida, florida, florida. well, good tuesday. i'm chuck todd. welcome to "mpt daily," and the third stop in our immediate the midterms road trip. we're coming to you live from barefoot beach at whiskey joe's. in a nearly humidity-free tampa, florida. thank you. i miss the humidity there's so little of it here today. but, of course, it's a state that once all, just control the perception of everything. there's washington that can decide control off, perception of politics the next decade. you name it, all of it can be decided here in florida. florida has been the swingiest of swing states in recent elections but new polling out this week suggests it coul

and thank you, charlie sykes and yamiche alcindor.ing up, robert mueller is aggressively investigating trump advisor. this is delicious. roger stone. he's the man who asserted the hillary clinton's campaign chairman john podesta would soon be seeing his time in the barrel just weeks before 0 podesta's hacked e-mails went public. plus the story keeps changing from the saudis about the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi. president trump just weighed in again in a brand-new interview. and trump down in texas today stumping for ted cruz just hours after he told reporters he has no regrets about saying cruz's father was involved in killing president kennedy. i think i'd remember that kind of charge if my dad were accused ever that. >>> let me finish tonight with trump watch. it's about the bad example -- i was with some teachers this weekend -- that he's giving to students of these teachers. they say things like, i can call people bad name. the president does it. how about that? this is "hardball" where the action is. sometimes bipolar

>> i'll tell you somebody that is not hopeful, charlie sykes.e wrote this, the result is familiar and across the board refusal to engage in any meaningful self examination or refusal to acknowledge the failures. hatred, violence and bottomless hatred. so will this will get worse. sorry, josh wash, we live in combustible times the and the president is arsonist in chief, and he is not alone, this will get worse. do you buy it, amy walter? >> i want to be on team joshua, but, but unfortunately, i get asked that question all of the time, what is going to break the fever? where do we go from here? historically what breaks it is something really devastating. we brought together by events that are so overwhelming and tragic whether it's a war, depression, something like. th that. i don't want that to to be the case for a unifying event that is so terrible, but right now, i don't see that one person is going to be able to rise up, heal all of the division and get us all on the same place. >> and eric, you have had to deal with the conspiracy theory os o

charl charlie sykes an msnbc contributor. geoff, we'll start with you. how significant is this departure? how surprised was the white house? >> i can tell you that white house officials some of them were caught entirely offguard by nikki haley's decision to make this announcement today. some of those officials learned of this impending announcement based on the questions that reporters like us were asking after "axios" crossed that story in just the last hour, and there was some consternation that this development would come so close to the midterm, a period in which the white house has been trying to avoid any and all distractions. i think the way it was handled certainly works to the president's benefit. at least in the short-term. we have somebody like nikki haley who was an interesting figure in the trump orbit. she's one of the few people left standing who has a foot in establishment politics, based in south carolina, and now in sort of trump gop politics. she said something that is key, that she is not going to run in 2020. she's not going to prima

charlie sykes and steve kornacki, thank you both.he red and the blue: the 1990s and the birth of political tribalism." >> must read. >> must raid. must get. steve, thank you. don't be mad at me, okay? >> i'm thrilled that you got to mention it. >> still ahead, two new watchdog reports detail the problems surrounding the trump administration's family separation policy. one report finds homeland security officials were unprepared and another describes the harsh conditions inside one immigration facility. we will go through all of that. >>> plus, he caught the nation's attention when he came from behind to win his party's nomination for florida governor. now mayor andrew gillum is locked in a tight general election battle, the florida democrat joins us next on "morning joe." florida democrat joi unss next on "morning joe." how can you spot ambition? is it written on our faces? or something woven into the dna of the doers, the determined, the driven? and while the bar keeps getting higher, ambition gives us the power to tackle any obstac

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charlie sykes said of kavanaugh's statement before the committee last thursday, quote, even if you support brett kavanaugh, that was a breathtaking as an abandonment of any pretense of viga judicial temperament. judge kavanaugh abandoned any air of neutrality last week before our committee. out of one side of his mouth, he claimed that he bore no ill will toward dr. ford. then he called her allegations, quote, a calculated, orchestrated political hit, citing apparent pentup anger about president trump in the 2016 election and revenge on behalf of the clintons. he even threatened the democrats, and i quote, when he said what goes around comes around. in my 20 years on the judiciary committee, i have never heard anything like that or even close to that from a judicial nominee. it's hard to imagine how a nominee who has displayed such raw partisanship could then claim to serve as a neutral umpire in the supreme court. judge kavanaugh through his testimony has called his own impartiality into serious doubt. retired supreme court justice john paul stevens, a man who is respected for his integri

charlie sykes, rick wilson, rick tyler saying that when the president declared himself a nationalist,. and george conway, kellyanne conway's husband. you can go down the list -- >> a lot of these people are outside the party or headed toward retirement or have given up the a lot of republicans have come to the conclusion that, in fact, william f. buckley did not drive anti-semitism and hatred out of the republican party. a lot of these lurking problems ever since the mid '60s and the republican party's movement, a lot of these things have been amplified by the internet, have been given a home. and the president of the united states of america now encourages division, hatred and exploiting this for purely electoral means. >> which i was going to get to the second part of that. but 90% of republicans still support a president who is claiming, just like fox news, that this phantom invasion of migrants is going to bring smallpox and leprosy. it is a pure out and out appeal to racism. and 90% of the trump republican party is supporting it. >> i would ask you to contrast barack obama's reac