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i'm joined now by chris stirewalt, fox news politics editor and editor of the halftime report, whichifference here, dean heller campaigning well? the senate majority getting in there and spending some money? >> and maybe, maybe nevada is not as democratic this year as we expected it to be. i was among a large number of analysts said dean heller can't get there were here given the comp civilization the state. one thing helping heller is the gubernatorial race. waxruning to replace sandoval probably has big down ticket. the polling in this race is tight, tight, tight. we can say heller once considered a goner has fought his way back into this thing. >> dana: when you change one of your power rankings i imagine people in washington and in those states pay a lot of attention and so do the donors, that would be something to take a look at in this next filing on october 15th. what else about the power rankings? i wanted to hear about the maryland governor. >> well, so maryland and massachusetts, we exceed the poinaccede the point to charlie baker in massachusetts and larry hogan in marylan

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chris stirewalt is here next up. edward? >> i can tell you judge brett kavanaugh said he's eager to testify under oath about the allegations he sexually assaulted a university professor when they were in high school. monday was the date set aside for you the hearing. the committee gave or heard the option of an open-door hearing or closed door hearing. so far the republicans say the president not talking about withdrawing kavanaugh's name. >> i feel so badly for him that he's going through this to be honest with you. this is not a man that deserves this. this should have been brought to the fore. it should have been brought up long ago. that's what you have hearings for. reporter: judiciary committee chairman chuck grassley says he has not heard back from ford yet. he questioned the timing of the allegations. he said senator feinstein should have told the committee when she received the letter back in july. >> i knew she did not want to go public. that's why i didn't make the letter public because i couldn't be assured of wh

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fox news politics editor, chris stirewalt. chris: smells like cinnamon.t brings andy jackson to life. kennedy: joe scarborough is no stranger to attention whoredom. chris: will you ever let me get out after segment without blushing? kennedy: you are a moral and decent person and that's a natural reaction. joe scarborough goes out of his way to get the wrong kind of attention. >> or that trump is worse than the terrorists. it's been 17 years. i wrote about this today in the halftime report. it was 17 years from the fall of saigon to bill clinton's election and surely there were people in 1992 as bill qulin on who dodged the draft and engaged in american foreign policy that was oblivious to the whre sons of vietnam. they said how could you have forgotten. trump deserves a descent dose. the president was political and range and gross today on a day where you should leave that aside because the lesson we are supposed to take from september 11 is what unites us is more than what divides us. we are better together. kennedy: what makes us strong is much better t

here to talk about it editor of the halftime report chris stirewalt. start. >> you have written like 100. i have to do my part to have my piece of the action. brian: thanks. i know you always compare yourself to me. what's a populist. >> populist taps newt energy inside of the electorate when things get out of whack. things get out of balance one way or another. people are happy that somebody is happy to successfully sometimes, not so successfully other times tap into that energy and use it to transform a political moment. brian: here is excerpt from your book and pop that up right now. here you are talking, people getting panicky because donald trump is so different. i write this the depths of despair and exhilaration which americans greeted and ascend dance and presidency of donald trump were partly rooted in the idea that it was all together new but isn't: >> when trump became president he hung andrew jackson's portrait back in the oval office. that idea which traces back to the founding which is essentially if the elites get too much of a head. if

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chris stirewalt, politics editor here at fox news.gan ortagus. >> i think what this administration is doing right on afghanistan is the regional approach with pakistan and india. looking at secretary pompeo. clearly a lot of these discussions will be about afghanistan and we have seen the funding withdrawal from pakistan from the u.s. side. we have also seen pakistan continue to get closer to the nefarious countries, from our perspective, like iran. a minister was there recently and welcomed with open arms. afghanistan has been a struggle for three administrations but the right approach is the one the administration is pursuing now, taking into account the regional context. we had 100,000 troops there and we still cannot completely decimate the threat. we are not going to do it with the 13,800 that are there now. we have to hold pakistan to the fire. >> mike: the top story tonight was another. insider attack killing more of our service members on the front lines. your thoughts. >> we have two presidents in a row, the obama doctrine an

just today the fox power rankings chris stirewalt runs showed in the improvement, especially in nevadaean heller is doing a lot better. you republicans figuring out ways to run based on what their state needs and figuring out a way to run with trump and not against him necessarily but having a little bit of distance, and it's working some of those states. at the end of all this, let's say may be the republicans don't lose the house. maybe they hold on by a few. may be be they lose the house. looks like republicans will keep the senate. if democrats really want to succeed, talking about, like your address symposium, isn't necessarily going to work. i think that what michelle obama is doing is a much more helpful thing for democrats. she's going to have a big new effort. she's doing a big celebrity thing, voter turnout and voter registration. democrats are very good at registering new voters and if you register a voters, they are 99% likely to vote that first year that they register. that's where a lot of energy should be placed if you want to win. >> juan: so greg come out lock her up?

joining me now with more, chris stirewalt.s the author of the brand-new book "every man a king." he's also a fox news politics editor. we will get to the book in a moment because what's happening now could be an addendum on the back cover. you look at history to reveal what happens when there's a people politically and we are about as split as we could possibly be. peter doocy talking about the gubernatorial, we are rounding out the primaries. what is catching fire right now in politics? >> rhode island is a great example here. it is a big story. in new york, it's celebrity challenger, this impossibly overrated -- i've never seen a candidate more impossibly overrated. gina raimondo in rhode island has been a success. she's done a good job as governor, she's been a reform democrat, cleaned up some corruption, she made things better, the state's economy is doing pretty well. everything about her under normal circumstances would say she should cruise to reelection and cruise to renomination, however this energy, this populist rev

molly hemmingway senior editor at the politics and chris stirewalt author of the new book every man alorful hearing of american populist. it's a great read. >> thank you, sir. >> bret: thoughts. >> it's going to be a real ugly, contentious fraught space and the democrats have to be cognizant of overreaching but the republicans have to be very cognizant about not turning off offending people like susan collins people like lisa murkowski those votes could be affected here if they are not seen being fair and even handed with this accuser it will go very poorly. >> bret: context of election looming in a matter of weeks. >> right. i have no idea who to believe and without getting into any of that democrats obviously questions about senator feinstein bringing it you up before this woman came forward and why is that acceptable? and then the democrats, there was a hearing today that brett kavanaugh was going to meet with judiciary members or top staff. top democrats said they didn't want to go. why not? white house i thought responded very well today in the president. very smart to have open

. >> i think chris stirewalt is absolutely right.s what polling is now showing, the independent, particularly independent women, are very sensitive to potentially disrespecting or not heeding the concerns of dr. for dr. ford. i think, at this point, the independent women, certainly the democratic women, are hardening in their attitudes against dr. ford, and from what other reporting has suggested, the white house might well be in a position come if she testifies and appears credible, that they might have to do. this is a big "if," shannon. they might have to pull judge kavanaugh's nomination, but we are a long way away from that. that is certainly within the realm of possibility. >> shannon: what do you make of the reports, who had a lot of democratic background, she works for vice president biden during the campaign when he was named to the ticket, helped through the justice sotomayor confirmation, the deputy communications director, saying it looks like a partisan alignment. seen so much i democratic operative. >> i think it is. i

now here to tackle all the latest developments we have lisa booth and chris stirewalt, and marie harf the former state department spokesperson under president obama and fox news analyst. good to see you. chris, start with you. is there any good in this for the republicans as they go to the mid-terms? >> i think substantial good. maybe. this is a high wire act. the concerns that the republicans have that the longer kavanaugh hangs out there, that there will be other claims that it will become more complicate and the cloud will return. that is real. they were faced with unhappy thing. they were going to have jam this through with mike pence have to cast a deciding vote and there would be a cloud. they are left with a chance, something they hoped for from the beginning that they would get democratic votes and bipartisan and go through in a way more pleasing to everybody involved. that is what they really want. though the f.b.i. investigation does pose peril for them it reintroduces the concept it might end up as a happy ending story for republicans rather than saving, saving the last man

chris stirewalt also in the mix for us.ou've been watching this, we are in a break right now and we will see the rest of christine blasey ford's testimony and then brett kavanaugh is up. >> to me, the most fascinating part of this, this part is very easy for the democrats. they go down the line, democratic senator after democratic senator, all of the good vibes and all the good feelings. on the other hand, mitchell has an almost impossible job. a person who has made a career out of seeking justice for victims who has an accuser here that she is trying to discredit and she's got to do it in five minute increments and it has been a struggle. you can see the struggle especially, watching her drill in on "where did you pay the polygraph, where did you when u take the polygraph?" she probably has a lot of notes from senators on that committee with specific questions they want to ask for them. this has been a tough day for her. >> bret: quickly, what about these races around the country, specifically senate races. the house is on

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let's talk about it with chris stirewalt, azure of the halftime report and author of the brand-new book today, "every man a king." how are you? [laughter] tell us a little bit about the book. >> it is wonderful. everyone should buy it. that's all you need to know. >> shannon: christmas gifting, done. maybe i will get some signed copies. you are our political expert. let's talk about this. senator harris getting backtracked by "the washington post." they say this. "did brett kavanaugh signal he supports going after birth control," which was her claim. you can see there are four pinocchios. not a right wing rag. will it matter? >> it matters in a couple of ways. the one way that it matters is, if history holds true, this coming election cycle, this coming presidential election cycle, which is getting underway now, which will start in earnest the day after the midterms are over, it will be more rotten than the last one. there is a strong belief among democrats, some democrats, that's when necessary to defeat donald trump us to be more rotten than he was. you have to be more vicious or you

chris stirewalt's politics editor here at fox news.y, senior editor inventing at the federalist. obviously the white house white house, judge kavanaugh saying this is a fight and they are engaged, which is why he's coming out. >> totally. this is not a legal proceeding that we are involved in, this is a political process, this is a confirmation hearing and that's what's going to play out this week. there are two courts of public opinion. one is the public at large and how they come away after thursday in determining which person they believe more, but it's also the court of public opinion of a handful of senators who ultimately will decide judge kavanaugh spate and i think that he is attempting to reach both of those audiences with what he did today with the interview with you all and more importantly, what he will do thursday when it's televised nationally for all the world to see. >> this has been a really interesting last couple of days. if you had an allegation that came out last week but didn't have any support for it, but seemed

chris stirewalt fox news digital politics editor is with me now. of hours we have seen things unprecedented on television because this deal-making goes on all the time. but the -- our nation is watching because this is a lifetime appointment supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh. what happens next? >> thank god for cloak rooms and thank god for deal-making. they save the republic sometimes. i don't know whether it's going to be the case here. what we count on in our senate, especially, is for -- there is only 100 of them. there is '25 million of us. there is only 100 of them. we count on them to come to deals and work out arrange. s to head off catastrophic outcomes like some of the stuff barreling down the track at us in this kavanaugh process a zoo, a circus a disreputable shame to not just the senate but to this whole republic. now we have a little deal a couple of kernels in the bottom of the pan that are starting to cook off here. we have to remember that flake is part of a clack, this group of senators, moderate to mavericky senators. in that

chris stirewalt is here. he will weigh in next. >> bill: stirewalt has a book, too. stand by.m iran over its nuclear program. one official says it will be stronger than ever if the nuclear deal cannot be saved. adam kinzinger joins us on that. >> sandra: a day of reflection as we remember 9/11 and the horrible toll it took on our country 17 years ago today. more on the tributes to the fallen. >> i love you so much. every day i live in your memory. when did you see the sign? when i needed to create a better visitor experience. improve our workflow. attract new customers. that's when fastsigns recommended fleet graphics. yeah! now business is rolling in. get started at fastsigns.com. >> sandra: bob woodward's book is hitting shelves today. it claims to reveal shocking details about the inner workings of the trump administration. the white house is pushing back saying the book is riddled with errors. >> a number of people have come out and said that woodward never even reached out to corroborate statements attributed to them, which seems incredibly reckless for a book to make suc

joining me now is chris stirewalt. he is a fox news digital politics editor.ure to have you on set. good to see you. all right. chris stirewalt. start out with last night the bernie sanders-inspired candidate. what does it tell us? >> very good news for democrats. this insurgency that we have talked so much about with people like alexandria ocasio-cortez. that's great if you are in a district that matches a candidate like that demographically and progressive stuff. rhode island is the most democratic state in america. however, republicans can sometimes get elected there if democrats go off the rails. they almost went off the rails last night and the bernie challenger who will take out raimondo has been for good government and basic decency which doesn't always get a vote in rhode island primaries prevailed and in a better position to hold off alan fung to remain as governor. >> sandra: we'll see where that goes. the high stakes new york primary. andrew cuomo and cynthia nixon. what's at stake? >> regardless of her taste in bagels. i say it as a west virginiaia

this lead but we could not corroborate it so we couldn't write it brit hume among the people and chris stirewaltry being that you couldn't verify the story and the accuser was actually drunk. steve: the problem is there is no -- othere does not appear to be any evidence it's a he said, she said thing. that's what it's going to come down to on thursday. brian: let's hope chris coons does not set the tone for the rest of the country. where if you get up in the morning and voice mail accusing you of sexual assault it's up to you to prove that wrong instead of innocent until proven guilty. it seems like they want it reversed. ironically for a supreme court justice who is going to fight to shake sure it's not. anna: when it comes to kavanaugh but not with ellison. jillian: illegal imgrangts behind bars charged in a dead buy stabbing spree. frankly vazquez charged with attacking three fellow crew members with. faces possible deportation back to mexico if convicted. president trump is heading back to tennessee. he will hold a rally in johnson city and headline a fundraiser for republican marsha blackbu

. >> martha: thank you, chris stirewalt.as we watch it play out -- hold on, one second. >> yes. >> okay, now it is the senator 's time. so proceed, ms. mitchell. >> thank you, senator. i appear to my right, have the map that was shown to you. the address that is indicated as belonging to your family is what all of the property tax records show as being your address. just to put it in perspective, i want to show you a further out of that picture so that they can put it in perspective. so we can show the greater washington area. you can see the beltway on that. the beltway area. and the number three, if we could look at that. we drew a 1 mile radius around the country club, and then we calculated -- >> mr. chairman, again, we don't have these documents. no, we are not. that is why she showed three different documents because they depict three different things. so we would like to see all three documents, please, so we can follow along. >> proceed, please. >> looking at the third thing here, we calculated the distance from the

chris stirewalt slugging away in new york city and david avella chairman of gopac and mary anne marshohn kerry. how are we doing? can she sway votes? >> the goal in nevada is not about swaying votes but inconvenience filing turnout. democrats aren't satisfied among hispanic american voters. they want to intensify the base and turnout as is reflected in a couple of key house races in california but also in nevada overall. dean heller shouldn't be ahead. it shouldn't be close. and they want to change the dynamic. >> sandra: what do you think, mary anne? a good move for your party? >> chris is right about the turnout. 4 million more democrats voted in the primaries than republicans. it blows the doors off the 2016 margin. that has been driven by women and voters of color. nobody to be better on the trail than michelle obama. >> this will do more to sell books for michelle obama than it will be the turn out democratic voters. the track record of barack obama and michelle obama is clear. they lost 1,000 state legislative seats and both chambers of commerce when the obamas would campaign fo

joining us to talk about all of that, chris stirewalt, author of the new book, "every man a king."g us. >> good morning to you. maria: congratulations on the book. >> they didn't think i could write a book. they didn't think i could read a book. but i did both. i finished. maria: we want to take a look at the book today. is it out today? >> it is out today. this is the first interview that i've talked to anyone on the day my book is out. i really hope you will buy it. my children are smart and they may get into good schools so it's important that you buy this book. i think today is an oddly fitting day for this discussion. september 11th changed our discussion about politics. it changed -- it put on pause tribalism and hatred and internet themed warfare. when we talk pat buchanan, ross perrot. we were right at each others throats. this event occurs and americans become at peace with each other. they say we have to put hatred aside. we have to unite in a common cause. that did last for some time, but that is long gone now. and americans are really back at each other's throats. maria