senator david perdue is here with me, big-time supporter.e commented that some of the oxygen had left the room, so we think that donald trump is around. until he comes over himself, we will chat for a few minutes. tell me how you think your candidate did. >> as someone who believes we need to change the direction of country -- john: i have to cut you off because we have mr. trump over with mark halperin on the other side of the room. [laughter] taken away. mark: you're waiting to talk to donald trump in just a moment. he's talking to reporters on the other side. a bit unorthodox. john: guys? coming back to me. mr. trump not quite with market. senator, i cut you off. >> i'm really excited. as someone who believes we need to change the direction of country, this guy knocked it out of the park. he showed a start contrast between someone stuck in a lake eriebubble clinton and somebody that wants better for america. i think he needed exactly what he needed to do.he laid out his economic land for everybody. she's still stuck in the robotic manufac

we are right back after this. ♪ ♪ joining us now senator david perdue from the great state of georgiang and strong donald trump support. he joins us from capitol hill. thank you for joining us. >> good to be with you guys. senator, tell me what you think the state of the presidential race is, is donald from favored, underdog or a tossup? >> i think he has struck a nerve in the electric. but our turnout was up 60% this spring in the republican primary. i saw the same thing back in 2013 and 2014 in georgia. i think he has touched a nerve that is not going away. i do not believe the national polls right now. either way, there is a lot of noise in the system. and a lot of the intensity behind trump support does not show up in the polls. i actually think he has a chance to win this thing. i do think it will be close in some battleground states, but the high ground is, the lack of performance in the obama administration, and the fact that hillary clinton is offering no change in direction, and the people want that more than anything else. we were sold hope and change eight years ago and nei

. >>> all right, up next, the gentleman from georgia, david perdue, senator from the peach state, he's a supporter of donald trump and he joins us next. later in the program, the early voting ground games in the presidential battlegrounds, a deeper dive, later on in the program. we'll be right back after this. i was out heremoking instead of being there for my son's winning shot. that was it for me. that's why i'm quitting with nicorette. only nicorette mini has a patented fast dissolving formula. it starts to relieve sudden cravings fast. every great why needs a great how. >>> joining us now, senator david perdue from the great state of georgia. he has been a long and strong donald trump supporter. he joins us now from capitol hill in the russell rotunda center. thanks for joining us. >> good to be with you guys. >> tell us what you think the state of the presidential race is. is donald trump favored, underdog, or toss-up? >> i think he's touched a nerve in the electorate. voter turnout was up over 60% in spring in the republican primary. and i lived that same thing back in 2013 and '

i'm back with senator david perdue, telling me why donald trump is a winner. it seems to me that there will be a lot of factual questions raised. a big debate about back-checking. lester holt did a bit of it, hillary clinton did a lot. including treating a whole website to fact check him in real-time. clearly some things he said are not true. some things he said are debatable. do you think the things he said that will be proven inevitably, because for instance the new york police union had said that murders are falling in new york. do you think those will affect his fortunes politically? >> i really don't. this is further evidence of people looking at this race through the lens of the establishment. what i saw as the most salient moment was early when he actually characterized her as a 30 year product available -- product of a bubble. she said she prepared to be president. how? biting in the political local. he was creating thousands of jobs out in the real world. when i think about fact checking, that will be outweighed by the fact that most people are concer

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david perdue who is also a c.e.o. of a company before he came to the united states senate. we had lieutenant colonel ernst from iowa, joni ernest, proud to serve with joni here and thank you for your service to our country and now in the u.s. senate. we had mike rounds, a governor from south dakota formally who had to balance his budget there or he'd lose his job. and as senator perdue mentioned when i first came to washington, i did come equipped with the skill that was familiar to montanans like hunting and fishing are. that was how to balance a budget. because before i came here, i spent 28 years in the private sector, 13 years at proctor & gamble and 12 years with a start-up company. in between that three years in a family construction business. i know what it takes to make a payroll. i know what it takes to make a family household budget work and yet balancing the budget is a skill this body has not embraced for nearly 20 years. as senator perdue has mentioned, four times out of 42 years has this process worked. that is broken. in fact, think about this. it's september

senator david perdue of georgia, senator perdue has over 40 years of business experience including being a c.e.o. and of course georgia is home to many military operations, but is the home to fort benning as well. senator shelly capito of west virginia, the first woman ever elected to the united states senate from west virginia. i also served with shelly in the united states house. west virginia is proudly the home of mclaughlin air national guard base. senator james lankford of oklahoma. senator lankford, i served with james in the house. oklahoma is home of the tinker air force base and many others. senator lankford is on the homeland security, government affairs as well as serving on the appropriations committee. we'll talk more about that here in a moment. we're all new to the senate, and i can tell you we are scratching our heads trying to understand why this institution is not funding the department of defense. here are the facts. the department of defense appropriation, with defense appropriation passed the united states house of representatives in june on a bipartisan vote of 282