say the democrats take back the house, democrats decide to impeach donald trump.y way there's a conviction is if two-thirds of the senators, which means a significant number of republicans, vote to convict. and right now their base thinks this investigation is entirely illegitimate and part of the reason is because rudy giuliani and donald trump say so every day, and their amen corner in the right wing media repeats it ad nauseam and in a reality that doesn't really reflect the facts as we know them. this is an absolutely -- it's a very clever strategy on their part and appears to be working in part, aaron. >> glenn, is that your interpretation, too? >> i agree he's playing to the court of public opinion. the one thing i'll say, aaron, is when i saw the indictment that was returned against the 12 military operatives, again, career prosecutor for 30 years, i looked at that and it struck me as just investigative wizardry, the amount of detail that they were able to acquire, i can only surmise when bob mueller digs in, as he has been, looking into the conduct and the

there has been a lot of talk about nancy pelosi and the leadership structure on the house democratic side. retake thes were to house in november, do you think it is time for nancy pelosi, steny hoyer, and jim clyburn, for those leaders to step aside and allow for some new leadership to rise up in the ranks? been a strategy around nancy pelosi. asonizing her and using her a campaign wedge, trying to tribalismreinvigorate amongst republicans by attacking her in the midterms. one of the reasons why people go after her is she has been an effective leader for democrats, she was an incredibly effective speaker. it is important for us to have new avenues and new pathways for a new generation of leaders in the house and senate. push -- iat means don't think that means pushing aside particular leaders, but in these elections, what i think is incredible is how many fantastic candidates are really running. former prosecutors, war veterans, people outside the political process. more women running than ever before. this 1970 four change, where a new generation of leaders came in. there should be a

if the democrats take back the house, are you going to impeach the president? mocrats take the house we will seek the truth. we will have the power of subpoena. we want to get to the bottom of how the russianings undermine our elections chblgs we want to protect the integrity of our electoral system. we have to know the truth. the republicans refuse to seek the truth by committee assignment, by establishing an outside independent commission and the president, of course, kowtows to putin rather than respecting the consensus of his own intelligence agency so we will seek the truth and where the truth takes us, we'll see. >> you'll seek the truth. will that require you to wait until special counsel bob mueller is done with his investigation? or if the democrats take back the house you will proceed accordingly? >> they are two different things. we can't possibly know what is happening in that investigation and that will be its own path but in terms of our ability as majority of the house to investigate the disruption of our own elections, that's a pont we have. we h

house security clearances. republicans may hope that the list will scare the trump base to the polls to protect donald trump from any of those investigations, but as democraticgressman tweeted today, house gop went so far to make a list of objectionable conduct by donald trump. so if they know, why won't they investigate this stuff? joining us now congressman eric swallwell. that was one of your angrier tweets about this, but it is kind of extraordinary to watch the republicans basically draw up the preliminary outlines of an overall indictment of the ethics of the trump administration, the trump family and then say the danger to the country is that this will be investigated if democrats are elected. >> good evening, lawrence. you almost went into brian william's hour there going through that list. but what was so concerning for me was that they know. it is as if a lawyer asked their client, you know, tell me everything that you did and they compile this long list of their client's exposure. except, that's the problem. the republicans view donald trump as their client, as someone who they are supposed to protect. and they have put this list out there to thei

democratic party. nothing will change. nancy pelosi will likely be the speaker of the house if democrats win. it won't change between now and november. susan: in past years, it has been a pretty quiet week. >> the president has another rally next week. the president of kenya is coming to the white house on monday. of course, we just have to look for more fallout from the russia investigation. also, more developments in terms of associates of the president deciding to flip and tell what they know. i would just add one thing is flowing below the radar screen amidst all the radar talk. north korean diplomacy is about to go back up. mike pompeo, the secretary of state has picked a special envoy. there will also be a leader between the north korean and south korean leaders themselves. you are about to have a new burst of diplomacy. >> plus there is some news this morning that mexico might be nearing some agreements about reforming nafta. this goes to your column last week which is that the administration steps on some of its own good news. glad to have you here. [captions copyright national cable s

i don't know that democratic house is going to be better than a republican house on that. >> what we are doing is putting incentives for people to step up on the issues because whether you're a republican or democrat we have seen lack of courage to lead, we have seen tremendous amount of spending under obama administration but even the all-republican controlled congress and republican white house this time passed a $1.3 trillion spending bill, we know that we have to push both parties to do the right thing and not sideline on individual parties. this is not a binary choice, how do we drive members of congress and those who want to seek our support to do the right thing on the issues for the american people and help them improve their lives. paul: all right, thank you, davis, i appreciate you being here. coming up, president trump calling out the koch brothers for refuse to go support some republican candidates, what effects dispute have on midterm feel the clarity of non-drowsy claritin and relief from symptoms caused by over 200 allergens. like those from buddy. because stuffed anima

her as speaker if democrats retake the house. upport her either. harris, go. >> harris: i'm confused by that one point. juan does that mean she can never lead your party? she has a following unprecedented, except for if she were to run for president. i mean it's not everybody's goal but as long as she's been in politics she ought to be able to including everything. >> what an arrogant statement. >> juan: i think i saw yesterday congress' overall rating is 17%. republicans and democrats don't like congress. paul ryan's rating is down in the tank. >> harris: people don't think they accomplish anything. >> mcconnell's ratings. i'm glad to talk about nancy pelosi. >> juan: nancy pelosi is taking a key stance here. republicans could use her and will use her in television ads -- >> harris: already are. >> juan: -- to attack democrats. dm knows bonuses are just crumbs. it is corporations just putting the shmooze on. nd it's pathetic. $2,000 is a pathetic punch of crumbs? >> juan, do you like nancy pelosi? >> juan: like or not like is not

for speaker or the 46 house democratic candidates who feel the same way.candidates find success if they can define any democrat as a pelosi lackey. the speaker digs in her heels despite younger democrats wanting a new face. no question in terms of how powerful pelosi is as a fundraiser for a lot of candidates in heavily blue districts. >> she is always very confident, she knows how to raise the funds and seems confident she is not going anywhere. >> reporter: just ask her. shannon: let's ask democratic congressman david says illini. you heard about the sacramento be saying the republican party is clearly the party of donald trump, the democrat party cannot be seen as the party of nancy pelosi and when in november. it is getting close to crunch time and a san francisco democrat must put her party ahead of personal ambition and will not seek the speakership again. where do you come down on this? >> one thing is clear. what voters are interested in is voting for people who will fight for them, drive down the cost of healthcare, create good paying jobs and rai

democrats did win a senate seat in alabama, which you wouldn't otherwise expect. the republican there was a disaster, but phil, that was a notable swing. more recently they won a special house election in the pennsylvania 18. again, there are lots of positive signs, i think, democrats to take from the ohio 12. well did the candidates endorsed by bernie sanders, cortez, do last night? i wonder what the vulnerability is for the democrats in november if such candidates win in the i married. the kind of more left-wing democratic candidates, at least in two races, did not wind up winning. bernie sanders endorsed a candidate in the michigan governor's race, the more establishment democrat one of winning. and then in a democratic house primary in a suburban seat in kansas, it's important to remember that alexandria a crazier cortez was unprecedented, you don't expect wings like that to happen all the time and by mary's. even when eric cantor lost his primary as the sitting house majority leader, he was still more the exception than the rule in that cycle. i think there might even same thing on the democratic side. about the republican side? we also saw that election primaries for

if she took -- had a press conference saying i will work my heart out to help democrats win the housend for speaker, i'll let another generation take over that puts the democrats over the top. >> to be clear -- >> and then win the senate, too. >> nor do i advise leader pelosi, if that's the card that republicans have to run, a sad place to be and the blue wave will be coming. i think -- >> i feel like it's working -- >> no. but it's working because what i'm telling you is look. i think we are not giving voters enough credit. folks living in west virginia, places in missouri, i mean, out in michigan, they're just not thinking about nancy pelosi. they're thinking about health care, education. >> i agree but -- >> and it's not been -- >> spending a lot of money -- >> losing is what i'm telling you. they're losing. they're losing. i want them to spend the money. >> back to kobach. >> you didn't have a recount when you ran. >> i was on the ballot. >> rub it in there, jake. >> no. >> it's okay. >> when you ran for senate, you were secretary of state. >> yes. >> and you didn't have a recount

democrats seem very focused on when we take the house, when we start these proceedings. are they making the right moves to ensure they win? >> i think so. i wouldn't say they're focused on getting in and doing an investigation. i think democrats are focused on winning the house back first. most of the candidates that are running are not running on elect me so we can investigate donald trump. so it will to some extent i'm sure. if the leadership stays as it is though, i know that that leadership is not necessarily as zealous about these types of things, but when you have a new generation of democrats being elected, they may say, look, we need to push this, we need to do this. at the very least, see, this is what's missing now, in any investigation that's gone on. during watergate, these were public hearings. imagine what different place we would be in if all of these were public hearings. the diplomats say okay, we'll do something. that will make a big difference. he ought to be really worried about that. >> if the democrats do not take back the house, donald trump is -- w

reelect because if the president if excuse me if the republicans lose their majority in the house and the democrats control the house and you have a speaker pelosi you have a gerry navl are running the house judiciary committee i assure you that a law that something along the lines of what michael cohn pled guilty to which is small in the scheme of things it would be considered in a peach a bill offense anything and everything in my opinion would be impeachable to these democrats who want to redo the election they're getting an opportunity here like nobody has ever gotten in history they're getting to the opportunity to nullify the election if they're able to vote the republicans out of the majority. now thursday thirty eight years since the end of a national literacy campaign in nicaragua tens of thousands of young people set off to live in rural areas to teach people how to read and write but if it was successful on home and reports it has not led to the opportunities that many had hoped for. after the hard fighting of the revolution this was nick and i was new start. they called it the literacy

. >> laura: democratic house members smell blood. them and counting will not commit or out right they refuse to support pelosi continuing as the donald trump -- democrats house leader. joining us now to analyze rachel campos duffy and dezlin figurer row. tezlin, all parties have their person who you want to kind of move on. it's just the way it is. republicans have had the same issue, you know, not so much with boehner but the republicans wanted him to move on and ultimately he did. what do you see, though, you have this incredible number of democrat incumbents now at 51 who say, huh-uh, will not supporter. >> well it's funny you asked me what do i see because i feel like i'm a prophet. last week i prophesized that the blue wave was bound to drown. just call me noah, laura. at the end of the day people are ready to move on. not just democrats saying they want to get rid of nancy pelosi, but also republicans and independents as well. third quarter of americans have been polled and say the time is over for nancy pelosi. it's sad becaus

take over the house or it could be just the opposite the democrats take over the senate and not the house i think politics in washington is always changing it's like creating sausage i think they may absolutely upset their base and slow up impeachment they may slow up the process of doing that because once you're in power and you also are away from campaigning that you know how and you now have to govern congressmen are basically trying to govern for two years and then in one year in their term they get to get reelected raise money so they may find that the obstruction of killing the country putting to a presidential pietschmann may not be politically savvy in washington so you may not have that it all things may change the president or change the congress will change because it will be about getting things done what we're seeing right now is the stored say in the guns and all kinds of things then sync with each other because we're trying to get into a rough and tumble midterm election and this is something to each side of the base is trying to over promise and un

now, why would a democratic house go along with any type of trade agreement that donald trump has? senators for. so details in these trade agreements. >> bret: right. you could gain some democrats like sherrod brown in ohio and others. quickly, lighthizer the u.s. trade rep was on this show and said really this all has to do with china. >> sure. because china and you have to separate out the argument between europe and canada and mexico and china. china is violating our intellectual property. it's one of the biggest thefts of intellectual property in human history there are legitimate issues. even people critical of what the president was doing when it comes to the eu and trading partners and allies should be backing him when it comes to china. >> bret: all right. as for that breaking story out of new mexico i just told you about. the fbi is adding more details saying they arrested five extremist muslims that's how they character rights you the the central charges. we will continue to follow that story after a judge dismissed all the charges just the other day. next up, friday ligh

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goes democrat, you might have more republicans in the senate. >> i think the house o democratic, but i think probably the senate remains republican and in a pickup a couple of seats because the matt has always been bad for democrats this year in the senate. it is a problem not just for democrats, but all of us. if nothing got done in washington in the last year except tax cuts for the rich and pulling back health care pre-existing conditions, what is going to get done now with a split? they are not making suburban women happy. to be continued. jeanne za murray and ino. more "bloomberg markets: balance of power." up next. ♪ david: this is "bloomberg markets: balance of power to go -- power." bloomberg's michael mckee joins us. what should we expect? michael: that they very good question. this is the 42nd meeting of the kansas city fed economic symposium. them madey two of news. ben bernanke during the financial crisis setting the stage. the others have been general overviews of whatever the topic of the year is. this year's topic doesn't lend itself to much conversati

and you can run against a democratic house in 2020 is bad advice. >> that's steve nnon, the president's former chief strategist saying the midterm elections are a referendum on trump. but what would a less than stellar performance mean for the democrats? let's discuss, se cupp unfiltered starting saturday, august 25th. >> i didn't know you were doing that. >> i thought that was the only reason you were here. anyway, thank you for that plug, and i want to ask you steve bannon obviously he might be trying to get back in president trump's good graces. but it seems to me this might not be a bad strategy, convincing republican voters, hey, the democrats it's all about impeachment and trump. obviously democrats want it to be about trump, too, but although not necessarily about impeachment. >> it is a good strategy and one the president should pick up on. steve bannon understands it's turn out, and when mcdaniel romney of rnc gets up and says this loss wasn't that big a deal, the blue wave isn't coming, that's the opposite of the strategy that republicans should be taking.

really trying to tamp down this idea that democratic socialism is ascrenledenhi w the democratic party. this house majority will be won on districts that are much closer, that are swing districts so democrats he to lea how to talk to trump voters. what jake said was absolutely right. democrats are kind of letting donald trump talk for himself. when we're notea seeingy a unified mental. we're not seeing all democra talk about medicine care for all or -- micare for all or all democrats talk about other issues. robert: the trump white house seems to also want to try to talk to moderate voters.we e seen the president do rallies but inka trump, the president's daughter and senior dwitesor went toy, a blue statement. are we going to see different strategies? >> i think that's right. i vanca works in the white house as aio s advisor to some of those suburban areas where the president is not welcome. she was talk about women's empowerment and some of the issues she cmpions inside the white house even though she sometimes doesn't have a lot of policyitnfluence her father but there are going to be other sur

house. democrats have indicated that they want to do a series of investigations. they could be dealing with subpoenaed and requests for testimony and issues that allies of the president say the white house is not prepared to handle. they don't have enough staff in terms of the legal team and that when it comes to basic communication staff, they worry they're not able to do basic talking points and handle this war room you need if you were having to deal with a bunch of investigations. trump's lawyer rudy giuliani said democrats want death by 1,000 cuts for this administration. one of his allies used a game of thrones reference saying winter is coming and folks aren't prepared. >> thank you. >>> joining me to discuss, jeffrey toobin. there's actually a lot to dig through here. i want to pick up on some of the latest tweets from the president. he has been busy to put it mildly. the fact he is saying, by the way, the russia investigation didn't come into play even a little bit with respect to my decision on don mcgahn. there's a couple things at play. not only, just s

. >> melissa: some trump supporters are saying it might be a bad thing if the democrats take the house and go on to impeach the president. we will tell you how they think that move could actually help them win in 2,020. plus, bombshell revelations on justice department official bruce ohr. this is a huge story. just how closely he was tied to that controversial anti-trump dossier. so, i'm doing all i can to stay in his life. be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. now that we have your attention... capri sun has four updated drinks. now with only the good stuff. do you know how to use those? nope. get those kids some capri sun! >> president trump: i think he is a disgrace with his wife, nellie, for him to be in the justice department and be doing what he did, that's a disgrace, that's disqualifying for a mueller. >> president trump reacting to revelations about bruce ohr, a former justice department official and his wife, nelly. emails and notes show that he had a deep connection with christopher steele, the author of that unverified and controversial dossier

all say it should be a good year for democrats, and they should take back control of the house. the senate is hard to call. but it is a weird time. there is nothing normal about the political environment. i think democrats look at this and say "this is our time, and we shouldn't mess it up." but they are worried there are x-factors. what if republican enthusiasm rises as you get closer to november? what if democratic enthusiasm falls? there are so many unknowns. i think democrats are optimistic, but trying to contain the optimism. susan: we heard the culture of corruption phrase. which nancy pelosi has turned into a hashtag. are they going to be run as a national campaign, or are they saying to the candidates "address issues in your own districts"? darlene: i think it is a little of both. in the districts where chris collins or duncan hunter is, you could make it specific to that district and member of congress. on the broader level, you can make it a national issue, because of all of the things going on with the white house, the president, his former lawyer, his former campaign

who would believe that democrats are out to get president trump. >> congresswoman, if the democrats take the house>> yes. >> -- will democrats begin impeachment proceedings? >> i don't think so. but let me just tell you i think there are a lot of things on our agenda. the number one is health care. after that it's wages and unemployment is low. and better wages that absolutely needs to happen because we know republicans have blocked every investigation. to think impeachment would be number one on our agenda i don't think that's the case. we have to deal with health care. >> is bannon's strategy the right one? >> it's absolutely the right one. and this is turn out election, and what you've seen in every election where republicans have either lost republican turn out was energized and democrat wasn't. we're talking about investigations 24 hours a day here and republicans are actually -- >> we are not having the type of hearings we should have -- >> what do you think about the strategy? >> first of all, trump will not adopt that strategy because he's worried the house will be lost and that will then

the race for democrats to win the house back, there's the debate over who is the true leaders of the ty. i don't think i need to tell you this, but i'll remind our viewers three leaders in the democratic house caucus -- nancy pelosi, 78 years old, steny hoyer, 79 years old, james clyburn, 78 years old. you put those numbers together, you get 235, that's roughly the age of the republic itself. do democrats need to coalesce around new, younger leadership if they're going to win the house back come november? >> the answer to that question is absolutely not. you know, there aren't voters in my district in connecticut, and i don't think there's voters in ohio or colorado or california or wyoming who say, gosh, let's see, i've got a republican and a democrat, and what i really care about is what -- who's going to be the top three democratic leaders in the house of representatives. that's absurd. what they care about is who's going to help me educate my kids, who's going to create jobs -- leland: congressman, there are democrats, conor lamb, who won based on an ad in which he said i won't vo

and the looming mid—term elections, they have to decide whether they want to vote for democratic control of the housenvestigation of donald trump, because we have seen senior democrats, including leading politicians in the democratic caucus in the house of representatives, saying that they want an impeachment resolution brought before the house. 0ne congressman, james rankin of maryland, said the other day "it is hard to think of a more impeachable president in american history." do you also agree the democrats, as part of their electoral strategy, should focus on the potential for impeaching the president? i don't think we need to go down an impeachment road at this point. i think what needs to happen is that mueller needs to continue his investigation to see whether there was any collusion, to see whether there was any obstruction of justice, and then we will proceed from that point. we're just going to call donald trump what he is. i mean, this is a guy who has had bigoted, racist, intolerant language and he is president of the united states. he is not the model... and you know, i can't point to..

don't do it. >>> politico playbooks and a uniformity that believes the gop could lose the house. >>> two democrats back on a report the congressional black caucuses are looking for a number of house speakers if they regain control in november. here is what was said on msnbc yesterday. >> i don't think jim clyburn is looking to challenge nancy pelosi. we don't know what is going to happen. we have a lot of people that could fill that seat. >> there's one single focus, winning the house back. talking about leadership or anything of that nature is premature. >> let's bring back kevin and sean. kevin, i want to start with you this time. what did you hear by the responses by the congressmen? >> they want to win back the house. they have the enthusiasm gap. republicans would disagree with that assessment. the second point is, there is a battle, a moving battle for the leadership of the democratic party. house leader nancy pelosi is going to have to make her case, should democrats win, she deserves to hold on to that seat. look, ohio, ohio, ohio is a bell state. >> what are you hearing about the efforts

lindsay overlapped with justice kagan in the white house which was a democrat white house. he also served as president clinton's national campaign director in 1992, as president clinton's hyper- partisan senior lawyer, and the fixer in the white house and ceo of the clinton foundation for ten years including when justice kagan was nominated. . . really embarrassed by bringing up that issue when you look at how it was handled in previous nominees to the supreme court by people that were partisan. so how much more partisan can you get than the people i just mentioned handling issues of presidential privilege for those democrat nominees, sotomayor and kagan? well it happens bill burke is president bush's presidential records act representative, like mr. lindsey was for president clinton. mr. birk has held this position -- mr. burke has held this position not just because of this nomination. he is a partner it happens in one of the most liberal law firms in america. mr. burke also served as presidential representative during the neil gorsuch nomination but i did not hear anythi

this and the democrat house and senate leaders wrote letters demanding answers about that involvement in the civil war, including senator elizabeth warren, 2 u.s. central command the chief general joseph motel for details on how the united states supports the saudi led bombing campaign the interceptor reported that fact. and it comes to washington in china relations, "financial times," highlighting the fact that trade talks said to take place between the two saying that the chinese team will negotiate with the u.s. delegation led by david malpass and china's delegation received an invitation from the u.s. commerce minister, they said yesterday that china's more senior officials overseeing the u.s. relationship were noticeably absent from the working level delegation indicating chinese caution over the ability of any american official to reach a binding deal. that's in "financial times," was: an independent line in wisconsin. caller: thanks for taking my call. i have a question or statement about the misleading news, like calling it fake news. fox, cnn, they all have their opinions and

you don't have these splits in the democratic caucus publicly the way we've seen in the house republican but the big question for democrats is playing out in this potential speaker race. they don't really have a next generation right now. it was a struggle under the obama administration. it's a struggle now. they don't know who comes next. either at the presidential level or house leadership. in some ways, it seems what she's trying to do is hang on to let that happen in the party more organically than it could potentially this fall. >> her gamble is they're going to win back the house and she can tell the naysayers, look, they tried to use me as an issue. they failed. i helped bring you back into the majority. the one thing she's going to determine is the way it works is there's a closed-door caucus meeting, a secret ballot meeting that the democrats will nominate the candidate for speaker. then a public vote on the house floor. when that initial vote happens behind closed doors, she'll know if she has the support in order to become speaker. at that point, she can determine whether to m

agenda. >> your dad spoke with us -- >> that's the new department of justice. >> they have democrats pouncing on a house seemed unwinnable in the heavily republican enclave. >> is there any chance that a democrat could flip the seat? >> absolutely. duncan hunter has exploited his military background and frankly the military itself for his own personal political gain. it is disgusting. it's ab hornlt. >> hunter joined the marines in response to the terror of 9/11. his father also a veteran held the seat before him. for brennan freely, an army vet living in this heavily military community near san diego, the charges cut even deeper. >> i can't trust you. to do a simple thing like use taxpayer dollars in an efficient manner or in your own campaign, it's going to be difficult for me to get behind you as a candidate. >> among republicans, some are sticking with them. >> i would still vote for him. i would. just because he's a republican? >> yeah. yeah. >> some aren't. >> i don't think i'd be inclined to vote for him again. >> now it is too late to change names on the ballot for the midterm. so whatever happe

according to a new nbc news survey, more than 50 current democrats running for the house say they will not support pelosi for speaker, more than 50. among them michigan democrat rashida talib. >> will you vote for nancy pelosi? >> probably not. >> probably not? >> that's my answer. no, probably not. >> i think we should probably hang on to that word "probably" for a while, but still. then there's connor lamb who disavowed pelosi in march's special election, a race that turned pennsylvania's 18th congressional district blue. could democrats win the house even with nancy pelosi as the leader? yes, i think we're seeing that landscape. should they win the house even with nancy pelosi as their leader? we'll find out. but ask jon ossoff. if republicans' efforts helped or hurt him in his special election narrow loss. ask danny o'connor if his initial resistance to distance himself helped or hurt him, in a race he's still trailing but by only about 1,500 votes. lots of provisionals still out there. nancy pelosi has been the democratic leader in the house since either ossoff or o'connor were ol

i think markets have already priced in the fact that democrats will take the house and there will be vestigations. neil: so the markets have given up on the notion that republicans hang on to that. >> i think of the senate with democrat than the markets might react adversely, but i think if you look at the political betting market, i think most everybody with real money at stake, i think they've already figured democrats will control at least one house of congress next year. >> so what happens if democrats just miss in the house and they don't. >> then i wouldn't be surprised if you saw a positive surprise on financial markets. assuming that investors would expect additional tax cuts and deregulation and maybe some much-needed spending restraint because as we've talked about before, if republicans don't begin to work on spending they will lose their tax cuts sooner or later. neil: what you think of the overall temperament of the markets and enthusiasm. , will it stay in place? >> we could be having this conversation back it in 2007 when the market looked very strong and most people mi

house. assuming democrats win the house, which we all believe is a very strong likelihood, the white house will be under siege. but it's like tumble weeds rolling down the halls over there. nobody's prepared for war. ashley. >> yeah, there is a sort of funny nuance there as we started reporting. i started reporting because we had heard the president and his team was getting worried about impeachment, which is true. for instance, we've heard he's talking about maybe bringing abby lowell who is his son-in-law's jared kushner's attorney fights with congress, possible impeachment proceedings, investigations, stuff like that. as we continued reporting, it's as we wrote that a lot of people in trump's orbit are nervous that no one is more -- people are not sufficiently nervous. there is nervousness about the lack of nervousness and the gist seems to be that this is a white house who, you know, can't distribute talking points to willing surrogates right now. and what will they actually do if democrats take the house in november. they have no sort of infrastructure. they are just utterly unprepared for

the first shows if the election were today, 49% of voters would back the democrat candidate in their houseistrict. 38% the republican. that is an 11 point edge, not an edge, a gap favoring democrats. next one shows the gop tax rawlaw, amazingly in my opinion is less popular than obamacare. 40% like the tax law. 51% favorable opinion of obamacare. come on in please, i need help on this one with, fox news contributor jason chaffetz, former republican congressman. author of the book, the deep state. how is that going? >> it is good. available for sale now. the deep state. stuart: i hope you get it. let's get serious. those polls spell serious political trouble for the president and what say you? >> enthusiasm gap is real in a non-presidential election year. who will get their base, motivate their people to get out. i happen to think the economy is good, they may not equate that directly to the tax cuts. i think republicans in general have done a pathetic job trying to message on this you don't see any national ad campaigns. you don't see a real push out there explaining what is happening and

house. assuming democrats win the house, which we believe is a strong likelihood, the white house will be under siege but it's like tumbleweeds rolling down the halls over there. nobody's prepared for war. explain. >> right, john. the problem is that don mcgahn, the chief white house counsel left yesterday. there's been a lot of departures in the last year or so. there will be a lot of subpoenas and congressional investigations. there haven't been a lot of oversight and you can imagine democrats would do more oversight than republicans and the president continues to say red wave, that he thinks republicans are going to keep the house but a number of his allies are looking at convinced that looking at generic polls that democrats are likely to win the house and are trying to acclimate him to that possibility before november. >> and they want to staff up. there are folks that want to staff up and there's a notion that in some ways the president has his eyes on specific lawyers and he seems enamored with jared kushner's lawyer abby lowell who has been representing him in a number of capacities. >>

host: are democrats talking impeachment if they take over the house? are they using that as a campaign strategy? the younger and newer democratic candidates are, and they will talk about it quite openly. the samethey had tactic during the so-called watergate midterm election. cooler and older heads, heads in ther democrat party, you might say, ae a little wary of removing president when, so far, there has been no evidence of wrongdoing, high crimes or misdemeanors, while he is in office. so i think you will hear it on the campaign trail, so when it comes to -- but when it comes to drawing up articles, there will be a hold and wait attitude. host: is there anything changing as far as the house or senate composition? guest: i know there are polls that show democrats gaining in forgeneric ballots candidates for congress, particularly in the house of representatives. if you talk to any democrats, they believe confidently that they are going to win the seats to win the house. republicans, on the other hand, point out that when a president is able to activate

take over the house or it could be just the opposite the democrats take over the senate and not the house i think politics in washington is always changing it's like creating sausage i think they may absolutely upset their base and slow up impeachment they may slow up the process of doing that because once you're in power and you also are away from campaigning that you know how and you now have to govern congressmen are basically trying to govern for two years and then in one year in their term they got to get reelected raise money so they may find that the obstruction of killing the country putting to a presidential pietschmann may not be politically savvy in washington so you may not have that it all things may change the president or change the congress will change because it will be about getting things done what we're seeing right now is the stored send guns and all kinds of things then sync with each other because we're trying to get into a rough and tumble midterm election and this is something to each side of the base is trying to over promise and under pr

on the other hand is the white house going to obey democratic subpoenas. not assume they will play by the rules the obama and bush white house plays by. we could end up with a constitutional crisis in the new year. >> i agree with ayatollah. >> governor howard dean and bill crystal, thank you very much. >>> a new line of attack just days before brett kavanaugh supreme court confirmation hearing. how they are planning to put the mueller probe front and center. mueller probe front and center (burke) at farmers, we've seen almost everything so we know how to cover almost anything. even "vengeful vermin." not so cute when they're angry. and we covered it. talk to farmers. we know a thing or two because we've seen a thing or two. ♪ we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪ are you one sneeze away from being voted out of the carpool? try zyrtec®. it's starts working hard at hour one. and works twice as hard when you take it again the next day. stick with zyrtec® and muddle no more®. until i held her. managing my type 2 diabetes wasn't my top priority. i found

early stages of our investigation and don't have all the facts including who may be behind this democratic house minority leader nancy pelosi even demanded that facebook briefed congress on these critical developments which she took as confirmation of the intelligence community's russian interference claims the latest announcement confirms the longstanding findings of the u.s. intelligence community and national security experts that's russia is actively utilizing social media in a car donated effort to sow discord among the american people and undermine our democracy but where those thirty two accounts influential enough to undermine american democracy in fact most of the spot of materials have zero to ten followers and in the scope of about fourteen months ran one hundred fifty ads for approximately eleven thousand dollars if someone is against the u.s. immigration policy which some of these anti ice accounts apparently were maybe they would like to conceal their identity maybe they're afraid of us authorities it's a strange thing are we allowed to be privately recorded these private us withou

there's a rural divide on display not only house 12 where a democrat came within a point of winning in a district more republican than 68 other districts held by other republicans in the house and spokane, washington, the number 4 ranking leader on the republican side was only a hair

house. they are more concerned about the democrats taking control of the committees in the house of representatives. they can issue subpoenas and hold hearings. they can do all the things the republican led house have not been doing when it comes to the russia investigation. when you talk about the perfect storm, brooke, one of the things is the mueller investigation is not wrapped up or issued a so-called report rudy giuliani is talking about and the president wants to see. one thing this republican congressional aide was saying earlier today, what happens if mueller's team issues the report close to the midterm election, in the weeks before the midterm election and the democrats take control of the house. they have this wealth of information they could use to hold hearings come january, issuing subpoenas and so on. that is a sort of doomsday scenario, a perfect storm scenario that republican sources we are talking to close to the white house and advising the president. one thing we should tell you is, one of the president's political advisers, an outside adviser who talked to the president told m