i am thrilled to be right here in elko with you.usands and thousands of proud, hard-working american patriots. patriots. [cheering] pres. trump: in just 17 days, the people of nevada are going to reelect senator dean heller to protect your jobs, defend your borders, and to continue making america great again. that is what we are doing. [cheering] pres. trump: early voting starts today. so, you got to get out. this is truly an amazing time for our country. the unemployment rates just fell to the lowest level in more than 50 years. [cheering] pres. trump: more americans are working today than at any time in our history. think of that. more people are working in our country today than at any point in the history of our country. that's not bad. [cheering] pres. trump: how do you lose an election with that stat, right? that's a tough one. here in nevada, personal incomes have reached an all-time high. congratulations. spend your money well. america now has the hottest economy anywhere in the world. [cheering] pres. trump: think about it.

just remember, elko, you did it to me. you did it. the great state -- and this is really a great state -- was settled by tough pioneer men and strong pioneer women. i will add strong and beautiful pioneer women. i will also add they are tougher than the men, actually. they took the risks and defied the dangers to build a life, a home, and to build a dream. they did not have a lot of money. they did not have a lot of luxury. but they all had one thing in common. they loved their families. they loved their country. and they loved their god. [applause] these courageous nevada patriots did not shed their blood, sweat, and tears so that we could sit at home while others erase the legacy and destroy our proud american heritage. that is what they are doing. they want to destroy our american heritage. for the sake of our freedom. we are going to work. we are going to fight. and we are going to win, win, win. very simple. [applause] we are going to keep winning. nothing like winning, folks. we will not bend. we will not break. we will never gi

to 3% helped bring elko unemployment. about that [cheering] we have to keep this momentum going. we have a clear choice for the state. we will keep nevada this independent western state, or will we turn it into california? [booing] we will not let that happen, are you? we need everybody. we need everybody to be extra motivated. we need to support the president and support republicans up and down the ticket. god bless you guys. thank you so much. [cheering] pres. trump: he's doing really well but you have to go out and vote. you got to. his opponent is a far left democrat. you know massively way short taxes. he wants to raid health care. andants to fund socialism, open your borders, wide open. [booing] other than that, he is a great guide. -- guy. everybody has to get out and vote for adam. [cheering] pres. trump: everyone needs to support your great congressman. where is he? guy. a great danny tarkanian is a great guy. i said not to come and stay in your district. he has been a great friend of ours for a long time. danny

leland: peter ducey, elko, nevada. will check back in as the president takes the stage. in nevada talk radio host alan stock. we heard from peter. president is on his way and former president obama is headed there in the next day or so. who has the bigger coattails in nevada? >> hard to say. were a purple state right now and so i think barack obama will have enthusiasm to his minions and certainly donald trump has been an amazing stump speaker here in las vegas. he's been at the gathered 16, 18000 people during the last election. i was at a rally in the venetian were there was ten or 12 dozen people out there and he brings people out big time. leland: i was listening to adam lambert running for governor there in nevada. he talked about we have the present on appointment in elko, nevada economy is on fire, all thanks to donald trump it james, democrat, back in 1982 claim that phrase. it's the economy, stupid. the economy is a great wire any of these races in nevada? what is the opposition to president trump there? >> where people who moved here from california and they br

as you know, he is, president trump is in elko, nevada, a few hun miles north of here from las vegase former vice president joe biden, he said that american values are being shredded by a president who only cares about himself and he said it is all about donald. this is something you often hear the former vice president talking about when he is out there on the campaign trail. joe biden has kept a very, very active schedule as we are in the final weeks before the midterm elections on monday and tuesday, down in florida, campaigning with andrew gymum and senator bill nelson, trying to push democrats across the finish line there. and we know he is going to be maintaining a very active schedule as we head into the midterms and as he himself is also considering a bid in 2020. >> all right, the former vice president, focusing on politics, and you know, political aspirations, he also went in the direction of the investigation overseas of jamal khashoggi, and he said, and now, and i'm quoting him now, now, mbs, meaning the crown prince, mohamed bin sal man, in saudi arabia, who i know is ma

thank you for answering that, we got the sound from the president there in elko, nevada, i wanted toyour take on that, brad, i want to go to top story which is the killing of the washington post columnist jamal khashoggi. i want to find out, brad, your thoughts in terms of your reaction to president trump's reaction. >> i think president trump is giving the saudis enough rope, they lied to us, they doubled down on lies and they retracted and gave us new information. all this situation now is on the 3-track system, the saudis have an investigation, the turks have an investigation and we have an investigation and i can assure you the president has a lot more information than he's letting onto with the saudis, we are getting information from the turks, most important we have to corroborate the information. where is the body if he died? certainly the body would confirm that, the fact is they now claim they don't know where the body is, that's nonsense, so i think there's going to be a hefty price to pay as the president said if, in fact, this goes to the leadership of the saudis and ther

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trump is speaking at a rally in elko, nevada, right now condemning a migrant caravan of undocumented immigrants that is trying to make its way from guatemala to mexico and he urged the crowd to get to the polls election day. now, just a little more than two weeks away. but that was far from the president's only democratic slam as he tried to send nevada's dean heller over the top. considered to be one, if not the most vulnerable republican senator running for election. let's get to cnn's kyung lah in nevada and the president once again using the word, when it comes to the democrats. >> reporter: hitting some of the familiar theme, ana, but the main thrust of his comments here and the main reason he is here in this swing state today because today is the first day of early voting and early voting here in nevada is very important. 60% of voters in early vote here. that is the expectation. and that's why you're seeing the president here and he is hitting the theme hard that he wants these people, the people who are here in rural nevada, the people who are gathered around this stage, list

immigration certainly a focus of the president this afternoon in elko, nevada. we saw him return to some dire rhetoric that we really hadn't heard from president trump since the 2016 election. he's elgin straight -- elevating the midterms to a do-or-die perhaps not just for his agenda but for the country. at one point the president suggested that immigrants were criminals trying to enter the united states to steal resources in americans all with the help of democrats. the president essentially saying if you wanted to save the united states, you should vote republican. listen to this. >> reporter: the democrat party has become too extreme and too dangerous to be trusted with the power that they want. i need everyone here today to cash your vote. ideally today. how about raising your right hand -- do you promise you will leave this site, go out and cast your vote right now? democrats believe our country should be a sanctuary for criminal aliens. republicans believe our country should be a sanctuary for law-abiding americans. democrats believe american taxpayers sh

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elko is a town of 20,000 people and is more than 200 miles west of salt lake city.s is president trump's 12 rally in nevada. 12th rally in nevada. announcer: president trump has just landed. while we wait for the campaign rally to get underway, we will show you a portion of this morning's washington journal. my guess is they don't. explain. guest: i think if you just looked at the testimony, dr. -- it was compelling, it was convincing, it was so good. , i it was the demonstrations have lived in washington for 46 years. then around capitol hill working on and around for 45 years. ofad never seen those kinds -- that kind of behavior in the halls in the capital and senate office buildings. they effectively diminish the effectiveness of her testimony and in hartline, america, we have seen an incredible reaction in senate races, we are -- going in, democrats probably had a 30% chance of getting the majority in the senate. now, it is probably about 5%. there you go. host: usually when we look at the october surprise and elections, when the kavanaugh confirmation and what

certainly, having the president come here today in elko. the rurals feel like they're ignored.re going to see thousands and thousands of people come here. this is incredibly important, about getting people to the polls and motivated. i think our people are motivated and they understand the stakes for this race and we feel very good. neil: rougher surprised? maybe this reflects in national polls and maybe it's not reflected in polls, that the economy is doing very, very well. and markets as of lately have been soaring and they are still up a lot, but it doesn't seem to have the tangible benefits for a lot of the republican candidates that they might have seen. concerns about losing the house and all of that. what do you think is going on here or are the polls as in 2016 missing something? what do you think? >> well, i can tell you certainly our economy is doing well, even being in a place like elko around 3% unemployment so nevada has seen a great rise and people are optimistic about the future of the state. that's what i'm running is to keep that optimism, to make sure that we

. >>> we are looking at a live picture from elko, nevada, where the president is holding a rally less than an hour from now. he's bringing back fiery receipt ricks and firing up the base with attacks on democrats. >> mexico is on their southern border, and they're fighting some bad people. you've got some bad people in those groups. you have some tough people in those groups. i'll tell you what. this country doesn't want them, okay? we don't want them. democrats have become the party of crime. >> the president plans to take his stump speech to texas on monday, wisconsin on wednesday, but the presidents is tweeting today about immigration among other things today. let's go to geoff bennett. there's a lot to pack in here. >> reporter: president trump today has fired off more than a half dozen tweets in support of candidates, and we know that he wants the midterm elections to be all about him. he's explicitly told his sporters a vote for republican is a vote for president trump. it's his presidency on the ballot and effectively on the line. we have also seen him increasingly paint the mi

later in the week he goes to elko, nevada in support of dean heller. in fighting for dean heller, donald trump is fighting for his own political future because he's made clear what would happen if democrats take back the senate. >> that is refashioning once as a trump supporter. last night you had mitch mcconnell on stage in kentucky. the president calling him a tough cookie. embracing him on stage in kentucky. what's your sense of degree in which the president is helping as we look at these races going to the election? >> with president trump tough cookie is high praise especially with a guy with whom he was very critical of mitch mcconnell after the debate over repealing the affordable care act didn't pass. there's only trump republicans. it seems to me every republican just about running in this country fashions themselves as a trump republican. that's a real switch in just two years. a degree to which president trump has become the face of the republican party and has injected himself in a midterm election in a way that we have not seen previous pr

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him speak and that is less than half though the size that president trump attracted saturday up in elkovada. >> bret: appeared ducey live in las vegas, thank you. stocks were mixed, the dow lost 127 and the s&p 500 dropped 12, the nasdaq gained 20. up next from tampa, some major races here in florida next month. we will talk to the candidates and voters about what to expect. but first, here is what some of our fox affiliates are covering around the country. fox carolina in greenville as people were taken to hospital during a floor collapsed at a party near the campus of clemson university. dozens of people tumbled into the basement and one partygoer tells the newspaper that people were jumping to a popular song when the floor caved in. the school said six students remain hospitalized with nonlife-threatening injuries. fox ten in phoenix said the mega millions jackpot climbs to, get this, $1.6 billion, with a b. no one matched all the numbers in friday's drawing so they will try again tuesday night. and he is alive look from new york fox five. one had an explosion and then officer remove

here's today's headlines, 17 days president greatest hits tour with greatest rally hours ago in elko, nevada, part of a multi state tour of trump country in intended to fire up voters in front of these crucial midterm elections. >> they have become an unhinged mob, so democrats produce mobs. republicans produce jobs. that's become hashtag. right. that's called hashtag. the single greatest ally that the democrats have is the fake news media. this will be the election of kavanaugh, the caravan, law and order, tax cuts, and common sense. >>> for more on this let me bring in cnn correspondent bore es sanchez 2e white house tonight. boris wharks did you see at tonight's rally? >> hey, there, s.e. cup, to some degree, this was president's greatest hits on justice brett kavanaugh, the caravan, et cetera. but in some ways flashback to the candidate trump that we saw back in 2016. sort of doomsday rhetoric elevating the midterm elections potentially to a life or death proposition, not just for his presidency or his agenda but for the entire country. at one point the president suggested that de

that's elko, nevada, yesterday, aimed at driving up republican turnout in key senate races.rday, arizona before that. the president started in montana. if the republicans can flip montana, hold arizona and nevada, there is no way the democrats can take control of the senate. in fact, it could help republicans actually build. i was talking the blue wave. republicans could actually ad. we have republicans favored to hold the senate. they could actually add to their majority. the president has decided in the midterm election it's all about him. to make it all about him. very busy on the road. these are his rallies just since labor day. three, six, nine, 12, 13 states just since labor day, montana twice. most of these have big? senate races, texas, wisconsin, north carolina in the week ahead. the president will be out several days a week all the way through the election. it is a referendum on him. in the closing message, the democrats want to talk about health care. the president's overwhelmi inin emphasis? immigration. >> crazy democrats refuse to support any form of border sec

they havet is weeks away from te elections in the mid-term, and trump in elko, nevada, and sharpening the attacks and blaming the democrats without any proof for the crisis on the bord border. >> the democratic party is openly inviting millions of illegal aliens for breaking our laws and flood the borders and come into our nations. the democrats like the caravans. >> reporter: the rammed up offensive is for the president to the take drastic measures to send the military to the border. >>ly seal off the border before they come into this country, and bring in the military. >> and joe biden is stumping for the democrats. >> what the hell is going on in america, and ripping infants from their mother's arms at the borders. what are we doing? what have we become? >> tara pal mary,,,,,,,,, washington. >>> and in 1987, there was a pact that protects the u.s. and allies in europe and the far east, and sets limits on how the two kcountries use ground launc cruise missiles. trump made the announcement as his national security adviser was headed to russia. >>> and dozen s of people were hurt afte

what's fcinating to see in neda now is trump is in elko turning out his base tere, president obama invegas making sure his types of votersl hed about in his speech today, younger voters, latino voters. othersconsin we'll have example of what this election is about. president trump will be up in northern ruralwisnsin, small town wisconsin. the president, milwaukee. president obama, sorry. >> woodruff: so, tam, anwhile, the "wall street journal" poll suppose the president's approval rating moving open. it was 44% last month, now 47%. is that something he can translate to republicans running for office? can he say, here is my appval ting, it is the best it's ever been, still under 50%. >> it keller can't hurt t publicans on the ballot to have the president at the best place he's been in terms of approval, but these are a bunch of different races in a bunch of different places and, althoughpp presidentialval tends to be a relatively good indicator, it's not the onl y thingthat determines outcome, certainly. >> there is definity a ong correlation between how the people feel about the presi

president trump is going to elko tomorrow and i'm going to spend some time with him because we developedhis friendship aced on trust. and we had our differences will continue to have our differences. i don't agree with everything he says but i do agree with most of what he does. he has been incredible with this economy. he's done a great job. he's great with our veterans. he's been great with our military. he's being doing -- he has been doing a bang up job on trade, on trade. our country forward. my opponent would take this country backwards. for the final portion of the debate, each of you has one minute to make closing statements. senator heller. sen. heller: i'm a husband, father and grandfather. my wife and i have been married 33 years. the president and i don't always get along and i don't agree with everything he does, and i don't agree with everything the governor does, and i don't agree with everything my wife does. the difference is, my wife is always right. that's why we been happily married 33 years with four wonderful grandchildren -- with four wonderful children and three w

the minds here in elko and next door in eureka county produce more coal, more gold here than anywherethe country. welcome to gold country. mr. president, thank you for making america work again. >> meanwhile, the president will head to texas tomorrow to campaign for senator ted cruz. who was one of his last rivals standing during the 2016 campaign. in fact, his last rival standing. over the course of that campaign, senator cruz called then-candidate trump a pathological liar, a sniffling coward, a serial philanderer and utterly amoral. >> how do we make sense of this relationship? >> listen, 2016 was an election unlike any other. it was bare knuckle and there were some hard shots. on all sides there were hard shots. that election is over. >> so is he your friend? your foe? how do you describe the relationship? >> he's the president. i work with the president in delivering on our promises. >> okay. joining us from washington is nbc news correspondent leigh ann caldwell and our panel is here. phil rucker, i want to start with you because i've always wondered. this president is somebody

. >> reporter: weeks away from the mid-terms, trump in elko, nevada rallying for republicans in tight races and sharpening his attacks, blaming the democrats without any proof for the crisis on the border. >> the democrat party -- and it's openly inviting millions of illegal aliens to break our laws, violate our borders and overwhelm our nation. the democrats want caravans. they like the caravans. >> reporter: the ramped-up offensive comes as the president threatens to take drastic measures and send the military to the border. >> i will seal off the border before they come into this country. i'll bring out our military. >> reporter: on the other side of the state former vice president joe biden stumping for democrats. >> what the hell is going on in america? ripping infants from their mothers' arms at the borders. what are we doing? what have we become? >> president trump was taking shots at biden, even asking the crowd for suggestions of a new nickname. one woman shouted creepy joe. president trump said he wouldn't go that far. he did say, though, that he hopes that biden would be a

we have president trump going to elko tomorrow and i'm going to spend some time with him because we developeds friendship based on trust. yes, we had our differences and will continue to have our differences. i'll be the first to tell you i don't agree with everything he says but i do agree with most of what he does. he has been incredible with this economy. he's done a great job. he's been great with our veterans. he's been great with our military. he's doing a bang up job on trade, on trade. this is what is leading this country forward. this guy is moving this country forward. if my opponent had her way, she would go back to obama and take this country with her. moderator: for the final portion of the debate, each of you has one minute to make closing statements. senator heller. you may close first. sen. heller: as i mentioned, i husband, father and grandfather. am a my wife and i have been married 33 years. i said the president and i don't always get along and i don't agree with everything he does, and i don't agree with everything the governor does, and i tell people i don't even agree wi

first institution of higher education, first located about 300 miles away from here in the city of elko state legislature voted to relocate it to reno. and by now, you're probably familiar with the narrative of the midterm's potential impact on the senate. a number of incumbent democrats are trying to protect their seat seats in states president trump won. but that picture is flipped for exactly one republican. nevada's dean heller, the only gop senator up for re-election in a state won by hillary clinton. joining me from las vegas, the editor of "the nevada independent," john ralston.jame marquez. john, i cannot believe you did not join me in reno, but that aside -- >> 500 miles is too far to go to see katy tur. it's terrible. >> i think it's a boo. i came all the way from new york. you don't have much of an excuse. i want to talk to you about what's going on out here and how the national conversation is impacting nevada. right now republicans are running on this idea that the left is an angry mob. dean heller is running against jacky rosen. the race is really tight right now. what doe

he heads to elko, nevada, today to stump for senator dean heller who is also in a tight race. dan. >> lots of tight races there and just about 2, 2 1/2 weeks to go. tara, thank you very much. let's bring in abc news chief political analyst matthew dowd. matthew, good morning to you. as the midterms approach, as we said, just about 2 1/2 weeks away, is this caravan story that the president keeps talking about and we keep seeing all these visuals of, is that a potent political argument for the president? >> well, dan, let's keep in mind one thing, the last time a president sent the military, not the national guard, to the border was when woodrow wilson sent general pershing to chase pancho villa in the aftermath of the mexican revolution so that's a big deal to do it. i think when you look at it, yes, it may helpthe and charge base more but sitting in texas which has the longest border on mexico, most people think you can do two things, you can secure the border but you can also be compassionate with what those families are going through. it doesn't help if you make one voter en

president trump stumping for dean heller in elko, meanwhile vice president joe biden joined congresswoman in the strong hold of las vegas. tomorrow the bill billing former president obama rallying voters in sin city. two presidents visiting nevada over the course of three days. we have no nevadens at the table. dean haller, 47% of the vote, jackie rosen with 45%. to what degree are you watching this as a litmus of what's going to happen in the other races around the country. you look at the general polling in this country, odds of democrats getting control of the senate aren't great. what's this race going to tell you, the outcome of it? >> for me it goes back to what we were talking about earlier, this is a different economy than 2016, with he keep looking back to what happened when hillary clinton won the state, in the meantime the one thing that has happened is that service and hotel workers have a ton more bargaining power than they did two years ago. you could conceivably credit that to trump and the republican party. >> this is the amped up harry reid machine. >> yes. but they're st

because my time is almost out, but to get it right, in your opinion, if you get it right will joe from elko be compensated? >> well, yes. if we get it right anyone who fought, anyone who is exposed and deserves attention from us will get it. that is my pledge to work as hard as i can to see that nobody slips through the cracks, but i will say if your staff wants to get me any information on joe, i will see to it. he may even qualify and not know it. >> mr. secretary, thank you. and thanks for coming to las vegas. >> thank you. i appreciate it. >> two things, senator heller. first of all, get him the information. there may be a way. you missed my opening statement. >> i did. i apologize. >> no, you don't need to apologize, but you did not miss the conversation you and i had on the floor two days ago. you were right there. i told this, everybody that was here, the people in the audience are here and the vsos are here and the issue with dealing with blue water navy is no longer a question. how we do it is the only question. i told the secretary and worked with him in various meetings to get us