let's bring in cnn's chief political analyst now, gloria borger. gloria, she was the first and only at this point female speaker of the house. she held the gavel under four different presidents. what do you see as the impact of this decision to step back from her leadership role? >> i think it's a huge impact because don't forget, we've all been watchingler for decades in one role or another. and i think what was so remarkable about her was when donald trump came into office there was a lot of talk, when new members came in, new democrats came in, there was a lot of talk nancy pelosi, she's too old, we need a new generation, and it turned out that she met the moment with donald trump, that she was the leader who went toe to toe with donald trump. she was, you'll remember, after one of those state of the unions, i think you're showing one there, remember half hour his speech she ripped it up because she was so upset with him. she in an oval office meeting during -- there's that picture. in an oval office meeting when there was talk of a government sh

let's bridge in gloria borger and charlie dent. great to have you here. is no surprise that donald trump enjoys the company of white supremacists and anti-semites so long as they're complimenting him and he was heard to say, this guy really gets me. i really like this guy, whoever he is. what is more surprising is the silence from other elected republican leaders. why is it so hard? why can't kevin mccarthy denounce this? >> because as manu was just saying, he's trying to become speaker and he's afraid of his own shadow and right now, donald trump has endorsed him for speaker, and while donald trump may be diminished after the midterm elections, we have been talking about that, the question is how diminished? i mean, he's still the leading candidate in the republican party right now for president, and so you see more of the rank and file coming out. for example, senator cassidy of louisiana came out and said that, you know, the president shouldn't have done this. this encourages him hosting racist anti-semites effectively empowers those people, but where i

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. >>> joining me for more is gloria borger. gloria, we do have half 6 americans are saying that yes, they're at least somewhat confidence in election today . >> of course, it's so important that people have confidence in their elections, but let's barack down they numbers a bit more. if you break down these numbers, you see there's a real partisan divide here, kate. you'll see that 59% of the republicans are not confident. 39% of democrats, but 51% of independent voters. more than half of independent voters also say they're not confident in the election. you know, that's a terrible state of affairs for americans, that they don't believe their votes will be freely and fairly counted. >> yes, a long road, a high bar, a big hill to climb for the president. and also showing maybe damage done already with all the lie that is have been told about the 2020 election and how that has permeated into the general voting population. >> and that affects enthusiasm, right? if you think that your vote isn't going to be counted, maybe you should

. >>> let's go to gloria borger now. they had investigations into joe biden ranks number 17 on the list of issues voters said were very important to their vote. number 17. i said to harry who even tracks the order of number 17 of things you care about. even if voters didn't ask for this, could these investigations do real damage to biden ahead of a possible presidential campaign in 2024? >> first of all, it depends what any investigation would find. i found it interesting that congressman jim jordan, who's the incoming chairman of the judiciary committee, said we would like to hear from joe biden, hunter biden, et cetera. everyone there said that. jim jordan himself was asked to testify before the january 6th committee. he was subpoenaed and he did not comply with that subpoena. when he and mr. comber say we want these folks up here, that's not going to happen. so it just seems to me to be pay back and it seems to me to be really bad optics when what the public is asking for is, what are you going to do for us on inflati

political fallout of the situation for the newly declared presidential candidate david eisen and gloria borgerabout what this might change for the former president legally. how about politically, gloria? >> well, first of all obviously it'll be the case because he'll continue calling himself the victim which always works for him. and then he's going to talk about weaponizing the justice department against republican, and that's something he's also been doing and other republicans have been doing it. what will be interesting to see is whether those republicans who have been saying that justice department is weaponized but don't want donald trump to be the leader anymore or don't want to support him for president, how they're going to work that one. are they going to follow the leader in this particular case but then distance themselves on his presidential bid? they've already committed in one sense that they don't like the way the justice department is behaving, but they don't like the way donald trump is behaving either. so it's going to be a choice for the party. >> so what about that? gloria

also, senior law enforcement analyst and former fbi deputy, andrew mccabe and gloria borger. to start with you. i want to read this statement for you. he said breaking the law in an attempt to undermine the functioning of american democracy will not be tolerated. the statement went on to say, we will continue to hold accountable those who engage in illegal acts in the siege on the u.s. capitol. how big a win is this for the justice department? >> it is a huge win. you can't overstate how huge it is. it was a controversial st. louis as to whether or not they would bring the charge of sedition conspiracy. they took the bold move. they really let it hang out there and took the chance of losing on such a political charge. it is huge for them. it is a very big deal strategically for the cases that will follow because the convictions on seditious conspiracy with the long sentence that's may come with them could motivate some of these folks, like you look at kelly meggs, for example, who by my count, all the charges he faced. he'll have a great incentive now to potentially cooperate

. >>> let's get immediate reaction from our expert, david chalian, ron brown scene, and gloria borgers your reaction from the president, uttering these warnings about a threat to democracy in our country only a few days before the midterm elections? >> when i have spoken to white house advisers, they say this fits in with the entire rational of why joe biden ran for president. a battle for the soul of the nation. they're keenly aware, this is not the issue driving the midterm elections. so joe biden is not going to give this speech tonight because he's going to up end the trajectory of the midterms and this will overtake the economy and inflation as the dominant issue. he's doing it because, as president, he sees this violence out there and thinks there is a responsibility to lean into this and call it out as part of an attempt to troy and actually lower the temperature in america. yes, might there be some political benefit because democrats do respond to this message and there could be a rallying of the democratic base? sure. but this is not a play because they think it will win the

stay with us, but i want to add to this chief political analyst gloria borger, john avlon, alice stewart and cnn legal analyst and federal prosecutor, elliot williams. gl gloria, i'll start with you and we're getting the first reaction from donald trump's legal team to this announcement, in which the statement says this is a totally expected political stunt by a feckless, politicized department of justice. i hand that to you. >> well, i think that's totally expected. i mean, there's nothing that the department of justice has ever done or will do, that donald trump will respect or say that it was warranted, and i think in this particular case, the trump people had to expect this. as evan said and as the attorney general pointed out, he had no other choice because there was a clear conflict here. you had somebody who announced for the presidency, donald trump, and somebody in eyed joe biden who said it's his intention to run. i think he felt he had no other choice. we know how donald trump feels about special counsels. he hated bob mueller as we all know. the difference here is that as pre

glor y gloria borger, let me start with you.votes for the initial station of leader of their party, which is not the same thing of being speaker of the house, notably they had 200 votes. mccarthy does not. is there a risk he won't actually become speaker? >> there is a risk, but we've seen other people not get the 218 votes before, namely paul ryan. he has to have a lot of work to do, a bit of horse trading but the question is and i think charlie knows a lot about this, the question is what do these conservatives want? the freedom caucus. one of the things they want is to be able to recall the speaker whenever they want with just somebody coming on the floor and saying oh, we ought to have a new speaker and have a vote if the spoker does speaker does s don't like. he has to give them something and the question is what? what would he be willing to do? >> what do you think? >> i tend to agree with gloria. he doesn't have 218 votes today. he can get there. how many concessions does he make? what demands will be made of him? why wou

here to discuss it, cnn gloria borger, cnn political commentator charlie dent, and allison. first, of all when we think about where we are right now, and we are monday after the midterm election, we are still waiting to see who finally will actually be the majority of the party of the house. and now we know in mccain country, we know who the next governor will be. just think about this, today liz cheney tweeting out, you are welcome. kari lake. this is a lot of energy. what's your reaction? >> my reaction is that somebody who like to call her opponents cheaters and crooks who told john mccain supporters to the eve and walk out the door after john mccain's more than three decades of devotion to a public service who campaigned as a donald trump mini me was sent walking. because that was not wet arizona moderates, arizona independents, or arizona republicans wanted. and i think she made a really bad, bad bet in the state of arizona. and republicans will be looking at this in the state, as kyung was just saying, what did we do wrong? how did we nominate this person? and how do w

. >> with us now cnn chief political analyst gloria borger and manu raju. what do you think there? >> i think she was honest and traumatized and i think her husband of 59 years has been bludgeoned, and i think it would be dishonest in any way to say that wouldn't affect you and it wouldn't affect the choices you make in your future, and, you know, it's clear just from looking at her that, you know, this is something that was so horrific. it's affected their entire family, and of course, it's going to affect whatever she does in the future that she might feel some need to be out in california. >> manu, what do you make of the speaker's comments about her future leadership? i mean, she has been in office for so many years, has withstood heat from both sides, from republicans and even her own party. what is it about this moment that you think stands out? >> well, it was revealing that she reflected -- she answered the question and says this has an impact on her decision-making process. when you asked her about the decision of her future which i've asked her several times she swats it

joining us chief political analyst gloria borger and cnn senior political commentator david axelrod, former senior adviser to president obama. welcome to you both. david, these very close races, all the stars are out, biden, harris, clinton, trump. you tweeted this about the president's appearance last night in the evening, his speech. issues of democracy are hugely important at this moment, and in next week's election totally appropriate for the president to address them. still as a matter of practical political politics, i doubt many democrats in marginal races are eager for him to be on tv tonight. you have advised against that speech at this moment? >> yeah, i probably would have. i probably would have because, you know -- this is true for any incumbent president in a situation like it. barack obama was not being invited into a lot of campaigns back in 2010 because you become the fulcrum of the opposition campaign. and they want to make joe biden the issue in this campaign. his approval rating is in the low 40s. that's advantageous. the republicans. mow campaigns would like him t

. >> gloria borger, our chief political analyst is with us as well.e're going to hear more from trump later tonight. he's already bitterly lashing out at this decision. >> earlier in the day, his people called it a political stunt. and i think trump called it that himself. he's going to do it again. wolf, he has no other choice politically. here is a man who has been impeached twice, and has had two special councils. what he is saying and will continue to say and what some republicans will also continue to say is that the democrats have weaponized the justice department. that's a really favorite phrase. and there are lots of republicans who will say, yeah, that is absolutely true, and that will be something he says on the campaign trail. the question that i have is how many republicans will continue to say that, or will say, enough is enough, as they said after the election? like, he's not helping us anymore, we don't want this anymore. so, we'll see. i mean, ted cruz came out today and said democrats are weaponizing the justice department. will that

joining us now, stephanie grisham, former senior aide to the 2020 candidate, adrian elrod and gloria borgera nonpartisan group who follows these races have shifted 20 of these races. the momentum that democrats have seen drift away from them seems to be getting -- to pick up speed towards republicans in these last days. >> yeah, i think they're incredibly worried about it. anything can happen in the last few days of an election and they know that. as howard baker used to say, you know, in politics, overnight is a lifetime. but they do see the trends setting in the wrong direction and they're worried about it because, you know, conventional wisdom right now is that they're going to lose control of the house and, of course, the senate remains in contention and that's important to them. because all of the seats, so many, not just a handful, but more, are margin of error seats right now. and you have a very unpopular president in a lot of these key states and so this is pushing the boulder up the hill for them and it's difficult when a president is out there saying, look, things are bad, things

. >>> let's bring in now david axelrod and chief political analyst gloria borger.rning to both of you. i think it's important to have someone like kevin mccarthy on the air. but there are a couple things that i want to talk to you guys about. he said tone down the rhetoric -- good morning to both of you. >> good morning. >> when he said tone down the rhetoric, i was like are you talking to trump? because he said you should not call half of the country -- pair pr phrasing here -- idiots because of a difference of opinion. i thought he could be talking about trump. then he talked about hillary clinton and stacey abrams not conceding. hillary clinton did concede, stacey abrams did not. she didn't concede but she didn't contest the election. also, i think he's right -- one thing, he said would you encourage your supporters or leadership to accept the results of the election. he said i think they will. so he didn't answer the question. and the last thing is, ukraine. he thinks the people should have more oversight. i think most americans agree. that's a lot of stuff. >>

joining me here, david axelrod, gloria borger.he numbers in nevada and arizona, it's still anybody's race. one of the things you mentioned is the importance of the senate in terms of picking judges. >> look, i think that's lost in this discussion. we get caught up in the numbers and who is up and who is down. there are implications to this. joe biden has nominated and the senate has confirmed judges at a very brisk pace in this first couple of years. i think 84 judges, which is quite a few. >> obviously, mcconnell had done that to great affect. >> but mcconnell also has slowed that down quite a bit when he got control of the senate. this will shape the judiciary. just these 9,000 votes in nevada and 125,000 votes in arizona and the georgia runoff will determine in many ways what the court is going to look like moving forward. you figure, biden will continue at this clip if the democrats hold the senate. if not, he is going to get much fewer. >> there's reporting that according to gop sources, former president trump is calling arou

. >> our chief political analyst gloria borger and david urban ashes longtime strategist a senior adviserthe trump campaign and bakari sellers, former member of the south carolina house of representatives. how significant is it to hear these comment from pence literally 24 hours trump may announce he's running for president again and days after trump's major mid-term lowe's losses? >> i think it's very significant. i think mike pence was a very loyal vice president, and in this interview you hear him calling the president rec hess, saying he endangered me and my family. that he was filled with indignation and that he can't account for what the president was doing that day. he said i was at a loading dock at the capitol and never heard from him. he's got a book coming out. he is telling this story is to the american people and he's decided whether or not donald trump is in or out. he'll probably run against the man whom we all used to say we all stand on donald trump's strong shoulders. remember those words. i don't think he's going to be saying that anymore. >> no, no. >> no. >> david, th

as -- gloria borger talked about in pennsylvania, you have joe shapiro up winning 11 points over doug mastriano, a landslide for josh shapiro. and we are 33,000 votes apart in the senate race. so, people are going through, looking at these candidates and making -- van is probably going to be consoling me here. i'm a lot less often investech than i was at the beginning of this evening. but it is a night that is changing and we are going to see -- we talked about this as well -- with a number kevin mccarthy has. under 20? we talked about -- people thought they would be 30. >> right, right. >> i think if -- you take their ball and go home tomorrow. >> i'm sorry, go ahead. >> that big sound that you hear is democrats having a big sigh of relief across the country, because people woke up scare this morning. people said, my god, we've got these election deniers, we have got these people who are winking and nodding at insurrectionists. we have people that we are afraid of, if we they get in there and -- that was the fear this morning. >> i've got to say, van, you are the person -- [laughs] y

. >>> joining me for for now on this is cnn chief political analyst floria borger and errol lewis. and gloria, there are more key races and every one matters when we talk about the control of the senate because they only need one. but what are your big thought and your big question on this final day of campaigning? >> well it is that people -- candidates are talking past each other and voters are dissatisfied on the one hand they have the sense, yeah, republicans may be threatening democracy, but on the other hand, democrats are elite and they don't understand any problems. and so they're not -- you know they're not particularly thrilled with other party and they're worried and i think there are a lot of voters who are trying to figure out do i split my ballot, do i vote one republican and one democrat, because i don't like the candidates. there is a cauldron here. >> and because georgia and pennsylvania are both examples of where ballot splitting could be a real factor. >> could be a real factor. because for example, in georgia, you have a very popular republican governor. and then you have