we touched on heidi heitcamp. app example of congress and the white house and republicans trying to put some of these democratic incumbents on defense here. heidi heitcamp supporting pompeo's nomination. a few other democrats have not come on out yet and supported her. joe donnelly, joe manchin and others. republicans are trying to tighten the excuse on these folks and put them on defense ahead of 2018. i think that's a big story. but pompeo going to north korea i think will really elevate him. we're going to wait to see what happens on that if they actually end up going straight to a floor vote without him passing through committee. that will be a big question. it is a tightening of the screws on the 2018 candidates. you haven't seen foreign policy become a big campaign issue this year. we're starting to see a little bit of it. >> al, i can't imagine a democrat up for reelection wanting to spike the north korean opportunity. i think there will be a lot more votes than heidi heitcamp. the president said rand has a

heidi: still ahead.oes surrounding it's low, if it -- tesla, if it could short circuit and what it means. rishad: whether us protectionism full-blown o a tradewar with china. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ heidi: this is "bloomberg market in sydney.heidi rishad in hong kong. tariffs on asia. the president's bark to be worse than his bite. long term implications to the market. tcw go to l.a. and join analyst david. thank you for joining us, how informed by is ideology, and midterm elections your view. >> hi, thank you for having me. obviously a big driver. foreigners are popular politically. u.s. administration is realize is bashing china is enough, it doesn't need neighbours.es or rishad: there's a problem. china is bound to retaliate, it the last tariffs, albeit in a moderate way, but it designed to save face. they can pinpoint certain the us has to kinda, that can hurt the midterm strategy, given what they did time.soya beans last >> you are right. china has to retaliate because own domestic political pressure

her name is heidi thomas. she is out of colorado, and she testified to the jury that when she was in her early 20s, her acting agency out of denver called her up and said a major celebrity wants to mentor you, didn't say his name. days later, bill cosby called her on the phone. he spoke with her father and then her mother. he said, "i want to help you in the business." she was on a plane to reno, nevada, because he was performing at harrah's. she thought she was going to stay at the hotel, but a driver picked her up, and she drove 15 or 20 minutes out of reno to a ranch-style home where cosby opened the door. he ensued giving her acting lessons, but then it became a lot more. heidi said she never wanted to go public and didn't. but she finally opened up. i flew to colorado last year to talk with her. you say the assault would have been at this home? >> i know the assault was at the house. at least the one i remember. i don't each know if there was -- i don't even know if there was more than one. i remember one

. >> reporter: heidi thomas knew a different man.me year the show launched, she alleges bill cosby sexually assaulted her. >> my name is heidi thomas. i was 24 years old when i first met bill cosby. >> reporter: as seen in a&e's documentary "cosby: the women speak," thomas alleges cosby drugged her when she was invited to reno for acting coaching. >> he said, let's try a cold read. so he handed me a script. and the person i'm supposed to be clearly is intoxicated. i do remember him saying, heidi, have you ever been drunk? and i said, no, not really. and he said, well, how do you expect to play a role like this? so he poured a glass and he said, all right, this is your prop. you're going to sip on your wine. and i literally -- i don't remember anything other than one sip. >> reporter: she says the next four days are a drug-induced blur. but she says she does remember mental snapshots. >> my clothes were on, his were not. and i was lying down. and he was forcing himself in my mouth. then the next snapshot is i hear his voice basically

heidi heitkamp, joe manchin and joe donnelly all yes votes for mike pompeo breaking with the -- from the rest of their part. what do they have in common? a date with the voters in november and al in states that voted for president trump and there could be other democrats that vote yes as well. i think mr. pompeo will get somewhere between 52 and 55 votes on the floor, more than betsy devos, less than rex tillerson, but i think this shows drama could continue, expect him to make it out of thb senathe end of the week and that's important because there is a n.a.t.o. summit for foreign ministers in brussels friday, and are owning he can make it to that. >> lisa desjardins with thea dr from the senate foreign relations committee today. our poiltics monday team pick it up with other confirmation battles looming and how vulnerable democratic senators are considering their votes. i'm joined by amy walter of the "cook political report" and eliana johnson of politico, welcome to you boh. >> nawaz: let's talk about the

heidi's right. administratively you have to go to the very top of the department of justice and you have to have a federal judge agree that you have probable cause. >> isn't there the prosecutorial discretion. >> sure. >> just to take the president's side for a moment. if you were controlling mueller, he would say limit your investigation to russia and you ain't got nothing, do you? now, obviously mueller is not looking at it that way. >> so prosecutorial discretion is important but it's too early for prosecutorial discretion. first you gather the facts, then determine whether or not someone should had prosecuted and for what they ought to be prosecuted. yes, but you don't exercise that discretion normally in the middle of is it your investigation. >> would you investigate everything about the president? is that what's going on? >> as long as you have legitimate leads, it's predicated on factual information, you go ahead and you investigate the president. >> paul, let me get to the big question. thi

can i quickly go back to the heidi heitkamp thing and why this matters?s because we are going to see a vote in the foreign relations committee on monday that nobody thinks is going to go through in a positive way. so what that means is that the majority leader is almost certainly going to take the nomination of mike pompeo to the floor so it going to be up to a few democrats to gift president this vote. that's why heidi heitkamp many and her decision to cross party lines is so critical and why we're looking to see if others will do the same. >> in 45 minutes from now we have james comey on the air being interviewed by jake tapper. a white house official has said that president trump has, quote unquote, weathered the fbi director but that the legal issues with comey is consuming him. what do you think? >> this is some terrific reporting from our colleague jeff zeleny about the fact that the president is not just sort of feeling like he weathered the comey storm but very upset and consumed, as you mentioned, with michael cohen. i mean, michael cohen, this i

>> maybe heidi wants to take it. heidi? >> so, i'm pretty sure, fairly certain from some of the polling stuff i've done in the past, that rasmussen does not have conversations on all of its polls. they can do these robo call-type polls which are less precise. i don't know what their sample is, but in years past, that has absolutely been a technique of the rasmussen poll that makes it less accurate. >> it's always trended republican, always. sometimes plus five, plus six, plus seven. it's always trended republican. so sometimes when you have a swing in the last couple days that goes republican, as it did with trump, they can say they're the most accurate poll, but you know, it's also that skews the real cue politics average. i don't know if they've changed this, but since rasmussen was tracking daily and you had gallop tracking daily, they would sort of balance each other out, but now that gallop is not tracking daily, sometimes that makes the president's average higher. >> all right let's get to the big headlines of the mor

going to be missing you heidi. we go. heidi: we'll be tuning in. look forward to.ading to the outside, we are seeing largely reserving judgment it seems when it comes this trade.ens with australia seeing just a moderate gains there as well. in on asian futures as we head into the open of trading in singapore, taiwan bit of upside to be seen. lots to react to. china trade is the biggest thing that we're afterring in term of that data calendar. is it all right, that she.bay day break hay market coverage continues with rish next. rish: president trump said china will dismantle because it's the do.t thing to fed chairman confirming so but steady rates. jobs, wages and inflation point to gradual hikes. bank this man are with immediate effect been in hong kong i'm rishaad salamat. steven engle at the boao resort. trade, trump and taking bitter tourism with highly

let's get the scoop from heidi przybilla, who reported this story.ite house correspondent for pbs and jonathan, what poashington post opinion writer. heidi, john bolton doesn't need confirmation, but how much of a problem could this be for him? >> reporter: it could be a problem given we know that white house officials are still looking over his background in terms of his associations to outside groups, including super pacs, although it would probably be just more of a political problem versus any official cob fli -- conflict of interest in any way. this group has been proven in europe to be putting out information that is at least misleading and in some cases totally false. all of it anti-muslim and slant. for instance, in germany, which has been really a target of a lot of the news coming out of gatestone, a story in may of 2017 about germany, the headline, germany confiscating homes. it turns out this was about a single residence that had apartment units in hamberg, and basically the owner was forced to make renovations because it had sat unused f

. >> heidi heitkamp lending her support, saying she would support the nomination of mike pompeo when it comes to the senate floor. let's go back to the senate foreign relations committee, your tweet where you say pompeo is one vote away from a historic negative confirmations vote in the senate foreign relations committee. what do you mean by historic, and what happens if it is reported unfavorably by the committee? rachel: i use the word historic, because to our knowledge, it has never happened before. they never started releasing those of executive meetings until the 1920's. -- votes of executive meetings until the 1920's. in recorded history, there has never been a negative vote of a secretary of state nominee by a committee. there are three things that can happen in the scheduled vote. they could vote favorably, which they don't have the votes to do. they could vote on favorably, which they generally don't ever do, more than can do the third thing, which is to vote to move the nomination without recommendation of the committee. i tend to think they will do the third option. it is

host: late in the week, heidi heitkamp lending her support saying she would support the nomination of mike pompeo when it comes to the senate floor. let's go back to the count in the foreign relations committee. your tweet, saying pompeo is one vote away from historic negative confirmation. what do you mean by historic? what happens if it is reported out unfavorably? guest: i used the word historic because to our knowledge it has never happened before. they did not begin releasing the votes of executive meetings until the 1920's. so far back as we have history, there has never been a negative vote of a secretary of state nominee by the committee. in the actual vote, there's three things that could happen. they could vote favorably, which they don't have the votes to do. they could vote unfavorably, which they generally don't ever do. or they could vote to move the nomination without recommendation out of the committee. i tend to think they are going to do the third option, that recommendation option. it's what they did when they advanced nomination of john bolton to the u.n. ambassado

heidi, let me start with you, why was he anxious to talk? >> he has been quiet.this issue of russia. that is part of the headline here he's breaking his silence on russia. he shared some of the backdrop with his efforts to try and get republicans to come forward and warn the public ahead of the elections. that was notable. he shared an anecdote really that i thought was really vivid about post-efforts to try and get republicans to come forward. he approached some of his colleagues and said why didn't you help me. and harry reid said that the republican colleague told him i was a afraid that the koch brothers would come after me. and the impeachment bite that you played, he called out tom steyer, running ads calling for trump's impeachment. he said, please, i ask all ever you to just stop it. and that really is in spite of the fact he spent a lot of the interview talking at length about what damage he thought president trump has done to our institutions including the judiciary, the legislative branch. he talked about his concerns about the senate and the loss of d

joining us now is one of the women who testified against him in the retrial, heidi thomas. good morning, heidi. >> good morning. >> so tell us what your reaction when you heard guilty, guilty, guilty, those verdicts. >> i didn't hear. i was in a meeting. >> i went into the car and turned on my phone and it exploded. there were e-mails, texts, voice mails. my mailbox was full. knew nothing until i went out into my car and saw guilty, guilty, congratulations. friends and family supporting. and i'm not sure it really sunk in. i figured i needed to address all of these people. i went home. i walked into our house and saw my husband. and i said, we did it. we won. we beat goliath. that was my reaction. >> wow. you're not alone. i think a lot of women feel that way today. you testified, and you didn't have to. what made you want to speak so so publicly after 30 years. >> oh, this wasn't a question of of being made to. i would encourage anybody if you get an opportunity to speak your truth, to say it outloud, it is so empowering. i feel honored that i was able to get the chance. s

i think we should if they like mentioned heidi because the so-called head illegitimacy does not exist only in a room inside a hotel in riyadh it does not exist anywhere else only in that room ok so let's talk about how your reality i don't doubt hunt to ask. and like to ask the holy to come to the negotiation table they have been to the negotiating table they have accepted the twenty two sixteen but this twenty two sixteen was just only . as they say to come to the hotel but on the other hand we see weapons flowing into yemen towards all militias that fighting with the saudi that coalition including al qaida and let's let's remind you that the u.s. treasury list has bought four people on the terrorist list and one of them is the governor of all but one and the other one is the leader of the south that coalition in madrid and one of their job and one live with heidi in riyadh he's the advisor and all these other well. he's kind of by now as i was trying as the scientists say we know where we are now what's going to take no i don't think i didn't think we should we should ask the how to

. >> sandra: senator heidi heitkamp becoming the first democrat to announce a force of her secretary of state nominee mike pompeo just after g.o.p. senator rand paul said he would oppose him. whether other vulnerable red state democrats will jump on board and the potential fallout if they don't. >> i think the president should start going to every state that has a democratic senator and rita patriotic pro-american rally that says of the democrats destructive to the united state united states. this time, it's his turn. you have 4.3 minutes to yourself. this calls for a taste of cheesecake. philadelphia cheesecake cups. rich, creamy cheesecake with real strawberries. find them with the refrigerated desserts. with real strawberries. feet go here.... you know what goes here... and your approval rating... goes here. test drive the ztrak z540r at your john deere dealer and learn why it's not how fast you mow, it's how well you mow fast. nothing runs like a deere. save 250 dollars when you test drive and buy a john deere residential z540r ztrak mower. >> harris: north korea is reportedly dr

that's what bothers me. >> yikes, heidi?cy but the reporting is there are forces within the white house and within congress pushing for something more than a pinprick strike, pushing for massive follow-up, maybe even manned aircraft. this is the time to drill down on this. can you speak about the specific consequences of that being potentially even more dangerous for us a than iraq was because you have major world powers embedded in there in iran and in russia and we've just told the ayatollah and putin and assad that we may strike meaning that they're martialing all of their defenses. >> my concern is that the long they are goes on the riskier it gets. we indicated we were going to strike. it's taken a number of days to move toward song kind of potential strike. in the meantime, i'm sure the russians, iranians and syrians have taken steps to protect their targets and have developed ways to respond to a u.s. attack. it's made it riskier right now so what has to be done now is not to back away. to continue our military planni

and nbc news national correspondent heidi. and congressman david jolly. ashley parker, you have your own extraordinary body of reporting from over the weekend about the loyalty test. if you mash up all of your reporting about what the justice department spokeswoman had to go through to be accepted -- she had to walk in and convince the president she could serve as the justice department spokesperson for jeff sessions who at the time was one of the president's favorites. this was well before he recused himself. she had ho go in and prove her loyalty to the president. if you take that and hold it up against carol lee's reporting that the president's chief of staff has called him an idiot when he's not in the room, it paints a pretty dysfunctional picture of the president's loyalty tesco liedit colliding people in 15 months of his grueling leadership style. >> it certainly does. i think the thing that is clear is that the president, just as he did when he basically ran a family business, prizes loyalty above all else. so, in the case of our story, there are

heidi heitkamp will vote yes. gop leaders are expected to get one more vote to get the vote to the floor. >>> and trump trying to discredit the russia investigation. the president saying the probe is illegitimate saying comey leaked the memos to the press. the special counsel was established based on illegal act. does everybody know what that means? the department of justice is reviewing how comey handled memos which detail meetings with the president in early 2017. at least one of the memos was later classified as confidential. later classified. >> exactly. >>> president trump aggressively defending michael cohen. he claims "the new york times" is trying to attack his lawyer. kellyanne conway insisting the president is worried about cohen's well being. >> i'm telling you that the president is concerned for michael cohen and the way he has been treated. he said that again and again in tweets and cameras rolling. why is that? because i see people go on tv who don't know president trump at all and say he is loyal to

charles: heidi heitkamp wants to preserve her political career. you expect a few more democrats will do that soon? >> perhaps they will. like we just discussed. what is the reason for them not to support mike pompeo. charles: we saw an extraordinary conclusion of a summit between president trump and japanese prime minister abe. it's unbelievable that the democrats would try to derail this. >> no question. you mentioned prime minister abe being here. the president continues to show that he can work with allies even when he's disagreeing with him. the japanese are nervous about what he's going to do on trade but they continue to work with him on national security. until mike pompeo went to north korea, the democrats are going to try to say he wasn't in favor of diplomacy. talking with people once they know you have the means and the will to back up what you are doing versus people who say diplomacy is sitting around talking about what the international community wants. charles: thank you all very much, appreciate. the sanctuary city revolt in califo

a sore point today but also the issue of trade as we've seen earlier or as we heard earlier try heidi has given exemptions it's you it eases steel and aluminum tariffs to most of the united states key allies to countries like canada and mexico and to the european union and so japan is also going to be seeking some kind of waiver for itself they could also be talking about trade in more of the long term either some kind of bilateral agreement or to see whether the whether you get united states could it really join the trans-pacific partnership that's the agreement that donald trump pulled out of early on in his presidency but has recently said he'd be willing to rejoin alright a corresponding player richardson on the story boards in washington player thank you very much now to some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world one passenger has been killed several others injured after a southwest airlines jet engine exploded in mid-flight the boeing seven thirty seven blew its left engine shortly after it took off from new york sitting out shrapnel that smashed a wind

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the democrat from delaware said that he would not support director pompeo for secretary of state, heidi said she would support him. you talk to sources within the intelligence community and they will say whether you're a republican or a democrat, talking to north korea is a good thing, but you have to do it with a lot of skepticism. at the end of the day mike pompeo is better than dennis rodman with regards to north korea, but this is the first step in what would be a very long, long process. >> pompeo not so good one-on-on. charlie, what will happen next as we're watching this meeting? >> i'm kcurious about what sort of deal might be possible here. we know that trump wants to make a deal. he wants to be the guy who declares a victory. it seems beyond my imagination that kim will give up nuclear weapons. i don't see north korea denuclearizin denuclearizing. he says he's not going to do new tests, but he hasn't said he's going to stop building bombs. you can see an agreement that would at least be some help in freezing things, but it would have to be living with north korea as a nuclear

exchanges, heidi, that we saw earlier today between the and zuckerberg. a long day and another ong day in part two of this, but really some interesting things came up as we expected, top of the agenda was of data from cambridge analytica, and the interference of misinformation during the presidential election, mark zuckerberg self-regulation, but lawmakers are wondering how the trusted to do that. let's get straight to washington is all over ang this. interesting issues that came out of the testimony so far? emily: tough questions from some ill informed questions from lawmakers. overall i would say that mark uckerberg was pretty unflustered and fairly straightforward. ishink one of the highlights that he seems very willing to work with lawmakers on of some sort. it will be interesting to see how his statements ultimately case used to make that for regulation. you could see him thinking very to answer certain questions. there were some moments of leavitt in the room. protestersdefinitely in there. wearing ple #deletefacebook. he says it hasn't had any on u

he tweeted saying heidi cruz was not attractive. here is ted cruz 2016. >> donald is a bully.hological liar. the man cannot tell the truth but he combines it with be a narcissist. the man is utterly amoral. real men don't try to bully women. it's an action of a small and petty man. i don't make a habit out of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my family. >> that was then. this is now. ted cruz in time. president trump, the fact that his first year disoriented and distressed members of the media is not a bug but a feature. wow. >> he is up for reelection in 2018 this year. he needs those trump supporters in his state for what is emerging. >> this is why people don't like and don't trust politicians, case in point. >> our reporters share from their notebooks next including more bad headlines for scott pruitt. what's with him? he's happy. your family's finally eating vegetables thanks to our birds eye voila skillet meals. and they only take 15 minutes to make. augh! (family giggling) oh my. birds eye voila! so veggie good. anna and a little nervous. into retirement..

heidi heitkamp says she will vote for him.t shouldn't be this hard and shouldn't be this narrow of a margin. john kerry won by 94 votes, his confirmation. hillary clinton got 94 votes. you know, it's -- it's traditional when a president wants somebody as secretary of state that the members of the senate republican and democrats alike say we may not disagree on the policy issues but this person is qualified, it's the president's choice and we need somebody in that job. mike pompeo graduated top of his class at west points, became an army officer, he was on the house intelligence committee. he's a magna cum laude graduate of harvard. a smart guy. most recently he's done a good job at the cia. he has the qualifications for this job. it's dis appoiappointindisappoi. it's a sad commentary that he doesn't have more support. >> jon: also a guy that undertook a top secret mission to north korea and met with kim jong-un to lay the ground work for what we expect will be a meeting between president kim and president trump. your thoughts

it will probably be joe mansion, heidi heidkamp, joe donnelly. decided yet. >> the sense i got from some red state democrats is exactly that. it is just so hard to fathom people who are running in reelection in states where the president won by double digits and is still incredibly popular. a west virginia, a north dakota and an indiana, that they will say i'm not going to give the president the secretary of state that he wants. this isn't voting against legislation, this is something particularly for former governors like joe mansion who understands the importance of having who they trust and want by their side. it's just hard to fathom that they don't give the president what he wants. >> the democratic base, and in those states they have to worry about conservative voters, but the democratic base is screaming at them not to give the president his choice. in part not to give the president anything, and they have objections on mike pompeo. the president said, give the guy another chance, meet with mike pompeo. yesterday he tried to nudge rand pau

senator heidi heitkamp said she will vote in favor of the pompeo nomination.t may be enough to put him over the finish line. you mentioned the historic nature of this vote later today. this has never happened where secretary of state nominee has been given unfavorable recommendation. if you take it out further it is even very unlikely for this to happen for any committee appointee. the last cabinet level appointee to lose was john tower back in 1989 when he was up for secretary of defense. he ultimately lost in the full senate and did not receive confirmation. it only happened one other time where a cabinet secretary was given unfavorable recommendation and was confirmed back in 1945, a commerce secretary. history poised to be made here in washington. at the end of the day after all of this back and forth there are very few people here in capitol hill who believe that mike pompeo won't be the next secretary of state. >> up for us on capitol hill. thank you very much. just one of the things on the president's plate. he has a lot on his mind if his tweet storm o

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i want to talk about the president's tweets about heidi cruz.s a totally different comparison. i think what he did with heidi cruz was disgusting, i think it was inappropriate, i think it was uncalled for and i applaud ted cruz for being frustrated about it and attacking back to the president. but i do think that is a lot different than george conway tweeting out disparaging comments about the administration. >> different circumstances but common denominator of the spouse territory thing. >> i've always liked kellyanne conway, always gotten along with her. in 2016 i wrote about her extensively, spent a lot of time with her. things she talked about a lot was her husband. she really had no problem with me writing about her husband, including how they met each other and sort of their personal story in an article about them. they posed for pictures in magazines before. they're sort of a washington power couple, to be honest, and have never been shy about, you know, showing that off. so that's why i'm a little surprised that she's taking -- she's so

senator heidi heitkamp says she's a yes. after rand paul's team said he would remain firm. panel is back. i said i didn't want to get down to this confirmation road before. we are there now. we were talking, if not -- you know, okay, you are going to get rid of pompeo, then what. lonnie, but to me, i assumed that the number one most likely cross overon this would heitkamp. >> difficult, particularly if you voted for him before. the positions are similar enough. cia, and secretary of state i don't think the subdistinctions are clear enough that if you are heidi heitkamp you can suffer of now voting against a nominee in an election year where you are going to have a tough time. >> what we are seeing here is this evidence in the same way has the obama and clinton administrations were criticized by the right, everything is the enemy and you have to be against everything. that's growing as a progressive mind-set, pompeo, if you don't stand up to him because he doesn't have the right position on same sex marriage or social just is

you have joe manchin and heidi heitkamp in a tough re-election and from red states. going to vote for him. you have democrats who in order to appeal to their constituency want to block anything trump wants to do. and trump, you know, with this -- you can't take -- you can't take his tweet seriously, but should. talking about how this has never happened before. this always happens. and i think the hallmark of -- during the obama years when o'connell was running the senate was blocking everything and slowing everything down. so there is a lot of demagoguery here, and a lot of politics and the fact of the matter is he'll be secretary of state. >> fact of the matter is at the end of the day he'll he'll be secretary of state and very likely to go unless something wild happens and when has that happened in the days we have been covering this administration. another republican who is facing a -- i'm going to say, surprising uphill battle is mitt romney. he's running for senate, in utah, the senate -- the utah senate seat, he couldn't win enough support over the weekend to a

we know that senator heidi heitkamp of north dakota is going to be a yes vote. there are a couple of other democrats to watch. senator joe manchin of west virginia. also doug jones from alabama. and there is also one republican we're still keeping an eye on, jeff flake of arizona. he's not said whether or not he's going to vote yes. it is because of rand paul's decision, the senator from kentucky, that mike pompeo is not going to receive that favorable vote later today and it is also one of the reasons that democrats are going to have to come over and vote for him if he's expected to be a confirmed as a secretary of state. certainly a rocky entry for mike pompeo into this position, this very important position as secretary of state, but, john, it is expected even though it is going to be difficult for him to get to that point that he will ultimately become the next secretary of state. >> ryan nobles up on capitol hill, thank you very much. joining me now is mike rogers, mr. chairman, you are so intellectually and politically nimble, i'm going to ask you to argue

if you listen to heidi heidkamp and the policies she supports and fundamentally sees america and howshould treat those less well off, she doesn't sound that conservative. joe donnely the same. we have re-election. >> joe manchin has been asked if he wants to jump party. >> he's good at the conservative sound bite. >> the governor of west virginia flipped parties and the president went for that big lavish ceremony which was a hand written note welcoming joe manchin to the gop. >> republicans see west virginia as the number one shot at a pickup. there and clare mccaskill's race will be intent in missouri. >> and hillary clinton has made sure it be will. >> she's not going to be in missouri, she's not coming. >> but she's already laid the ground work for how con ten tuesday it's going to be, mccaskill asked her to back off of the lingo about voters who are republican. >> almost as though clare mccaskill is get something of her talking points from the rnc in regards to hillary clinton. >> you mean fighting hillary clinton? >> yes, backing down on the statements she made. hillary blatherr

the report is the work of nbc news national political reporter heidi, who joins us now.orting on this. tell us more about the gatestone institution and john bolton's connection to it. >> reporter: right. we have exclusive, new details about this institute, which has been written about as an anti-muslim think tank. what we found, based on our exclusive reporting, is by cross-matching some of the information that was coming out from gatestone, that some of this information was amplified across europe and the u.s. by a russian -- confirmed russian troll factory. found four different accounts associated with the internet research agency, which is the russian state-backed effort to influence the u.s. and european elections. furthermore, there were a number of gatestone authors appearing on sputnik news, a russian state media outlet. it is important to note, ali, that while there was definitely an anti-muslim theme to almost all of this work, john bolton himself didn't personally byline any of the stories. when i contacted the gatestone institu institute, they said that they w

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