let's bring in michelle goldberg of the new york times. yamiche alcindor, msnbc contributor, and margaret carlson. thank you to the three of you for helping us analyze this. margaret, what garrett said, the democrats have maybe given republicans a rallying cry to narrow an enthusiasm gap. our viewers get upset when we report that, but the numbers indicate that a month ago republican -- the percentage of democrats who called the midterms very important is now much closer to the number of republicans. there's no democrats who are less enthusiastic, but it seems there are a lot more republicans who are more enthusiastic. >> right. and democrats may hope that since republicans got what they wanted they will rest on their laurels. which humans tend to do. and yes, theirs is increased and democrats stayed the same, but the gap has narrowed. today, though, suggests that there's a lot of enthusiasm on the side that lost. you know, mitch mcconnell said because he wants to pour salt on an open wound, that brett kavanaugh was exonerated. well, half o

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so call now. >>> still with me, michelle goldberg, danielle moodie-mills and irin carmon. it's only in that context she comes forward. she starts talking to other people in her life about this -- what she says happened to her in the context of me too. how do you think that impacted what happened today, what does it do to sort of the reception of the movement right now? >> well for the last couple of weeks you've had survivors on capitol hill, not just the ones who shouted in jeff flake's face, but also in joe manchin's and outside susan collins' office and outside murkowski. i heard some of the folks who did that, they're feeling really drained and feeling why did i open up my heart and throw it on the floor of the senate building. so i first want to say that i completely understand how people can feel gutted and exhausted, but each time it's like every fall or every couple of months survivors have to kind of spew their guts on the ground and say i am human, recognize me, i am here. and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. and how many times do we have to do this?

let's bring in msnbc contributor sam seder, and michelle goldberg, op-ed columnist for "the new york times." it is striking to watch this sort of weirdly invented like talking point about the mob just kind of come out of thin air in the last two weeks when, you know, we should be clear there was a guy who is liberal who shot up a bunch of republican members of congress there have been some isolated incidents of left-wing political violence, but one of the themes of the trump years has been basically fascist street brawlers. >> yeah. i mean not even just the trump years. >> right. that's true. >> we go on twitter and look for david nauert's feed. he does work with the southern poverty law center. he rights about he's illuminationists. you can go find decades worth of events. yes, that shooting of the congressman was horrible. there are literally dozens like that of right-wingers doing a similar thing. >> can i also -- i guess it was six months now, maybe five months ago which in trump time i know is years, that he pardoned two members of a violent anti-government standoff, right? >> s

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. >> joining me a assistant professor of policy at the kennedy school of government, and michelle goldberg, columnist for "the new york times." michelle, i find it morbidly amusing the way the president and his supporters have been explicit about how bummed they are that this speculate of violence against the opposition has stopped people talking about the migrants in central america. this is lou dobbs. fake news has successfully changed the narrative from the onslot of illegal immigrants and broken border security to suspicious packages. let's get back to the left-wing driven caravans and the dimms who drive them. >> this is all a mass assassination campaign is a distortion from the real news, and also that the caravan poses any sort of danger to the american people. that has been one of the most despicable things in this period is that we've all talked about the caravan with this faux savvy of is it bad for democrats? how should they talk about it? and what has been lost is that the president of the united states is running a demagogic hate campaign against a group of desperate people wh

. >> with me now for more -- hard to follow -- msnbc contributor michelle goldberg, columnist "the new york times," and staff writer of the atlantic latest headline, trump's caravan hysteria led to this. i want to pick up on something steve was saying before. you wrote this. the apparent spark for the anti-semitic spark was a racist hoax, inflamed by u.s. president seeking to help his party win a midterm election. no political gesture, no public statement and no alteration rhetoric behavior that will change this fact. what do you mean by that? >> i mean that this is written in stone. these people are gone. these people were killed because a crazy man believed what the president was saying, that there was an invasion at our southern border, you know, from thousands of people who are weeks away, who will probably -- the caravan will probably be much smaller by the time it gets here, if it gets here. and those people will either have an asylum claim and they'll be able to stay or they won't, and they'll be turned away. there is no national emergency. the president invented a national emer

and michelle goldberg, "the new york times" columnist. welcome to all of you. joyce vance, let's start with you and the bombs. the bomb experts tell me that the one good thing about bombs, particularly bombs sent through the mail is there's lots of evidence. there's lots of stuff to look through. there's lots of ways to figure out who is behind this. >> that's absolutely right. investigators can start by looking for fibers, for fingerprints and dna. those are some healthy clues. they can also analyze components in the bomb, figure them out and trace them back that way. >> matt miller, jim cavanaugh said to me tonight the bomb maker apparently was not the valid victorian of the bomb making class. we're not sure all of them, but some of them were not going to go off. though they truly are bombs. to people who receive them and get these threats the effect is very similar. the this is meant to strike fear into the hearts of many people. what is the effect it's had so far? >> i think you're right, that's the intent to strike terror. you saw john brennen say tonight

joining me now, david jolly, republican congressman from florida who joins me from tampa, and michelle goldberg, cohost of the new podcast "the argument" debuting tomorrow. if you ever wanted explicit advertisement of what lock her up is about -- >> it's women in general. >> women with power we don't like. >> yeah. >> i was -- again, you stop being shocked at these moments. he raises dianne feinstein -- >> the crowd knows what to do. you say the name of a woman they don't like and they know how exactly to respond. obviously there's a tweet for everything. there's a bunch of tweets of donald trump complaining about obama doing campaign events during natural disasters. obviously nobody expects him to show sni sort of consistency. what i think -- i also don't think -- it's not like he would be doing any good if he was in d.c. trying to respond to man fold natural disasters and foreign policy disasters, possible economic disasters. >> he would just be watching cable news right now. i mean, that's honestly what -- >> that is true. >> yes. >> but it's worth, i think, at least pointing out that his ad

i want to bring in michelle goldberg. welcome. thank you for coming on. up where receiveny just left off. bill and hillary clinton 13 tours. is that something democrats would love to see or not? >> no. i wish they wouldn't do this. they say this is somebody who supported hillary clinton in the election, who has a lot of admiration for her. who thinks she's been treated extremely unfairly by the media but given the fact and to some extent given the fact she's going to be treated unfairly, i just don't understand what they could possibly hope to accomplish with this tour other than kind of create -- >> cash money maybe. >> i guess. in a certain sense this has been one of their fatal flaws is they kind of rarely turn their backs on an opportunity to make money but it's just so, from the point of the view of the party and where the party is and the kind of future momentum of the party it's an extremely counter productive move. >> as somebody who was a supporter of hillary clinton when she was running, the comment she made about monica lewinsky was sort of off

michelle goldberg, josh barro, thanks for being with me tonight. that is "all in" for this evening. >> while now details are out about the federal judge as a young man, new reporting tonight that the fbi may be close to wrapping up its investigation without interviewing chief kavanaugh accuser dr. ford. >>> and the "new york times" with a blockbuster piece of reporting today months in the making. the headline "trump engaged in suspect tax schemes as he reaped riches from his father" as "the 11th hour" gets underway on a tuesday night. well, good evening once again from our nbc headquarters here in new york. day 621 of this administration. as we go on the air tonight, the united states senate could soon have the results of the fbi follow-up investigation into sexual assault accusations against supreme court nominee and sitting federal judge brett kavanaugh. it was first reported by the "new york times" and confirmed by nbc news that the reopened investigation -- this is the important part -- may come to a close well ahead of the friday deadline. tha

michelle goldberg, josh barro, thanks for being with me tonight.t is "all in" for this evening. >> while now details are out about the federal judge as a young man, new reporting tonight that the fbi may be close to wrapping up its investigation without interviewing chief kavanaugh accuser dr. ford. >>> and the "new york times" with a blockbuster piece of reporting today months in the making. the headline "trump engaged in suspect tax schemes as he reaped riches from his father" as "the 11th hour" gets underway on a tuesday night. well, good evening once again from our nbc headquarters here in new york. day 621 of this administration. as we go on the air tonight, the united states senate could soon have the results of the fbi follow-up investigation into

. >> joining me now is op-ed columnist for the op-ed times michelle goldberg and republican strategista lot to cover. do you agree with that assessment this is going to be good for the democrats? >> i do with a caveat. if the democrats are smart enough to stop talking about justice kavanaugh as soon as possible. when they talked about it and with what happened with dr. ford and then michael avenatti getting in there and the ramirez story t fired story, it fired up the republican base and it was depressed to the point that an anti-depre anti-depre anti-depressant wouldn't have helped. if you move away from judge kavanaugh and move toward health care, is that helping you? you'll do much better as democrat. >> can they do that with somebody like the president who is full on when it comes to the rallies, mitch mcconnell, president calling it an angry mob. is it best to let it go or can they. >> i think that we're one month out which in a normal political cycle would be very soon, but in the trump era is like six scandals ago. so i think it was one month ago that paul manafort was pleading

michelle goldberg, josh barro, thanks for being with me tonight. that is "all in" for this evening.ow" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> >> good evening, chris. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. happy to have you here. we're watching a few different stories develop tonight. "the wall street journal" and the "new york times" and now nbc news all reporting that the expanded fbi background investigation of trump supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh, that could be roughed up and finished as soon as tomorrow or possibly even tonight. the senate, of course, had given the fbi a deadline of friday this week to complete that investigation, but amid lots of contradictory and sort of opaque news reports that don't quite tell us exactly what the fbi is

let me go to michelle goldberg about this.ot a million years ago, they thought the tax cut which benefited everybody a little bit, some people an awful lot, rich people, would benefit them, and the deregulation would help them. it doesn't seem to, so they resorted to the negative usual scare clorows up. >> polls show that the tax cut benefited corporations tremendously and ordinary people. a lot of people -- it's true there are a lot of people employed, but things are still very, very, very rough. people are still living paycheck to paycheck and they're still worried about what they understand republicans want to do to the social safety net. so republicans are running this campaign that still worked for them in the past. they've realized in the age of trump that their economic policies or traditional economic policies are very unpopular, and that the way they motivate their base is through xenophobic terror. >> david, your erstwhile party is targeting social security, medicare and medicaid as the cause of our debts, our defici

. >> michelle goldberg, danielle moodie-mills, irin carmon, this is awesome. i would like to do it again. good evening, rachel. >>> that is one of the best discussion i've seen on this topic not only today, but since the kavanaugh nomination started. well done. thank you. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. very happy to have you with us. it is friday night. this is live, as always, that means anything could happen. friday nights do tend to be news nights these days. but even though that is in the back of my mind at all times on fridays now, i do want to start tonight with a little bit of a story. realize today has been a big day. we'll start with a story. it is a story about a dude you may not know. his name is allen dixon. and allen dixon passed away a few years now. he is somebody who in his time everybody really liked. he had a nickname in politics. his nickname was al the pal, which was not tongue-in-cheek, not satirical. he was kind of everybody's pal. he was a go along to get along politics and proudly so. he wrote a memoir about his tim

michelle goldberg, josh barro, thanks for being with me tonight. that is "all in" for this evening. "the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> >> good evening, chris. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. happy to have you here. we're watching a few different stories develop tonight. "the wall street journal" and the "new york times" and now nbc news all reporting that the expanded fbi background investigation of trump supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh, that could be roughed up and finished as soon as tomorrow or possibly even tonight. the senate, of course, had given the fbi a deadline of friday this week to complete that investigation, but amid lots of contradictory and sort of opaque news reports that don't quite tell us exactly what the fbi is allowed to look into as part of this investigation, there are now these multiple reports tonight that the fbi is going to wrap up early. attorneys for dr. christine blasey ford say that the fbi has not spoken with her client at all as part of the kavanaugh background investigation, not this week and n