mccconnell's chinese american wife. >> swamp captain mitch mitch has gotten rich. in fact his china family has given him tens of millions of dollars? >> trevor: "china family?" you know, it's one of those things where i know i should be offended, but i'm extremely confused. ( laughter ) because "china family." like china family sound like how your racist uncle refers to "fresh off the boat." "change the station, i don't want to watch 'china family.'" and the phrase "china people" was even weirder. what did that mean "these china people?" it's a weird phrase, which is why he got asked about it in the republican primary debate. >> this idea that calling somebody a china person, i mean, i'm an american person. i don't see this insinuation by the press that there's something racist about saying a china person. some people are korean persons, and some of them are african persons. it's not any slander there. >> trevor: well, you know, as an africa person and as american persons, i think we can all agree that that's a bullshit person. ( cheers and applause ) i feel like--

, mitch? don't know. something to kick the energy up. well, here's what blankeship actually means: mitch mcconnell is married to two-time cabinet secretary elaine chao. chao's father has a shipping company, which, blankenship's campaign says, "was implicated recently in smuggling $7 million of cocaine and that is why we've deemed him cocaine mitch." okay, so now you're liable for your father-in-law's crimes? watch out, jared. ( laughter ) get out of there! ( cheers and applause ) and blankenship took some of his other concerns about mitch's father-in-law to local talk radio. ( audience reacts ) >> jon: whoa, now! whoa, now! >> stephen: "china-person"? ( laughter ) mr. blankenship, you're starting to sound like a real ass person. ( laughter ) well, a lot of folks took exception to the term "china person," but donny defended himself. >> this idea that calling somebody a china-person-- i mean, i'm an american-person. i don't see this insinuation by the press that there's something racist about sa

while doing so, mitch has gotten rich. in fact, his china family has given him tens of millions of dollars. mitch is swamped running false ads against me. i will ditch joe manchin and mitch for the sake of the kids. >> this comes up with campaigns, it has forever, but normally you say look at the fringe guy, look at the extremist guy. and you try to say, are they taking two points, three points, or five points away from the other candidates? this guy could win the primary. >> but his campaign against mitch mcconnell is effective outside washington, d.c. we saw it in alabama. mitch mcconnell's approval rate throughout the united states is actually quite low. that's something roy moore used. he ran against the establishment in washington. i covered that senate race and i was shocked how people could name him in things he's done and go after him specifically. don blarnkenship has used this terrible language, and i think people dislike mitch mcconnell, and i don't think it will turn off as many people in d.c. as they think it

or criticisms of mitch mcconnell or china people that made the difference. i don't think so. i think if there was any single factor based on polling at different times, the debate, and the things i saw, it was more likely president trump's, i don't know what to call it, but don't vote for don tweet. >> reporter: the eventual winner is the attorney general patrick morrissey. he earns the right to take on the company, joe mnuchin, in the fall. on tuesday, it was indiana businessman mike brom is a surprise win beating out two sitting members of congress taking out jim donnelley. in ohio, jim renacci will take on incumbent sherrod brown. in north carolina, a number of house races had primaries. it was robert pittinger, the incumbent there, the company republican, who lost in a rematch to mark harris. it will be mark harris who will move on to the general election. >> thanks. two other midterm races of note -- in indiana, vice president mike pence's older brother, greg pence, clinched the republican nomination in his congressional bid. the seat which represents p

mitch?ell is on coke? ( laughter ) mitch, i say this as a friend, you need to do harder drugs. ( laughter ) ( applause ) that mitch? i don't know. something to kick the energy up. well, here's what blankeship actually means: mitch mcconnell is married to two-time cabinet secretary elaine chao. chao's father's shipping company, which, blankenship's campaign says, "was implicated recently in smuggling $7-million of cocaine and that is why we've deemed him cocaine mitch." so now you're liable for your father-in-law's crimes? watch out jared. ( laughter ) get out of there! ( applause ) and blankenship took some of his other concerns about mitch's father-in-law to local talk radio. >> his father-in-law is extremely wealthy and runs a shipping company and owned some ships in china and he's very well-connected in china. i don't have any problem with chinese people, chinese girlfriends, chinese anything--but i have an issue when the father-in-law is, you know, is a wealthy chinaperson-- ( audience r

racist ads were aimed at mitch mcconnell's asian american wife. he is breathing easier tonight. they think either one of these two candidates will be very competitive, potentially being able to take this away come november. had it been blankenship, you would see the republican party as early as tomorrow pull out on national money. again, we'll keep counting then. it looks like one of the establishment candidates will win the race in west virginia tonight. >> all right. john king, appreciate it. we'll keep checking the results of the races. >>> to tonight's other breaking news. cnn has learned that mueller investigators have questioned a russian oligarch about hundreds of thousands of dollars of payments from his company's u.s. affiliate paid to michael cohen after the election. the purpose of those payments is unclear tonight, but michael avenatti, the attorney for adult film star stormy daniels, is alleging that cohen received a transfer of half a million dollars from a u.s. company affiliated with the oligarch, viktor vekselberg after the presid

he calls mitch mcconnell cocaine mitch.an for the president who tweeted against him? w what would it mean for the republican brand of politics? >> this is an important state. every seat in the senate in the 2018 election is a make or break for the republican party in the balance of power. this should be an easy win for republicans. trump won the state by 40 points in 2016. if you are putting blankenship up as your nominee, you are not really putting up your best people. it could be good news for joe manchin. it is not really going to be good news for the republican party. >> you say this should be an easy win. west virginia is complicated. a republican hasn't won a senate seat since 1959. donald trump did win by 40 points in the presidential election. this is a complicated state with politics. >> absolutely. you know, joe manchin has been trying to and always has been a very centrist nominee and centrist voter in the senate. you know, republicans really could stand to win here. as you said, all four of the states that are v

our mitch mcconnell?! if that's true, someone's cutting mitch's blow with ambien!r ) but primary frights work their stupid magic on both sides and in new york democratic governor andrew cuomo who made his name as a moderate is being challenged by activist and progressive cynthia nixon, and i couldn't be happen queer about her candidacy, and i know you're expecting me to make a sex in the city joke by saying i'm such a miranda. but the show ended 14 years ago so get over it and stop being such a charlotte! ( applause ) and while polls have nixon trailing quoam o he's been swerving left than a bruce driver on bath salts. >> cuomo is following nixon entrance by checking off a list. >> governor quoam-had an order to give prison parolees the right to vote. >> a major push to legalize marijuana. >> cynthia nixon came out in favor of legalization and governor cuomo is considering it. >> governor cuomo wants to ban plastic shopping bags throughout the united states. >> cynthia was leading a rally with environmental activists. >> no more plastic bags in new york! finally, e

david: on that, how much do you want to run against mitch mcconnell? last year aabama lot of unique factors, but the exit poll coming out of that was that republican voters were not fond of mitch mcconnell. is there any way to make the selection a leadership choice between democrats and mitch mcconnell? mr. poersch: that question has two answers. be so shown himself to unpopular nationally because he is unpopular with both democrats and republicans, which is unusual. as a result, his leadership has ability toed and his impact republican primaries have been undercut. a national issue, it isn't so much mitch mcconnell as the leadership in washington and the leadership in congress. i think people are more and more telling us that this is a change thetion and they think congress is broken and mitch mcconnell is very much part of that. alexi: how do you get trump supporters to vote for democrats? -- poersch: the way the math map has shown itself is we have 24 incumbent senators, 10 of them in states that trump ran, and i think it is actually a misnomer that

>> captain mitch mcconnell has created millions of jobs for china people, doing so, mitch has gotten rich. at the china family has given him tens of millions of dollars. i will meet joe manchin and ditch cocaine mitch for the sake of the kids. >> martha: leader mcconnell says this about the whole thing. >> well, my father-in-law is an american who lives in new york, works in new york, and i don't have any comments about ridiculous observations like that. >> martha: so the blankenship campaign try to back up their facts, but fell flat after a fact-check from "the washington post" which found this, four immersed group, the company elaine child's father owns is not a chinese company it is an american company linked in new york. no evidence that mcconnell's father-in-law had "given mitch and his wife millions of dollars over the years." neither the nation who reported the story nor the colombian navy ever reported that the cocaine that was found on that ship was worth $7 million or that anyone knew who stash the relatively small amount on the ship and no charges were ever filed. here now

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while doing so, mitch has gotten rich.as given him tens of millions of dollars. i will beat mitch mcconnell. >> that is in reference to drugs found on a ship owned by a family of blankenship's wife. if he gets a nomination, running against democratic incumbent joe m manchin, but he's mostly running against the incumbent mitch mcconnell and is disparaging mcconnell's wife and family. elaine chow was born in china. her family came over when she was just eight years old. here's how she described it to dana bash. >> as an adult looking back and seeing my mother who was only like 27, how frightening it must have been for her as the only woman aboard this cargo ship with three young girls. i mean, that's pretty rough. >> chow's family started a shipping company. she rose to be the first chinese american to serve on the cabinet under george w. bush. she is now head of transportation. the same organization that blankenship says he's running for the senate to support. >> for young people and young women, i want to give them strengt

how about mitch mcconnell?particular election given the fact that there's no love lost between these two men? >> it's similar to what we saw in alabama. we haven't necessarily seen mitch mcconnell going out and making statements to the press but mitch mcconnell has a very robust political machine that does operate in some of these primaries and the accusations from blankenship is that some of the negative ads that he's facing are being funded and being pushed by mitch mcconnell and his allies. we do know that when different candidates, including roy moore, make it apart of their campaign to attack the majority leader, mitch mcconnell a savvy operator in washington doesn't take that lying down and even though they're members of his own party, he takes the fight back to them and that's what we've seen in west virginia. he's very much hoping that blankenship does not make it out of this primary race and there are a lot of negative ads attacking mr. blankenship that would make it difficult for him to push through a

>> you want to talk about mitch mcconnell? >> they talked about it enough that i think i can clarify. >> bret: both these gentlemen mentioned that we have rules that you couldn't bring paper, props. you are going to bring props and we had to kind of take them awa away. you had these hats that said ditch mitch. he wanted to wear one of these hats. it was against the rules. so we said no to that, but you have called the senate majority leader a host of different names, including most recently cocaine mitch, in reference to an allegation that drugs were found on the ship in 2014 owned by his father-in-law. here's the question. if you are elected to the u.s. senate and mitch mcconnell is the majority leader, how will you get anything done for west virginia? >> he will be the majority leader. let me clarify that both of these guys are right. they are both lying. anybody that tells you that they are going to go to washington, d.c., and drain the swamp and don't know whether they will vote for mitch mcconnell are not is not telling y

republican voters were not fond of mitch mcconnell. himself tohas shown be so unpopular nationally because he is unpopular among both democrats and republicans. that's unusual. as a result, his leadership has been weekend and his ability to impact republican primaries have been undercut. as far as initial issue, it isn't so much mitch mcconnell as the leadership in washington and in congress. i think people are more and more telling us this is a change election. i think they think that congress is broken and mitch mcconnell is a part of that. >> how do you get from supporters to vote for democrats? map shows itself incumbent 24 senators, 10 of them in states that trump ran. thatnk it is a misnomer our challenge is to win over trump supporters. quite's a sickly come our challenge in this cycle is to keep the trump supporters that incumbents have. most of our democrat incumbents are leading races. huge tranchesave of support that voted for trump. a party in the senate, are performing better with trump supporters than we did in 2016. we s

mitch mcconnell's wife that you referenced. not sure i have ever seen a political ad like that in my career. >> some of the viewers may be too young you approximate it reminded me of one of those bartle's and james wine cooler ads. >> i think i'm too young for that. >> the monotonous tone but it makes people stop and pay attention because it doesn't look like it is a political ad. >> west virginia, it's to use a colloquial turn of phrase is literally the trumpiest state in america. voted for trump by a bigger margin. it has a democratic senator, joe machlkin who has kind this folksy down home charm but can . he's -- democrats thought he was the only one that could possibly hold the senate seat. the thinking i think among democrats and republicans is blankenship is the only guy that could mean manchin holds the seat. >> certainly that's what mitch mcconnell thinks. that's what the president's tweet was about today. he puts west virginia voters, the president in the position of thinking that maybe blankenship can't win if he gets

while doing so, mitch has gotten rich.ct, his china family has given him tens of millions of dollars. >> is that guy about to win a primary in the republican party? establishment republicans are freaking out tonight about that very possibility, the possibility that despite a criminal record, no natural political constituency, and shall we say charitably a notable lack of charisma? notorious coal baron don blankenship may be about to win that senate nomination in west virginia. blankenship served a year in federal prison you might remember for his role in violating mine safety rules in the 2010 upper branch mine accident that left 29 miners dead. despite that fact, blankenship has been surging ahead of tomorrow's west virginia primary with internal gop polls reportedly showing him narrowly leading two more establishment rivals. blankenship has done it by spending heavily on the race and by essentially embracing the role of the villain, someone who rails against mitch mcconnell as cocaine mitch, who uses ethnic slurs and pla

senator will be to ditch cocaine mitch. >> i will beat joe manchin and ditch cocaine mitch for the sakef the kids. >> and it's truly surprising, shocking, that that guy with all of that charisma and that incredible ad, don blankenship came in third in yesterday's gop primary for u.s. senate seat in west virginia. the state's attorney general patrick morrissey won. blankenship conceded and cocaine mitch rubbed in it. that's thing 2 in 60 seconds. (driver) so, we took your shortcut, which was a bad idea. [cougar growling] (passenger) what are you doing? (driver) i can't believe that worked. i dropped the keys. (burke) and we covered it. talk to farmers, we know a thing or two because we've seen a thing or two. ♪ we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪ this one's below market price and has bluetooth. same here, but this one has leather seats! use the cars.com app to compare price, features and value. feeclaritin and relief fromwsy symptoms caused by over 200 allergens. like those from buddy. because stuffed animals are clearly no substitute for real ones. feel the clarity. and live c

mitch mcconnell was in the same briefing. president says there was an illegal spying operation on his campaign. not majority leader says this. >> it was a classified briefing and consequently i don't really have any observations to make about it. i don't have anything new to say on that subject. two investigations going on that i think will give us the answers to the questions that you raise. the ig investigation in the justice department and the mueller investigation. i support both of them. and i don't really have anything to add to this subject based upon the gang of eight briefing that we had today which was classified. >> now, just quick translation. he's not going to say the president is spreading conspiracy theories, the president is wrong or nuts. mitch mcconnell won't say that. but he does say we have two investigations going on. i support them. and i learned nothing today's in this briefing to change that opinion. again, that speaks volumes as does nunes silence. >> nunes silence was not just to the press. afterward

blankenship tried to wear a hat on stage that said, "ditch mitch."y do it because they think there is advantage in it. mcconnell is saying nice try. >> dana: take me to other states. indiana, you had two congressmen on the republican side running to get the g.o.p. nomination to be the senate candidate. but they canceled each other out and now neither of them is in the senate or the house. >> this is just sad. it was a pitiful undertaking. both of them should think a lot about how much they wanted the job and why they wanted it and the willingness to campaign in the fashion they were in the ugly attacks against the fellow members of congress. fellow republicans. it's distasteful. the primary season is just now heating up. this is a warning side for the republicans and the democrats. if you attack each other enough you will create the deficits where you once had opportunities. mike braun seems like he will run -- here is a prediction for you. this will be a fairly boring race. >> dana: indiana? >> in indiana. because braun and the incumbent joe donnell

mitch mcconnell has created millions of jobs for china people. while doing so, mitch has gotten rich. his china family has given them tens of millions of dollars. i just want people are now running false negative ads against me. theieir challenge of me on me despicable and mentally ill. drain the swamp and create jobs for was virginia. ditch be joe manchin and cocaine mitch for the sake of the kids. amy: while the ad was widely viewed as racist, don blankenship has defended the messaging saying -- "we're confused on our staff as to how it can be racist when there's no mention of a race. there's no race. races are negro, white caucasian, hispanic, asian. there's no mention of a race. i've never usesed a race word.d" the news orleans news site the lens has revealed the energy company entergy paid actors to attend and in some cases speak at public hearings to support a proposed $210 million power plant in eastern new orleans. photographs from the hearings show dozens of people wearing the same orange shirt that read "clean energy. good jobs. reliabl

>> mitch mcconnell has an even ask for my support. i think it's way too premature.andidly mitch mcconnell deserves a debt of gratitude for being able to hold a supreme court seat open so neil gorsuch could be on the supreme court today. what i'm interested in doing is getting through the november election bringing a much-needed republican vote to the united states senate and then we will see who's running for senate. i'm not ruling anybody end, i'm not ruling anybody out. nobody has asked for my support. what i would do is make a decision on who is going to lead the senate to support the president trump agenda. >> bret: i'm noticing you are not raising your hand either. >> i'm not the product of the liberal establishment. i think that's why you are saying all the conservatives come out for me.

specifically, mitch mcconnell. >> and he's got a new nickname for mitch mcconnell which makes him sounder and more like a drug dealer. >> one of my goals as u.s. senators will be to ditch cocaine minutes. -mitch. >> that comes from an investigation and they blasted out that's. it says his father-in-law who founded and owns a large tiny shipping company has given mitch many dollars over the years. the company was smuggling cocaine recently hidden in a upon a ship carrying foreign coal, with $7 million in cocaine. mcconnell linked groups have spent more than $1.3 billion on that, but neither his official office or political office wanted to comment about the new nickname, cocaine mitch. >> the debate tonight will be sort of at halftime of the bret baier show. it will be brett and martha tonight, six eastern, 5:30 central. the stakes are very high. hundreds of homes in danger dominic endangered with wildfires. but firefighters are looking to catch a break thanks to the weather. that's coming up next. not having a good breakfast can make you feel like your day never started. get going with

manu raju is on capitol hill talking to people close to this, people in this meeting, mitch mcconnell saying, nothing really came out of this that surprised him. what else have you learned about these briefings? >> the republicans who attended these briefings are telling me, not saying there was any evidence to substantiate the president's claims, they're not even commenting, they're refusing to say one way or the other whether or not there was anything that could give somed to tore the president suggesting that there was a spy in the campaign, that this could be the biggest political scandal in history, other than saying they want to investigate the matter further. this is obviously much different than what democrats are saying coming out of this meeting, saying there was no evidence presented at that meeting that ultimately could back up the president's claims. this all comes as both sides were very surprised to see emmitt flood, the president's top attorney, at this meeting today after the white house press secretary, sarah sanders, said earlier this week there would be no white ho

while doing so, mitch has gotten rich.ina family has given him tens of millions of dollars. >> don blacken assumption is trying to explain away his comments telling a reporter "they've always said about me west virginia people. is west virginia people racist? we're confused on our own staff how it can be racist when there's no mention of a race. there's no race. races are negro, white, caucasian, hispanic is, asian. there's no mention of a race. i've never used a race word." negro is? ah. i'm not entirely sure that that cleared anything up. let's give mr. blankenship one more shot. >> the phrase china person, people are offended still. >> well, they shouldn't be. and i'm a west virginia person. you're an nbc person. you know, in order to have a racist statement, you have to mention a race or derogatory comment about a race. for my constipation, my doctor recommended i switch to miralax. stimulant laxatives forcefully stimulate the nerves in your colon. miralax is different. it works with the water in your body. unblocking

senator will be to get rid of cocaine mitch. >> an ad for -- bringing the in-laws and had the occasionalking about a with elaine chao's family. the camp says "to the family was implicated in smuggling cocaine" caring for and coal was $7 million of cocaine and that is why we deemed him cocaine mitch. he has no comment, but on a linked group already spent more than $1.3 million on ads calling him a convicted criminal. he recently served a year on a misdemeanor conviction tied to the explosion blames the convention on anti-coal obama allies and says that it will soon be overturned. >> it will be overturned by the general, that's the reason that mitch mcconnell is very wrong. >> the super pac money is has flowed into the race. and in an attack on kevin jay keynes, campaigning to stop and impeachment. >> they are trying to take me out to take down president trump. >> when the campaign starts, voters outside west virginia may not recognize that candidates right away, but they will look at attorney general patrick morrisey. beco ted cruz, rand paul, conservatives are behind my candidacy becau

he called him cocaine mitch. last night, mitch mcconnell tweeted out this. thanks for playing, don. you see the senate majority leader, what is he doing, making fun of cocaine? but clearly, very, very happy. >> yeah, they're spiking the football on this, because blankenship was obviously one of these many candidates that mitch mcconnell and republicans trying to take over and trying to hold on to the senate have been afraid of, that he would have been another roy moore. but it did seem a little to me that move -- a little -- act like you've been here before. he came in third place and lost pretty badly. time for republicans to move on and just take the win. >> one other quick question, will this encourage republicans to go to the president more often? he tweeted about don blankenship. he said don't vote for this guy. are there more of these primaries out there? >> it's a sign that the president is very vested and interested in trying to be helpful to the leadership in the senate. he and mitch mcconnell have not always had the closest relationship. it's improved dramatically in recen

senator mitch mcconnell, thank you. >> thank you.

blankenship is also criticized senate majority leader mitch mcconnell.ly they have been in a heck of a war he called him cocaine mitch in his ads that critics said were also racist for other reasons. days before the primary president trump told voters don't vote for blankenship because he won't be able to win in the fall. at the time, blankenship said president trump doesn't know him and that the g.o.p. establishment was misinforming the president. west virginia, of course, one of several states that wrapped up key primary elections last night. and they could go a long way to helping determine which party controls congress after the mid terms. let's start right there in west virginia. our peter doocy live in charleston. hey, peter. >> shep, the majority leader mitch mcconnell is really rubbing it in that don blankenship is not going to be on the november ballot. now even jokingly embracing the nickname that blankenship gave him cocaine mitch. the political twitter account belonging to mcconnell's office tweeted a parody photo that is supposed to be based

ditch be joe manchin and cocaine mitch for the sake of the kids.: cocaine mitch and the china family and elaine chao's father referred to as the china person. you might just say, welell, he lolost, that is the point. but this was very significant and republican politics. >> is important to note don blankenship loss last night but these kind of attacks has worked for republicans in the recent past. you u don't have to look any further than president trump. it worked for roy moore to a point. there is reason to ththink it wl work againin. don blankenship happened to be uniquely fatally flawed for a state like was for junior. he had just come out of federal prison. he has described himself as the most hated man in the county. ironically, one of the county won last night. amy: his probation? on wednesday so he can finally drive out of the state of west virginia if you wishes to. hehe was a l longtime resident f las vegas until he came back to run for senate. perhaps he will return home. this has worked for republicans in the past t and might work agn i

i wonder about the mitch mcconnell piece.portive of the president agenda on the economy and confirmations, especially with judges, mitch mcconnell has actually been quite instrumental to help support president trump's agenda on that. >> yeah. one of the big questions in this primary is what does it mean to be a republican in the trump era? it was notable that none of the republicans running for the senate in west virginia said they would endorse mitch mcconnell as the majority leader. jenkins and morrisey kind of caveated their responses and said they could support him later on. but it tells you that trump is the leader of the republican party and all three canaled dates were trying to -- three candidates trying to be closer to trump than mcconnell. >> dana: you have to wonder if president trump would come out and be supportive of mitch mcconnell. but then again if this is what is important for republicans to be against the establishment in washington, d.c., maybe he will take a hands off approach? >> one thing that is intere

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while doing so mitch has gotten rich.ollars. mitch's swamp people are now running false negative ads against me. they are also childishly calling me despicable and mentally ill. the war to drain the swamp and create jobs for west virginia people has come. i will beat joe manchin and ditch cocaine mitch for the sake of the kids. >> after serving prison time for his role in a mine disaster that killed 29 people, if you're don blank ship you run for u.s. senate and do it by attacking your own party leader by accusing of getting rich by helping his china family, a reference to elaine chow who is chinese american. that cocaine mitch is a time a coring goe ship owned by chow's family was reportedly caught transporting 90 pounds of cocaine but there is no evidence of any connection between that incident and mcconnell for his wife. mcconnell has refused to comment directly but his office pointed nbc to us to a comment by his former chief of state, quote, this unclown is a walking talking case for the study of the limitations of p

calls mitch mcconnell married to a china person.kenship wins, do not be surprised when the republican party says they are no tt goingo send any money. and essentially, sends no national party money in. blankenship says he can still win. we will see. blankenship, yes it is an outsider message, and also spending a lot of money. this is the democrat up here. in the republican primary, it is these three that count. is it the outsider message, more money? going to count the votes. >> you talk about west virginia which is important. and indiana, what is the latest there? that is another important one. >> we are getting results. and again, this is one of those handful of seats. man chin in virginia. republicans think and what they think will otherwise be a bad year. pick up some seats. similar dynamic. congressman todd mockita. he is running like donald trump, more subtle saying i am a business man. look at this. he is at 41%. these margins have held. so braun businessman outsider running it up to be the republican nominee. money, mike bra

he says the bigger problem mitch mcconnell is the problem. >> mitch mcconnell has created millions ofor china people. mitch has gotten rich. in fact, china family has given him tens of millions of dollars. they are running false negative ads against me. i will ditch cocaine mitch for the sake of the kids. >> it is not terribly refined ad. people say he is moving in the polls because he is saying i don't have a political title and i will get the establishment. >> i think there are two different problems for republicans posed by the whole trump effect. you do see in various races it's almost as if republicans made such a tradition of having messy and divisive primaries that they can't stop doing it. we have seen this every two years for the past decade. there is this problem for republicans. you need trump to win a primary and then in fact it's not clear if trump is more of a net benefit than a net weakness because he may galvanize your opponents more than he gets your supporters out to vote. then there is the other problem that trump is not on the ballot on november, the republican con

mitch mcconnell has present a -- tons of president trump nominees and mitch mcconnell might open up thext majority party which could be democrats. trade deal i don't see because of what nick outlined the next phase two of the tax cuts even happening. it could happen in the house, but i don't see them making much progress. >> the reconciliation to get a tax cut in the first place. that does allow you a one-time shot at a 51 vote, which we got. i agree with you is very unlikely they're going to revisit this. as to the minority party, using this against republican the next time around is almost a guarantee that republicans will be the minority party unless they get more accomplished. voters are angry about the fact that republicans have the white house, senate in the house and there are so few things on the agenda which i pass because chuck schumer has made this his resistance. they are basically slow walking the work of the senate. i think mcconnell needs to move en masse and i don't think there's not much downside risk. democrats will do it if the gop does not. neil: molly, there is a fl

i think the american people should be bringing along mitch mcconnell and paul ryan. they should be letting them know it's time to stop this. the ignorance is palpable on he perspective when you look at what's happening with this special counsel. it's politically and ideologically rigged. they are far worse than that. these are left-wing activists on the payroll of the special counsel attacking and trying to undermine the president of the united states. all of the crimes i can find as i said earlier on this broadcast. the dnc, the fusion gps, the phoney fraudulent dossier. the roll of james comey, bob mueller and all of this. you just go through it, and the crimes are all in the shadows of the united states government rather than demand they are trying to subvert president trump. >> i think it's quietest the president is frustrated. he's the only one trying to protect the rule of law from mueller's even kroavment. you have maybe four members on the-hill. lou: the freedom caucus is standing up, ron desantis. this is the moment in our history where people who stand up w

. >> ditch cocaine mitch. >> reporter: with controversial attacks on senate majority leader mitch mcconnell and his family. >> mitch mcconnell has created millions of jobs for china people. >> do you feel badly for that? >> absolutely not. >> why not? >> because it's not anything that should make anyone feel bad. i don't know how else to describe the people who live in china. >> reporter: supporters love that brashness. >> don tells it like it is, just like trump did. >> reporter: even the president says, blankenship can't win the general election, because he's so controversial. especially for voters like stanley goose stewart. >> i saw one of his ads that made me cry. >> stewart was in blankenship's mine the day it exploded. >> he is the very reason that mine blew up. >> reporter: but that may not be enough to stop blankenship's momentum. >> do you think you have a real shot at winning this thing? >> i will win. >> especially if he's what virginians say they need. >> he knows the coal industry. this state is coal. >> reporter: morgan radford nbc news, charleston, west virginia. >>> now bac