host of msnbc's "deadline: white house," anchor nicolle wallace. comedian, louie anderson.turing the 8g band with thaddeus dixon. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] ladies and gentlemen, seth meyers. >> seth: good evening. i'm seth meyers, this is "late night." how's everybody doing tonight? [ cheers and applause ] that's great to hear. in that case, let's get to the news. at a campaign rally last night, president trump bragged about his response to the multiple explosive devices sent to prominent democrats saying, quote, "by the way, do you see how nice i'm behaving tonight?" [ laughter ] you know, like a normal person would say. [ laughter ] if you're ever on a date with a guy and he says, "see how nice i'm behaving?" pepper spray him until the canister runs out. [ laughter and applause ] according to "the new york times," president trump has two official iphones. one that is used for calls and one that is used for twitter and other apps. he also has an android that he uses mainly as his vice president. [ laughter and applause ] according to "the new york times," president trump s

do have you a favorite race that you'll be watching come tuesday, nicolle wallace?rked for a florida governor, i'm watching the florida governor's race and andrew gillum, i think, if you think that race and racism that's been ushered in with donald trump is one of the biggest problems facing this country andrew gillum's response to his opponent, ron desantis, he said the racists think you're a racist is a microcosm for the divide in this country. >> notre dame's own joe donnelly, his race in indiana which we reported, steve reported will be out at 6:00. if he wins it's a big night for the democrats. >> do you think he will? >> my -- i'm too caught up in that one. i want him to. >> you want him to? >> yeah. >> but you're not going -- >> i will predict he will. >> wow. >> i'm watching virginia 10. the suburbs of washington, barbara comstock, the republican, running against democrat jennifer wexton. every poll suggests that comstock is going to lose. it's not her district in this kind of year. if she is losing by a little we'll have a long evening and it will be close.

nicole wallace? >> so how do you work for a florida governor?ink race and racism that's been ushered in with donald trump is one of the biggest problems facing this country andrew gillum's response to his opponent when he's saying i'm not saying you're a racist but i'm saying the racists think you're a racists is a microcosm divide in this country. >> donnelly's race will be out at 6:00. if he wins i think it's a big night for the democrats. >> do you think he will? >> i'm too caught up in that one. i want him to. >> you want him to? >> i predict he will. >> i'm watching virginia ten, suburbs of washington, barbara, republican running against jennifer weston. every poll suggests comstock is going to lose. if she's losing by a little we're going to have a long evening, and it's going to be really close. if she's losing by a lot, then democrats are going to do very well tuesday night. >> that's going to do it for your preview coverage ahead of tuesday's mid-term elections. >> think we're going to make it? >> yeah, i think we're -- we're going to n

i'm john heilemann in for nicolle wallace. acting attorney general matthew whitaker, the man now responsible for overseeing the mueller probe finds himself today in a position not unfamiliar to many high-ranking trump administration officials. walking around with a bright red target on his back. questions are now mounting around conversations whitaker may have had with the white house in the run-up to his promotion from jeff sessions' chief of staff to acting ag and whether whitaker promised anything to trump about how he'd handle the mueller investigation. top democrats say those lines of inquiry are at the top of their investigative agenda when they take control of the house of representatives in january. >> we are going to find out whether he made commitments to the president about the probe, whether he is serving as a bag channel to the president or his lawyers about the probe. whether he's doing anything to interfere with the probe. mr. whitaker needs to understand that he'll be called to answer in any role that he plays

our colleague nicolle wallace reports a source close to trump tells her, quote, his state of mind is the worst it's been since the campaign and among the west wing staff there is a near universal sense of foreboding. the new frontal attacks on mueller also come a week after the firing of jeff sessions and the appointment of matt whitaker to run the justice department and heighten concerns, let's not forget, that more indictments could be imminent. here is what the president wrote this morning, and we quote. the inner workings of the mueller investigation are a total mess. they have found no collusion and have gone absolutely nuts. they are screaming and shouting at people, horribly threatening them to come up with answers they want. they are a disgrace to our nation and they don't care how many lives the ruin. these are angry people, including the highly conflicted bob mueller, who worked for obama for eight years. they won't even look at all of the bad acts and crimes on the other side. switching to caps, a total witch-hunt like no other in american history. >>> new reporting from "

i'm john heilemann in for nicolle wallace.to friday when we saw the latest installment of donald trump's latest rhetorical trope. i hardly know the guy. in this case, the guy is the newly appointed attorney general matt whitaker from whom trump already seems to be distancing himself. >> well, matt whitaker, i don't know matt whitaker. he worked for jeff sessions, and he was always extremely highly thought of and he still is, but i didn't know matt whitaker. he worked for attorney general sessions. he was very, very highly thought of. now in all

up next, dead lip white house, with my friend, nicole wallace. , with my friend, nicole wallace >>> hi york. donald trump has finished his homework and he did it all by himself. the president announcing today that he has completed his written responses to robert mueller and he did it without stance. >> i write answers. i was asked a series of questions. i'm sure they're tricked up because ta like to catch people, was the weather sunny or rainy. he said it might have been a good day. hfs rainy. therefore he told a lie. he purgered himself. so you have to be careful when your

i'm john heilemann in for nicolle wallace. this to friday when we saw the latest installment of donald trump's latest rhetorical trope. i hardly know the guy. in this case, the guy is the newly appointed attorney general matt whitaker from whom trump already seems to be distancing himself. >> well, matt whitaker, i don't know matt whitaker. he worked for jeff sessions, and he was always extremely highly thought of and he still is, but i didn't know matt whitaker. he worked for attorney general sessions. he was very, very highly thought of. now in all fairness to matt whitaker, who again, i didn't know, okay, other than through reputation. matt whitaker is a highly respected man but i didn't know matt whisker but he's a highly respected man. >> he's the greatest guy, the most wonderful, most amazing guy, but i barely know the guy, i've never heard of him. that sudden trumpian skittishness comes amid an outcry from trump's critics over whitaker's past comments on the mueller probe including a cascade of newly surfaced audio that

i'm john heilemann in for nicolle wallace.general matthew whitaker, the man now responsible for overseeing the mueller probe finds himself today in a position not unfamiliar to many high-ranking trump administration officials. walking around with a bright red target on his back. questions are now mounting around conversations whitaker may have had with the white house in the run-up to his promotion from jeff sessions' chief of staff to acting ag and whether whitaker promised anything to trump about how he'd handle the mueller investigation. top democrats say those lines of inquiry are at the top of their investigative agenda when they take control of the house of representatives in january. >> we are going to find out whether he made commitments to the president about the probe, whether he is serving as a bag channel to the president or his lawyers about the probe. whether he's doing anything to interfere with the probe.

msnbc's nicolle wallace reporting matt whitaker is not supervising the mueller investigation. by him decisions about the new felony charge against long-time lawyer. rod rosenstein according to nicolle's reporting today is still doing all of that just like he used to. >>> i have questions. will we be allowed to know -- will congress be allowed to know, particularly with democrats taking over the house, will there be any visibility into whether or not mueller's operations are being impeded, especially if they are being impeded improperly in the justice department? should we have confidence mueller's actions means he is acting in an unimpeded fashion? when the house is tarik enover -- taken over you in january by democrats, what will mueller do after bringing charges against witnesses for lying to congress? do they believe other witnesses should be submitted to the same penalty given the house democrats have expressed concerns some of the testimony given by trump allies and trump aides in the course of the investigation has been untrue? >>> joining us now is congressman jim himes

i'm nicolle wallace. "mtp daily" starts now. >> you got that right. the 96 hours. y. >> i'm going to watch it on my phone. >> get ready to get sedated. thank you, nicolle. happy friday. >> if it's friday, 96 hours to go. and i want to be sedated.

whitaker didn't stop it, and in fact msnbc's nicolle wallace reported today that matt whitaker in fact is not directly supervising the mueller investigation on a day-to-day basis. the mueller investigation according to nicolle's reporting today is still being overseen by rod rosenstein in the deputy attorney general's office on a day-to-day basis. and what that means in a practical sense, according to "the washington post" tonight is that matthew whitaker was notified about what was going to happen today, but he wasn't asked. he wasn't asked to approve it. it was approved by rosenstein. so whitaker knew it was happening but he didn't get to say yeah or nay. that seems important. another thing this action tells us today is we're to be get a whole much more -- a whole big bunch of information out of mueller. in the plea agreement that michael cohen signed on to today, there was a statement of the offense, the criminal information, also a plea agreement. sometimes it's hard to tell how much of this stuff is boiler plate, but even if it is boilerplate, this line from cohen's plea agreement

deadline white house with nicolle wallace starts right now. >>> hi, everyone. it's 4:00 in washington, d.c. we come on the air with breaking news. another norm busted. the president of the united states in a war of words with the chief justice of the united states supreme court. chew on that. they share a political party but not much else. it started with robert's rebuke about a federal judge who blocked his asylum ban. >> when people file every case gets filed in the 9th circuit because they know that's not law. that's not what this country stands for. this was an obama judge. and i'll tell you what. it's not going to happen like this anymore. >> chief justice roberts writing in a statement, we do not have obama judges or trump judges. bush judges or clinton judges. what we have is an extraordinary group of dedicated judges doing their level best to do equal right to those appearing before them. that independent judiciary is something we should all be thankful for. and noting just how rare the rebuke was, the ap reports, it's the first time the republican-appo

up next, dead lip white house, with my friend, nicole wallace. , with my friend, nicole wallace >>> hi, everyone. it's 4:00 in new york. donald trump has finished his homework and he did it all by himself. the president announcing today that he has completed his written responses to robert mueller and he did it without stance. >> i write answers. i was asked a series of questions. i'm sure they're tricked up because ta like to catch people, was the weather sunny or rainy. he said it might have been a good day. hfs rainy. therefore he told a lie. he purgered himself. so you have to be careful when your answer questions with people that probably have bad intentions, but the questions were very routinely answered by me. by me. >> and you submitted that the answer -- >> i haven't submitted them. i just finished them. >> but if they were easy, and if they're done, why hasn't he turned them over to robert mueller yet? the president's lawyer offers this clue in an interview with "the washington post" saying about the questions, quote, there are some that create more issues for us legally than

but our own nicole wallace reported today that matthew whitaker is not in charge of this investigation right now. i've been asking this question of the just department for days and they've been unwilling to say is he in charge? hasz he gotten the ethics advice as to whether he should recuse himself. but they've been saying rosenstein is in charge and matthew whitaker was informed of this move by mueller but was not given the opportunity to stop it. it remains to be seen whether acting attorney general whitaker will take charge of this investigation and if he does, will he seek to complete it? >> at this point your reporting indicates that we don't actually know where matthew whitaker is in terms of the ethics clearance procedure that would be normal in a situation like this for an acting attorney general to make a decision about whether to recuse himself or not or involve himself or not in the supervision of this investigation. we don't really know what his status is in relationship to this investigation. >> it's incredible that we don't, lawrence, because they're just not being transp

"deadline white house" with nicolle wallace starts right now. >> it's 4:00 in new york. as most americans started the day today counting points or steps or carbs, donald trump started his day by counting the hundreds of former campaign staffers who haven't been interviewed by special counsel robert mueller. and a pair of tweets so detached from reality that will debunk them before we put them on the screen. the president falsely claimed that robert mueller has conflicts of interest. oddly cited campaign staffers who want to be called to test by before the special counsel and demanded they investigate democrats. when mueller does his final report, will he be covering all of hispreamble? will he be recommending action on all of the crimes of many kinds from those on the other side? whatever happened to podesta? and will he be putting in statements from hundreds of people closely involved with my campaign who never met, saw or spoke to a russian during this period? so many campaign workers, people inside from the beginning. ask me why they have not been called. they want to

up next, deadline white house with my friend, nicolle wallace. >>> hi, everyone. it's 4:00 in new york. someone tried to teach the president a new word this week. decorum. a term that was closely associated with every former american president. here's donald trump trying best to use decorum in a sentence. >> we'll have rules of decorum. you can't keep asking questions. >> decorum. you can't take three questions and four questions and just stand up and not sit down. we have to create rules and regular laces. you have to act with respect, you're in the white house. >> not sure it means what he thinks it means because each of those lectures came as part of an attack on the immediate yachlt the it's clear that trump hasn't grasped the concept. it rings kole holl low from a president whose insults now number in almost the thousands. they target democrats, republicans, military heroes, immigrant, u.s. allies, athletes, women, and people of color. and that might work for a reality tv star or a schoolyard bully, but when you're the president of the united states, lack of

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i'm nicolle wallace. i will be back in an hour alongside brian williams and rachel maddow. ay and watch "mpt daily" daily with chuck. we'll have our first exit polls. hey, chuck. >> hi, nicolle. >> you're right there. >> hello! >> that's right. i've got exit polls. get out and go prep. see you in an hour. if it's tuesday, people are voting everywhere.

director john brennan, who is now national security analyst for our network, told our colleague nicolle wallace what these accounts may be signaling about this president. >> it may be that he is behind the scenes and really concerned about where things are going and that is a dangerous time because if he feels that he is being increasingly cornered, how is that going to manifest itself? it's a white house, administration, in disarray. this reflects this underlying tension that's just eating away at our government. >> with that, let's bring in our lead-off panel on a tuesday night. peter baker, chief white house correspondent for "the new york times." the aforementioned nancy cook, white house reporter for politico, and jeremy peters, political reporter also with the "new york times." peter baker, i have been looking forward to our conversation tonight because there's no other way to put it, you and i are old enough to remember first lady nancy reagan getting sideways with reagan chief of staff don regan. former ceo of merrill lynch. don regan was soon former chief of staff. so there's precedent

this was nicole wallace over at msnbc who was stunned that it iu not 90% chance that the democrats are going to take everything. >> how is this where we are? and how is this not a 90/10 issue? how are 90% of americans not so upset about racism that they are not out marching and protesting all republicans. >> laura: remember what hillary said? let's listen. >> why aren't i 50 points ahead you might ask? the choice for working families has never been clearer. >> laura: when you competent sleep at night just listen to that on a continuous loop and you will go right to sleep. it's a sense of they are so racist they are nazis, auto crafts. theisms and insults go on and on. >> we heardrd this all two years ago. they were not true then and they are not true today. the people that you're talking about those are the people that are going to be coming out in droves tomorrow. looking at numbers of over 100 million people may vote in this mid-term election. just unbelievable numbers across the country and those are the peoplele that are sick and tired of being told from the pollsters who to vote f

i'm nicolle wallace. chuck todd starts right now. >> nicolle, you will always be my number one. >> well, thank you. >>> we go against the original number one. good evening, i'm chuck todd here in washington. welcome to "mtp daily." the weight of public evidence of individual one is, to put it frankly, overwhelming. we know trump had one clear motive to cozy up to putin, trump tower moscow. in any normal white house, a bombshell that a candidate had financial dealings with, one, a global adversary while running for president, that alone would be enough to many to all but functionally end a presidency, certainly a political career. but we're just getting started. mr. trump and russia were working on that trump tower moscow deal at the same time russian intelligence was hacking the clinton campaign to help candidate trump. at the same time the campaign was meeting with russians and looking for dirt on hillary clinton at that trump tower meeting. russia found a lot of dirt and they went looking for more dirt a

"deadline white house" with nicolle wallace starts right now. hey, nicolle. >> hi, everyone.new york. donald trump entered a new phase of his presidency today as he emerged on the world stage at the g20 summit in buenos aires argentina for the first time with a new title added to his name, individual one. a legal code name applied to him in a court filing from robert mueller. while trump's turns on the world stage have included notable low points like siding with vladimir putin over his own intel community, shove aside the leader of montenegro, a nato ally, and blowing off a world war i tribute during a trip to france, his appearance today marks the first of his presidency where he steps on stage as the central subject in an investigation into possible collusion between russia and his own presidential campaign. "the washington post" reporting, quote, in two major developments this week, president trump has been labeled in the parlance of criminal investigations as a major subject of interest, complete with an opaque legal code name, individual 1. one day after the surprise gu

. >> i heard nicole wallace say this afternoon on her show that today for some reason to her felt like the biggest violation of norms. only because our president faced with the death and dismemberment of a legal u.s. resident said, no, i'm going to side with the other guys. >> in one part he's also siding with his son-in-law, jared kushner, who picked salman as his guy. jared curb her early on during the transition really showed his own backing from the united states, in the trump administration. they're putting all their eggs in that basket. they think it's not only about oil sales and keeping prices steady. they hope he's going to stand with them against iran. this is a statement supposed to be about saudi arabia but the first sentence blamed the war on yemen on iran when we know that disdiscriminate bombing has caused tens of thousands of american casualties and has prompted a famine. it's a famine that they helped create. >> we can still work with the saudis to advance peace in the region and advance our influence in counter iran. we don't have to give away our power and say we're

. >> nicolle wallace, what do you have your eyes on?> i think these governor races are in some ways -- they're more exciting and we're keeping an eye on them, but i keep coming back to the big political earthquake in washington, d.c., that tomorrow morning democrats will be figuring out how to run these committees. you know, we have had a trump presidency, which has been, you know, norm-busting and has debased the dialogue. most people with kids don't let them turn on the tv when there's political talk on. all of that is unchanged. what changes is there is now, democrats will control all the committees that can investigate the other half of sort of the scandal that is the trump presidency. that's the rampant corruption. the rampant corruption at the agencies. the stories you make time for but a lot of us don't. at every agency there's been an ethical scandal. it gets scant media coverage and has no oversight in congress. that all changes tomorrow. >> the other thing is the control the house has over all fiscal matters. everything has to

. >> those are people, nicolle wallace, steve schmidt who tried to elect john mccain president.rked for the election of republican presidents, breyer to donald trump getting that nomination. when you hear those people talking, are they speaking to you? is that your experience as a voter? >> they're speaking with me. >> with you. that is my experience. right now, the majority party in the house and senate are not fulfilling their oath of office, they are not acting as a check and balance. we must replace with those who will. >> there's another line that you have in your piece, where you say, all leaders must take responsibility and have moral compass grounded in competence, integrity and concern for the greater good. the moral compass seems to be absent. i can't find it, when i look at the republican leadership in washington now. >> if it is there, they're not listening to it, they're not looking at it. >> what do you think, if you could have a moment with the president of the united states, if you could have a minute with him, what would you want to tell him about the way he doe

this is nicole wallace over at msnbc who was stunned it's not 90% chance that the democrats are going to take everything. >> how is this where we are and how is -- how is this not a 90%-10% issue? how are 90% of americans, how are they not vehemently, not so upset about racism they are not out marching and protesting about republicans? >> laura: remember when -- do we have the bite what hillary said? >> why aren't i 50.s i had, well, the choice for working families have never been clear. >> when you can't sleep at night, listen to that on a continuous loop. it is a sense of, they are so racist, they are not nazis, the insults go on and on. >> we heard this two years ago. these are the exact same arguments being made two years ago. they are true then, they aren't true then. the people you talk about in the open, those are the people that are going to be coming out in droves tomorrow. we are looking at numbers of over 100 million people may vote in this midterm election. it will be unbelievable numbers across this country. those are the people that are sick and tired of being told from

msnbc's nicole wallace reports that a source close to the president told her today that, quote, his mind is the worst it has been since the campaign and that among the west wing staff there is a near universal sense of foreboding. politico quotes, that the trump white house is quote preparing for the worst. you can see it in trump's body language. all week long there is something troubling him. it's not just a couple of staff screw ups with melania. it led me to believe the walls are closing in and they've been notified by the counsel of action. folks are preparing for the worst. a deep anxiety is about to set in and that any number of trump allies and family members may soon be staring down the barrel of an indictment. "the new york times" reports that the president has spent the last three days in private meetings with his lawyers, something barack obama never had to do. given what we know about the president's attention span, it would taken enormous pressure to keep him in those meetings over a three-day period. it has been a week in which the public developments in the mueller invest

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"deadline white house" with nicolle wallace starts right now. >>> hi, everyone. in new york. stop me if you've heard this one before. the president of the united states might be obstructing justice in plain sight. again. donald trump revealing in an interview today with "the new york post" that a pardon for convicted felon and one-time trump campaign chairman paul manafort is, quote, not off the table. a pardon for manafort might strengthen an obstruction of justice case against the president if the special counsel could show that the pardon was intended to impede the investigation or ensure manafort he could lie to the fbi even after agreeing to cooperate. it's a line of inquiry the special counsel is pursuing at this hour. today's c

. >>> "deadline white house" with nicolle wallace starts now. >> it's 4:00 in new york. tuesday night we'll have the answer to this question -- are attacks on immigrants racist dog whistles and efforts to stoke fear effective as a closing message. donald trump, a self-described master of branding, is doing his best to brand the gop as all in on nationalism and xenophobia. and new reporting in "the new york times" today suggests that strategy concocted and deployed by president trump may cost republicans control of the house. in republican-leaning districts that include diverse populations from bulwarks of sunbelt conservativism to well man cured communities outside philadelphia and minneapolis, the house is in danger of losing its majority because mr. trump's racially tinged nationalism has alienated these voters who once made up a dependable

. >> and those are people, nicolle wallace, steve schmidt, who tried to elect john mccain president. they've all worked for the election of republican presidents prior to donald trump getting that nomination. when you hear those people talking, are they speaking to you? is that your experience as a voter? >> they're speaking with me, that is my experience. right now the majority party in the house, in the senate are not fulfilling their oath of office. they are not acting as a check and balance, and we must replace with those who will. >> there's another line that you have in your piece where you say, all leaders must take responsibility and have moral compass grounded in competence, integrity and concern for the greater good. the moral compass seems to be absent. i can't find it when i look at the republican leadership in washington now. >> if it is there, they're not listening to it. they're not looking at it. >> what do you think, if you could have a moment with the president of the united states, if you could a have a minute with him, what would you want to tell him about the way

nicole wallace, happy monday. >>> if it is monday, in the words of eric cartman, respect my authority. good evening. i am katy tur in for chuck todd. as many americans are back to school and work after thanksgiving, president trump got back to attacking special counsel robert mueller and his investigation. we know we're going to get an update on paul manafort's cooperation with special counsel, anytime now, we also know jerome corsi plans to reject a plea deal from robert mueller. and we know all of this is coming at a crucial time for the president. today he tweeted when mueller does his final report, will he be covering all of his conflicts of interest in a preamble? will he be recommending action on all of the crimes of many kinds from those on, quote, the other side. whatever happened to podesta? will he put in statements from hundreds of people closely involved with me campaign who never met, saw or spoke to a russian during this period. so many campaign workers, people from inside from the beginning asked me why they have not been called. they want to be. there was no collusion.

. >> i heard nicolle wallace this afternoon say on her show, today for some reason felt to her like thebiggest violation of norms. only because our president faced with the death and dismemberment of a legal u.s. resident said, no, i'm going to side with the other guys. thanks. >> yeah. i mean, in one part he's also siding with his son-in-law jared kushner, right? >> yeah. >> who picked mohammed bin salman as his guy. because let's face it, it was not sure that the crown prince was going to be the crowns prince. there were many people that could have been chosen from. >> that's right. >> but jared kushner early on during the transition really showed his own backing from the united states, from the trump administration. they are putting all of their eggs in the mohammed bin salman basket. they think that it's not only about oil sales and keeping oil prices steady, which president trump referred to, but it's also about they hope he's going to bring them a middle east peace deal. they hope he's going to stand with them against iran. it was striking to me that here is a statement that is su

"deadline white house" with nicolle wallace starts right now. >> it's 4:00 in new york. as most americans started the day today counting points or steps or carbs, donald trump started his day by counting the hundreds of former campaign staffers who haven't been interviewed by special counsel robert mueller. and a pair of tweets so detached from reality that will debunk them before we put them on the screen. the president falsely claimed that robert mueller has conflicts of interest. oddly cited campaign staffers who want to be called to test by before the special counsel and demanded they investigate democrats. when mueller does his final report, will he be covering all of hispreamble? will he be recommending action on all of the crimes of many kinds from those on the other side?

host of msnbc's "deadline: white house," anchor nicolle wallace. comedian, louie anderson.reat to hear. in that case, let's get to the news. at a campaign rally last night, president trump bragged about his response to the multiple

i'm nicole wallace. have a great weekend. we'll see you monday. >>> off to the races. let's play hardball. >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. after this month's midterm elections, democrats may feel the wind at their back as the sprint toward 2020 kicks into high gear. with president trump campaigning for reelection, there's a host of democratic hopefuls. raising money, visiting key states and honing their messages as they look to challenge him. but even as the 2018 midterms brought a big victory for democrats with a new majority in the house of representatives, "the new york times" reports that some wins and near losses have raised questions about whose vision of the democratic party will emerge victorious in 2020. and it raises questions about whether democrats can deliver a consistent message to voters and unite behind one nominee from a slate of candidates who could range from socialists to pragmatic sen pragmatic centrists. a few familiar names loom large. a morning consult poll taken in the days following the midterm found joe biden is the early

i'm john heilemann in for nicole wallace who will be back tomorrow. mtp daily is going to start now. katie, i'm going to ask you the question i asked chuck on friday. which do you prefer? i think you're wrong in this instance, but it was a very confident answer. >> midnight marauders was one of my jams when i was young. i liked a lot of those songs. i feel good i actually can answer that with some confidence and authority. i was nervous. >> >> q-tip was the kind of rapper you would have loved, just smart and awesome. >> and i've got to say you're such an accommodating host, so polite with your guests. wow. >> all right. peace out, sister. >> john, thanks so much. and it's monday. with great power comes great responsibility. good evening, in new york for chuck todd and welcome to mtp daily, and what looks like a case study in how to undermine the integrity of an election. there is no evidence of voter fraud in florida, there's no investigation into possible fraud either. but the president is calling to shutdown the state's recounts and declare his side