one of the republican members of congress who had a tough time in a primary last night is a senior leader of the republican house leadership from washington state. congressman cathy mcmorris-rodgers. tonight, we have obtained an audiotape that was made at one of her final fund raisers before last night's difficult primary. we obtained this from a progressive group called "fuse washington." someone from that group paid to attend this cathy mcmorris-rodgers fund-raiser and made this recording at this event. it was held on monday of last week. it was a closed press event. because of that, what happened has not been reported anywhere because reporters were not allowed in when this thing happened last week. tonight, we have obtained the tape of what happened at that fund-raiser. on that tape, you will hear congressman cathy mcmorris-rodgers a little bit. you will mostly hear the republican chairman of the house intelligence committee, congressman devin nunes, who was her guest at that fund-raiser trying to raise funds for her for her re-election battle. at this event, congressman nunes somewha

than half of the republican party, that is not sufficient to either reelect him or to elect a republican congresspublican senate. >> gabe, i want to get to a new article that appears in the "washington post." it is titled, he can't get rid of any of this, trump's wall of secret roads amid growing legal challenges. it says the events of this past week have really sent the president fuming about disloyalty, that trump has complained to advisers about cohen saying he cannot trust anyone. he's been distracted in meetings, he's polling staff about all the legal developments in recent cases. they said, you've done a lot about the mood in the white house, so i want to get to you and what you're hearing on that front. >> about the same thing. i think the last week has been sort of a tectonic shift where both trump's legal problems have been going but also in his view of what position he's in. people who speak to the president tell me that he is lashing out, he's feeling boxed in and really betrayed by people he had entrusted with his secrets. and i just want to go back briefly to the polling question. i

before they left for summer recess a couple weeks ago, a few hard line/fringe pro trump republican members of congress actually introduced impeachment proceedings against rod rosenstein. that was greeted with sort of slack-jawed stares by most of mainstream -- most of the mainstream belt way press and most mainstream political figures. republican leadership in the house led by house speaker paul ryan quickly made clear once those articles of impeachment were introduced, really, the impeachment of rod rosenstein was a fringe interest, not actually a republican congressional priority. yeah, there might be a few fringe members pursuing it but that's not something that's going anywhere. paul ryan basically immediately made clear after those articles of impeachment were introduced, the republican leadership is not on board with that kind of crazy stunt. now, we know that at a closed door private fund-raiser last week, congresswoman kathy mcmorris rodgers part of the top leadership of the house, you will hear her chiming in and appearing to agree with devin nunes, as nunes explains to a closed door group of

democratic party to overturn republican majorities in the house and senate when we see that the republican congressent are supervising an economy that is motoring, motoring ahead, with growth rates now put at over 4%, with record high employment levels, and where even african—american and latino unemployment is at record lows. these other realities, the facts, that make it very attractive for americans to stick with what they know. well, there are also some realities and facts that you did not put in there. 0ne, donald trump in this current tariff war that he is trying to engage in right now, you know, you got farmers in many of the states that he won, that are really, really concerned. just recently here in south carolina one of the plants in a rural county, a county that, again, donald trump won in the presidential election, just announced that they are closing because of his tariffs. we have factories like bmw and volvo that are headquartered here in south carolina. south carolina is the tyre manufacturing headquarters of america, with michelin and continental and a lot of other folks and a lot

he would know he has a republican congress for the next few years.ter, right? >> absolutely. it would be bar the door for whatever he wants. with aid from the leaders. the way the senate operates, they will just continue to run rough shod over democrats. >> you will also get house speaker jim jordan. people don't think about this because there is an expectation that democrats will take the house. but remember. that's not a foregone conclusion. jim jordan could be the next speaker of the house and a house under jim jordan would be like, five different committees investigating hillary clinton's e-mails. >> yes. and i think while the president has shown himself fundamentally incapable of governing and only had the tax bill sent to his house by republicans, there is a very real probability republicans could corral the votes to finally repeal obamacare. they could, of course, go after government program like medicare, medicaid, social security, and don't forget, of course, in the senate, the potential for the judiciary. where you've had republicans packin

and so unfortunately we don't have a congress -- a republican congress that is checking him. ding fathers said the congress -- congress should serve as a check to the president. the president is an executive branch, they're not a king and that is not something that donald trump understands. >> back in the '70s when this was happening to richard nixon, members of congress understood that continuing to back richard nixon was going to cost them something. that's not something the republican congress understands to do. some 30 plus percent of americans continue to stand by him. if he's not acting like a president, a third of americans think that's okay. >> the adoption of the republican strategy to appeal only to a very racist xeno phobic base, that base is getting smaller and smaller, but it's gerrymandered in and incalcified. they're at an impasse. they risk their political lives by standing up to him. however, our democracy is at actual stake. that is the point when you think you might want to say we have a problem. >> do either of you need to show id when you go shopping? >> w

republican congresses have presided over the greatest market gains >> not a political statement, just- >> a fundamental fact. >> even better with a democrat president. >> republican congress, democratic president >> that's the best combination historically for market gains. >> that's not going to change in three months as far as i know >> if you want to take a sleeper bet, maybe bet the republicans keep control of congress >> is that a sleeper bet >> i think so. people expect the democrats to take some stuff back >> i think it will be surprising people have surprised us the election season feels like the british soccer season. it never ends. there's a final game, the next day the season begins. >>> we continue to follow tesla. that company is planning to meet with financial advisers next week to explore the possibility of taking it private but the board may ask elon musk to recuse himself from the process. joining us on the cnbc news line who broke that story last night, alex sherman we have to stop seeing each other. excellent reporting. you moved the stock, and this is a move that's

well, in this congress, it will not lead to impeachment because this is a republican congress. how the midterms turnout. if the midterms turn upa midterms turnout. if the midterms turn up a majority for the democrats, then it may lead to impeachment, although you have to say one thing, trump is playing to his base. he really is. absolutely. he may still, he may still get a majority in congress, despite everything. now, let's look at dominic raab's visit to brussels yesterday, that is the brexit secretary meeting with michel barnier, the key negotiatorfor brexit from the european union. he has been very frank about the fact that he does not want brussels to be blamed in any way for what the outcome might be. and he absolutely has a point because if you look at it, we here in britain, we havejust really not been progressing as fast as we should have been progressing because all we do is talk amongst the tories, amongst other parties, and we have not talked enough to the eu. so he is right and and we have not talked enough to the eu. so he is rightand i and we have not talked enou

. >>> california republican congress member duncan hunter and his wife pleading not guilty in federal court thursday at the charges they illegally used $250,000 in campaign funds to furnish their lifestyle. hunter seemed to point the finger at his wife on fox news last night. >> i went to iraq in 2003, the first time i gave her power of attorney. she handled finances throughout my military career. that continued on when i got in congress. she was the campaign manager. whatever she did. that will be looked at, i'm sure. i didn't do it. >>. -- i didn't do it. >> the couple is accused of spending campaign finances on large and small purchases. $14,000 on a vacation to italy. and then a flight for a family rabb rabbit. >>> caught on video, police in texas engage a woman about to jump off a bridge. >> what's your name? >> it doesn't matter. >> it does matter. >> we will show you what happens next. i'm a small business, but i have... big dreams... and big plans. so how do i make the efforts of 8 employees... feel like 50? how can i share new plans virtually? how can i download an e-file? vi

by this republican congress and president those are pocket -- default by this republican congress andresident. those are pocketbook issues. tariffs will come down the pipes, and people really do care about social issues like abortion in this country, which is under assault. you combine those and republicans have an uphill battle on issues because they're out of the mainstream of the american public. how do i see my friend is not right? i guess i just did. we agreed to disagree. pocketbook issues are on the republican side. tax cuts are kicking in. unemployment is the.lowest since -- i cannot remember in the black communities, unemployment is at record lows. the second thing, you mention social issues. the supreme court is coming up and hearings will be on the television of it. that will motivate the republican base the same time. that is something this president was able to do, motivate the base. there will be distractions and both races will benefit but all politics goes back to local. you talk about tariffs, farming, and what does that mean? in new york city -- it does not mean anyt

. >> during watergate, republicans in congress and other republican leaders stood by nixon until almost the bitter end. gerald ford used the word political witch hunt, used that phrase. others called it hysteria, mud slinging, same kinds of words we hear today were used by republicans in congress then. the bipartisan era, there were the same bare knuckled politics going on during watergate we see now. >> john marshall, good to have you. >> thank you very much for having me. >> sure. >>> what may have been one of the most devastating moments for the white house this week was conviction of the former campaign chairman paul manafort. anderson cooper spoke with one of the jurors who says she approached the trial wanting manafort to be innocent but could not reach that conclusion after seeing the evidence. take a look. >> we had one juror who held out her vote. we had two, one that would flip flop from one day to the next, would say she was pressured, change her vote. we had some of that. but in the end it was one person who even though we could put the paperwork in front of them again and a

that meets the threshold of impeachment that was used for bill clinton had a likelihood of a republican congress actually abiding by that threshold is slim but we could see the house flip in november and all bets are off. david your republican. colleagues former colleagues more and more of them standing up to trump. so they are clinging to power and they have a decision right now to make whether or not to continue to insulate donald trump or not you know there are a lot of questions even today whether or not impeachment charges a bill against bill clinton went too far or not there are arguments on both sides but what you did see is the democrats on the hill surround bill clinton and stand by him even suggest that trying to impeach bill clinton was undermining the election that the american people voiced their choice for for bill clinton republicans up to now have suggested they're standing with donald trump as this continues to unravel they're going to have a decision to make whether they go down with him or not i think everything we've seen to date suggests that republicans on capitol hill are

the midterm elections are coming, and we will see, if the republicans lose congress, democrats get ahold of it, they very well will move to impeach him and he will go down in history on the bottom rung of presidents like james buchanan or warren harding and maybe the worst president of all-time. so, i don't really feel he has oxygen in his tank when he's running at 40% approval rating, when the economy is doing this well, but it stuns me, don, that so many republicans are timid. where is george w. bush to denounce the racism? where are other republicans, last friday, who should have been defending john mccain, the great war hero, when donald trumputter his name in a military service like that? the cowardness of republicans right now is what shocks me. because donald trump's always been a charlatan who created trump university and other

last year and is said about 48 members that were made about the same number of democrats and republicans in congress, said 24 republicans and 24 democrats. i think some members are committed to institutional instl changes even if the book of the party is heading in a single direction, i think there's a frustration in terms of what they've been doing and how much the members themselves have been left out of some of that and the desire to change course. that would be my only light i've seen in recent years that looks pretty good but has the potential to change this. .. >> >> and in general coming from the state legislatures? >> this is a great question. a couple of things. the number of moderate within this time period does not diminish within the state legislative office over the time period. so that means the number of those in office in 2000 is not higher than the number of moderates in 2010 so that was not changing during this time period. but another thing you are getting at is whether or not they are different we could even expect state legislatures to be more moderate than others. this could be

while people in the republican congress are hearing what's happening, people in the north, he is like, i'm going to make the 1866 election about my plan versus the plan of the republicans. and he demeans himself completely. he didn't have a good start, he was drunk at his own inauguration. at the second inauguration he was so drunk he had to be held up. he completely means his office by campaigning against his own party, against the republican party. going to the north, and he plays the race card repeatedly. he thinks he can unite white northerners and southerners on race. it will be black rights, black supremacy, intermarriage, social equality, which her daughter mary a black man? this is where he begins. he demeans himself, the people in the crowd start shutting back at him. and he engages them. sometimes he is hooted out of town. people don't want to hear him because northern public opinion is not being swayed by him playing this race card. things that work were not working at this time. >> he did a swing around the circle in the north which was a complete disaster. >> i'm hearing

congress. he spent most of 2017 attacking mitch mcconnell, attacking the ineptness of the republican in congress repeal. goes back into those voters say, i know you like me, you like that i shake it up but i need you to vote for the establishment. that i keep attacking that's a very difficult thing to do. >> we were in ohio in that district with special elections two weeks ago it was fascinating when you speak with women voters especially. how many are saying i'm here because of the president. i'm voting against the president. i want nothing to do with him or anyone that sports them the polling backs that up. majority say that the candidate much show their views on donald trump to get that vote. we were seeing that vividly every time we talked to a woman in that district. it just makes you wonder if you have that 60% threshold how to is going -- how much is this going to scramble the traditional model that have been used to determine how many people are going to show up. if democrats show up in large numbers it scrambles things. >> brennan: we were just showing a graphic that i'd like you to exp

marshall's role in this endeavor also was the selling of the plan to the republican congress and houses you have heard. the first in some 20 years. he did this with a plum, representing the approach of foreign policy that very few could take issue with. it explains truman suggestion that the marshall plan take marshall name, not truman's name. president truman noted, can you imagine its chances of passing an election year and a republican congress if it is named truman and not marshall. some detail on the economics. there is a great new book out and he spoke to the marshall foundation and washington, d.c.. most of these figures are from him. a great book thoroughly recommend it makes the marshall plan seem sexy. if you can imagine. [laughter] >> the marshall plan. some statistics. who receives the most money? the british. they receive some $3.6 billion. the french get the second most, two .7 and then italy in third place with 1.5 billion. germany, probably the country that does the most with marshall plan money and is most appreciative today gets 1.4 billion. the portuguese get marshall

there are already two native americans in congress both republican men from oklahoma. but the democrats who have been inspired to run say they felt insulted and marginalized by the trump administration hollande supporters want her to help wrest power from the republican controlled congress and stand up to a president who's been accused of sexism and even assault. thing ok thank you for and i think that the earth needs to start changing to the woman power instead of this. caress of power and. i don't know if there is a mother but she is kind of a mother figure and mother figures are a lot more tender and nurturing and understanding than. the man energy i don't think she is a mother one who once had to feed her daughter using food stamps now she wants to set an example for future generations of women so they don't have to do the same when i think about you know our young native women these two beautiful young girls here who maybe in their lifetime will actually see a native woman in the congress whereas you know someone like me there was no one that i could. go to to say

i think the upcoming midterm elections are going to be hugely important right now we have a republican congress a republican house and senate but if the house looks over to democrats which many political pundits seem to think is possible or even likely then i think that vastly increases the chance we have and. what about the role of paul man a fourth former campaign manager for mr trump he has not cooperated with the special prosecutor it seems unlikely that he will do you think he is betting on a pardon from mr trump. i think he's hoping very much for a part and you know then a forty to sixty nine year old man he now is going to make it a serious federal crimes he's probably looking at a sentence that will keep him in jail for most or all of the rest of this like obviously nobody ever wants back and so really metaphor has two outs now one of them is the cooperate which is a difficult process which would require him to give evidence against everybody who he has evidence against michael including the president which will require him to still serves and jail time or the sort of silver bullet or m

while people in the republican congress are hearing this, hearing what's happening, people in the north, he's like -- no, i'm going to make the 1866 elections about my plan versus the plan of the republicans. and he demeans himself completely. he didn't have a good start. he was drunk at his own inauguration. yeah, at the second inaugural address, lincoln's famous, he was drunk. he was so badly drunk he had to be held up. he completely demeans his office by, by campaigning against his own party, against the republican party. going to the north and he plays the race card repeatedly. he thinks he can unite white northerners with white southerners on race. saying this is going to be kind of mongrel democracy, black rights, blacks supremacy. intermarriage, social equality. would your daughter marry a black man? this is where it begins. he demeans himself, so crude, that people in the crowd start shouting back at him and he engages them. sometimes he's hooted out of town, literally people don't want to hear him. because northern public opinion is not being swayed by him playing this race car

amongst pro trump anti-republican congress voters, pro trump elected republican congress. are you more or less likely to vote for that congressman if you support this issue. 91% said yes. this issue is still favored by a majority of democrats but there is no passion for it. it is changing. we need to do this quickly or the polls will change on us. millennial groups are our weakest spot. they do not understand and they do not cherish citizenship. they are citizens of the world. again, if this issue was on the in florida, ohio, michigan, maine, nevada, arizona, missouri, those electoral college states, how do you think it will do you it is going to win. what we want to have happen is to have the democratic nominees, , they will most likely have already stated they are on the opposition to this issue. what a perfect way to say, we voters, they to be want noncitizens to be voters. >> as we start to wrap this up, give us some of these rules for success. these are not the tactics that were always necessarily used to as conservatives. what are some of the rules for success as we

we have seen tremendous amount of spending under obama administration but even the all-republican controlled congress and republican white house this time passed a $1.3 trillion spending bill, we know that we have to push both parties to do the right thing and not sideline on individual parties. this is not a binary choice, how do we drive members of congress and those who want to seek our support to do the right thing on the issues for the american people and help them improve their lives. paul: all right, thank you, davis, i appreciate you being here. coming up, president trump calling out the koch brothers for refuse to go support some republican candidates, what effects dispute have on midterm effects dispute have on midterm ve got to tell you something important. it's not going to be easy. quicksilver earns you unlimited 1.5% cash back on every purchase, everywhere. actually, that's super easy. my bad. where we're changing withs? contemporary make-overs. that's super easy. then, use the ultimate power handshake, the upper hander with a double palm grab. who has the upper hand now? start winning

we have seen tremendous amount of spending under obama administration but even the all-republican controlled congress and republican white house this time passed a $1.3 trillion spending bill, we know that we have to push both parties to do the right thing and not sideline on individual parties. this is not a binary choice, how do we drive members of congress and those who want to seek our support to do the right thing on the issues for the american people and help them improve their lives. paul: all right, thank you, davis, i appreciate you being here. coming up, president trump calling out the koch brothers for refuse to go support some republican candidates, what effects dispute have on midterm feel the clarity of non-drowsy claritin and relief from 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 claritin clear. to and practice... kidlots of practice.tion. get them started right with carnation breakfast essentials. it has protein plus vitamins and minerals to help kids be their best. carnation

congress is the check on the president saying it will be congress that decides if the president's actions are appropriate. >> and a fundraiser for a republicans. wrong in the sense that voters may vote on this issue. rudy giuliani brought it up yesterday. >> the polls confirm this, it is a difficult environment coming into the midterms. they want to overturn the results of the election. that gets people to donate, to get excited, as well as some of the leaners. impeachment lawyer. i appreciate having you -- >> can we get the exclusive from you. he is the guy, talk to my lawyer, the holy fire burning close to homes. state of energy declared. that make it easy for your uber driver to find you,atures taking the stress out of pickups. because leaving an event shouldn't be one. uber is moving in a new direction. forward. i love you, basement guest bathroom. your privacy makes you my number 1 place to go number 2. i love you, but sometimes you stink. febreze air effects doesn't just mask, it cleans away odors. because the things you love the most can stink. and try febreze small spaces to clean away odors for up to 30 days. breathe happy with febr

the question in november is do you trust donald trump and the republican congress because i don't think 50% of the country does. >> now, anita, what do you think the bumper stick is? is it make america great again? is it that simple? >> every minute it changes. so i hear from republicans in washington they want it to be the economy. they want it to be tax cuts, you know, the things that we all think, right? maybe border security, maybe some health care here and there, but that's what they really want to talk about. the let the president talk about the economy. remember a week and a half ago when the job numbers came out? >> i can't remember. >> the president came out into the rose garden and he had the speech about the economy and how great it was. >> oh, yeah. >> and people were cheering, republicans were cheering that speech. that's what they want him to do for the next three months. now, that's not what's going to happen for the next three months. what's going to happen is we're going to have tweets about lebron james, russia and the witch hunt and all sorts of people insulting all s

congress. this is not to say every republican member of congress is corrupt. of course, not.ut every one is allowing this to go unchecked. no one in a leadership one on tg we need to stop it and investigate it and shine some sunlight. that becomes a political vulnerability for all of them. one of the interesting subplots of this chris collins thing, he is the second person to literally have committed a crime on the white house grounds. they made that call while he was standing on the white house grounds. it's the same place where mike flynn, in his white house office sat down with the fbi and lied to the fbi. the highest crime rate of any neighborhood in washington. >> i don't know if i'll go that far but maybe. you know, the point that i keep coming back to is 2006. that year democrats mounted a fairly robust culture of corruption campaign to take back the house. and it was effective. you talk to any democratic strategists that work in those races. that was the theme that they resonate the most. this go around you have arguably way more data points to point to here as we lis

republicans right now. you have two sitting members of congress republicans who are under indictment. you have this whiff of corruption around the presidency. democrats are already exploiting this in their television ads. let's remember, the 2006 elections which washed republicans out of power, also talks about corruption. everyone attributed the iraq war and voter fatigue over george w. bush. you have the abramoff and scooter libby and the house pages and explicit messages sent. and this just all came crushing down on the republican party. and i think that you're looking at a situation that is, if not as serious, even more serious than that. >> all right, well then, that's not a bhwhiff, that's a stink. president trump just tweeted again. i feel very badly for paul manafort and his wonderful family. justice took a 12-year-old tax case among other things applied tremendous pressure on him. he refused to break make up stories in order to get a deal. such respect for a brave man. what do you think? >> look, the president hired as his chief campaign adviser, a man who would have been sus

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most republicans in congress have cheered it. bob corker described it as a banana republic type event b. he is the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee. you know, there is a risk. there is a gamble in all of this, in sending such a clear message to voters that they will not in any way perform oversight on the president. in the quinnipiac poll yesterday, basically 90% of voters who say they disapprove of president trump said they intend to vote democratic for congress. that is at the high end of that kind of correlation we've seen over the last 25 years. i think it is a reaction to the kind of signal that republican leaders send time after time at moments like this when the president shatters a boundary, their first inclination is to sweep up the glass. >> not only did the president's words matter, the press secretary's words matter. july 23rd, sarah huckabee sanders was forecasting some of this, that this was going to happen. let's take a listen. >> making baseless accusations of improper contact with russia or bein