so rick tyler, this one is for you. ted cruz might actually lose this race. >> it's possible. people will say, no, it's not possible because again you look at texas and you say it's a red state -- >> it's a democratic pipe dream. it's never going to happen. >> it's never going to happen. but mayor raurk has consistently outfunded and he's grabbed national attention. >> and jeff, the president said he's going to hold a campaign rally in the biggest stadium in texas. this is of course, there's been reporting that republicans down in texas they had to say to the president, hey, we realize you may run against this guy, you don't like him all that much but you've got to show up. >> a, the fact that ted cruz wants donald trump to help is amazing, and it's also sort of a reflection how important donald trump can be in this election. people want him at least in some of these races where his base is critical, they want him out on the trail. >> and i do think it's going to be a really interesting test for some of the candidates h

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political analyst, and jim messena, former chief of staff under president barack obama, and are rick tylerr senior adviser to newt gingrich and ted cruz. and ashley, you are at the center of the storm watching what they are saying and not saying, and don jr. now speaking out. of course, the press secretary sarah sanders in the first briefing i think in 19 day, and what is the mood inside of the white house, and let me get on the record quickly that the president paused before boarding the plane in pennsylvania and said that fema and everyone else is totally prepared, so he commented briefly, and not audible, but i am communicating what he said. but ashley, the fact is that they have been preparing for this hurricane, and i'm sure at the fema level, the white house certainly gave no indication of it yesterday or this morning. >> that is true. the mood in the white house the just take the woodward book for instance and the anonymous op-ed to start with, the president is angry and frustrated and what his son donald trump jr. said, he is right, there is a smaller group of people, and dwindling

i'm joined now by rick tyler, republican strategist and former spokesman for ted cruz's presidential campaign and victory dee francesco, professor at the l.b.j. public affairs at the university of texas in austin. thank you all. let me go to rick about this thing. ted cruz was never likeable. that was never his selling point. he was an intellectual, proud of it, a hard conservative. how close is this going to get because of his lack of likability? according to mick mulvaney. >> he wasn't liked in washington. he's getting the benefit of that. you have mitch mcconnell and cornyn who people see as part of the establishment. ted cruz ran in the tea party against the establishment. they are saying nice things about him. that's not good. >> it hurts him at home? >> i think so. i think ted is likeable enough in texas, but remember, he said some pretty dramatic things about president trump and texas is still a trump state. he won by nine points. but texas demographics are changing. it remains to be seen the big unknown who is going to show up in november. is his race emblematic of what's goi

joining us now, political analyst and republican strategist, rick tyler. th former maryland representative donna edwards. thank you for being here. >> happy labor day. >> rick, i want to start with you. you have, at times, been critical of president trump. no doubt about that. >> oh, kristen. >> he said, i welcome a challenge by joe biden. do you think biden would be a strong and viable candidate against donald trump? >> i do. look, the democrats are going to -- there's going to be a lot of people who are going to run against donald trump. it'll be a large field. probably not going to help the democrats. joe biden would lead them automatically because he was vice president. he's a gifted campaigner. you can see in the shots that they got there how he works the crowd. he hears someone yell out, hey, joey, you know, so he clearly has a rapport with people. he's a very good speech. he speaks in a way, you know -- what do they call him -- lunch bucket joe. this is the same group that donald trump is trying to attract. people who are working paycheck to paycheck

rick tyler, you're the person to ask about this.he president's budget director said cruz isn't likable enough. they are concerned he might ludlud lose. what's going on? >> i think you have a candidate that's been a very interesting candidate and is run a tremendous campaign and he's raised a ton of money. he's sort of electrified the left. i think ted cruz is likable enough and he should win. the probably is this is a close race. this is anywhere between 0%age points. it shoun ld be a 10, 12, 15 poi race. when you have club for growth and americans for prosperity and the koch brothers all diverting resources from races they want to pick up, on the democratic side, moving that money and resources to texas, that keeps the republican party from competing in other states. tennessee looks like it could be a pick up. he could win tennessee. that presents another problem for the gop. instead of trying to preserve that seat or pick up another seat like north dakota or missouri, they're going to be defending texas. that's a big problem for t

also rick tyler and columnist and associate editor for the "washington post" david ignatius.brett kavanaugh hearings and potentially a vote on friday. but what do you think about this clip? they were opening laughing at donald trump at his tweets, his lies, his reality show policies. aren't they? the world is laughing at the president of the united states. david ignatius, i'll start with you. the consequences are no laughing matter, are they? >> consequences are serious. the united states has been used to unquestioned leader sfwhip the world. the u.n. general assembly meeting every september was a symbol of that. what i thought we saw in watching president trump's speech was reality tv for real the reality is this president came before the body and makes the statement he made routinely, i've been more successful than almost any administration. and from that world body he had -- he received spontaneous laughter at that claim. even trump in an unusual moment had to acknowledge it that wasn't the reaction i was expecting. but it's a snapshot of where the world is right now. the

i think this woman, whoever she is, is mixed up. >> rick tyler. did you ever do any communication work for either of those three republicans? >> the if so, just leave. >> turn off the lights. >> exactly. one of the things we should have learned from the anita hill hearing is not to preserve those optics. and that is exactly what they're doing. now, the republicans are aware of this, which is why they want to hire a female outside counsel. but i think what they're saying, what blasey ford's lawyer is saying is they don't want to put her in the position of being cross-examined. you're stuck between her being cross-examined by a female attorney or preserving the optics of the anita hill hearing which is you have all these white men cross-examining her. that's what they want to avoid. his polling numbers are under water, but that's been a reflection of the president. most supreme court nominees, nobody hears it when they're nominated so their polling reflects that of the united states. so it's gotten worse and worse. here is what we don't see in the p

. >>> let's britain in cert leena maxwell, joe watkins, former, appeared rick tyler, also an msnbc politicalbout you about use you are former boss in the next seg metropolitan, rick, but first the department of justice officials telling msnbc news that it was just a joe. how seriously should this be taken? >> i don't know. it's questionable. i'm reluctant to doubt the veracity of the "new york times" story. however, rod rosenstein, why would he even be talking about the 25th amendment. that's something that has to do with an incapacitated president. because all the cabinet members and the vice president would have to agree. so it doesn't seem plausible, but i do think he does have a win here. i don't think he will fire rosenstein. >> and then trump can use this again him to fulfill his dialogue or his narrative that this is all a great witch-hunt. >> how seriously do you think this should be taken? do you buy the idea. we have to keep in mind when this allegedly happened. this was in may within the ten days of fires -- the doj was in shock. >> absolutely. i do think in the context of not onl

with us we have mike barnacle, politics editor for the daily beast sam stein, author zain salbe, rick tylern post" david ignatius. a lot to get to especially with the brett kavanaugh hearings and potentially a vote on friday. but first, i just want everyone to stop for a second and get reaction to the sound bite you just saw and the laughter you just heard. i think it was a significant moment. what you saw there tells you a lot about how the world leaders see donald trump. and they are openly laughing at him, at his tweets, his meetings with dictators, at his lies and his reality show policies, aren't they? the world is laughing at the united states and donald trump's america has become the butt of a big joke. >> the u.n. general assembly meeting every september was a symbol of that. what i thought we saw in watching president trump's speech was reality tv for real. the reality is that this president came before that body and made the kind of establishment he makes

. >> joining me now, political reporter, and rick tyler.rick, on the ground. first of all, how did it go, how did it resonate. what are some of the anecdotal after effects of how people saw the outcome of that debate. who won? >> you know, it was honestly more intense and spirited than i expected. i think one big opening question going into it was just how confrontational or combative o'rourke would be who up to this point in his campaign has run a largely above the fray positive campaign, largely ignored cruz and his attacks. what you saw from beto o'rourke was a different candidate, someone not only forcefully pushing back, some of it with being in a debate setting the first time, but also went out of his way to play offense on a few key issues. cruz you saw what you have seen through the campaign so far, saw him double down on what you've seen through the campaign so far, him talking relentlessly, almost exclusively to the republican base or what he believes is the republican base in texas. >> rick, who won. you are watching the polls. r

a msnbc political analyst rick tyler. glad to have you here to talk about this.f explosive right now this hashtag tfa. i want your reactions to what you've heard. morris, you can go first here. >> it's maybe that was her texting her opinion. i'd like to know who else was texting it. >> i asked her that. >> i'd like to find out who else it was. it's going to set off alarm bells. i'm sure people will start to erase text messages so they don't get caught up in this wave effect of paranoia. >> she said there was a community within the white house and she did not imply that those that were more senior with her were on that. she said there's a certain level of those that are assistants to the president and she implied those people on that level were part of this. >> those people at the assistant level are the most loyal to the president, so it will be interesting to see. one of those things that you trust but verify. >> i agree with morris in a sense that i'm sure there's a community of folks that are texting this to each other. they said i doubt it will cover. the tal

market responds not only to higher rates but of course to supply in the rear-view mirror tyler, back to you. >> rick, thank you very much president trump conducted a long and wide ranging press conference in new york city addressing among many other topics the status of the nafta negotiations with canada. >> did you reject a one-on-one meeting with the canadian prime minister, justin trudeau >> yeah, i did. >> why >> because his tariffs are too high and i told him forget about it frankly, we're thinking about taxing cars coming in from canada that's the mother lode, the big one. we're very unhappy with the negotiations and the negotiating style of canada. we don't like their representative very much. >> canada fires back saying they never requested a meeting with mr. trump so will the u.s. be able to strike a deal with canada on trade before the self-imposed october 1st deadline just a few days away? let's bring in nicolas burns, former u.s. ambassador to nato and an ambassador to harvard's school of government welcome back as always it seems extraordinarily complicated to me the idea that we would

in front of today, you can see clearly going nowhere quickly, although it is holding 94 tyler, back to you. >> rick santelli, thank you very much the fed meeting may be our prime focus in washington but up in new york at the united nations, president trump has stepped up the war of words with china over trade. eamon javers is there. >> reporter: yeah, that's right, tyler. i'm here in new york city where the president chaired the security council meeting here at the united nations earlier today and he levied a fairly dramatic accusation at the chinese government of interference in the 2018 u.s. midterm elections in a speech earlier today. here's what the president had to say. >> they do not want me or us to win because i am the first president ever to challenge china on trade and we are winning on trade. we are winning at every level. we don't want them to meddle or interfere in our upcoming election. >> reporter: tyler, the white house hasn't put out any evidence of chinese interference in the election. of course they have accused of chinese of politically selecting their responses to american tari

silver crest asset management and to the bond market we go rick santelli doing what he usually does, tracking the action >> reporter: hi, tyler it's just so fascinating not that many years ago we were scrounging the economy for green shoots and now have growth everywhere and scrounging for weeds. the tariffs are an issue but look where equities are resting. look where the ten year is look at the interday chart yes, we failed again at least up to this point at 3%. getting nearly up to 302 and really if you look at friday's settlement it's rounded to 3% but it wasn't at 3%. the real last test of 3% on a close was the early august as you see on the next chart beginning in april with regard to 10s and the dollar index is not having a good day. if you look at the charts over the last 30 years, the median middle price is roughly right around 95 which makes sense. if you open that chart up, what you see since mid-july is we're about to have the lowest close since the end of july. however, that low represents up over 2%. courtney, back to you. >>> thank you very much, rick santelli the dow and the s&p sitting at session lows two tech