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ok let's go back to ron and in l.a. i hear you right before going to the wreck you want to finish up a point please go ahead yeah i mean i was just getting at you know rob brings up that ease not seeing any policy ideas from the democrats he's absolutely right i think this is by design i think that really the united states is ready to go in a more populist direction if the four of us you know the four of us sat down and as dr jean was saying if the four of us sat down and really talk policy we wouldn't agree on everything we seemed to kind of be all over the spectrum we have different points of views on different things. however there would be some really big pillars that i think we would all have in common i think we would all want to end the wars and invest that money back home i think we would all want to see populist we're on employment is in better shape we might have some different ideas on how to get there but it's something that we would all want to see happen there would be some big crucial for instances where

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just remember, there are two ron esteses on the ballot. i'm rep ron estes and the other is ron m. estes. just remember, the "m" stands for misleading. >> misleading? no. the "m" stands for merica. results should be in around this time tomorrow night and we'll find out which estes is bestest. >>> it's a big election tomorrow night with a special election in ohio and primaries in missouri, washington, kansas and michigan >>> it's a big election tomorrow night with a special election in ohio and primaries in missouri, washington, kansas and michigan where there's an interesting race for governor. one candidate is a health scholar who would be the first muslim governor in the nation's history. he is still polling behind the front-runner, but he has a lot of support from the left, like bernie sanders who campaigned for him this weekend. we caught up with him in detroit yesterday to ask him about what he's running on. >> we often hear this idea of the working class voter and sometimes i think there's a silent white on that. we're talking white america. look at detroit and communities ar

ron: good evening to you, jane. it is significant on a political front but not necessarily legal front. let me explain here. what the prosecution team has done is extended immunity to two of the president's closest associates. to explore how michael cohen used money to allegedly pay off two paramoens of the presof the united states. i say this is bad from a political front because it looks like the psident has something to hide. however, going to a nondisclosure agreement is perfectly legal. 'm just curious to see if they have a legal connection to prove improper activity. jane: we have said time and time again, you and me, that his supporters don't care about this, that it is a distraction. but clearly prosecutors do, and presumably republican leaders in congress can't keep ignoring it. or can they? ron: i think they can. to lie lowey will tr as long as possible. the senate has been in session and the senators asked about this have been very quiet this week. ivthe house of represent comes back in another week and i

but ron deand is got a lot -- ron desantis got a lot of support from the president. it was well attended in that area. not a huge surprise from the people who support the president. but this does show with governor rick scott and ron desantis claiming victory in their primary that possibly the president's agenda at least in florida is taking traction. that's something republicans at the establishment level are watching to see if the president's message holds through through these primaries. this is a mid-term election year. they are seeing if the president has traction when he goes down there. some of his comments have been taken out of context. president trump backing both rick scott and ron desantis, both winners there on the republican side. the democratic side, that's not a surprise at all. gwen graham has been polling very well, at least 7 points ahead consistently throughout this primary race. it should be interesting to see what happens when we get to the mid-term election. guy: we'll be check in later in the hour on updates from these races. one of the centra

ron: i think we are. i think the american people are so divided in the united states of those who believe the h russiat colluded w and those who don't. as a lawyer, i look at this and say that the prosecutor ha ample time and spent millions of dollars looking for evidence. if he has got a caseitlet's see if he doesn't, it will have heading into th midterm elections. laura: as a lawyer and politician, do you expect bob mueller will have a long, hot augustsy and be nd then go quiet during the midterm elections? ron: actually, i think he will wve a long hot august, and my predictions are thwill see something before the midterm election, late september to early october, the oct surprise. how surprising will the findings be laura: ron christie, thanks for joining us. ron: good to see you. laura: in other news, the u.s. is condering imposing 25% tariffs on $200 billion of chinese goods. that is mu higher than the 10% president trump had indicated he would impose. the moveould cause even more tension between the

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ok let's go back to ron in. on skype here you write before going to the wreck you want to finish up a point please go ahead. yeah i mean i mean i was just getting at you know rob brings up that e's not seeing any policy ideas from the democrats he's absolutely right i think this is by design i think that really the united states is ready to go in a more populist direction if the four of us you know the four of us sat down and dr gene it was same if the four of us sat down and really talk policy we wouldn't agree on everything we seemed to kind of be all over the spectrum we have different points of views on different things however there would be some really big paler that i think we would all have in common i think we would all want to end the wars and invest that money back home i think we would all want to see a populace where employment is in better shape we might have some different ideas on how to get there but it's something that we would all want to see happen there would be some big crucial for instance

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but what i will say about ron desantis, and i had the opportunity to work with ron in 2015 and 2016 and his wife, is that i never heard ron desantis make a single disparaging remark. don't just take it from me, if you look back at his record in the navy, at harvard law, at yale, all the way going back to when he took his team to the little league world series and came up from pretty humble beginnings, he has a very impeccable record. i know his character and can speak to the way that he has conducted himself and how he interacts with people but this is a little bit of a wake-up moment i think for him as a candidate going for statewide office that literally folks will look at every single detail. now, when you went back and saw the entire point, i think it was pretty clear that ron desantis was talking about the economic progress that florida has made under governor rick scott and i do think that as this general election moves along, i do think that andrew gillum is going to have to answer for some of these liberal economic policies. i think that's going to be very problematic for him. t

ok let's go back to ron in. right before going to the rec you want to finish up a point please go ahead. yeah i mean i mean i was just getting at you know rob brings up that e's not seeing any policy ideas from the democrats he's absolutely right i think this is by design i think that really the united states is ready to go in a more populist direction if the four of us you know the four of us sat down and dr gene it was same if the four of us sat down and really talk policy we wouldn't agree on everything we seemed to kind of be all over the spectrum we have different points of views on different things however there would be some really big paler that i think we would all have in common i think we would all want to end the wars and invest that money back home i think we would all want to see a populace where employment is in better shape we might have some different ideas on how to get there but it's something that we would all want to see happen there would be some big crucial for instances where we would be

host: let's hear a little bit from andrew gillam now running against ron desantis. [video clip] >> if we are going to make clear to the rest of the world that the dark days we have been under -- thatut of washington the derision and division that is coming out of our white house, that right here in the state of florida we are going to isind this nation of what truly the american way. way.is truly the american start from the bottom, richmond heights, and make your way all the way to the top. [cheers and applause] >> and be in service of all people, have a message of love, community, connection, common sense, decency, of what is right and what is wrong and that message is big enough, wide enough, deep enough to hold all of us. host: in a previous story in the headline that says what we know or don't know about the fbi investigation hanging over andrew gillam at the time. guest: that was one of the concerns going into this. one of the reasons gwen graham may have been perceived as a safer candidate. the investigation into the city of tallahassee has not touched the may

ok let me go back to ron here and. again i want to stress the issue of identity politics because when i look at some of the things i mean democratic socialists of america i mean i've been around for a while ok and i looked at some of their older literature and you're spot on they looked at more and working people getting a fair shake that's fine but what i see now is this infusion of identity politics and i think that you know it's i can say pretty confidently given the election results over the last two years that doesn't work it doesn't work for the democratic party but they they don't you know that when you talk about. ends gender toilets and stuff like that it turns off the heartland i'm from the heartland this is something that people they want the factories the star opening up again they want their wages to go up and then you have these things you know this political correctness and and these pronouns all this nonsense and i don't have any patience for it because it doesn't advance my life or the people around me

the difference between me and ron desantis is that we welcome the fbi to do their job.donald trump have tried to undermine them at every course, even going so far as to suggest some deep state involvement in the fbi, who are doing important work for this country and this state of florida. so the difference is, is that i'm here to aid them in getting their job done. ron desantis and president trump is here to undermine them. >> final question is do you embrace the pressure of being the progressive test case here? you're running in the most important battleground state in the country that decides who our presidents are. somebody as progressive as you has never been able to succeed statewide in florida. are you accepting this pressure to prove whether progressives can win swing states? >> so, and you know this, chuck, from being from down here, the democrats have lost the last five races consecutively for governor. we've lost the last 20 years. there weren't progressives necessarily running. i'm pleased to have the positions that i hold and have the positions that i do bec

if we talked about this race -- lou: you mean ron desantis? >> i think everybody watches the show knows who i mean. if we would've talked about this years ago would have been when graham, daughter of bob graham. not for this race for two years. these two candidates came from nowhere. and it's going to be a significant opponent of any socialist and it will set the tone. it is not congressional district. this is a big deal. it's going to be watched and will be a tremendous race. lou: it is pretty clear the way at desantis immediately today, the left-wing media, florida, and national organization, democrat attacking ron desantis. i mean going after him viciously. it was an extraordinary response, but basically it's a signal. he's going to run one of the nastiest, toughest campaigns we can imagine. it is scorched earth, straight from the democratic left wing playbook. >> florida has the 10 media state -- not to say you can organize. much today. it is going to be a tv battle par none with $150 million raised in the bottom line is to have every left

[applause] >> ron, your thoughts? ron: a couple quick things. it is emphatic insistence on taking full responsibility for his actions and his decisions, even when his closest advisers work with it that he has done so. for example, when he recognized israel over general george marshall's strenuous objections. we all know the buck stops here. but it truly was an ethos. it was not just a way of life. becausemportant to him one of his favorite generals from history was cincinnatus. the farmer that was the great general, he said ok, i am done, i am going back to my previous life. harry truman did that. the last president i think we're ever going to happy does that. >> he was following much in the steps of george washington. it was called the american cincinnatus. he could have served out his life and had political reward commensurate with his military success. i think truman -- you make a great point as a student of history, he really understood how washington, jefferson, jackson lincoln, these were , people he was well aware of how they made their d

ron: it ranks way up there. you're talking about a woman of color, and to call h a dog -- there are so many different ways to understand what the president might be getting at. we never had this in the george w. bush administration. the president had a dignity and dignity amongst his staff.t the fact tu would have a staffer wring this type of book and the way that the president responding to her calling her a dog shows you where we are in amer politics. rajini: the white house is trying to discredit omarosa's account, saying it is untrue. ne trump campaign is now suing her for breakingdisclosure agreement they s she signed. how common is it for people who work in the white house to be made to sign an agreement that they will not spill thy beans once tave? ron: not so sure about the white house. i didn't when i was a commissioned offer to the president. but i did on a previous presidential campaign, and that is where t lawsuit is coming from. it is not coming from her time in the white house, but the nondisclosur

ron nessen who was a press secretary for gerald ford administration and he also was at the white house as a correspondent before that. richard benedetto who was a former white house correspondent and columnist for u.s.a. "today," and he is now the adjunct professor of journalism at american university. ken walsh who is a correspondent and journalist and columnist for u.s. news and world report, and susan page who works as a journalist and washington bureau chief for "usa today" and she is an author of the soon to be published biography of barbara bush called "the matriarch." please enjoy in presentation, i know it's going to be a good one on the relationship between the presidency and the press and how communications between the two have evolved and how it's changed over time, and the way in which it's stayed the same. >> i will sit here and you all can sit wherever you like. thank you very much, martha, for that wonderful introduction. i think on behalf of all of us as we're taking our seats we want to thank you for what you do to preserve history and the connection between presidents

and running against ron desantis.ay ron said this about his opponent. >> he is an articulate spokesman for those far left views and he is a charismatic candidate. none of that was my cup of tea, but he performed better than the other people there. we have to make hard we continue florida going in a good direction. let's build off the success we've had of governor scott. >> joining us now, mayor andrew gillum. mayor, thank you very much for joining us tonight. really appreciate it. >> thank you so much for having me, lawrence. i hope you're well. >> i am. i want to get your reaction to what we just heard congress desantis say about you. >> the congressman clearly plans on campaigning out of the trump manual. i think people in this state are so sick of those kinds of politics of division, racialized politics, which i think, you know, trump tried to capitalize on in his election. i think people have learned their lesson. in this state we're going to send them a message on november 6th when they elect me governor of the s

ok and they didn't have a lot of birkenstocks and they didn't have a lot of capital to point out so ron what is that in a nutshell go ahead. well democratic socialism in the contemporary american sense i mean you know whenever people throw around these terms you need to factor in you know the snapshot in contemporary time but democratic socialism is certainly not authoritarian socialism or anything like that democratic socialism as the d.s.a. is presenting it basically just gives more rights to the workers it still allows enterprises stuff like that however workers have more rights and they have more of a say and they see more of their product and what the d.s.a. is mission is in particular is to try to get away from the economy that instead exploits workers and is focused on destroying the environment and war they're trying to get away from all that to occur in an economy that is more sustainable that workers have a better seat at the table and where everybody has health care ok ok steve i mean you know socialism tends to become authoritarian if you don't keep an eye on it i'd like to

i happen to know ron and andrew.her on the executive border of florida student council when we were seniors in high school. they are both very he low queen, very talented, very articulate men. they are both men of my generation, something that's exciting for me personally and a lot of floridians and as younger elected officials, they should both set an example of what a healthy debate can look like in our state and i don't think ron did a good job of that yesterday. >> do you think donald trump helped and i appreciate, by the way, let me just back up, i really appreciate what you just said. i know it's a difficult time and very difficult time to navigate politically and that brings me to my next question. is donald trump an important part of your race, of your message? is' leader you would like to emulate. >> well the president, whoever the president is, is always an issue in races for congress. and a lot of people ask me, mika, how do you deal with donald trump? and, obviously, i have a lot of disagreements with him

i think ron is extraordinary. reporter: do you still believe the federal government's response to the hurricane in puerto rico -- president trump: i think we did a fantastic job in puerto rico. we're still helping puerto rico. the governor is an excellent guy and he's very happy with the job we've done. we have put billions and billions of dollars into puerto rico and it was a very tough one. their electric plant was bad before the hurricane. if you look back in the records that plant was dead, it was shut, it was bankrupt, it was out of business. there owed tremendous amounts of money, it was closed up. when the hurricane came, people said, what are we going to do about electricity? we put a lot of money and effort into puerto rico and i think most of the people in puerto rico really appreciate with what we've done. texas healed quickly and the people were incredible. florida healed quickly and everybody worked very hard. puerto rico was actually more difficult because of the in fact it's an island, it's much har

ok let me go back to ron here and. again i want to stress the issue of identity politics because when i look at some of the things i mean democratic socialists of america i mean i've been around for a while ok and i looked at some of their older literature and you're spot on they looked at more and working people getting a fair shake that's fine but what i see now is this infusion of identity politics and i think that you know it's i can say pretty confidently given election results of the last two years that doesn't work it doesn't work for the democratic party but they they don't you know the. when you talk about transgender toilets and stuff like that it turns off the heartland i'm from the heartland this is something that people they want the factories the star opening up again they want their wages to go up and then you have these things you know this political correctness and and these pronouns all this nonsense and i don't have any patience for it because it doesn't advance my life or the people around me how do

ron what does the left hope to achieve by this strategy i mean you know you don't have the leadership speaking out against that schumer said something and then he got attacked for it again identity politics comes into play it's a losing proposition i don't know what the democrats hope to achieve by going down this path go ahead ron but you know i don't want to split hairs on optics here but i think when you're in the in the topic of this conversation when you say the left . really referring to is the democratic establishment good in the corporate media and i would argue just for optics sake that's not the left one could argue that something like m.s.m. b.c. and the democratic establishment that is in fact the liberal establishment but when your say liberal you should be using it in the field loek sense percent to the left in the best of times and are sent to the right on it affects them a very severe the question it's actually wrong there's nothing actually progressive i agree with that ok but in the end the questions that i set out to everyone here i said stablish mentor left so kind

ron desantis says andrew gillum is for abolishing i.c.e. and he says yeah, i want to see it replaced with something else. he says ron desantis is for single payer health care and gillum says, yeah, guilty. that's something the people of florida need. you see that split very clearly. >> as i was watching the interview i was thinking about a word that is authenticity and that is -- that was a major driver of donald trump and the support of donald trump that he said things that were in his words politically incorrect and people liked that. you'll see the same, you already saw it in your interview with andrew gillum, him supporting things that are in many places considered fringe but he's standing by it. that could go further than you would think, particularly with people in the middle like, okay, this guy is an actual person who will stand by what he believes and i presume you'll see the same thing on the right, with ron desantis because it's hard to imagine him abandoning soim of his more conservative principles that somebody like adam putnam

ron you're agreeing there now that my point is this it's ever been ever since the campaign that even the election is that the more you go after this guy the mainstream media the more you push him up and it's free advertising what in any any and so much you know you have seen him go out on the road i mean all he does is attack these people and they love it ok they were giving him all his material run yeah you're absolutely right and i'm sorry guys i missed a little bit i was having a tech issue on my end i had hopes that it expresses i thought it was like why was it something i said i don't know i don't have a good discussion but that everything just kind of went out on me version and so i'm not totally caught up i apologize but yeah i think rob i think i got a very good point they don't have any policy ideas i don't think that's an accident though and that's why again i'm very disenfranchised by the two party system right now because i don't feel that there's anybody with power in politics with the exception to bernie sanders that represents any of the policies of iraq going to jump

ron christie joins john mccain, who has died at the age of 81.tiejoins me on john mccain, who has died at the age of 81. ron christie joins me on the phone, who is a former special assistant to george w bush and is 110w assistant to george w bush and is now a bbc political analyst. tell us what he was like? you knew him very well. i did. senatorjohn mccain embodied the naval academy here, which is duty, on, country. he was a patriot, someone who served in the navy a month his father, his grandfather, he had been tortured severely in that beckham walcott refused to offer himself to come home because he said he would never come home and tell all the soldiers we re come home and tell all the soldiers were there before him and have the opportunity to come home. i think he embodied the spirit of whatjohn mccain brought not only to the house of representatives, but the united states congress, someone who is willing to cross party lines and do what was right or the country, not necessarily in the best interests of his political party and that is what so

ok ok let me go to stay here because i mean again it could be you know i mean ron you've been on this program before and we've discussed this you know left in progressive in this stablish mean and all that that's fine but steve you know every since two thousand and ten the democrats you know have lost over and over and over again because i keep running on the same message over and over again and. one can make the argument that trump appealed to the people that filled the disaffected i mean a lot of white men a lot of white people in general voted in two thousand and sixteen because they finally found a candidate that they could see that would consider their concerns ok so i mean you know a lot has been said here but i mean i do i do think that this is a lot about insurgency and it's all about bernie sanders i think that's going to be the most important event remember not the trouble is elected but what was done to bernie go ahead steve well first of all let's also point out that donald trump got the higher percentage of hispanics of voting for him only and did mitt romney or john mcca

ron desantis has been modeling himself in donald trump's image.k given that, that this is something that's likely to stick from your reporting, and what you have seen out there from voters and what they think of all this? >> look, i don't actually think that ron desantis is going to come out and say, yes, i meant it as a racial dog whistle and i apologize for that. if there were a clarification, it would probably happen on a fox news. he is known for his fox news appearances in the frequency which he does them. his campaign said to me that he didn't mean it as a racial term. the gillum campaign saying they don't buy that. something susan said is what we should be paying attention to. we are 12 hours into the race. yes, republicans and democrats voted already, but moderates are looking at who their candidate could be in the general election. they have a choice to make. i spoke to am some folks here. what they had to say about why they voted for ron desantis and andrew gillum give us a little bit of insight into what the campaign's bases look like.

ron what does the left hope to achieve by this strategy i mean you know you don't have the leadership speaking out against that schumer said something and then he got attacked for it again identity politics comes into play it's a losing proposition i don't know what the democrats hope to achieve by going down this path go ahead ron but you know i don't want to split hairs on optics here but i think when you're in the in the topic of this conversation when you say the left . really referring to is the democratic establishment good in the corporate media and or i would argue just for optics sake that's not the left one could argue that something like m s n b c and the democratic establishment that is in fact the liberal establishment but when your say liberal you should be using it in the field loek sense percent to the left in the best of times and are sent to the right on it affects them a very severe the question that's actually wrong there's nothing actually progress i agree with that ok but in the end the questions that i set out to everyone here i said stablish mentor left so good

. >>> and in florida, republican ron desantis accused of racism for calling his african-american opponent articulate and urging florida not to monkey this up. tonight, andrew gillum responds. "the 11th hour" begins now. >>> good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. i'm ali velshi in for brian williams. day 587 of the trump administration brings the sudden news that the west wing attorney who has been the pivotal link to robert mueller during the russia investigation is out. white house counsel don mcgahn will soon be making his exit. axios was first out with a report this morning. that was quickly followed by this tweet from president trump. white house counsel don mcgahn will be leaving his position in the fall shortly after the confirmation, hopefully, of judge brett kavanaugh to the united states supreme court. i have worked with don for a long time and truly appreciate his service. this afternoon trump was asked about the departing white house counsel. >> don mcgahn is a really good guy, been with me for a long time. privately before this he represented

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i tell you what, i know ron desantis. ron desantis is extraordinary, harvard, yale, brilliant. ran an incredible campaign. really beat a lot of people he wasn't supposed to beat because he came into the race and a lot of people didn't know him. he's an extreme talent and he will make a fantastic governor of florida. i think ron is extraordinary in so many different ways. i haven't heard that at all, no. >> didn't hear it. whether you believe that or not, that's really not the point. a true leader would condemn any racist comment, any unseemly comment full stop. but this is the man who launched his campaign with an attack on mexicans. >> when mexico sends it people, they're not sending their best. they're bringing drugs. they're bringing crime. they're rapists. >> who responded to deadly white supremacist violence in charlottesville by infamously claiming, his words, very fine people on both sides. >> you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides. you had people in that group -- excuse me. excuse me. i saw the same pictures as you did. >> who has never stopped at