and i forced roy moore to respond. and by the way, his response didn't help him. jimmy, you want to attack me, did you go right ahead. facts actually matter. now, last night jimmy tweet add vulgar, obscene mock photo of me it was creepy and perverted even by jimmy standards that even he had to take it down. here is the thing about sanctimonious bully. he did you want just go after people like me who highlight his hypocrisy. i'm fine with that he routinely bashes nonstop all republicans, even the first lady, really, of the united states of america? i don't care that you are a liberal, jimmy. i know that well, you kissed obama's ass and so on and so forth. that's fine. keep in mind, this is a guy who preaches from high horse night after night after night just about how unrighteous and just he really is. take a look. >> hey, maybe we won't talk about donald trump much tonight and then he opened his mouth and all manner of stupid came out. i feel i can say it the president is completely unhinged. >> you don't mind if republicans turn off your show they are not watchin

and i forced roy moore to respond. and by the way, his response didn't help him. jimmy, you want to attack me, did you go right ahead. facts actually matter. now, last night jimmy tweet add vulgar, obscene mock photo of me it was creepy and perverted even by jimmy standards that even he had to take it down. here is the thing about sanctimonious bully. he did you want just go after people like me who highlight his hypocrisy. i'm fine with that he routinely bashes nonstop all republicans, even the first lady, really, of the united states of america? i don't care that you are a liberal, jimmy. i know that well, you kissed obama's ass and so on and so forth. that's fine. keep in mind, this is a guy who preaches from high horse night after night after night just about how unrighteous and just he really is. take a look. >> hey, maybe we won't talk about donald trump much tonight and then he opened his mouth and all manner of stupid came out. i feel i can say it the president is completely unhinged. >> you don't mind if republicans turn off your show they are not watchin

just as it did with roy moore, the republican establishment will go so far.ardener adding the last thing west virginias it want is the committee telling them what they should want. the gop super pac has taken him on with a attack ad. it might be too little too late. >> criminal don blankenship. his company got caught pumping 1.4 billion gallons of toxic coal slurry, contaminating water supplies. isn't there enough toxic sludge in washington? >>> we have to get the best people. we need to get the best and the finest and if we don't, we'll be in trouble for a long period of time. maybe never come out of it. >> an update tonight ob one of donald trump's best people, epa chief scott pruitt. nick mulvaney telling a house committee today he will investigate pruitt for spending $43,000 on installing a soundproof phone booth in his office in an apparent violation of the law. and tonight, abc news reports on the foia they filed on pruitt's controversial trip to morocco last december, an odd location for the head of the epa. they got that back with large portions of pr

if you forced me to pick today i would certainly pick roy moore but you never know.onal and state republican lead remembers apoplectic that he is doing as well as he has been doing in both public and private polls. balls at least they think -- and they are republican leaders. they think that he would lose rather badly to senator joe manchin. >> i'm a little confused how a man who opened a mine that had an explosion that killed 29 men can be doing well in a state comprised of coal workers. >> you know, katy, you have got a lot of company. we have all been food for years, because of donald trump, and everything that's happened since. i have a hard time believing he will be the nominee in the end. and this is a very serious matter. the man served prison time. >> 29 people died. i mean that's as serious as it gets. >> exactly. sure. he was in charge. he is a colberton or was a colberton. it is absolutely remarkable. but i will tell you why, he is outtrumping trump in this three-way race. west virginia went for trump, incredibly, by 42%a agpercentag points. and the people

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i think back to the instance down in alabama with roy moore.t ever an ethics committee investigation of roy moore. he never got to the u.s. senate but folks had no trouble looking at those accusations on the record and making a judgment. you are looking at -- >> oh, absolutely right. you are right. >> you are looking at eight accusations. >> you are right. >> you don't know if any of this happened? >> i said voters make those decisions. they made the decision in alabama. the voters make that decision because that's the decision they are entitled to. once the voters have made a decision and elected someone to the senate, then there should be an investigation. if there is alleged wrongdoing. there should be an investigation about any senator who's accused of sexual harassment, sexual assault, campaign bri beries an the rest of it. we need an investigation in the house and senate. >> do you believe these women who came forward with allegations against senator franken? some of them are democrats. >> i don't know the facts here. that's why we are en

roy moore from winning the primary but he did end up losing the general election. >> blankenship, wes baggage, but on the plus side for republican voters there, his message is so much like the trump 2016 message and he's been espousing the ideals of, you know, closing in on trade deals, on issues with jobs, on issues with, you know, sort of being more isolationist, for years and years and years when he ran for office and he was just using his run for office. >> he doesn't live in west virginia, he's a convicted felon. >> he's got a house in nevada and his girlfriend lives there. >> but where i would have the biggest concern if i was involved in elections right now is that he's the number one choice of democrats, democrats have spend $400,000 to make him their nominee, and that tells you a lot. and joe manchin is much more vulnerable given that trump won the state by 24 points. i tried to get him twice, so i have a little bit of stockholm syndrome with this whole thing, at the same time, he's very durable. and apparently he must be very, very vulnerable to jenkins or morrissey. >> he

from getting the nomination, by don blankenship and says he is no roy moore. >> my accuser was obamand hillary. his accuser was women and girls, as i understand. quite a bit of difference. >> republicans in d.c. are trying to paper a primary result to help them avoid headaches in a november midterms they can capitalize on a constituency here in coal country that the fox news poll of likely republican primary voters finds has joe manchin, the democratic incumbent senator, with an approval rating of 35%. president trump with an approval rating 87%. >> bret: interesting numbers. peter doocy live in charleston, west virginia. thank you. that debate is may 1 in the senate race. at this hour, voters are still casting ballots in arizona's special election to fill the vacancy left by republican congressman trent franks who resigned in december. alicia acuna reports the democratic candidate hopes to pull off an upset victory in what's been a reliably red district. >> the conventional wisdom in the race to fill former arizona congressman trent franks' seat is republican debbie lesko. a shoo-in

there's no special circumstances, no roy moore. there's no whatever. very attractive democratic candidate. two pretty normal candidates. so this says -- this combined with paul ryan's announcing that he wasretiring, not running for re-election, i think it's going to be close to sort of signaling that the house is gone for republicans. it's early so you can't really say that but i think big republican donors are going to start looking at the senate to try to save that. some people who were thinking of, you know, candidates who were thinking this is getting a little late but there's still some places -- the filing deadline is not there yet. you'll see more republican members maybe resign. it's a pretty bad result for the republicans. >> our friend steve schmidt, intellectually gifted as you are, bemoans the loss, the absence of rigor in this administration. it's a word he uses all the time, and it really is perfect, and it's rigor that speaks to the problems of dr. ronny jackson, the lack of vetting. it's rigor that speaks to the problems of the epa dire

is don blankenship the next roy moore, in other words, a senate candidate that will help the democrats seat or keep a seat, or is he the next donald trump, the establishment hates him but he could win? >> what if i told you rye more and donald trump were cut from the same cloth along with the other candidates who are running as far right as possible. i think that someone with the record of blankenship fits in with scott pruitt's epa. i understand the connections made between mitch mcconnell and somehow having a relationship with some chinese brass but the fact he in 2018 said china person speaks to a new republican party. joe manchin will be fine in west virginia and the reason is because joe manchin represents west virginia values. he's not a d.c. senator, he's a west virginia senator. and so it is going to be really difficult to beat him. i just hold up blankenship as what is a part of the new republican party, because there are many blankenships around the country just like him running in primaries right now. >> susan, how do you like at the race. >> it is not as though the other re

there's no special circumstances, no roy moore. there's no whatever.tive democratic candidate. two pretty normal candidates. so this says -- this combined with paul ryan's announcing that he was retiring, not running for re-election, i think it's going to be close to sort of signaling that the house is gone for republicans. >> our friend steve schmidt bemoans the loss, the absence of rigor in this administration. it's a word he uses all the time and it really is perfect. and it's rigor that speaks to the problems of dr. ronny jackson, the lack of vetting. rigor that speaks to the problems of the epa director. would that help if this were a rigorous administration? >> the problem starts at the top, but it wouldn't hurt. i mean, the ronny jackson thing i've been watching your coverage of it. he's not going to be nominated, obviously. but he seems to have been a popular white house doctor. president obama didn't say anything negative about him when they passed him on to president trump. so in that respect, whatever his faults might have been, they were pr

alabama -- >> roy moore. >> rourke. >> he made a song the primary. >> this claire mccaskill thing in >> lucky duck. lucky. >> she is luck? barbara boxer always had an opponent with some gaping wound in his face. and in this case, it's either the rape candidate aikin. >> remember, that saying legitimate rape? >> now another shot. >> nude photo. >> i want to give her due respect. i don't always agree with claire mccaskill. >> but missouri is a red state. >> hold on a second. she is a very shrewd, smart politician. she is won statewide a couple times. look, i said i respect her, and i think we should give her more respect than saying she is just lucky. >> and the difference between her -- >> you are so passionate. >> i'm not. >> lucky is good. >> but it's not not. >> why would they -- they would never say that about a man. they would never say that about a man. they wouldn't. >> well, you wouldn't say what you said about her about ted cruz because she doesn't flip. [ overlapping dialog ] >> generals. that's the kind of generals i want. >> i think the guy was lucky in alabama. >> a red s

it's like a roy moore fantasy come to life. it was, like, so many.ere so many kids like the march looked like every single parent went out of town this weekend and then their kids threw the most prosktive house party ever. it would be impressive enough if these kids just organized hundreds of thousands of people to march, but they also called those people to action. >> parkland survivor emma gonzalez silently demonstrating the amount of time it took the gunman to turn her world upside down. >> since the time that i came out here, it has been six minutes and 20 seconds. >> among the young people center stage, the 9-year-old granddaughter of dr. martin luther king. >> my grandfather had a dream that his four little children will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. i have a dream that enough is enough! ( cheers and applause ) >> trevor: oh! that little girl is so adorable! ( applause ) she's so adorable. but it must be so stressful being a member of the king family because you can't just have normal dreams. (

how do you know it's not a roy moore-like person in a mall asking 13-year-olds if they want to model?t. i mean, thank goodness it was not. >> trevor: right. >> but, no, i feel like i have had a bit of a cinderella story. >> revor: right. >> and feel really, really lucky that it wasn't that. and that it was the beginning of a career. and i grew up in the midwest, and i had no idea that some day i would be a model. and it happened really fast. >> trevor: uniform been on this journey that's been really fascinating and most would be happy with that. most would say, "i'm a model now. i've killed want game." you're a model and i think in 2013, you go, "i want to learn how to code." >> yeah, it's not probably the most linear path, but that's kind of just been my life. so, yes, i-- i started modeling at 15 and have had, like, the most amazing journey through it all. >> trevor: right. >> and i still love my day job. but at a certain point, i was really interested in getting back into classes, and i was really just fascinated by the tech industry. >> trevor: right. >> and i was so confused abou

roy moore. i don't care what donald trump did 10 or 12 years ago. i'm not sure most of of the country cares. but then you get into this question of were there threats and hush money, the $130,000 from his lawyer. isn't that legitimate news coverage. mollie: people are trying too hard to make something out of this story. they are painting this accuser who has been an inconsistent accuser. howie: she was denying the affair. mollie: you are seeing the media treatment of her like she is a credible source. i saw a focus group of people being asked what they thought this story and they said they are trying to impeach our president. howie: basically you think the country is willing to accept past behavior of this nature. you also think we don't have any hard proof about threats and things like that. but you are saying some journalists and commentators are so determined to get the president that they become fans, perhaps uncritical fans of porn stars like stormy daniels. mollie: this is not a character by her own behavior might not be so great. but people c

by the time people see our interview, probably the roy moore situation in alabama will have been decided one way or the other, but in some respects, the voters are having to decide whether they think the guy who has been accused of certain things is worthy of public service. this doesn't seem like one day's gonna come and we're no longer gonna be talking about this. it's sort of like the virus has been let out of the test tube. - no, it's a fascinating moment. - it really is. - much more so, if we had moments before like with clarence thomas, or bob packwood, or bill clinton, or so forth where politicans' sexual misconduct became a big story, there's never been like this where there's a wave going through society and not just about politicians as you say. it's in the media, it's in entertainment, it's in business. and it's clearly a moment where-- - you and i might be the last two men employed in the media business by the time this interview is up, right? - i hope you and i are still here. (audience applauds) okay, but i think-- you know, look, if nothing else, whatever the individual ca

32 years old, which is an odd age, 10 years too young to host this event and 20 years too old for roy mooreknow, he am got elected, yes. it was fun. there was fun. [laughter] honestly, i never really thought but i did a comedian, take an aptitude test in seventh grade and this is 100% true. it said my best profession was a clown or a mime. clown and thened i heard my voice and said, maybe mime. [laughter] as much as some of you might want me to, its 20 and i'm a woman so you cannot shut me up -- it is 2018 and i'm a woman so you cannot shut me up. unless you have michael cullen wire me $130,000. michael, you can find me under my poor and star name, rights y pornse -- m eibu no pr matter you stores. s. because of all the protests, poster board has been flying off the shelves faster than robert mueller can say, you have been subpoenaed. pink yarn sales are through the roof. after trump got elected, women started knitting those hats. when i first saw them i was like that is a * * *? i guess mine has more yarn on it. you should have done more research before you asked me to do this. [laughter]

it's consistent with people that supported roy moore, who said he -- >> we don't have enough time for all the examples that you could probably put out there, fine people on both sides and all that. matt, do you expect someone to have a better answer that that? >> yeah, look, i don't know why she did that. maybe she's not as familiar with the case? i doubt that. >> she's a federal judge! >> but we have seen examples where people, where that happens. my guess is that she was actually, that this was a strategy that she went in there and was like, look, i'm not going to get into, if they ask me about roe versus wade, i'm not going to comment on that, my personal feelings about that or whether, you know, the supreme court decided that, if they ask me about -- i'm not going to go down that rabbit trail. the problem is, i don't think -- i don't think you can do that when it comes to this case. i think you have to sort of weigh in on it. >> okay, peter? >> yeah, i mean, theoretically, she could have been trying to say, i'm not going to comment on any cases that have been decided before. and,

of people, campaigned for people, like alabama, doug jones, that marquee special election against roy mooreer to western pennsylvania a couple months ago, also very red part of that state. he connects very well with the blue collar, the white working class folks. that's perhaps solidifies his own political brandt, but let's face it, this is a very divided democratic party. there's a lot of energy on the left. will joe biden stick his neck out, and compare into places that are not as sure bets. >> in 30 seconds here, does it say more, as you're watching this, about joe biden and the future, or about the democratic electorate? >> i think it says beast. joe biden is the strongest 2020 hopeful by far. he's played his politics the smartest and strongest, but he has to walk into the buzz saw of the establishment. >> that's what beth is watching for. thank you very much. >>> coming up in our 4:00 p.m. hour, how the world is responding to the syrian attack. do stay with us. you may be at increased risk for pneumococcal pneumonia, that can take you out of the game for weeks, even if you're healthy.

you had other specials, whether it was pennsylvania 17, roy moore, any number of things where you canr there was fund-raising issues or turnout issues on the republican side. none of those dynamics were the case. every republican i talked to said she was a good candidate, they felt like the turnout from the republican side of things is along the side of what they were expecting, but still a dramatic shift, and that is a warning sign. if she gets those numbers in that district, it's going to be a major win for her in arizona. >> makes her much tougher statewide. look and the country, democrats are doing much better in republican territory. six months from tuesday, the midterm elections. we have more audio on that supreme court hearing, more of that. we'll take you inside the arguments after the break. alright, i brought in high protein to help get us moving. ...and help you feel more strength and energy in just two weeks! i'll take that. -yeeeeeah! ensure high protein. with 16 grams of protein and 4 grams of sugar. ensure. always be you. ♪ come fly with me, let's fly, let's fly away. ♪

32 years old, which is an odd age. 10 years too young to host this event and 20 years too old for roy moorepi know. he almost got elected. yeah. it was fun. it was fun. honestly, i never really thought i would be a comedian, but i did take an aptitude test in seventh grade -- and this is 100% true. i took an aptitude test in seventh grade and it said my best profession was a clown or a mime. it did say clown and then it heard my voice and then said maybe mime. think about mime. and i know as much as some of you want me to, it's 2018 and i'm a woman so you can not shut me up! unless you have michael cohen wire me $130,000. michael, you can viend me on-- me on venmo under my porn star name reince priebus. reince just gave a thumb's up. okay. feel are saying america is more d i vieded than ever. but i think no matter what you support politically, we can all agree that this is a great time for craft stores. because of all the protests, poster board has been flying off the shelves faster than robert mueller can say you've been subpoenaed. yarn sales are through the roof. after trump got elected,

reporting of the harvey weinstein scandal, and the washington post won for sexual claims against roy moorendrick lamar, as we told you, made history, the first musician outside of classical or jazz music to win the pulitzer prize for music. >>> we are tracking breaking news for you in san jose. that's where a four alarm fire has erupted and is sending out a lot of smoke right now in a minute, we will go live to san jose to bring you more on the efforts to control the fire. >>> a couple is charged with the overdose death of a 16-year- old boy, and we have more details coming up. >>> it's a busy, tuesday, april 17th. i'm gasia mikalian, and steve clark is in his office. >> patchy fog, and sunny to mostly sunny. a few clouds over the hills. cool breeze, and the temperatures will drop fast this evening, maybe not too bad before, but i would think a couple of innings in, and the temperatures will drop off. the current storm total was 14 inches, and it was an epic snow day. everything has moved off, and it's much quieter and colder as

republicans don't want another roy moore situation. don blankenship has fallen to third.licans breathing a sigh of relief and a chance that it could slip to red? >> if you can't answer the following question easily, you shouldn't be in the senate. have you been in federal prison recently? >> the president is too easy for some people. >> yeah. so clearly if he wins the primary, it's a contest. don't underestimate manchin. he's a good buy, a good politician. should be a state we do well. the only way we could lose is nominate somebody that has been in jail recently. >> and how about those that could go for a republican over joe manchin? he's a blue collar democrat. are democrats that voted for trump going to switcher that vote from trump to a manchin candidate even if they're pro trump? >> a really good question. you have to make it about trump. if you believe in this man, president trump, he's going to give you a better life, the economy is getting better and joe manchin is an unreliable supporters, that's how you get a trump democrat to vote against manchin. >> he didn't

he's stealing a page from the fake news media and lying about what i said about roy moore.ll he had to do with a little research and find out that i was the one that repeatedly pressed him over and over about the multiple allegations against hi him. i forced him to respond. his response didn't help him. you want to attack me, you go right ahead but facts matter. last night he tweeted a vulgar, obscene mock photo of me that wass so creepy and perverted evn by his standards that he had to take it down. here is this thing about the sanctimonious d bully, he doesnt go after people like me who highlight his hypocrisy -- i'm fine with. that. he routinely bashes nonstop all republicans -- even the first lady. i don't care that you're ali liberal, i know that you kissed obamas 's ass -- this is a guy o preaches from his high horse about just how righteous and just he reallyly is. >> may be we want to talk about donald trump much tonight and then he opened his mouth and all manner of stupid came out. i feel like you can say this with reasonable certainty, the president is completely

this was not in other words roy moore.onent had never run for office, she's an indian immigrant who ran on a pretty openly progressive platform and still and still national republicans had to spend $1 million to hold onto the seat while democrats didn't spend a dime. a five-point margin in the race does not bode well for gop lawmakers around the country especially districts donald trump lost or barely won in 2016. as dave wasserman put it, there are 147 gop held house sees less republican than the arizona eighth. it's time to rethink how many of those are truly safe in november. nevertheless, the president took a victory lap this morning tweeting congratulations to debbie lesko. debbie will do a great job. press is so silent. how the white house spun last night's results and what they actually might mean right after this. this. mattress is dangerously and looking to buy life insurance on a fixed budget, remember the three p's. what are the three p's? the three p's of life insurance on a fixed budget are price, price, and p

democrats will make a play like they did against roy moore in alabama. >> dana: take me to north carolinavin cramer raised 1.3 million in the first quarter of the race. hydekamp raised 1.6 million dollars, i tell you what, i should have gone to be a media buyer for political campaign. how do you spend that much money in north dakota to try to win a race? >> you spend it as carefully as you can. you know, one thing about north dakota, in particular, there are only so many t.v. stations to buy. if you spend $10 million, you would be buying the cartoon network. i mean, it's pretty darn amazing. the thing that is amazing about what kevin cramer was able to accomplish, he pretty much evenly matched his democratic opponent, dollar for dollar, in fundraising, despite the fact, many people don't know this, he had a family tragedy and he pressed through and still was able to post amazing numbers. we think he will be a great candidate. hydekamp works the state, cramer will be tremendous candidate in the race. >> dana: all right, steven law, thank you so much. >> great to be. >> dana: we'll be right

positions when it comes to the tremendous upset in alabama that we saw with doug jones defeating roy mooreen it comes to many of the special elections that we've won at the legislative level across the country, this building has been driven by incredible turnout from african-american women. we want to make sure i think as a congressional black caucus that that is recognized. we have a big tent in the democratic party. it should mean that everyone is given voice. but that of course is going to include the african-american community, certainly if we're successful in taking back the house. >> now, i debated on this -- on our network here a trump clergy surrogate yesterday. and one of the things that he raised that i know you face and i face around the country is that just because many of us disagree with trump, that there are many people in the black community saying the democrats have to do more. the democrats need to stand up more. the democrats need to be more aggressive. is there much difference between the two? and is the caucus trying to push the democrats to be even more aggressive in

roy moore was a flawed candidate. when you're saccused of sexuall harassing teenagers. we have much prognostication coming. hundreds and hundreds before the 2016 election. 99.9% saying hillary clinton would win the election. how did that work out? i don't want to hear about predictions. we lost that card already, jon. >> jon: we'll try to hold them to a minimum here. joe concha and judy miller. thank you. molly? >> molly: the u.s. and south korea resuming joint military exercises. the move coming as the president prepares to meet with the leader of north korea, which has strongly opposed these military exercises in the past. and the president shelving talks on daca and slamming democrats on immigration. so what is the next step for dreamers? the political panel is on deck to discuss that next. >> is there a change in the president's immigration policy now to report? >> no. the president's position is still the same. he's reflecting the reality is that democrats are not serious. >> tech: at safelite autoglass we know that when you're spending time with the grandkids... ♪

. >> you quite early called for roy moore, the alabama senate candidate to withdraw from the race. >> kredsable. >> what's the case between his case and president trump? >> i think the roy moore, i know -- i'm focussed on congress. >> white house position on the president's accusers is they are all liars. is that your position as well in. >> i don't know what all of these accusations are. i'm focused on fixing congress. >> sources close to paul ryan have said all along that speaker ryan was as horrified as anyone by the president's actions but felt he had a better impact of influences the president's thinking in public. in public, paul ryan did next to nothing. joining me now to talk about all of this, former spokesman from house speaker john boehner. thank you for being here. you've been covering the house speaker for much of his career in congress. i would like know were you surprised by the way that the speaker interacted with this president after he was elected and are you surprised by his decision now not to run for re-election? >> couple thoughts on his decision not to run. i kn

recent races, the one in pennsylvania where conor lamb wins, in alabama where doug jones beat back roy moore, a host of other races. the latest trend shows depending on surveys, that more americans are inclined to at least consider the prospect of republicans maintaining control of congress when it looked like democrats would win by double digits, now that's down to mid single digits. what do you think is going on? >> i think it's important to look at what these democrats are running on that are winning or coming close to winning. they're running as moderates that are also running as anti-establishment. they're separating themselves from the leadership. we saw that with conor lamb that openly went against nancy pelosi. we saw that in arizona. she was very soft on issues like the second amendment and immigration. she knew she was running in a very pro trump area. i don't think the democrats can see this as a success for their agenda. it's success for the idea that we want people to get stuff done. we're tired of the swamp, whether it's democrats or republicans. we want people that will brush

roy moore attempted to do it. out so well for him and stayed in the race even after these debilitating charges against him. now we have governor graden doing it. >> as the person accused in this case, the governor and other cases donald trump does this, there's blowback on other republicans and could extend this scenario out. when republicans are confronted with wrongdoing by another republican colleague, must the bar be criminal violations, found guilty in court to speak out? i mean, why isn't senator blunt saying the same thing the republican attorney general can say in the state? i mean, republicans in the state have produced this report signed off on it saying moving towards impeachment. so i don't understand why the bar is criminality when violations of morality are so clear. >> i mean, compare how democrats in the senate handled the accusations against al franken. >> that's what i was going to say. >> serious and nothing like this. >> not at all criminal. >> compared to roy blubt doing with graden. >> maybe

we saw during the roy moore election, too, he would tout this line because he just imagines this is something that would energize his base, as dana said, and drive them out there even further. it's an interesting play in west virginia because he doesn't need the base for whoever the gop nominee is to win that senate race. he needs to pull over some of the more conservative democras.s i don't see this as the best strategy for doing that. >> let's listen to what he said about reviving his rape claim as well. this was moments ago in west virginia. >> remember my opening remarks at trump tower when i opened. everybody said oh, he was so tough. i used the word rape. yesterday it came out where this journey coming up, women are raped at levels that nobody has ever seen before. they don't want to mention that. so we have to change our laws. and the democrats, what they're doing is just -- it's insanity. i don't -- nobody understands what's going on. we have to have strong borders. we're going to have the wall. we already started building it. $1.6 billion and fixing miles and miles of wall that's alr

he did that in the primary with roy moore and i suspect he's doing it here.ump has wanted to fire rod rosenstein for a long time. when we reported at axios we got a photograph of jeff sessions dining, having dinner with rod rosenstein. that sent the president into an absolute fury. he's got people around him not named steve bannon, outside the white house, who he listens to much more than steve bannon telling him he ought to get rid of him, that rod is against him, that he's an obama guy even though the evidence of that is not forthcoming. so trump has wanted to do this for a long time. he's had some pushback from his legal team, just don't interfere with the mueller investigation, let it run its course, but i suspect gravity is overwhelming that. >> in terms of this other piece of news we talked about earlier, the pending pardon for scooter libby, dick cheney's old chief of staff, do you have a sense where the push for that is coming from? this is something from ten plus years ago. >> i think people should pay attention to scooter libby's lawyer for the pard

that election, young voters chose this is really important, democrat doug jones over republican roy moore 62% to 38%. remember, jones won his victory by only 1.5%. so you put it together, these are data points. these two elections are important because they actually provide comparative data and show the phenomenal influence of yes, millennials. >> so is this a larger trend or is it just that millennials are coming of age politically so to speak? >> clearly millennials are behaving in ways we haven't expected but to your point, american society seems to be going through a political participation revival. this makes a guy like me very happy. it really does. since 2016, one in five americans have protested in political rallies. of that number, 19% never participated before. of the participants, 30% are trump supporters and 70% are trump opponents, those numbers are important because they accent wait national data where 39% approve of the president and 37% disapprove of the president. trump opponents are coming out in disproportionately larger numbers, lots of activity. >> and like you were s

president from got elected, his impact when he shows up and goes on the road and we're going to leave roy moorese we don't have any accused on the ballot. so yay or nay to having president from come? >> josh: absolutely lay, and the structure of the senate battlegrounds today, there are a lot of democrats up today. he think in particular, you highlighted north dakota but you've got indiana, west virginia, missouri, states like pennsylvania and michigan, florida and others that he also won and the conversation that we are having nationwide about president trump's liability just don't exist to that same level in those states. he is a huge asset and furthermore, there is absolutely nobody within the republican party who has the capability of motivating the base and turning out voters like the president does. i think it can be a huge asset. speeches are how does he do at this time? with the message? >> josh: the last two years before his up for reelection cannot be mired in investigations and impeachment hearings. if some way the democrats were to take the house in the senate, he has gotten agenda

track record and when it comes to where he's really thrown his weight behind a candidate, you know, roy mooreand rick saccone, where do the republicans think they can -- that he's going to be most had helpful. where can he turn an election in the gop's favor? >> he can be helpful in two ways. one is fund-raising. i was encouraged in alex's report this weekend that the president is not going to be doing weekly fund-raisers. that's critical. so far democrats have been out raising republicans. that's a problem. and second, the president can do what he did to senator tester this weekend. he can sustain -- if he can do -- sustained -- >> something he's got dirt when clearly there is no way he has dirt on tester. >> if he can attack democratic senators, democratic members of the house, every single day between now and the midterms, put pressure on them, especially the ones that represented red districts, red states, that is extremely helpful for us. i think tester woke up this morning a lot more worried about his re-election than he was last week. why? president trump is popular in montana. if trum

that has comparing to roy moore who disappeared from the campaign trail in alabama when allegations ofl misconduct surfaced. but blankenship tells me there is a big difference because moore's accusers are women and his accusers were obama allies with the suggestion being that he was punished by an administration with an unfavorable view of coal. now some nervous republican linked super pacs are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars against the republican blankenship to keep him off the ballot. is he spending millions of his own. martha? >> martha: peter, thank you very much. a "the washington post" columnist recently summed up the west virginia primary saying this. if the 2018 midterm election were a season of the apprentice, we would already have a front run tore beat out everyone else. don blankenship fresh out of prison who stands a decent chance of going becoming west virginia's next republican nominee for the senate. here now don blankenship west virginia senate g.o.p. candidate and former massey coal ceo. thank you very much. good to have you with us here tonight. >> thank yo

the funny thing about donald trump and scott pruitt, his support of scott pruitt is very much like roy moore, everything that scott pruitt is accused of, donald trump is accused of. trump has monetized the white house, he has made 1.2 billi$1. in terms of political groups who have rented his properties. if you look at the variety of scandals like tom price and ben carson and ryan zinke, et cetera, you realize there's a culture in this white house where administration officials feel they can use the white house as a free platinum card paid for by the taxpayers. and that comes from a culture created by trump where he views personal gain as the highest form of public service. >> i think you put it so perfectly, and add to that, the fact that scott pruitt was trying to do to the epa that donald trump is trying to do to the doj. basically the career people, the nonpartisan people, stood up to pruitt and they were demoted or they requested new jobs under pressure related to the spending problem. the difference is the bureaucracy is fighting back, we learn about this in the times and the post, from

investigative reporting prize for reporting decades of sexual misconduct against senate candidate roy moore up next the panel president trump against james comey. first, beyond our borders tonight. hundreds of thousands of separatists rallied in downtown barcelona yesterday to demand the release of high profile successionist leaders being held in pre-trial detention. the demonstration was organized by two grassroots groups whose presidents among the nine separatists in prison awaiting trials for their roles in last year's failed break away bid by the northeastern spanish region. saudi arabia used its perch as the host of an annual gathering of arab leaders sunday to push for a unified stance against iran. as the regional power house's via for the you were hand in wars in syria and yemen. saudi king salman told leaders from across the 22-member arab league that iran is to blame for instability and meddling in that region. an american pastor sr. denying accusations that he aided terror groups or spied against turkey 50-year-old andrew craig brunson faces up to 35 years in prison on charges re

in deep red state alabama your next guest senator doug jones with a big upset against roy moore.urse there were al gags -- allegations, but we can't ignore that. >> the big targets are blue states where republicans have held on. >> that's right. there are 25 districts that democrats are looking close at. these are districts held by gop members but that hillary clinton won in 2016. ten of these districts are around los angeles, philadelphia and miami. those big blue states, i've been in and out of those states. in and out of those cities. although some people are upset with president trump, a lot of them are talking about the economy. we'll see what kind of impact the tax cuts have. the big number seven. >> you've got a lot of numbers in there, tom. we'll talk to senator doug jones of alabama. senator jones thank you for joining us. happy easter to you. you succeeded back in the special election. what is your message for the democrats as they approach the midterms? >> george, first of all, thanks for having me. happy easter to you and all the folks in your viewing audience. i thin

. >> if you recall the concern about this in when steve bannon was roy mooring it up out there, whene able to get back to the middle in time to run in the general election. we should remember, midterm elections are a lot more about face turn out to support then a quadrennial presidential year. it matters more, can you people go might get your people motivated? this is a tough test. how do you prevent real weird beards from getting in as nominees, -- >> shannon: you've never heard of that. >> you've never heard of that? i bequeath it to you. can you keep these folks out but keep their borders? ore, and the ideal situations, you find people who are crossover candidates that succeed that are either far left but look like they are straight and narrow, or are -- i think the success they had with conor lamb in pennsylvania is reflective of it. you find a way that you get a moderate who can speak to and connect with liberals of the district enough they can get it done. >> shannon: in a way i say a lot of this on the floor of the dnc, where fox news is very popular. >> they love you. >> shan