garrett, hake, robert costa thank you both national political correspondent steve kornacki spent his evening at the big board. steve been watching you all night and now is the time for the post-mort emwhat happened exactly. >> yeah, let's take you through it a couple of things to explain the result. a couple of big picture questions that emerge from the results that we're seeing. first of all obviously put the result karen handel are the right now five points ahead. two things looking at here number one there was so much attention to the early vote, a heavy part of the vote in the district was cast before today. so much of the media coverage, so much of the story was about democratic enthusiasm, about kmkts mobilizing coming from out of district. the expectation here certainly in the ossoff campaign and among all the pundit it's was that ossoff would win the early vote and by a big margin the question was could he withstand whatever handel made up for on election day. when he got in the early vote on the margin for ossoff was all of 19.4 points. so right then when that came in early t

joining us in new york is steve kornacki at the board. district, is it a test of donald trump or unique factors to the georgia 6th? >> we have already seen the trump effect in georgia 6th last year. he carried this district, you showed it there, by a single point, the significance there just four years earlier, mitt romney, he won it by more than 20. this say district that is chalk full, we talked about it last year, the college educated white voters, suburbanites, white collar professionals, these are the type of traditional republican voters who had issues with trump, really from the beginning of his campaign this is the kind of district where democrats see opportunity. but the other reason democrats see opportunity here and elsewhere nationally, it is donald trump and what happened while he's been president. we talk about his approval rating, republicans, they go into the midterms, come into this election today with an advantage here in the house, they control the house. we know that. donald trump's approval rating is 38%. what does his

busiest man in politics, steve kornacki. thank you very much forevthat w comprehensive report. let's bring in our panel. contributor and "new york times" political reporter jeremy peters. donna edwards from the state of maryland and to keep things fair, david jolly, former republican congress man from the great state of florida. welcome to you all. airemy, you get the fastball a little high but still over the plate. the deep thoughtful question to start off tonight, what does any of this have to do with donald trump and with 2018? >> so obviously, with this much money spent in a single congressional seat, the highest amount of money ever for a race like this, the results are going to be somewhat distorted and people are going to extrapolate more than they should from it, brian. but i do think that this is a wake-up call for democrats in the sense that they have still not figured out a message that works against donald trump. it is not just enough to be against trump. ask hillary clinton. that did not work for her and that did not work as a motivating factor for ossoff voters. i

steve kornacki when i think about you and the board and the math during the election, you know, like it's like over and over again, and there we have hillary clinton yesterday speaking about the campaign, about the election, and about russia. i want to share what she said. >> the russians, in my opinion, and based on the intel and counterintel people i've talked to, could not have known how best to weaponize that information unless they had been guided and here's -- >> guided by americans? >> guided by americans. >> now, of course, the ap is reporting that vladimir putin today is doubling down on his denial that russia meddled with the presidential elections. megyn kelly is going to be sitting down with vladimir putin, i want to hear what he has to say to her. you can't be surprised that putt woon say, no, we did not. >> he's been -- i don't think he's going to come out and give a full confessional. i will be interested to see the interview as well. the hillary clinton thing is interesting to me because look, she is the defeated presidential candidate, anybody who runs for office and

steve kornacki who also happens to be our national political correspondsent. welcome to you all. a question we like to ask especially people we haven't seen in a while on a momentous day, what just happened? what did he do today. >> essentially, what he did today. i think it's fair to level the critique what he did was changed the nature of america's relationship with the rest of the word. for years -- >> other than that. >> let's jump into it. essentially, for years, republicans opposed climate change legislation by saying, hey, look, american can't act unilaterally, china may need to be constrained as well if we are going to be constrained otherwise we are going to take an economic hit. this deal was the first time the entire world has come to an agreement on a way everyone could move forward together to address global warming. that the united states is stepping away from it now suggests a fairly remarkable switch in how the united states views its role in the world. secondarily, this is a huge fight within the business community. there is a lot of effort and push toward renewa

but steve kornacki -- >> it's interesting.n one hand the impeachment numbers tell you a lot about the intensity. it's not just the democrats especially against him, it's that they're really, really against him in that polarization. the other thing that's notable is last week we had a lot of stories about trump's approval rating falling back into the 30s and we were asking the question is this the sort of new norm, is it going to get lower, will there be republican defections. we saw it did tick up again. the thing i noticed when you look at this, if you look at the trajectory of the trump presidency, basically the low water mark. he's hit it a couple times there. you can see in the blue there low water marks 35%. in the high water mark for his approval rating during his presidency, 45%. he's been in the low mid 40s for a little bit of it too. the interesting thing is if you compare that, that 35 to 45 range with what we saw last year in the presidential election, trump versus hillary clinton you see the same range. donald trum

steve kornacki tell us what this means >> you the see handel has moved into a solid lead. to you i said there were ominous signs for the democrats out of cobb county. that's the story of what happened this hour. the same day vote has come from from cobb county. kar karen handel getting 60% of the vote out of cobb. cobb is reflecting the oversaul share of the vote in this district and in the returns we're seeing it should. and karen handel jumping out to a solid lead. the votes that are cast today on election day, she's getting 58% of the votes that were cast on election day. she lost the preelection day vote, the early vote. she only lost it by 1.4 points. this is a number that the democrats thought they could get much higher. they did anticipate handel doing well but she did much better in the early vote than was expected. >> and steve with this, we got 66% of the vote in right now. we're looking at about 10,000 vote lead for handel. >> it's pretty spread out evenly. the same day vote karen handel winning at a clip of 58%. she's going to continue to lead it. she's going t

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but i want to get back to steve kornacki's point. to tell a tableful of political and media elites that nobody cares about russia, but i had the same experience. i hit the road after the election. i went to wisconsin. i went to ohio. i went to florida. i went to pennsylvania. i went to counties that trump won that he flipped for the first time since reagan. and these -- i mean, i went back out the day after mike flynn resigned. oh, my god, do you care? no, we're glad that trump fired him. they don't care, do they? >> i think this is one of things that we misunderstand so much. a lot of times when we cover the trump administration we cover washington right now, and you hear in the press and from his opponents he said drain the swamp during the campaign. look at the lobbyists he's sort of entangled with or look at kushner. i'm not saying these aren't issue but he's making a mockery of drain the swamp. what that term drain the swamp is has nothing to with his entanglement with russia, it's whether the liberals are saying he's changing t

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. >>> steve kornacki is standing by at board taking a deep dive into what we know about these votes counted so far. steve? >> yeah, i mean, look, i don't think our networks called it but frankly i can't look at this and give you a scenario where john ossoff wins. with karen handel leading by five points we can show you how she found herself in this position. a couple of things i would key in on, number one, early vote. think about this, emphasis democrats put on organizing on mobilizing attention democratic activists paid and general advantage we have seen democrats tend to have in early voting here and elsewhere. today in early vote john ossoff did win the early vote. won by 1.4 pirs. early vote. in-person early vote. he wanted to be well north of 50% there because of in the same day vote the people turning out in voting today looking like ove those. in dekalb county, republican core part of the district, not much early vote there to speak of but very big same day vote overwhelmingly for karen handel. democrats did not get what they wanted out of the early vote. democrats did better than e

for that, and we'll be back to you and you can take it away right after he get reaction from steve kornacki. steve, his tone at one point he mentioned the green climate fund and as an aside, sarcastically said, "nice name." so, where do you take it from here? >> well, yeah, a lot of what nicolle was saying, this is how donald trump understands his base, this is how donald trump understands how he got elected president. name the cities that he cited there, pennsylvania, ohio, michigan. those are the states that made him president. and he understands in his mind, i think, the voters that flipped those states, these are all states that had been 30 years since they've gone republican, that flipped them to his column, that this is what they respond to. and i think one of the things -- just trying to understand the appeal of trump over the last year and a half, and even now, i'm not making any case here that he's extremely popular or anything like that, the only case i'd make is i think there's indicators that he still has the basic support now that he had when he got elected. i'm not saying he a

steve kornacki, you have a president with a 38% approval rating and karen handel distanced herself fromesident and john ossoff has 50 million bucks behind him. but he only went from having 48.1% to 48.8. stakes are high. >> i think there's two big picture things going on here. number one, something about the district. we talked in the presidential campaign about a certain type of voter that donald trump was losing, the republican traditionally, college educated white voters, suburbanits, professional class. this district is chock full of them and trump did 20 points worse than mitt romney did -- >> but he won. >> the other thing that's involved here and you mentioned it, the approval rating. that's why both parties nationally are looking so closely at this race. i can show you, it gets to the bigger question of the relationship between a president's job approval and how the president's party tends to do in elections like this, midterm elections, keep this number in mine, 38% in gallup. what is the number like that normally mean? we can show you two possibilities, some presidents at thei

anthony shaffer is a senior fellow for the center for policy research and former cia analyst and steve kornacki, msnbc national correspondent and jason johnson a politics editor at the root.com and msnbc contributor. ned, i want to start with you. i would think it would be a lot more difficult it leak classified info, kind of seems like it was easy? >> well, stephanie, i think you saw here what happened in this case. it had this individual gone about this in a less careless and reckless way, i think it would have been much more difficult to identify her and ultimately apprehend her. you can tell by the reference to fvey that this document was provided to not only the united states intelligence community but our four closest intelligence allies, so thousands of people had access to this document. but not thousands of people printed it. six people printed it as we know and in addition to what pete williams said, the document was postmarked from the hometown of this individual so she made it incredibly easy to track down what she had done. this is certainly not a typical case when it comes to thes

good evening, i'm steve kornacki in for chris matthews.crude tweets about the iq and the looks of morning joe host mika and tweeted again calling it low

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i'm joined by steve kornacki. tell us about this district and what we should be watching for. >> this is quint essential. we talked about the college educated suburban whites. democrats targeted them last year. that's the story of this district. this district was created in its modern form in 1992. it was created to throw night gingrich into a district with suburban republican who's might not be comfortable with his stif. sounds familiar? here what we have. you have handel leading this by 2 points over ossoff. i want to show you. those numbers are coming from one county, from fulton county. almost half the district is fulton county. remember what we showed you. jon ossoff, we're rounding up. 48.6% in fulton county. in those numbers i just showed you. that is the early vote. the ballots cast before today in fulton county. this is an only this is number. if you want to win as a democrat, you probably need to be right at 50% in fult on county. and 50% is your target. he is getting 48.6% in the early vote. remember th

. >>> good evening, i'm steve kornacki in for chris math fotm tonight. trump is throwing shade towards mueller, leading the campaign into the potential collusion with russia. if an interview with fox news today, president trump said he was bothered by mueller's relationship with james comey and some of the people mueller has been adding to his team. >> well, he's very, very good friends with comey, which is very bothersome, but he's also, we're going to have to see. we're going to have to see in terms, look, there has been no obstruction. there has been no collusion, there has been leaking by comey. but there has been no collusion, no obstruction and virtually everybody agrees to that. so we'll have to see. i can say that the people that have been hired are all hillary clinton supporters. some of them worked for hillary clinton. i mean the whole thing is ridiculous, if you want to know the truth from that standpoint, but robert mueller is an honorable man and hopefully he'll come up with an honorable solution. >> and today sean spicer telling reporters t

steve kornacki, i keep coming back to this number i believe to be 71% and how this will break down around dinner tables and work places in america tonight and into tomorrow. >> i think it is a 71%, it is soft in some ways. depending on how the argument against is it framed, the number could move. one of the bigger back drops to this, i think nicole was just getting into this, talking about the issue of globalism and all these corporations and businesses weighing in, saying stay in this. it used to be that a republican president would listen to the business community. you have this array of corporate establishment saying we're citizens of the global stage. a republican president would listen and there are some republican who's do still listen. but donald trump revealed with his campaign, with the success we had the base of the party, has been totally transformed in the last generation. it is now white, older, it is blue collar, it is in a lot of cases, noncollege educated. in what is replaced ideology. it used to be anti-tax, pro free market. that was the ideology a generation ago. for the

. >>> good evening, i'm steve kornacki in for chris math fotm tonight.wing shade towards mueller, leading the campaign into the potential collusion with russia. if an interview with fox news today, president trump said he was bothered by mueller's relationship with james comey and some of the people mueller has been adding to his team. >> well, he's very, very good

good evening, i'm steve kornacki in for chris matthews. trump fired off crude tweets about the iq and the looks of morning joe host mika and tweeted again calling it low rated and bad. that wasn't the only newsworthy tweet and the new direction on the health care fight with the number of conservatives who want to focus first on just repealing obamacare and then dealing with the question of how to go about replacing it, notably, that approach contradicts what the president said in the past. he's urged previous congress to simultaneously repeal and replace the health care plan. more on that reversal coming up. we begin though with the president's big twitter fight. they return to their show, and offered their own rebuttals to what he said on twitter yesterday. >> i'm fine. my family brought me up really tough. this is absolutely nothing. but i think for me personally. but i am very concerned as to what this once again reveals about the president of the united states. >> calls and texts and e-mails and we're okay, the country is not. this is

and msnbc contributor mike barnicle, national political correspondent for nbc news and msnbc steve kornackiy, joe. also white house correspondent for the associated press julie pace is with us from washington along with willie, joe and me. joe, we've got the big countdown to 3:00 today where he'll do his reveal about whether or not this country will stay in the paris accord or join i believe nicaragua and syria -- >> two really good countries to follow. >> proud moment. >> when i was young my dad held me on his knees and said one day this country, one day we'll be in the same c

amy holmes, and steve kornacki. jonathan, be let's start but. and this goes back to the question we asked in the intro.. and this goes back to the question we asked in the intro. how you can lead when your own party doesn't see you as a leader? >> it's a great question. xas ci kasie hunt put her finger on it. the president has no moral authority to lead anymore. people don't care what he says. and if you look to political scientists, they generally say that the president's supreme power is nothing more than the power to persuade. if you can't persuade congress and the public, you really can't get very much done. so you see the big sucking sound you hear is the president's authority just going out like a balloon. and this tweet shows that they are just flummoxed. they don't know what do. this option of repealing without replacing is dead on rifarrival. it would send one-sixth of the economy into chaos. what business hates more than anything else is uncertainty. this would be very unpopular in the business community. so they have to come up with s

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msnbc national correspondent, steve kornacki and my panel new york daily news columnist, a man who is about to be inducted into the sports media hall of fame. that's impressive. and msnbc contributor michael lupica and elise jordan, also an msnbc political analyst and former advisor to senator rand paul's presidential campaign. steve, i want to start with you. let's walk through what this means. is this a win for the trump agenda or is this a win for republicans in general. >> well, i mean, look, for the trump agenda, we've been talking all week. in the run-up to this georgia race we were talking about health care. we were talking about that health care bill when it finally is revealed the senate is about to move on, and the question of what impact this election in georgia might have on that. when it looked like john ossoff had the advantage, the talk was would a democratic win in this suburban district in dpgeorgia, district where democrats say if we can win this one, there are other districts we could flip in 2018, would a democratic win cause republicans and give them pause as they

our panel's back, along with steve kornacki at the board. one republican consultant who's a veteran of presidential campaigns, who's worked on congressional races, who is working right now on congressional races says it is a foregone conclusion that republicans will lose the house if they don't pass anything by the summer. >> here's the fear here if you're a republican. we've got some new numbers we can show you. if you're a republican member of congress, the fear is you're the ones left holding the bag if there's nothing to show for these first two years legislatively. so compare march with the new numbers. back in march, if you asked voters which party do you trust more to handle the economy, big bread and butter issue there, look, republicans had a very healthy advantage at the start of donald trump's presidency. look, in just a couple months, that advantage has all but evaporated. they were up 17 points in march, now it's negligible. a three-point edge for republicans. how about this? this can. this is where republicans have tried to tak

thank you all so much, big, big day, steve kornacki, josh earnest, i'm stephanie ruhle.re news with the woman who is certainly working overtime my friend halle jackson. >> we all are, thank you my friendsh appreciate it. let's talk spilling senate secrets today is a big day as you we heard stephanie talking about federal republicans talking after weeks of closed door talks. we are talking about what's in, what's out and how your coverage can change. also this morning, nancy pelosi facing a little bit of fire from fellow democrats, blaming her for that loss in georgia. some colleagues now calling her a liability. we are getting to that later in the show. right now, it is all about health care, we are t minus one hour of finding out what is in this thing. our political team is here covering all of it. we have people launched all across washington. republicans leaning right now on health care, seeing this bill for the first time. they have been doing that the last 25 minutes or so. it's set to post online or maybe sooner, stay right here. these are our top five questions, c

reaction in senators at that meeting and here on set with me msnbc national political correspondent steve kornacki find out? where do things stand? >> well, chris, this could be a pivotal day for health care with the meeting at the white house and now those senators and the vice president just a short time ago returned here to capitol hill. they drove right past where i'm standing under the portico here and went straight into their afternoon conference luncheon. they didn't stop to take questions or talk about the progress they've made but if the white house wants to get a bill voted on by the fourth of july break they have to get something out of the senate, they have to get something to the cbo this week. they're at a pivotal time in these negotiations. after the group of 13 senators at the white house all morning several republican senators who aren't involved in the process say they know about as little as the rest of the public right now waiting for this lunch that's happening right now to be briefed by the senators who were working on this plan and by now mike pence, sort of acting in the pl

. >>> we're joined by nicolle wallace and steve kornacki. you're my numbers guy. the cbo report comes out and says 22 million americans will lose their health insurance over the next ten years under this plan. does that number turn yes votes to no votes? >> it potentially could in the sense that donald trump set a bar for this thing when he said he wanted it to have heart. he wanted it to be not as mean as the house bill. when it looks the same as the house bill, it flunks that test. >> on the other side, the cbo report says this plan will cut about $300 billion from the deficit. and some people say you can make those savings, that money, and fund plans that would ease the strain on this. does that turn no votes into yes votes. >> that's the single best piece of news for republicans. the only good piece of political news. you have 200 billion thr mo$200 the house bill. you can do more. there's a lot of money for mitch mcconnell to play with. and mitch mcconnell is a guy that knows the senate and knows horse trading very confident about this bill. but he hasn't bee

white house" and msnbc's steve kornacki. good morning. >> good morning. >> i'll start with you. the sessions testimony is interesting, but the president himself raised the specter of he was asked wh he'd be willing to testify under oath about these incidents that james comey testified about and he said 100%. is that a good idea? >> it's not. he has a -- whether you love him or hate him people can acknowledge he has a very loose relationship with the truth. he trotted out birtherism for many, many years then came back and said never mind. he had his aides go out and argue a demonstrably false fact about the number of people at his inauguration so it's one thing in a political theater where his supporters say he's blowing up convention, standing up to at least -- it's another thing entirely in a court of law where if you lie or say something one time or say something different anher it's called perjury. >> one of nicolle's old colleagues in the white house, ari flieeischer said effectivel over the week end to donald trump "stop talking." he said you're walking into a giant perjury