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joining me now is steve kornacki. welcome both. steve, these numbers are interesting, revealing. >> i think so. the biden controversy, we talked a lot about it. the media talked a lot about it. check this out. when the conversation began on this subject with joe biden a couple of weeks ago versus now. this is a weekly poll. tl three weeks ago to today. he's down three points. he is still sitting at 32%. he's still in first place in the weekly poll. it is a drop of three. that is very slight. look at this as well. his standing, favorable, unfavorable number among democratic voters. the start of this controversy it was 79-11. two weeks later. you can see right there. 75, 15. virtually unchanged. still overwhelmingly popular among democrats. one of the reasons here might be there's something with have seen on the democratic side. there's been an age divide. a stark and significant age divide. this is from a cnn poll a couple of weeks ago. among democratic voters over the age of 45. check that out. there's biden in first place with 36%.

>>> good evening, i'm steve kornacki in new york in for chuck todd.ome to "meet the press daily." we begin with big news tonight. the president telling reporters at the white house that in the wake of the mueller report, he intends to defy every subpoena from democrats. >> we're fighting all the subpoenas. look, these aren't like impartial people. the democrats are trying to win 2020. they're not going to win with the people that i see. and they're not going to win against me. the only way they can maybe luck out, and i don't think that's going to happen, it might make it even the opposite, that's what a lot of people are saying. the only way they can luck out is by constantly going after me on nonsense. >> the president told "the washington post" that he is opposed to having current and former aides testify before congress. "the post" also reported the white house is planning to fight a subpoena to have the former white house counsel, don mcgahn, testify before the judiciary committee. i'm going to speak with the committee's vice chair in just a mome

. >> that's a great segue to steve kornacki. ve, jon meacham was on "morning joe" calling this outside the mainstream view now, what franklin graham has been saying. why is our country on how they view homosexuality now? it's changed so fast. >> no, it has, that's absolutely true. you look at polling, there are different ways to look at attitudes. one is day marriage. here's another one from the general survey conducted over time, same question asked year after year, decade after decade. you can see on this question you've been asking for a long time, you've seen a significant change in the basic question do you think it's wrong for same-sex bills to have same-sex relationship? you can see where it stands now you have widespread acceptance. 60% saying not wrong. so one of the things to keep an eye on, you have pete buttigieg running for president. as it comes up, are there folks in this camp, a third of the country, who say it is wrong. will there be problems for him in a potential primary or general election if we get here? i do

joining me now is national correspondent steve kornacki, mike memly and strategist matt bennett. thank you all for being here. very briefly, let's touch onset moulton since he jumped into the race today. is this just kind of a why the heck not situation? >> he's over 35. he was born in the united states. why not. he did a great service and recruited a bunch of the veterans and those involved in national security. many won in 2018. but then he got cross wise with the leadership by challenging nancy pelosi. and he really made a big mistake. pelosi hasn't has been effective since return iing to the the position. so i don't know exactly who he's hoping to attract here. and it's hard to see what lane he's got. >> i want to talk about joe booiden and his past runs. >> in some ways this has been the story of his political career. walking up to the the starting line, sometimes getting in and sometimes not. this has been going on really for 40 years. go all the way back to the the 1980 election year. joe biden, this is a younger joe biden. he was in his eighth year as senator from delawar

national political correspondent steve kornacki. >> we saved this announcement from biden this week about he is going to run potentially is a long-time coming. but the idea of biden running for president maybe successful winning the presidency, that's another long time coming. you see here 2020 he may enter the race and we talked about this before. if he won he would be 78 years old on inauguration day. that would be the oldest president inaugurated. look at this, you can go back to 1980. this is the first election that joe biden senator from delaware was constitutionally eligible to be president. he was 37 years old. he thought about entering the race in 1980 against jimmy carter and ted kennedy and the democratic primaries. he also thought about it in '84. in '84 he didn't file but signed paperwork to enter the new hampshire primary. he gave it to his sister and he went and he thought about it and decided not to run. he did run in '88. a moment there when he thought it might emerge on the democratic side of thing. this was a career altering moment for him and that year ended in scandal

. >>> 2020 fund-raising, new first quarter numbers, steve kornacki joins us to break it down.hi and ruehl on msnbc. with retirement planning and advice for what you need today and tomorrow. because when you're with fidelity, there's nothing to stop you from moving forward. because when you're with fidelity, you have 4.3 minutes this time,to yourself.rn. this calls for a taste of cheesecake. philadelphia cheesecake cups. rich, creamy cheesecake with real strawberries. find them with the refrigerated desserts. >>> welcome back to velshi & ruehl. and then there were 14. tim ryan announced he's throwing his hat officially in the ring and joining an already crowded field of 2020 democratic contenders. >> that's why i got into this race, because i would go to rural iowa where they're in a recession right now. farmers haven't made money in five years it looks and sounds a lot like the problems of the industrial midwest. it sounds a lot like the problems we're having in the deep south. if we all the come together we can solve these problems, that is a message most americans want to he

steve kornacki, is three times the charm?s would be if he does get in his third time as a kid. this is the seventh time in his political career joe biden has walked up to this point of toying with entering the race t. spans 40 years. if he gets in here, he will be running in 2020. obviously, 78 years old if he gets elected that would make him the oldest president ever to take office. he was 37 years old. he thought about running for president back in 1980. he did not get in. he looked at 1984. he actually signed his name on paperwork to file for the new hampshire primary and gave it to his sister. ultimately chose not to. he looked at the '84 race. he did run in the '88 cycle. there was a moment when it looks like he might be the democratic front runner. and then he kept at it. 2004, almost got in the race. they did run in 2008. he had a pretty strong performance in the democratic debates enough to land him on obama's radar. his stature enhanced, almost got in the race in 2016 as we remember, decided not to. here he is approa

i am steve kornacki in for chuck todd. welcome to "mtp daily." we're just now getting the first public comments from house speaker nancy pelosi, laying out her party's strategy in response to release of the mueller report. speaking at the time 100 for i am, struck a dual tone of urgency and caution about going too far. >> this is about being totally free from passion, from prejudice, from politics. it's about the presentation of the facts, and when we have the facts, we'll have a better idea of how we go forward. as an existential threat, this administration to our democracy, in terms of our constitution, article one of the legs lalegis branch spelled out the right to know. i believe impeachment is one of the most divisive paths that we could go down to in our country. but if the facts, the path of fact-finding takes us there, we have no choice. but we're not there yet. zblp the new strategy as outlined by pelosi has democrats ramping up investigations into the president's conduct in much the way they would if there was an impeachment proceeding,

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with steve kornacki in for chuck. >> thanks.litics of impeachment. ♪ >>> good evening. i'm steve kornacki in for chuck todd here in new york. welcome to meet the press daily. democrats have subpoenaed the full, unredacted mueller report. the president is attacking the investigation with profane language, and it looks increasingly likely that robert mueller will testify before congress. we are going to get to all of

>>> good evening, i'm steve kornacki in new york in for chuck todd. with big news tonight. the president telling reporters at the white house that in the wake of the mueller report, he intends to defy every subpoena from democrats.

"mtp daily" with steve kornacki in for chuck. >> thanks, nicolle. if it's tuesday, are they actually building bridges? ♪ ♪ >>> good evening. i'm steve kornacki in new york in for chuck todd. welcome to "meet the press" daily. after casting 2020 as a mission to purge the nation of president trump, joe biden has now opened up a commanding lead in the democratic presidential race. this according to three new polls all making waves. we are going to get into all those numbers and what they mean for the 2020 race that is coming up. we begin -- a moment that raises a lot of questions politically for both sides. the president is stonewalling democratic subpoenas. he is suing his own banks in an effort to quash some of those subpoenas. and in reaction, some big-name democrats including add amd schiff and now even joe biden are broaching the topic of impeachment, impeachment not over the mueller report per se, but over the president's efforts to resist congressional democrats' investigations following up on the mueller report. not to mention the fact that dem

i'm steve kornacki in new york in for chuck todd.come to "meet the press" daily and we're one week out from the release of the mueller report and it is becoming increasingly clear the president will remain defiant and both are looking to 2020 for the ultimate vindication. the day after joe biden cast his candidacy as a mission to purge the nation of trump, the president delivered a red meat speech at the nra annual meeting and it felt like the first draft of the stump speech you could expect trump to be delivering throughout the 2020 campaign with prominent mentions of the russia investigation. >> they tried for a coup. it didn't work out so well. [ applause ] and i didn't need a gun for that one, did i? >> spying, surveillance, trying for an over-throw and we caught em -- we caught em. >> america's future has never been brighter and yet democrats have never been angrier, especially now that their collusion dilution has been exposed to the world as a complete and total fraud. >> the remarks came moments after he doubled down on the s

steve kornacki, josh, start with you. mayor pete buttigieg is out. how do locals feel about him?er: what's on tap today, beer and kielbasa, lots of it. they got up at 5:00 a.m. to cook the kielbasa. they will cook it all day long as they have a big day of celebration of polish culture here in south bend. stephanie, for critics of pete buttigieg who said he is too young to be president at age 37, he likes to say he has more experience as a two-term mayor than president trump ever had. now is the chance to see him acting as mayor. he will take the stage behind me in a couple hours. >> what do locals say? pete buttigieg believes as a two-term mayor he can handle the job. what do people in south bend think of him? >> he is a popular mayor. he won election with 80% of the vote. people like him. they think he is well suited to the district. a lot of republicans say, look, south bend, while it's in a conservative state is a democratic part of the state. the fact he's done so well here doesn't necessarily mean he has what it takes to win the whole country, republicans and democrats. >> w

i am steve kornacki in for chuck todd. welcome to "mtp daily." welcome to a big hour of breaking news. right now, democrats are discussing as we speak whether to move forward with impeaching the president. nancy pelosi is holding a conference call with her caucus, charged with determining their next move. this is the first time house democrats have gathered together since the redacted mueller report was released last week. right now it is a party divided. a number of house democrats and one hopeful call for impeachment proceedings to begin immediately. others want to hear from witnesses like attorney general barr and robert mueller himself before going further. jerry nadler, chairman of the judiciary committee which would conduct any impeachment proceeding told chuck yesterday he is not ruling out impeachment. meanwhile, speaker pelosi is pumping the brakes. sent a letter to her caucus before tonight's call, cautioning against impeachment. it is a risky move either way for democrats when you look at the politics of it. go down the impeachment roa

"mtp daily" with steve kornacki in for chuck. >> thanks, nicolle.'s tuesday, are they actually building bridges? ♪ ♪ >>> good evening. i'm steve kornacki in new york in for chuck todd. welcome to "meet the press" daily. after casting 2020 as a mission to purge the nation of president trump, joe

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with steve kornacki in for chuck. >> thanks. if it's friday, it's the politics of impeachment. ♪ >>> good evening. i'm steve kornacki in for chuck todd here in new york. welcome to meet the press daily. democrats have subpoenaed the full, unredacted mueller report. the president is attacking the investigation with profane language, and it looks increasingly likely that robert mueller will testify before congress. we are going to get to all of that in just a moment, but we begin tonight with perhaps the biggest question in american politics now amid the fallout from the mueller report. what do democrats do now? buckle up because it appears they are headed for one heck of a debate over the question of impeachment. just moments ago, senator elizabeth warren of massachusetts, of course she is running for president, she said the house should initiate impeachment proceedings against the president. her comments come just hours after fellow candidate pete buttigieg also prodded congress to act from the campaign trail. >> i'll leave that

joining me, msnbc national political correspondent steve kornac kornacki, republican strategist and analystusan del per cy o, and co-founder of "the beat d.c.," susan cross. and there have been screenings of the "post" of the greatest showman. this is something different. you had 150 anti-abortion act e activis activists, the president isn't going to be at the screening. we haven't been told whether mike pence is going to be there. what's the significance of this? >> it's a political move by the president. and it's quite disgraceful to use the white house this bla blatantly for this opportunity especially given the president's history. i know what he says today and what he said in 2016. if you look before that, the president has no core values when it comes to social issues, especially on abortion. >> so jonathan allen who writes for us put it this way about the base in 2020, "the idea is for his campaign which has gone to ramp up in recent weeks to identify, keep in contact with, and mobilize a new set of pro-trump voters who kipically don't go to the polls. if it works they will fundament

and correspondent for msnbc, author of "the red and the blue," steve kornacki is with us.artment is expected to release a redacted version of robert mueller's final report tomorrow. now, we're going to talk about what we may or may not be seeing of the report, inside the report, this time around. but in the leadup up to it, th president has been tweeting about monday's fox news town hall with bernie sanders. he tweeted 9:00 p.m. washington time, many trump fans and signs were outside of the fox news studio last night in the now tlif i thriving, thank you, president trump, bethlehem, pennsylvania, for the interview with crazy bernie sanders. big complaints about not being let in. stuffed with bernie supporters. what's with fox news? huh. 11 hours earlier, trump tweeted, so weird to watch crazy bernie on fox news. not surprisingly, bret baier and the audience was so smiley and nice. very strange. now, we have donna brazile. that's a reference to the network's newest contributor, former dnc head, donna brazile. trump has repeatedly ripped brazile for tipping rival hillary cli

and executive producer of "the circus," john heilemann, national correspondent for msnbc news, steve kornacki is with us and associate editor for "the washington post" and msnbc political analyst eugene robinson. good to have you all with us this morning. >> and, willie, it's great to have you here. we talked yesterday about "the avengers" and you had that great interview with jeremy rinner. who would have guessed count chocula and booberry getting killed off at the end. this is going to be huge. >> it already is huge. the biggest record opener was $600 million. this one doubled that is correct $1.2 billion avengers has made in its first weekend. i think it already the 17th highest grossing movie in the history of movies and it looks look it's going to become only the fifth movie to gross over $2 billion. it helps, all the hype helps, all the "avengers" fans help and my son, 9-year-old george, who sat in the front row in the corner because that's the only tickets that were available, loved it. >> boy, a three-hour movie that is action packed the entire way through. this was done very, very we

i want to bring in steve kornacki. who will make connections between polls, money raised, the one we're always looking at here, it's just sort of the poll it is. you ask folks who would you be voting for? , this is the average. joe biden, he continues to lead there, sanders, harry, o'rourke, one of the questions with the fund-raising numbers, do they tell us about strength with one of these candidates that's not necessarily threat actually match up pretty well. one that does jump out a bit, is pete buttigieg, obviously oning at 2 per. s he is bringing monday in. the other metric, these -- who are they curious about? who are they interested in? >> with that exception, he's number two there actually in his field. maybe that's become nobody heard about him. >> the other significant, no, ali, fun raising is now an official part of the criteria for who gets into the one of the rules is if he can get 65,000 -- you make the stage. one of the names that's not listed here -- may well be on the stage because of that. andrew yang

joining me now, steve kornacki, and also with a lead shaheed. e, i understand you have new polling about this biden bump. >> yeah, hot off the presses. this has been a day of brand new polls. this is what the race looked like really for months. this was on the eve of biden's announcement last week. this was the average of all the national polls. you remember biden, we were calling him a weak front runner. sanders a couple points behind. in the last 20 minutes, here is the lastest new po estlatest ne quinnipiac. biden now a 26 point advantage. and that is not bernie sanders in second place in this quinnipiac poll. that is elizabeth warren moving in to second. obviously a very distant second, but this is her best showing in a poll in some time. but biden up close to 40%. and this is not the only poll showing a result like this. this morning the morning consult weekly tracker, they have biden at 36%. 14 point advantage over sanders. there is also this from cnn, out this morning, biden 39%, a 24 point advantage over bernie sanders. so again, three po

i'm steve kornacki in tonight for chuck tot. west begin with what might' well be the campaign slogan -- i will beat trump. he ace described as an exist inchally -- in a video announcing his white house campaign, biden shows the neo nazis marches in the summer of 2017. he 'tacks the president's responsibility about being very fine people on both sides. he conjures imaging of europe in the 1930s, and paints trumpism as a threat until like anything he's ever seen and then he says he's running. >> i believe history will look back on four year of this president and all that he embraces as an aberrant moment in time. but if we give trump eight years in the white house, he will fundamentally change this nation and who we are. i cannot stand by and watch that. our core values, or very democracy, everything that's made america america is at stake. that's why today i'm announcing my candidacy for president of the united states. >>> and even on day 1, it's become increasingly clear he's running as are restoration candidate, who could, in h

msnbc political correspondent steve kornacki, and austin suebank. thank you all for being here.osh, i want to start with you on that interview, i think that may be the first time i've seen mayor pete clean something up so far this campaign. it's interesting to me that he clarified those comments to you. how did that unfold? >> he's had to clear up a few things including his previous use of the phrase, all lives matter, this was a big one for him. it illustrates the political mind field in the democratic primary right now, where so many candidates are finding that if they -- there's a reluctance within a strong part of the democratic base to acknowledge some of these frustrations that led people to vote for trump. it's seen as similar to basically getting tacit acceptance to some of the racism or xeno phobia or other negative characteristics that democrats associate with the motivations of trump supporters, you see candidates like bernie sanders and pete buttigieg, if they're going to speak to the whole country in this election, they're going to have to be able to speak to that d

zerlina, some of the date that steve kornacki is looking at and david axlerod has made this point, thatt seems his support is liberal, perhaps higher income, and mostly white. what's your sense of whether he can appeal to, you know, what really is -- i mean, the most important constituency in the democratic primary is african american women. >> i think any candidate can appeal to african american women. what we're listening for is specifics. if you are running for president and you are not telling us how you are going to solve problems like the high rates of maternal death and other issues like racial injustice and mass incarceration, but also education and health care, if you aren't telling us how you are going to fix the problem, we are probably going it move on to the next candidate who is articulating those policy solutions. black women are vsavvy voters. we actually vote on the issues and more than one issue. it's not just one issue, that's the deal breaker. so i think that any candidate, including mayor pete, have an opportunity to sway that portion of the electorate. i will tell

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steve kornacki wrote to compare what agram endured as a candidate then to what pete buttegeig has experiencedow is to address how the ecosystem has been revolutionized and what the revolution has made possible. this is one of the up sides of the media playing field, more candidates are able to get in the race. with pete buttegeig announcing his run, let me bring in lydoli, the author of this article in the "new york times." is media seems to be talking about him a whole lot. >> i think anyone giving him a platform right now at the early stage in this primary is trinitying to the mayhem around him. so the magazine is as culpable as any other outlet. but the piece explores what is the source of all this excitement. he's having this moment. and what does it mean to have a moment? it seems like in some ways he has been preparing for it his entire life. he is kind of this walking cover letter on a resume. and i think it is very interesting. and so much of the media and mayhem around him i think it comes from two different places. on the one hand people are nervous about reliving 2016. we don't wan

before we get to "morning joe," steve kornacki is going to be looking at new polls at the top of the 2020 and joe biden who had his first rally yesterday. he talked about wanting to elevate the middle class, changing the soul of america along with that. he got into the economic conversation, which we thought -- a lot of us had been talking about the economic conversation could feasiblely be owned by the current president. >> i thought it was interesting. he had that announcement video from biden last week. that was not a nuts-and-bolt policy video at all, it was somebody trying to stake out a bigger, grander purpose for his candidacy. this was about what more of a more specific issues oriented message he was going to teake. there was a line that jumped out at me that said if i'm going to be successful, it's going to happen here, and everyone thinks of the state of pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin, those three states that had not gone republican in 30-plus years that all went for trump. so biden connecting that message, his image to that electoral map. >> yesterday biden and the pres

good evening once again from our nbc headquarters, i am steve kornacki in for brian. two weeks since special counsel mueller turned in his 400-page report to attorney general william barr ending his investigation. the headlines of no collusion between the trump campaign and russia sent the president off on a victory tour of sorts. what has played out since then has complicated his efforts to claim complete exoneration to the issue of potential obstruction of the investigation itself. a quick reminder of what has unfolded these past two weeks. mueller submitted his findings as we said on march 22nd, two fridays ago. and then two days later barr sent to congress the four-page letter summarizing his principal conclusions. on march 29th barr told lawmakers he's expected to release a redacted version of that report by mid april. democrats are pushing to get it sooner. this week, the judiciary committee authorize for the full document. this week we also learned that some members of mueller's team reportedly have concerns that barr may have glossed over key findings in the m

i'm steve kornacki in for brian williams. day 805 of the trump administration. the president is now facing new challenges after a rough 36 hours, including stepped up investigations from democrats in congress and new questions about the attorney general's handling of the mueller report. house democrats have now formally demanded six years of trump's tax returns. trump's accounting firm says it plans to respond to any forthcoming subpoenas for financial records. lawmakers now want to talk to trump's top inauguration organizer. he has walked back his threat to close the southern border this week and subpoenas have been served in the security clearance investigation. there are also those reports which broke last night that some members of special counsel robert mueller's team are accusing attorney general bill barr of downplaying some of their findings. their frustrations were first reported in "the new york times" and then "the washington post," and today a u.s. official confirmed it to nbc news. this is how the evidence against trump was characterized in these re

steve kornacki, thank you so much. >>> an important 2020 programming note. today at 3:00 p.m. governor of massachusetts and now presidential candidate bill weld will join kasie hunt right here on msnbc. >>> now, i must turn to a disturbing, disturbing angle of the story we have been following out of paris where the famed notre dame church cathedral was destroyed by the fire. if you didn't -- if you thought the fire was the worst of the story, i want you to listen to this. french officials say the fire was not arson. it was not the work of terrorism. yet before the blaze was even put out, online trolls editted images to push conspiracy theories. twitter and youtube are now taking serious heat for letting those doctored videos spread far and wide. nbc's benecoli collins is follo the story. ben, twitter and facebook and youtube can all day long say they are not media outlets, but they are where millions of people consume their news every day. and yesterday those media outlets were sharing information that it was terrorists that caused the fire yesterday. are the images still up?

. >> we want to bring in nbc news national political correspondent steve kornacki. good morning. let's talk about joe biden, the former vice president, he got the wheels in motion for the presidential bid announcement. instead he's trying to diffuse the controversy over his conduct as it relates to his campaigning, by trying to make light of it, instead, there are a lot of people who aren't laughing about it again this morning. does this have impact on democratic voters, and the way they view the former vice president? >> the immediate answer is we don't know yet. this is a week that this has been brewing and in public like this. the initial polling we have seen, the bottom is not dropping out. there's no indication of any change. these things can develop them over time. people process them what they see yesterday. it's an open question. i do think the tone was interesting for two reasons, number one, it seems like there's a calculation he has and maybe the folks around him have, voters, average voters might view these allegations as less serious than other allegations and there'

hall, who has been covering joe biden for about 25 years, nbc national political correspondent steve kornacki with us and nbc news correspondent kelly o'donnell, who is celebrating her 25th year here at msnbc. congratulations. >>. >> reporter: thank you. >> i must go to you first, joe bind has been in politics over 40 years. you've covered him over 25. >> or longer actually. >> you could get into when he ran a red light into 1986. it's a positive in terms of how prepared joe biden is. but could it turn out to be a negative as it was for hillary clinton? she had been in the public eye for so long, there was so much to scrutinize and it was scrutinized and president trump basically in many ways got a free pass being somebody who came from the outside and even now in terms of conduct. everything sort of has been thrown out the window for him. >> right. you know, you have to remember, one of the reasons that democrats thought barack obama would be such a strong candidate in 2008, soon after arriving in washington, is he had no record. tom daschle told him run now before you have a record. joe bid

washington post" senior political reporter aaron blake and political correspondent here on set, steve kornacki. what are we watching from the 2020 contenders in the next few hours? >> ayman, should be a fascinating opportunity to see a wide variety of contenders from the more well known like bernie sanders and elizabeth warren sew lesser known, julian castro speaking today, under the same roof, same amount of time taking questions of an audience made unof the base of the base of the democratic party. labor unions, acu represented here. giving sophisticated questions to these candidates and based on folks i've talked to the in the audience, people already extremely dialed in on this race and want to hear specifics from these candidates. what are they going to do and why will the folks in this room support them? this is not just votes that candidates earn in this room but infrastructure support, volunteers, and the push that essentially they need to break out from the pack. i do think we'll hear some more in-depth answers on policy, candidates forced to answer from the audience that wants a very

. >>> good evening, i'm steve kornacki in new york in for chuck todd. welcome to "mpt daily."e've got a big show tonight. at this hour we're in the midst of a major dispute between the justice department and democrats on the house judiciary committee

. >> as it relates to the white house, katie and tim, our colleague and friend steve kornacki has a piece up talking about how there was no discernible bounce from the mueller investigation, the way the white house has framed this. could it be he's teflon, don, nothing affects him. it could also be people are waiting to make their assessment on what they have or have not seen. >> it could be that we live in a tribal political culture where people reached their conclusions on this long ago and aren't waiting for the facts to come out. frankly, are we surprised? doesn't it seem you can set your watch to each one of these developments. >> you thought this was coming, there would be the -- >> i think you've got a good point. when the report or the summary was first given by barr, we started to hear allies of that team saying wait a minute, is it really exoneration? is it complete? >> think about it. we're all journalist, if we had a team of 12-plus of us who spent two years interviewing hundreds of witnesses and let someone else summarize it in one day and they didn't get it right -- >> we'll

. >>> good evening, i'm steve kornacki in new york in for chuck todd. welcome to "mpt daily." we've got a big show tonight. at this hour we're in the midst of a major dispute between the justice department and democrats on the house judiciary committee over the terms of attorney general william barr's public testimony on the mueller report that was supposed to happen later this week. justice department officials saying he will not appear based on how democrats want to conduct that hearing. i'm going to speak to a top democrat on the committee about how they plan to respond. that is coming up in just a moment. >>> we begin tonight however with the rise of white national violence and its inevitable collision with 2020 politics. right now just moments ago joe biden just finished a speech in pittsburgh. he launched his candidacy last week with the words charlottesville, virginia. wrapped up another speech as a 2020 candidate and you heard a reference to that as they are doubling down on white nationalist rally in charlottesville, one calling those words darned near perfection. all

joining me now is steve k kornacki. >> yeah, this is 2016, one of the most dramatic splits we have everional popular vote. hillary clinton there pushing three million votes, popular vote, but he is lost decisively to the electoral college. this was one of the more pronounced examples of it. this is a fee nphenomenon in tht generation of politics. it didn't happen forever it seems, but then in 2000 and 2016. both times the democrats falling short. take a look back at the last generation or so. it is unclear i think if there is a permanent advantage. here is what i mean. just before the 2,000 election, this was a headline, george w. bush set to fight electoral college laws. he led just about all of the late poles in 2000. there was a late revelation from his dui a few years earlier, bush loses the popular vote and wins the electoral college. in 2004, this one is interesting, john kerry lost the popular vote kind of decisively, a switch though in the state of ohio of 60,000 votes, kerry lost it by two points to bush. it all came down to ohio. a swish to 60,000 votes, kerry would have won t

steve kornacki described this as an early warning sign about your viability for the democrat being nominationttr t attracting right now, if you look in these national polls, it comes dispro partialatly from white voters and when his nm and it comes from self-described liberal or very liberal voters. >> very interesting. >> you can go all the way and the one thing all of those candidates have in common. they got traction at some point the primaries and they failed to cross offer to african-american voters. >> maybe pete we shall have good news and bad news. the good news is you dominate like brooklyn -- like people in brooklyn who like to wake up to their deconstructed chai lattes. that's your crowd, my friend. how do you expand your appeal and expand your appeal in a way that bernie sanders didn't in 2016 because you're pretty good in iowa, new hampshire, if you keep moving forward it looks good. but then you take a turn and you go to south carolina and the deep south. how do you attract black voters, latino voters, how do you attract people who really haven't heard of you and -- >> it's extr