not only did so mark sykes draw lines on the maps his artistic skills were put to further use. it is the ultimate. mark cites a man so many rosalee detested in the east should be responsible for the design of the flags the symbol of national sovereignty of so many arab countries jordan iraq syria sudan kuwait yemen the emirates even the p.l.o. the palestine liberation organization. sykes deal with pekoe was never formally enacted on the ground but it did bear a close resemblance to the way the british prime minister and french president carved things up at the end of the war. the partition was a fact of occupation and then the british and the french negotiated and clemenceau and lloyd george themselves negotiated probably in a taxi between victoria station and and ten downing street when clemenceau arriving in london and in december of one nine hundred eighteen so it was completely casual and resisted and opposed by virtually everyone in the region. so mark sykes died soon after the war aged thirty nine he cast a long shadow across the arab world is.

so mark sykes died soon after the war aged thirteen. nine he cast a long shadow across the arab world especially palestine. on the sykes picos map it was colored brown an area under international administration yet to be decided. of britain's three wartime promises the one made by foreign minister author balfour proved the most enduring and controversial. kind of ma that cycle a one was. going to be a lot of latin with up to four when she asked what if any of her sight by the left her mom or her while it's a lot. about the ballot for. there were many reasons for baal for his promise after centuries of and he semitism in russia and europe jews had started to settle in palestine. the jewish nationalist movement zionism was gaining momentum its leader was a russian born chemistry professor in manchester vitamin. the vitamin process for producing acetone fed britain's wartime munitions production and his notoriety enabled him to lobby the british government to support a jewish national home in palestine. in june one nine hundred seventeen v

host: charlie sykes? guest 2: i am reminded that paul ryan never wanted to be speaker of the house of representatives. i think because in part he understood it was an impossible job and you have to herd cats in a dysfunctional institution. craig is right, we have redefined chaos and i don't think going forward you are going to be seeing washington getting its house in order in any kind of way. it does strike me the hopeful message of paul ryan and the alternative that could have been had donald trump not come along in our dramatic turn politics and republican politics by going with donald trump as opposed to somebody like paul ryan. as i am listening to this, it comes back over me again the disappointment -- disappointment in how this ended up because paul ryan -- could have made a -- can you turn around the federal government, do all those things? is prettyhink that obvious. host: in that speech, he gets a standing ovation when he talks about the debts of this country. take a look at his first appearance

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on the sykes picos map it was colored brown an area under international administration yet to be decided. of britain's three wartime promises the one made by foreign minister author balfour proved the most enduring and controversial. kind of ma that cycle a one one. said they're. going to be a lot of latin with up to four one at c.s.u. i'm going to show any of her site by then her mom and all her while it's a lot. about the battle for. there were many reasons for baal for his promise after centuries of a nice image ism in russia and europe jews had started to settle in palestine. the jewish nationalist movement zionism was gaining momentum its leader was a russian born chemistry professor in manchester. the vitamin process for producing acetone fed britain's wartime munitions production and his notoriety enabled him to lobby the british government to support a jewish national home in palestine. in june one nine hundred seventeen vitamin and the jewish banker and politician walter rothschild met arthur balfour in london to request a formal declaration of support for zionism five months la

host: charlie sykes?st 2: i am reminded that paul ryan never wanted to be speaker of the house of representatives. i think because in part he understood it was an impossible job and you have to herd cats in a dysfunctional institution. craig is right, we have redefined chaos and i don't think going forward you are going to be seeing washington getting its house in order in any kind of way. it does strike me the hopeful message of paul ryan and the alternative that could have been had donald trump not come along in our dramatic turn politics and republican politics by going with donald trump as opposed to somebody like paul ryan. as i am listening to this, it comes back over me again the disappointment -- disappointment in how this ended up because paul ryan -- could have made a -- can you turn around the federal government, do all those things? is prettyhink that obvious. host: in that speech, he gets a standing ovation when he talks about the debts of this country. take a look at his first appearance in

of state for war and he delegated the job of sitting on the committee sykes mark sykes had been born into a wealthy family in yorkshire in the north of england in eight hundred seventy nine . he studied at cambridge university and was elected as a conservative member of parliament in one thousand eleven. he liked to give the impression of being an expert on the middle east based on his travels in the region but he was not quite the authority as it was sometimes assumed. he presented the debunks in committee with his vision of a new near east region his riches and this would be our allies yes i come up himself with a different plan which was something completely different a much more old fashioned. was to create a cotton across the middle east so he was planning to divide the middle east between france and. can. create a belt of english controlled country that stretched across from the mediterranean coast to the mountains of the iranian from and back to the centuries a affront to britain could control and keep other people away from the red sea and the persian gulf. that was rejected

of state for war and he delegated the job of sitting on the committee sykes mark sykes had been born into a wealthy family in yorkshire in the north of england in eight hundred seventy nine . he studied at cambridge university and was elected as a conservative member of parliament. in one thousand enough. he like to give the impression of being an expert on the middle east based on his travels in the region but he was not quite the authority as it was sometimes assumed. he presented the bunsen committee with his vision of a new near east region as riches and this will be our use i've come up himself with a different plan which is something completely different and much more old fashioned than it was to create a quarter of across the middle east so he was planning to divide the middle east between france and britain. and create a belt of english controlled country that stretched across from the mediterranean coast to the mountains on the iranian from and back to the century as a affront to britain could control and keep other people away from the red sea and the persian gulf. that was

the prime minister turned to a young british politician called sir mark sykes who had cast himself as the government's advisor on the middle east. the ottoman empire is assailed by misfortune crippled by mary advices and the prey of alien greed ambition and timidity. englishman may have ideas but they are unable to take any steps to overturn the regime and free the people's interests power. by the third of january nineteenth sixteen he and the french lawyer turned diplomat . would have negotiated the terms of a secret agreement. in two words i foresee a protectorate. which uses the local traditions and customs to establish different regimes in the four provinces of super. lebanon a lebanon enlarged by an extension of beirut to paly to becca and serving as a model of what is necessary to achieve using indigenous and. and. these two men devised a plan that would not only divide the spoils of the declining autumn an empire between the two european powers but would draw lines in the sand that would ultimately influence the shape of the middle east for the next century. istanbul capital of

mark sykes had been born into a wealthy family in yorkshire in the north of england in eight hundred seventy nine . he studied at cambridge university and was elected as a conservative member of parliament. in one thousand enough. he like to give the impression of being an expert on the middle east based on his travels in the region but he was not quite the authority as it was sometimes assumed. he presented the bunsen committee with his vision of a new near east region as riches and this will be our use had come up himself with a different plan which was something completely different a much more old fashioned that was to create a quarter of across the middle east so he was planning to divide the middle east between france and britain. and create a belt of english controlled country that stretched across from the mediterranean coast to the mountains on the iranian from an activist that shares a front britain could control and keep other people away from the red sea and the persian gulf. that was rejected by the bunch i wish the older wiser heads said you know that why work your. way

supervisor sykes should be removed from her office following the recount. your reaction? >> this is not 2000. that race was settled by 535 votes. now you have ron desantis up by 34,000 and rick scott up by 121/2 thousand. we are nowhere near that level but with respect to what jeb bush said this is a question of trust and the level of incompetence we have seen, violations of law, lack of transparency, lack of reporting updates and everything it is a wonder people get suspicious about what happens in broward. why are they always last election night. it is reminiscent of all the times counties used to wait until end of the night and then figure out how many votes they needed to win the election. that will erode trust in the system and brenda snipes is on her best to erode that trust, that public trust is totally broken. >> in florida under florida law the vote by mail or absentee ballots must be accounted for within 30 minutes of foreclosing, that was last tuesday, then the department of state if there are ongoing problems with speaking reports every 45 minutes until all th

like palestine iraq has also been affected by the legacy of sykes people. in two thousand and three a u.s. led coalition declared war on iraq believing it to possess weapons of mass destruction and aiming to oust president saddam hussein. however the coalition didn't tar the clear recovery plan for a post saddam iraq and six tarion and ethnic armed west seriously destabilize the country. or the invasion of other areas that were there were intermingled sure so he lived in the same areas that were america. in fact in the early years invasion iraqis insist that never they were too closely. but the sledgehammer smashed the society. or. did manage to instigate a conflict once the conflict starts there's a predictable cycle of violence that takes place by calm i think primarily with three main object. the first is to support the administrator. gerry brahma. in what he is doing in this transitional period for iraq. if you look at the history of modern iraq since two thousand and three you might say that no leader has come through who's been able to settle iraq and

sykes. we need all the documents.hen you don't have transparency the fraud can exist. >> last night when i stood outside the supervisor of elections office, there were trucks moving things on and off. that could have been totally harmless. it could have been furniture they were moving. but armed police said i was a safety hazard and i was not allowed to videotape what was being moved in and out of the supervisor of elections office. judge jeanine: a surprising turn of events. in new mexico my next guest has not concede in her race for that's state's southern district congressional seat. she believes the race has been stolen away. he vet herrell joins me now. judge jeanine: you a ran in new mexico district 2. you have been a legislator for 8 years. you are running for an open seat, one held by a republican for the last 16 years. donald trump won that district by 10 points. now, you run against a first-time candidate. i think we have a photo of her. the candidate you ran against. all the entities who were representing a

the french with sykes pico heavily in mind had very different ideas. on the twenty fourth of july one thousand nine hundred twenty a small force of arab volunteers gathered at may saloon to try to stop the french army reaching damascus. but the french troops routed the arab nationalists and swept on to the syrian capital. gang faisel fled to london the first independent arab state the kingdom of syria last had less than four months. the french occupation of syria turned into a mandate in one thousand nine hundred twenty two and lasted until nineteen thirty six with all the problems it entailed and which are still felt today. into double frenzy beijing in the us and you know the way that if the reality we go in there is a year. and a year in the midst of a lab whereby there while that sounds like a risk on their own or in the film and the unit here i think. that message being and how bad they did finance and how to handle opera. were not an asset a second a zoo neuroeconomics the needle myself in their own taqiyya. the french mandate also had a big impa

and now, it's my pleasure to introduce today's distinguished speaker, chaharlie sykes. he's the a author of 8 books on n current afaffairs and education, inincluding h his new book, "how the right lost its mind." for years, he was the number one conservative talk radio host in the state of wisconsin. his past books have offered critiques of higher education,, such as 1989's "profscam." he has w written about policics and social criticism,, susuch as "the end of privacy" in 1999, aand "a nanation of f moochers" in 2013. now, his latest book

selena sykes has more. iconics ireland's most export.eavefilled with guinness dublin and had to belfast, where the beverage is packaged for international consumption. brewers worry the supply chain is in limbo. >> on average, our industry undertakes 23,000 truckk movements. any delay to that would work out to about 100 euro per truck cost back onto the industry. >> london and dublin want to avoid a hard border. negotiatorseu cannot agree on how to do so. the u.k. rejecting brussels proposal that the eu remain in the customs union. guinness's coffers are likely to absorb economic uncertainty. many are concerned the price of brexit will trickle down for customers. for it to go up anymore,, no, i would not be happy. ticking, someock politicians have warned consumers could see their favorite brands drying up. britain's economy has picked 0.2%aining 0.6%, growing from the last quarter. ofs was largely because retail sales and increased household spending. latest in a long string of problems for low-budget airline ryanair. a plane was seized b

friday morning, the milwaukee craig gilbert and the weekly standard's charlie sykes discuss paul ryan's congressional career and his legacy as house speaker. watch live at 7:00 eastern friday morning. join the discussion. announcer: live friday on c-span networks, the house returns at 9:00 a.m. eastern for work on legislation to remove the gray wolf from the endangered species list. we will have that on c-span. at 8:30 a.m., a summit on improving oversight of the federal government. [gunshots] >> in the view of the warren theission, they described circumstances of the assassination of president kennedy. but is there more to this story than the warren report ever discovered? america,eekend on reel a cbs news inquiry, the warren report, anchored i walter cronkite, investigating unanswered question since president john f. kennedy's assassination. eastern,at 10:00 p.m. lee harvey ostwald and whether he acted alone to assassinate president kennedy. >> it seemed evident that we should establish the ease of difficulty of that rapidfire performance. hence our next question -- how fast could tha

dana milbank, charlie sykes, thanks, guys, have a great weekend.e it. >> thanks, chris, you too. >>> as the camp fire continues to devastate butte county, california, a story of kindness to make you smile this friday. 93-year-old margaret newsome was home alone when she learned the camp fire was rapidly approached. she went out on her front porch hoping to find help. what she found was a hero. her local garbage truck driver was headed her way. after learning newsome was stranded. he broke protocol. he helped her on to his truck, and the two of them drove five hours to safety. during the ride we're told, she told him stories of her life about beating cancer three times, witnessing the attack on pearl harbor and being backup singer for the rat piack. this looks like the start of a wonderful new friendship. >>> the one woman who has said she's considering challenging nancy pelosi's quest for the speaker's gavel is meeting with her right now on capitol hill. we'll ask a newly elected democratic congressman who flipped a gop seat where he stands on the

and the british by the government's middle east advisor so mark sykes.

i'm joined by msnbc contributor charlie sykes, contributor editor at the weekly standard, and formerter for president obama, david lit is also with me. charlie, this was basically the biggest issue on the campaign trail for president trump. how do they defend this? >> well, you know, oddly enough i kind of feel like bernie sanders that i'm really sick of hearing about the damn e-mails. you're absolutely right. this is rich in hypocrisy, but it's part of this pattern where the trump family and the trump administration will project its own conduct on to other people and pretend to be absolutely outraged about it when they're engaging in it themselves. so you know, whether it's draining the swamp and then repopulating it with all the lizard people of the trump administration or the e-mails, it's hard enough to have a little shodden freud here because trump has talked about this so much. there is no way to defend this except to try to draw meaningless distinctions and try to say, well, that was horrible, and this is not. how do they not know any better? >> i want to run through just a li

and joining me now is charlie sykes, contributor for weekly standard and jonathan capehart, washingtonsnbc contributor. and charlie, oothroughout there wisconsin, how do people feel about the suppression voter issues out there in kansas with dodge city, and north dakota and texas and other states? >> well, if it is an attempt to suppress the voters, it is amoral and it is going to leave a stain on the republican party. you think about the way that the campaign is closing, the closing arguments that we are hearing. and maybe it is enough to hold the senate for the republicans, but i think that it is going to be playing very, very poorly in the suburban areas, that they will determine frankly, the elections in the states like wisconsin and pennsylvania. and jonathan capehart, kevin tibbles reporting on what happened there, and you saw the line, but it is not clear that all of the people are going to be able to vote, but it might certainly have the opposite effect, and it is going to be doing that in georgia as well. >> yes, as we saw from the gentleman that kevin was interviewing, he was

what the -- what the -- >> so alex shared the clip on instagram with the caption "syke."he not have the power to do that? >> that's what i'm wondering. did he make them do that or were they all that synchronized? >> i think he made them do that. >> i'm creeped out either way. >> exactly. i'm creeped out all these people got together to do it. creeped out he's not able to do it. i don't know. >> weird. >>> joe scarborough and mika brzezinski have finally made it official. >> "the morning joe" co-hosts tied the knot in a secret wedding ceremony at the national archives in front of the declaration of independence and the constitution. >> the couple got engaged in 2017 and since then have been spoofed on "snl," like this one. >> you want to play peekaboo with your mika mouse? >> you bet i do. >> yeah? peek-a-boob. >> mama sita. >> i guess that was supposed to be willie geist. you do get a sense that willie seems as if he's a third wheel on a date every morning. >> that was very american, though, in front of the constitution. >> yeah, it was pretty cool. congratulations to the

up friday morning, the milwaukee journal sentinel's craig gilbert and the weekly standard's charlie sykes discussed paul ryan's congressional career and his legacy of house speaker. be sure to watch washington journal live at 7:00 eastern on friday morning. joined the discussion. live friday on the c-span networks, the hou

hugh, perhaps you've been listening to the conversation -- oh, charlie -- it's charlie sykes. the error is mine. i apologize. charlie, you're no hugh hewitt. you've been listening to the conversation there. >> now i'm confused. >> i'll mess with charlie when i see him. you're in your home state of wisconsin surrounded by home state republicans. >> right. >> give me the headline for tonight. >> well, the headline for tonight is that, you know, despite the lack of a blue wave around the country, in the upper midwest, democrats are running the table. the night started with the call for tammy baldwin who is winning reelection by more than 10 points. and right now scott walker is behind. look, i was here thin this room eight years ago in wisconsin when it flipped dramatically. this crowd is looking for good news. one of the reasons they're playing the music so loud is they didn't want to play the tammy baldwin acceptance speech. but there's a lot of nervousness. obviously walker doesn't want to see the numbers where they are right now. this would be a big pickup for democrats. and

sykes pekoe lines in the sand on elm disease. i'm richelle carey and these are the top stories on al-jazeera the u.s. senators have voted to debate a bill seeking to withdraw all support for the saudi u.a.e. coalition in yemen defying president donald trump senators are also calling for more transparency on what the intelligence community knows about the murder of sadness analyst. did at ations aid chief has arrived and yemen's capital saana to review the humanitarian crisis caused by the war.

i have got the head of eu negotiations here with me, nicole sykes. across of what business wants? i think business ultimately has to points. one is we need to avoid that catastrophic no deal outcome. we hear so much about lorries queued up at dover, what are we going to do about medicines, foods. genuinely worrying. number one for business is can we remove that no deal cliff edge? to do that we need transitional arrangements and this deal does deliver that. the second thing businesses are asking for is that long—term relationship. can we get frictionless trade? and also having a say over those rules? that is still to be worked on but we think this deal does open up the potential for that. if we can move onto those technical talks, we can start to build our future relationship. so you see this as a starting point rather than a finishing point? i do see this as a starting point. businesses are raring to go to get onto that future talk. we have seven pages at the moment of future economic relationship deal and the trade agreement with canada and the eu

sykes people lines in the sun. top stories this hour saudi arabia's crown prince has arrived in argentina's capital for the g twenty summit. legal complaint in argentina it wants them. into. human rights abuses during the war and. the director of the cia will reportedly not take pause and a u.s. senate briefing on the matter. is a face of state and defense will brief sentences on wednesday on the saudi journalists killing. and ukraine the president is warning of a full scale. with russia moscow says it plans to deploy more of its s four hundred seventy two and the south to crimea after a recent confrontation in the black scene and ukraine's impose martial law in parts of the country for thirty days. there's a u.k. government forecast released today say that the british economy will be worse off once the country leaves the european union if the u.k. crashes out without a formal agreement approved by parliament its economy could shrink by more than nine percent over fifteen years despite this violence the trees may i

puff we just walked on and i thought he just walked on yes so we're going to hook up with a rope and sykes our position is give it a thought. struck him but. you want to mark over the. thing. it's a pine strikingly slow business. after several attempts to move her is point three it can now be dumped elsewhere. between the minds and the unexploded ordnance is there we work in this place for years and. now you're talking jamie we came here and i pull last year to find out i use. my eyes want to be in the military and growing up watching war movies playing with toy guns all that sort of stuff i always admired the papal soldiers that put themselves in difficult situations you know willing to put their life on the line for the betterment of others. in the one . we have here maybe we could say yeah. oh yeah well of us here so you just take the shoes off so this is home yeah for now . they say. they said directional anti-personnel mine he's staying here with a handful of other western fighters this was just hidden under a piece of material it's got the ball bearings in it one of these ball bearin

sykes people in the sun. i'll come back a quick look at top stories now the g. twenty summit of the world's top economies has been overshadowed by the presence of saudi crown prince mohammed bin salmaan he remained on the sidelines of the family photo before being warmly pointed in front of the cameras i russia's president vladimir putin. has already held talks with the french president reportedly and not listening to him. and ukraine's president has banned russian men between the ages of sixteen and sixty from entering the country for a month and a bit to stop a formation of private armies along the border. or bring you more now from what is iris and lucy and human is among those who have been protesting against the g. twenty and demonstrates is that not happy about the g. twenty economic policies and how would you describe the mood. you know they are not to marry a mob let me just show you what's behind me here you have a lot of anti trump paraphernalia there are posters slogans out with trump out. the i.m.f. which one of the main complaints here in argentina

sykes people lines in the sun on i'm just. i'm richelle carey and these are the top stories on al-jazeera the u.s. senators have voted to debate a bill seeking to withdraw all support for the saudi u.a.e. coalition in yemen defying president donald trump senators are also calling for more transparency on what the intelligence community knows about the murder of saddle journalist he did not ations aid chief has arrived and yemen's capital saana to review the humanitarian crisis caused by the war described the suffering as very concerning and called for an end to fighting between the saudi u.a.e. led coalition and the raffles i'm very concerned about the humanitarian situation which has deteriorated since i was here last and as i've said repeatedly to the security council there are five things i would like to happen to improve the situation and to reduce the suffering of the people first i'd like to see a sation of full still a t's especially around the key aid infrastructure especially around the data secondly i'd like to see t

sykes released thousands of votes freektzly in the dead of night without an explanation. >> that's exactly what i said. >> i did not say that. >> have a seat, have a seat v a seat, have -- have a seat. that's enough. >> that's enough. we're live in tallahassee. cnn political analyst sung hin kim from the "washington post" is with us. ryan, you have been there in the trenches. trump is saying, let's go back to the election night count, but that is the count that has triggered where they are precisely now. >> brooke, jessica laid it out pretty well. the president can say all he wants on his twitter feed, but it doesn't have anything to do with what's happening in florida. i don't think we've focused enough how much florida had changed their election laws after what happened two years ago with the recount. they've improved their machines, they've improved the process by which they couldn't the ballots, and there are specific changes. they're automatically triggered. no one can order it. there's a simple magtd matic formula. it has to be within half a percent. it takes place whether you want i

attorney so with a number of problems and broward county says he has filed lawsuits against brenda sykes for voting irregularities, cause everybody to have doubts where these votes are, how many are left. that not fair to the left or the right or anybody else who voted. >> their problems, track record of shenanigans down there, everyone knows all the votes should be counted but we need consistent to make sure all the votes are counted the right way and consistently and fairly on both sides and republicans have reason to be suspicious. >> were going to run out of time. we know there are many other court orders that have come out the kick in tomorrow and this is far from over but i appreciate jason as use of shenanigans, richard, jason and brad, thank you very much. donald trump and other world leaders are in paris preparing to commemorate 100 years since the end of world war i. john roberts is live in the city of lights tonight, good evening or good morning. >> very early in the morning, 5:00 am and the president will be getting about his day, first business is a meeting with the presiden

sykes pekoe lines in the sun on on jersey. al-jazeera wherever you are. hello i missed on doha the top stories on al-jazeera u.s. senators have defied to donald trump and moved forward with legislation calling for an end to u.s. involvement in the saudi led war in yemen and their strongest signal yet that they want to punish saudi arabia for its role in the matter of janice jamal khashoggi the senators were largely unswayed by an earlier briefing from the u.s. defense chief and secretary of state who warned against downgrading ties with the kingdom mike hanna has more from washington d.c. the senate has voted by an overwhelming majority to move the proposal to investigate the war with the relationship with saudi arabia and the war in yemen to move that forward for debate on the senate floor in all likelihood that will happen next week but it's significant that among those who voted in favor of opening debate were fourteen republicans not to give you some idea of what a massive turnaround this has been back in march a similar proposal was defeated fifty fi

sykes people lines in the sand on on just. december on al-jazeera. from hospitality to hostility toward hotels tells dramatic stories about high cons of complex and last resort shelters in divided cities an exclusive interview with nobel peace prize laureates now dennis mccoy get an ad special antarctic sanctuary follows greenpeace says their campaign to create the largest protected area on. an annual convention that gives a platform to a global dialogue on critical challenges facing our world a new two part documentary that reveals the shocking reality of the global arms trade december on al-jazeera. the lights are on. and there's nowhere to hide isn't the easiest way to solve this to allow u.n. observers who you invited into the country earlier this year to finish their job i haven't said it's a right wing conspiracy or anybody's conspiracy straight talking debate do you think we're going to see some kind of sea change in the u.s. relationship with saudi arabia we have an obligation there is a journalistic integrity and then in this case it was bet

charlie sykes and former federal prosecutor glen kersher in. and back with me is maggie. carely, let me begin with you, if i may. are you expecting lawmakers to take law action against saudi arabia this week before the newhous new house comes in, or is this kicking the can down the road and hoping democrats will do something? >> even republicans have been fairly outspoken about this. bob corker of tennessee today, mike lee of says he believes the cia report and not what president trump is saying. whether they'll get something done this year or wait until next year is not clear. democrats in both the house and the senate want to do some digging into why president trump and his son-in-law, jared kushner, presidential adviser jared kushner, seem to be so devoted to believing the saudi account here and disbelieving what their own cia have been saying. >> so here's the interesting thing. i want to play you this sound bite from president trump denying he's had any business ties with the saudis. watch this. >> i don't make deals with saudi arabia. i don't have money from saudi a

steve kornacki, maria theresa cumar, charlie sykes. steve, i'll let you kick off this conversation. i mean, it is -- i have talked to one republican strategist about this situation in florida and they said if rick scott doesn't have the trump base he can't win. and because of donald trump he can't win in the suburbs. >> it's a no lose situation. the other thing, by the way, that came in between his poll numbers in florida was the handling of the hurricane, and very positive reviews for scott and still the favorable rating went down. i think that issue with suburbs is if you believe that donald trump was ultimately able to win in 2016 because there was a fair number of sort of reluctant voters in the suburbs who don't like trumpism, don't like his style but ultimately were persuaded maybe by the comey letter and maybe by the fact that trump was relatively quiet in the final days of that campaign, you're getting a very big contrast in the final days of 2018. there's one in georgia. remember in georgia last year -- and final poll has them ahead suddenly by two suddenly in that race. pe

. >> charlie sykes, of course, is contributing editor. thank you, both.s to me like we all watched that press conference today, he was in a fighting mode. the press was to some extent, too. but he wanted a fight, he wanted a little blood to show on people's noses, it looked like a fight. i've never heard in my life the president saying i'm going to use the subpoena power of one branch of the u.s. congress to prevent the other one of doing their job of oversight. heidi? >> oh, well it would be a test, chris, for congressional leaders. because clearly the house has showed they're willing to play ball and it's led to a deterioration of bipartisanship there. in the and senate we have not seen that. this would be a test for leaders. the president will also make good on leaning on senate leadership and senate committee chairs. but just like he doesn't control the house, he doesn't control the justice department. he shouldn't control the just department, and he doesn't control the senate. >> het me ask you, you had some news. >> that's right, chris. i was just c

that makes us think of charlie sykes. charlie, i know we're talking about your home state. taking so long out there? >> well, it is an extraordinary finish. in the next few minutes we should be finding out what the results are from 47,000 votes from the city of milwaukee. they just had so many of these early votes, these mail-in votes, that they're not able to process pem. so right now within the last three or four minutes, the city election commissioner walked the flash drive, you know, up to load them. we'll find out what happens. rough estimate is this could add 15,000 votes, net votes to tony evers' margin. this race has been so close all night. and within the next few minutes we'll get pretty dramatic development. >> how do you assessment walker campaign's confidence? if anybody knows how to run for governor in wisconsin, it's scott walker, including his campaign team. do they think they're going to win? >> well, i would say this. that throughout the night they thought they might have a path to victory and then, of course, this bombshell was dropped about the 47,000 vo

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