rick wilson, to you. >> you know, i'm going to slightly tweak the old daniel patrick moynihan phrase. we're defining presidency down every day. this president is determined to defend himself, his family, his money, his power with any corruption of our government, of our legal system, and so every day he's putting out things that are edging us closer and closer to the point where the fundamental structure that holds our constitutional system together, which is a respect for the rule of law, is increasingly in danger. and he's trying to normalize inside the republican party, what's left of it, the idea that any oversight of him, any prosecution of him must be inherently driven by some evil cabal of deep state, you know, hillary holdovers locked in the justice department trying to overturn the will of the people and not because he's a lavishly corrupt scum-bag surrounded by other lavishly corrupt scumbags. the thought that donald trump's in a joint defense agreement with pathological liars who are on parallel with him as a pathological liar would be funny if it wasn't so terrifying how f

still with us to talk about all of it, john meachum and rick wilson. rick, did you ever think in your lifetime, in a lifetime in republican politics, that you would view democrats taking power in the house as a necessary check on the power of a republican president? >> if you'd said this to me three years ago, i would have laughed. i would have said, that's absurd. but right now, look, i would have loved to have a republican majority that took their job seriously, as a coequal branch of government, with an oversight responsibility inside the system that has survived for two centuries, balancing the three branches of government in their coequal nature, but right now, without the democrats having taken the house, no matter what the other impacts idealogically come out of it, they're at least going to provide oversight. they're going to provide a fire break between a president who is at least authoritarian curious, and they're at least going to provide some way for the american people to know that this guy can't run rough shod in washington. >> and john,

and rick wilson a proud floridian, a proud never trumper, a veteran republican strategist whose latest book may sum up his opinion of the times we're living in. it is called "everything trump touches dies." welcome to you both, gentlemen. mr. kristol, i'll start with you. presidential panic isn't pretty. that's what i read you said on social media today in light of that piece of artwork. these are new times we're in, aren't they? >> it does seem that the president thinks that the walls may be closing in on him. we've thought that a few times before but it just feels more that way. and i do think the fact that bob mueller seems to think that he has proof that manafort didn't cooperate, i.e. lied, which means he must have evidence that these things were lies, as i understand it you can't just say we're abrogating the deal we made just because i don't like the way he's behaving, you have to really show that he lied. and if trump has some sense that mueller knows that manafort lied about things related to trump and that trump may have lied about those things, then we're at a whole differen

wilson and max boot will be talking about their books rick wilson, of course, everything trump touches dies, republican strategists gets real about the worst president ever. and max boot talking about why he left the right but is still a classic conservative. so those are some of the events coming up from our coverage in miami. >> right now we want to take you to adam from yesterday in miami. [inaudible conversations] >> good afternoon, please take your seats, we are about to begin the afternoon session of conversation. thank you. >> i'm malu harrison as many of you know, it's a pleasure to welcome you to miami book fair, we are in our 35th year and i know that many of you have been with us for many, many, many years so thank you for your support, thank you for making this book fair continue in the manner that it has over the past 35 years and we look forward to many, many, many more. along the lines of gratitude i also want to pay special thanks to the sponsors. those that have given up themselves and their companies and their corporations, so generously and those include royal caribb

rick wilson joining us tonight from florida. again, his latest book is called "everything trump touches dies." coming up after another break, with less than a week to go until election day, has the president in his own way already conceded the house? that's what some think they can hear in his message. we will ask steve kornacki at the big board when we come back. >>> in less than one week americans will go to the polls in one of the most important election of our entire lives. although i will say not as important as 2016. [ cheers and applause ] i'd like to say, but not really. >> the president there reminding his supporters in florida to turn out to vote next week, yet never quite allowing the focus to shift too far away from his own election victory. he's scheduled to hold another ten rallies over the next five days despite or perhaps because of the polls that show republicans in danger of losing the house. these upcoming trump rallies appear aimed at races for senate and governor. our national political correspondent steve k

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joining me is rick wilson and former senator barbara boxer of california. rick, you're here, i'll start with you. this is a key period, these two months. >> uh-huh. >> and there's a temptation, i think, on the part of the white house to shoot the moon. >> absolutely. >> what boxes them in, if anything? >> there's zero restraint from the republican party, zero restraint from congress at all. you're right, they're going to shoot the moon, burn down the entire building before the adult supervision arrives in january. they're going to do everything they can, particularly to impede the mueller investigation and everything they can to block and tackle on everything against the corruption investigations of zinke and many others. there's a lavish culture corruption in this white house. they know that's coming. they're going to try to mitigate the damage the president took. it's a fool easter -- fool's errand. >> this is jeff flake and says jeff sessions did the right thing by recusing himself. he paid a heavy price for independence ever since. we owe him a debt of

back with me now alice stewart and rick wilson. let's just roll the tape before we dive into this. here it is. >> on the campaign trail, you called yourself a nationalist. some people saw that as emboldening white nationalists. >> i don't know why you say that it's such a racist question. >> same thing with april ryan. i watch her get up. you talk about somebody that's a loser. she doesn't know what the hell she's doing. she gets publicity and then she gets a pay raise or she gets a contract with i think cnn. but she's very nasty. and she shouldn't be. >> you want them to rein in robert mueller? >> what a stupid question that is. >> what a stupid question. but i watch you a lot. you ask a lot of stupid questions. >> okay, so he says for april, he think cnn but then he tells abby -- he says i watch you a lot and abby is on cnn. so anyway. but i digress. there is, nina, there's a method to the madness and the vicious tone from this president to three journalists trying to do their jobs. >> absolutely, don. there's a lot to unpack here. got a big suitcase on this one. i mean, you know

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you need this bed. >>> we're back now with frank bruni, michael d'antonio, and rick wilson. i just want to play this again because i played it a bit earlier. michael, you're the perfect person to talk about what the president says he's thankful for. watch this. >> what are you most thankful for, mr. president? >> for having a great family and for having made a tremendous difference in this country. i've made a tremendous difference in the country. >> he's thankful for himself. >> listen, first of all, i want to tell you i'm thankful for what i've done for your show, and i'm grateful that you gave me the opportunity because it's been wonderful for you. all right. this is really crazy. >> that was a great trump impression. >> that was pretty solid, michael. that sounded like my text from chris cuomo, though, on thanksgiving. but go on. >> i'm sure. >> it was a little bit like that. >> let's not say that. >> go on. >> you could be president. >> this is a man whose frame of reference is me, myself, and i. and it never is anything but that. and i'm not sure that he can frame thin

here to discuss scott jennings, nina turner and rick wilson. rick is the author of "everything trump touches dies." good evening. you heard sara's piece. you were sitting here for much of it. >> yes. >> this is for scott, not rick. sorry. for scott. what do you think, they were cheering on republicans in the midterm, the victories. what does this say about your party? >> well, first of all, i reject these people. i don't want their support. i don't want republicans to be associated with them. i think in many cases these folks try to attach themselves to the people who are in power because they want attention. and they want to make it seem like that somebody is championing their cause. well, i'm here to tell you that's not true. nobody that i know is championing their cause. they want to make it seem that way. but i don't think it's true. and i think every republican has an obligation to reject these people at every possible turn. because what these folks espouse has no place on our political spectrum. right, left, whatever you want to call it.

wilson. [applause] >> thank you. pleasure. we also have with us max booth, senior fellow at the council or foreign relations, columnist for the "washington post," and a global affairs analyst for cnn. he is the author of "the road not attending" the american tragedy in vietnam. in the corrosion of conservativism, why i left the right, the political commentator recounts his extraordinary downfrom life-long republican to see. he trump opponent. join me in welcoming max booth. [applause] >> normally they give me a microphone and astalk around the stage but today i'm sitting nicely, politely. max and i come to you today as two apostates in the republic party of today. both of us come from the quaint era where we believed in things like limited government, personal responsibility, strong national security, personal freedom constitution. the law, decent haircuts. and now we are -- we have become sort of the part of the rebel republican contingent. most of us seem to be bald. not sure what that says

and rick wilson. my gosh, how many of these do we have to debunk or rebunk or whatever it is you want to call it. good evening, everyone. so, frank, climate science to foreign policy. why does he continue to deny facts? not only deny the facts, but facts from his own experts, his own administration. >> well, he denies those facts that are inconvenient to him. climate science is a really good example of that. if he accepted that, if he believed in reality as the rest of us do, he would have to formulate government policies that addressed it. that's difficult. that's the kind of work he doesn't want to do. he would have to challenge people in the republican party where he's made his home. he doesn't want to do that. he does what's convenient to him and what makes his path easiest. if that means believing in lies or spreading lies, he does that. no problem. it's all about what works for donald trump, not what works for the rest of us, not what works for the country, what's good for him. >> inconvenient f

zerlina maxwell and rick wilson action thank you very much. also jake sherman, peter alexander, kimberly atkins, we appreciate it. >>> he wants to become the third most powerful democrat in the house. we'll whip over to capitol hill where jim clyburn is standing by live to join us. smile dad. i take medication for high blood pressure and cholesterol. but they might not be enough to protect my heart. adding bayer aspirin can further reduce the risk of another heart attack. because my second chance matters. be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. gimme one minute... and i'll tell you some important things to know about medicare. first, it doesn't pay for everything. say this pizza is your part b medical expenses. this much - about 80% - medicare will pay for. what's left, you have to pay for that. that's where an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company comes in. this type of plan helps pay some of what medicare doesn't. and these are the only plans to carry the aarp endor

wilson, the author of "everything trump touches dies" rena shah, a republican strategist as well, and jonathan at, kolter, column for the daily beast. as a republican, do you think the media is creating violence? >> of course i don't. i look at all of us and i think all of us are at fault. we are a country that is divided and we've allowed our leaders to divide us so for the people in the grocery store and see their neighbor who voted for trump, for the person dreading thanksgiving because they'll see their neighbor, a relative who voted for hillary and don't want to be near them, we are contributing when we don't want to hear the other side. we have a man that goes out and incites violence in the way he does and he's out president. so i don't blame the media. >> >> what do you think is motivating the president to blame the media? >> he's a demagogue. we saw a few minutes ago, those of you who have been watching for the last 20 minutes or so, where he's saying beat the crap out of them. he's saying this at a rally. other republicans, democrats, they don't do this. this is incitement t

rick wilson another network tonight. >> this is not just the terrible threat of a shoeless girl wearing a hello kitty backpack at the border. oh, my god. without the teargas. it's done deliberately and methodically and cruelly. >> laura: so trump is doing this cruelly, focusing on the little girl with the hello kitty backpack. >> border control agents are getting rocked along the border. i was in a vehicle that was hit by cinder block i can tell you right now it's the sort of thing that you really want to have a strong response to. we need to have a strong response with can make sure agents are safe. a speech would you agree with me that congress has to act? >> i have been saying that for more than a year. >> laura: if they don't do that, were going to have more of this. all right, art. thank you so much. what is going on with the mueller investigation? we haven't been talking about that in a few weeks. significant development involving rejected plea deal earlier today may tell us a lot. the hard work you put into lowering your very high triglycerides with diet and exercise deserves the

here to discuss is nia turner, alice stewart, rick wilson, the author of "everything trump touches dies." he said almost the exact same thing about april. i guess she makes a lot of money and gets a contract. she made a lot of money to write a book. i mean, i don't see anything wrong with making money. he's the one that's always talking -- the theme of the smoe was. ♪ money money money money >> oh, my gosh. i digress. he just couldn't take the high road there, rick. good evening everybody, by the way. but he did not take on michelle obama. he made a jab at the former president. >> sure, but you know, don, the thing about trump, he's always very sensitive about his book and i like to joke that the only thing that can donald trump and i have in common, we both had a "new york times" best seller only i wrote mine. his entire snappishness about money, the pettiness right now, this is a guy who is under a lot of stress, a lot of tension. he recognizes how bad the world is going to look in a few weeks. and this has been a week of calamities for him from top to bottom. we're spending our fri

and rick wilson, mike lubica whose book comes out tomorrow and jackie allen, the author of "the washington post" power up newsletter. sam stein is still doing his time here at the table. let me start with you, daniel. first of all, what you do is truly a service in these times. so thank you. i want to ask you about that. but get at this. get at just the projection, the sort of depravity of the lies about this cruel and inhumane policy. >> sure. so this was a policy that was proudly announced by the trump administration by then-attorney general jeff sessions. it was defended aggressively by various other officials that want to seem tough. this was something that they chose as not only an immigration strategy but more than anything, a political strategy. and then when they started taking fire over it, trump simply disowned it. he pretended he had no choice in the matter. said this is the law. it is not the law. he said obama did the exact thing. obama did not. it was a discretionary choice that trump made to routinely prosecute everyone found crossing the border illegally in a criminal court

rick wilson and mike gerston and others. they've figured out how to marry some of the best things about president obama with a tougher message. gillum's best line of the cycle was not, i'm not saying you're a racist. i'm just saying the racists say you're a racist. >> that's essentially what obama did at the white house correspondents dinner that notoriously might have helped propel us to where we are today but using -- making fun of the ignorance. making fun of the bigotry. not letting them some up to your level and looking down on them. and i thought that was what andrew gillum did in that debate because he wasn't dignifying ron desantis' bigotry. >> and there's no one that embodies trump that's running, i don't think in a house race or senate race or gubernatorial race more than desantis. let me read something that eugene scott wrote about gillum. gill sum viewed as a successor of former president obama's legacy. and obama's visit seems to show that. it is clear, perhaps obvious to trump that gillum could do great harm to

many former republicans like mike gersum, pete waner, george will, rick wilson, david frum, james comey, bret stevens and jennifer ruben, all former staffers for republican presidents appointees for republican presidents or prominent conservatives are urging other republicans to vote for democrats. these never-trump republicans are in political no man'sland. something author george packer writes about in the new yorker. the never trumpers are a powerful voice in american politics. they have the authority apostasy but are shunned by conservative media and donors and have few friends in congress. they're scarcely more welcomed by the left which prefers arraigning them on old counts to recruiting them as allies. they're stranded in the no man's land of polarized politics. the middle where millions of voters have no voice on cable news. many never trumpers tired of being homeless will eventually join the democrats migrating in the opposite direction of the neocons of the '70s and '80s. joining our conversation, ohio governor john kasich. >> are you a never trumper? >> no, i'm not a never an

going into 2020 you had rick wilson and max bued ontalking about the ideal candidate who can win, and i'd like to define a hypothetical to beat you to beat trump, 2020 candidate, and tell me who the person in the public eye, doesn't have to be a politician who closest meets that if you can do that. >> that is a hell of a question. this is where it's hard to be the guy that goes first. i -- here's what i would say. first of all we know there's going to be like 25 people on the stage, a wide open race, and let me start by saying that's a good thing. we need to figure out what we're for and what the best message is. and to get out of that kind of field you have to have a message that resonates with people. that withstands good and bad days on the campaign trail. second, i will say the risk of betraying some biases, if you look at when democrats win, it's usually when someone can data themselves as a reformer, as an outsider, as a changer. barack obama, bill clinton, jimmy carter have all fashioned themselves that way. when i nominate the inside establishment person, jon carry, hillary cl

the staff writer for the atlantic covering american politics and policy from florida rick wilson republican political strategist trouble critic and author of the book everything is diaries thank you all for joining me. sabrina to start with you the attorney general just session straight after these midterm results came in is the united states in the middle of a constitution of course on the verge of a constitutional crisis where we are where are we on the crisis spectrum well the president left little doubt that the reason he fired jeff sessions was because of his frustration with the rush hour probe he said that jeff sessions the decision he made to recuse himself because sessions had not disclosed his own contacts with the russians during the twenty sixteen campaign trump said that was his primary source of i or he obviously wants more control over the direction of this investigation i think it's the first step that he's laid out in the path toward potentially firing the special counsel that of course is what i think would trigger then that your constitutional crisis and i don't think any

wilson and, you know, tom nichols, a lot of us, we're really actually surprised it's this close because we thought there would be more conservatives who actually cared about what conservatism meant, but apparently they're marching lockstep with republicans. so this is a lot closer race. i will tell you i thought it was going to be. people have chosen trump over the republican party, chosen trump over conservatism and so we have -- we have a personality cult out there that's taken over the republican party. we will see how it goes. >> i do think his war on the facts and the media has been a part of this and has prevailed. >> that's the other thing, too. the lying. the lying about the caravan is extraordinary. >> it's working. >> what about the wall? i saw a great article this weekend. >> all lies. >> he's lying about the wall. mike, they go and interview people because trump is saying i've got -- what's he saying -- i got $5 billion for the wall. we're building the wall. i'm getting mother $5 billion for the wall. >> totally untrue. >> by the way, a complete lie. then they tell the peopl

wilson, dan fieffer. here on campus of miami-dade college we are pleased to be joined by alissa quarter, squeezed, why our families can't afford america. how do you define the middle class or traditional definition of the middle class? >> so there's a few different ways of thinking about it, one is economic, $42,000 up to says 00, or $115,000 a year for a family and another way to think about it as a category, it's people who have achieved the american dream but are still living within reason. they have some kind of security and the thing about it is kind of educational, masters, ph.d, you're part of the professional. the idea of the middle class has changed. >> host: from when? >> guest: starts to change in 1979 and it's a long process and involves, you know, everything from ronald reagan to changes in social security and changes in professions like journalism in law and what was once almost like a trap to be middle class was something that people wanted to escape in the 1960 and now it's something that

are rick wilson, man, i've known that guy forever. he's been a fire brand. a red hot republican, a red hot conservative. steve schmidt who ushered through robertson and alito, to get those two conservatives on the supreme court. of course, nicole who worked on 43 presidential campaigns about as tough as they come. you and even al cardenis who is the head of sea pack before donald trump and by the way, they're not saying this is kind of bad, they're saying this is the party. this is the end of conservatism unless we fix ourselves. are you noticing a rising level of intensity among republicans who are saying this just can't continue? >> well, you know, there's a whole group of us. probably you'd be in na groin t group, joe, when ronald reagan announced his candidacy in front of the statue of liberty. >> that great symbol of america as a nation of immigrants. yesterday we had the president of the united states who you have to admit leads the republican party. he's the face and voice of the republican party. standing in the white house, which is the most well kn

going into 2020 you had rick wilson and max bued ontalking about the ideal candidate who can win, and i'd like to define a hypothetical to beat you to beat trump, 2020 candidate, and tell me who the person in the public eye, doesn't have to be a politician who closest meets that if you can do that. >> that is a hell of a question. this is where it's hard to be the guy that goes first. i -- here's what i would say. first of all we know there's going to be like 25 people on the stage, a wide open race, and let me start by saying that's a good thing. we need to figure out what we're for and what the best message is. and to get out of that kind of field you have to have a message that resonates with people. that withstands good and bad days on the campaign trail. second, i will say the risk of betraying some biases, if you look at when democrats win, it's usually when someone can data themselves as a reformer, as an outsider, as a changer. barack obama, bill clinton, jimmy carter have all fashioned themselves that way. when i nominate the inside establishment person, jon carry, hillary cl

senator bill wilson is trailing governor rick scott, but there may have to be a recount. we are at the governor's mansion in tallahassee. manuel, good morning. >> good morning. that race and the one to determine who will live in the governor's mansion is as high profile as it gets. both parties poured millions of dollars into the state, and both had a chance to win. but in the end, the nation's most populist state went largely red. >> thank you, florida, for your support. >> governor-elect ron desantis took the stage in florida, promising to work for all. andrew gillum struck a more defiant tone, encouraging disappointed supporters not to give up. >> i can guarantee you this. i'm not going anywhere. we're going to fight. we're going to keep fighting. >> reporter: the vote broke heavily along racial lines. gillum won nearly 70% of the state's non-white voters. he also won more than 60% of voters age 18 to 44. but desantis won 60% of white voters and 54% of floridians age 45 and older, by far the largest voting group in the election. >> i'd like to thank our president for s

. >>> florida's republican senate hopefuls rick scott showed up for the are freshman reorientation at the capital and even though his election is mired in a fierce battle with incumbent bill wilson and the election hit another snag after palm beach said that it started to overheat, and stop working which forced the staff to recount nearly 175,000 early votes that had to be recounted. and joining us now is kasie hunt on capitol hill, and you is the republicans making the decisions on the house side where that is interesting where jim jordan apparently is pushing to be the republican leader? >> that is the most interesting race dynamic that we have go g ing on at the capitol today, andrea, and some reports that the white house is getting involved. we don't have any indications that kevin mccarthy is in trouble in the bid to be majority leader at this point, but jim jordan is challenging him and caused plenty of problems in the past. there is some discussion, and like i said, some reports that indicate that jordan is perhaps interested in being the ranking member of the judiciary committ

bush as governor, even rick herry, were welcoming and reout to immigrants, said we share your values, we welcome you. george bush got 45% of hispanic vote in texasngwhen runnor governor. in california, by contrast, in 1994, governor pete wilson in a tough reelection race decideto ban any public services including public schools from the children of undocumented immigrants, and it passed. it got pete wilson reel ctand made hispanics permanently into a democratic constituency and made california permanently into a blue state. if you're interested in republicans doinwell, you could look at the texas example and say that's worked. but,rubviously, donaldp has chosen a different course and republicans are following him quite loyally. >> if i d make one moral point. there are a lot of ways to be racist. n use a racial slur. you can say something derogatoryy but another to take a very unrepresentative, extreme sample in one racial group and pretend they are the typical and that's exactly whatthis addid and that's a straight-up racist aneuver, and this weird thing is -- weird an understatement

governor rick scott is leading democratic senator bill nelson by under 13,000 votes, but republican ron desantis appears to have clinched the governor's race over andrew gillum. >>> this was quite a game. seattle quarterback russell wilson leading his team on a late touchdown drive right there to seal a win over the packers. the seahawks 27-24 victory broke a two-game losing streak. those are some of our top stories on this friday, november 16th. >>> from abc news, this is "world news now." >>> it was fantastic. aaron rodgers had some amazing plays, but it just wasn't enough in the end. i'm sure you watched it as well. >> for seattle, yes, of course. >> yes, of course. >>> all right. good morning, everybody. we're going to start this half hour with the heartwarming story that prosecutors say was predicated on a lie. >> investigators say the tale of a homeless marine who helped a woman in distress was all a scam, one that convinced people to give more than $350,000 to a gofundme account. here is abc's whit johnson. >> reporter: the epic tale of generosity was a web of lies. t the trio at