and barack obama, barack obama, barack obama. that's the battle for the senate in a nut shell. >> out of the bubble, a controversial detention. >> asking him to quarantine at home for 21 days unless they are symptomatic i don't think is draconian. we have been wrong before. >> we are trying to be careful here. this is common sense. >> amber vincent is declared ebola-free in atlanta. we will hear from her soon. isis strategy. the terror group cynically using prop and messenger in the latest video. >> today we are in the city and that is turkey right behind me. >> the soldier who lot of his in ottawa almost a week ago. >> good day. i'm andrea mitchell in washington with days that could turn the tables here on capitol hill. they are barn storming through the battle ground states, taking the pulse of voters. today's stop is georgia where nathan deal is facing a challenge from jimmy carter's grandson, jason carter. sam nunn's daughter is clippinging to a small lead of republican business men david purdue in a race that decides which party controls the senate. the moderator of "meet

remind congressman gardner he's running against me not barack obama. not my father. not harry reid, it's congressman gardner and myself on the ballot this fall. >> i'm not sure he recognizes he's not running against harry reid or barack obama, he's running against me. >> i have a lot of respect for you but you're dead wrong. i'm absolutely running against barack obama and harry reid. >> and did you guys see this? kentucky's democratic candidate allison grimes who is kind of inching up in the polls even refused to answer who she voted for in the last two presidential elections. >> did you vote for president obama in 2008, 2012? >> this election isn't about the president. it's about -- >> i know. who did you vote for. >> putting kentuckyians back to work. >> did you vote for him? >> i was a delegate for hillary clinton. i think kentuckyians know i'm a clinton democrat through and through. i respect the sanctity of the ballot box. >> so you won't answer. >> the president is on the ballot as much as mitch mcconnell might want him to be. it's my name. >> come on. just tell people who yo

senator mark pryor's agenda to that of president barack obama. >> which key pieces of legislation have you helped lead that you're most proud of if you can name one, if you can also name one that you perhaps would like to take back? >> well, i haven't been in washington very long, less than a year, but i've been there long enough to know as calvin coolidge said it's just as important to stop bad laws as it is to pass good laws. >> mark pryor and bramlett 400 bills from the house of representatives pile up. liberal democrats will protect barack obama's legacy and enforce his policies. that's why a vote for mark pryor is a vote for barack obama. >> lajs you heard congressman cotton admit he hasn't passed anything since he has been in the house. he ran a poll on the senate race. did he know where the bathrooms were nonetheless he thinks he's entitled to be in the senate. his approach is my way or the highway, this dead end politics that leads to thing like fiscal cliffs and shutting down the government. leadership in washington involves walking across the aisle. congressman you don't have

money and many states, the senate will be decided. to name just a few, barack obama broccoli in here. >>> i'm just teasing. actually, we've got some classic campaign snacks. >> now, the thing that these two places have in common is that they are blue. very, very blue. president won prince ga fwa county maryland. he took cook county in illinois. these are states and counties where even with the president struggling in terms of the approval rating, he's still an asset. in terms of raising money and many states, the senate will be decided. to name just a few, barack obama is not particularly welcomed by democratic candidates. here's the thing, barack obama might not be on the ballot in those states. but it's his turnout operation the democrats are banking onto get them over the finish line. obama and his political folks figured out a way to assemble a collision of voters for the first time since f.d.r. and it's that coalition, the obama coalition that will decide this election in places as far flung as alaska and arkansas. the real question is whether or not it can be activated without

embraced barack obama on the eve of the 2012 election. republicans, a lot of republicans who vote in the primaries and caucuses are not forgiving him for that. >> that's an image of barack obama and chris christie walking across the beach together. the devastated area. that is vivid in voter party leaders. in the republican primary. >> the politics on sandy are interesting. watching that clip which i watched probably 15 times this morning and into this afternoon of christie, it seems like it's more than his normal here. the sandy stuff he took quite personally and used himself as doing the right thing politics be damned. he views himself as effective and it's quite personal. in the same way people criticize him as offering president obama an endorsement at the end of the campaign. i think it's personal and again one lesson of presidential politics is you can't ever take anything too personally. you start getting emotionally in the moment tied to things. it can be dangerous. that clip just feels sort of over the top. going back and forth and sit down and shut up. you are the guy with the

were well over 10,000 people who came to hear barack obama speak. in april of 2007 another 20,000 people turned out to hear him in atlanta, georgia. those enormous crowds, those huge crowds were a major reason why barack obama was given secret service protection early. very early. earlier than the secret service had ever provided security to a presidential candidate in history. in may of 2007, which was still nine months before the first vote was cast in the first primary for the democratic nomination for president, that was a full year and a half before the 2008 general election, back then is when the secret service started trailing senator barack obama and his family. in the crowds were actually om part of the security issue that obama's new protection had to deal with. even before his inauguration, he was facing assassination threats. in denver on the day before the 2008 democratic national convention, police officers stopped a dodge pickup that had been swerving between lanes. the search of the vehicle turned up a bullet-resistant body armor, two rifles with mounted scopes, wa

candidate larry pressler with rick weiland at 28%. he endorsed barack obama for president in 2008 and 2012. if pressler manages to win this november, the republicans may need an additional win somewhere else to take control of the senate. pressler looks like he's hot right now. [light instrumental music] ♪ female announcer: recycle your old fridge and get $50. schedule your free pickup at: it's a fresh approach on education-- superintendent of public instruction tom torlakson's blueprint for great schools. torlakson's blueprint outlines how investing in our schools will reduce class sizes, bring back music and art, and provide a well-rounded education. and torlakson's plan calls for more parental involvement. spending decisions about our education dollars should be made by parents and teachers, not by politicians. tell tom torlakson to keep fighting for a plan that invests in our public schools. go long. >>> this is michelle obama. i've seen that pat has the courage to do what's right. now pat is fighting to raise the minimum wage. he is working to create jobs at home instead of shipping

running against me, not barack obama, not my father, not harry reid. it is congressman garner and myself on the ballot this fall. >> i'm not sure he recognizes that he's not running against harry reid or barack obama. he's running against me. >> i have a lot of respect for you, but you're dead wrong. i am absolutely running against barack obama and harry reid. >> kentucky's democratic candidate allison lundergren grimes refused to answer who she voted for in the last two presidential elections. >> did you vote for president obama in 2008, 2012? >> this election isn't about the president. it is about -- >> i know, but -- >> making sure we put kentuckians back to work. >> did you vote for him? >> i was actually a delicate for hillary clinton. i think that -- >> so there are signs of trouble elsewhere for democrats. a new cnn research poll shows mark begich trails in alaska. >>> the ceo of microsoft is apologizing for suggesting that women should just go along to get along instead of actually asking for a raise. his advice, it is not really about asking for the raise, but knowing and

, presidential management. believe it or not a tie between george w. bush and barack obama as to who is better off running the government. >> there you go in terms of managing the federal government. you see the numbers there. >> george w. bush seeming to be more effective, 38% to 35%. barack obama under george w. bush certainly something no one at the white house would have thought six years ago. >> no. >> four years ago. two years ago. two days ago. but there it is. >> it's one crisis after another the latest is the ebola crisis that's at the top of mine. another number that jumped out at me direction of the country only 20% think that the country is on the right track. 20%. >> all right. mike allen, thank you. we had a debate on the show last week about that and it got, you know, rough between steve rattner and nicole wallace over who is better at running the country. >> can we just say -- can we just say that both presidents have been very challenged in their leadership abilities for different reasons. >> yes. and i think that it's interesting to see the republicans respond to ron k

mark halperin. >> she won't say she voted for barack obama. >> i don't get that. >> it makes her look really silly. why wouldn't you say it? >> people have made -- that's ridiculous. you voted for obama. >> i did not vote for obama. >> oh come on. just say it, joe. >> i'll say it. i voted for john mccain and mitt romney and i have said who i voted for in the primary. she's being too cute. >> i don't understand if she has a team of advisers why they wouldn't say maybe just answer it. that will make it go away. just answer it. >> it makes her look silly. everybody knows she voted for barack obama. she looks silly. >> crazy. >> especially considering what healthcare has meant in kentucky. >> exactly. you could say it hasn't been all the way mr. mcconnell presents it. >> between mcconnell releasing an ad, and the debate, she made coverage about this. >> we haven't done the story in this block and we're talking about it. let's get to our lead story. there's another signal of a new era under pope francis. a new document released by a group of catholic bishops calls for a far welcoming

the night off. back in the early days of then-senator barack obama's presidential candidacy, back when he was just starting to run for the nomination against hillary clinton, go all the way back to then, even then he could still pull in a crowd. early february 2007, this was just before he even officially announced his campaign for president. a medium sized event at iowa state university in ames, but it had to be moved because of, quote, larger than expected interest. organizers thought that about a thousand people would show up at the event, and that's really a good crowd for most politicians. a thousand people if you can draw that, you're doing pretty well usually. but in the days leading up to that event for obama in 2007 the organizers recalculated and found that about five times as many people as that were going to be there or want to be there. they moved it to iowa state university's basketball arena, hilton coliseum they call it so they can accommodate the 5,000 people who were clamoring to hear senator obama speak. it was a small crowd for candidate obama. weeks later 9,00

ferns," it was big for barack obama. now there's a young kid named bradley pitts he took on. zach made fun of his marriage, his acting. >> everything. >> it was unbelievable. now it's time for us to make fun of our own. louis, what's going on? >> first up this morning, zach gall fa knack i can is back at it with his talk show "between two ferns." she interviewed everyone from justin bieber to president barack obama. now he sits down with fellow actor brad pitt. >> hi. welcome to another edition of "between two ferns." my guest today, bradley pitts. thanks for joining me. >> it's my pleasure. >> showers. why don't you take them? anyway, tell us about this movie "furry." >> it's "fury." >> "fury." it's not "furry"? >> no. >> when does that come out on dvd? when you and clooney get dressed up in your tuxes together, do you ever kind of look at each other and go, aren't we a couple of dapper dans? >> never happened to my recollection. >> is it hard for you to maintain a suntan? >> why? >> because you live in your wife's shadow. tell me what it was like the first time that you laid eye

coal? it was barack obama. >> i don't agree with the president's war on coal. >> plus, the epic ben affleck, bill morris smack down. >> that's gross. it's racist. >> "all in" starts right now. >> good evening, from new york, i'm chris hayes. a dark milestone today in what has become the world's largest ever ebola epidemic. a nurse in spain is the first known person to contract the virus outside west africa. after helping the treatment missionary died of ebola while doing charity work in one of the countries in west africa that has been very hard hit. >>> following a briefing today, president obama called on allies around the globe to step up their efforts against the epidemic. >> i'll be very honest with you, although we have seen great interest on the part of the international community, we have not seen other countries step up as aggressively as they need to. this is an area where everybody has to chip in and everybody has to move quickly. in order for us to dpet this under control. >> the president also announcing the administration is working on new measures to screen people ent

going to look like after the beheadings? after barack obama went out golfing. after the beheading. specifically. and now we're starting to see, like a big turn around in kentucky. you look in north carolina, big turn around, republicans were sure a month ago this is a wave election. it may still be a wave election. you just don't see the evidence of it out there. in fact, democrats are doing so much better now than they should be doing. and republicans now are going to lose kansas? >> what do you make of kentucky though? i don't see it as sort of related to isis. do you? i mean, is that what's happening here? >> well, -- >> this is -- >> all democrats were hurt a month ago by barack obama's seeming obliviousness to what was going on with isis and the jv comments and the golfing after. but i think you're starting to see the races go back to sort of their set point. and the set point is, let's just say it, a lot of kentucky people can't relate to mitch mcconnell. they may not agree with grimes on a lot of issues. >> she and other candidates have run a smart campaign, distancing them

obama from the start. if you liked the past 6 years of barack obama you would love the next 4 years of charlie chris. >> that may be ad considering chris was a republican and considering he said this in 2008. >> are you fully confident sarah palin could take over as president from day one. >> i think she would do a great job. she is the only executive that is running. >> definitely been with barack obama the whole time. florida is one of 36 states holding gubernatorial elections. and it is the grand ole party that has the most to lose in the nation's state houses. because of the 36 seats, republicans are defending 23 of them and they're having a tough time in states like wisconsin where governor scott walker has made more cuts to education funding than any governor in the state's history while at the same time claiming the minimum wage doesn't, quote, serve a purpose. and georgia with highest unemployment rate in the country under republican governor. he seems not that concerned. this is his take in sunday night's debate. >> you don't understand that unemployment numbers are outliar

running this time, don't want to be near barack obama. that guy is a winner in black neighborhoods. he won the presidency on the backs of blacks in this country because they turned out in numbers far superior to anything they've ever done in any election. if he does that again, the u.s. senate will stay in the hands of democrats. >> you know, for years, people who worked for the kennedys have tried to get elected to office and they have failed. but the kennedys get elected. can he project obama the person and the magnet, to other people? can he do what doesn't often get done? project your influence to someone else? >> yes, he can. he can make it a race issue. it can be just as if it was martin luther king jr saying vote, rosa parks saying vote, malcolm saying vote. he can do what needs to be done in order to motivate african americans to go vote. and if you couple that with a huge infusion of money. if you couple that with a huge infusion of voter registration effort. if you get all the faith-based african american churches in this country to do the same thing, you will be saying b

, who would have thought we would be here now? so, what happened to that barack obama? well, friend of the show and editorial directofor "the huffington post" howard feinman has been asking the exact same thing. howard wrote about it in his new article out today, making a few headlines today. i want to get right to your op-ed where you write, remember the fresh promise of barack obama? what happened to that guy? what happened to that fresh idealistic guy? what happened to his power and popularity in the united states? why doesn't he dominate the political stage the way he once did? why isn't he as effective as we thought he would be? howard, you break it down pretty simply. it comes down to president obama himself. >> well, that's one part of it, abby. i was moved to write this piece because "the huffington post" now has a lot of international editions. we have 11 of them, as a matter of fact, around the world. and they asked me to write a piece trying to explain this. and so i tried to stand outside of the united states, if you will, and kind of look at it from way above. and expla

endorsed barack obama for president in 2008 and 2012. if pressler manages to win this november, the republicans may need an additional win somewhere else to take control of the senate. pressler looks like he's hot right now. will that be all, sir? thank you. ordering chinese food is a very predictable experience. i order b14. i get b14. no surprises. buying business internet, on the other hand, can be a roller coaster white knuckle thrill ride. you're promised one speed. but do you consistently get it? you do with comcast business. and often even more. it's reliable. just like kung pao fish. thank you, ping. reliably fast internet starts at $89.95 a month. comcast business. built for business. >>> this is michelle obama. i've seen that pat has the courage to do what's right. now pat is fighting to raise the minimum wage. he is working to create jobs at home instead of shipping jobs overseas. this election, barack and i are casting our votes for our friend, pat quinn. >> not just control of the u.s. senate at stake this november. we have 36 governors races this fall including two big

just written a book making the hillary clinton anti-barack obama campaign charge that obama is weak an national security and hasn't been fast enough and enthusiastic enough when it comes toution force. that means someone like hillary clinton who would be much more hawkish would be a much better president. leon panetta does not seem to have believed those things about barack obama when he was working for barack obama, running the cia and running the pentagon for hum. at least he did not behave that way. now that he's out and working for a global strategy firm that's essentially the hillary clinton campaign in exile, now he's flying the same exact anti-obama flag that the hawkish clinton wing of the party has been flying all year trying to position themselves for the next stage in their own political careers by stepping on president obama's neck. george zornak at the nation has been writing about this since he noticed all the same criticisms were being made on the same day using almost the same language only sometimes it was former president bill clinton making those criticisms and so

words that contrasted with the words he was using about barack obama. he said with both clintons, they are about getting it done and not just having a promise, but implementing it. that was in contrast to the picture he painted of president obama's leadership in your interview a few minutes ago. >> chris, it's very clear in the questions that we asked him about isis and intelligence, the president seemed to be blaming the intelligence community. let's listen to that. >> he said that they under estimated the growth of isis. was it intelligence or was the white house not listening? >> it's a cia director. you always can use better intelligence, but what happened here was a combination of intelligence and policy decisions that get into what we have now in isis. >> policy decisions meaning the white house? >> right. i thought it was fascinating that on several topics, iraq, isis and syria, you asked was this a decision that in your mind leon panetta was driven by politics? both times you asked him that directly, he didn't answer that question. i think he probably thinks that in part

with barack obama. so that's kind of what's going on here. and i agree with ron. >> i forgot that he was ebola. >> now politically that's what he is among iowa right wingers. that's what's going on here. and i think it is fascinating that jeb bush is now pretty firmly in the mix here. there has been a change inneding about that. it seems like he is in. mitt romney may be back in. they won't let chris christie take manager's role. especially when he acts like that on the streets of new jersey. >> we're talking show business. you've had an experience in that as a dancer. in all seriousness, this looks like a bunch of auditions. you want a tough guy? i'm from jersey. i can take this guy. you have that guy. then the mild mannered bush saying there's a milder way to do this, a much more yankee way to do this. then i'll make you money, buddy. isn't it interesting to watch this using the president as their audition material? their casting director? >> basically the republican mat form is we don't like obama. so you can't be seen walking with him, shaking hands with him, god for bid you hug

a lot of the warnings given to him about the iraq war. i wish barack obama had been more fearful about the warnings of people saying you'll leave a power vacuum in iraq that will cause a lot of trouble. i wish barack obama with been more fearful of the warnings he heard time and again about syria. sometimes fear is an appropriate response. i don't know about you guys, but i don't wake up at 2:00 in the morning and like not motivated to work harder the next day by -- i don't know, warm and fuzzy feeling. fear drives us. and, you know, yesterday morning when this news broke, a lot of americans were fearful. they said wait a second, visitors did everything the cdc told them to do and this nurse now has ebola. they screwed up again. now they are making more people out there that are infected. dr. kent brantley, i said this before, dr. kent brantley, who worked in west africa, worked in the facility that had prepared for a month to do everything right still, all these months later does not know how he contracted ebola. and katty kay, the more i hear health officials saying nothing to

romney was gaining strength, 40,000 people in pennsylvania, 30,000 people here. we went to barack obama's speeches where everybody was just dead. new hampshire. seriously it was a morgue. we left oh, my gosh. but this is all coming on the ground game. if the democrats have the ground game, half the ground game in '14 as they do in '12 these close races flip democratic. >> i know of young volunteers that are flocking to kentucky trying to bring it home for alison lundergan grimes. they are so excited about this. all right. let's go through this. the new cnn poll shows jean shaheen up on scott brown. >> cory gardner has the narrowest of leads. the poll shows him two points up on senator udall. >> south dakota where democrats sprang into action late in the campaign, former republican governor mike rounds appears to be in command. leading the field by 24 points. >> it's internal polling but even if there's a margin of error of 12 -- >> not bad. >> and jean shaheen up in new hampshire, that thing is tight. >> new hampshire, colorado, kansas, iowa and as nick said georgia is fascinating. president obama

constructed observations into something quite simple. >> it's very possible barack obama is just not up to the job. >> i don't believe -- i don't believe that. >> you don't want to believe it. >> no, because i want this president to be successful. >> i know. >> and i want this country to be successful. and i think deep down, you know, he knows what needs to be done. what he's got to do is develop the will to fight. >> joining me now is nbc news foreign correspondent, ayman mohyeldin, david l. phillips from columbia university's institute for the study of human rights, and david corn, mother jones washington bureau chief. well, mr. washington bureau chief, here goes washington again, all excited that a member of the administration actually, believe it or not, has some disagreements with the president. >> this is not the first time. robert gates had disagreements, others have come out and said the same. if you read a book that i wrote called "showdown," you would see that when it came to the bin laden raid, what to do in egypt and what to do in libya, there were some profound differences

is very nervous about it. john kerry, even barack obama in 2008 and 2012, a little cautious. now the democratic party very comfortable saying, they're for same-sex marriages. republicans are silent today. that's where the issue is headed. the question for the court will be whether they want to essentially allow all 50 states to legalize gay marriage through court rulings or if they want to intervene sthemsz. they look like they want to hang back. >> to that point, perry, even governor bobby jindal who did say he supports marriage between a man and a woman, traditional marriage, as he calls it. he was careful to say, i know public opinion is changing but i'm not a weathervein like hillary clinton and barack obama so i'm going to stick with my position. >> he doesn't get -- >> perry, elsewhere in the political world we have a little hillary clinton news. we had jim webb and bernice sanders, potential 2016 primary challengers to hillary clinton on sunday shows, very reluctant to criticize her. she has a very big footprint in the democratic party and is try to lock up the nomination befo

convinced she loses the race because she voted for barack obama. i guess the fear is there she spent much of the campaign saying i'm not barack obama. it's between senator mcconnell and myself. i'm not convinced en voters who are on the fence maybe leaning away from her will be swayed by the fact that as a democrat -- this is an elected official. as a democrat elected secretary of state that she supported the presidential nominee of her party. which i assume she did. >> unless she was writing in somebody else. this emphasizes the degree to which they are flocking away from president obama. >> it's the ultimate example. she's trying to avoid the sound bite that would show up in mcconnell's ad. she's not going to give him those words. i understand that. i don't know over the long-term i agree with chris. i think people presume that she did vote for him. and so really the only thing she's preventing is a sound bite from being used by local tv and in ads used against her. however, she's run a pretty good race so far. but kentucky's still very, very tough for her. >> just very quickly, no

time. but we have barack obama, he has not taken up this challenge yet. we have an article coming out in the "nation" magazine next week which says barack obama, here are the lessons from the secret diplomacy that's gone on over the last 15 years. >> the bigger problem is that in '96, the congress legislated this policy in effect and bill clinton signed it into law. >> it does write the embargo against cuba into law. so the president can't just unilaterally remove the whole embargo. but that same legislation wrote into law the president's authority to use his executive power to license certain commercial transactions. and every president has used that power to some extent. >> an example of what a transaction the president could authorize today. >> allow telecommunication companies to do businesses in cuba to cell cell phone services, open up the internet to cuba. all of that can be done to license cuban pharmaceuticals to be sold in the united states. >> could the president license commercial air travel directly to cuba? >> yes, i believe he could. the two things the president can't d

gosh. >> the president had a conversation with thread. we'll show it. >> to barack obama? >> yes. >> wrong democratic president to say that to. >> so moving on now. >> my girlfriend. >> right. exactly. >> wow. >> good point. i get it now. "the washington post" is digging into a government -- >> talk about jimmy carter. >> shows taxpayers she would out $775 million to cover the salaries of thousands of federal workers who were sent home from the job but still collected their paychecks. the report says some of those employees were still being paid more than a year after they were put on administrative leave. the practice was intended to be used quote in rare circumstances and only when the employee is considered a threat. but records show 57,000 employees were off the job for at least a month over a three year span. not only did they collect their paychecks they built up their pensions and climbed the pay scale ladder while their cases crawled through the bureaucratic process. >> this sounds like the rubber room in new york city except in this case, three quarters of a billion doll

to get away from barack obama and he's going to be tough against barack obama when he's voted with him 96% of the time. even "the new york times" yesterday was saying of these democrats that they were doing themselves a great disservice. i don't think senator udall looks to be the most straight forward guy right now in this race. >> there's only one sort of general theme that ties all these races together and that's the president. in some races, obama is clearly an anchor on the candidate. you saw it in kentucky where they couldn't state the obvious, which was barack obama. since then you have seen a cascading effect. every single candidate in this race has asked to express their positions vis-a-vis the president. what did you think of the handling of the health care law? that's swamped the end of this election. it hasn't been the greatest of developments for democrats. there are some races it hasn't been as bad as others. but in colorado particularly, you can see it being a problem. >> it looks bad, but with almost all these races, it's a one-point race. i'm fascinated by what's h

not incumbent senator jean shaheen but president barack obama. his approval rating in new hampshire is 39%, but scott brown's rating is 48%. jean shaheen's rating is at 52%. hillary clinton will be heading to new hampshire this weekend to campaign for senator shaheen. tomorrow, she will be in iowa campaigning for ben brailey. some democrats had given up on alaska, but three polls now show senator bagich ahead or tides. that is outside the margin of error. another poll conducted last week showed senator begich with a ten-point lead. one candidate who is proud to have president obama join her on the campaign trail is wisconsin democratic gubernatorial candidate mary burke, who has been polling in a virtual tie with republican governor scott walker for the last six months. president obama joined burke in a rally in wisconsin tonight. >> cynicism is a choice and hope is is a better choice. hope is what gives young soldiers the courage to storm a beach. hope is what gives young people the strength to march for women's rights and civil rights and voting rights and gay rights and immigrant

. the republican closing argument and barack obama, barack obama, barack obama. that's the battle for the senate in a nut shell. >> out of the bubble, a controversial detention. >> asking him to quarantine at home for 21 days unless they are symptomatic i don't think is draconian. we have been wrong before. >> we are trying to be careful here. this is common sense. >> amber vincent is declared ebola-free in atlanta. we will hear from her soon. isis strategy. the terror group cynically using prop and messenger in the latest video. >> today we are in the city and that is turkey right behind me.

arkansas debate. watch this, ryan. >> it is because mark pryor is a loyal rubber stamp for barack obama's policies. barack obama imposed it on the states and then they hijacked it. mark pryor and barack obama. >> and that's just a small sample. >> right. >> would this strategy work? >> well, you have some democratic politicians who are nervous that it will work. if you look at grimes in kentucky, she is out there ridiculously, even willing to admit that she voted for president obama in 2012 or 2008. so there is some fear that there are some voters who would respond negatively to association with obama. like you were saying, the democratic base is what will save the senate for democrats if it is going to be saved. and the democratic base is still very much behind president obama. so to use the strategy that you're talking about, to get democrats out to vote, then you have to bring up president obama. you have to get people excited. that's how you win states like georgia and north carolina. >> talking about the bargs it means the election will come down to turnout. one thing that caught my eye is ea

from bill clinton. the dmon wisdom is that the democratic party is now doing that to barack obama as well. the only sure-fire top tier candidacy is not just setting itself up, they're also drafting loyalists from the obama cabinet to do that work for them. so those punches will land with a harder blow. with more than two years left of the obama presidency, how self-defeating is this for democrats. why are democrats right now giving up on this presidency. the tell fence of president barack obama is coming from somewhere you would not expect. it's not coming from the democratic party and its politicians. >> they call it the hope and change progress. 55 figures that prove president obama has accomplished more than you may realize. more than you may realize because the only democrats have apparently decided they would be against this because they would believe that would be their own gain and be against this president to try to help themselves than be on his side. is that an inevitable political just in terms of pure strategy, are they right to try to do it. joining us now is sam stein.

fair game to do that? >> what legacy? what has barack obama delivered for the black community? the conservatives, the liberals and the moderates? he's delivered high unemployment, more people on food stamps, less opportunity and less jobs. i don't see shou the case can be made to black -- to african americans that we need to preserve this president's legacy. >> you'll notice mary landrieu didn't cite all the things i did. that we need to protect barack obama because he's got people off welfare, got people opportunity. she said they don't like barack obama because they're racist. that's what she said. >> if we're going to talk at least from a perspective of an african american and also from a woman's perspective, we want to honor -- there are people who want to honor the president's legacy. number one, just being the first elected african american president in united states history. we know that slavery was the original sin of this country and just what he does, just as a role model for young black boys alone, makes you want to honor his legacy. and it could be argued by many that b

much she voted with president obama. or look at tom cotton and his closing ad is about barack obama. you can't go into a senate race and see a republican campaign not closing with the barack obama argument. on the democratic side, it's a much more complicated closing argument and the question is do they successfully turn them into choice elections and push back on the national referendum? for instance, i was in north carolina. why does kay hagan look like she's in a stronger position when in comparison -- she could lose. but in comparison to the other red state democratic incumbent. e's trying to run against tom tillis and his record in raleigh and raleigh republicans and the issue of education. let's take what i'm doing here in georgia. covering this nunn purdue race. there's not an incumbent on the ballot. the republican candidate here, david purdue, is trying to tie michelle nunn to national democrats. talking about her as obama's hand pick senate candidate. she's trying to make a referendum on david purdue's business record. you go to colorado and you have cory gardener and mark udal

branches equals great rates. >>> i'm not barack obama. i disagree with him on guns, coal, and the epa. and mitch, that's not how you hold a gun. i'm alison lundergan grimes and i approved this message. >> we're back with the round table. democratic candidate for senate in kentucky, alison lundergan grimes ran that ad to put some distance between herself and president obama, whose popularity in kentucky is at an all-time low. look at this headline. in an knew yesterday, grimes was pressed to say whether she voted for president obama in 2008 and 2012. she was very hesitant. in fact, wouldn't answer the question on the spot. let's watch. >> did you vote for president obama in 2008 and 2012? >> you know, it's about making sure we put kentuc kentuckyians back to work. i think that kentuckians know i'm a clinton democrat through and through. i know that the members of this editorial board respect the ballot box, as do i. i know that the president is on the ballot, as much as mitch mcconnell might want him to be. i want's my name. it's going to hold him accountable for the state of kentu

hate barack obama, some of whom love barack obama, but everyone is we understand. we see the writing on the wall. and, yet, the political system doesn yet. >> how can you not see the writing on the wall, chris? there's not more coal in the ground being made by little ker keebler coal el vs. the people who have dug the coal and died to dig the coal know that better than anybody else. it's not at all surprising that people would acknowledge reality. i know it seems challenging now. but we know that it's going away. and we know it's going away because we wouldn't be blowing the tops off of mountains with 5.5 million pounds of high explosive every day in appalachia if there were six foot seems of cole to be removed there. the fact of the matter is the jobs are going away and the workers know it because there were thousands and thousands of underground coal workers at one time. and now there's only 4,000. >> for the entire state? >> yeah. and coupled with that, there are 4,000 statistical excess deaths in the counties every year. so we're talking about an almost one-to-one for life for jo

running against me not barack obama. not my father. not harry reid. it's congressman gardener and myself on the ballot this fall. >> i'm not sure he recognizes it he's not running against harry reid or barack obama. he's running against me. >> so i have a lot of respect for you. you're dead wrong. i'm absolutely running against barack obama and harry reid. >>> joining me live now senior political editor mark murray. with a welcome to you. we saw a lot ofs at ahead of the midterms. less than a month away. all the debates in the key states. a lot of expert witnessive ads h -- expensive ads hitting the air waives. >> how volatile it's been. most people think republicans are the slight favorite to take back the control of the united states senate then we're talking about races in kansas, south dakota, states that republicans thought were easy slam dunks for them and possibly more competitive and democrat able to pick off one or two. it complicate it is. all the polls have been all over the place. i think for the best advice for a lot of folks that, you know, with a little more than three wee

democrats and this climate is, republicans have that motivating message and amounts to barack obama bad. for democrats, there is not a message -- >> message. >> right. >> democrats don't have that kind of message. >> and a unified one. >> in a unified, national way. and they're basically tailoring their messages for individual races. in iowa, you see one message. in colorado, another message. it's harder to do that. but that's the advantage that republicans have nationally at this point. >> they do. and it might pay off in the long run. colorado you mentioned that senate race is absolutely fascinating. there's a new "usa today" poll that has udall down seven points and you could say because of the national mood and how people are feeling. but he's really painted gardner as this out of the mainstream, gardner was then supported by the denver post and talked about a broad range of issues. i think we're now -- we have some news to get to, the commissioner of the royal canadian mounted police. let's listen in. >> foremost, i would like to extend condolences on behalf of the mounted police t

with jimmy carter leading the united states rather than barack obama. >> down, boy. >> i would assume barack obama would have resounding success on that. we are surrounded with no allies. joe biden came pretty close to the truth last week -- >> he always does, by the way. >> yes, he does. he was pretty close. we're surrounded by allies that are not allies. president erdogan said, "for us, pkk, the kurdish political party within turkey, for us pkk is the same as isis" the. that's what we're dealing with. >> a member of nato. >> letting a slaughterhouse miles from their boarder. >> we have an air base 100 miles from the syrian border and turkey, erdogan refused to allow that air base to be used for offensive operations against isis. that's what we're dealing with here. >> then we look at the midterms and what's coming ahead because we're counting down to that. senate democrats are eyeing a new battleground where republicans thought they had things locked up. national democrats are pumping a million dollars into south dakota on negative ads against republican candidate mike rounds report

closes to bill clinton for a long time. he brings something to the race that barack obama can't. bill clinton appeals to the african american voters you were talking about earlier on the show. but also to the rural white voters, the ones that are not happy with president obama this time around. and that was a message that bill clinton brought to these crowds here. he rallied at college campuses, he's looking for young votes. but what he said, republicans are trying to make this about president obama. president has really only two years left. the senator you choose is going to be in there for six and that you should look past that sort of lens. he acknowledged the fraught history of race that's present here in arkansas. he talked about what it was like to be here during the civil rights era and how the state has changed for the better since then. he made this pitch to students, to look forward to the future, try not to let republicans define it a certain way. if you think about congressman to the cotton, he's one of the more conservative members in the house. he's a different kind of r

. >> he's attacking me after losing thousands of coal jobs. i'm not barack obama i disagree on the epa. >> coal has been in a tail spin for some time because of employment has dropped 52%. coal is also suffering as a result in the explosion of cheaper natural gas which has resulted in coal providing less than half the electricity it did just a decade ago. some coal miners talking about the real truth about coal. >> i watched my father die, choked to death, smothered to death, no, coal has not been good to me or this county as far as i'm concerned. is it paid me a wage. >> right. >> it paid me a wage. and thank god for the union or i wouldn't be sitting here in the first place. that's all it's ever done for me. >> tonight chris travels to north carolina and west virginia to investigate the similarities between big coal and big tobacco another powerful industry that puts itself ahead of health and safety. the coal question is a riddle. why can no one say the truth about coal. >> it has an importance in kentucky. it is something more than an industry or compact form of carbon you can

barack obama as fast as they can. they don't want to be identified with him, they often don't want to be identified as democrats. they're running on individual issues, on abortion, on women's rights -- >> it's a vicious cycle, because if you don't talk about the president, if you distance yourself from him, you leave him open to further attacks, which is exactly what the democrats have done for the last six months. >> you know what -- >> in all those years roosevelt was trying to bring the country back from the depression, the economy wasn't a lot better. there was a lot of people unemployed. double-digits to the end of the '30s. all the time he was keeping people with hope by saying, we got something done here, something's working. why do you not want to beat the drum for the success you've had? >> one thing president obama has not been effective at doing is making his own case. one reason we got the good unemployment numbers on friday, we also got the numbers on median household income, which is completely stagnant as it has been for the past five years. and there's the argument, it co