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This first year of trump is going to mean for the Republican Party in the long term, for conservatives . Do they have the same home that they used to, or is the party irreparably changed . I think long term, the chances are high that the Republican Party, it cant recover or is broken apart or this is the beginning of a breaking apart for them. The brand of what it means to be a conservative or conservative republican is kind of lost. And whether conservatives in particular can ever get back to, ...

Vermont vermont there are propositions on the ballot that would enshrine reproductive rights in the constitution. it will be interesting to watch those in the abstract. i mean, or in themselves and also how they match to the votes in the rest of the states and everything else that is on the ballot. all right, weve got much more to come this election night. i believe weve got a shot here of mcallen, texas. big lines in mcallen in south texas. texas is one of the only states in the country where e...

>> do you blame him for that loss? >> i supported senator strange. most people who wanted to support senator strange and what we have to do is focus on candidates who represent their state and theyll win elections. >> are republicans at risk of losing the senate in 2018? im excited about 2018. whether you look at public polling, whether its missouri or florida, north dakota, republican candidates, republicans are in very good positions in a lot of states around the country. >> and do you think e...

Range chickens i talked about. >> welcome back to "kasie dc." that was the always quotable senator john kennedy. the chickens did come home for republicans and their tax plan. joining me for our new years eve party, some of the most important people i work with every day, capitol hill producer alex moe, frank thorpe and producer on the nbc news capitol hill team, mariana sotomayor. theyve all brought their top ten things to watch in 2018. for those of us who know you frank thorpe, well be unsurp...

This? >> well, if youre mitch mcconnell, its going to be a loss. because youre going to have someone needling you at your side day in and day out. if youre a democratic and roy moore wins, its going to be a victory in the sense that everything that roy moore says or does will then be affixed to whatever republican candidate is running in 2018. whether its republicans on the senate side or on the house side. in the end, though, don, lets just say from a moral perspective you could say the nation ...

The if, because i think they were written in haste and everybody repeated them. but certainly theres no if here. you have to decide whether you believe these women and the reporting is accurate or not. thats where we are. i believe the reporting and i think roy moore is unfit to serve in the united states senate. >> joe, do you think the party is in a different place back in 2012? even last years "access hollywood" tape. >> yeah. well, we need to catch up with the times and be ready for 2017 and...

Buddy van will know, i dont do this every morning when i get up. i felt lining im just going to run. >> thats why youre a tv commentator now. >> i didnt, but a lot of folks did, they tacked away from president bush. i didnt do that. look, i think to reemphasize approximate point, donald trump is up in 2018. whether they embrace him or not doesnt matter. they have to show a record of accomplishment that will benefit donald trump, but it will benefit more them than donald trump. >> given what we s...

Think they need to be consequences to that. lets not forget that we have another election coming up in 2018. whether it be russia or china. the case of trying to influence our elections by putting money into the clinton campaign, this is nothing new. they have always tried to do this. they just have a new tool and it is a cyber tool. >> you are the chairman of the homeland security committee and department of homeland security are implementing new security measures to avoid having to ban lap top...

Republicans and the senate and in the house, is that this question of reading the bill i dont think its as important. you have staffers who do that. i want to see the cbo score. im not worried they didnt read it. im worried with they didnt get it scored. we dont know the cost or a guess as to who will lose insurance. >> ron. >> we know a lot of people will lose insurance and we know that the earlier version of this bill which in some ways was more generous to people had a 17% approval rating. it...

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