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Breakdown. a big divide the parties here. the number of women, african-americans, hispanic, lbgtq members going up for the democrats but not the republicans but certainly, wolf, again, a new day and a lot of new members up here from a range of backgrounds and perspectives and certainly bringing in that experience up theyre washington. wolf? >> good point. thank you very much. while the balance of power in washington now has tilted, a certain amount, poet sides are still dug in on the governmen...

This story is fascinating, right? i wonder what it means when you have a russian oligarch and they all have ties to vladimir putin, pressuring the then candidate trumps campaign chairman about how he could, about how he could essentially re-pay money. >> sure. so brianna, ive heard people analyze this over the course of the day. and people have picked on the fact that, well, if this was so bad, paul manafort would have been charged along with the other things he was charged with. i think that ki...

Government more control. people are doing better now under president trump. theyre going back to work. theyve got more money in their pockets. theyve got lower taxes and higher wages. elizabeth warren should be right behind president trump. >> julie: in an interview earlier this year, warren said she never thought she would be in public office. pretty amazing for the daughter of a john tore. she comes from a different blue blood background. lot of the trump supporters from blue blood backgrounds...

Its not the call girl. its not the pretty woman. >> reporter: by the end of 2005 ida had five women on her list who were roughly the same age with similar backgrounds. young hispanic women with arrest records for drugs or prostitution. >> i start going out there and talking to the girls. at first some of them were hesitant. and i said, look, im not running you. i just want to know when was the last time you saw her? did you know her? what can you tell me? whats going on out here? >> how much of ...

Them up? >> investigators had plenty of leads but none that had gotten them closer to answering two questions -- who was he? and where was he now? to find out, commander mike gier, head of the albuquerque pds criminal investigations unit, says the department chased leads all over the country. from texas, where women with profiles similar to those of the west mesa women have also gone missing, to states as far away as pennsylvania and florida, where the backgrounds and travel patterns of certain ...

Was a development of a police officer who was killed by an undocumented immigrant there. whats your response to that statement from the sheriff about sanctuary state rules? >> you dont like to see the death of anybody. we see far too many deaths of people in this country by all kinds of backgrounds. this man should have -- when we know somebody is capable or has a criminal background, we need to be watching them. im very sorried it happened. i dont think it happened because ka kcalifornikr calif...

Reference to president trump, which certainly tests the institution of the senate. >> mm-hmm. >> but its not like they come here with their hands clean either as the departing senators noted. >> exactly. i mean we have a new -- a whole lot of fresh faces that are going to be coming in to both the house and the senate, some of them young, some of them coming from a wide range of diverse backgrounds. i mean do you envision a scenario where some of these problems begin to get solved, or could the a...

Abandoning, abandoning our kurdish allies and giving isis the ability to recon son eight itself. and giving the opportunity to pull out of iraq entirely which led to isis rising in the first place. >> your winner and then loser for 2018. >> you are starting with me. i would say first of all, i will start with lazzara, if thats okay. i want to end on a happier note. the losers i think, quite frankly the migrant policy that we have right now, the separation, and, i will save the american voters. t...

Possibly have to continue to lie, jason, about being in prague? theres no passport evidence. theres no travel evidence. theres no hotel records. even the washington post reporter has said they found no evidence that this story is true. i think mcclatchy is getting worked over by some bad sources here. >> jason: i think thats the other part of the story. who is trying to shop this and turn this story the other way. i gotta change gears to jerome corsi. he has a lawsuit thats moving forward. the g...

Backgrounds and demographics. a government background doesnt hurt any one political party or employee more than another. it hurts all of them. he is with us from "the washington post" joining our conversation. thanks for being here. we in washington often do talk about the numbers. 700,000 or so affect affected by this shut down. the personal stories here are often overlooked. i dont know if you have been looking on twitter. this is interesting this hash tag on twitter, stories about peoples liv...