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I think the reason youre beginning to now see a shift in congressional ballot polling is because democrats are isolating a lot of democrats who are not as progressive as some of the more extreme elements of the party. they are also isolating independents. those voters will look at both parties and see where they stand on the issues. for republicans if they can craft the proper message and target those individuals aggressively they can perhaps court some of those folks to their side come november...

The border, immigration reform, look, theres something also on the horizon, it is criminal justice reform. bipartisan efforts on the hill right now to get something done with that and i know that this is a priority with the administration and jared kushner pushing and leading that effort, so theres going to be things that are going to be done because remember at the end of the day the president wants to win and he wants to have wins under his belt and go into this new year with wins and doing it...

>> well, i dont -- i mean, the generic ballot polling is ugly for them, but not like total disaster range yet. i think theyre complaining more openly. people are less afraid of the president. rich lowry made a really great point in the column this week, the president by going after jeff sessions and not doing anything to him demonstrated tremendous weakness. even if he was furious with someone, he would complain about them but not really do anything. thats emboldened other members of the cabinet...

Midtermses, is becoming ever-manufacture evident, right? >> well, i dont -- i mean, the generic ballot polling is ugly for them, but not like total disaster range yet. i think theyre complaining more openly. people are less afraid of the president. rich lowry made a really great point in the column this week, the president by going after jeff sessions and not doing anything to him demonstrated tremendous weakness. even if he was furious with someone, he would complain about them but not really d...

The far right wing conservative. could this get blown up in the senate too? >> ted cruz would complain, but there are votes for immigration reform, they passed it through the senate. it was 70 votes all told? >> yea. >> theres deep support for this. the real challenge is the house. and you have seen john boehner stand up to tea party groups for a specific reason. the shutdown, it was a political disaster. they lost ten points in the je nearic ballot polling. and they can lose an election because...

>> yes. >> well, youre smiling way too broadly, mr. steele. >> im thinking about my turkey. >> youre thinking about your turkey, thinking about the polling, the generic ballot polling with the ten-point bump for republicans in the last month since health care began to -- >> its amazing what will happen when republicans shut up and listen. >> thats been your advice to tea party colleagues. >> shut up and let this thing unfold naturally the way it will. theres a lot of lessons, particularly going ...

Andrea. thank you so much for having me. we didnt even talk about gibbs. we talked about jobs. how we can best move an agenda that we call it make it in america agenda so that manufacturers and businesses can be incentive to make it in america, so that workers can have the opportunity to make it in america. thats what our agenda was last night. we have moved on from those things that happened on sunday morning. >> well, of course, when talking about jobs some democrats might want to worry about ...

Congressional generic ballot showing republicans ahead of democrats on the congressional generic ballot polling and that is a real risk and i think what is key here is, if they can get bipartisan support, if the democrats can get senator graham, get other republican senators to get on board with this i think that will be enough, perhaps, to give some of those moderate democrats with tough re-election campaigns, especially in the senate, this november, as a -- >> ill throw another wrinkle into th...