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Law. there are partisan bases to some of these decisions and its been thrust out in the open. >> joan, how do you think chief justice roberts views this and is watching this? hes the chief justice. he remains very quiet, but hes also human and hes been seeing how this plays out. if brett kavanaugh enters the court with an asterisk with the way the public feels, is that a big concern of his? >> two things, kate. two things, and they work in two different directions. the first, as you mentioned, k...

Has changed. its about this. >> a marist poll shows the enthusiasm gap between republicans and democrats drinking by the day. just two months ago there was a ten-point gap between the democrat and republican interest in the midterms but that playing field has leveled off. now the number of republicans who say they feel extremely interested in the election is up by two points in arizona, nine points in indiana, eight points in missouri and north dakota and up 11 points in tennessee. meanwhile, th...

Nomination gone down, republicans would be interested more in showing up at the polls. im interested in seeing how this motivates voters, not just base voters, but across the board. my big question is whether or not there is a miscalculation among the republicans about the broad impact about this we talk a lot about the narrow bases of the parties. this is something that broke through with a broad swath of the electorate, especially younger voters. i think that actually got a bigger impact than ...

Crack capitol hill producer chad program just sent out a memo to all of us that says, the republicans still dont have the votes. he said it seemed like a strong investigation that they would have their votes. susan collins has just gone back and spent two hours in the skiff, the secure room reading the report and came out and said, shes not going to announce that apparently flake and murkowski are still in play. two questions people will first of all, lets talk about the democrats because there ...

Firing up both bases, and what we are finding in an npr and pbs and maris poll is that the gap between the democratic and the republican enthusiasm has narrowed since it exploded on the scene and really indistinguishable and both looking towards the midterm thes are fired up, susan? >> and the republican officials tell me that once judge kavanaugh came into the hearing and he was so defiant and angry, it reunited the republican voters and ginned them up in a way that they had not been, and that ...

Ruth? >> i am not -- im trying -- im struggling with -- i love raw fbi reports, like the next reporter. >> but you have to be careful. >> we have to be really careful of them in both settings, in the criminal setting and equally in the background setting. but there should be -- i think senator cornyn said this, there needs to be some mechanism, without giving the public access to peoples cell phone numbers and social security numbers or whatever else is collected, give them some sense of confide...

Red state. mobilizing is more significant than it is for a donnelly or mccaskill. they are in a different position and have different races. manchin hez takas a significant. >> we will talk about house races after the break, but senate races are different. republican bases are not as enthused. this is dangerous in the senate races. >> thats what the presidents central role is now. look where he is not going. florida and some places presidents would normally go. he is going to the reddest of red ...

Unknown, eliminating a vast majority of people who could have provided corroborating evidence, corroborating information, positive, negative, neutral, whatever. in an fbi investigation -- ive done these and supervised these. you encourage your agents to go out, cover all bases, run out all leads, develop that comprehensive luxe so whoever is looking at this is well versed and can make that judgment call. this is a judgment call. theres a lot of subjectivity if you dont have all the information. ...

Election cycle for democrats. >> dana: josh, do you think the democrats are looking at this through the wrong lens? youve been looking at the data coming out of these red states. >> theres just no data to support it. its a great political spin. reality is what this has happened with the electorate with respect to the kavanaugh debate, it has lit both bases on fire. democrats have been on fire for a year and a half basically since the trump presidency began. republicans have not been. up to this ...

Leland kaiser and deborah ramirez. so hallie jackson, let me start with you on all this. how does the white house feel this is going? it seems like they granted the fbi investigation last week and now theyre trying to expand it. it feels like theyre trying to cover all their bases here. >> because they kind of have to because that is what senator jeff flake, lisa murkowski and others have to see. especially because of the corner that he put himself in starting over the weekend, right? when he sa...