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Steve bannons fall from grace with the trump administration is sending shock waves through the 2018 election. republican candidates clamoring for his support are now actively distancing themselves. msnbc national political correspondent steve kornacki is at the big board for a break down of the fall out. so, steve, has steve bannon actually managed to unite the republican party? >> its fascinating. remember just before this week what was supposed to be one of the big stories of the early part of...

Position of the republican party. why could not a president change minds by taking the bully pulpit and uses it for positive purposes as opposed to negative purposes. >> there you go. you are a statesman for a reason. good to see and thanks for coming on. always a pleasure. coming up, the battle ground map might be getting a shake-up. what could be clintons new roadblock to 270 and does trump have a couple of realistic paths? i will show you. well be right back. long. did you read every word? no...

We were talking about a potential wave that could flip control of the senate and putting the house in play. is it possible the path is narrowing? lets look at the map before comey. this is whether it stood. the stuff in gray is where the toss ups were. in main and nebraska. we had her well over 270 with a pad. trump at 157. well, lets go ahead and look at a new battle ground map. thanks to early voting, nevada appears to be getting out of reach for trump. the early vote is going in sump a way th...

>> probably mcmullen. >> if you are free for going for mcmullen as donald trump for the winner in utah? hillary clinton? >> sure. even though i dont want my vote to be driven as an anti-this is one case where i feel like its important. >> steve, donald trump if he loses this, this is not on the battle ground map. he is assuming he is going to win utah according to the campaign. if he loses this state, getting to 270 electoral votes, i dont know if its impossible, but it will be very, very diffic...

The people are going to get trump in. its not going to go that way. >> you think the people will vote for trump, but trump wont be the president? >> uh-huh. >> pait might be a rigged election? >> definitely. >> fresh from scranton at 30 rock, that interview is fascinating. this is something i have been wondering about. donald trump is out there saying this is rigged against me. are trump voters are going to say im not voting? >> this is what trump doesnt want to happen. pennsylvania is not on ou...

These are real. the gop nomination polls have me as number one. big lead. so many great polls. thats just some of it. and then the battle ground map. this was taken from the strategy memo pushed out by the campaign. its a rosy scenario if we have ever seen one. they call states like virginia, pennsylvania, and michigan toss ups even though clinton has a commanding lead. they seem to have a math problem and figure trump can win iowa, maine, florida, nevada, north carolina. they say that would bri...

So they can inspire our students. lets solve this. im standing up, so you mean something big is about to happen. its a very close race. its a very very close race. one of the consequences is that it is entirely possible that at the end of all this the president of the united states is going to be john boehner. im not kidding. heres how this works. the process by which that could happen is not that hard to understand and it really could feasibly happen. this is the battle ground map. the yellow...

Im standing up, so you mean something big is about to happen. its a very close race. its a very very close race. one of the consequences is that it is entirely possible that at the end of all this the president of the united states is going to be john boehner. im not kidding. heres how this works. the process by which that could happen is not that hard to understand and it really could feasibly happen. this is the battle ground map. the yellow states. the states that are red or blue is it seems ...

Said yes. but now we have a new justice on the court. and the voting rights act. landmark legislation. in 1965 the question before the court and they havent granted this one but seems likely they will, is this requirement that states they have a history of zprimgs before they make any changes at all. the states say this map is way out of date and the supreme court signalled three years ago it may agree with that criticism. >> we shall see how this term goes. pete williams. thank you, sir. i appr...

Seen the same thing which the numbers have moved in wisconsin. wisconsin has moved from a five to ten-point lead for the president down to anywhere from two to four points. its very much in play. in fact, ive even had some republicans intimate to me, if ohio is going south on them, they hope to replace ohio with wisconsin. now, later tonight were going to go to the map. were going to the battle ground map and show how possible that is. its possible for romney to get to 270 without ohio and repla...