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President trumps influence. many see the virginia election as a bellwether for the midterm elections next year. leading democrats busy on the trail in virginia, and the president, busy on twitter, tweeting from south korea today, "ralph northam will allow crime to be rampant in virginia. hes weak on crime, weak on our great vets, anti-second amendment." even though northam is a veteran who served in desert storm. >> we need healers. and thats a doctor to come in and heal the wounds in this count...

Not a lot of personals at stake. its really affected by the national mood. the mood clearly had a huge effect. and when you talk about the congressional districts that are all over the country, thats the wave, feeling of a wave coming over them is whats worried the republicans. >> historically in virginia, correct me if im wrong, the governors race is not always in fact not usually a bellwether for what happens the following year in the midterms. >> it wasnt in 2010. >> four years ago and four y...

Never mattered more. >> okay, back to the panel now. so lets focus on that race in virginia, because that was the big one. that was the bellwether, if you like. so dave, tell me how this is the start of the anti-trump wave, how this is all about the democrats retaking the lower house, the house of reps at the midterms and john, you can follow up why hes completely wrong and gillespie never embraced donald trump and its all his fault. >> its clear this was a referendum against the president. any ...

For ralph northam and his great ticket and a lot of house of delegates but it is also a very strong message. i hope well be heard across the country and for that matter, across the world. we reject the kind of division that donald trump has put forward and frankly, and i know im not supposed to say nice things about folks in the media, but people want to know the truth about many of the things that took place in 2016. >> senator warner, youre just talking about this being potentially a bellwethe...

The music. jillian: i was wondering where the music was coming from. 15 minutes until the top of the hour. would you pay $300 for this? carly shimkus with the beat up antifa jacket that is turning heads. coming up on "fox and friends," live in virginia beach, breakfast with friends. >> it is election day, "fox and friends" is on the ground. as the virginia pilot says in virginia polls open in 15 minutes. we are at marys restaurant, military gets a 10% discount, huge governors race that will be a...

The russia issue plays into the overall notion of kind of fatigue about donald trump, if it does at all, i think that might be the biggest factor. >> do you think, mark, what happens tonight, the results well get lets say in virginia and new jersey, will be a bellwether looking ahead to the midterm elections next year? >> were certainly going to overanalyze every bit of data we can pull out of these elections, specifically in verge where i live, wolf. i think new jersey in itself is a different ...

Season has started on wall street and the solid numbers have pushed the dow to a new record high among the witness general motors shares of the comic or so to another record high after it posted two and a half billion dollars pretax profit and reaffirmed an upbeat full year earnings forecast for g.m. of course the next accounting loss to two charges related to the sale of its european operations cost cutting efforts in the shift to high margin trucks and s.u.v.s have boosted the companys perform...

Country in about trump, but how we as democrats better figure out a way to speak to the zis faction voters are talking about. if we can compromise a bit, we might find ourselves in the majority. i think taking trump on alone as bad as the numbers are, im not convinced they translate into victories yet, but i like the terrain and how its setting up. we just have to take sure -- >> the terrain is setting up well, but the democrats are still clueless in how to reach a national audience. if youre a ...

They dont feel as if our public life reflects our best. instead of our politics reflecting our values, weve got politics infecting our communities. >> e.j., i think he can get an amen. >> i think so. i would give one. and its a reminder of how good he is at that stuff. i think that even if it was accidental on the fact that both former presidents obama and bush said what they said is a sign that we are in some kind of real emergency as a country. and i think the fact that obama came out in virgi...

Your legal financial access. how is that not a conflict of interest? why dont we have any type of safety net that would prevent this from moving forward? we have watergate as a bellwether here. >> there are two ways of looking at this. employers sometimes pay the legal fees of employees. but in the case of a conspiracy, you see this a lot in sort of drug kingpin cases where the boss pays the legal fees of his minions. in those cases courts look very cautiously at the attorney/client privilege an...