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Is this s. that all democrats need in a -- >> i hope the democrats would come up with a much more sophisticated and powerful messaging in this moment but it is a unique opportunity. my co-panelists are right. there are certain issues republicans could run on in this midterm election but representative dent and senator flake dont have those options because of the demographic thing ken is talking about. when you look at 159th district of pennsylvania which is qulooerl dents district its a very dem...

Political bank shot here for republicans where voters sort of look at the economy come october and they say, well, i dont know exactly what you did but it seems to be working. can republicans get credit that way at all? >> thats certainly what theyre hoping for, steve. and that has been the messaging. and even as polls have shown that more voters believe trumps private message as reported by cbs news as well as the analysis of folks like the tax policy center that you cited, that this would bene...

Republicans on the 2012 election, that autopsy they did 07b9 election wasnt necessarily wrong. it was just that donald trump blew up everything and hillary clinton was extremely unpopular. and thats the other thing for some of these swing districts. lets not forget you have donald trump there and you no longer have hillary clinton there that a lot of people -- >> but if there is an issue here that republicans think might give them a little traction next year, its what happened last week. republi...

This. look, historically the out of power party, the democrats in this case, they do well in midterm elections barring some very unusual circumstances. especially if the presidents approval rating is low. you hear these republicans saying next year could be ugly, the presidents approval rating is very low. we also saw the president sort of defy political history in 2016. do you see variables that might be at work in 2018 that could save president trump from the kind of electoral rebuke that a pr...

Deregulation. and you try and move the ball that way on your primary. but once you get to a general election, if you are in a moderate swing state, i dont know how republicans overcome that. especially when we see the turnout that happens from the local elections in big counties in new york and pennsylvania and virginia. the turnout on the democratic line increased anywhere from 16% to 46% in some districts. thats tremendous. that turnout number. >> james, im curious what you make of that energy...

This is the tone. how does that affect when the president of the united states is talking that way, how does that affect the united states standing in this world? >> sure. so again, as you noted, the most inflammatory comments have been disputed by other people who were in the meeting as well. so that is important to note in addition to the official comments from the white house. but i think in terms of tone overall 2016 was a wake-up call to the political establishment chamber of commerce conse...

>> most definitely. most definitely. when you look at some of the audiences cheering for republicans sometimes, you look out there and you say, those are the spasms of a dying party. when you look at the lack of diversity sometimes. it depends on where you are obviously. but by and large, were appealing to older white men. and there are just a limited number of them. >> on sunday the president tweeted, "the fake news refuses to talk about how big our base -- how strong, excuse me, our base is. t...

Asking. >> well, it wont -- >> to be able to rail against the democrats every day instead of having to try to -- weve seen this awkward they try to pass something with ryan and mcconnell, then hes bashing ryan and mcconnell, then were asking why hes doing that. is it cleaner if he just gets to attack pelosi and schumer every day? >> no, because if he has pelosi, if it is pelosi as potential leader, hes going to be facing -- he thinks its bad now, the investigations into him. he cant -- what dona...

A conservative who did not particularly care for the president, hired a lot of lawyers of similar mind. but they also knew that he represented the justice department in this and they had to take it seriously. and trump at the moment is trying to have it both wise, disparaging, also cooperating, counting on the house republicans, many of which you showed there, to do the dirty work for him. so far it hasnt bled into the larger senate republicans and others. thatll become very worrying if it becom...

Earlier in the day. he labeled the fbi as "tainted" and boasted about essentially repealing the affordable care act. we will have a lot more on both of those stories. but we begin with some stark warnings for the president and for the republican party from some fellow republicans. congressman charlie dent of pennsylvania and senator jeff flake of arizona are both retiring in 2018 and both are on record as outspoken critics of the president. but over the weekend they sounded huge alarm bells abou...