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Put himself front and center, the fact, the issue, the law, the policy that the justice department, made him -- >> laura: i dont want to relitigate 2016. the idea that jim comey cost hillary the election. hillary cost hillary the election. the only person that couldnt have won in the election was hillary clinton. then you had donald trump, a phenomenal campaigner. better than hillary. she won the coast, elite, middle america, they hear hillary and they hear cats screaming. they dont want to hear...

>> laura: that is what comey did. >> he gave the russians the whereabouts, he slapped them on lock where the israelis had embedded people -- >> laura: lets talk about what jim comey said about the republican party and how the party left him. >> i feel like the republican party left me and people like me. i used to think that at the heart of being a conservative, lower case c, was first the character matters, and second values matter. i dont know where that is? im not comfortable being a part of ...

With the president. heres flake admitting today he probably couldnt have won. >> i can tell you, its very difficult to be relegisla-elece the republican party in arizona in particular. doesnt matter so much the po policies that you adopt or your votes. its if youre with the p president. >> or youre not, obviously, and jeff flake thinks if youre win the president, you can win. "outfront" now, doug brinkley, april ryan, white house correspondent for american radio nedworks and mark preston. senato...

Alone, five to six districts they couldnt have won. the argument that she is costing us seats doesnt hold water. whats important is that we put this behind us. we want not to second-guess and congress point, but take the fight to preserve medicare and thats what we will do as a united caucus. >> you are retiring and nancy pelosi is 76 years old and the number two democrat. i think he is a-year-older. 77 years old. jim clyburn is in his 70s. tim is in his early 40s. is there an argument to be mad...

Whole narrative in the press and the whole narrative among the democratic party is i dont know if she can do this. shes pretty terrible. were worried. what about joe biden and all these things. then they get started and they say, gosh darnt, we love her. shes fantastic and shes going to be great. right, you beat three sea turtles in a debate. joe biden who couldnt have won, and two have dropped out. they quit. >> i gotta leave it on this. pat smith, the mother of one of the victims was on "the k...

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Individual i defeated last year. >> but bachmanns victory over jim graves was close. in a democrat strategist said the handwriting was on the wall. >> when a member of congress quits and said i could have won if i ran. they are saying i couldnt have won. >> a tea party favorite bachmann ran for president and the only female candidate in the presidential debates appealing to fiscal and conservative. >> you earn every dollar and you should be able to keep it. >> her presidential campaign faced scr...

In your plan? thats my question. but you point to a bigger picture, which is there are moments in history where leaders have won by being specific, by even giving people extremely hard news to listen to. >> harsh news, harsh news. i mean, hit romney is in trouble. you said what i felt on saturday night, after reading this politico article and a lot of other articles, that this is a moment where you can look back and say, all right, you know what? they had to change paths at this point, or else t...

Swing from what the congressional race was in the 16 elections, the same swing as what happened in the last election in kansas. theres something happening here, right. >> i dont know that there is. >> you dont think so? >> i thought there wou be. i thought he was going to get over 50% because of all the things that happened. it was a special election. these are the type of elections, walt walter, that you have shocks, like in massachusetts when scott brown won ted kennedys old seat because you h...

Whole narrative in the press and the whole narrative among the democratic party is i dont know if she can do this. shes pretty terrible. were worried. what about joe biden and all these things. then they get started and they say, gosh darnt, we love her. shes fantastic and shes going to be great. right, you beat three sea turtles in a debate. joe biden who couldnt have won, and two have dropped out. they quit. >> i gotta leave it on this. pat smith, the mother of one of the victims was on "the k...