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A huge gap there. florida is a big state to watch. drew, we just talked about minnesota. i know you know minnesota well. florida a really big state. quick thought from both of you on the gubernatorial race in florida. start with you, josh. >> i think rick scott will win. hes been an incredible candidate. bill nelson has been playing defense. scott there with the numbers. its good news for him in november. >> all right, drew. >> nelson is a fighter. hes not gone on the air yet. if joshs old boss ...

And potus polling in the low to mid 50s. the blue wall has crashed. joining me now, senator al franken and josh holmes, former chief of staff to mitch mcconnell. drew, ill go to you first and allow you to respond to larry kudlow about the economy and whether that will help republicans keep the house. >> thanks, dana. im afraid it wont. heres why. people dont see the economy in terms of gdp or abstract numbers. so republicans attempting to take away peoples healthcare coverage, driving up the cos...

Horizontal axis. drew a line called aggression analysis across them to basically find what is statistically most accurate. what you find, about a 70% correlation between a presidents approval rating and the number of house seats won or lost in a midterm. at say 50%, that would lead you to expect something like a 30-seat loss in the midterms. however, we have a president, we know is at 41%. if you start at 41% and draw a line across, you would find it comes out around here in the, about 60 very v...

Using this to raise campaign dollars, to the point where the president is disinviting athletes from the white house. its no longer just fodder. we have to believe this is policy from the right. a directive from trump. and that is only going to become worse as time goes on. >> i want to get your reaction to this. youve been on the receiving end of this from affiliates of president trump. he used that slur when speaking to you on fox news just a few weeks back. i want to have you look at the lines...

Manager is useful. >> and he knows something about sherpas. he was chief justice for john roberts and harriet meyers that with drew. so gillespie understand what kyle is looking for in the meetings. >> he will get a read, an objective read from the meetings of body language and knowing his former colleagues as he does and report it in to the process as the white house team, the confirmation team tries to assess the standing and where they are in terms of the whip couldnt. >> other sherpas includ...

For interview between the president and mueller team. tell me more about what the president said and your interpretation of that. >> one thing he has been saying all week, ive been with him much of the week, ten days ago we responded to their latest proposal for the interview but we hadnt heard back from them. today we just heard back from the mueller office in terms of their latest counter-proposal. this has been going on for months this drama about will he testify, will he not testify, these n...

Opinion, and its not -- the statements on twitter are known to be opinions as opposed to presidential directives. i dont know what exactly to make of that. >> official white house statements. >> well, thats the other thiet. i believe sarah sanders in the past said these were official white house statements. that distinct was something new i hadnt heard before. i dont think if its legally significant but its an attempt to draw a line between what he says on twitter and official orders that he giv...

>> just lastly back to giuliani regard to this tweet, it wasnt a directive to the attorney general, it was the presidents own opinion. he was the one who said -- he didnt say we have the tweet highlighted, he said attorney general jeff sessions should stop this rigged witch hunt. its not like he said must, which sounds mighty reminiscent to me, jeff, who said on the would, wouldnt think. >> yeah. you know, again, when the president of the united states says to a cabinet member, you should do som...

Now they are reaching out and reaching back to the people who said they were going to go to one of these events. for instance, to left them know listen, the russians may have been behind the whole thing. >> wow, drew griffin. thank you, drew. a major development for the revolving door at the white house. chief of staff john kelly just marked his one-year anniversary on the job. and now it appears that he will be around for his second one. lets go to the white house to our senior white house corr...

Billions to build the port and the pipeline and the roads and all of that you say, well, we need to expand. >> theres a lot of gold and copper and silver and mel ibdium in the ground out there. and we do not have any current plans to expand what were talking about with this permit. but it wouldnt surprise me if somebody, us or someone else, doesnt do that at some point in the future. >> theyre basically talking about putting a 175-mile gash across this pristine habitat. >> reporter: plans and pr...