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This campaign -- [ applause ] this campaign has been about common courtesy and decency. >> it was also about a whole lot more than that for the democrats. the dnc poured about $1 million into alabama. progressive groups were also there. mo, this puts the democrats on the offensive for the midterm elections. it changes the map. >> it does in the short term. but i want to give a little pause to this. its a stunning victory, but it saddens me that the second coming of george wallace and bull connor...

Get on board. there was an event with vice president mike pence and lepage of maine to support this effort, but susan collins seems to be getting support back home in maine and says shes leaning against the bill. it appears this bill may be on the verge of failure. the question is what majority leader mitch mcconnell does next week. theres some suggestion that some folks at the white sox would want to put republican senators on the record, are you for getting rid of obamacare or do you want to k...

Tra trashing his pred ses predecess predecessor, bragging about the 2016 election map. and treating the 40,000 as if they were a rally in the red state. some have defended the president by accurately noting that he was well received. i dont doubt that he received thunderous applause. but thats part of our problem, we need to stop rewarding forces of division. >> we ought to change it from the word "swamp" to the word "cesspool," or perhaps to the word, ""sewer." but its not good. not good. >> iv...

Republicans were expecting this to be a critical week for them. more and more senators are expressing doubt or just outright saying that they dont being this could work. mitch mcconnell has talked about just repealing obamacare as it stands. but aits not clear that something will happen in the next two week. they are running out of support. and chuck grassley is raising at alarm bill tweeting that republican senators should be ashamed they havent passed a health care reform bill and that we wi...

Dementia. i will leave that to his physician to figure that out. >> something is wrong, and to the point that you cant even have a bigger debate, excuse me, joe, about the issue at hand that hes talking about, because hes nonsensical. thats what republican congressmen and everybody who is backing up here have to keep in mind. as they think about the decisions theyre going to make moving forward. are you going to stand by this guy? because hes nowhere. he doesnt stand by anything. and im quoting ...

He encouraged me to take it home to my colleagues at "the washington post" and try to run it on the front page of our newspaper. so he cares a lot about that map. he cares a lot about these states. >> im sorry. he on his 100th day interview five months after the election wanted "the washington post" to run the election map on the cover? >> he did. i think he was sort of playing there, but it speaks to the pride that he has in that map, and he was showing it to his visitors. and, you know, he fee...

Union. extremely dependent on nafta for its exports and economic engine. thats the way it seems to me to this presidents heart, to say the people that voted for you, not the american people at large, the people that voted for you. >> youre exactly right. he takes so much pride in those people that voted for him. in your intro there, you were talking about the electoral map that he showed the reporters from reuters in their interview. he actually did the same thing with me. he brought out the map...

He wrote the letter from fly over country. fly over country. if you look at the political map and the election map, 3,000 counties in the country and about 2600 of them i think were red in the trump-clinton election. the red counties are what people call fly over country. tell the people in the blue counties where democrats win elections, what is the conversation going on in the red counties that is not taking place in the blue counties. >> the conversation we need to have whether they are red o...

Her husband who was supposed to be, you know, the thing of the past, and the election map that couldnt be won anymore for a democrat had urged the campaign over and over again, please focus more on white working class voters and there probaby could have been more to have been done. that i think it was pretty clear in 2013, i think the -- there were a lot of reasons hillary clinton lost. and its a couple of tens of thousands of votes in like three states and it goes the other way and she is the p...

Heres a quick hit as we head to the break. >> these states apparently are strong for ronald reagan where he is doing well or where the states are leaning his way. so theyre colored blue on the election map. >> well, colored blue for republicans, red for democrats. gary, gary, gary... i am proud of you, my man. making simple, smart cash back choices... with quicksilver from capital one. youre earning unlimited 1.5% cash back on every purchase, everywhere. like on that new laptop. quicksilver keep...