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Outcome until very late into the night. >> so is stay close to cnn, thats my only advice. great to see you. thank you so much, ryan. joining me david chalian and politics reporter and editor at large chris cillizza. david, the president weighing in on this race today, he hasnt campaigned there one day, why is this race so important for him. >> yeah. hes not campaigning there one day was probably not his choice. probably the choice of ed gillespie. why is he paying attention? because he underst...

The reality is, this isnt about delegitimizing president trump. he won because he won a majority of the electorates. he spoke to the part of people who were in anguish in a lot of areas. this is about protecting democracy and the institution, not for 2018, not for 2020, but for frankly 2100. >> just to be clear, any doubt in your mind that russia hacked into the 2016 election? >> no doubt. i trust our intelligence agencies about this stuff. they seem pretty convinced. >> again, given that you th...

Delegitimizing president trump. he won because he won a majority of the electorates. he spoke to the part of people who were in anguish in a lot of areas. this is about protecting democracy and the institution, not for 2018, not for 2020, but for frankly 2100. >> any doubt in your mind that russia hacked into the 2016 election? >> no doubt. i trust our intelligence agencies about this stuff. they seem pretty convinced. >> given that you think there needs to be a brick wall message from the unite...

Think there are more fundamental concerns here. when half of the republican base doesnt view russia appropriately as an adversary, in fact, when half of the base views it as a friend, then it hampers the ability of especially the house given that members in the house are all on two-year election cycles. theyre much more vulnerable to popular changing sentiment. the senate, of course, is insulated from that given theyre on six-year staggered election cycles and they also have broader electorates ...

>> i think perhaps the surprises here are going to come for the british population when they get a better sense because for the most part people there dont have a deeper understanding of the politics and princefuls and policies of some of the parties, particularly the dup who are an out layer compared to teresa mays conservatives. the picture from here will surprise the british and other electorates. elections barely over, the democratic unionest party, northern irelands most powerful protestant...

Electorate, the different camps. >> youre right, these deserve tore compared because the electorate is very similar. the people who voted for trump and the people who voted for le pen, they look alike. these are french people and people who are rather poor. when you look at the map of the electorate of trump and the electorate of madam le pen, theyre very similar. the cities are rather liberal in the united states, liberal in france, and, you know, became part of france in the rural areas and th...

Susceptible in a lot of ways to these kinds of attacks as maybe british and u.s. electorates are. why do you suppose that is? >> well, you know the french are very susceptible to conspiracy theories, in fact. they circulate that all the time. this kind of attack is just alien to french culture. i think the fact it was coming from the united states is very suspect in the view of a lot of french people. finally theres an interesting wrinkle here, which is theres no bombshell that weve seen in this...

These files. and wikileaks when they read the statement from the macron campaign saying a lot of these materials are fake, wikileaks very smugly said, we dont think they can read this material faster than we did and we think its legit. here is an interesting wrinkle. they told me and we published this in the "daily beast" several days ago that one of the ways they fond to phishing attacks trying to get into e-mails with false sign on pages, that kind of thing, is to actually answer them and floo...

>> it is a mirror image of what theyve done inside russia for many years, which is they take any sort of dissidents or any sort of opposing view and they shout it down. that could be on the comments page of a newspaper article online or that could be even calling in to radio shows or television shows. but in the cyber space and social media, what you see is a series of actors portraying people in the target audience they want to reach. back in 2016 that was the united states. now it might be ger...

Serious one, the straight, political hat. >> y you can make the same argument about the tea party and theyre crazy like foxes. you have to generate energy among whats fund-raising and also this. the problem in the midterm elections isnt that we have the presidential election voters changing their mind. the problem with midterm elections is theyre different electorates and you have a 16 and 18-point difference for democrats and republicans in midterm elections. if democrats can shrink of some of ...