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So you have the traditional mid-term electorate, which is older and whiter. check. thats normal. the question is whether democrat ks change the fact that low interest voters tend to be younger and people of color. is there evidence that democrats can change that formula? >> i think there is and you see the candidates running also. you see a lot of women and a lot of people of color running and younger people that were dis disenchanted with politics before. i think we are making a mistake as demo...

Secretary of state races. these will make the change in the electoral map for the future. there is an effort in florida to take back the state senate. that will determine how redirect happening. all the gerrymandering complaints will be down ballots. democrats cannot make the mistake of only focussing on these higher ticket brand name candidates. >> your party has been very good in making sure they cover the field. they go all the way down to school boards. a couple of different headlines. washi...

Education. they want to give them cars. they want to give them drivers licenses. >> president trump tieing his midterm message to immigration in three separate campaign rallies this week. most recently in nevada just a few hours ago. the president focussing on a caravan of migrants that he claims is quote, full of criminals headed to the u.s. border. president trump threatening to deploy military forces and even shut down the southern border to keep them out. its a talking point that seems to ha...

Principled leadership in congress at this moment. >> when you see ads like this, its because thats whats testing. you saw it last year. ed gillespie, ran this campaign sort of trying to act like he was donald trump and focussing so much on immigration and ms13 and crime and these themes that trump has about america being under siege, and the thing i would caution about this approach, though, politically, gillespie lost that race by nine points. just because it is the best strategy available to y...

>> i agree. so it is an under statement. it is really unfortunate. we just need to do what we can do. remarkably i think everyone is focussing on the parents who were deported. we have reached all but five of them without much help from the government. there are still parents in the u.s. who havent been reunited and we havent gotten an answer of why they havent been reunited. that is extremely troubling. we have been asking the government. the parents are in the u.s. they are part of the case. w...

Jamal in his time with me, he would bring up these figures. he would say these are people who supported mo ha med bin salem. a columnist who had critiques of the economic turn of saudi arabia has been locked up in a jail for a year charged with treason and terrorism. i know while jamals murder, were all focussing on that, it is happening across the region. lujain was picked up in uae and shipped back to saudi arabia. so the fact that this ally of ours is butchering people who even live abroad, d...

Thoughtful, sober leadership on this. who gives you that? the republican or the democrat? >> heres my message to ron and to anyone else out there who thinks that its okay to continue questioning this. human beings are affecting the environment in an adverse way. that doesnt mean that we need to stop all economic activity. it doesnt mean that we can no longer enjoy the great outdoors or visit our national parks. but if we do not take care of our environment its going to hurt our economy. south fl...

Well with, lets get back the story weve real a been focussing on in our program. there is universal outrage over the alleged murder, reportedly at the hands of jamal khasho fwrks gi. lindsey graham said there will be hell to pay if saudi arabia did this. lets listen to the president. >> i willt tell you up front right now theyre spending 1$11 billion purchasing military equipment and if we dont stel to them, theyll say thank yeah very much well buy it from russia or china. that doesnt help. but ...

Little bit of sympathy for herself and try to deflect that into focussing on best. >> do you think by saying shes the most bullied person in the world that will endepegender th sympathy? im not asking for your sources but how this interview played and the reaction. >> i dont think the reaction has had a lot of empathy for her. michelle obama face the a lot of bullying in the white house. shes put herself in the spotlight and married a spotlight. now first lady. comes with the turf. a couple year...

Above sea level. lets go to erica hill on the coast line in destine, florida. tell us what it is like now. >> reporter: we are definitely seeing the wind pick up. if i just look at the water here in the harbor behind me you can see -- anytime you have looked at the water during a wind and rain event -- you can see the ripples apart. that is picking up. the rain is picking up as we are starting to feel more effects of the storm. we are about 40, 45 miles west of panama city and panama city beac...