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Service. at a time when i think that is desperately needed on both sides of the aisle. irrespective of whether youre a vet or a cop or a teacher or nurse, what unites people in public service is that when you show up to work, you cant afford to fail. you cant afford just to bicker or to worry about your social media. we dont see that in congress today at all. they certainly love to thank us for our service. and thats good. but we need to try to replicate vets and public servants, you know, overa...

Have pushed that to the fore for a few reasons. one preexisting health coverage, mandatory has become a top issue nation wide. republicans have been on the wrong side of that from a public polling perspective. also, governor scott used to be the head of a hospital that has paid a record of medicare fraud fund. the democrats want to talk about health care for a reason. locally we had a toxic algae and a blue-green crisis that fouled the waters. that seemed to have affected and i say seem because ...

And this is the "angle" live from the border state in arizona. we have so much to get through. we have to fit it into an hour. states like this are not just front and center in the mid-terms, they resonate nationally because the issue of immigration has come to the fore. president trump has refocussed attention on the issue, of course he is being labeled a racist. he referred to that in his speech in missouri. tonight a hispanic border patrol agent and a family member of a victim of illegal immi...

So theyre going to run to the ugliness. theyre going to run to this base -- dimension of their base. you know, im just thinking though, chris, thats a generous read. our politics for so long has been in some ways motivated by these implicit appeals to whiteness and what we see in this moment is -- and i may be wrong here, is that what has been lurking underneath our politics has been brought to the fore. instead of engaging in coded speech and dog whistles we see explicit appeals. people are now...

And neck race for months. but today for the very first time since july, abrams has the slight edge. joining us now is "washington post" national political reporter and moderator of "washington week," robert costa. whats going on in georgia? >> you have a very night gubernatorial race. voter suppression an issue at the fore of that state debate between ms. abrams and secretary of state kemp. you have -- the whole race becoming nationalized as well. having oprah winfrey go in there. she doesnt wan...

Swamp, hillary clinton. he made it not about himself. >> he talked about jobs. >> and in that period, it was about hillary clintons defects, about trump bringing home, at that moment what he had to do was consolidate traditional republican voters nervous about him and got just enough of them in enough places. the script has been flipped. and its all about trump. partly thats because the way hes campaigning because hes just all about the base. partly its about the events of the last week which ha...

They cant run on the tax cuts so theyre going to run to the ugliness. theyre going to run to this base -- dimension of their base. you know, im just thinking though, chris, thats a generous read. our politics for so long has been in some ways motivated by these implicit appeals to whiteness and what we see in this moment is -- and i may be wrong here, is that what has been lurking underneath our politics has been brought to the fore. instead of engaging in coded speech and dog whistles we see ex...

A crisis it is not something that is probably new but that has been going on step by step and it obviously had a very bad day yesterday and has a very bad day in a very sister party the c.s.u. also a few weeks ago so it is something that has been going on and on and something else that i have been able to gather here today is the fact that anglo-american doesnt only have now big opposition externally maybe from other parties but also within the party there are voices that are becoming louder and...

A regional government on the other hand the losses are absolutely evident and the losses are very difficult also for angela merkel she will probably be able to continue with her government in a way with her governing coalition but she will also have to make changes and you also have to make changes considering what i mentioned just earlier sumi the fact that the social democrats here are under a lot of pressure that they also have to bring results and that also applies for angela merkel both the...

Game. close race. >> sandra: are we going around the table now? >> i cant argue with david. i think there are so many big issues coming to the fore now that are shaking things up. the caravan will continue to do that. i think sadly some of these issues were dealing with in pittsburgh will make people reassess where do i stand on issues of security. i think it can move people. its a suburban local issue feels like it is hitting people at home and that may change their views. >> sandra: i know you...