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That will house many of the artifacts now in that huge warehouse. Dont expect to see any of the knotty propaganda that glorifies a tyrant. Thats it for today. Have a great week and we will see you next fox news sunday. We are seeing a rise in protections, this is a natural tendency but its a destructive one because when people act in protectionist ways, they wreck barriers which makes everyone. Paul welcome to the journal editorial report, im paul gigot that was billionaire industrialist and key...

That very thin margin in the senate that they have when the vice presidents tie-breaking vote come november. >> and david, how long do you think democrats have to change this narrative, to get build back better passed, to get other legislative items through the house and senate before they get clobbered? >> you usually see an electoral environment sort of start to take hold in june, july and then its real hard. you need external number. you brought up the leadership. you said 66%. thats what the...

That comes from the nbc poll. i know the president said he didnt campaign to do well in the polls. but he certainly is not doing that right now. in that poll hes under water by double digits overall unapproval. one number that i thought was interesting in the nbc survey is strong approve versus strong disapprove. he had 18% of the country strongly approving of his job performance. 46% strongly disapprove. thats an intensity gap as well. i understand biden, the president, what else can you say wh...

Are seeing here in most of the polling ive seen. first of all we have it as a little bit smaller lead than what the fox poll is showing. what the fox poll doesnt get into is the intensity. and what you have with incumbent president doing good or bad things. in this case the numbers for biden have turned decisively negative, is that the intensity -- there is a gravity that comes with being the incumbent president and bringing down the intensity of your voters, raising the intensity of the opposit...

Through. guess what. the composure of this current congress hasnt changed that much. one thing may be shifting, the intensity gap, we can measure in polling what people are concerned about, issues that are ranked the most important. here we are seeing gun control even before what happened with these twin massacres are ranking higher and higher among concerns of democratic voters. now, youre seeing that manifest in language used by the presidential candidates. heres the catch. the presidential ca...

Dangerous. if democrats have to question the intensity gap then all hope may be lost. there is 30 days, 30 days for these elections which are critical to the history -- for the future of this country, where i believe american democracy as we know it is on the ballot. >> yeah. just, tiffany, to look at how people feel about how important the elections are. democrats 82% in october said that is very important. republicans 80% say it is important. republican turnout is fairly consistent. it is demo...

Thats an intensity gap that i dont think the republicans are going to be able to make up. now, will it make a difference in some races? perhaps. on the other hand, you look at the house races, political report just moved another seven seats in the direction of democrats. so the house is practically gone at this point. weve just had mayor michael bloomberg, former mayor of new york, drop $20 million in the senate republican races. theres a reason for that. he doesnt throw away his money. and that...

Problem. you look in the latest quinnipiac poll. 55% of women strongly disapprove of him. thats compared to 36% of men who strongly approve. thats an intensity gap that i dont think the republicans are going to be able to make up. now, will it make a difference in some races? perhaps. on the other hand, you look at the house races, political report just moved another seven seats in the direction of democrats. so the house is practically gone at this point. weve just had mayor michael bloomberg, ...

Intensity gap. i think that it started to close pre-kavanaugh and then it has sort of slammed shut. i had a pollster say to me this week, i want to test this again when the noise is gone. i called him an optimist. >> when is the noise gone? >> right. with the noise being gone. he said, oh, just be replaced with a different noise. but it has to, you know, can republicans maintain this level of interest for five more weeks? were going to see what happens to kavanaugh. >> i was just going to say, i...