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Elections is much different than voting for a presidential election. we know a lot of times that republicans that didnt like trump so much, were uneasy about him, unsure about him, they use the supreme court as their justification. are you finding that theres a disconnect between voting for a presidential cycle and voting for a mid-term cycle and whether or not the supreme court is a big factor? >> reporter: its interesting. thats true that conservative voters who might not have been the most pr...

Is that if you guys fold on this and cave and keep bending over backwards, you have done that enough. if you guys dont conduct this vote in compliance of all this and avenatti gets one foot in the door to tell his story, you can kiss goodbye republican chances in the mid-terms in november. >> pretty honest. this is about power. the description from rush limbaugh. at the minimum, an accomplished person who has a credible allegation. they deserve to be heard and treated fairly, but rush limbaugh i...

Until a little bit of friction in the last week. you wonder with that latent surge still be out there? right now gillum every poll ive seen. >> the two events on thursday will be defining for the mid-terms, the kavanaugh hearings and then rod rosenstein. certainly the white house is nervous about having to be aggressive about kavanaugh, so fearful about what that could do for female voters, how that could energize democrats. gene robinson, if rod rosenstein, deputy attorney general meets his fat...

Whether or not rosenstein will be fired on thursday, if it did happen, it would be significant. >> a lot of folks think that when it comes to -- lets say rosenstein and sessions, quite frankly. its not a matter of if, its a matter of when they get pushed out and everyone said its the mid-terms. after the mid-terms, what does that change? >> okay, first of all, i would say i agree with the idea that sessions is gone after the mid-terms and rosenstein as well unless he is gone sooner. i will retur...

Wave. were now in this incredible moment as weve been discussing earlier in the show, were looking at thursday right now. two big things could happen. one how the supreme court nomination plays out is going to directly affect one of the central dynamics of the voting behavior that were looking at in these mid-terms which is how women vote across the country in all of these states and certainly at the house level in a lot of key districts. republicans are, you know, the president decides how he h...

Really is having a hard time figuring out how to talk to women and about women. this is just one more reminder. as if we needed more. in the summer they found a majority of americans feel trump doesnt respect women. for a majority to feel the president doesnt respect the majority of the electorate is stunning. >> the interest by group. one of the good pieces is their intensity seems to be going up close to the election. look at bar graph. independents and young voters traditionally have less int...

Summons a senior administration official that official goes to the white house for a meeting. it will be curious to see what comes out of it. the president would be well-advised to consider and most observers would agree theres three problems potentially with the president firing the deputy attorney general, the first is political most republicans are saying dont do something like this on the eve of the mid-terms, politically its not a good idea. second those around the president concerned with ...

Fired, that hes discussed resignation with chief of staff john kelly, and kind of where we are in this moment? >> yes, so we have been pretty much expecting something like this ever since that "new york times" story broke. i think the question was when whether the president would wait until after the midterms to avoid a backlash. so a couple of things, kate. first, whether rosenstein resigns or is fired could make a difference in terms of who could replace him as overseeing the russia probe. if ...

Night about the invoking of the 25th amendment and offered to record the president. im told from people close to the deputy attorney general as of saturday. he did not think that he needed to go immediately. as you mentioned, he just offered the denials on friday. he thought that those denials were sufficient at least to keep him in the job for now. the reason why i say for now is that rod rosenstein like his boss, jeff sessions, was fully expecting this day was going to come. it was going to co...

His report to the person overseeing the investigation. acting deputy attorney general or noel francisco to take over in that case. i talked to democrats who are following this very closely and the one thing they have been fearful of in the firing of rosenstein is whoever replaces him is is they put the report in a safe and not release it. that will be a source of discussion and debate going forward. what will this new person in charge of the investigation to allow the public to see and how that ...