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>> welcome back. democratic senator heidi heitkamp is considered vulnerable in the mid-terms. she released an ad touting her willingness to vote with president trump on issues. watch. >> when i ran for the senate six years ago, i said i wouldnt vote the party line because i dont think either party has all the right answers. thats why i voted over half the time with president trump. that made a lot of people in washington mad. but when i agree with him, i vote with him. >> president trump is ques...

Republicans havent figured it out yesterday. you have coalitions within the republican party and they have vastly different ideas on what immigration polly should be. so what do we do? >> thats right. its one of our biggest problems. the immigration system is not as broken as it appears but the way its executed and implemented its broken. this is something the left and the right and the democrats and republicans should come together on. the president has taken a huge step towards the democrats. ...

Concern as what has been discussed. in february in the senate, they considered four different proposals. none of them passed from very conservative to democrat to in the middle. i dont see anything getting done until after the election. >> the question is, are they trying to do too much at a time? is this something that should be taken apart -- >> a great question. taking on daca before the mid-terms? its been a problem a long time and both sides have punted on it. notably the democrats. the vic...

Memos by james comey. so the sooner it ends the better but i dont think youre off saying what took place might have extended it a little bit longer. my question become as trump pointed out, now that were coming into the elections and the mid-terms, what will happen? if its going to be extended, again, its the whole perception of bias coming into the mid-terms and -- >> both sides felt that -- democrats -- do you feel the same, cathy that comey cost your candidate the election? >> it was the firs...

Battleground state that hillary clinton won by 2.5 points. both candidates were held under 50%. danny tarkanian has run for federal office but hasnt been successful. if he can parlay that in nevada, that tells you a lot about the power of president trump in the mid-terms. chris collins from western new york indicated the president is popular in republican districts so you should get behind him. theres a counter argument to this from bob corker, the republican senator from tennessee. hes concerne...

Extramarital affair nearly a decade ago. this morning from air force one the president sent out anoth tweet. my political representatives didnt want me to get involved in the mark sanford primary thinking that sanford would easily win but with a few hours left i felt that catie was a goo candidate and sanford was so bad had to give it a shot. congrats to katy arrington. here to breakall down, as we love to have and what it means for the mid-terms msnbc political correspondent steve kornacki. so ...

Dont want to cast a tough vote, they block everybody from voting. i heard senator, senator from texas, the senior senator from texas saying the other day, gosh, we might upset the president. we might upset the president of the united states. before the mid-terms, we cant do that, because we would be upsetting the president. the president of the united states. i cant believe it. i would bet that 95% of the people on this side of the aisle support intellectually this amendment. but no, no, no, gos...

Leading up to camp david. but these things do tend to have some electoral performance. as steve hadley said, this confirms the view of donald trump as a disrupter. the previous four presidents refused to give kim jong-uns father and grandfather what they wanted, a summit meeting where the president stood on the same level of north korea and the president decided to do it the other way. well see how it works out after a long period of time. we shouldnt have it to have a huge impact in the fall. m...

Doesnt exist. were lng forward to a red wave. >> confident youll be the next governorf nevada? >> we feel good about this race. >> close polls at 7:00 p.m. western time. we expect to cal the republican primary race almost immediately. likely to be a good bit longer before we can call the tight democratic race fo governor. dana? >> sandra: thanks, jonathan. for more, im joined by chris stirewalt and editor of half time report. chris, while jonathan was talking,nator chuck schumer came to the podi...

Seems like basic pocketbook issues. >> largely. when youre in a time of peace and war, 2006 was impacted more by the war in iraq to the disadvantage of george w. bush. the economy goo but the war was deeply unpopular. that affected it. generally theyre different by two things. pocketbook issues and peoples reaction to the sitting president. thats why in mid-terms, 1982 for reagan, 1992 for 41, 1994 for clinton, these were bad results because people -- between the economy and their views of the s...