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Rich. you say what? >> thats why we need to win the mid-terms for the republicans. shes talking about increasing taxes. this gets to the point, they just -- democrats and many of them fundamentally dont understand the economy. the economy really moves and circulates and stimulated when corporations can keep their money and reinvest in businesses and create jobs. thats what were seeing. were having record revenue in the federal tax coffers because of the economy really starting to heat up. >> nei...

>> he will participate in a round table from ceos and companies that have provided benefits to their employees as a result of the trump tax cuts. also participating in the round table will be families who have more money in their pockets as a result of this new law which passed without a single democrat vote. >> democrats argue the tax cuts and jobs act disproportionately benefits the wealthy. they said if the cuts were meant to help the middle class they would be permanent and theyre not. it re...

- theres a common thread i see every time im in the field. while this was burning, you were saving other homes. neighbors helping neighbors and strangers alike. - this is what americas about. - sometimes its nice to see all the good thats out there. bringing folks out, we have seen it in community after community. some potential red flags for the gop ahead of the fast-approaching mid-terms. that is not stopping republican candidates in key primary states from tying their fate to the commander ...

Whats going to happen on the house side and he has not yet declared whether hes going to run. >> i think he will. this is the usual time for him that he always does, talking with his wife. look, he never wanted the job. hes been in washington probably longer than he ever thought he would be. at the same time hes doing the job, out there selling benefits of tax reform, raising money for the team. hes campaigning all across the country and hes putting together the legislative agenda that will take...

National money if you have a hook from low dollar donors. thats really what digital fund raising does for you. we dont know whats happening in the mid-terms. but the signs are there of tremendous democratic energy. you see it in the turn out in the special elections. you see it in the number of candidates running. and now you see it in grass roots fund raising across the board. i dont know there is a democratic wave. but all the early conditions that would accompany a democratic wave, intense ci...

Polling numbers he has the worst numbers 18 months in of any president in the history of polling. thats some mean accomplishment there. there has to be a democratic reaction to it. the question is will we be in the same situation in the mid-terms in november. >> well, if the -- i think the economy -- a lot of that depends on the economy, right? and well see. i got to get to some other stuff here, china slapping $3 billion tariffs on 120 u.s. products in retaliation to the presidents tariffs. i w...

But you are seeing sign of surge in this election on the democratic side. >> there is energy there. one of the things the internet has done is democratize fund-raising. its easier for a candidate running for congress to raise national money if you have a hook from low dollar donors. thats really what digital fund-raising does for you. we dont know whats happening in the mid-terms. but the signs are there of tremendous democratic energy. you see it in the turn out in the special elections. you se...

Going back to the military guarding the border where the pentagon says they could contribute would be the air forces barry goldwater live fire range in arizona. >> yes. i think strategically deploying the national guard or military to secure the border especially utilizing cooperative states like arizona and texas for that national guard presence you could move the border patrol to california and new mexico if they arent being as cooperative with the president in his effort to secure the border....

There is this backlog. we have lost a lot of agents, border patrol agents and a huge amount of time that is wasted reportedly in logging each person who is captured at the border, each illegal immigrant. if there can be extra hands to go through that process logistically maybe some of this is justified. there is only so much the president can do unilaterally. if he wants the wall built, it needs to be an act of congress and good luck with that. this congress seems totally incapable of accomplish...

>> the president keeps getting tougher on immigration. now putting quotas on immigration judges to speed up the deportation process. the judgess union says it will infringe on judicial independence. is this the kind of policy the presidents base wants and will it give democrats a base to use against him? >> dodging questions about whether hillary clinton should be out campaigning for the mid-terms. is this a sign the party is finally done with her? tune in to find out. >> top of the hour. >> mol...