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Map thrown out and redrawn. the suit alleges republicans secretly designed a map packing democratic voters in five districts. >> the ruling couldmajor impacts of control in the gop mid terms. the ruling comes the same month a federal appeals panel overturned north carolinas map. the u.s. supreme court has blocked that decision and pennsylvania republicans are expected to ask the high court to reverse this ruling as well. president trump expected to invavite french president macro to washington...

This is incredible to learn and it only underscores the level of what democrats in power will do to bend the rules, manipulate the rules, do whatever they have to do to stay in power and ultimately try to destroy their opponents. and for all this talk of how 2018 is going to be a bad election year, you continue developments like this and becomes a much better year for republicans. independent and less partisan voters dont like how democrats act when theyre in power and they use the rules to thei...

Sort of combination of things, which, you know, i guess theres an estimate out there about $18 billion. but who really knows. >> absolutely. its an interesting moment, too, for republicans. republicans sort of historically have always been sort of fiscal hawks and very worried about government spending. so theres no question, too, for folks on the hill, do they want to spend this money. to pull back for a second. i think both sides, democrats and republicans, are so energized by this because the...

Add to it in terms of the will of the senate and start with a new product. >> graham is trying to work on a bill with his democratic colleagues that he thinks would be popular enough with both parties that could sail through the senate, 60, 70 votes he predicts. he doesnt want to work with his colleagues in the house until theyre done here. that would be another mistake according to john kennedy that said that his colleagues need to remember that the house is an equal partner in this process. >>...

Something i want to raise with you. were seeing people rally around this and certainly the approval numbers of these tax cuts or people feeling good about them have increased. do you think that should be a worry for democrats who have seen it as a class warfare battle, one that they would get the upper hand on? what do you think? >> sure. republicans are planning on spending a lot of money to focus on the good aspects of their tax cut, to sell the tax cuts. after all, most people really dont kno...

Senate that wasnt approved. i have always been for clean c.r.s. but the real problem is we are only talking about four weeks and well be back at this. we need real leashed ship. that means we need to fund our government, pass priorities and get to things like immigration and infrastructure on a true bipartisan basis, not a narrow partisan basis. rick:ng there was a lot of talk about democrats taking a lot of seats in the mid-terms. >> history is on democrats side.cr we know since the civil war t...

This up. under ford and carter and reagan, the shut downs were very short. a week or a few days and they didnt have furloughs. they didnt have major consequences for the most part. it changed under bill clinton dealing with the republican congress. thats when it became sometimes a month long with massive furloughs and terrible political division and that continued really to the present day. theres been four like that. have we learned one thing from this, neil, and these shut downs since bill cli...

I can see democrats not giving up an inch to what republicans have been trying to get accomplished. rick: we have heard about democrats winning back seats in the mid-terms. >> this hurts democrats in terms of the blue wave. these are things that can hurt democrat chances. claire mccaskill is very vulnerable. you have arizona which is a toss-upstate. these are seats that will determine whether democrats control the senate in 2019. but this is something that democrats really need to factor into th...

Markets were up. doing fine even as this was looking dicey. what do you make of this? >> it was a blip, neil. its january. the mid-terms are in november. ive been reading all of these predictions on twitter and facebook and other places about how this is going to affect the elections. its not. its way to long in the future unless this is recurrent like it was under carter and reagan. this is the 19th shut down, as you know, since gerald ford. >> neil: what is interesting about this, they keep pu...

Play that is hard to pan out. on the one hand, you fire up your respective bases. thats great for these guys going into the mid-terms. each side wants to do that. the flip side is as you fire up the base, it makes it less likely that youre going to get anything. now the next question is, do you have to deliver going into the mid-terms? that was the big question with tax reform and for the republicans. they did deliver. they have something to take to the voters. the next question is, what do the ...