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But as a freedom caucus. i am concerned that we continue to kick the can down the road. >> congressman mark meadows ill see you on capitol hill. thank you so much for coming in tonight. i appreciate it. >> great to be with you. when we continue, the retirement house. well talk about what big changes in congress do and dont mean for the mid-terms.

Try keep themselves together on a difficult issue. this was one of the cases. there are some republicans that were part of the pollition that voted for the amendment that wanted to see more protections and the strain on the party that felt like this bill goes too far in giving the government surveillance powers. the leaders were trying to keep them in line and to have the president pull the rug out from under them the way he did with health care and other issues, that makes them nervous especial...

Constitution from the very beginning. these are principles that cant really be tinkered with cavlerly. >> just a plot twist, not necessarily a whole story line perhaps. lets talk about retirements. 32 now. >> remarkable. >> talk us to about the implications of this, what it means for democrats, most notably and what it means about the presidents agenda, too. >> the implications are massive. when you talk about youre right it goes beyond the 2018 mid-terms and into the agenda making. youre seeing...

His ratings are very bad. >> keep it right there. put those numbers back up again, mike barnacle, were going to be talking about more republicans who are quitting the house. this is turning into a nightmare for the house republicans. and in large part, republicans appear to be headed towards a historic loss in the mid-terms because the suburbs even trump won by a couple of points last year have completely changed. obviously, theres more intensity among democratic voters, more intensity among non...

150 federal judicial vacancies and president trump is hoping to fill them in 2018. there will be pushback. will it be enough to make a difference before say mid-terms next november? >> it will not be enough to make a difference. 2013 harry reid exercised the nuclear option allowing judicial nominees to move forward. he is reaping the whirlwind under republican control. >> they streamlined the confirmation process and they made it difficult if not impossible for a minority or individual senator t...

Let me ask you this. how -- isnt there -- isnt there a way you could codify the protections that the obama justice department put in there? >> there is. certainly, chuck, something we continue to look at. i gathered about a dozen of my colleagues in the senate in my office yesterday. we had a sdfrdiscussion how to forward. approach through the appropriations process, whether its looking at long-term negotiation, adopt that federalist state-by-state approach is something to consider. frankly, thi...

Retirement since last week. hes the second in california behind ed royce, who said he wouldnt seek re-election earlier this week. so far 19 house republicans are retiring outright before the midterms. 12 more house republicans are leaving to run for higher office. governor or senator. making a total of 31 republican house seats being vacated so far. by the way, the month isnt over. there are now of those 31, 8 of those house republican retirements are from hillary clinton either carried in 2016 ...

Orange county, sort of the heartland of the republican party and that is a seat thats probably gone. republicans will have to defend a lot of suffer. they have a triage resource, thats one where they probably cant afford to waste a lot of money. there will be a lot of seats like that. the republican party will be handed a suburban defeat to the extent that they have to think of it as an existential crisis t. party cant exist as a rural party afraid of the coast and a budding and urban area. it w...

Out for them as they look to the november mid-terms that could impact their agenda. here is karl rove. >> how much trouble are republicans in as they head toward the mid-term in 2018 in november? >> big trouble. the presidents approval rating is in the high 30s. the republicans are 24 seats in the house away from losing their majorities. there has always been a tension between the house and senate. this year the house republicans will use the tension createively in order to say were working, the...

Untenable. part of this messaging was not to trump, but to the people in the middle. funders who would back his project and whether he could stay in that role. some republicans around congress who support some of the his projections and initiatives and are trying to find out how close. there a lot of unspoken calibration in that statement. >> it will be fascinating to see the republican primary challengers, what they decide to do about steve bannon on the mid-terms. he wanted to support all the ...