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Republicans. you do see the slippage among empty voters. this is the kind of environment wing seeing going into 2018. >> is it likely to have the short-term and the loss for the republicans in alabama on whats going to happen with the tax cuts. >> it makes it more likely it goes through. the republicans are looking at going into the mid-terms having achieved no major legislative victory. they control the house, the senate, and the white house. thats why there is no momentum behind a bill with ma...

Multidimensional. first they mead to pass a tax bill, they say, to be able to show voters ahead of the mid-terms that we are doing something with the congressional majorities and this has been an important policy point for them. that aside, the selling of the bill if and when it does pass will be monumental in and of itself. they wanted the president to be a spokesperson for the bill. he has done that more so than for the health care legislation. speaker ryan was saying that this may be a matter...

Our voters want this tax cut. they believe its going to help them and thats what they are doing. going into 2018 and i harken back to 20 sdpen bra18 and bara. their base wanted the affordable care act and they gave it to them and barack obama lost 63 seats in the house. >> we all remember that. >> the reason its not that popular is because a lot of americans have accepted this notion that this is a tax plan and tax cuts will benefit the wealthy and the corporations and not necessarily them. >> h...

Until 2019. im not saying its going to be easy for them at all, but for the entire year this year looking at the landscape it all about the house of representatives being the thing thats in play next year. youre not at instead of 52-48, split, looking at these elections to not say that the control of the united states senate in next years mid-terms is now in play. >> i would also add, and dana would know a lot more about this than me, but i think the other sort of happenstance winners here were ...

You look at virginia, alabama, the suburban voter, theyve had enough, not just with roy moore perhaps but with the temperament at the top of the republican party. and thats the way the democrats who have struggled to make an economic argument at times amid president trumps populism, now they see an opening in the culture, an aversion, sometimes even a revulsion against the tactics and style of president trump and the republican party. its a year away from the mid-terms, you dont want to lean int...

Thats the question i had. >> i think president trumps approval ratings and the intensity of his disapproval has been very, very steady. i suppose two or three more quarters of 3% gdp growth, you know, maybe picks up a little bit. frankly i dont see -- i think would take a black swan event for this to change the dynamics, but where i disagree with a lot of people is they say e hayou h to have a message. in mid-terms i dont think you need a message. >> usually dont. do you? >> 2020, a problem for ...

And try to turn out african-american voters. it worked. the other big element of success was suburbanites either staying at home or switching parties. these are two ingredients that are important not just here in alabama but in 2018 headed into the midterms. its what democrats hope will be for success in taking the house. the other big lesson here is that candidates matter. roy moore was nowhere to be found on the campaign trail. the final week he had just about two events. he took two and a hal...

Being anti-hillary clinton. there had been reports that rudy guiliani had been given information from fbi contacts here in new york and jim comey, the fbi director at the time was looking into that as well. so this goes back to your earlier conversation with the panel that different people, different members of the fbi have their own opinions. so youre going to have one camp that maybe personally supported hillary clinton, the other camp that personally supported donald trump. i think you heard ...

Can work in mid-terms. the other element here is that candidate quality matters. roy moore was a uniquely controversial candidate and he all but disappeared from the campaign trail the final week or so of the race, only holding a couple of events. president trump of course tried to get in over the hurdle, but our exit polls found that even president trump is not that popular anymore in alabama. only about half of the voters here approve of the job hes doing, dave. >> that is president that one p...

Next year. franken announced last week his intention to resign after he was accused of improper conduct by more than a half-dozen women. minnesota will have two female senators for the first time in minnesota history. amy klobuchar, a democrat is of course the other one. one of the most reliably republican states in the nation, alabama is blue this morning. doug jones defeating roy moore in a highly contested alabama senate race. the fall out for the president and whats in store for the 2018 m...