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Something -- >> it will collapse in 2018. >> yeah, right. except the question is who owns obamacare at this point, do the democrats own it because they created or the republicans because theyve on it six months. i dont know the answer either. thats really where republicans are. which is more painful to do nothing or to vote for something thats not popular and know that youll be attacked for having done that. >> one thing that gets forgotten as jerry said, some isnt popular. the question is are y...

Something -- >> it will collapse in 2018. >> yeah, right. except the question is who owns obamacare at this point, do the democrats own it because they created or the republicans because theyve on it six months. i dont know the answer either. thats really where republicans are. which is more painful to do nothing or to vote for something thats not popular and know that youll be attacked for having done that. >> one thing that gets forgotten as jerry said, some isnt popular. the question is are y...

Meanwhile, the effort to repeal and replace obamacare is hanging bay thread. the presidents message to the senate -- if they cant get a bill passed, repeal now, replace later. all these distractions have many republicans concerned about the mid-term elections. >> if he can get a couple of these bills across and string a few hits together, then it will be fine in the mid-terms, but were not there yet. >> right now, president trump is spending the weekend at his golf club in new jersey. and thats ...

She would shiv you, make no mistake. there is a divide in that party. clinton didnt work out. a lot of people think nancy pelosi is old news. fine. mid terms, much like they will be for president trump, will be an absolute pivotal test for nancy pelosi and the future of the democrat being party. its hard to understand the strategy behind the breakaway democrats if they dont have enough support to put it over the top. >> if their strategy is to get nancy pelosi to sit down with them and others an...

Just in terms of actual hacking by russia in the future or for that matter hacking by any other foreign government, any oath other entity, there are specific stems that can be taken, learned about from the experience in the last election, your reporting is the administration hasnt taken kaen any of those steps right now? >> reporter: our reporting is there are new and urgent warnings about exactly that, steve the idea that issue old meddle in the next election, in the mid-terms in 2018 or the ne...

>> since the republicans blew it, wouldnt it be better to repeal it, wait a couple years while they get something that is -- >> politically, that is a problem. if you pull it back, the consequences. mid-terms around the corner. if theyre going to repeal it -- i dont have a problem with replacing it but it has to be better. >> this temporary band aid on this problem. you forget health insurance prices. this is -- you have to solve the underlying problem of healthcare costs. you need to go to the ...

People in georgia first. he talked about a ro bust economic message. i think thats where democrats need to be. >> that didnt win. so i ask you, was it trump? should he have done more health care, less health care? do have you any idea what you think came up short here? >> we needed to get more votes, thats where we ultimately were. when you look at the district that is predominantly registration advantage, chuck, we were able to reach out to all the democrats we could, all the independents, we s...

In power, going into a mid-term election, they want to localize the race. you hear that a lot. oh, no, no, no, these will be individual races. its the party out of power that wants to make it a national race. but i feel as if the biggest difference between georgia, montana and kansas south carolina is the more nationalized the race got the better it was for your base. does this mean you are going to be comfortable running sort of a more nationalized campaign in the mid-terms, hey, this is about ...

The president only one by one, one and half percentage points. though this is a ruby red district. a tweet by a republican -- business as usual isnt working. time to stop rehashing 2016 and talk about the future. the future. 2018 mid-terms. how do democrats turn it around? >> brooke, democrats have to find their footing. they have to find some energy. theres been a lot of resist movement activity. theres been a lot of -- we are not happy with this -- but it did not translate in the polls last ni...

Stable. were told the white house has been alerted to this. the president now knows about this. whether he updates us or passes along a comment, well pass that along as well. this is the morning after. the republicans are breathing a sigh of relief. theyre now 4 for 4 in the special elections. after what happened in georgia, south carolina and what happened in kansas. finally montana, theyre breathing a sigh of relief that they survived in all of those and kept all of the seats. thats where it s...