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Suppressing the vote and all of that because early-voting data shows african-american turnout is down include something key states like north carolina and florida. >> right. >> how much of that is a natural result instead of this whole thing? is that the fact president obama isnt running this time, the first black president, and how much do you think its real concern about hillary clinton at this stage? >> i think the fact that obama is not on the ticket is obviously has a -- a negative effect, ...

Republicans. you cant be more nonpartisan about that. they took a pasting in the mid-terms. incumbency since obama is not running. third party. gary johnson is polling way above what any libertarian has done. he might be fading and the lack of policy change given the gridlock in the second obama term. it goes term boy term and the lack of a big splashy foreign policy success in the second term like dispatching bid laden and number six the fact that hillary clinton is not a once in a generation c...

Mid-term. mid-terms are not supposed to be good for the incumbent party. you might want to get above 50. the way the races are going, democrats will be happy if they can get to 50 and get hillary clinton elected. thats a look at the battle ground. a more specific race. florida, senator marco rubio. a republican-held seat. rubio is in danger and continuing to support donald trump. this is the news. rubio releasing this statement that said i have consistently rejected his offensive rhetoric and be...

Created by the republican party now and their presidential frontrunner. one other proposal the president called for last night which also seems to be landing with more resonance than it has in the past is his call that congress should finally freaking cast a vote on isis. >> if congress believes as i do that we are at war with isil, it should go ahead and vote to authorize the continued use of military force against these terrorists. for over a year i have ordered our military to take thousands ...

Hes repeatedly called for it since then. earlier this year. he drafted his own authorization for the use of military force and sent it over to congress for them to use it as a draft. congress never acted on it, so we still dont have the authorization to war against isis in iraq and syria even though were at war against isis in iraq and syria and have been for more than a year. maybe now though the politics are starting to feel a little different. after the attacks in paris, with our closest alli...

In the house on top of impeachment playing out. and the way that all sorted out in the end was you had this sort of vacuum thin. with livingston gone, newt gingrich had just stepped down as the speaker. so there was this big power vacuum on the republican side. thats how dennis hastert became speaker at the time. nobody outside of capitol hill had heard of dennis hastert but republicans were really in a jam. the biggest names in the party were off the table and hastert was the only one they coul...

So there was this big power vacuum on the republican side. thats how dennis hastert became speaker at the time. nobody outside of capitol hill had heard of dennis hastert but republicans were really in a jam. the biggest names in the party were off the table and hastert was the only one they could find who just had good personal relationships sort of across the republican spectrum. he was not a loud guy. he was not known outside of d.c. but thats why they turned to him in that moment. and he was...

Leadership back then and wanted to be speaker but there there was a recognition especially in the wake of the bad mid-terms they had and the fact gingrich was forced out as leader. tom delay was too radioactive to be speaker himself. but he had formidable strength within the republican caucus so he championed hastert on his way out the door. gingrich told republicans theres one guy that can unite us. they called him the coach. hed been a wrestling coach, we now know more about that. but the coac...

Who just had good personal relationships sort of across the republican spectrum. he was not a loud guy. he was not known outside of d.c. but thats why they turned to him in that moment. and he was sort of an accidental speaker. >> its a really important precedent at this point because we look back at the gingrich era. the whole reason bob livingston was going to be speaker-elect is that gingrich had sort of resigned in disgrace after those mid-terms. so gingrich is out, theres this huge controve...

Forward or whether theres going to be a more conciliatory republican party. we see some of those same arguments now. livingston was going to be one very specific guy. when they turned to denny hastert in obscurity and everybody had it look him up without the benefit of google at the time, when they picked hastert were they picking somebody who had ideological specificity? >> no. but what he did have, the twist there was he was also tom delays guy. so tom delay was in the leadership back then and...