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At the democrats were to take the house in the fall, do you think that is helpful to the president in 2020? >> i do think that is so. first of all, when it comes to any of these things, i would tell everybody, leave reader he report averages. a point up or appoint down here. when you look at it, these numbers are very stable. the president is in the low-to-mid 40s and the democrats are seven points or so ahead of the republicans and the generic medic. there is some utility for the president indi...

Stuff. just no place for it. >> "all in" starts now. >> good evening from chicago, i am chris hayes, new evidence that the presidents midterm strategy might be backfiring. last night, the president once again painted all undocumented immigrants as violent predators. >> we will track down criminal aliens that we find. we will get them. we will throw them the hell out of our country or put them in jail. >> later he summed up his message with more wild demagoguery. a vote for democrats is november ...

Campaigned for won yesterday. >> that was ronald reagan in the first midterm of his presidency, 1982. eight years later on november 8th, 1984, the curse of the first midterm president bill clinton in an epic, historic loss for the democrats at the time. >> tonight, the sound you hear is the sound of a moving van backing up to the united states preparing to move in a republican majority. at this hour, the republicans have picked up the seven seats that they need to take control of that chamber. w...

How do you see this playing out for the president? >> it is a huge issue. it will be in the midterms also. for two reasons. one, depending on the contentiousness of the hearing. i know the president very much wants to have the nominee confirmed before the midterm. even if he or she, it will still be a big issue. voters think it is quite likely that the present will get a third pick. all three are very bright, very capable people. i am sorry to see diane off of that list. she was on it before, al...

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Be outstanding. >> given possible republican no votes, john mccain has not been voting for health reasons mitch mcconnell may need to reel in some democrats which is why the president brought in 3 moderates for consultation new last year supported justice neil gorsuch. heidi heitkamp, joe manfacing voters in a state the president carried by 41 points and joe donnelly who is up for reelection and mike pence at some state of louisiana. some democrats have tried and failed to push some narrative th...

Campaigned for won yesterday. >> that was ronald reagan in the first midterm of this is presidency, 1982. later, 1994, the first term visited president bill clinton in an epic historical loss for the democrats. >> tonight, the sound you hear is the sound of a moving van backing up to the united states senate preparing to move in a republican majority. as of this hour republicans picked up the seven seats they need to take control of that chamber. we still do not have a reading on the house of re...

Live at the white house for us. so, jeff, just yesterday pruitt was at the white house, as we noted and got a shotout from the president. after all of this, the resignation did seem to come out of the blue. >> reporter: good evening, kate. it came out of the blue, but boy, was it a long time in the making there. there was a sense for months, is this the last straw for scott pruitt? but he kept going on and on. one of the reasons for that, we heard along the way and again, just in the last severa...

Pleaded guilty, he knew he was guilty. it wasnt the most serious crime in the federal code, but it was a crime, as he acknowledged. but, you know, hes a hero to the right wing because of his unbelievably outrageous and false accusations against democrats of all stripes. so this was a way of ingratia ingratiating himself, the president continuing to ingratiate himself with his base, which is his right under the constitution. but this has never been done before. these sort of midterm pardons of pe...