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What each party can do to maximize chances here. joining me now, david plouffe, former president barack obamas 2008 campaign manager. rich lowry, editor-in-chief of "national review" and jessica taylor from the "cook report." appreciate you all being with me. and david, start with you. apologize bringing back unpleasant memories but going through the history. your former boss, barack obama, one of those presidents who had a very difficult midterm in 2010. weve showed 63 seat loss for democrats i...

And it will really take hold here, but, in the meantime tonight, the government for the first time, that i can recall, is putting a real squeeze on facebook and thats a way a lot of people here communicate, call it an organization known for its human rights abuses. bret? >> bret: amy kellogg live in moscow, amy, thank you. president biden is warning of higher prices for gasoline here in the u.s. during the ukraine crisis. obviously they are already getting high. republicans are criticizing the p...

Take a view that theres only so much that can be done from a white house to prevent the kinds of losses were showing here? >> well, its a great question, steve. i think generally macro forces more important than questions of messaging or tactics. i remind you back in 2010, you remember, democrats had monster elections in 06 and 08. won everything they could win. were owning a lot of hostile turf. probably going to give back in a neutral political market, but 2010 was not. still in the teeth of a...

Achieve safety you put more cops on the street. >> todd: isnt that the commercial for republicans running in the midterm? that clip side by side, kamala harris cheering funding the police and six months earlier cheering defund the police. >> absolutely. i dont think president biden was being honest when he said we need to refund the police. they know they are underwater and midterm is coming up. words dont mean anything, cutalk the talk, you need to walk the walk and they havent done that, anoth...

Gerrymandering in blue states will limit republican gains. just -- theres not much you can do when you have a reputable media poll out the other day, "washington post," abc, that had incumbent presidents approving rating at 37%. no ad, in clever trick will get around that. i just think its hard to make republicans seem threatening when theyre not going to control all of washington. theyre going to take the house almost certainly and perhaps the senate as well. and still a democratic president. s...

Wants to talk about on the domestic front. he has a new supreme court pick he wants to tout, pieces of the build back better act. but, peter, how do you think he will address the sense of american unrest coming out of, we hope, the pandemic, people eager to turn the page but people unhappy with the direction of the country. president biden at the moment anyway saddled with pretty low poll numbers, his party worried about how the midterms may go this fall. how does he reassure and try to recharge...

Of the 19 states ha passed laws to restrict voting in 2021. how much disruption could the laws cause in the midterm? >> thank you for having me, don. its going to be chaotic. no question about that. i have been on the phone earlier today as well as some virtual meetings with the all over the country. were organizing now. to fight this kind of suppression. we know what theyre doing in texas is designed to be able to deny voters the right to vote. we know that. what were going to be doing is putti...

Pennsylvania, is he an eagle fan as well. somehow i always gte my rivals here. he has been in florida for a dozen years. now, florida is symbolic, right? kevin, you believe that come the fall, more states will go the way of florida. you are expecting a big red wave in the midterm? >> i think. so i think you will see a bunch of seats change hands to red. just because coronavirus is still in the forefront of peoples minds. i get from the beginning that it was new to everybody, but two years into i...

>> it seems like its not that difficult for the administration to carry out a tps for anybody, or for ukrainians, specifically. you and your colleagues received a classified briefing last night on the situation in ukraine. i know you cant talk about classified information, but what are your big takeaways from that briefing? >> look, im glad you asked, because i know, theres a lot to feel not so great about. violence, military action is never something great to see. but if there are some silver l...

Enough on inflation or violent crime. how bad for biden, he couldnt break 50% on inflation and crime which will determine the midterm. >> joe: 41% positive reaction from viewers is lowest in 15 years in terms of positive reaction. all the pundits, it is predictable as much as birds flying south for the winter. the common thread is based on emotion that biden had great energy, uncle joe is back. where is the substance? people want to hear substance and know how the commander and chief will solve ...