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Significant in rallying the base for the midterm. we will be looking at people who choose a woman or a person of color or maybe even a millennial. so i think who takes the lead from there will definitely depend on that. >> you also have on the republican side, joe, of course the president running his reelection campaign and that seems to be certainly ramping up in a big way. senator bob corker who is on his way out, as you know, was asked about what he thinks about donald trump come 2020. this w...

>> yes. right. and to patricks point, you know, this is really indicative of the trump -- and not only trump, but the entire republican congress essentially shrugging off the message of the midterm and focusing solely on speaking to their base. all of the groups that turned against republicans and delivered the democrats a 40-seat gain in the house, the biggest majority in the history of the country, all of those groups are at 60% or more opposition to the wall. so what youre doing is taking a t...

For drivers, but either telling you that there is an economic slow down coming around the world and they do not think that we will need as much energy or to saying that the price of inputs is going down that is deflationary, all the goods that we buy are going down, which is great, but he is raising interest rates in that environment that makes no sense. >> harris: a really quick follow-up, i saw that the fed put out its statement that this was not political, why would that even be necessary? >>...

Since 1974, republicans havent fallen anywhere near that level of defeat, until now. this year they lost 40 seats in the house to the democrats. it was the biggest midterm loss republicans have seen since that extraordinary election in 1974 that happened after nixon had to step down. the republican president had just resigned in disgrace. this was their worst performance since then. and it was the democrats record setting gain that was true in 1974, and its true right now too. one of the things ...

Was this. >> regardless of recommendation, i was going to fire comey knowing that there was no good time to do it. in fact, when i decided to just do it, i said to myself you know -- this russia thing with trump and russia is a made up story. >> after that public confession came the special prosecutor robert mueller to investigate the presidential campaign which became one of the 17th current investigations connected to donald trump. and then came the midterm congressional election which nearly ...

Final act as a majority snubbed their noses at the voters by voting for the $5 billion they knew had in chance in the senate. a final act of kind of enabling trump in the way that cost them the mid-term, losing 40 seats with 4% unemployment was striking. and bob corker saying its absurd, and republicans have called out the unlikely hood of success here. again, all of this behind a cause that roughly 40% of the country supports building the wall. something that has been very popular at the republ...

In exchange for the dreamers, and i think this entire fight is incredibly revealing of the republican mind-set after the election. you are talking about using a tactic that is historically very unpopular, shutting down the government, for inadvanci advane wall. the number dropped to 33% of the country says they support building the wall if the u.s. had to pay for it. it was opposed overwhelmingly by all of the groups that powered the democratic gains in the mid-term, including young people, coll...

>> if i were a senate republican right now, i would be furious. they had an agreement last week. the senate passed a continuing resolution to fund the government into february. only then to have the president reverse himself. these senators put their necks out to pass a funding bill. it wasnt a hard vote, in my view, but the point is that there was an agreement and now the agreement has been tossed aside. i think the senate republicans are probably going to speak the loudest at this point. i mea...

It seems like one of them is that the president is now thought of to be individual number one. we know hes individual number one in this filing out of the southern district of new york and faces serious criminal exposure. >> yeah, his lying has been placed on a difference and very difficult context for him. hes been lying without consequence for decades, to the tabloids, to the entertainment press, to congress, to voters. and now -- >> he even called and pretended to be his own publicist. >> i d...

Midterm shows that people who wants to fix the immigration flob a better way won the landslide victory. i dont know why trump didnt see that and seeing that the wrong approach is what hes doing right now. >> if he does not get his wall, then what for his re-election chances? >> well, ill tell you what, i dont think as its going right now hell get re-elected to begin with. if he doesnt get his wall, hell probably lose some his hard core support. he wont gain anyone elses support because of all th...