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One way to look at this, we were just talking about this in the last block. white house party almost always loses seats in midterm. the opposition party can say, dont you want a little bit of a check. this is an attempt by republicans to try to tell voters, the other option is worse. >> i dont know how successful they will be. it is difficult to develop a clear and coherent message when the message of the party is a personality. trump is the republican party. so i dont know how you make an argum...

Ethics cloud. then youve got the trump family and associates. youve got their own woes from russia to security clearances to questionable business dealings. ashley, does the white house worry that this midterm election is going to be a referendum in part on ethics in washington? >> well, first of all, its certainly undercuts the presidents boast that he only hires and surrounds himself with the best people. the white house i can tell you is generally worried about the midterms, particularly the ...

Nights gubernatorial primary, gretchen, one of a record number nominated last year. 90 days away from midterm elections, christina greer, betsy wood roof from "the daily beast" and dave wasserman, u.s. house editor and contributor. >> nor something extremely in the weeds of the data here, what is your take of last night and how it aligns what we know so far where things are? >> it aligns where we know. democrats are the favorites for control of the house. theyre seeing record enthusiasm among ...

Nights gubernatorial primary, gretchen, one of a record number nominated last year. 90 days away from midterm elections, christina greer, betsy wood roof from "the daily beast" and dave wasserman, u.s. house editor and contributor. >> nor something extremely in the weeds of the data here, what is your take of last night and how it aligns what we know so far where things are? >> it aligns where we know. democrats are the favorites for control of the house. theyre seeing record enthusiasm among th...

>> this is not sean spicers book which is a loyal showing to the president. >> the exact opposite. response earlier this year is like wash, rinse, repeat. they always say when someone is doing something they dont like, that they had limited contact. werent really that close. so its -- kind of seeing this again. >> if you have not heard enough, you will hear much more this weekend, shes joining chuck todd, sunday on meet the press. before we go. lets wrap up quick. carol, what our sources are tel...

The people who are losing are the ones getting their education benefits cut, people not being able to get health care, everybody losing because the federal budget is all going -- >> listen, i got to go. >> when president obama agreed to extend the bush tax cuts for a year, that didnt its a double standard. >> all that moral high ground stuff, economic anxiety stuff, it was all b.s. total, complete hypocrisy and a double standard. >> its a terrible standard. >> when we come back, im going to get ...

Negotiate with pompeo or meeting with donald trump directly? >> the sense getting from speaking with sources and from even just listening to the messaging in north korean state media, holding up president trump as best hope for a deal favorable to north korea. even in statements at the summit over the weekend by north koreas foreign minister, which were very critical of the u.s. calling u.s. action as larm ila saying the u.s. is not living up to the bargain. spirit of the june 12 agreement signe...

For republicans ahead of midterm elections. a trump backed republican is clinging to a razor thin lead. balderson is ahead by about 1700 votes, but there are 8,000 outstanding ballots that have yet to be counted. then an automatic recount could be triggered. >> that didnt stop president trump from walling balderson the winner. >> america is on the right path and were going to keep it going that way. >> it is time to get to work. in the next three months, i will do everything i can to make americ...

I am yet to see any big results. >> dana: meredith, respond to that im curious how you answer. obviously democrats have done better. the turnout in the "the washington post" surge by the end of june 13.6 million votes have been cast in democratic primaries compared with 10.4 million in republican primaries. so, since 2014, the last midterm the republican turnout 24%. democratic turnout had surged by 84%. that trend appeared to continue on tuesday in kansas and fitch began. to matts point if repu...

Special elections and looking ahead to the midterms? are they voting on these issues? >> i think theyre voting on one issue in the midterm and the issue is trump. the question of trump is what do you make of him? what do you think is most important, mueller, russia, do you think its the tweeting, do you think its the economy? do you think its what he does to his opponents, how he gets them riled up? maybe you like that. its however you look at trump and whatever you think of it, i think everythi...