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Liberty. >> that was a terrible thing to do, cost money for law do, cost money for law enforcement, not in favor of that. >> call to abolish ice are placeholder. dont believe we should abolish ice, it isd good politis in the midterm. they have been separating children from parents. >> on the first part of these, to be honest, this is a great idea. getting into a midterm being against security at the border doesnt sound like a great ideaa >> you are behind. -- party leadership, they. are jumping ...

Did not offer enough evidence. the democratic donors to file a lawsuit suggest it was rejected based on legal jurisdiction and they can file it elsewhere. donald trump heading to montana today, the latest stop in his midterm campaign to rallying support for republican candidates. he is backing us representative greg -- running for reelection. donald trump junior also expected to be at that event, doing a lot of traveling. 10 minutes after the top of the hour mike pompeo on a plane to north korea...

What history suggests will happen this year. if that doesnt happen, one of the questions posed by 2016, are the rules of politics permanently altered or was 2016 sort of an aberration? that story will become clear as time passes. this is a key data point this year what happened this midterm. >> there is a lot more to say on this subject and other things leading to november other things i want to ask you about. dont go anywhere. steve kornacki is our guest again. dont go anywhere. 2016 was not a ...

Rule in modern time was after 9/11 when the shock of that attack and the transformation of the country and the politics there ever were seen highly unusual that cut republicans from losing seats they may have otherwise expected to lose in the 2002 midterms. with those circumstances, republicans did not lose grudou of the first george w. bush midterm. after george w. bush got elected, his party lost control of both the house and senate in 2006. thats the pattern of how it usually goes in midterms...

Those off. there are some republicans running for senate and governor. they are not really retiring and seeing opportunity this year. if you look at the core group who are retiring and walk ag in away. that number brings you down to 22. think of the last major wave election we had in the midterm. barack obamas first midterm, democrats got shalacked. half the number we got now. go back to 2006, bushs second midterm and how many did you have? you had eight. if you want to find a comparable number ...

Year. you look at the core group actually retiring and walking away, that number brings you down to 22. that 22, by comparison, think back to one of the last major election waves we had in the midterm, 2010, democrats got shellacked with barack obama, how many democrats fit into that pure retirements, 11. half the number we have now. go back to 2006, republicans got shellacked, how many did you have? you had eight. you want to find a comparable number to the number of core retirements, 22 were s...

And politics there after were seen as highly unusual factors that kept republicans from losing seats they might have otherwise been expected to lose in the 2002 mid-terms. with those extenuating circumstances, republicans really didnt lose ground in that first george w. bush midterm but republicans arguably paid double the next time around in 2006, after george w. bush got re-elected in 04, his party lost control of the house and senate in 2006. and thats the pattern of how it usually goes in mi...

>> i think they were saying two things to me -- or maybe three -- they were saying -- maybe 300. [ laughter ] >> i think they were saying, look, we just dont like what we see when we watch washington. we dont think government can solve all the problems, and we dont want the democrats telling us from washington that they know what is right about everything. >> the president had no choice but to take responsibility. this fall he went to five states where democrats won but in 13 states where mr. cl...

[ laughter ] >> i think they were saying, look, we just dont like what we see when we watch washington. we dont think government can solve all the problems, and we dont want the democrats telling us from washington that they know what is right about everything. >> the president had no choice but to take responsibility. this fall he went to five states where democrats won but in 13 states where mr. clinton campaigned, his candidates lost. in the rest of the country democrats didnt even want him t...

United states single-handedly revived the venacular use of the word "shellacking" for all of us. president obama was right about early presidencies. the same thing happened to ronald reagan and bill clinton in the first mid-terms of their presidencies. in reagans first midterm, republicans lost 26 seats in the house. >> ronald reagan was trying to be as upbeat as possible. still, it was a conciliatory the same thing happened to ronald reagan and bill clinton in the first mid-terms of their presi...