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House to really put mueller and the investigation into the center of their midterm strategy to suggest that somehow the democrats and robert mueller are now the meddlers and running against robert mueller and the investigation, you know, it is a possible strategy. i dont know if its one thats going to work, especially when democrats -- many democrats like the idea of keeping the onus on president trump under investigation. >> susan, i want to turn to this controversy -- theyre unaccompanied mino...

This morning, 14 tweets. it is rigged. it is a witch hunt. no matter if it is true or not true. fact or fiction when there is still no proof, should anyone think he will be letting up regardless of the backlash? >> no. this is his midterm election strategy. energy and enthusiasm and compelling candidates and messaging for the midterm elections looking at the white house and seeing there is no karl rove, no great republican brain there running politics in the midterm. they seem to be settling on ...

Limbaugh. but its incredibly emotional because these are real peoples lives and as jesse just mentioned, they are very dangerous conditions. when you have unaccompanied minor showing up of the border, its a heartbreaking situation. both sides took on to such extremes now that the space for a deal is increasing is incorrect increasingly shrinking. if the president went out and gave an address that was somewhere down the middle and try to think both sides together, i depending on what it said woul...

Potentially competitive re-election race and said, im not in the mood for that. maybe i dont want to lose, maybe i dont want to raise a lot of money, im not in the mood for that kind of thing. psychologically, i think its safe to say, thats where republicans are. they are bracing for the potential of a wave this year. >> and when you look at these things, do you think their psychological frame of mind is a good metric? >> and thats an interesting question. these are the same republicans who two ...

The house. and i should say, that was 12 years after a similar shellacking happened to ronald reagan, not eight years. sorry, never do math on live television. that first midterm for bill clinton, 1994, republicans called it their revolution at the time. it wasnt actually a revolution, it was just a strong midterm showing by the republican party. but the president himself did find himself struggling to string together the right words when he tried to describe it the next day. >> stunned by the p...

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 candidate lost. and in the rest of the country, democrat s didnt even want him to show up. the white house tried to say it was a vote against all politicians, but no incumbent r...

1982. eight years later, on november 8th, 1994, the curse of the first midterm visited president bill clinton, in an epic, historical 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 senate, 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. we still do not have a reading on the house of representatives. the republica...

Well look at a lot of traditional metrics that are pointing in one direction. that are pointing towards what history suggests what is going to happen this year. and if that doesnt happen, i think one of the questions that was posed by 2016 is, are the rules of politics permanently altered, or was 2016 sort of an aberration? and that story will become clear as time passes, but this is a key data point, i think this year, what happens in this midterm. >> theres a lot more to say on this subject an...

Group, who are actually retiring and walking away, that number brings you down to 22. >> okay. >> but that 22 by comparison, think back to one of the last major wave elections we had in a midterm, you had it there, 2010. barack obamas first midterm. democrats got shellacked. how many democrats fit into that category of few retirements in 2010? it was 11. so half the number we had now. go back to 2006, another one of those midterms, bushs second midterm, republicans got shellacked then. how many ...

Joining us now is the great steve kornacki. steve, thank you for being here tonight. >> happy to be here. >> so looking at those numbers, obviously, theres some democrats who are leaving too, but its about double the number of republicans. is it actually a lot? is this a lot of retirements on the republican side? >> it is, yeah. and heres how i kind of look at those numbers. that 39, you can take some of those off, because there are republicans who are running for the senate, running for governo...