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>> laura: rather than rallying behind the president and a show of total unity before the midterm, some of the party end up giving the media what they want, a story line about a divided g.o.p. >> the republican party of abraham lincolns time is centered in the south end trump is from new york. alien territory, the conservatives. >> reflects a division in the party and his own administration. >> would you rather have the republican party of paul ryan or trump? >> there is no choice. its the republ...

Maybe mike would be the chair the following year. nikki and mike got other job. rick scott decided to run for senate. >> dana: do you think governors make for good senatorial candidates? >> most end up being frustrated. theyre used to being in an executive position. the senate is a different place. it is a lot slower. most governors that i know that served in the senate feel frustrated. >> dana: marcia blackburn is a congress woman from this area, nashville, but shes running state wide against t...

All it takes is one. he knows most people dont know how to byzantine rules of the senate work. so it is just a political tactic to keep -- thats what you do in a midterm. >> i cant believe politics are at play here. mayor nutter, thanks so much for being with us. i do appreciate it. ahead, more on what it is looking -- what is looking to be an historic snub. the presidents pick for secretary of state, it is likely to fail inside the senate committee. what does that mean? and remarkable few day...

Favoring them as much as they need. my belief on the midterm is ultimately going to be that democrats will make some gains in the house. theres better than 50% chance they win the house but in the big red states of president trump did well in targeted senate races i think republicans could do well there. >> might do us some good, actually. thats the only way republicans hold trump accountable. trying to save their own tails and see ted cruz just did and if they lose the house maybe they wake up ...

Of it? >> i think he represented the stew, and mitt romney came in as goliath. i did talk to some who were still unhappy with romney taking over trump in the 2016 race, calling him out as an imposter, calling out his commentary. there were people there who really wanted to punish him for that. when i interviewed romney this weekend, romney said he would not yet endorse trump in 2020. that kind of shows you there are a lot of utah republicans. you had an interesting weekend. most of our midterm. ...

Candidates are going to be, who is going to be successful. so hes going to have to campaign in a primary like anyone else, hell win that campaign, and then will become a senator. similar to pompeo, it is a little bit of a speed bump, but hes going to get where hes headed. >> i dont know what kind of traffic analogy we can make, but lets try it on for size. republicans have issues, democrats have issues too, a top democrat, congressman jim clyburn, he told politico this over the weekend. with reg...

In shameful political behavior. 15 voted for my pompeo last year to be the director of the cia. most of these democrats dont have a problem with my pompeo. they are struggling to get over the election of donald trump in 2016. or frankly they face elections this year in 2018 and they are afraid of scaring the moveon.org or code pink crowd. >> jesse: its a midterm situation for some of them. >> kimberly: its such a political artifice. they are trying to push their agenda, talking about the midterm...

Michael cohen and said there was no need to pardon cohen. president seems to be thinking about pardons. were told by sources in the white house that said we havent even had the conversation about pardons. where do you think the president son this? >> i think its always a risky thing because general ford did do a pardon in advance had before a charge against then ex-president nixon. cast him the election a lot of people think. i think if you start throwing around pardons without having built a ba...

Dysfunctional. it is very hard to lead the republican house conference. >> why? >> republicans have a 23-seat majority right now. the freedom caucus is 30 seats. so, i mean, you just do the math. its just -- you know, there is very hard to get much done. and if you look at the average midterm loss of the party in the white house, 28, 30 seats, its going to be very hard to have any kind of congressional governing majority going forward. i think thats one reason ryan is stepping back. >> can i add...

Leaving basically because the institution has become dysfunctional. its very hard to lead the rep house conference. >> why? >> 23-seat majority right now, the freedom caucus is 30 seats. so you just do the math, its just -- its very heart to get much done. if you look at the average midterm loss of the party in the white house, about 28, 30 seats, you know, its going to be very hard to have any kind of congressional governing goods forward. >> could i add another -- >> you the internal polls are...