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First big test of the 2018 election climate now underway right now in western pennsylvania. its just one congressional seat. you see it right here, the 18th congressional district, but its a giant test of democratic voter intensity and whether the president is a midterm help or a midterm drag, especially in trump country. lets look at this district right here. for conor lamb, the democrat tonight, the key is right here. this slice of allegheny county in the northern part of the district, the low...

Legislative seats. weve had a number of them and well have more by november. >> bill: if connor lamb pulls it off, 20 points is a big drop. hes back from the far left of the party. he said he would not take support from nancy pelosi and were seeing in montana running similar ads suggesting hes not part of that branch of the democratic party. do you see a fundamental shift where the left is pulling back to the center making an appeal for the midterm in november? >> its happening in red states and...

Feeling like theres victory in the air, at least i know collusion. but as we were just talking about, democrats pointed out rightly, robert mueller is still out there. >> theres as much evidence of donald trump colluding with vladimir putin on the election as there is that robert mueller is a crook. both of those things are true. we have not seen any evidence that robert mueller is doing wrong or that he is in some misbegotten activity, just as we havent seen this with trump. any other thing abo...

Pennsylvania. which is 20 miles from mck mckeesport. so tonights special election for a district that wont exist in nine months, which is to me is so this era. what are at stakes for the party? >> its particularly inflated when youve got a district thats on the verge of disappearing. the margin matters because it will tell you a little bit about how much trouble is republican party is going into november. one would expect a midterm under a republican president. but if you lose seats that the pre...

The crazy has gotten crazier and crazier. everybody agrees that we should protect the dreamers. we still cant pass the bill. everybody agrees we should do a better background check on people who want to buy bazookas and stuff, but we still cant pass a bill. not one bill. if barack obama did half the stuff that trump did just last week, he wouldnt be impeached, but locked up in guantanamo someplace. am i wrong? but here we are acting everything is okay, but its not okay. i hope we elect sane peop...

Election. i remember you saying this three weeks into the administration. all right. we know where he is. will he grow? if he grows, he wins again. if he doesnt grow, he will be dogged from midterm into general. where is he? >> well, i mean, hes i dont think he has grown. these tariffs going into steel country. whether they help the people he is trying to help may be a different matter. maybe they will view him as trying. he uses his attacks, culture on media, this populism, to great effect. it ...

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Would this be the momentum to key races. kristin liberal analyst and kathy, thank you both for joining us. >> thanks for having us. heather: history shows that the party in power loses seats during midterm, do you think it will happen around kristin? >> it might. trump is in his element and at his best campaigning so definitely give the gop at least some momentum at this point. the republican party is trumps party. hes the heart and the soul of the party and the people love him, he has 85% appro...

The republican. i want to play a clip of jeff flake, by the way, looking towards 2020 with chuck todd on "meet the press." >> hes running for re-election already. he announced that last night. basically, do you think he needs to be challenged from somebody who espouses your views? >> yes, i do. i do. i mean, it would be a tough go in a republican primary. republican party has -- is the trump party right now, but thats not to say it will stay that way. >> hes going to new hampshire, jeff flake is...

But to go ahead and pile on and get back to the threats against the media who are in the room doing their job. >> yes and no. i mean, its certainly not something his coms team would have laid out as strategic messaging. they do know, for instance, thats what the president is like. for instance, in those rally situations, thats who he is. they didnt know exactly what he was going to say, but they had a sense that when he gets in front of those crowds, those are the things that can come up and the...