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Right now. employers are lowering their withholdings. every american is starting to see more money in their paycheck right now. all of a sudden people are waking up, seeing i have more money. this is good for me. >> and well see how it sorts out for them as we head toward the midterm. id be remiss if i didnt ask you about george clooney. he said he and his wife will be at the march for our lives on march 24th in washington. they gave half a million dollars to the cause. oprah winfrey not to be o...

Midterm and there is a lot of swing seats in suburban districts where college educated women wil will be big players and thats not a constituency president trump does well among. steve: right. what could you make of the the -- do you make of the generic poll which party would you rather have in control in d.c. looked like democrats were ahead by 15 a month ago and now the republicans are up by one. >> easy to say thats great for republicans. but two weeks ago when the democrats were up, i talked...

Have been in a school during a school shooting. lets do the math, times that by 10 people that they each know, okay? i mean, you dont have to get to -- you dont have to exponentially keep going the math to get to the full population to get the six degrees of kevin bacon. everybodys getting to the point where either i know somebody, or i know somebody who knew somebody. >> its with the kids right now, this is a cultural movement, this is going to be the kind of thing thats going to develop during...

Members do what they need to do to try to save seats. mitch mcconnell gave interviews to "the new york times" that appeared over the weekend and basically said wake up. no matter how good the generic ballot looks, matter what changes, this is the first midterm of a president of our own party and its going to be rough. the wind is going to be in our face. mcconnell is obviously ready to let somebody like dean heller in nevada say something different than somebodys going to say in alabama and arou...

The reason is the fact that theres an enormous amount of resources invested in georgia, and perhaps the national democrats realize that this will likely go in that direction of a race that theyre going to win? >> jessica: im not sure. there has been a general disenchantment with our national organizations going on for a while. and the whole scandal around the emails and i think people feel a lot better about their dollars going directly to those people in those causes that they support. >> harri...

Sides gerrymander. this is not just a republican problem here. republican does it ademocrats d. evenly divided state and republican advantage 13-5. not one or two seat advantage. makes sense a court would get involved in this like they have all over the country. >> harris: kevin, before you speak, maryland congressional map is awaiting a decision with the supreme court. wisconsin congressional map is awaiting march oral arguments with the supreme court. north carolina congressional map is pendin...

Members do what they need to do to try to save seats. mitch mcconnell gave interviews to "the new york times" that appeared over the weekend and basically said wake up. no matter how good the generic ballot looks, matter what changes, this is the first midterm of a president of our own party and its going to be rough. the wind is going to be in our face. mcconnell is obviously ready to let somebody like dean heller in nevada say something different than somebodys going to say in alabama and arou...

Of health care, keeping the government out of this, keeping the government out of that. and it was about cultural trends. bill clinton represented the worst excesses of the 1960s cultural revolution. people didnt vote in the midterm then just like they didnt vote in the midterm in 2006 on the economy because the economy was doing well. these off-year elections often are just people going wait, wait, wait, this party in power has gotten too far out in front on cultural issues and donald trump see...

Democratic side very frustrated that not more was done. i look back and think i dont know what more could have been done in the middle of it. i understand the sensitivity about not getting in the middle of the election and acting like the russians were trying to help president trump and it would look like obama was trying to help hillary. thats another reason why there are a lot of people that want mueller to finish his investigation at least by the late spring. the later you get, then youre get...

Limiting immigration. and so theyve done such a die metric shift on this issue that closer we get to the midterm, they dont know what to do, republicans dont know what to do. there are splits in both parties that are absolutely paralyzing them. if you say 1.8 million get citizenship for the wall, the democrats are foolish not to take that. imminent do main i domain is gog up that wall, especially in texas with a majority of the land is privatet privately owne. steve: would you rather nothing hap...