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If youre a democrat, youre not too nervous this year. 64%, they want to vote democrat, only 26% say republicans. the republican number if youre a republican youre used to being confident in your district. but 51% of republicans, 45% to democrats. it shows you that the democrats are competitively and yet in the last several weeks been a tightening of the polls that are more favorable to republicans. >> no question about it. but still the environment is so favorable for democrats right now. it is ...

Our side. >> nothing is being done, though. >> i agree with you, i think we have lost focus on that and we should focus more. >> the part of the russian meddling, it is going to be very hard for the prosecution to even come close to collusion. that is a near impossibility. but where the russians did meddle, and i think we conflate these, is using social media and cyber means. >> misinformation. >> misinformation, which is interesting. we watched them do this in the 70s and 80s. they used to do i...

Blue wave of the upcoming midterm, they may have a reason for optimism with new polling. we will break that down. plus the controversial memo sparking a theory in washington. what are they calling on the president to do in regard to another memo and what it all means for the intelligence community. >> you have to have a relationship of trust between the president and those responsible for enforcing the law. the justice department and the fbi. if that trust breaks down, then i think it does under...

Boots on the grounds in these districts. i think -- i dont see this as a bad thing for republicans. >> they certainly have raised a lot of money. the monmouth poll out shows president trumps approval rating up ten points in the last month. gina, finally before we wrap up, the white house said that there was going to be an infrastructure plan introduced in january. the president has said that he wants to revisit repeal and replace, unlikely before the midterm. paul ryan wants to get to entitlemen...

Today 238 republicans. 193 democrats. four vacancies. county democrats win? yes. county republicans hold on? yes. anybody who says there is a certain outcome at this point is way ahead of the game. biggest thing helping the democrats right now a lot of the republicans like trey gowdy are retiring. 41 have given up their jobs. the reason that matters if you are incumbent have you more job security than a tenured college professor. when incumbent gives up his seat, things happen. some of the gowdy...

Midterm. if not it will be tough. race by race analysis if you assume democrats have a decent midterm turnout. they would end up 215 seats republicans with 220. not quite there. but, again, this emphasizes how close. this would be like on sunday afternoon if we go into the fourth quarter and separated by a field goal. thats what the race looks like right now. steve: how come all these pundits on tv are talking about how the republicans are going to lose control of the house? >> partly they start...

Inside the white house. >> dana: do you have any insight into what theyre planning next week before they release the budget on the 12th. thats a serious policy document. it will tell us a lot about what theyre planning for 2018 before they head into that difficult midterm election. >> well, one thing they are, and gary cohen presented on it yesterday to republicans at their retreat, is infrastructure. their next legislative rollout will be infrastructure. i dont know whether it will come before ...

Voice? because when we talk about republicans in the center that have become disenfranchised who dont like the president, they might vote for a democrat but theyre not going to vote for elizabeth warren and theyre not going to necessarily vote for a bernie sanders. and when i look at i guy like joe kennedy speak and get criticized because he comes from an established wealthy family, people dont like that. but should democrats not say we dont care who the -- we just want a strong leader with grea...

To stay in the majority. >> they have a fighting chance. i think the reason nancy pelosi sat through the state of the union looking so grim, she assumes shes going to be speaker. do you know what, dana? history is on her side. i mean, since the civil war, this is just incredible to believe, in midterm election since the civil war, only three presidents have gained seats at one point. fdr, bill clinton and george w. bush. in almost -- literally, every other midterm, you lose seats. sometimes you ...

President if he presents his arguments in a reasonable way. and thats what he did tonight. >> i wonder, weve got obviously a divided country and a midterm coming up here and democrats who have been in the wilderness, frankly. but they could work together on infrastructure. thats something that both parties could have support for. i wonder if the political rancor maybe prevents the democrats from coming to the table. >> if they can stick to clean bills, and by that i mean only focus on one issue ...