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Recent election victory signal a wave that could help them retake the house of representatives and next years midterm. and with the g.o.p. holding just one seat edge in the senate, democrats are not counting out retaking that chamber as well. bernie sanders on why democrats are hopeful heading into the new year. >> i think what youre seeing is a referendum on donald trump about a man who said one thing during the campaign and his actions are very different. what weve seen in alabama, what we are...

Midterm. how can they square that circle? can they play out beyond the base? they cant just play the blue states and win a national election. that ill have to think bigger and reach out beyond the base. >> thank you very much. merry christmas. >> thank you. the hurricane season was devastating, of course, this year. there is a silver lining, and we will talk with houston texans star j.j. watt who raised nearly $40 political to help people impacted, next. ♪ ♪ give a little bit ♪ ♪ give ...

Hes pushed for the reopening of drilling in the arctic and sort of dismantled a lot of regulations and put these arch conservatives on the bench, even if you love all of that stuff, the reality is the vulgarity, the obscenity, the falsehoods, the ongoing investigation makes it very hard for a lot of republicans to try and sort of buck history and do what normally doesnt happen. and what normally does happen is, quite a few members of the presidents party lose their seats in the first midterm ele...

They have such a slim margin there that they have to be on their game. i would disagree that i dont know that theres as much of a legislative push. i dont think theres consensus around that, as there is rejecting trump and rolling back trump. i mean, if you think back to the midterm in 2016, that was the anti-iraq war. >> right. >> he looms that large, as this kind of big, amorphous issue, trump and trumpism. that is the ideology of the democrats. >> yeah. i think, look, the way elections tend t...

Unpopular congress, both democrats and republicans, but republicans are in charge. if you cant get anything done except tax cuts for the wealthiest people in this country, that doesnt help send me back to washington to help struggling families who cant put food on the table to feed their families. >> scott jennings, final thought? >> well, look, i think its going to be a tough midterm for republicans, historically it is for a presidents midterm. both chambers are in play. the senate is slightly ...

The little worse is buried past the midterm? >> god, i think so. this is a highly political document. i think once again politics has broken out in washington. heres a funny thing. if this bill yields rewards for a lot of people, and i dont mean huge rewards. for some people, it will be very big. for some people it wont. some people will get clobbered. but if this bill produces or can be traceable by people, if they get the impression that it contributes to economic expansion, economic growth, o...

The year as a rejection of trump by democrats. and in a midterm, i think trump could be shellacked. i think it could be potentially a difficult year. >> sure. normally id say it youre below 50%, stay away from the midterms. you could be talking to your party -- instead, were talking about a president in the low 30s. thats unprecedented. democrats who are taking a lot of comfort from the strong wins in virginia and alabama need to realize that they have to confront democrats -- and taking back th...

Eyes of mcconnells allies, in order for mcconnell to control the party and lead it in 2018 and beyond. >> jonathan, theres a report in politico backed up by folks in the orbit of mcconnell, that hes worried about losing both houses in 2018. talk about the nervousness, the multi-level nervousness within the gop. >> theres a lot of nervousness, brian, and it goes beyond normally what you would see in the first midterm of a presidents tenure, which typically, theyre going to lose seats in congress....

Delegates. a huge landslide in new jersey, a blue state, and they won a senate race in alabama! now, i know there were allegations of child molestation, probably not the best issue there, but if you just explain it like that, its like when scott brown won the senate seat in massachusetts. all the democrats owe it to one office, no big deal. but then we rolled into the biggest landslide in the midterm. >> do you any that a democratic wave is coming? >> one would hope. i saw a survey that said the...

Virginia. they swept maybe even the majority of the house delegates in new jersey, a much more blue state. and they won a senate race in alabama. now, i know there was allegations of child molestation. its probably not the best message. >> minor issue there. >> its like when scott brown won the senate seat in massachusetts. all my democrats said its a one-off, its no big deal. we then rolled into the worst landslide wed ever had in a midterm. this is whats going to happen in 2018. >> do you thin...