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Grow in some of the battleground states the democrats numbers are holding up and improving. i think democrats have to be really careful and not look to overly political and over play their hand in this thing. so i think, you know, caution but, you know, its looking like a midterm with an unpopular president, house and senate that hasnt accomplished very much. its looking like, you know, perhaps 2006 again for democrats, although democrats do have some work to do around talking about what they ma...

Careful to not look too overly political and overplay their hand in this thing. so i think, you know, caution, but its looking like a midterm with an unpopular president, house and senate that hasnt accomplished very much. its looking like, you know, perhaps 2006 again for democrats, although i think democrats do have some work to do around talking about what they plan to do for the country. >> hey, congressman, when do congressional republicans start sounding more like you, more serious and per...

Mcconnell and ryan saying, theres a lot of things about this president we dont like, but were going to pass stuff and hes going to sign it and thats going to be okay -- >> theyre not passing anything so far. >> theyre not passing -- but not pushing much, either. >> the whole argument you heard from republicans in the transition and during the early months of the administration was, look, of course we dont want this guy to be president. he wasnt our preferred choice, but he will sign our agenda. ...

States that theyre representing, or the commonwealth in this case that theyre representing. >> dana: virginia and new jersey always throw us off. ronna mcdaniel, thank you very much for being here. appreciate your expertise. >> thanks for having me. >> dana: politics of tax reform with a threat from a handful of republicans. plus what democrats think a tax reform bill will mean for them in the midterm? new information on the ambush that left four americans dead in niger as another widow of a fal...

On "morning joe." and republican senator roger ricker told mississippi that contrary to what some may believe, senate republicans are actually united behind president trumps leadership. >> i would just to say theres not much of a divide in the republican congress in the united states senate. i think most in the conference are very comfortable with the direction that this chief executive of our nation and head of our party wants to take us. >> unlike senators corker and flake who will leave the...

Vision that is uniquely different than most people. and when youre an entrepreneur and youre a successful entrepreneur, youre able to take risk and be innovative and think of things differently. >> former chairman of the arizona republican party robert graham speaking at a trump campaign rally with then governor mike pence last year. now hes being talked about to fill the senate seat of senator jeff flake who isnt running in 2018. flakes decision his up ended a crucial midterm race, what had bee...

Made. and i think as i think there will be more senators and members of congress who come out and say similar things in their own ways, and i think there will be a tipping point at which people will rush to say these things. others wont. i actually believe that the party is fracturing, whether it can be put back together any time soon is a question. but it is fracturing. there is a growing movement within the party that is opposed to the basic principles upon which the country was founded, namel...

The future of the party. i hope we see jeff flake and bob corker stay within the party and fight for the per of the party to keep it together so it doesnt fracture. >> evan, you were as inside this party as you get, working for the republicans, but broke and ran as an independent candidate after donald trump got the nomination, trying to give some republicans anyway, an and as long as thats the case, as long as there is a sizable movement within the party like that, the party will shrink in rela...

Another scalp to his collection as another establishment domino falls. these two senators not running for re-election means they dont have to worry about being punished by the voters in the midterm next year. theyll be around until january of 2019. the white house needs their votes to get anything passed. chris and alisyn. >> appreciate it. lets bring in the panel. we have cnn political analyst david gregory and editor-at-large chris. what were trying to tee up here is this is unusual, what we h...

A good job there. she has had no victory since then. you know as well as i, i talked to a congressman about it today. she is not going to get to 218. if democrats win in the midterm she is not going to be reelected speaker because she has failed again and again and again. >> everyone in d.c. knows that those losses cannot be blamed solely on nancy pelosi. >> tucker: not solely. >> so many other factors that play into that. >> tucker: okay. i mean, look, pulling the woman card is a little bit wei...