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College-educated, you know, demographic type district. there are three times in the last 118 years where the incumbent presidents parties picked up seats in the first midterm. theres a 24-seat majority. 23 seats are districts that hillary clinton carried. the presidents approval numbers are now mired in the mid-30s before james comeys testimony. in the middle of this spasm of erratic behavior on the part of the president in this miasma of incompetence that we see at the policy-making level, the ...

College-educated, you know, demographic type district. there are three times in the last 118 years where the incumbent presidents parties picked up seats in the first midterm. theres a 24-seat majority. 23 seats are districts that hillary clinton carried. the presidents approval numbers are now mired in the mid-30s before james comeys testimony. in the middle of this spasm of erratic behavior on the part of the president in this miasma of incompetence that we see at the policy-making level, the ...

Looking at a very dire midterm. he thought republicans would lose the house by one or two seats. are the democrats really -- leave the politics out of it for a second, but are they seizing the leadership opportunity here? >> i mean, rhetorically, yes, but the fact of the matter is -- first of all, anybody who tells you its a foregone conclusion doesnt remember what happened in the last election. so i dont think anybody is going into this election feeling like they have it in the bag. but, look, ...

The day after a terrorist attack. tweet the out these metrics last night to prove were right. 13 billion impressions in the last year. 18 million retweets, 14 million clicks, 44 million minutes, video views. okay. theres a lot of traffic on twitter and it is an effective way to communicate. however, hes got an approval rating somewhere around 37% and he has increasingly growing list of republicans, people in his own party saying we cant get anything done because of this. >> i recall the last pre...

Tax reform, infrastructure and everything else that he wants to accomplish in this ambitious political agenda that he has. >> exactly. the problem is that all of those things that you mentioned are so far from the end zone that obamacare repeal is really their best shot at notching a substantive legislative accomplishment this year. but they are running out of time, and itll be much harder to get done next year because everyone will be focused on running for their seats in the midterm. kelly: go...

Up this pac because hes going to be involved in the midterm elects. >> okay. the midterms not 2020. let me channel my inner seth meyers here, really? can you really say 2020 is not on his mind? >> well, listen the great thing about joe biden is you know, he pretty much says whats on his pao mi mind and where his head it. i believed him when he said -- as he walked out of the white house hes going to stay engaged and this pac, the goal of it is to do what dr. biden said, which is to give him a pl...

Didnt show up in 2014 for the midterm. so republicans in these midterms have some real, real, real challenges, in having a white house thats sort of bogged down in a, scandal, but b, chaos, and not able to move an agenda. its a terrific problem for republicans right now. >> thank you very much. moving on to a different subject. at least 80 people are dead following a sue sid cicide car afghanistan. well go to kabul for the latest investigation. back to politics. voters want answers on health...

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>> the messaging wars that is a complete disaster. they need to go on offense and say no, were doing it because of this and they need to show americans whove been hurt. >> so hes been out of the country for nine days. this was an opportunity for people in your country to step up and take over that messaging. why didnt it happen. dont republicans have this presence back. >> they have their own back at the end of the day. >> what they are looking at, they have not had any legislative accomplishmen...

>> the messaging wars that is a complete disaster. they need to go on offense and say no, were doing it because of this and they need to show americans whove been hurt. >> so hes been out of the country for nine days. this was an opportunity for people in your country to step up and take over that messaging. why didnt it happen. dont republicans have this presence back. >> they have their own back at the end of the day. >> what they are looking at, they have not had any legislative accomplishmen...