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Acknowledged demographic liability with latinos and will fall on itself. >> i dont think the lesson will be learned bus they will have a good midterm and thats the worries of the establishment party. >> then afterwards comes the apocalypse. that sounds like a pretty gloomy scenario. >> are you feeling hopeful about their prospects? >> i think theyve hurt themselves. but to project out two years, you look at obamas victory in 2008, i dont think anybody would have predicted it would be a catastrop...

That would be required to overcome their structural disadvantage in the map of the house next fall. that said, i think that what you have now, with the outside group ed that jonah mentioned and inside small minority but very vocal membership of the house and republican congress and in the senate creating one member i wont say the chamber in leadership described to me a few days ago as republican on republican violence. what we have now is a bunch of people not interested in the future of the rep...

29 democratic incumbents are vulnerable. democrats need 17 seats to win a yort in the house. more troubling of gop, seven of those fell behind after respondents were told that their representative had supported the shutdown. so, with republicans strategy or lack thereof creating an opening for the democratic party in 2014, could we see a wave election like the 2006 midterm? well, were going straight to the man who knows. joining me now, congressman steve israel, democrat from new york and chairm...

Want to move forward, put this kind of battle behind them, and the white house thinks that area at least is going to hold more promise than say the house at least at this point, migel. >> but this failure of the senate to get cloture, for a clean cr, that vote doesnt price anyone i take it, but we dont seem farther along. the ball seems to be in the same place as earlier in the week, no? >> reporter: it does, but i think what youre seeing is the house republican proposal which is very much kind ...

Below 50%. the second midterm is always bad for the white house party. he has two chances of taking the house. slim and none and slim is putting the saddle on his horse to ride out of town. i would dynamic, there are less than 65 seats that most of these prognosticators think that are in play. ten seats truly up for grabs. >> you like numbers. lets put up some numbers on the screen. of the 232 republicans in the house, 215 come from districts mitt romney carried last year. in the senate, republi...

To enact his agenda. he understands he is going to lose a the love seats in the last midterm and the last two years will be lame duck. thats the history over the last 50, 100 years. obama understood that with g.o.p. in control of the house he wasnt going to enact anything in the years five and six. so he isnt interested in any of that. he doesnt want actual results. what he wants is to win a victory the way did he in the fiscal cliff on january 1, which was all about hue mittiating the republica...

So different. >> and the level of distrust between republicans. in 96 bob dole had the grauf toss and he could command some respect or you had a newt gingrich that was a strong speaker. right now the problem that the republicans have is that they dont really have a leader. into that vacuum has come ted cruz, whos looking at 2016. but the immediate election in front of us is a midterm. so the political incentives of a midterm are the opposite in a lot of ways than the incentives of a presidential...

Reduction, theres a good one. moving forward on the farm bill and looking at opportunities to help americans get jobs. this brinksmanship and going to the end every single time like in 2011 when the dow cascaded down 20 points is not the way to go. >> barbara lee, congresswoman, do you agree with your colleague? do you think the president wants to win back the house and get more of his agenda through after the midterm? >> the president does not want a government shutdown. first of all, when the ...

Now. house republicans are trying to rest elect the battle over health care reform because they want to use it as an issue in the mid term elections. they are using this to get individual senators to go on the record about it. in the coming week, the battle will shift to the senate, but on friday it was a rare moment for house speaker john boehner, united republicans celebrated their vote to defund obama care. >> the american people dont want the government shutdown and they dont want obama care...

Republicans doing this. its a great pr strategy, sounds good standing up to a bill they dont like. my fear is legislatively they cant defund it. president barack obama will veto the bill. he can find the funding on his own. my fear is republicans will get blamed. why not let you and your buddies own obama care. people will hate it and can run against it in the midterm, win the senate back and maybe the white house on it. >> this is the difference between reasonable republicans and wackos in the ...