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A look at the days top news and headlines. With the track history of lying to his face. Dana with the account at that particular time that peter doocy was reporting on. She testified on friday. She said she felt like it was wrong but she did it anyway. Is she in any sort of trouble . Well, sounds like not. I mean, one the tactics you can do as a prosecutor is saying basically look, im viewing you as a witness. Im not making you any promises. You get up on the stand and tell the truth. The person...

Traveling to chicago. lightfoot wouldnt meet. thee police superintendent wouldntt meet. he has does a lot of great stuff on criminal reform. what is going on? >> and the other thing is to refight the battle. if you remember back in 2016 he had a simple path to victory. it was hard but simple. he had to win all of the states that romney won and then florida and ohio and pennsylvania and he through in michigan and wisconsin too. so he needs for go to michigan and wisconsin and pennsylvania a whole...

Treating netanyahu like hes the governor of a red state trump won by 15 points in 2016 and that he can just snap his fingers and hop to it. and you know what, israel basically is a red state trump won by 10%. hes so much more popular in israel than he is with american jews and he somehow thinks he can translate that popularity in israel to help him get more jewish voters. by the way, he only won 25% of jewish voters. hillary clinton won 75%. he won 5% less than mit romney won. this is not going ...

Happens to be our nbc news national political reporter. gentlemen, welcome to you both. rick stengel, remember a time when people thought tony blaire was a supplicant? >> to the president of the united states? you know, president trump is treating netanyahu like hes the governor of a red state trump won by 15 points in 2016 and that he can just snap his fingers and hop to it. and you know what, israel basically is a red state trump won by 10%. hes so much more popular in israel than he is with a...

Getting so much attention? >> dana, this is the last special election before the midterm. shaping up to be virginia tight race in what should be a solidly red district. the current congressman who won the seat a republican won it by 37 points. romney won by 10 points. president trump won it by 11 points. the last time a democrat won this seat was way back in 1980. if the republican candidate, troy balderson loses it would be a very big deal it could also spell potentially big trouble for republi...

Here as immigrants very simply in search of the american dream. and im the product of that american dream. and so i became one because i decided it is my objective and my obligation to protect that dream and protect everything that brought them here and what makes america so great. so if that means everything from protesting at airports and pushing back against donald trump, and going to congress to fight for what i believe in. >> lets talk about the district. right now dave trot is representing...

Now? >> the reaction of republicans on capitol hill to the results in pennsylvania which really are striking, a district the president won by 20 points, romney won, democrats didnt put up a candidate in the last two house races. the reaction from paul ryan who has lashed the house majority to the trump ship, it was, well, the president made it better. he helped close the gap at the end. look, if you look at pennsylvania, you saw two things. you saw some erosion of the republican strength among t...

Pennsylvanias 18th district is listed r plus 11 according to the cook voter index. meaning republicans had 11 point advantage over democrats. devin nunes and cath were mcmorris listed as r plus eight. paul ryan and lee zeldin are r plus fives. are these guys safe? >> well, no, like many republicans in swing seats, theyre in a real tough environment. i mean, lets look at this pennsylvania 19 thing and couldnt step back. >> 18th. >> we couldnt carry a district that romney won and trump won a week ...

Are these guys safe? >> well, no, like many republicans in swing seats, theyre in a real tough environment. i mean, lets look at this pennsylvania 19 thing and couldnt step back. >> 18th. >> we couldnt carry a district that romney won and trump won a week after we passed steel tariffs for pittsburgh. the spin going around d.c. is we had a sad sack candidate. but that district is so good we ought to be alk to elect a box of hammers there. im with mark. we have to be honest in the party whats goin...

County map of the country, and in 2016 there were 235 counties where president trump either won, but did worse than mitt romney but at least two points or where romney won, but it flipped to the democratic side last year. these establishment republican counties produced 11 million votes for trump. but consider this. there were 1,839 counties where trump won and did better than romney by at least two percentage points. those counties set trump 18 million votes towards his victory. 18 million to 1...