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Ago. when you look at some of the laws that are being passed at the state legislative level. and when thats all done against the backdrop of large numbers of republicans having been convinced wrongly that there was something fishy about the last election, weve got a problem. >> no kidding that we have a problem. now one step sideways to process here. the former president said theyre one of the major parties has a problem. the real problem is there are only two party, right? you really have the d...

Lead has been cut in half. we are told the last county was just counted. so were going to have to see when theyre ready to say, okay, all votes are in and well look at that level. may well happen on our watch. well keep you going, no rush. were going to talk about what the implications are if this does go that way, what does it mean, what does it not mean? another big night in virginia. all 140 seats in the state senate and house of delegates are up. imagine that, your entire state government is...

Of them. but thats harry entens stuff. he handles all of that for me. youre talking about a gain thats going to be over 400 state legislative seats for democrats. ill tell you one of the untold stories, asked any democratic strategist, for the obama presidency was the gains republicans mate at the state legislative level. in 2010, they gave away 1,000 state legislative seats in those two elections. which means policy comes out of there. as you point out, redistricting and line drawing comes out ...

Anything to sneeze at. it was a big deal. compared to a presidential year, not that close. >> what are about mid-terms that stalled presidencies? >> these numbers are important. they are not as big on as presidential years, but they have huge impact. this is bill clintons first mid-term. house and senate flip and bill clinton brings in a differently set of strategist and moves to the middle third way. triangulation and gets reelected in 1996. 2010, this is an election in which gloria mentioned e...

You did partner with the guy politically. >> not just leaving the prom date you werent happy with -- >> nobody does that. that is worse than i can imagine. >> exactly. tweets just earlier in the day, saying this guy is wonderful. now saying hes not. but other problem is this, every republican out there, every other tweet that trump sends, seeing this now. hes not going to have my back. i didnt believe it until i saw what was happening on state legislative level. thats where its worrisome for rep...

Well take a look at and why it may matter overall. the big influence in congress really starts at the state legislative level. theyre the ones who pick the districts. all this talk about jerry mannedering and redistricting. thats what states do. they need more attention. one is, what do we see developed in terms of white house, united states strategy for the asia pacific region? its not just about whether or not we do a preemptive strike on north korea. what is the leverage with china. how can j...

The recovery. the challenges that we really do care about the people that havent been affected by the recovery and about our country, and to carry that scenario out, that means nothing would ever happen in our country. and so what were saying is, to the extent that hes willing to focus on things that help people, okay. but there is a whole long list of things that hes proposed that wont do that. and i want to just stress one other thing, chuck, if i could. that is that michigan is the consummate...

Very tight races working? >> reporter: well, we dont know yet. but i think at this point theyre feels so confident that theyre thinking about governing. if you look at the -- >> even though she said she wasn wasnt. >> when you look at the last 7 1/2 years of this president, youve seen a hallowing out of democrats at the state legislative level. theyve lost 900 state legislative seats. governors are almost 3-1 republican governors. so what theyre trying to do, in addition to taking back the senat...

Road to the white house, it is just getting started. earlier today, gop presidential candidate ted cruz and bobby jindal on support for religious freedom laws. what does it mean, who are they playing to personal conviction? bring in cnn correspondent jeff zeleny and gloria borger. thank you for joining us here tonight. let me start with shooting down my proposition. i suggest you have to deal with this if you want to be president in 2016. am i overshooting? >> no, i think youre right. i think a ...

Wisconsin, the motorcycle abortion, we can talk about that, but michael i want to ask you about the conservative movement and its approach toward the issue of abortion. it seems we set this up talking about how this got into the republican platform with reagans in 1980. i think there was a transition in the last decade or so when reagan was president he gave lip service to the issue of abortion. >> right. >> i dont think there was a lot of aggressive action at national level, state legislative l...