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Issue after issue kicking it to them, and the war with steve bannon is going to be, i think, the real test case here. mitch mcconnells governing problem is not going to be solved by getting chris mcdanielle to primary roger wicker down in mississippi. in steve bannon knocks off jeff flake in and dean heller, t not going to help the republican majority governor. i think youre seeing the president struggle to figure out what is better for him in the long run. i think if he lets bannon continue dow...

Of the money behind it. the mercer money which has been funding breitbart, funding other operations sorts of on the right and the far right of the republican party. and thats what makes it real. i think alabama is not the test case necessarily that we may think it is. roy moore was a guy who had a pedigree in alabama politics. bannon really didnt get involved till the runoff. he probably had a big impact in that runoff but these are other states where i dont think you can translate that alabama ...

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>> in the crudest form. >> its not the republican party that mitch mcconnell represents. >> you think it would be interesting if they would at least adapt some of the stuff i like starting with, well, how about the stupid wars. why dont they take on trump for re-activating the war in afghanistan which he ran against and now is going to continue in perpetuity. >> the presidents announcement regarding afghanistan last month. thats again something that is -- >> is bannon going to fight that? >> doe...

And the documents they are lo looking would deal directly with him. that will raise the question of whether the president will try to exert executive privilege on this. the white house special counsel has given no indication theyre going to do anything other than try the cooperate. thats been his position. but this is a good test case. their position is weakest in the area because of the nixon ruling, the u.s. versus nixon. thats where the subpoena, the grand jury, was shown to be effective wher...

An end right now. look, for a long time congress had light touch with the tech industry, democrats are furious about russia links ads ran in 2016. republicans are worried that google is oppressing conservative voices, both sides are concerned about peoples private information being gathered and what happens if theyre hacked and so those are all concerns. so, yes, generally republicans control everything right now in washington and theyre typically antiregulation, but its safe to say that this so...

Behemoths? >> they are basically coming to an end right now. look, for a long time congress had light touch with the tech industry, democrats are furious about russia links ads ran in 2016. republicans are worried that google is oppressing conservative voices, both sides are concerned about peoples private information being gathered and what happens if theyre hacked and so those are all concerns. so, yes, generally republicans control everything right now in washington and theyre typically antir...

Behemoths? >> they are basically coming to an end right now. look, for a long time congress had light touch with the tech industry, democrats are furious about russia links ads ran in 2016. republicans are worried that google is oppressing conservative voices, both sides are concerned about peoples private information being gathered and what happens if theyre hacked and so those are all concerns. so, yes, generally republicans control everything right now in washington and theyre typically antir...

Democrats have taken it at the democratic level, nine out of the last ten. if a republican wins, and this is win of the only elections, the only major election that we have this year, rolling into the midterms, i think thats going to be a significant scalping for the republican party. >> this is a very interesting test case. heidis right. virginia, colorado, states we used to consider purple states twhaish more blue now than some of these rust belt states. at least with the politics of our count...

Its going to be very bad for democrats because many analysts no longer consider virginia even a purple state. democrats have taken at the presidential level nine out of the last ten. if a republican wins and this is the only mafrm election heading into the midterms. >> this is a very interesting test case. virginia, colorado, states that we used to consider purple states, theyre more blue now. at least with the politics of our country as they are today with donald trump in the white house. >> wh...