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Definition here at the table. >> do you know what the younger -- doctrine is? >> ive heard of it, but again -- >> youll see that a lot in federal court. >> okay. that really happened. and now the man on the other end of the exchange, republican senator, john kay of louisiana, he is a lawyer. what was going through your head during that questioning? >> well, nobody has a better voting record than i do, erin. with president trump. but i have to do my job. i sit on the judiciary committee and i don...

I want to bring in cnn political reporter rebecca berg and former chief of staff for the majority leader mitch mcconnell josh holmes to talk more about bannon. bannon responded to the election upset today. take a listen. >> huge turnout yesterday. and thats because of democrats hustled and people have to understand you dont turn out, theyre going to turn out. hat tipped to the dnc. they slipped in here under the radar and did a great job on ground game. >> josh, do you agree? is that what happen...

Virginia and alabama which is a boost for democrats. as steve was saying, the reason why democrats won tonight in alabama is because of turn out. the only way you have turn out is you have to have a large strong grass roots operation on the ground and a great candidate and doug jones was. >> you going let him be a moderate? yes or no? are you going push it to the left? >> i think he should reject donald trumps policies which are horrible. >> you going to let him be a moderate? >> we will push hi...

Th this, that we know of that will stick. this whole issue has been a phony issue created for americans. congress in 1995 sponsored a bill saying, israel -- the united states is going to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel. why did it go l do that? bob dole wanted to show that he was pro israeli and he didnt have much of a voting record that suggested that, so he latches on to this issue, turns it into a bill. it passes and it has this waiver and everyone understood the president would ...

In the middle of the nuttiness i went to alaska to cover the race and there unexpectedly in the street in anchorage is where i learned any political conversation with a stranger at any point might veer into in a -- into untrue nonsense about eric holder. you just have to be ready for it at any time. >> good luck, you guys. >> eric holder and we disagree. >> why is that? >> she voted to confirm eric holder. >> and why are you against that? >> hes the most anti-gun -- >> what has he done against g...

Candidate. which is nuts for a senate race. in the middle of the nuttiness i went to alaska to cover the race and there unexpectedly in the street in anchorage is where i learned any political conversation with a stranger at any point might veer into in a sense about eric holder. you have to be ready for it at any time. >> eric holder and we disagree. >> why is that? >> were anti gun attorney general country has ever had. >> what has he done against guns? >> what hasnt he done against guns? lets...

>> right. first of all, we have found nothing to support any of what jerry moore is alleging here, there was payment or any kind of allegiance to the democrats and just as you point out, her voting record would seem to belie that. there is no one that ive talked to in town, ive talked to a lot of people, who is essentially saying that these women with the exception of jerry moore are liars. they dont have some sort of wild reputation in this town and, in fact, there are a number of people who sa...

He said, we need to perform up here, right? our policy trumps state-level policy. state level, you can have a little bit of an impact, right? but the u.s. macro policy dwarfs any states policies. and so when our senate failed to repeal obamacare, that was it, right? and tax -- we dont have tax through yet, so everybodys waiting to see if they get a tax cut. and we better get that piece right as well. and so ed ran a guide campaign on rational virginia policy, but the national indicators were dwa...

A consensus maker he seems to be experienced enough for the job so its definitely a safe choice you said that hes been in the private sector in the public sector hes had some real jobs what kind of policy a different policy could we expect from him its interesting leigh enough he will not really change policy at all if you look at his voting record over the last couple of years the last five years that has been on the board he has never once dissented from janet yellen always voted with her whet...

He votes with trump 96.2% of the time. >> yeah. im glad they are disagreeing with his antics, but thats not enough. im from north carolina, where we had racist republican gop operatives who passed racist voter suppression law. they were all cool, calm and collected. they didnt act out like trump. im glad theyre against the acting out. its just like with white nationalism or supremacy or evangelicalism -- a civil war would mean theres a difference in agenda. thats not what we have here. it is sim...