Late against north korea after a 22yearold american who was detained for nearly a year and a half. Its a total disgrace what happened to otto. That should never ever be allowed to happen. And frankly if he were brought home sooner, i think the result would have been a lot different. And that day discuss a big race in the atlanta suburbs. On this day ground zero in american politics. If is special election day. Democrats have have a chance to win a house seat held by republicans since the carter administration. Republicans believe they can squeak out a win, but if they lose in a district like this, it will be viewed as evidence of a major trump drag that could carry over into the 2018 midterms. Trumps Health Secretary tom price won this two years ago with the 60 vote. The president just barely beat Hillary Clinton in the direct. Its highly educated, one of those districts where the president has trouble, they believe there could be a trump drag tonight. Republicans think theyre going to squeak this out, but if they dont look for big fallout here in washington tomorrow. Its a race with national implications. The candidates have tried to say this is about the sixth district. The democrat jon osoff. Democrat karen handel both campaigning to the end. They are not interested in hollywood and california coming in and buying this seat and they are very concerned about an individual who does not even live in the district. For me, the voters in the six they know me and they trust me and thats why i feel really good about today. The contrast in this district is between a career politician, my opponent karen handel whos notorious for cutting off funding for lifesaving breast screenings at planned parenthood or someone to work across the aisle to get things done, work to make healthcare for affordable for women with prekmifting conditions. Carol lee we wall street judge, npr steveinsky and jackie so he sin niche of the daily beast, the polls in georgia sixth Congressional District hope you stay with us here. And you can be certain even though its one special election and one of the house seats with the the results will have a major impact on the immediate here in washington. President trump woke up to this today. His job Approval Rating is down to 36 . He knows he will be blamed in if republicans loose and hes trying to rally the base. Heres one tweet, karen handel. He will never give up, vote today. That from the president. Heres the flip side. Democrat john aus osoff who wants ton raise your taxes and is weak on crime and security doesnt even live in the district. Welcome to the conversation. Were sitting in washington, this race plays out today. Its reliably red territory, its one of 435 seats, but we dont know whos going to win but we do know whatever happens washington the overreact and take this as this washington. This washington and take this as a national message. Lets start with the republicans. Theyve tried to stay loyal. If they lose a seat they carried two years wag 60 of the vote that theyve held since the carter trags, they are going to see that as big trouble for 2018. Yes. And not just 2018 but youll see a cascading effect in terms of whether republicans are willing to get in line with this president on his policy agenda and his legislative agenda. And that then in turn would impact how the republicans fair in 2018. So its its pretty widespread for republicans, as we all know they get very nervous when they start losing races and so its not just a year from now year and a half from now, but its this month, there week what republicans are trying to do with healthcare. When you mention this month, this week, theres other big zigsz here. Number one lets assume they can pass a healthcare bill then can they reconcile it with the house. This will affect that, how they read the polz, then you move to tax reform and infrastructure. But also some big zagsz lot of republican incumbents have to decide whether to run for reelection and whether they were taik take this as a signal not. A lot of democrats out there mayors and city laij legislatures have to decide whether to take a risk and run for congress in republican districts. They will read the results and say should i do this. You identified a couple of ways that this is meaning ffl even though its only one of 435 seats. Theres a question of morale on the republican side. Also on the democratic side, all the donors who donated 10s of millions of dollars for this race, do they get anything for that. And theres also a question more broadly of whether democrats can compete in more conservative districts. And trump aside, and trumps unpopularity aside across the country, can they find a mess able that works on issues like immigration which trump has used very strongly. Aus osoff in georgia dps its strg when hes talked about immigration hes touched a little bit about it in what sounds like republican terms at least saying in some of his Campaign Literature that i wanted a policy that protects american citizens, protects their security, protects their jobs which say trumpian way to talk about imgrigs aggregation. When they cannot win the house back if they cant compete. Suburban, wealthy, highly educated, that is this, thats the large part of this district. And if they end up pulling this off krur bet theyre not going to look at this as a one off. Theyre going to take this this playbook and try to apply it in other places. Now, places where they wont have the funding that they have in this current race. 50 plus million dollars, thats fluts. Thats the most expensive house seat. So that also will be something that could come out of this. If they lose, back to the drawing board. If the democrats lose this seat, its going to be really fascinating to see what happens here because they lost kansas, they lost montana, those are two seats if you look at the dem grachgz the district they have very little reason to think they could win but the base was fired up. So were talking about ha happens if the republican losses and how that will cause a pan nirk across the Republican Party if the if the democrats cant win a race, the numbers show they have a chance, what happens then . Right. There are 23 districts that hillary won that were republican congressman so thoefrz the top ones. This one is very close. Trump won by 1. 5 points. Very close, college ed pay the kated people. This is the one that democrats need to win some like this. Its in the suburbs, wealthy area. I think you have a lot of Democrat People that trump is very unpopular. Had is the kind of race they want to win it will be a symbol for other people that are thinking about running. If we talk about republican losing, there will aban equal panic. This is not good stair fore for trump. Had one of the districts where he just eek today out. Donald trump gets 46 in 2016, this is not a pro trump republican base. How much does this factor . If you look deeper in the cbs poll and the Approval Rating, among Republican Voters 72 approve of the president s job numbers but its down 11 points if you look among republicans hes down 11 points since april. So you have not only Democrat Energy antitrump, but now have you republicans sort of eh about trump. One thing we think about we should think about all trump voters are not the same pit have a group thats intensive supportive behind him and theres a group what we call reluctant trump voters who are weary of him, dont like the healthcare bill, like other things hes done. 72 is not a great number. 72 suggests its think this low among your own party its not high and not a good sign. If youre counting at home it was five months ago today he was inaugurated as president of the United States. And talk about Hillary Clinton any chance he gez because they know in the white house you can sell that message to republicans better than you can sell donald trump. Voters are getting from the conversations ive had, theyre tired of the chaos. They want them to get something done. And because of the short of shiny object syndrome that weve seen or just the shine yn russia syndrome that weve seen, not necessarily the issue but the fact that its did he tracting from all of the other things that the president has promised to do its starting to be a problem. Youve heard enough already lets get things done. Its a trump drag a place where he was already popular is there a deep are trump drag. Its also a great test case, trump is president because from voters in 2016, looking for something drirch. They were willing to go with an outsider someone who never held Political Office before. If you look at these two candidates, jon osoff, first run for public office, been a filmmaker he grew up in the direct, republicans from made a big deal with the lives with his girlfriend from a neighboring distinct right now but not a politician. If you look at karen handel, former georgia secretary of state was the Fulton County commissioner, theres three big counties in this district, thats one of them. She ran for governor, nor senate. She has stressed she has not run from it to her credit because you cant, she has said i are the experience, i know how government works, i can get things done petd has said send a fresh face, the career poigs politicians are the ones screwing things up. In size, osoff is trump in this race, sorry, but is he. Or emmanuel macron. This is the matchup that weve seen in cycle after cycle and weve continued ton see where the outsider tends to do better and thats, you know, its an interesting its flipping the script a little bit. If you are a republican incumbent and youre getting tired of the Child Care Center known as washington, d. C. And you dont like this president , you have issues with this president or you just think its time to do Something Else and somebody as well tested, as well experienced in politics as karen handel lose a race like this to a newcomer, are you going to think twice about running for reelection . Child care center, wouldnt that imply that theres someone taking care of the children . I might get well see. But of course handel looks like the incumbent because the president is a republican and such a highprofile president. Ill be curious if osoff wins if people get more excited. Theyre not excited by his politics, hes not very liberal and not very popular so id be curious if osoff if you see mr. Cand lates like him, outsider rrk little bit like obama in 2007 vague im from the future im young im from new things if that kind of candidate can do well that will be an issue to see going forward. They wont be getting just one candidate to run, theyll get more for both parties. 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Senate Judiciary Committee leaders are meeting with Robert Mueller tomorrow. And we report the committee did is about to launch a review whether theres been any improper melgd with the fbis investigation into russian melgd investigation. They say those questions will include whether President Trump himself interfered and include the circumstances that led him to fire the fbi director james comey. Reporter its political sbierns with an ongoing investigation. Regardless of what the president s lawyer may say could make the president a target, a subject, a person of interest. And so our hearing the very much involve potential obstruction of justice in the firing of comey and other actions. The president , as you well know, calls all these investigations witch hunts. Whether you see them as legitimate or not, there is zero debate about the toll on the trump white house. As we noted, the priz president s Approval Rating is dismal 36 in that cbs poll. And his handling of of the Russian Investigation is getting terrible numbers too. So whether you think these are witch hunts or urgent necessary inquarries theres no question about the cloud theyve cast over the president. What does it tell us in the president calls them witch hunts he calls them partisan, the Senate Committee is chaired by a republican just like the House Intelligence Committee is chaired by a republican. We dont know how far the Senate Judiciary investigation is going to go whether its a hearing or two on the question of this, but its still Republicans Expanding the review of this president s conduct. One noteworthy thing ive noticed when talking with rankd file republicans, they dont use the phrase witch hunt. Im not saying its universal, they dont use the phrase witch hunt they say lets follow this investigation where it leads. Even if they sort of defend the president by going on to say maybe he had appropriate contacts with intelligence officials because hes new to this and dont know what hes doing, even when they say that they will say lets let the investigation go where it leads. And you have to assume that among other things they are aware of what the public thinks of this and that majorities of the public think that say serious matter that needs to be vsted. I think part of the reason that the republicans are able to do that versds the president is because the president just takes this so personally. And, you know, theyre rather looking at this more broadly as, you know, russia interfered in our democratic process, thats a serious issue, we need to get to the bottom of that. We need to look at every aspect of that and the president , he cant separate the two. He just sees the whole thing as personal and politically und mining him. One of the questions i was asking should people be talking about whether theyre democrats or republicans if theyre on the committee and if they see the information, were in the transparency business we want them to talk to us, we want them to leak to us had the however when you see feinstein the ranking democrat on the Judiciary Committee on whether theyre going to look into obstruction of justice, i think will it includes it or not, people look for it. You look at various pieces of information, you see something and say, lowe. Shes a democrat, shes also not known to say reckless partisan, but when you Say Something like you are raising the stakes, are you not think there to the point youre making about the republicans who arent willing to defend the president , they want these things to proceed expeditiously, find out facts, issue a report, can we please close this book and move on. Shes also stateding the obvious. When newspaper reports suggested that the special counsel was looking into obstruction of justice, one response to that was, well, of course how you cannot given whats out there in the public put at least have to ask the question, which doesnt presuppose the answer. In some ways the president s forcing their hand, republicans and democrats on this, not that democrats, i a lot of forcing in this whole thing. But when you have the president saying a letter from the Deputy Attorney general saying that comey was fired for one reason and then the president saying, no, i fired him because of the russia investigation im paraphrasing of course, that does raise questions. And those questions not saying thats an obstruction of justice cause or anything like that at this point, but that does raise more questions than it answers. The point you raise is right when republicans, youve showed feinstein that Charles Grassley was thats who make things go. The biggest 1 thing we saw was 97 had 2 last week when the republicans in the senate said trump was talking about lifting sanctions it was 97, 2 vote saying you have to go through us first to do that i think that tills the members themselves, the republicans are not necessarily criticizing them on tv or public but theyre taking actions that suggest they are nervous about him particularly about russia. Which is why i find the constitutional right irony that you met most republicans say lets get to the facts here, i dont think the president did anything wrong, but lets find out and keep going. There are some out there who want to say this is all its just quite ironic that one of them leading that is ted kwlouz had a number of interesting traks transaction with the president , some things i would find unforgivable are are but listen there are a political circus at this point. Democrats and sadly much of the immediate y