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We do not yet know the final outcome tonight. we hope to learn this hour. we are waiting any minute now to get the absentee ballots out of washington county. i can't wait to break it all down for you. here is an interesting stat. conor lamb won 172 precincts that were won by donald trump in 2016. meanwhile, rick saccone did not win a single precinct won by hillary clinton in 2016. that's what happens when you've got a 20-point swing there. joining us, david jolly from florida and maria theresa kumar and a msnbc contributor. david jolly, i'm curious about their trump effect. we saw energized tu...

Other states. a net negative rating of 25 points despite winning that state by 10% back in 2016. meanwhile, congressional republicans fair no better when asked who iowans would support in the 2018 mid terms, 40% said they would vote for a democratic candidate while 34% would vote for a republican. joining us now, co-founder and publisher of real clear politics, tom bevin. we were talking about this in the break, the disconnect between the economic good news, unemployment being low, stock market being high. iowa, in particular, being a state where that's true because of the deductions being sti...

In the senate are a little bit murky right now. plus, we're getting a look at how some companies report they are spending as a result of republican tax plan. but it's not all going to employees. that's coming up when i fill in on shepard smith reporting. >> dana: for the second straight year, life expectancy in the united states has declined. one major reason why. the opioid crisis. life expectancy for americans dropped a tenth of a year to 78.6 in 2016. meanwhile, the death rate from drug overdoses rose a staggering 21% last year, with two-thirds of those deaths involving opioids. preliminary...

Other distractions. last year's distraction was of course the election. this year's distraction was weather. >> nfl viewship also declined from 2015 to 2016. meanwhile the drop in ratings could also be attributed to tv cord cutting. alternative viewing choices like twitter and amazon, and even the uproar over head injuries afflicting football players. but it's also important to note that viewership for most televised sports is down across the board. the nba, college football and motor sports like nascar have all seen significant drops in viewership so the decline in nfl viewers may just be par...

Welcome back. i'm frances rivera here at msnbc world headquarters in new york. at just half past the hour here's what we're monitoring. new calls from president trump for an investigation into the obama administration that they wiretapped. a claim the administration has denied. donald j. trump is requesting that as part of the investigation into russian activity the congressional intelligence committee exercise their oversight authority to determine whether executive branch investigative powers were abused in 2016. >> meanwhile, here is the nation's former spy chief responding on "meet the pre...