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No. when they go, we kick them. when they go low, we kick them. >> you cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for, what you care about. >> i think there is only one approach with this president, and that is the approach that we hit harder. >> they asked me would i like to debate this gentleman. and i said no, i said if we're in high school, i would take him behind the gym and beat the held out of him. >> that was michael avenatti, who seems to be leading the charge if anything among democrats. donna, what is the right strategy here? >> i don't know, i mean ...

And will those lines start to trend back together if he's no longer seen as the leader of the republican party. i think every piece of evidence we have from the sheer number of women who are running for office, irmean record numbers and we should be clear these are mostly democratic women. there are some republican women running, of course, but this is predominantly a democratic trend. when you look at virginia, this organization a lot of times was coming from the bottom up not the top down. if anything the democratic party here in washington has had to sort of take a breath. there's been some...

Piece that this trend around veterans is colliding with the trend of more and more women putting themselves in the arena while those statistics are down on veterans in the 1970s, few members of congress who were veterans were women. that is likely to change going into these midterm elections. i have to say, amy is one to watch. if she wins that race, i think that is a developing consensus that she could have a very, very bright future going forward if she wins this race. >> women. vets. running for office, you go girls. casey, awesome. thank you so much. i'm so glad you covered that. next, t...

Had demonstrates the country and congress are more divided than ever. this record number of military veterans running for congress are hoping to perhaps change that because they say that they have experience putting country over party. retired lieutenant colonel amy mcgraph was the first one to fly combat for marine corps. >> i started out as backseater and then i went to front seat. i did both. >> now she's on a new mission. >> hi, sherman, this is amy mcgrath, how are you? >> running for congress. more than 200 running in the 2018 elections. she's part of a new generation of post-9/11 vetera...

Republican. take a look at this ad. >> one of those closed stores was my congressman. john carter. being a veteran and a constituent wasn't good enough for a meeting. i guess i needed to be a donor. he hasn't had a tough race his entire career. we'll show him tough and then the door. >> dana: i watched that ad. we're coming up on 1 1/2 minutes before president trump speaks. so i want to can you, for something like m.j. hager a great recruit for the democrats, should she be hand strung by someone like maxine waters that gets national attention? >> no. she will run campaigns and showing differen...