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Of -- you can't be this behind the eight ball when dealing with russia at a moment like this. as ian was pointing out, this seems to be a shift. what a lot of people are looking for, at least from the democratic party as well, they want to see this followed up with more stringent sanctions measures. that's going to be in the realm of things that will hurt a lot of the russian power players, where they live, but start to get into questions of, can you do that without having any backlash effect in the united states with european allies. >> here are some poll numbers. regarding russia, president ...

Show up and vote at any election that he was in. he was going to get this small percentage of people out there to vote for him. and then slowly over time, after that "washington post" story hit, you kind of saw an erosion of the people who were going to hold their nose and vote for him. among the republicans here in this state. because that's what a whole lot of republicans were doing here, they were going to hold their nose, vote for the republican, toe the party line. i think you lost a lot of those people as the story went further and further without any real answer from roy moore. >> there...

The person who is alleging this happened to them. now, that's a deterrent. a lot of young women wouldn't want to come forward knowing they'll have to continue working perhaps in their office while undergoing mediation. the house offices are tiny. you're going to be working in very tight quarters with someone who you may be alleging assaulted you or harassed you. that's difficult. that's very tough. >> one question going forward, i should note before i move on, the detroit free president editorial today said the congress man should resign. they said the revelations of his harassment can dal and...

When they are being threatened and people want to show that they care about voting and they are not going to let politicians manipulate the rules of the game, not to let them vote. >> obviously the benchmarks here, the important apple-to-apple comparison, it being looks on the whole like democrats are outperforming their 2012 benchmarks. >> right. >> which may be a sign about that sort of backlash effect you might get even if not in guilford county where that restriction had a significant effect, if essentially you bottle up the energy that then pours forth. >> right. i think in this country, ...

Distressing is it seemed that these cutbacks were targeted. for example, cutting the sundays before election day where many african-american voters called us all to the polls and political scientists are clear the more barriers you put in front of the ballot box, it decreases and depresses turnout. unfortunately, we're seeing some of that. i think there's a counterbailing trend which is people are mad when they are being threatened and people want to show that they care about voting and they are not going to let politicians manipulate the rules of the game, not to let them vote. >> obviously t...