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Last month, in the off year election, democratic base turnout must be way up. that won't be enough, you expect roy moore like richard shelby in 2016 to win these small rural counties and win them big. watch the percentages in these counties tonight will the trump voters come out, doug jones needs a lot of them to stay home, he needs democratic turnout to be up. he needs republicans in the rural area turnout to be down. even if that happens, it might not be enough. he still needs moore to happen. let's go back to alabama, and remember the runoff, we just had a short time ago between roy moore a...

They made for seven years. they failed as you know to pass legislation in july and again in september. they are more worried about motivating their base. you know, we're facing a midterm election, 2018, where usually the turnout is down, republican base turnout is going to be very important for them to keep those seats. that's really whom they are looking at. in terms of who will be hurt the most, i mean look at the costs here. i mean cbo projects 194 billion dollars over the next decade is going to have to come out of the federal coffers to pay for more hefty benefits to make up for the loss ...

Legislation in july and again in september. they are more worried about motivating their base. you know, we're facing a midterm election, 2018, where usually the turnout is down, republican base turnout is going to be very important for them to keep those seats. that's really whom they are looking at. in terms of who will be hurt the most, i mean look at the costs here. i mean cbo projects 194 billion dollars over the next decade is going to have to come out of the federal coffers to pay for more hefty benefits to make up for the loss of these cost-sharing subsidies, these cost-sharing reducti...

So unless both sides are willing to find something close to the middle, it's not clear exactly how far this can go. >> thank you for the latest from the white house. let's bring in elise jordan, former senior advisor to senator rand paul, also peter emerson, a veteran of three democratic administrations and a "huffington post" contributor. big welcome to the both of you. ladies first here, elise. so how do you think republicans on the hill are reacting to all of this? is it likely to have any sort of impact on their agenda? >> i think that republicans see this as yet another donald trump mov...

Matter as much as the math, the raw numbers. in so many of the key states, detro detroit, for example, milwaukee, for example, african-american turnout, other democratic base turnout like young people was down, she might win 65% in the county and you say wow, she's on track to crush donald trump in the county but the raw vote totals were down and donald trump in a state like this, wisconsin, runs it up in the white rural areas, turnout for democrats, she gets 66% of the vote but the raw numbers are down and guess what? wisconsin is red for the first time since the 1980s. so that's what happene...