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Audio feed between us. karine, i am so sorry. >> that's okay. >> i don't know what happened. it's apparently fixed. everything's okay? >> i am back, rachel. >> i am very sorry. i owe you. what you were talking about when i so rudely interrupted you with that was the interaction of these two cross currents in democratic politics. >> yeah. >> as you were saying, there is this sort of general election politicking that is happening on the general election side. people campaigning as the best candidate to beast trump because that's very important to the voters. at the same time, the democrats are h...

Democratic primary fights are not general elections, right? democratic primary fights are about democratic voters making their own decisions amongst themselves about what they want from their party and who they want to represent them. this fight in america is joined right now with all sorts of interesting cross currents among the democratic electorate. not only at the top of the ticket but all the way down the ballot, and sometimes in controversial ways. in new jersey one feisty progressive group that we've talked about a lot here on this show, the group indivisible, is targeting an incumbent ...

Points. what are we expecting today? what are you watching for? >> you're right, chris. we've had a very volatile week but in the first couple moments of trade at least the dow is higher by 172 points. that's good but so far the dow is on track for its worst week of the year. remember mid week on wednesday the dow dropped 800 points for its worst day of the year so we've got some ground to make up. the trouble is there's a lot of cross currents going on in both the market and the economy right now. what do i mean by that? there is some good news and some bad news. it is a little hard to figure...

That's another -- >> yeah. a little problem. >> chad, thank you, my friend. always stays cool. chad pergram on capitol hill. the dow finished up on the day. worried about the cross currents. funny way of showing it. look is what is going on with the nasdaq and the s&p 500. in case you are keeping track here, this is getting to be an almost routine event where we have the nasdaq and s&p both up north of 20% on the year. so again, not exactly shivering in the face of all of these developments. and then there was a very big report on the economy in the latest quarter. came in weaker than expected...

Limb here, but i think we need to mark july 14, 2019, in history books as the day you might agree with marine. >> i'm sure it's happened before, i mean, we don't get together and get coffee but i'm willing to buy any time. i just don't know if i would call it a stat. i think it's more intense than that because there's a conversation about the soul for the democratic party about what path they want to go down, but even if we were to disagree about that, no one can disagree with that it looks very very bad for the democratic party and when this starts infiltrating the candidates for 2020 than it...