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All these rural counties that for a long time democrats had almost written off in places essentially sort of south and west of richmond. now all the rest of that is back in play. not to mention we're looking at a tiny, tiny fraction of fairfax county which is the behemoth blue county here in virginia which comes in historically late and will be i think enormous based on the voters i talked to. >> thank you for that. we'll probably be checking back. the point about reverse coat tails is something the folks i know in virginia have been hammering home. the activists and the sort of political oper...

That put donald trump in the white house." you've been making a lot of news with this book, a lot of people angry. >> a lot of people tonight are celebrating what's happening in virginia. >> you're celebrating. they were going to come for you. they were going to blame you if northam -- i saw people writing the story about donna brazile being responsible for depressed virginia turnout. >> a month ago i went to help raise money. i went out two weeks ago to kick off a canvassing campaign. tonight's story is about these delegate races. everyone was out there two weeks ago, out there knocking on do...

Both for american politics and for the democratic party. what is your big lesson for the future of the democratic party? >> my biggest frustration, if you want to know what i went to bed with every night last year, i couldn't help enough candidates in states. i couldn't send posters to nonbattleground states. i saw someone today criticize me for sending money to chicago. i sent money to chicago because i wanted to help tammy duckworth. i sent money to my home state of louisiana because we had elections. i raise money and i went out and told state parties i want to help you. i don't want any st...

Something you just said, when you talk about seeding or not running anyone in half the house delegate races. this year there was this real effort to be competitive everywhere and it dovetails with the critique of the party that is in it donna brazile's book and which is essentially that the party institution was bankrupt financially, that it was not doing the things it should, it wasn't doing the things like helping to field candidates in every race and it was essentially busted out. is that an accurate characterization of the dnc that you inherited basically less than a year ago? >> well, the...

went to court to block some of the pardons. he says they're a slap to the face of everyone in law enforcement, he will be with us with jeff toobin in a bit. first, four of the convicted murderers that got pardons were released sunday, according to mississippi department of corrections. one link between them, they all worked at the governor's mansion on a work release program. one of the men is david gatlin. these him there. the shooting victim he left behind and family of the victim that didn't live to tell the story are in a word scared. martin savidge joins me live. martin? >> repo...