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I want to bring back in my panel. this has been, if you'll forgive the cliche, the year of the woman but it actually was. >> i think more on the dem side, certainly. you look at the women who are winning and they're a pretty extraordinary class of women. mimi walters is having a tough fight. we'll see if she manages to squeeze that out. but it is a fight with a member of the progressive scene. they haven't necessarily fared as well in the actual contest.

Democrats. but with just one week to go, we've already added 25 races to our potentially vulnerable list overall. 18 on the republican side, 7 on the dem side. there's some reasons why we're seeing this battleground start to expand. let me start with michigan. the 6 and 7th districts there we've added to this list. with the republican gubernatorial nominee cancelling all ads in michigan this week except in the detroit area with one week to go, the party seems to be conceding defeat at the top of the ticket. the flint water crisis has just been devastating to the republican party statewide. so ...

And justice that no one else can because of his background. i think when you are going to have a ton of elected officials running talk about unique set of experiences, he carves out a very unique space. remember, because i truly do believe you are going to have 202, 5 people. credible candidates running on the dem side you don't need to get 30, 40, 50% out of the gate. you just need 7, 8, 9, 10% and you are a very viable candidate. i do think the next segment this whole ms-13 and whether or not people date. i heard that tease. i'm thinking to myself my gosh, i'm glad i'm married. abby: so true...

Of the house to be speaker. so, i don't know. the rock. >> the house is broken as it is. they can't figure out the chaplain, and other stuff, why not. >> i like chuck. >> doesn't have to be a member of congress. >> in this day and age where any group of 20 people can essentially hold something hostage and now there is almost an incentive structure via social media to do this, i have a feeling we're going to have a series of very weak speakers. >> keep an eye out for the younger guns in the house on the dem side, waiting for their opportunity. keep an eye on the crawleys, on the ryans of ohio, ...

Efforts to decommission or somehow undermine different voting machines in different states, causing lines, causing people not to vote, particular states being targeted. we need a full investigation to see if there is any evidence of it, what evidence there is, and what can we do to protect ourselves next time. >> let's talk another bit of bipartisan ship. that is you want to protect trans gender military service members particularly after what the president just said in terms of a ban. what are you going to do about that? >> these are men and women putting themselves in harm's way, risking the...