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These have to be translated into local issues. can you afford to send your kid to college? what is this republican congress doing about that? so again, i think you have -- trump is the backdrop and many people, that will be enough to get them to the polls. they'll be moetivated. but if we want to win, we have to do more than that. district by district. it's hard work and important work. >> senator, it's john heilemann. >> hi, john. >> i want to ask you a quick news of the day question. a new interview with president trump up in "the wall street journal" in which he talks about kim jong-un. if ...

Talking about since the carter administration how this has been a republican district. forget that. it's been a republican district in much more recent history. tom price, who gave up the seat to be the hhs secretary, just last year, last november, this past year, 23%, that's how much he won this district by. 2014, 32%. two years before that, 29%. this is not historically a swing district, at all! so yes, the district has changed, to be fair. and tom price was a known quantity and he didn't have a real opponent like the democrats are running now. but it just kind of goes to show how the fact t...

Can say we tried to work with you, who is going to be left with the tail on the donkey? >> the public. >> well, i agree with that. >> the voters wanted changes wanted something done and now not getting anything. >> they don't like this bill. >> well, i was just going to talk about that because the recent polling shows this bill has a 17% approval rating, so if you're a member of congress do you want to kind of walk over that cliff voting for a bill that has a 17% approval rating and i know we go district by district by district and some won by an overwhelming margin they can clearly make their...

You can't get an inch of daylight between them because of their districts, because of the makeup of the demographics of their districts. but overall, i see it as a case by case, district by district, state by state examination of what works and what doesn't. >> back to those trump supporters calling into your show this morning and the fact there is a shift to the down ballot races. for some of those really big hillary clinton surrogates, is the clinton campaign running a victory lap too soon? this race ain't over. >> the race is not over. and i don't really think they're running a victory lap,...

That 1954 supreme court ruling set off one of the most contentious battles in this nation's racial history. >> state and local police were unable to control a mob which reacted in bitter violence on learning that nine negroes entered the school as students. >> the resistance was led by the governor of arkansas. >> we are now an occupied territory. >> it would become a rallying cry for segregationists across the country. >> i see a political organization based on racial nationalists. a third party based on race. >> state by state, district by district, school by school, desegregation came to th...