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Analyst and senior congressional correspondent for "the washington examiner." and we have a reporter with bloomberg news and amanda carpenter, commentator and former communications director for ted cruz and guy cecil with superpriority pac priorities usa. thank you all for being here. how big of a fight do you think this is going to be over the next fbi director? >> well, i think it's going to be an ordeal. i'd put it that way. >> okay. >> we're looking at a month-long process, mor more or less, from the time the appointment is made because the committee process takes about two weeks. even tho...

>> and it cost two people jobs. right in front of you. >> it may have been a factor. there are people who believe the guy cecil was believed to be a leaker and that was an issue for him. i don't want to get too deep into methods. if you look at it, the question of whether she really understood what she was doing by setting up a private server, that the state department wouldn't have access to. this is somebody who understands how the flow of information works. >> and let me get you another set of e-mails. what about the wikileaks play in your own work? did you have qualms that using it as sour...

Profession. they have every right to do it. but we need to call it what it is. it's not the organic uprisings that we've seen, the tea party was very organic. this is a paid, astroturf type movement. >> mmm, paid astroturf type movement, maybe some but not all. doug? >> that's truth to that. guy cecil, no stranger to cnn audiences, he's running a town hall forum twitter account that he was linking to yesterday to get people to come to town halls. clearly there are people throughout the country, upset and concerned about the direction the country is going in. but paid or unpaid, it doesn't matt...

Went wrong in the 2016 election. swing voters who voted for obama and then voted for trump in 2016 and democratic-leaning voters who came out in 2012 and not in 2016. that second group is largely african-americans and millennials. it said it found several ways the party can engage with these groups to win them back. joining with me is guy cecil, former political director for hillary clinton's 2008 campaign. turns out these two groups have a lot in common. how does that information translate into a win for democrats? >> well, i think our party is having a conversation right now where there is n...

The general and some other missteps, what is the biggest takeaway the clinton camp can learn from this that can be applied to mud teidterms and in. >> working class people and middle class americans wanted change. and i don't mean change in some large political context or change just in terms of elected office holders. but their life is not getting better. families that made $39,500 eight years ago that are now making $40,000. eight years ago they had a fifth grader hoping to go to college, and today, that person is struggling to pay for six credits at a community college. we must do a better ...