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Think this can twist and change at a moment's notice, and i think so important is getting the gauge and the temperature of these key senators. we are waiting to hear from senator chuck grassley. camped outside of his office. that's where i'll go to right after i finish talking with you guys to hear what his next steps are. what is mitch mcconnell saying as the folks return on the hill? that will tell us a lot on the very real potentials that could go forward on thursday and also, of course, his broader future. >> yeah. >> you know, just to note. this is -- this was already an important vote, c...

Describing there is why members have decided not to run for re-election this time. there are a lot of folks in very challenging districts that are seeing the writing on the wall and seeing they have been able to put together coalitions in the past that included suburban, college educated voters, the types of folks that have not been big fans of the trump era. this is talking about the house map, which is i think the scarier of the two big federal pieces for the gop. on the senate side, trump is still i think an asset in many races. you have a lot of democrats who are up for re-elections in sta...

Challenges. north dakota, montana, west virginia, to name three of them. but it's much more complicated when you look at the house map. so many of these competitive house districts right now are in suburbs, in areas where there's not a particularly strong trump base of supporters and he's going -- the republican candidates running there are going to have to appeal to some of these suburban women in particular and other voters who have real qualms with this president's leadership and frankly are not approving of his performance in office and that's something that's tricky and something the whit...

Referendum on donald trump. like most midterm elections, it boils down -- the intensity boils down to how people are feeling about the commander in chief. we have someone who has deplorable numbers. he goes between 35% and 42%. i think he is around 42% approval right now. it's an immigration issue. it's more referendum on donald trump. this house map is vastly different than the senate map, because democrats have a much more difficult time because there are more seats we have to defend when you are talking about montana, south dakota, indiana. these are very difficult seats to hold on to. that...

How did he ultimately come to flip on this? >> there's a lot of questions that still remain. it's not clear who told him it could only be done by the courts. we know his wife and daughter had been putting pressure on him. we also know, let's be clear here, house republicans, again, the house. the house map is daunting for republicans to keep control of the house. the one thing this president has been receptive to for a long time is the idea that if democrats take over the house, mr. president, this will hurt you. so that was a big part of the case that was made. there was a sense after the kir...