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Can to stop that investigation. but if we're being clear eyed about this it is worth noting that the fbi and justice department are in a very different position. they have gone from resisting that republican pressure and white house pressure to handing over their agents and officials, handing over sensitive documents and agreeing that yeah, maybe shay should be looking into whether somebody ought to lock her up. we shouldn't be surprised by the push back that evolved over the course of this past year. we maybe should be surprised it's working.

David frum, two views. one based in reality. the other based in what i think is fair to say has grown over the last several weeks into a full throated attack on the fbi. >> but it's working. it does work. the fbi needs to be seen as above suspicion. this is an agency, remember, that has a dark past. and a dark past where it has participated in american politics in a way that it should not have done. so it's very important to culture of the fbi to be seen to be above suspicion. so if you have the president of the united states and a party in congress endlessly saying that the most routine thing...

Voters not politickingens a. opposed to gerry manneders of district. poised to turn in signatures which year 350,000 signatures gather gathered into three months thanks to a legionen of at least 3,000 volunteers. a local republican strategist saying they were recently spotted at a table at a rest in interstate 96. wherever two or more are gathered they've been interest. their grass roots effort has been remarkable. i mean, i don't know what you've done since the election last year. but somebody has been setting up a card table alongside the interstate in michigan in a town you have never heard...

The primary. and lost in the -- lost virginia in the presidential race i believe. right? so this should have been something that democrats could have taken, given the demographic shift in virginia. it's become a more purple state. the fact ed gillespie, i've known a long time as have you, i don't know who's running. that's not the ed gillespie we knew and love. to brett's point, it's a shame the republican party is resorting that that kind of tribalism cultural politics in virginia. >> but it's working. >> i know and it's what trump unearthed and allowed us to get away with. republicans never ...

That's why this becomes an issue of the ground game. when you have mistakes like northam has made -- you're alienating your base right before the election. if you look at the primaries, the democrats should probably win, but if they win it will be in spite of mistakes. >> do you think if gillespie is able to win this way, he's pretending to be this sort of defender of the kefs. does that wind of spraeting to the whole gop? >> absolutely. gillespie is a numbers guy. i'm sure they're looking at numbers that are telling them this is the way to go. it's a little bit unusual, but this is where the ...