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There. there's got to be like 50 or 60 districts around that are going to be prime battlegrounds that again where democrats -- remotely guaranteed to win and they're now in the -- absolutely in the strike zone for democrats again with this trump drag on the republican ticket. >> i was watching steve kornacki yesterday and when he pointed to what was happening in loudon county -- >> right. >> he was almost jumping up and down because as you mentioned it was stunning to him and i think steve knew. he told me later that he knew as soon as he saw that that this was over. stuart and john, thank you...

All told republicans can only afford to lose 23 seats in the house next year. and retain the majority but democrats have their eyes on dozens of su sur ban gop seats that are competitive in presidential or other statewide races. it just so happened that 23 republicans like comstock sits in seats that hillary clinton defeated trump in last year as well as another 13 that previously backed barack obama in his presidential races. john heilmann, those are the districts you target if you're the democrats and trying to take control? >> right. what we saw was ed gillespie trying to repeat trump-level...

But thank you for that reminder of the nixon example. i want to listen to something al franken said about jeff sessions' confirmation hearing testimony and his forgetting his meeting with russians in his confirmation testimony. let's listen to what al franken said on this program about that. >> there's no other conclusion that you can come to other than that he was lying and was committing perjury. >> and now let's listen to what donald trump said to "the new york times" about that very same thing. donald trump said, jeff sessions gave some bad answers. he gave some answers that were simple q...

With speeds of 250 megabits per second across our entire network, to more companies, in more locations, than centurylink. we do business where you do business. ♪ ♪ in tonight's "new york times" interview, president trump said this about special prosecutor robert mueller. mr. trump said, mr. mueller was running an office rife with conflicts of interest and warned investigators against delving into matters too far afield from russia. mr. trump never said he would order the justice department to fire mr. mueller nor would he outline circumstances under which he might do so, but he left open...

Independent attorney general. and i think republicans haven't put up much resistance before, but i think they will have to be tougher on whoever trump chooses if this comes to pass. >> i want to take a moment before each of you go to turn to john mccain and the difficult news that he and his family have received tonight about brain cancer that senator mccain is now dealing with. john heileman, i know you've covered john mccain very closely, especially in the 2008 campaign and described vividly in your book, game change, played brilliantly by ed harris in the movie of your book. your reflection...