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As new numbers do show a remarkablily close mid-term competition. two weeks out, this is how cnn rates it. 206 lean likely or solid for the democra democrats. 201 lean likely or solid for the republicans. look at the new numbers. this is just choice for congress battle ground districts. this is "the washington post" polling. look how close this is. this is just key battle ground districts, but look at this. points. now three points. statistically that is insignificant. it's not a huge edge. what the democrats have been hoping would be a big blue wave. still democrats favored for the house, but...

For four in 10, it didn't make that much of a difference. 2% said they are less motivated. when you look at the house, democrats said they have the advantage. in the senate, they think the kavanaugh effect will have an impact. the key races are in republican-leaning states. democrats hoping to hold montana. the president has been out there twice. he may go back. the kavanaugh effect works better in these states in the western senate races that they need to flip or in the case of nevada and arizona, hold on. that's the stay to play. on the road, the president is talking up immigration and a tax...

It does appear from not just this "wall street journal" poll but other polls that the approval rating has ticked up a bit. it is still, as "the wall street journal" indicates underwater. but it's better than it was and that does help republican candidates in this upcoming election for sure. >> shannon: "the wall street journal" says over the last couple of weeks there's been disclosure in key swing districts. they talk about how this gap has closed up. if they say in districts rated as the most competitive by the nonpartisan political report the parties are dead even on the question of which o...

>> right. and i think that was a miscalculation by the democrats. i thought the democrats thought that the me too movement would infuriate women that what happened with judge kavanaugh and the allegations of dr. ford would excite their base and would make them determined to come out. we're going to see if that's true. but we do know so far that it seems to have rebounded to the republicans favor. the polls show and once again there we have to be cautious about them, but the polls show that the kavanaugh effect has worked in favor of the republicans. jon: judy miller, judy, thanks, good to talk...

Fewer fuhrer, i would say brett kavanaugh might fall into that camp. you have this incident which stands to upend our relationship with saudi arabia. do you have any confidence that this is going to be that, that we're going to see a radical pivot as a result of what happened? >> i don't think any single incident will lead to a radical pivot but i think there is a cumulative effect of destroying the story of america and the actual support beams for our democracy. so our economically, foreign policy, rule of law, justice department attack, cia attacks, attacking the media and in this case we us...