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Lane which is we have those willing to worship trump and those who are pretending and faking that they worship trump. which one's -- what's going to win out? i would argue if you're inauthentic about it, it's going to be exposed at some point and you're going to look weak. they're going to have to fight back. >> that's interesting. so when jeff patrick in announced he was not running for reelection, senator james, report of oklahoma was asked about that and he told the associated press, quote, maybe we do better by having some of the people who just don't like trump leave and replace them with...

To move them? what happened? >> the freedom caucus has always been a thorn in the side of congressional leadership. there's a reason by john boehner is no longter speaker of the house. as soon as people got him out the door in october of 2015, people said it would be different under paul ryan. new speaker, but same membership. that's one part. the tuesday group, the moderate section, they feel like they have taken tough votes for a long time. they have given at the alter for many years and never got anything in return. those are the so-called majority makers. many of these moderate republicans...

Still an ongoing investigation and they're not talking about any sort of charges at this point in time. >> all right, kevin tibbles in st. louis, missouri, for us this morning. it's an interesting case, kevin, thank you. >> thanks. and augie busch iv is no longer ceo of anheuser-busch that is, of course, when they sold to inbev beverages, but he is still on the board of directors. moving to politics now, blue dog democrats got a few tips from former president clinton in new york last night. >> it's a tough time to be a blue dog. the centrist democrats saw their numbers slashed in the midterm...

So it certainly affects significantly the republicans in a primary or caucus in this situation. do you think the incumbent will be a dirty word on tuesday and in november? >> some of these races, it's already a dirty word. it's interesting to me that we have so many seated senators that are having trouble. when we see november come around i think we'll see the constitutional conservatives, including the tea party groups become the new majority makers. i think it makes a big difference in the fall. american people are fed up with too much government, too much growth and spending, unconstituti...

Competitive district. this one massachusetts congressman bill delahunt. so counting delahunt and massa, democrats now have 17 open seats to defend. republicans have 20. of course, most of those democratic open seats are competitive. most of those republican ones are not. the nbc political unit is rolling out three top ten lists today of house races that we're going to be watching. we have the top ten takeovers, the top ten toss-ups, and then what we're calling the top ten majority makers. this last list is the seats to watch if a tidal wave does hit the democrats, they'll lose a lot of these s...