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That majority they won in 2014 in the face of a potential loss by donald trump and big news on that front. the senate leadership fund, the super pac is designed to support republicans at the last minute. dropping $25 million into six key senate races that could decide whether republicans hold the senate. you can see here in new hampshire, indian a missouri, north carolina, pennsylvania. a big infusion of late money by republicans into these races. we can show you what the battle for the senate looks like. the deal for democrats is they have to flip a net total of four of these red states. if t...

>> tom brokaw, all over our show today, really fun. the government shutdown of 1995 and 1996 was a 21-day standoff over republican plans to cut medicare spending. some republicans like senator ted cruz of texas long have been arguing that republicans didn't actually pay a political price for that back then. in this week they got some support. a bunch of polling data from 1995 and 1996 together, they found that bill clinton's approval rating didn't actually spike in the months after the shutdown. also found that newt gingrich's numbers didn't really get much worse than they already were and hou...

It was in the low 50s before and after the shutdown, newt gingrich's approval rating didn't actually get bad or worse, it was bad before the shutdown, bad after the shutdown. in 1996, republicans lost a net total of three seats in the house and you gain two. so yeah, you put all of this together and you can make the case that the the '95 shutdown didn't hurt the republicans all that much. but this is only part of the story. the real version is more complicated. because there was more damage inflicted on the republican party after the election, the damage that they're still living with today. b...

Shutdown, bad after the shutdown. in 1996, republicans lost a net total of three seats in the house and you gain two. so yeah, you put all of this together and you can make the case that the the '95 shutdown didn't hurt the republicans all that much. but this is only part of the story. the real version is more complicated. because there was more damage inflicted on the republican party after the election, the damage that they're still living with today. basically it was the 1996 elections, the first election after the 1995 shutdown, and the first election after newt gingrich took control of co...

Shutdown, bad after the shutdown. in 1996, republicans lost a net total of three seats in the house and you gain two. so yeah, you put all of this together and you can make the case that the the '95 shutdown didn't hurt the republicans all that much. but this is only part of the story. the real version is more complicated. because there was more damage inflicted on the republican party after the election, the damage that they're still living with today. basically it was the 1996 elections, the first election after the 1995 shutdown, and the first election after newt gingrich took control of co...