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Colorado where one democrat has accused steny hoyer and the dccc of trying to push him out of the race. interestingly in my reporting, some local groups are taking a more active role in trying to winnow the fields because they have more credibility on the ground and they can do a little bit more to cull candidates without being seen as the big heavies from washington trying to keep people out of the race. >> in your reporting, have you picked up anything in the sense of -- democrats who have been on the scene for quite a while, who have run successfully for re-election are now looking at multi...

When i talk to folks in the white house, they said this was one meeting. it's a picture, it's a low-level volunteer, what is the big deal? the president says he doesn't remember much about it. do you buy that? >> i -- it's not whether or not i buy it as much as it is interesting that everybody somehow forgets all their meetings or conversations about russia in this administration. that is what is problematic and that is why chuck todd is right, if there was a normal washington movie saying, well, how did your memory falter every time russia is involved? >> let's talk about memory for a sec. be...

Manage his reputation in the court of public opinion and with his base. so the more he can get people talking about hillary clinton or uranium deals or anything else, then he's winning. >> let me ask you about jeff sessions. chuck todd, "meet the press" host was on the "today" show talking about how in a normal washington, jeff sessions would be an extraordinary trouble, was his phrase. where do you fall on the normal washington argument as to whether the ag is, in fact, trouble here? >> well, if he's in trouble, maybe we're all in trouble. and i'll tell you why. the statements that he made to...

Talking about. and so i think frngly it fits within a lot of different narratives economics voters, you know voters rights a lot of different things that people may not be necessarily highlighting. but folks are really talking about. so i think we need to kind of divorce ourselves from this notion that people in the mid-west and people in quote unquote real america are in the concerned with this story. there is a lot of us who are. >> our great thanks again on a friday night in august or a fantastic conversation. colleen mccain nelson, jamauls smith one of the prouder graduates from this shop....

Normal president and a normal give or take of politics. it seems to be part of the froth we're in right now. and i think one of the things people who do national security for a living are concerned about at some point beyond donald trump when normalcy returns to washington will the norms have been destroyed in terms of what gets put out in the public routinely and what does not. >> carrie in your view how does that what happened today how could that back fire? >> the issue is first of all one of the things most concerning of what the attorney general said is he immediately raised the issue in ...