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Suburbs, where democrats turned out in droves. The election has underlined a serious Enthusiasm Gap between the two parties headed into 2018. Democrats clearly animated over health care and the president s divisive language. Republicans, meanwhile, struggling under the weight of poor messages, agenda misfires and a president whose polling is in the 30s. Two reports now on whether virginia is a bellwether for next years congressional elections, lets start with capitol hill and nbcs capitol hill correspondent, kasie hunt. Kasie, whats the mood like there down there today . God, i got to get my w...

On a monday night, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters. Day 697 of the Trump Administration and just hours from now the president s former National Security advisor will be sentenced in the russia investigation. As weve been getting our best view yet of flynns fbi interview as were learning more about the crime he pleaded to. This comes as wired magazine highlighted 17 known trump and russia investigations. It comes as we get a look at a pair of new reports today that detailed the extent of social media propaganda efforts by russia before and after november of 2016. The Wash...

On the strength of the economy. He also woke up to ominous poll numbers from his most favorite network, fox news, that show him losing to all of the top Democratic Candidates for president in 2020. Here are those numbers. Biden beats donald trump 50 to 38. Bernie sanders 48 to 39. Elizabeth warren 46 to 39. And senator Kamala Harris 45 to 39. And on that topic are the president s political vulnerability, the Washington Post reports mounting signs of Global Economic distress this week have alarmed President Trump whos worried that it downturned could imperil his reelection, even as the Administ...

The pro-democracy protesters in hong kong. "the times" notes his, quote, cautious distance from hong kong's pro-democracy movement has left him politically isolated from both parties in congress, the state department, european allies, and his most hawkish advisers at the white house. and of if those two stories weren't enough, trump showed interest in purchasing greenland to which the island's government said no thanks. north korea just launched two new missiles and rejected the idea of talks with south korea. and today trump is meeting with his secretary of state to discuss, among other thing...

>> so phil ricker the question i guess becomes does that change any mind? will anything be different tomorrow because he said that today? >> you know, i don't know that any minds are going to be different on capitol hill tomorrow. it's important to keep in mind the context of that impromptu statement from comb comey. he was coming out of a closed door hearing. he was dealing with questions from a lot of republican lawmakers about hillary clinton's e-mails and some of the issues that president trump has been hammering. he's exasperated that there were not republican legislators who are willing ...