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Working as they did in alabama to turn their voters out, then you have republicans back on their heels so at the margin where these elections are decided democrats are at the moment running uphill. democrats in 2018. >> if you look at the map for democrats it is a tough map, they have to hold 26 seats and they have to flip arizona and nevada if they want control of the senate but that looks possible because of changes in nevada that made it a more blue state in the past we 6 years and in arizona we have another bannon backed candidate that could repeat the mistakes of alabama. >> you mentioned...

With the president, his approval rating is very low. it is worrisome, more than alabama, that is an anomaly given the poor candidate quality down here. even an amazing candidate like gillespie and they are dragged down by donald trump, there is a likelihood republicans lose the house and the senate next year and this is something the president needs to be worried about more than his twitter feed. >> especially for 2018, democrats are feeling good about this because the standard political analysis suggests a maybe building a wave towards 2018, the president's approval is below 50%, the generic ...

For republicans. look at this race and even if you like roy moore he lost come you got to win seats to affect policy. you have theirs reconsideration of this idea there needs to be a rebellion against mitch mcconnell, senate majority leader. look at the history of the conservative movement, it was about taking over the republican party from liberals in manhattan who had taken it over. mitch mcconnell was not a liberal, he set a record on getting conservative judges on circuit courts, he's about to get a tax cut so this is not the problem in washington, not that he doesn't have his faults but i...

Expects that but what it does do is assemble the top rate is not permanent. if republicans declined to lower the top rate and lowered it to 38 and house didn't touch it and in some cases increased it. this represents some progress republicans can fight another day on this question. >> you have a few disappointments? >> i would love to have seen a much cleaner bill. i understand why they did it, to have the support of house republicans from high tax states but we have a $10,000 deduction on state and local taxes. i wish marco rubio had not gotten his childcare tax provision because let's be hon...