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Digits. historically, if that's where a party is heading into a midterm that's a great place for that party to be. the president's approval rating, donald trump's average approval rating now sits at 39%. it's basically been in this range all the way. again, historically this is a number that clearly and overwhelmingly favors the opposition party. and the third trend that we've been seeing is the actual results. this year remember we've had a number of special house elections. now, look, the republicans won the first one out in kansas but the story here, a 20-point swing. it was a trump plus 27...

I found interesting there could be the possibility, not necessarily franken, but according to republican senator langford, the possibility of democrats maybe in these states where the president won handily voting for it. so if you're joe manchin, you might do so. >> everything is a possibility. you could have more republicans defecting. they don't like the deficit nature. if you read the news, the media, it's all about how -- it's all static accounting. doesn't count. that this thing will blow up the deficit. so we don't exactly know. if you look at it net-net as an investor, corporate tax rat...

"morning joe," fbi director james comey set to go before the senate judiciary committee in just a few. lawmakers are expected to question comey on the fbi's investigation into the relationship between associates of president trump and russia. >> meanwhile, the president is set to welcome another foreign leader today. nbc's kristen welker is at the white house with more. kristen, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. house republicans appear on the verge of another failure for their health care plan today with more republicans defecting. this comes after the president lashed out tuesday, ven...

Opening with republicans defecting. i think his staff has not been serving him well. i think they have to focus the president and their agenda and be more precise in what he's doing or he does face losing republicans. we saw john mccain abroad criticizing the president 0en foreign matters. and i think there are other republican senators who the president is in danger of losing. today's speech was in part to show he could still draw these crowds. brian: he had thousands in the hangar and thousands on the outside and not much of a protest. senator marco rubio and senator john mccain and thrind i...

Opening with republicans defecting. i think his staff has not been serving him well. i think they have to focus the president and their agenda and be more precise in what he's doing or he does face losing republicans. we saw john mccain abroad criticizing the president 0en foreign matters. and i think there are other republican senators who the president is in danger of losing. today's speech was in part to show he could still draw these crowds. brian: he had thousands in the hangar and thousands on the outside and not much of a protest. senator marco rubio and senator john mccain and thrind i...