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President trump canceled a 2.1% pay increase for civilian federal employees. the political implications of that have not been assessed beyond virginia and maryland where a lot of them live but there are 450,000 civilian federal employees who don't appreciate the rich getting a tax cut while their pay increase doesn't come until who live in california and texas where there are several congressional seats in play. this could be a sleeper issue. >> california with the seven districts held by republicans but won by clinton. that will be a big win late at night in election. emily? >> there's been t...

Politically advantageous fight for democrats to draw out through the mid terms because i think at the end of the day he will get confirmed and we, democrats, want to focus on other things because republicans vote on judicial nominees. i think as voters they care about that more than democratic voters. i think it's a fair question to ask about his philosophy and i think democrats are fair to oppose him. i also don't think this helps us politically the closer it gets to the midterm. >> katie: i think judges are the sleeper issue that move mountains. it's not the thing that people talk about. not...

You guys elected him because you guys gave him all that attention. thomas freidman is saying from the times, saying give him all the attention. >> let's say you don't have a -- let's say you have a decent democratic candidate to oppose him. you don't have the punching bag of hillary clinton. i think the contrast between trump and that candidate could be very large if he continues to go around and calling people like don lemon and lebron james dummies or his daily kind of divisive and really unstable behavior. >> take my final minute and answer the lay-up that i gave you. this is another summer...

You. this is another summer of extreme weather. the sleeper issue for 2020 presidential election could in fact be that we have an election that's not about left or right or hot or cold. if you look at what's going on now or the west that's burning of the center of the country is baking, the east is flooding. you got fire and sweden above the arctic circle and crazy drought by austria. the big question on the ballot is not who lost north korea but who lost planet earth? a democrat candidate who focuses on reenergizing america could have a lot of jer-- watch that issue, mother nature could be on...

Owned by power companies, penetrating key vendors with trusted relationships. the chief of industrial control analysis at dhs says they got to the point they could have thrown switches and disrupted power flows. officials add the campaign likely continues. it is unknown whether hackers used access to prepare for some future attack. department of homeland security has been warning utility executives about russian groups' threat to critical infrastructure since 2014. russia has denied targeting that critical infrastructure. jeremy bash, this may be what the director of national intelligence dan ...