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Seen russian activity in the lead-up to the 2018 election cycle? >> yes, we have seen russian activity and intentions to have an impact on the next election cycle here. >> director coats? >> yes, we have. >> the question, what are they doing about it and how is trump leading or not leading on this issue? >> that's the thing. we are within the zone right now, the strike zone for 2018. sanctions aren't going to do anything to stop whatever russia has under play for 2018. it's already under way. you have a few democrats putting out a task force of recommendations, definitely the intelligence comm...

Alleged payments happened a month before the election. another one around that same time. these are both very credibly reported payments, $130,000 payment, $150,000 payment. if the "national enquirer" made that as an inkind to the trump campaign, that has implications. the $130,000 that hasn't been denied, we have no idea of the source. but a month before the election, there's potential criminal campaign finance implications there. so again you don't have to care about the sex part of it to know this could be a serious story for the president. >> i think it's one of the stories because there's...

Right now you get a sense of it. there we go. nbc's jay gray is in ventura and joins us now. jay, what's the situation? >> reporter: ali, you just shared the overwhelming numbers, the magnitude of this fire from north of los angeles through the san diego area is just brutal, but this is the reality behind me. we're in ventura where the thomas fire is still raging out of control. you can see, there's really nothing left behind here, ali, anymore. a bunch of crumbled debris and ash what so many families are coming home to across the strike zone right no. will have to start over. some we've talke...

And he got beat by double digits yesterday. you look at the overall raw vote up i believe 13% in virginia over the last midterm election. the last off year election in 2013. you are looking right at northern virginia and there are districts just like that in pennsylvania, in ohio, across the industrial midwest, in the mountain west. aural over the place. more than the number of "the washington post" pointing to there. there's got to be like 50 or 60 districts around that are going to be prime battlegrounds that again where democrats -- remotely guaranteed to win and they're now in the -- absol...

There. there's got to be like 50 or 60 districts around that are going to be prime battlegrounds that again where democrats -- remotely guaranteed to win and they're now in the -- absolutely in the strike zone for democrats again with this trump drag on the republican ticket. >> i was watching steve kornacki yesterday and when he pointed to what was happening in loudon county -- >> right. >> he was almost jumping up and down because as you mentioned it was stunning to him and i think steve knew. he told me later that he knew as soon as he saw that that this was over. stuart and john, thank you...