host: brian lowry, reporting for the kansas city star, joining us to talk about the resignation of ericreitens as governor of missouri. thank you so much for your time. guest: thank you. i appreciate it. host: bloomberg reporting that republicans are maintaining an edge over democrats in their quest to keep control of the u.s. senate. this is an outcome that hinges on a dozen key races, adding with five months to go before the voters go to the polls, senate leaders say that they are -- by an uptick in president trump's approval ratings, and strong primary winners. also adding that rick scott is spending in his effort to unseat the three term democratic senator bill nelson. the story saying the democrats face a difficult path to reverse the majority. thei likely router is to keep all of their seats on the november ballot and pick up two of the three republican seats that are competitive. and the cancellation of "roseanne" because of a tweet sent by its creator toward valerie jarrett. we are getting your thoughts on the cancellation and larger issues at play. a supporter of the decision,

. >> host: joining us on the phone to talk about missouri's governor announcing his yesterday brian lowrie at the "kansas city star" their political reporter. mr. lowrie good morning. >> good morning. thanks for having me. just to show our viewers the headline of your paper this morning and how reads missouri government eric greitens resigns for those who have not been following the story closely set this up for us and what led to the decision? >> so this is the

brian, stay with us. we want to bring in less lowry. thank you so much for being here. about her saying she's been fired for her political views because she supports trump, in fact, it is exactly the opposite. abc hired her right after the election because of her political views when they realized that they were going to have to appeal to trump country and to all of the, you know, millions of people who voted for donald trump and loved donald trump. they thought that roseanne was the vehicle to do that because she is a trump supporter and because her, you know, show sort of had such -- and her show was great. she had a great show. it was about this blue collar oo ethos. it is just a shame that it blew up like this. >> sure. as someone who as a child watched the original "roseanne" and didn't spend much time watching the current "roseanne", the reality is she only received this job because of that support largely, right? the masses were not trying out for a reboot of a '90s sitcom. we have seen many of those. even though it saw early success, this was a long time coming.

. >> host: joining us on the phone to talk about missouri's governor announcing his yesterday brian lowrie at the "kansas city star" their political reporter. mr. lowrie good morning. >> good morning. thanks for having me. just to show our viewers the headline of your paper this morning and how reads missouri government eric greitens resigns for those who have not been following the story closely set this up for us and what led to the decision? >> so this is the culmination of lots of controversy in missouri and to give your viewers an idea this is a guy who registered eric greitens for president years before he ever ran for governor h so he is always had higher ambitions. what happened a few months ago is a came out of these allegations that he had photographs of a woman while she was bound and blindfolded in an effort to keep her from speaking about an extramarital affair. that prompted a criminal of the staycation. he was indicted by a grand jury in february. that indictment led to a house investigation and at the same time you had an attorney general's investigation into allegations of