david wasserman and our bloomberg colleague jennifer jacobs. ke twin, sort of siblings, identical glasses. david, let's talk about the house. give us a sense of what the house battleground looks like. >> sure. republicans have 247. 188 is the largest majority. democrats would need to pick up 30 seats. democrats picked up 37 seats in 1964 when barry goldwater was on the ticket. that's what they're hoping for is a repeat of that. it's a lot better these days. the first 15 seats that democrats need to get to 30 are easy. the next 15 seats are really hard. what i'm going to be watching is how many of 26 republicans that sit in districts that obama carried in 2012, are going to refuse to endorse trump. >> jennifer, what's your early read? obviously, paul ryan is more than bellwether but what's your early read which is how will the house members behave now? >> i know that some of the house members are concerned about the trump effect. i talked to the head of anti-trump super pac make america awesome. she said they haven't been doing much lately and mi

david wasserman is an election analyst at cooke political report. he joins me for more.ur latest piece for 538, you say pennsylvania could literally be the keystone state in this election. why do you say that? >> well, look, in 2012, the two closest states in the election were ohio and florida. those are what most people think of as the key swing states. i don't think donald trump can win this election without putting both of those in the republican column. but he has to win more. he would still be 17 electoral votes short. the next two closest states were colorado and virginia. but really the state that i think will decide this election is pennsylvania. there will be hundreds of thousands of registered democrats like the one that was just interviewed who will be voting for trump, particularly in western pennsylvania, which has begun to behave more like west virginia in terms of its electoral patterns than the philadelphia suburbs. >> you talk about tipping point states, which i think is a phrase coined by nate silver. you write, i'd argue pennsylvania has leapfrogged co

david wasserman, and our bloomberg colleague, the great jennifer jacobs. they join us from our d.c. e twins. sort of siblings. identical glasses, incredible. david, let's talk about the house. give us a sense of what the current house battleground looks like. david: republicans have 247, 188. it is the largest majority since 1928. now, democrats picked up 37 seats in 1964, when barry goldwater was on the ticket. that is what they are hoping for, a repeat of that. but it is a lot harder these days, when the house is better sorted out. the first 15 seats the democrats need, to get to 30, are easy. they have been tossups all year. the next 15 seats are hard. i will be watching how many of the 26 who were in places that obama carried will endorsed from. mark: jennifer, what is your early read on the question dave just raised, how are these house members going to behave now? jennifer: well, i do know that some of the house members are concerned about the trump effect. er, thetalked to liz ma head of an anti-trump super pac, make america awesome, and she says they have not been doing very

rothenberg, founding editor and publisher of "the rothenberg and gonzales political report;" and david wasserman's house editor for the "cook political report." we welcome boft you to the program, stuart, let me start with you. remind us why it matters who has a majority in the congress. we spend so much time on the presidential race. >> we spent so much time covering the race and talking about the race. but when you get down to it, after the election is over, the president is going to have to work with the house and the senate if they're going to deal with any fundamental issues. and they've had a hard time on big issues like tax reform, immigration and the like because the congress and the president haven't worked well. so knowing what is going on in senate races and the house, who is getting elected, i think it tells us something about what is going to happen after the november elections in the next congress. >> woodruff: let's talk about both the house and the senate and start with the senate. i'm going to focus on that with you. we listed what, 34 seats are up. >> right. >> woodruff: this y

wasserman schultz. >> we have the author of the piece. >> david, it's simple. wasserman schultz has to go for the sake of party unity. >> well, given the ability of the other party to survive turmoil, i hate to jump on debbie what is shuts, she has made a lot of enemies, a role to bring people together to make enemies is crucial. she may have gone past that tipping point in terms of that and in terms of issues that people say surround her. she -- florida is really important in this general election and she, i think, can be helpful to them in florida. they ought to weigh that when they make the decision. >> the author of the piece senior reporter for the hill. tell us about these meetings. are they serious, considering asking her to step down? and what in your reporting or information do you have about whether or not she's really been able to be sort of objective and father in this process? because my contention all along has been she's been in the tank for hillary from the get go and it's been quite obvious. >> yeah, she's been in the tank for hillary. i think

david: the dnc chair is supposed to be neutral with regard to who the nominee actually is. do you think debbie wasserman has been neutral in officiating this race? >> look, now is the time when both the chair and all of the hillary clinton surrogates, you got to be a little gracious here. you can't be running down the field before you got the ball. i think they have to welcome sanders supporters in. david: mike, you're not answering the question, mike. i love you but you're not answering the question. do you think debbie has been neutral in terms of this race? >> no. i don't think so. look, the guy was not a democrat. bernie was not a democrat. of course the deck was stacked against him. that was the race he had to run. that is the race he chose to run, guys, we've got to go. emily, mike, we'll probably be back on this subject soon. >> david: melissa. melissa: chicago reaching agreement to rescue chicago's smallest retirement fund. there is still a lot of work to be done as you can imagine. the windy city and across the country for that matter. fox business's jeff flock is here with the latest. what hav

david right now. there are indications that the chair of the democratic party, debbie wasserman schultz, is getting af bernie sanders supporters right now for comments. what are you hearing? >> that's right, a lot of grief and what we're hearing is some discussions going on on capitol hill, particularly in the senate, in the cloak rooms and the lunches that senate democrats have on the senate floor. i'm told wherever senators gather, discussions about whether it is time for debbie wasserman schultz, the chair of the dnc, to step down and perhaps do so before the convention. i will caution big-time here a couple of things. number one, that's what senators do. they talk a lot and they have discussions a lot. so it is going on, but it's unclear how serious this is. the bottom line is it's not just, look, the senate is not a place where you have a lot of bernie sanders supporters who have won, actually, and jeff merkley and these are people who support hillary clinton and the concern is that, what you just heard before the break, that they want to have a calm experience in philadelphia. and they want to

wasserman scholes, thanks for joining us. >> my pleasure, thank you. >> let's go over to dana and david. she was blunt. >> very. that was a very telling interview that you just did with the head of the democratic party. she was talking about this statement which we showed earlier, this is the one page statement that the sanders campaign, senator sanders himself released about what happened in nevada. and she really condemned it. she said that it added more fuel to the fire. and basically made clear that this is unacceptable, said that senator sanders has to come out and speak publicly. that is the kind of thing that we did hear at least just to cnn from the democratic leader in the senate. i think that that's one issue that was kind of illustrated in that interview. another, we got a window into what is going on be the party and sanders and clinton because the fact that she as the party chair didn't pick up the phone and say to sanders which she just said to you is indicative of the fact that there's been a very, very -- a lot of -- a lot of reluctance to believe that she's truly objective. >> one of the most -

wasserman schultz. >> to debbie! >> sometimes she speaks and i think it's clinton for a second if you're not looking. >> bernie sanders, that character with layer larry david. >> i've always said, snl is best at this period when we get into a presidential cycle. >> you never -- and this sometime around, we don't even know what folks pect in tto exp cycle. >> thanks for joining us. >>> let's start the new hour right now. >> she wants to abolish the second amendment. she wants to take your guns away. >> unlike donald trump, i will not pander to the gun lobby. >> and we will not be silenced. >> there is no doubt in my mind that our vision prevails. >> major u.s. drone strike has likely killed the taliban's number one leader. >>> 725, thank you so much, good night. >> they still need to find the fuselage and the data recorders. >>> 7:00 on this sunday morning and so happy to be starting our day with you. i'm christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell. plenty of news this morning, including our unrivalled axes to syria. cnn is the only television news organization to travel with the top u.s. commander as he arrives in syria on a secret visit. we get an unprecedented

wasserman schultz has been. over the weekend he rattled off with great fury and excitability all the way he's been wronged by the clinton campaign. he called davidioned nra attacks, the auto bailout. this is a guy who has always been a fighter. he's hit back at clinton pretty hard but he has a clear sense of fair play. another thing is he's building a movement. knot nothing builds a movement like outrage. >> you say he hasn't been getting treated fairly by the party i'm getting pushback especially by hillary clinton supporters saying that's not true. on what basis do you make that claim? >> i think the most obvious was the way the debates were from the beginning. it wasn't an anti-bernie decision. the decision made early on to deemphasize democratic debates far beyond where they had been in the past in a way that clearly for the nominee. >> they said the same as 2008. they say that's not true. >> i don't think that is true. i think there were more debates in 2008 than there were this time. they scheduled later debate after the initial round. but the original schedule for the debates that debbie wasserman schultz put in that were not going to be