host: democrat line, ohio. caller: i wondered if climate change will be a big issue in any of these races? guest: it is a question a lot of liberal activists want to care about, but it is not coming up in democratic campaigns, for the most part. if you look at the messaging on the airwaves, democrats are talking about health care. they are not talking about the environment, not talking about climate change. while that issue energizes base voters and younger democratic voters, you are not seeing it as a huge issue. host: one viewer on twitter says any politician that will publicly support medicare for all will not be getting my vote. does that topic even come up anymore? guest: a lot of democrats are now embracing a more liberal vision of health care. medical or -- medicare for all is a safe catchphrase. raiseicans are trying to the specter of socialized medicine. that is the attack republican candidates are employing. but there was a study that showed half of all democratic ads in the country are focused on hea

to democratic voters. but they are, in fact, in 32nd campaign ad, pretty -- 30-second campaign ads, able to sound moderate and appeal to those across the aisle. to get back to the main point, the social identity factors of how we identify as people really do help drive our partisanship in pretty fundamental ways. host: you mentioned 30-second campaign ads. was from sanler diego, in that race featuring duncan hunter trying to hold onto his seat. this is one of the ads being run in that race. this is the group vote vets, encouraging voters to vote against the congressman, who is also a veteran. >> they say you can't pick your family members. >> republican covers men and his wife are accused of spending $250,000 in campaign funds on themselves. >> whenever she did, it will be looked at too, i'm sure, but i didn't do it. >> completely throws his wife under the bus. >> and individual who was described as having a "personal relationship" with duncan hunter. >> you can't pick your family members, but you can pick

guest: the only democratic set -- seat in the tossup column, democrat -- a democrat is leaving to run for governor and is doing pretty well. -- this isvive the rural, southern minnesota, the farm bill. -- belt. even though donald trump won by about 15 points, less likely to thanue trump believers people who cast votes against tiller clinton, and they are skeptical of tariffs. -- against hillary clinton and they are skeptical of tariffs. democrats probably have a better chance of holding the seat. the republicans nominated a candidate who robs them of their ability to cast him as an outsider. democrats -- the republican candidate spent a lot of his adult career as a congressional staffer. and working for the congressional -- the bureau of printing and engraving. his status as a son of a former congressman prevent republicans from running cleanly against the democrat as a carpetbagger. host: new jersey, john, democrat line. am interested in to republican incumbent congressman andew jersey, tom mcarthur, leonard lance. what is the story on those? guest: i love these races because oftenti

democrats. this is our cnn poll. 13-point lead among likely voters when voters are asked which party will you vote for? big lead for democrats here. new nbc/washington post data backs this up. the senate is more dicey. we'll get that in a minute. the president actually up from his poll numbers in recent months but still historically low when it comes to a president in his first midterm election. 43% in our poll, 41% in the new abc numbers. this driving democrats. we have democrats favored, look at the solid democrats, 182. 153 seats solid republican. advantage right now, democrats. unless there's a big change to take back the house. different story when you look at the senate. democrats at 45. democrats, if nothing else, chan changed on this map would have to run. republic republican, nevada. have to run the board here or somehow hold their seat in north dakota which we list as leaning republican. somehow take texas. a much more difficult climb here. still the opportunity within reach in the sen

he's the democratic strategist. here in new york with me, noelle nikpour, author of "branding america" along with patrick murray. patrick, i'll start with you. we have all the polling numbers out there. i'm just curious what you're seeing in your own numbers. how big has the change and the energy balance been between the two parties, and how much staying party does that have with three weeks to go? >> we saw a summer where democrats were normally energized. a lot of what we've seen over the past four or five weeks have been i think republicans coming home naturally. we talk about the kavanaugh effect, but i think that was just an added emphasis to rips coming back. so we go from a shift where the likely voter models are favoring democrats to one where it's a little bit more typical. and a lot of these races where it looked like the democrats might be able to pick up some seats that would have been normally out of range are falling back just a little bit out of range. so i don't see right now 218 seats that i could d

women tend to say democrat, much more than men. in every single pole that you look at, by a good margin of acs, i will vote for the democrats. men, meanwhile are either depending on the pool you look at, roughly evenly divided or they tend to lead slightly to the republican. democratic women are off the charts, they've come out in big numbers especially in state and house races . >> out is what we've seen with the brett kavanaugh confirmation how does this do, is it long- lasting or short-term quick suspect if i could answer that, i would be up askew pay grades. that is something we don't know yet but, you can definitely see how that would really fire up democratic voters, women and men alike but i will say the day after christine blasi ford testified was an emotional day, i went out before the stream -- of the approved court but it was just one protest. the women were fired up and you had them saying i guess we will have to keep quiet and democratic women have been very fired up and very angry since trump was elected, angry becaus

the democrats have embraced the democrats of the mob. we have seen leftist mobs trying to break through the door of the supreme court. >> shut it down. shut it down. >> ben: good luck with that. those doors weigh 13 tons. we've seen protesters accosting senators and screaming at them. >> why are you brave enough to talk to us? don't you wave your hand at me. >> ben: such pleasant folks. we have seen mobs try to drive republican senators out of restaurants. >> over the past few months we have seen democrats openly encourage such tactics. >> these members of this cabinet remain a tried to defend him, they're not going to be able to go to a restaurant, stop at a gas station, they won't be able to shop at a department store. the people are going to turn on them a protest. they are going to harass them until they decide they're going to tell the president know, i can hang with you. >> steve: this week we've seen endorsements from the center from hawaii who said how do public officials was fine because of white supremacy, or something. >> when

we are not a democratic organization. we are just an electoral like planned parenthood for emily's list or league of conservative voters. we have a set of priorities that are important to us, and at this particular case, we decided we would not support candidates that supported the confirmation of a sexual assault or -- assaulter. that was a pretty straightforward thing for us. but does not mean we do not want them to win. it means we're focused on seven other seats. what were you doing in those states, and was the announcement more of an effort to drive up donor interest? mr. cecil: when we were asked about it, we said we had not been involved in those races, that we were planning on being ,nvolved in the tennessee race and then we decided to halt that. for us, it was not a stunt because we are not raising money off of that. if anything, you might have traditional democratic donors that would be upset by it. for us, it was just a statement of values. >> did you gain money from voters who were proud of that stance? >> cer

if you're not a democrat, the democrats are silent.ter judge kavanaugh for defendant stormy but not ivanka when the c word is used, not you when you're attacked. the first lady, the attacks on her, i can't imagine that happening to michelle obamall ever, or hillary clinton even. >> the supposed party of women is completely silent here. i'm waiting for anyone to speak up against this on the democrats side. we have heard absolute crickets from them. it's disgusting and it's not that shocking anymore because we know that there is no low too low for the left, for the media, for hollywood. when it comes to the president and the first lady and the entire first family, iol don't care what side of the political aisle you're on. the first lady of the united states deserves respect. this is disgusting and ithe should be condemned by everyone. >> sean: i don't hear any calls for fbi investigations of keith ellison likely did with judge kavanaugh. those allegations were so over-the-top, it was patently absurd. i don't see them ever defending melan

guest: the only democratic set -- seat in the tossup column, democrat -- a democrat is leaving to runor governor and is doing pretty well. -- this isvive the rural, southern minnesota, the farm bill. -- belt. even though donald trump won by about 15 points, less likely to thanue trump believers people who cast votes against tiller clinton, and they are skeptical of tariffs. -- against hillary clinton and they are skeptical of tariffs. democrats probably have a better chance of holding the seat. the republicans nominated a candidate who robs them of their ability to cast him as an outsider. democrats -- the republican candidate spent a lot of his adult career as a congressional staffer. and working for the congressional -- the bureau of printing and engraving. his status as a son of a former congressman prevent republicans from running cleanly against the democrat as a carpetbagger. host: new jersey, john, democrat line. am interested in to republican incumbent congressman andew jersey, tom mcarthur, leonard lance. what is the story on those? guest: i love these races because oftentime

we've had a couple of mob scenes where democrats -- where leaders of the democrats and of the republicansboth publicly harassed. here's a scene with house democratic leader nancy pelosi in miami earlier this week. >> [ bleep ]. get the [ bleep ] out of here. >> hurry up. >> dade county republican party chairman apologized for the treatment of that. meanwhile, mitch mcconnell, the senate republican leader, tmz posted this video from friday night in a restaurant in louisville. he is getting harassed. take a listen. >> why don't you get out of here? why don't you leave our entire country alone. >> [ inaudible ]. >> peggy noonan, each party and i've watched them and it really disgusts me. they try to weaponize these on the other side saying what an angry mob saying is on the left or these angry people on the right. we have angry people left and right. this isn't made up. it's ugly. it's bad. and i think leaders of both parties need to accept that. >> somebody's got to calm it down. we've got two weeks to go. people are on edge. they're fighting the fact that we live in the media world that we

it is called the democrat party. i watch what they say -- the democratic party. in many cases, those are the people who want to make it look as good as possible. it is the democrat party which does not read well. the other reads better. we will call it the democrat party, and it is openly inviting millions of illegal aliens to break our laws, violate our borders, and overwhelm our nation. [booing] pres. trump: the democrats want caravans and like them. a lot of people say, "i wonder who started them?" mexico has been so incredible. the leaders of mexico, thank you. do you know why? mexico now respects the leadership of the united states. thank you, mexico, and we appreciate it. what they want -- and by the way, we started the wall and it is moving along. i want to build it rapidly. i can do it in a year. we did $1.6 billion. we have another 1.6 billion and it sounds like a lot, when you are going for a thousand miles. the wall is moving. i want to approve the wall. [cheering] pres. trump: the democrats do not care about what the extremist agenda will do to your h

that is a county moving democrat. well turnout vote -- bodes for democrats.n terms of republicans, i would ine to see how anoka county, the northern suburbs of the twin cities, how that is doing in terms of voter turnout. those are some of the things i would be keying on. if i were looking at races, if it looks like erik paulsen is going to win versus dean phillips, that is going to give me some areas. so key in on the 3rd congressional district. that represents an affluent suburb. patterns in terms of voter turnout will be important they are. and traditionally minnesota, in presidential and congressional races, is usually at the top or near the top in terms of voter turnout. a few years ago, our presidential turnout was nearly 78%. we had pretty depressed turnout the last three or four election cycles, but still in the top states of the country. i am expecting heavy turnout in this election, which may be a pattern we see nationwide. host: care to make any predictions about those competitive house guest: i was never saying the first district, too close to say

democrats are angry. republicans are afraid the president is ginning that up. >> well, except for democrats are also extremely afraid of another two years of a republican-run congress that completely looks away from anything that trump does. >> don. >> hold on. i'm going to let alice jump in first right after this. because the president has the megaphone right now, the bullhorn. >> you are right. >> he can gin up the fear more than any democrat. >> no question. we should be afraid. >> don, you say there as if this just happened to come about. where have these people been for the last year and a half. >> this was clearly coordinated by those on the left. unfortunately, it will backfire. >> come on, alice. >> if you remember, donald trump ran and won on building a wall and mexico will pay for it. i knew that would never happen. >> alice, you knows that won't happen. >> you're saying the migrants were organized by democrats? >> democrats clearly are trying to paint the optics that this president is being rou

caller: straight democrat. democrats work for the working people.ot for the superrich like republicans. they care about people and like fairness and honesty. they don't want to demonize immigrants or black people. unhinged.s have gone they are trying to scare people, frighten people. they are just not there. they are so dishonest. host: are there certain people you are voting for when you say you will vote for democrats? caller: i will vote for senator jacky rosen in nevada. republican dean heller lied nsout protecting nevada childcare. he promised he would not repeal the affordable health care act and he did it because of pressure from donald trump. host: what is it about jacky rosen that you support? what policies does she espouse you find yourself in line with? caller: she wants to protect social security. she wants to protect the affordable health care act and the wages of working people. host: one of the issues coming out and moving forward to november, the confirmation of brett kavanaugh to the supreme court. both parties looking at that issue

a democrat. imo longer a democrat. will fight like tooth and nail to convert every person i know to a republican because they are right. they are not a fighter and liar and trying to set up a man who is a good man. they will do anything. they will do anything to get in the power. unscrupulous them and the media are completely -- showed all their colors and the nation shot -- sat and watched and are furious about it. host: the president will be in florida to address the association of the chief of police. look for our website for more information. flying back to washington to attend and be part of the ceremonial swearing-in of brett kavanaugh, formally sworn in by chief justice john roberts and the retiring anthony kennedy. that happened saturday. that ceremonial swearing-in will happen tonight. you can see that on c-span. listen for our c-span radio app and find out more information about it at c-span.org. for the first half hour of our program, state of u.s. politics after the kavanaugh confirmation. you can let us kn

the democrats know that. i'll be voting for him because he is a man of character and integrity and i will be voting for him because i know that he can be relied on to uphold the rule of law and the constitution. and i invite not just my republican but my independent-thinking democrat colleagues to join me. it's not too late to say no to the politics of personal destruction. it's not too late to say no to unchecked partisanship, and it's not too late to put this eminently qualified nominee on the supreme court. mr. president, i yield the floor.e presiding officer: the senator for colorado. mr. bennet: thank you, mr. president. the nomination of judge kavanaugh by donald trump has left this body and the american people deeply divided. but i think it is also -- it has also united every american in the belief that this cannot be the standard for how the united states senate or the federal government should operate. this cannot be how our founders expected us to consider lifetime appointments to the supreme court

the democratic party, the democratic party is in serious trouble. host: that's pedro in warrenton, virginia, this morning. a few more tweets during this conversation. steven writes in we have an activist celebrity in the white house whose cause is chaos. greg saying it must matter a great deal, celebrity activism because the president spend a lot of time recruiting celebrity reporters. emma, people need to think for themselves and do the research on policies and economics and one more, bobby saying celebrities use their noise and voice to sway the people and relty -- wealthy people use their money to sway the politician. i wanted to note there was another celebrity in washington, d.c. yesterday, clint eastwood spoke briefly yesterday at the opening of the national law enforcement museum here in the district. here's what he had to say. clint: long before i was telling people to get off my lawn, i was telling people to go ahead and make my day. so i won't say any of those today. i just want to say how much i appreciate being involved with the officers

first back into the democrats tried to argue the supreme court should confirm a democrat, tried to argue that, a supreme court justice in any, even numbered year.. then they were reminded justice kagan, breyer and souter were all confirmed during midterm election years and that argument evaporated. next, democrats said the process should be delayed because too few documents were available from judge kavanaugh's past public service. then they received the most pages of documents ever produced for supreme court nomination, so guess what camet next year or goalposts move down the field and democrats called for a delay because they were too many documents for them to read. i wish this fight could remain in the realm of normalcy but when none of these tactics work, when judge kavanaugh demonstrated his wife acknowledged brilliance open-mindedness and collegiality at his confirmation hearings, some chose a darker road. the politics of personal destruction will willfully unleashed. i spoke at length about the under headways senate democrats are treated dr. ford and are allegation, and brief or

washington democrats don't seem to care about any of that democrats got the document so they asked for so they just change their demands you can see by what they said last week as late as last one --dash last friday they should say we should pause for one week senatorat feinstein , senator schumer so let's pause for one week. as soon as republican said we would do that the democrats say not good enough. it doesn't matter what happens in that week because it was never about finding the truth or the name of the nominee because they were opposing him before even placed as a nomination. this was always about the far left wing of the democrat party doing as they described whatevert, it takes. it is now all about the politics of personal destruction. they don't care much about what they do or how they damage people involved.n' they don't care about the damage they arehe doing to the supreme court, the american people deserve better. it's time for the democrats to end their charade before they do more harm to the senate, the supreme court, and to the united states of america. thank you mister

where democrats need to make in roads with trump voters who lost their way with the democratic party in 2016. >> host: both have a military veteran centered focus. what do you see happening? >> guest: we heard about democratic candidates were veterans, bruce is not but he's using them in his advertisements. there is a compelling argument that veterans are good candidates because of their ability or so-called ability to work across the aisle. we talked about how when they were in the trenches no one asked if they were democrat or republican, that is a constant refrain regardless which side of the aisle they are running on. >> host: this is diane in minnesota. go ahead. >> caller: good morning, long time. st. cloud, minnesota. ever heard of it? can't believe how terrible, how terrible. all i have to say this morning is please, people, vote republican. we need to clean the mess up. we have to get the train moving and clean the mess up. please vote republican. >> host: jason lewis versus dfl nominee andrew craig. give us a cap on that. >> a rematch from 2016 to see how candidates do thin

but in terms of getting those democrats, those blue collar democrats, rust belt democrats, elizabeth warren is not getting them. fact. so the democratic part has to make some tough decisions. >> he was sktively able to use that saturation pitting 16 people against one another and being sort of the lone standout. we suffer from other problems. but we have our own stuff. >> let me say this happens too. >> let me just say i'm not going to pick on these two of what does it mean to be a democrat. what does it mean to be a republican in the era of trump. is it trump's republican party or the trump party. and i look at two pragmatists like these two. they will give you pragmatic policy solutions for whatever the issue might be. but could they and their ilk get elected today. if you're a democrat and you're a progressive, that seems to be where the trend is. but the clintons of the '90s, the hillarys when she ran in the senate seem to be extinct to me. >> i think it depends what you're looking at. >> it's running in this election, the overwhelming majority of them are -- i wouldn't necessari

is there a democratic wave coming? as a surge of post kavanaugh enthusiasm turned back the democrats momentum, there's data to support that. or could this be a typical midterm with democrats making modest gains? there's data to support that too. we have plenty of new data this morning. here what "the wall street journal" poll shows with over two weeks ago to the mid tomorrows. among registered voters, democrats hold a seven point lead. that's down from the 12 point lead the democrats held just a month ago pre-kavanaugh. wait, there's more. among likely voters the democrats lead grows to nine, 50-5 50-41. it's the first time ever in our polling that our likely voter model shows a better number for the democrat than the registered voter number. normally in midterms republicans have the likely voter advantage. what's different this year? it's the heightened and enthusiasm for democrats among mi l millennials and latino women. president trump has his best numbers yet. among registered voters 47% approve of his performance

the democrats colluded with russia.nkly the previous administration didn't do anything about raj shah when they knew that they should have. >> reporter: -- i'm not making any changes. you would be the first to know. i'm not making any changes. >> reporter: [indistinct question] >> president trump: i am concerned. i don't like hearing about it. hopefully that will sort itself out. right now nobody knows anything about it. there are some pretty bad stories going around. i do not like it. thank you. i will see you at 7:00. >> what do you have to say to taylor swift now that she is jumping into politics? >> president trump: what did she say? >> reporter: she said she wanted people to vote for democrats. >> president trump: i am sure taylor swift doesn't know anything about her. i like taylor's music 25% less now. >> dana: the president taking questions. he took questions on his way to marine one. sometimes i wish he would repeat the question so we can hear what they are talking about. we picked up on the gist of it. the off

and will democrats come out on top? >> folks who feel very strongly one way or the other about the issues in front of us should get out and vote. >> we may have lost a political battle, but i do think we are winning the cultural battle. >> focus like a laser beam on the elections. >> we begin with another victory lap for president trump as he clinches his second supreme court win since taking office. tomorrow night a swearing in ceremony will be held for brett kavanaugh, the newest supreme court justice amid fiery protests on capitol hill saturday and allegations of sexual assault. last night the president took the opportunity to tout kavanaugh's confirmation during a rally in kansas. >> i stand before you today on the heels of a tremendous victory for our nation, our people, and our beloved constitution. brett kavanaugh is a man of great character and intellect. >> and he didn't shy away from attacking democrats ahead of the midterm elections. >> you don't hand matches to an arsonist and you don't give power to an angr

democratic congressman jerry nadler of new york who would if the democrats take the house, become theudiciary chairman has already talked about launching an investigation into alleged misconduct by brett kavanaugh. nancy pelosi says she wants to see the fbi interviews and the second background check.it doesn't some like this will end. >> we will know in november if that makes sense. i hope everybody running for the house in his purple districts willasked , will be asked the question, will you support in teaching brettin imp kavanaugh. i never campaigned against the colleague in my life. that's about to change. i'm going to go throughout the country, and let people in these purple states, red states where trump won, know what i think about this process. >>chris: we were talking before we came on the air and i see you have a list of all the people that the president said were on the list of potential nominees. what's your point? >> here's my point. this was a list compiled in november but he put it out during the campaign.there are twentysomething people on this list. i'm asking chuck s

i do not blame democratic party. i'm glad -- i live in california and i wish i could go to other states and travel. i have to work every day but i wish i could go to other states and travel and talk to some of these republicans. i have three sons, i don't have any daughters, i tell my sons, if you don't do anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about. i don't -- i don't get it. if you're -- if brett kavanaugh was so innocent -- >> host: okay, you know what, joe, i'm going to stop you right there. we are going to brett kavanaugh's house, he's making his way to the suv's that are parked outside of his door, presumably on his way to the supreme court to be sworn in by the chief justice. >> caller: that's a shame, that's a shame. >> host: we are watching here, we saw him just make his way out of the house, the suv door is opening, let's just watch and see if we can get a glimpse of the next supreme court justice. >> host: brett kavanaugh leaving his home with his daughters and looked like his wife we assume on on his

here is democratic senator -- democratic leader chuck schumer on the floor this week talking about and criticizing you for delaying them after what he said was your ten month delay in blocking the nomination of merrick garland from president obama. >> no american should accept his admonishments about delay. he's the master of delay. compared to ten months, leaving his seat open, who are we kidding? >> chris: how broken is the senate? >> the senate is not broken. we didn't attack merrick garland's background and try to destroy him. we didn't go on a search and destroy mission, we simply follow the tradition in america which is if you have a party of a different senate come of a different party, then the president then you don't fill a vacancy created in the presidential year. is that when all the way back to 1888. schumer himself said 18 months before the end of the bush tenure that if a vacancy occurred, they would fill it. so what we did was follow tradition. but we didn't attack the nominee, we didn't go on a search and destroy mission. i agree with chuck schumer, this has been a low

the other democratic senator who went the other direction joe manchin, democrat from west virginia, who is running in another very trump-friendly state. he cast the 51st vote, but he is not getting a lot of mileage out of it. we've heard from donald trump jr. saying that they will continue to go after him. mitch mcconnell said that manchin will continue to be a target. the question is does that help him in west virginia on the ground. and then there is the longer term view around folks like susan collins. collins was not just the final yes vote, she was to democrats the knife. she was the closure, the person who really ended this thing. and already she is under enormous pressure from a crowd funding effort, from protesters and from a democratic base who sees her as the number one target in maine. here's what she said to us about that over the weekend. >> the crowd funding effort was clearly an attempt to intimidate me. and i don't react well to that. they have wrraised a great dealf money. but the political calculus does not enter into my decision. >> reporter: susan collins is the only

but they're going to vote democrat. no matter what we do they're going to be voting democrat. they understand that. and that's why democrats support programs like catch and release. that's why democrats want to give illegal aliens free welfare, free health care and free education, give them a driver's license. give them a driver's license. next thing you know they'll want to buy them a car. then they'll say the car's not good enough. we want a rolls royce. made not in america so therefore i hope that's not what we do. that's why democrats want to give illegal immigrants the right to vote. how about in california, where illegal immigrants took over the town council and now the town council is run by illegal immigrants in a town? i mean, is this even believable? you tell this stuff? it is sick! that is why democrats want to abolish i.c.e., the most brave people. these people, i wouldn't want their job. nobody up here wants their job, i can tell by looking. they go into the toughest situations. we call them nests. nests are very bad people. they don't want to use guns, they would

beand now the same democratic senators have the temerity mr. president to say judge kavanaugh disqualified himself with the supreme court because he got a little testy at the hearing. a little testy at the hearing. after they drug him through the mud. because he told them how much damage these accusations have caused him and his family. let's gets one thing straight right now. i don't want to meet the man or woman who wouldn't be frustrated and angered by a coordinated strategy to destroy their good name on the alter of partisan politics. the senate has received an incredible veum of testimony about judge kavanaugh's exemplary judicial temperament. we've heard from faculty of his alma mater who called him a fair-minded jurist who believes in the rule of law and commands deep respect among his legal peers. and from his former law clerks who says he lives careful to the views of his colleagues and clerks recollection indeed when they differ from his own. yet some still prioritize partisan point scoring ahead of judge kavanaugh's actual record. we

themselves a moderate democrat versus a progressive democrat?eanne: this is something i find identifies our state today and increasingly the country when you mentioned the democratic already. we mentioned our incumbent governor who is running for his third term, andrew cuomo, usually defined as a moderate democrat who faced the primary challenge from the progressive cynthia nixon for this last primary. four years earlier it was a progressive, and we have seen that split not just at the gubernatorial level but all the democratic party in new york state and i think increasingly in the country. we saw in 2016 between people like hillary clinton and bernie sanders, where there is this divide in the democratic party. establish moderates" and the more energized and left wing the -- wing of the base of the party. the party is animated and energized, which makes it more difficult for people like andrew cuomo who are more moderate. and we see this split in new york, in front and center in this election, and i think again we see it around the country. i s

so real democrats shouldn't vote for that democratic candidate. real democrats, real progressives should instead write in another name. and each district's mailer has picked another fairly well-known local democrat who has run for some other office in the last few years as opposed to the write-in candidate that real progressives should pick instead of voting for actual democrat that's on the ballot. it's clever, right? this is apparently a fairly expensive campaign. these are professional looking flyers and ads. they're the product of actual local research where they had to pick seemingly plausible alternative candidates to try to undermine the democrat who is actually on the ballot. "seattle times" though has started to pick apart the scheme, and they're seemingly finding evidence of it all over the state. this republican dirty tricks campaign all over washington state to try to split the democratic vote and depress the democratic vote. apparently this one is an effort to try to flip the state legislature in washington, or at least to stop democr

of those, only two are democratic seats. so that would tend to benefit democrats. but if they end up winning the house by five or six, seven, eight seats, that is not a blue wave. in terms of the senate, i think republicans are looking pretty good. tennessee is looking like marsha blackburn can prevail. ted cruz as well. that would take republicans to 50 seats. and then you have how many, about six toss-up races, only two of those are republicans. nevada looks pretty good for republicans. for dean haller. so in the senate, republicans could actually expand their majority by one or two seats. 52 to 53 and that would be a big victory for republicans. and for donald trump. >> so donna edwards, what do democrats need to do right now? >> i think it is the same thing that democrats needed to do all along, which is that individual democrats focussed in on their race, on the issues that matter to democratic voters, and getting turnout. something that we have not been so good at in midterm elections. and i think that is what is different here. if you look over the course of

the democratic leader and the rankingot democrat on the committee said in the fbi investigation that can't be completed in less than a week. i bet almost anything that after it runs its course in the next few days we will then be treated to a lecture that anything short of a totally unfounded expedition of indefinite duration is too limited or arbitrary or somehow insufficient. we all know that's coming. if you listen carefully, mr. president, you can practically hear the sounds of the democrat moving the goalposts to. remember back in the summer democrats thought there were not enough documents to get good sense of his career. then we heard there were too many documents. once the private allegation was made public, we couldn't possibly move forward until we heard from them both. then after neither the hearing were the supposed witnesses yielded any corroborating evidence coming into effect produced evidence that supported judge kavanaugh, we were told an investigation would resolve this and that it could be done promptly. let me go out on a limb, mr. president. let me make a strong

and the democrats do it. and we don't have enough votes, enough republicans to override their vote because they do stick together. and remember this. they're only sticking together because they want to make sure that i and we don't get what they know our country needs. but i think they may be forced politically to do it because i've got to tell you, anybody that votes for a democrat now is crazy when you look at what's coming up. it's crazy. got to be crazy. the democrats don't care about what their extremist immigration agenda will do to your communities. your hospitals. how about your hospitals are overrun? your schools. california wants to give free education, free healthcare, open borders. we could have 10 million people move to california. this is the craziest thing. so here's what we do. let's get these people out of there. there's something wrong. they're cuckoo. the democrats don't care that a flood of illegal immigration is going to totally bankrupt our country because all the democrats want is power

democrats using it as a rally cry.president trump says it's gospel candidates who will get a boost. >> i think a lot of democrats are going to be voting republican on november 6th. >> mr. president -- >> plus folks on the gulf coast bracing for hurricane michael. forecasters say it could make landfall in the florida panhandle as the dangerous major category 3 storm. we have the latest on michael's track, including when and where our meteorologist expects it to strike. plus, secretary of

democrats are not like you. they are you have republicans, who on one hand are trying to other the election, and on the other hand, they are trying to become democrats when it comes to the issue. you have more republicans now running on protecting pre-existing conditions than you do republicans running on the tax bill, and i think that is telling in terms of where the american people are. >> the point you make is true. the one thing i would ask you is what are you seeing in the data since republicans pivoted to this argument? you mentioned about some of the angry mobs. we have seen in public polling, some of the numbers look better for republicans. we have seen president trump's numbers picking up a little bit. you set the strategy of running on the tax cuts wasn't working, but is this working? mr. cecil: immediately after the kavanaugh hearings, you did see some changes, particularly on the polling. even in the last, i think, three days you have had two pulls in tennessee which showed in the margin of error rat

the democrats reelection. years in which to torment and stifle him and they will he'll have sufficient support in the congress to do anything wants in january 2021. liz: it's starting to backfire on the republicans in clinton-lewinsky. the democrats got five seats. what can the president do? >> there is nothing he can do legally. he can negotiate with them and say you keep asking general kelly to come up here to testify, you keep interfering with my cabinet members. you have jeff sessions, i'm giving you a hypothetical with forget about rebuilding of jfk airport. of course he can do that. you can negotiate in any way he wants. but he can't interfere with the actual investigation nor could a republican senate. liz: could he delay cooperating with the probe? >> yes. but eventually if subpoenas were served they would have to be complied with. the court will not rule on the pro priority of the subpoena. but fit's subpoena to the cabinet member and the president says don't comply, that person will be ordered to. li

hopeful sign for the democrats.f. we're hopeful they do. >> the need to cut social security for the long haul. painting republicans as the party that wants to rip a hole in the safety net. mcconnell did say it's unlikely that a unified government can go after medicare. democrats want to go in the spakt opposite direction, expand social security, medicare to all and raise taxes to cover t this is shaping up to be a significant battle between two ideologies in the long haul. >> and the president with a third view. if democrats take the house you'll have three derch opinions. >> i don't think there's any doubt in anyone's mind that at some point sarah sander is going to leave. it would be normal for her to leave around this time. people speculated she might leave after the midterms but no speculation about who is going to row pla-- replace her. i think we've had two press briefings since labor day and the president has been on a media blitz where he's talking almost every single day. he's all over the place. and there

anthony is the challenger, democrat. this is an expensive district that goes from utica to the being him area. he is an assembly man that is challenging claudia. she has been in the seat for two years and is a former state assemblywoman. she is a republican, a conservative, and has gotten a boost from donald trump. donald trump at a fundraiser for her and spoke on her behalf. eric trump was here recently and said a vote against claudia is a vote against his father. they are banking on the fact that the district has a slight republican enrollment edge, about 150,000 or so republicans. are hoping that her closeness with donald trump and the trump support puts her over the top, but that is a risky proposition. host: the president won the district back in 2016. what are some of the factors that you think because of claudia, why she cannot capitalize on that for a bigger margin? guest: well, the so-called blue wave, right? that is what the democrats are banking on. anthony has had a lot of support from democrats who were bank

he won the votes of 16 democrats, roughly a third of the democratic caucus at the time. notably, rehnquist nomination was the first time in history that opponents of a supreme court nomination attempted a partisan filibuster. 31 senate democrats voted to filibuster his nomination. not enough to block him but the resident was set and the party terrain shifted. most of us know what comes next after rehnquist and scalia. before getting to like to turn e back to the d.c. court for a moment. it's important not to forget about the lower courts. president reagan dominated a judges to the d.c. circuit. we should all ask gods blessing president trump to get that many nominations. here's the list. robert bork, antonin scalia, ken starr, larry silverman, jim buckley, stephen williams, doug ginsburg, david sentelle. conservative all-stars everyone. the longest time in as it had to wait between nomination and confirmation was four months. majority in fact, were confirmed in less than ten months. what about her confirmation votes? this will surprise you. seven of the eight were confir

eight no party like a democratic party because the democratic party don't stop.

senate democrats were not satisfied even with that. they were not satisfied that when the letter was leaked to the press, when it was leaked to the press some six weeks after is received by senate democrats, six weeks, and investors was started immediately mr. present by the committee, i the judiciary committee. oh but wait, senate democrats chose not to participate. how is that for looking for the truth? instead what to do the sake way to a head injury and then they said we need another investigation, , we need another fbi investigation that we, we knew would be totally redundant of which is been done by federal investigators employed by the senate judiciary committee. but we went ahead and agreed as a committee to do just what you wanted. and that is to allow a full and open at the investigation into this, which is nothing more than redundant of what had just been done in the prior couple weeks. judge kavanaugh has had six, six fbi investigations. this is the seventh formal fbi investigation. not only that, amid the committee so dr.

, democrats now personified mostly by progressive democrats like kamala harris, cory booker that wouldyour set-up for the presidential in 2020. here in georgia and florida you've got a couple of basically progressive democrats, african american, stacy abrams in georgia, andrew gillum in florida who had denied that he's a socialist running against two candidates who have aligned themselves with donald trump. so it's a very conservative candidate running against the progressive. the other thing that i should point out, stacy abrams, for example, in georgia has spent 5 years enlisting black minority women, younger voters, getting them on voting rolls, a test of the democrats and the energy of progressive opposition to donald trump and she's going to be an excellent test of whether the democrats by running to the left but running with a lot of enrolled voters and energy can defeat the republicans. paul: it's really interesting, both sides, republicans and democrats, candidates emerged almost from the base, base of their party, desantis and kemp wrapped around trump to beat centrist bush ca

but in terms of getting those democrats, those blue-collar democrats, those blue dog democrats, rust belt democrats, elizabeth warren is not getting them. is goingmocratic party to have to make some tough decisions, i think, as 2020 comes. >> it is a similar situation to what republicans faced in 2016 with their primary. >> well, we have a lot of candidates. effectively able to use that saturation, you know, pitting 16 people against one another and being the lone standout. we suffer from other problems, but you know, we have our own stuff. yes?ok, let me say -- [inaudible] [laughter] this happens in class too. i'm not going to pick on these two as what it means to be a democrat, because as essie was pointing out, what is it to be a republican in the air of trump? is at the trump party? is of the republican party? sts liket the pragmati these two, and they give you solutions for whatever policy issue there might be, but could get electedir ilk today? if you are a democrat and progressive, that seems to be where the trend is, but the clintons of the 1990's, from when hillary was in th