just like doug jones was a strong candidate for everybody in alabama. doug jones ran as somebody who was, you know, willing to work with the president. if it helped alabama. but he would oppose the president if it didn't help. alabama. and mike espy and a lot of other candidates are in the same position. reporter: so you're waiting to see who wins the republican primary before you -- chris: it's a special election so -- linda: election day is the primary. chris: right. as i said, we think that mike espy, he's got a strong record from when he was previously representing a part of mississippi. and you know, he's reaching out to everybody in mississippi. this is not about democrats or republicans. it's about what's good for mississippi. linda: janet hook from "the wall street journal." reporter: because of that tough map that you've got, the cycle started out give you almost zero chance of taking the majority. i wonder how you'd see your chances now. and could you talk about how you see the lay of the land in arizona, and in montana i'm wondering if the at

in doug jones victory in alabama. in the house special election in pennsylvania, where you have lots of voters, democrats and independents energized, mobilized, engaged, including lots of voters who stood on the sidelines before. and so you're seeing all of that happening. you're seeing what started as marches and a movement actually translate into victories at the ballot box. and the question is, how will that momentum continue, but all signs suggest that democrats and these independent voters remain very engaged going forward. at the same time, if you look at the trump republican agenda, it's very clear they have not delivered, especially on the pocketbook issues. if you look at president trump's agenda, he promised he was going to bring down the rapidly rising costs of prescription drugs. he put out a plan the other day that can be charitibly described as toothless. the pharmaceutical industry essentially cheered. many of you wrote they had a big sigh of relief. stock prices went up. the efforts so sabotage the aff

uh, but there was one really huge factor that you can't ignore. reporter: doug jones was able to pull they turned out more for doug jones than they did for barack obama. - right. - you just can't put a finer point on it. - for more on alabama's election, we turn now to our very own dulcé sloan, everybody! [cheers and applause] - hello! - so, dulcé, big turnout last night by black people. - not just black people. black women. [cheers and applause] did you know 50% more black women voted yesterday than black men? in fact, 98% of black women voted against roy moore. 98%! the only thing 98% of black women agree on is no roy moore, idris elba is fine as hell, and do not get our hair wet. [laughter] so this happened because of us: black women. - wow. um... [cheers and applause] but you say, uh... - [mouthing words] - you say--you say "us," but did you-- did you vote in alabama? - no, i didn't. but do you have another black woman on this show you can thank? [laughter] so on behalf of all black women... i'm taking a victory lap-- you know, but these titties don't run. - and--and you know what

democrats like doug jones didn't run on impeachment. go ahead, take it on?th all due respect to my dear friend on the other side, i think he's absolutely wrong. what i know and democrats i talked to and the ones i worked with they have a message for the midterms, while that may be a policy or political prescription for some, i don't think that represents the party as a whole. liz: tell us what it represents, antoine? >> yeah. >> doug jones ran on is what conor lamb ran on and democrats up and down the belt ran on. access to quality affordable health care is there. and quality of life for people all around the country improves, we want to make sure in places like flint, michigan where african-americans do not have clean and running water. we want to make sure those things are okay. reduce gun violence and come up with reasonable commonsense gun reform measures. >> i haven't heard much of that. liz: listen to gianno. go ahead, gianno. >> here's the thing, you mentioned doug jones who ran against a very challenge republican candidate. i don't think that's one o

the limits that we know about with rosie o'donnell, doug jones, conor lamb, adam schiff, omar said.i didn't know, i get upset and i go online at night and i'm frustrated with the president so i donate and that is what i do. what do you make of it? >> the only reason we are having this conversation is who is donating the campaign funds and who she is donating to. i have been a political consultant. these mistakes happen all the time and the fact of the matter is when they are caught it is easy for the campaign to refund the money or put the money towards another cycle because sometimes it depends whether it is a federal or local election or primary or general election a runoff, depends on the election law in that particular state and how it goes. >> unless you are a conservative filmmaker with made films about obama and clinton in your name is dinesh d'sousa. he had a world of hurt during the obama administration. >> that is where the frustration is. there's clearly some hypocrisy here. if we took a page from the obama handbook here then rosie o'donnell would be facing a $30,000 fine

when talking to them or many of these women who are running worked on doug jones' campaign.party achieving. but they are concerned in the ways that the party is not reaching out to them. and one big thing i hear from them is like we don't even know where to start with fundraising. all we're asking for is best practices. or to help you know share guidance on things like that. we don't need handouts, we just need resources that other candidates have been given in the past. >> a lot of big races to watch for. stacy abrams running for governor of georgia on the democratic side. but in terms of the mid term elections what are some of the key races that you're watching where women are candidates? >> you know there are also record number of women running for senate this year. something like 42 women are running for senate. only 23 women senators currently in nevada. we could see democrat jackie rosen take dean heller's seat in tennessee where trump was last night. marsha blackburn, a woman, is running for office there. there are a number of women running for senate in maryland and

. >> we can look at the victory of doug jones in alabama.as owed a great deal to black women. >> let's be clear. black men are choosing their families. i would choose wealth over poverty any day and i think that's the opening. i can tell a conservative a long time before kanye arrived that hip hop is the way. the republican party told me hip hop was the destruction of the republican family. but i saw the message that they've been rapping about this for a lopg time. that's what the black men are saying. >> i'm going to push it because i don't think any black mom is is out here saying they want their family to be experience ing the violence of poverty. what i will say though is that we have to recognize that all of the answers we've been talking about to economics like education, actual don't move racism out of the way. so what we know to be b true is that a white high school dropout still has more wealth than a black college graduate. we can't erase the things or ignore the things that often conservatives in the republican party wants to eras

neither did -- doug jones is not in that mold either. so what is the saliency of this? i think in particular health care in general, and the lack of this -- of the trump administration to get anything done is an incredible rallying cry for democrats. i'm surprised they haven't been exploiting that more, that they haven't gotten anything done to improve obamacare after promising it for so many years, or even repealing it. but making their lives better. so, i just think in terms of the independent vote, you're seeing the educated voters, particularly educated women. i think that's what's going to swing the house when it comes to the fall. >> do you think it goes to the democrats? >> yes, i think democrats win the house. but i think there is much more practici pragmatism. >> can we talk about how ridiculous it is donald trump aspires to be the most pro life president ever? when he was a new york whatever he was, tv guy, faux, titan of business, he was not opposed to partial birth abortions, but he didn't support legislation banning them with tim russert. >> he doesn't aspi

doug jones, conor lam, adam schiff, lauren underwood and omar saeed.ng her response to this she said basically i didn't know, i get really upset and sometimes i go online at night and i'm really frustrated with the president so then i donate. and that's what i do. what do you make of it? >> i think the only reason we are having this conversation, number one, is because of who was actually donating the campaign funds and who she was donating to. i'm in the political consulting business. i know how it goes. these mistakes happen all the time. the fact of the matter is when they are caught it's very easy for the campaign to refund the money or put the money towards another cycle because sometimes depending on your state and depending on whether it's a federal or local election, it depends upon the election laws in that particular state how it goes. >> shannon: in less you are a conservative filmmaker who has made films about both president obama and candidate hillary clinton and her name is dinesh d'souza. he wound up with a felony for doing one instance

doug jones versus more. stuff you said the goal was slavery, just crazy. but the turnout among black folks, 89%. they voted above and beyond what their representation is not what their numbers are in alabama. black folks were really scared. they were upset and concerned. so they cut out. some suggesting that we show this in the data. more people are scaled the more they mobilize. one of the simulations we run is that if you change the turnout of people of color by .78 percentage points, hillary wins in wisconsin, ohio, michigan. not even one percentage point. if you increase people of color by one and half percentage points, she wins this state. so the issue is, people of color if you show that -- one thing i didn't show was overall probability of turnout : the war people of color future increases the probability of them turning out. some people say how come shouldn't win? not enough people of color thought of him as a threat. beyond that hillary with the super predator thing, not with all i've smatter thing. no. they really want to vote for her, why go ou

new york post finds that she donated 4,000 to senator doug jones and 3,000 to connor lamb just to name, telling the post, nothing nefarious, i was not choosing to overdo nate, if $207, candidates should refund the money, i donate assuming they do not accept what is over the limit. so folks on social media, talking about this one, bob says she knowingly committed a crime through attempts to add deception, she absolutely needs to be charged and sassy on twitter says, ros' o'donnell illegally exceeded contribution limits, what are the consequences, a lawyer says people are rarely penalized to overdo nate to go specific candidate. she has 5 different addresses and four different variations of her name. rob: i don't know if anybody buys the whole excuse and you have -- >> the people are comparing the two. rob: michelle obama not a fan of the president. carley: big shocker. she's worried about the women who voted for president trump. take a listen. >> i'm concerned about us as women and how we think about ourselves and about each other and what's really going on. what is going on in our head

. - doug jones was a candidate who actually spoke to people's minds and their hearts. he had done something powerful and meaningful in his work as u.s. attorney. - [evan] yeah. - the level of activity and organizing and door knocking that was happening was far beyond the question of who roy moore was. and if you look at the turnout in alabama in that election, with all the barriers, there's like, people had to jump a bunch of hurdles to get to their polling station-- - but they got there. - but they got there in record numbers. - right. - that says something about the moment. - and that was about candidate recruitment on mr. jones, to a great degree, they got a good candidate, and we have just a couple minutes left. on the subject of candidate recruitment, are you recruiting cynthia nixon to run against andrew cuomo for governor? - no. - why do people think you are? she is a political ally of yours, let's just say that you and the governor are not exactly america's fun couple, right? (audience laughs) we think we have cities versus state tension in texas, nothing compa

now you have democrat doug jones.hould the president have picked joe manchin to be attorney general? >> he could have picked anybody. kennedy: trey gowdy. >> he could have. sessions was one of his first supporters. trump was the new kid in school and sessions asked him to the prom on the first day. kennedy: he wouldn't look good in a ping strapless dress. he was the first one in congress in the senate to legitimize his candidacy and take him around and introduce him to people and bridge that gap between a long-shot potential president and a bunch of swamp snobs. >> it was such a long-shot potential president. were they only heavily concentrated on the trump campaign? don't you think they were concentrated on clinton's campaign? kennedy: i want to quantify who was most of surprised on election night. the russians, hillary or trump. i think it's a three-way tie. a major victory for personal freedom. the president signed a bill allowing terminally ill patients to get access to experimental treatment. pennsylvania congres

but republicans are disappointed and surprised to see democrat doug jones pull out a win there.le a lot of the republican candidates are looking to rally and gain the support of president trump's base, you have to remember we are talking about the general election come november and they may want to look at their tactics lerks st they give up another seat in november. laura laura: if he does go agaiu how can you push back in a way that will actually work? that's the big question. >> absolutely. thank you for being here today. it will be an interesting week. thank you so much. eric: meanwhile, a federal judge is challenging robert mueller's team saying he's sceptical. that's raising a question, is the special counsel overstepping his authority. lava continued to flow from the massive volcano in hawaii. we are live with the latest details. >> tech: don't wait for a chip like this to crack your whole windshield. with safelite's exclusive resin, you get a strong repair that you can trust. plus, with most insurance a safelite repair is no cost to you. >> customer: really?! >> singers:

today donate $2,700 to any particular candidate, she donated 4,070 oh dollars to alabama senator doug jonesa congressman connor lamb, rosie says she didn't know she was doing anything wrong telling the post, nothing nefarious, i was not choose to go over donate, if $2,700 is the cutoff, candidates should refund the money. i don't like to see who i can donate most to, i just donate assuming they do not accept what is over the limit. but she also reportedly used at least 5 different addresses and four different variations of her name to donate causing some folks to sound off. trump is on his way to nobel peace award, you're on the way to jail, life is perfect in america, so that guy clearly does not like rosie o'donnell, another twitter user said, if you knowingly exceeded donations limits, why did you feel need to use several variations of name and five different addresses, a lawyer does said that people don't get penalized for over donating, they will return the money to you or use it in another election. rob: the last tweet hit the nail on the head, perfect one. carley: that's the fishy pa

and we do have a strong candidate and he is a strong candidate for everybody in mississippi and doug jones ran as somebody willing to work with the president but it didn't help alabama. the neck are you waiting to see who wins the primary? do you make it is a special election. >> but with the primary as i said my guess is they have record for when he previously representedwe the party. he is reaching out to everybody in mississippi. he said this isn't about democrats or republicans. >> the wall street journal. >> and if you sign-up the chances now. and just to ask to specific questions, do talk about the way the land is in arizona or arizona that has to do with theke investigation for veterans administration within impact? >> if we were holding this breakfast one year ago certainly in january, i think we would not have the same degree of optimism and we can't because we are talking about this very difficult political map but since then we have seen incredible momentum and energy which clearly changes people's views andie 2018 so i'm not going to make any overall predictions that we are in

really look at -- look at alabama, look what doug jones did in alabama and try to replicate that becauseuld be -- that is a winning formula for her. >> i'm going to go to mr. 50 state strategy, we called him hodo, howard dean. i want to broaden it out from georgia. you have amy mcgrath beat jim gray, in texas lupe valdez, i want to more about her 53-46 is a decisive win for her, she would be the first latina, lbgt governor. you've got in arkansas you have jared henderson very decisive win over a candidate leticia sanders, in idaho a progressive native american woman who won the gubernatorial primary. she would be the first native american governor of idaho. what do democrats need to do differently in 2018 that will get them past that low ceiling of turnout among their base that we saw in years like 2010 and 2014? >> well, here is the interesting thing, joy, about this one. it looks a lot like the victory we had in virginia where we had 15 new beam coming into the virginia legislature. that was the first election i think in my lifetime where the base looks exactly like the people who got

. >> is that similar what doug jones did, in a way, to reach out to more democrats and -- >> and trybs, i think. i still think that stacey abrams is a bit of a long shot. i still think this is pretty safe seat. thedomographics around the suburbs, for example, atlanta, i think are changing. the question is are they changing fast enough? michelle in 20134 in her chances, she end up losing to now senator purdue by 10 points. this is kind of like that old joke about lucy holding the football for charlie brown. georgia has been one of those states saying this is swing state, we're going to see it turn blue. we have yet to see that come to fruition. >> i still think, and i'm with kevin on this, it's a bit of a long shot. although georgia is one of those sun belt states that demographicically is changing, you see there's a large swath of states along that sun belt part of the united states that had been really red. but you can see in the future could be more problematic for the republican party if they don't do better with hispanics and younger voters. >> i think that republicans are likely

we have candidates like doug jones last year. he didn't want to fight the culture wars. of life. >> i think you're good. i think you've gotten in 20 names of your candidates so far. i have a final question for you. i heard the point that you made about wages. i understand it. it's a legitimate point. but simplistically is it fair to say you need to hope that james carville is wrong in 2018? this is not a year where it's about the economy, stupid, you need it to be more about the distraction and noise and other issues and not the financial picture. >> there's so many people i meet across this country that are still suffering. people who want access to health care and they know who is fighting for them and they know who is not. people in pennsylvania, the coal miners who are concerned about their pension security. the republicans weren't helping them and the democrats are. people who want to make sure their kids are well educated. in oklahoma, kids go to school four days a week in many jurisdictions. same thing in kst ansas. that's why we're running competitive races in pl

>> is that similar to what doug jones did in a way, to reach out to more democrats -- >> right. and tried to play more in the suburbs. i still think that stacey abrams is a bit of a long shot. i think it's still a pretty safe seat. the demographics of those suburbs around atlanta, for example, i think they're changing. the question is, are they changing fast enough? democrats were very bullish on michelle nunn for example in 2014 for her chances. she end up losing to now senator purdue by about ten points. so this is like that old joke about lucy holding the football for charlie brown. georgia has been one of those states where democrats say it's a swing state, it's going to turn blue. we've just yet to see that come to fruition. >> what do you think? >> good ground game, and a low turn-out election allowed her to roll up a really big margin. i'm with kevin on this, it's a bit of a long shot, although georgia is a sun belt state that demographically is changing. you see a large swath of states in the sun belt part of the united states that had been really red, but you could see

when you look at the visceral reactions i look at doug jones and alabama. the day of the women's mart said i hope there to be home in time to make dinner. when i get people that moment. we need to move forward into the way you move forward is emphasizing these economic issues and how people are getting screwed by all kinds of things. that's what's on their head. what's happening to them. and how does the tax bill affect them. those are things that are going to be on their minds. and while aware of that. this is a true story. i believe we can do both. they don't like the stuff there tweeting out. the organist scene up against that. i think that's what you've seen in the elections and that's what you will see in the selection. but when i can see if we spend our whole time bemoaning the fact that he is there. and we have to present an alternative. i am bewildered to know if there's so much science. why is there no response from all senators let's have a level of discourse. here is a call to action for you. because you have the voice that we have a hashtag no m

i think people are looking at what happened with doug jones. african-americans came out to vote.omen came out to vote. instead of focussing on the suburban college educated who went to trump and went to republicans. they are saying we are going to get other people to turn out. we will not be worried about you. >> you see the progressive energy. the president talking more about immigration and the president talking here a victory for trump players cannot kneel on the field or will be fined during the national an them. >> i don't think people should be staying in locker rooms. you have to stand proudly for the national anthem or you shouldn't be playing. maybe you shouldn't be in the country. you have to stand proudly and the nfl owners did the right thing. >> it was a win for him. he says maybe you shouldn't be in the country. if you disagree with the president of the united states, if you want to exercise your first amendment rights perhaps our most cherished gift maybe youtient be in the country. it's a great window into how he thinks. >> he sees it as base politics. there is a

the expectation is joe donnelly and maybe doug jones. senator mark warner.all come aboard eventually. but everyone kind of stops and reads the statement when senator mccain speaks on this issue. he was there when this policy went into place in the early 2000s. he remains a strong opponent. republicans are keeping a close eye on him to see what impact, if any, that statement will have on the votes. >> we appreciate your help there, phil mattingly. keep in touch as it changes. senator mccain is a powerful voice, and this is going to sound a little bit crass, but he's not here. will that make a difference in terms of personally talking to your colleagues? i say that in the context of the obamacare vote when we saw him down on the floor. he was talking to people. it was very close at the end. he gave that infamous thumbs down. he has moral stature on this question no doubt because of his personal experience. lindsey graham a yes, susan collins a yes. those are people closely in line with john mccain. >> maybe, but i have a hard time believing that lindsey graham

think if we think about the fact that black women are often right -- we can look at the victory of doug jones it was owed a great deal to black women. >> but to me let's be clear black men are choosing their families. i would choose wealth over poverty any day. hip hop is the way. the republican party told that hip hop is the destruction of the republican party. but i saw they'd been rapping about this a long time. and now that's what the black men are saying. >> what i will say, though, is we have to recognize all the answers we've been talking about like education actually don't move racism out of the way. so what we know to be true is that a white high school drop out still has more wealth than a black college graduate. so we can't remove it if we can't deal with this problem. >> there's always going to be racists and if we can only control our destiny. >> that's a hard thing to argue with. but then in controlling your own destiny how do you defend being a trump supporter now? >> i don't defend grown men. i told you from the very beginning. i didn't vote for the president. i support the pr

donnelly of indiana, senator clair mccaskill of missouri, senator angus king of maine, senator doug jonescan you get the flip side on the democrats? >> it's essential to watch, but one thing we learned in the pompeo confirmation, rand paul will likely support this president. i mean, he has raised objections but it seems like he is coming down on the side of trump's side. there is a lot of democratic support for her. it might be helping her on the hill, but will that create any issues with the president? is he wondering, why are all these democrats supporting her? i think that's one thing to keep an eye on, but everyone i talk to at the white house is more confident than a week ago but not sure how she'll perform on wednesday. she's been in the agency forever but we've not really heard from her before. >> is this a part of other things going on here? >> that's key, too, her performance in the hearing. one thing going on at the white house and elsewhere is preparing her for these hearings. given she has had a fair amount of momentum leading up to the hearing coming up, the fact she would ha

and i think what amy klobuchar and a lot of candidates, doug jones, a range of folks who were competingessional or state level we can talk about what affects people's bottom lines, high gas prices, et cetera, at the same time we say this is a democracy under assault from donald trump. i think donald trump requires us to do both of those things. talk about what's affecting families, kitchen table issues, and protect our democracy from the assault on the judiciary and the free press. >> jeff, you're nodding your head. >> i am. we do have to do both things at once. i think as the book you mentioned, we discussed in the book, when you poll voters, when you talk to voters no matter where they come from they have a very similar set of things they're looking for. they want economic security for their family. they want to be able to have their kids have a better life than they do, a family that can live in dignity, social dignity. the question is are we articulating a platform or program that speaks to those issues and at the same time speaks to the very different barriers that different commun

democrat doug jones now hold jeff session's old seat in the senate, even though trump won the state of alabama by 28 points. even where democrats haven't actually been winning, they have been spooking republicans even in red states and red districts. kansas' fourth congressional district is a very red district. that district elected trump by 27. mike pompeo mike pompeo by 31 points, when he was still in the house. in the special election to replace mike pompeo when he got promoted into the trump cabinet, the democratic candidate came within six points of the republican. does this mean that democrats are going to get congress in november? is it possible for democrats to turn these close shaves they've been pulling off in otherwise republican places, is it possible for them to figure out how to turn them into actual wins when it really counts? joining us again is the great steve kornacki. steve, thank you for being here. is this the sort of thing that can help predict what's going to happen in november? >> it can be. there have been so many congressional and state legislative and they ar

but look to doug jones in alabama, we had his opponent, roy moore, people were afraid, what if that guy office, so people mobilized to make sure that didn't happen. i think the same thing can happen there. >> i want to talk about "united shades of america," the sikh religion. >> it's sikh. >> why are they so misunderstood in america? >> because most people don't even know there's a sikh religion. but when they see a man with a turban and a beard, they assume it was a muslim. and they're victims of hate crimes, because they're targeting muslims, which they shouldn't do, sikhs are targeted in the process. so sikhs have said, it's hard to beat us up because we're not muslims, but also don't target muslims. >> that again speaks to our ignorance. >> make more friends with people who don't look like you. >> the browning of america, a lot of people are afraid of that, and that's what's happening. >> i'm doing it in my house, me and my wife, browning more babies up every day. >> look at you with that terrorist fist bump. [ laughter ] you guys google. the news season of "united shades of america

running for congress opinion she's part of wake of enthusiasm sweeping across alabama inspired by doug jonesafrican-american community, thank you. >> reporter: with 98% of the black female vote, jones defeated a republican in one of reddest states in the country. now just months later a record 71 black women are running for office thelmselves on issues lie affordable housing, education and equal pay. >> we did it. now we can go further. >> reporter: other newcomers, lawyer, businesswoman and mother running for the state house of representatives. karen mcclur, activist and founder of birmingham's black live matters. she's in a tough battle for service commission. statewide office no black person has ever won. >> why are you running now? >> there's a need. people are hungry. people are hurting and separadee for a voice. >> reporter: once she was among those in desperate need. >> me and my son were sleeping on folks floors. i didn't ask for a home. i just ask to build it. >> it needs to look the sky. >> reporter: emerged as a political activist group recruit and training female candidates. >> w

you go out in the conor lamb campaign or doug jones or the campaign out in arizona, there's very littleabout that. impeachment is more of a talk that's coming out of democrats from washington and some democratic donors. but democratic candidates who are successful, this is not high on their agenda. health care is really high. >> james, how does this trump situation end in your view? when people ask you that, how do you answer? how does this end? >> well, i think one day he's just going to leave. it just -- you don't see -- it's really unique. i mean i went through a similar thing, and i had a role people would call me an attack dog during the clinton thing. but i was not one of the lawyers. it's really unprecedented when you see one of the president's lawyers, which is an entirely different status than a president's political supporter, going on television. after one of his experiences, avenatti, the lawyer for stormy daniels who has done really well, said he thought it was a hoax that giuliani really wasn't saying what he was saying. it's very, very unprecedented, and it's very weird.

running conor lamb, doug jones, those candidates reflect their states. what the constitutionalists design. we have local representation. that is a big part of why we are running these local elections. we just won seats in oklahoma and missouri. david: i'm glad you brought up conor lamb. there was no primary. great, you like to put centrist candidates forward. the primary decides. jim: that is going to be the challenge in the presidential. i've met 21 people who think they are running for president as a democrat. wait till next year. shery: what happens to the democratic party leadership? we are from nancy pelosi that she is going to stay. "we will then come i will run for speaker come ifo confident members do, too." there is controversy over leadership of the democrats. will this become a problem? jim: i don't think so. you see this on both sides. the west virginia candidate is running against mitch mcconnell. it is about washington and it is about people wanting to make sure that people understand they are and it is aboutir own people wanting to make su

have democrats nominating wildly inappropriate candidates, to the contrary you have people like doug jonesho got elected in alabama or conor lamb in pennsylvania to the house because they fit those districts, but i think the number one thing to look at is the president's approval ratings and the economy helping to lift the president's approval, highly correlated with how the president's party does in midterm elections. is that increase occurring in places where republicans have seats at risk? different picture in the senate, where you have a lot of democrats trying to hold seats in trump country. they may face greater danger than in the house, where a lot of these suburban republicans, who represent suburban areas that are more moderate may still have problems even as the president comes up. >> yes. last question to you, seema, about your reaction on the president's tweet this morning, on imgags in which he's blaming democrats for the separation of families, after they cross the border. can you tell us what's going on here and who is responsible for all this? >> i was confused. attorney ge

democrat doug jones now holds jeff sessions' old seat in the senate, even though trump won the state of alabama by 28 points. even where democrats haven't actually been winning, they have been spooking republicans even in red states and red districts. kansas' fourth congressional district is a very red district. that district elected trump by 27. mike pompeo by 31 points, when he was still in the house. in the special election to replace mike pompeo when he got promoted into the trump cabinet, the democratic candidate came within six points of the republican. didn't win, but woo, that's close for a district that red. in arizona, republican congressman trent franks' old district, donald trump had won there by 20 points. but then there was a special election to replace trent franks. the democrat candidate came within five points of winning. so the math is stark, it's clear. it has been all year. the question is, is this actually a good way of judging how the november midterms will play out? does this mean that democrats are going to get congress in november? is it possible for democrat

south, and the democratic party was an overwhelming majority of african-american votes, so when doug jonesor example, was able to win in alabama, there was a highly unusual coalition that is probably not going to repeat itself, a biracial or cross racial coalition, so i think race really remains a central fault line and it is not just of course in the south, it is around the country, but we do see in 68, the issue of race emerge and flour fully. >> will talk more about the primary and show you richard nixon campaigning in new hampshire but first, byron is joining us from pennsylvania on the republican line. good morning. >> good morning. i would like to make a comment on the reasons why the republican party was able well as the bid in 68. richard nixon did something in 1960 that was quite unusual in politics. you have to remember, he refused to come forward and be a part of the coalition that wanted him to challenge the -- in pennsylvania and also in illinois, and as a result, he lost. if you recall that period of time, then you understand richard nixon a little better. >> roberts. >> is a

going after democrat ig senators mccaskill, hidecamp and doug jones. it will probably be effective. >> probably will. you have manchin and others. >> dana: donnelly. >> red state democrats will feel the heat when you have the intelligence officials from both parties supporting her. >> dana: indeed. bret baier. now i will let you go. >> okay. >> dana: president trump just leaving capitol hill after a policy meeting with republican senators where the haspel nomination came up as we were just saying. josh holmes is the former chief of staff to senator mitch mcconnell and we have the founder of storyline and co-host of political persuasion podcast, which i enjoy. josh, let me start with you. senator donnelly from indiana, a democratic in a red state with a tough re-election ahead of him. he was a senator that they were going to target about the haspel nomination. he decided earlier this week, i guess maybe yesterday because that was monday, that he is going to be for her. >> yeah. well, there are a lot of senate democrats that find themselves up in 2018 or

she's part of a wave of enthusiasm sweeping across alabama inspired by doug jones stunning victory. >n-american community, thank you! >> reporter: with 98% of the black female vote, jones defeated a republican in one of the reddest states in the country. now just months later, a record 71 black women are running for office themselves. on issues like affordable housing, education and equal pay. >> we did it. now we can go further. and i think that that's the moment we're in. >> reporter: other newcomers, a lawyer, business woman and mother. running for the state house of representatives. clairen mcclure, activist and founder of birmingham's black lives matter. she's in a tough battle for public service commission. a statewide office no black person has ever won. why are you running now? >> there's a need. people are hungry. people are hurting. and they're desperate for a voice. >> reporter: once, she was among those in desperate need. >> me and my son was sleeping on folk's floors. instead asking for a home, i just asked to be a difference maker. >> reporter: coleman sees an opening. >

when you look at visceral reactions, i would look at the election of doug jones in alabama. that's a visceral reaction to the politics of that time. when you look at the new jersey legislature -- legislator who went down after the women's march and said, i hope they're going to be home in time to make dinner. he got beaten by a woman. while i give people that moment to wallow in what is happening, i don't have time to wallow. we need to move forward and the way you move forward is emphasizing these economic issues and how people are getting screwed by all kinds of things and at&t is giving $6,000 to some lawyer to advise them on the deal. you see consolidations all over this country. the cost of college or what happening and how the tax bill affects them. those are things that are going to be on their mind. they are not asking me about ots -- bots. the all of that doesn't mean that we just ignore this assault on our democracy. i believe we can do both. people believe in some level of civility and norms. thatdon't like the stuff he's tweeting out, they don't like how he beats