. >> well, both doug jones and terry sewell, the two leading democrats in this state, senator doug joneswoman sewell's statement. governor ivey's actions were reprehensible and deeply offensive. alabama cannot escape its painful history without reconciliation. and governor ivey's admission today on the deepens open wounds. doug jones had a similar statement, but it was more of a -- he had a different -- almost like, it was a more positive, optimistic spin. i appreciate the way governor ivey has addressed this in a straightforward manner. accepting responsibility while accepting and expressing remorse are an important ways to move beyond our stakes. governor ivey now has a unique opportunity to do more than any alabama governor in recent memory to correct the injustices that still exist in our society. i hope she will seize it. i found that interesting. both congresswoman sewell and governor jones said the same thing. one was more pointed and one was running for re-election statewide. sorry, i don't mean to -- you can sort of see the tonal difference. >> and neither called for her to resi

the last republican he defeated was like doug jones boasting about beating roy moore.hat's not a big a competent. cory gardner is one of the most talented politicians on our generation and i think he is going to turn in a good race. hickenlooper being in, i don't think changes the dynamic and quite possibly makes it more competitive for us to make sure we keep this in the r column. host: you've got a couple other competitive races, one that everyone has been talking about is maine. susan collins has been in office since 1997, a republican who has managed to present herself as bipartisan. now, there is a real effort by the democrats, they think they can pick up maine finally. what to you think of the race, had you feel like your chances are of holding onto that seat? >> susan collins reminds me in some ways of joe manchin. she represent a state that has shifted in terms of the partisan moorings. she is very deeply well known in that state, a small state like west virginia and a state sensitive to the importance of the role of the federal government that relies on federa

well, , like alabama, for example, the number of ticket splitters will ho will be available to doug jones are not going to be that great. colorado, for example, where the president may not do as well, we will see how that goes depending on who he runs against, but again, cory gardner will need ticket splitters if the president does not carry colorado, but at the end of the day, we don't know how that presidential race will shape up yet because the democrats have not picked a nominee, and that will have an impact on the dynamic of that race and everything else political next year. >> you talked about senators charting their own destiny, what are the big issues you have discussed with candidates that they will talk about with voters? steven: it depends on the state and senator. again, when you are a senator, you can get things done, push legislation through, and one thing that gives me confidence about our incumbents is they have spent a lot of time working hard getting a lot done. in north carolina, tom tillis is on the armed services committee, he has worked for veterans, for military rea

remember doug jones? special election in alabama against roy moore at the end of 2017. this is a state, though, that donald trump is probably going to be winning by 20, 25, 30 points, something like that. tough, tough, tough for a democrat to win in a presidential election in a state like alabama. we will see, though. that one is a very, very possible republican pick up. it would mean democrats would have to win another one somewhere else to make up for it. you can't see him on the board here, republicans might take a look at new hampshire, gene shaheen runs for re-election there. trump lost that state by about 3,000 votes in 2016. theoretically there is minnesota. tina smith is up there. trump lost there by 2 1/2 points in 2016. although tina smith did very well facing the voters there just last year. so a couple of opportunities maybe for republicans, but the bottom line, we bring all of this up. big news in georgia on the senate front. it's a reminder for all the talk on the presidential race, whoever

people like doug jones in alabama may oppose something like that. i think it would -- he'd have to spend a lot of political capital to get something like that passed and it's unclear what the benefits for him would be politically speaking at least. so it's hard to look at the math for things like universal background checks and assault weapons bans and see them getting to 60 votes just practically. host: let's hear from mike in south carolina. caller: hi, good morning. having to do with universal background checks, everyone is in agreement, all the voters, republicans and democrats, that it should be done. and it should be something that people will have to wait until that background check has been completed to own a weapon. what is the urgency? does someone need a gun right away so they can go do something with it? even guns sold in gun shows, there should be a reasonable time for the proper government agency to be able to do a thorough background check for everyone's protection. if people -- if politicians have a problem with that, then it goes ba

be my think we willi win alabama and nominates him that he will be competitive enough to defeat doug jones in that election and take that seatback. so now we have a four-seat margin. if president trump is reelected, as i think there are some good reasons why he would likely be, i think it becomes insurmountable for him to get to 51 votes in the senate, and even if that doesn't happen, and we have got a good shot in these other races come and most importantly, we have really good incumbents doing their work, raising the money. they don't have obvious vulnerabilities that put the seats in play. the main problem is some of these states have tough terrain, and that will be the challenge. >> what is the role of the president? the president is often someone who can carry members of the party over the finish line. is that what is happening from especially in what we would consider swing states, colorado, maine, even arizona to some extent, north carolina? is the president helping or hurting the senate candidates? steven: one thing i like about focusing on senate races more than the house is that

doug jones won the special election in alabama against roy moore at the end of 2017. this is a state that donald trump will be winning by 20. 25, 30 points, something like that. tough, tough, tough for a democrat to win in a presidential election in a state like alabama. we will see it. that one is a very possible republican pick-up that would mean democrats would have to win another one to make up for it. you can't see him on the board here. republicans might take a look at new hampshire. gene running for re-election there. theoretically, there is minnesota. tina smith is up there. trump lost there by 2 1/2 points. tina smith did very well facing the voters there just last year. so a couple opportunities for republicans. but the bottom line, we bring all this up. big news in georgia on the senate front. a reminder for all the talk about the presidential race. whoever wins the presidency, their ability to get their agenda through, to get people confirmed for major posts like the supreme court, it depends who controls the u.s. senate. a major story. coming up, what's r

of course the one democratic state that is the most engaged is doug jones in alabama. big margin. unless he gets roy moore again who is in the republican primary, it's going to be tough. >> which isn't impossible, by the way. >> which is not impossible. >> so the math there is this. if the democrats pick up three seats and the white house, give them a 50/50 split plus the vice president. they would control the senate. if they won all those three races you just talked about but lost in alabama and took the white house, they would need to win one more. which of the states could you see the possibilities in? >> that's the big question mark. democrats are feeling optimistic about their chances in those three. but alabama is very tough unless you get roy moore and he is not leading in the premare polling right now. after those three, what do democrats have? they have north carolina. they have iowa. they have texas, maybe kentucky. highly unlikely in a presidential year. then kind of the wild card in this is montana. if steve bullock joins the governor exodus from the presid

. >> we've got breaking news right now on the antitrust probe facebook doug jones is reporting that thelooking at the social media giant acquisition to see if there was a plot to buy before they can become competitors. facebook disclose investigation in its earnings last week but provided little details. facebook has not commented on the latest of altman. we are heading into the final hour of trading, we are at the low point of the day but we are down and all of this started with president trump treated about posing more to paris on china. the market is down three sectors out of 11 sectors. quickly before we get to the china thing. i want to ask on facebook, isn't it a job of a business to buy up a would be rival in the infancy stage? i never knew that that was illegal. >> absolutely. just because the company has them few missteps, doesn't mean you be able to come in there and everything they've done. they built a great business, instagram, of whatsapp. this is getting totally unreasonable. >> but the stock is not getting that much humored on facebook. >> they might think that part of i

doug jones. there is a pretty good chance that democrats are going to lose that.ns is that democrats need to win four seats, gross four seats to net three. so let's say they get arizona. let's say they get colorado. i'm sitting in portland, maine, where they are going after susan collins. that's probably the third target. but after that, particularly if they lose alabama, that means they've got to pick up one someplace else s it going to be david perdue in georgia? tomorrow tillis in north carolina? joanie earnest in iowa? they have to come up with one in one place, particularly if they lose alabama, which is a good chance of that happening. >> what about montana and what about the possibility of bullock dropping out of the presidential race as hickenlooper did following that pattern into the senate race in montana? >> bullock is one where he says, look, i'm an executive. i'm not a legislator. this is a case where i actually believe him, where this is a guy that really doesn't want to join a debating society. over the past -- i with been in washington since 1972 a

you have doug jones in alabama. you have senator peters in michigan. how are they gonna vote on these issues when it actually comes up for a vote? >> dana: it is interesting, mary anne. before we broke, you mentioned public opinion has been changing. the fox news poll we put out yesterday, 67% of people say they favor banning assault weapons. that is up from 60% in march of 2018. and way up from 2013. so i think that it's correct, public opinion could be changing in this way. i would like you to listen to senator kamala harris. of course, she's running for president. she had some things to say about this. listen. >> part of my focus on what we need to do around smart gun safety laws is recognize that we have to have more enforcement around gun dealers. among the many plans that i have, both in the form of executive action and also form of legislation, one of them is to put more resources into the atf to take the licenses of gun dealers who violate the law. >> dana: mary anne, if the president puts his shoulder behind some sort of legislation that would

interference, which were copied by democrat operatives in the special election in alabama andeen doug jonesoy moore, or attorney general checks like the absentee ballot fraud like we saw in the ninth congressional district in carolina, lots of different ways trying to interfere with the election. whether or not the russians actually swing votes. about it is gerrymandering rhetoric from both sides. that kind of rhetoric further undermines things. where on situation election day in michigan, trump is ahead, but then after all the votes are counted in detroit, trump is behind. because we know with the provisional ballots are counted and the extra balance are tending to the democrats. both sides declare a winner. and the election comes down to looking at the state of michigan. we don'tconcerned that have good laws in place. we don't have good machinery in place. what we also don't have is any other authority that we can look a definitiverovide kind of resolution of this, whether that is the supreme court, which has become much more polarized with all the conservatives being appointed by republi

democrats which would be the best thing possible for democrats, and the best thing possible for doug jonesout him, it's tough to hold that seat. but there are others. you just mentioned georgia. this is important. it's a double headed senate election. we've had over a couple dozen of them in the hundred years that we have had elective senate races and almost always, they go in the same direction. you have to go back to 1966 to find one that split. and because we're so polarized, they almost always go the way of the presidential election, so if democrats can nominate a strong candidate and capitalize on trump's relatively low ratings in georgia, they could get two seats out of this, not just one. >> so georgia, if they picked up the two, that could really be the key to winning back control of the senate right there. let's go to maine quickly, too, larry because susan collins doesn't have good numbers in maine for an incumbent, a 45% approval against a 48% disapproval. the president's numbers in maine are bad, 55% disapprove. 42% approval for donald trump in maine. how about the maine senate

elizabeth warren yesterday was raising money for senate candidates doug jones and tina smith. she's raising money in an email appeal talking about the mass shooting. this is a disgrace, and if nobody else is going to talk about it, i will talk about it. >> the president is contemplating some executive action legislative action, mix of the two, moving ahead on keeping guns out of the hands of people who shouldn't have them. one is the doj has been directed by the president to develop tools to better identify people who might be at risk of causing violence. the doj has also been tasked to petition congress to enact the death penalty for hate crimes cases. there's also something the president maybe able to do through his executive pen on video game violence. as a band bump stocks through executive action, some people are thinking about, what about these really high capacity magazines, like a shooter in dayton had? that 100-round drum he attached to his ar-15 replica? might that be in the cross hairs? it's likely something the nra would be fiercely against. the high-capacity magaz

doug jones of course is a moderate liberal progressive in a very conservative state of alabama.by ginger gibson for reuters and eugene robinson at "the washington post." everybody has been talking. i want to just throw some sort of accolade to hickenlooper, because everybody i talked to, one of these key people run for senate, they can win. they can take back the senate instead of being candidate number 19, candidate number 23 running for president. he's doing it. >> it takes a little bit of humility to be the guy who steps up first and says this isn't going to work. i'm going to go do something else in the interests of my party. >> to help the party. >> in the interests of my party. look, if you're beto o'rourke, you already lost a senate seat in texas. you're a long way from maybe being able to win there. if you're bullock, it might not be something you're looking to do. montana, governor going from the senate might not be the path that he is a looking for. but there is a lot of pressure on particularly those two to follow in hickenlooper's footsteps. >> well, the only reason

democrats have decent prospects in maine and arizona offset by a critical challenge in alabama, where doug jonesction. but imagine if governor steve bullock were out there running for the senate in montana, if john hickenlooper in colorado or beto o'rourke in texas, the more attractive candidates democrats have out there, the more likely they'll pick up seats they need to take the senate. you know, the one thing the democrats need to learn from the republicans is to get serious about building their power. republicans spent years working on the state legislatures. it gave them the majorities they needed when reapportionment time came. we live in a moment when the senate majority leader said one of his proudest moments was when he looked obama in the eye and said he wasn't going to get his supreme court nominee even considered. he has earned the name moscow mitch for refusing to let cyber security measures on the floor, refuse to let the senate look at assault rifle bans. so as joe biden likes to say, here's the deal. you democrats go out there and pick up a net three senate seats. then if a democ

year with president trump, at the top of the ticket, it's going to be very difficult for senate doug jones to stun the political world a year ago. but when i actually, you know, so if democrats fall short in alabama, that means they need to pick up a race somewhere else and georgia provides them two opportunities as well as north carolina. you could throw in texas and iowa as well. the path is there, craig, but democrats, you know, need to have the things, the races break in their way and also maybe more importantly they need to have the candidates and the presidential nominee who is going to play well, play very well in a state like georgia or north carolina. >> who plays very well in a state like georgia or north carolina, the top of the ticket, mark? >> craig, to me, that question is still unclear. you look at the polling where things are right now and joe biden seems to be that person. there are many doubts whether he can actually sustain that but to me, craig, there's been this question among democrats who is the most electable or what is electable, but i do think now where georgia is

lot of grassroots organizing, like those parkland students did, a whole lot of organizing, like doug jones did in alabama. i think we have to do that over and over again, and in a matter of years, it will be a much different country and a much more progressive one. >> [indiscernible] mayor de blasio: look, i think in a world where there are twentysomething candidates, there has to be some kind of structure, right? so, even though i worry about voices getting excluded, i also appreciate the fact that such a premium is put on the grassroots donations, which has never happened before. again, it is not how much money you raise, it is how many people you raise it from. i think that's a very good thing. it is just an imperfect reality. i think in the end it's a reminder that you have to get out there and reach as many people as possible. to some extent, that depends on resources. i never had the kind of resources some of the others have. but i'm hoping message and ideas ultimately spread farther and bring those resources in. >> [indiscernible] mayor de blasio: i don't buy into any of those hypot

elizabeth warren was raising money for senate candidate doug jones and tina smith.disgrace and if nobody else is going to talk about it i'm going to talk about it. the respond did not respond in kind. they politicized this over the weekend. they all blamed him. and i want to name and shame them now. because he did not respond in kind. they want to be president. he is the president. and is he trying to bring the president together and have concrete bipartisan, buy cameral steps. the red flag laws he is the guy who signed the fix nics acted into law. did he away with bump stocks after the las vegas shooting where law enforcement said they never found a motive for that monster. and he is denouncing whited supremacy and they are out there denouncing him. america, take a look at it and don't forget it. ainsley: it's not going to bring these individuals back by placing blame. we need to do something about it. even the dad of one of the parkland victims said these victims aren't even in the ground yet. they aren't even buried and he was credit siding the politicians playin

that's what doug jones is doing. the only question is who wins the seat back for republicans.ood chance to take that seat for republicans. republicans are defending incumbents in colorado, in arizona, in north carolina. and they will be tough races. i feel very good about -- i think the president will win north carolina, i think thom tillis will win north carolina. cory gardner, he's a strong incumbent, ran a tremendous race last time. martha mcsally who barely lost the race in 2018, it's a seat that democrats have not won that seat going back really decades and i feel like she is another strong incumbent. they're tough races that in states that are trending blue but we have strong incumbents that work hard and are popular at home so i feel good about our chances in all of those. mike: which senate races are you watching the closely and with senator isakson planning to retire, both georgia seats will be on the ballot next year. do democrats think they have a shot of winning one or both? >> they do. it would be much enhanced if we could get stacy abrams to run in georgia for on

where no one ever thought it possible in a victory against racism, we stood up for dignity and doug jones won that seat in the senate, in the state of alabama. that's what happened because of all of you. you go and see those kids marching after parkland, they didn't just march, they voted, which brings us to the midterm where we elected the most diverse group of candidates we have ever had, literally 50 years after the first african american woman was elected to congress, we elected 20 to the house of representatives. you did that. and that is the march that we were on, that is going to take us to 2020. thank you very much for having me today. thank you for your good work. >> thank you so much, senator. thank you so much senator amy klobuchar. candidate number seven. we're rolling through this. all right, we've got candidate number eight. candidate number eight. vice president, joe biden. [cheers and applause] here he is. hello mr. vice president. how are you? >> thanks for having me again. good to be home. >> good to be home. okay, you get two minutes. you can sit, you can stand, you can

if he could do a better job defining those republicans like republican women who voted for doug joneslican women who voted for democrats in 2018 and gave the house back to the democrats. if that's what he needs to do what he talks about going to the senate and working with republican senators, many of them aren't there anymore because they're just not moderate republicans left in the senate and people like susan collins are going to have a hard time getting reelected. >> this is an exciting moment, this is the reason he got into this phrase. there's a need for a moderate. so about 40%, stops moving left, syncs to a 30% now this is the candidate people thought they were going to get out of biden and the key here is not the backup, not to say tomorrow i didn't mean it, republicans are all awful and this reflects the fact that there are a lot of moderates in the democratic party. if you look at almost 70% of the country in her journal nbc poll describes themselves as either a moderate, somewhat liberal are somewhat conservative so there is a big market out there even within the democrati

senators doug jones and tim scott and mark walker recently introduced the future act. bipartisan legislation to extend the funding of title iii for the hpcu. $85 million for stem initiatives until 2021. it is my hope that congress passes this bill before funding expires in 2019. i must say to you that the nation is in need of the ability and ingenuity of the students we educate. in companiesosper locally. so continued investment. i want to thank you. my testimony has been submitted. please review it. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> good morning chairwoman davis, ranking members. i am patricia alberts -- executive vice president of economic affairs and integration at the university of texas rio grande valley. i am grateful for the opportunity to address you today and i want to especially thank you for giving me the ability to share some of the wonderful work happening at the university of texas rio grande valley. we are 120 miles along the us- mexico border all the way from brownsville to the rio grande city. the fall 2010 enrollment was over 20,000 students. we g

people like doug jones in alabama may oppose something like that. think it would -- he'd have to spend a lot of political capital to get something like that passed and it's unclear what the benefits for him would be politically speaking at least. so it's hard to look at the math for things like universal background checks and assault weapons bans and see them getting to 60 votes just practically. host: let's hear from mike in south carolina. caller: hi, good morning. having to do with universal background checks, everyone is in agreement, all the voters, republicans and democrats, that it should be done. and it should be something that people will have to wait until that background check has been completed to own a weapon. what is the urgency? does someone need a gun right away so they can go do something with it? even guns sold in gun shows, there should be a reasonable time for the proper government agency to be able to do a thorough background check for everyone's protection. if people -- if politicians have a problem with that, then it goes back

i think it gets a little hard because you have states like alabama where you have senator doug jonesind of on the bubble. north carolina. it's going to be hard to knock off tom tillis though he is a vulnerable guy. susan collins as well. that will be a really tough race. it really is where republicans from what i'm hearing are putting all of their resources. it is their firewall especially if they lose the presidency. >> all right. thanks so much for being with us. we always appreciate it. >> thanks, joe. >>> coming up, another run-in between the trump administration, civil rights, and the supreme court. we'll explain the latest headline. heliadne my joints... they hurt. the pain and swelling. the psoriasis. cosentyx treats more than just the joint pain of active psoriatic arthritis. it even helps stop further joint damage. don't use if you're allergic to cosentyx. before starting, get checked for tuberculosis. an increased risk of infections and lowered ability to fight them may occur. tell your doctor about an infection or symptoms, if your inflammatory bowel disease symptoms devel

doug jones, what a hero. thank you. so, you know we are doing farming this week?ion litres of milk a year. shall we take a look at some of them? yeah, welcome to the cow camera, everyone. as part of our ‘focus on farming' week, let's take you live to our cow cam, which is on a dairy farm in shropshire. so, we're going to see inside the milking parlour where these cars will be heading off shortly to be milked. have you ever seen cows being milked? i have. it's quite an impressive procedure. being milked? i have. it's quite an impressive procedurelj being milked? i have. it's quite an impressive procedure. i wasn't sure what you are going to say. impressive procedure. i wasn't sure what you are going to saylj impressive procedure. i wasn't sure what you are going to say. i was being careful. it is a lot of milk! it is hard, isn't it? there is a beautiful little facts going through on the bottom of your screen there. enjoy those cow facts will be dropping in on the cow cam at regular intervals. and we've gone from one cow to lots of them. oh, man, i should just go, s

we will get reaction also from lawrence jones and ben carson, next. doug, doug! douglas!re running dangerously low on beans. people love your beans, doug. they love 'em. doooooooooug! you want to go sell some tacos? progressive knows small business makes big demands. doug, where do we get a replacement chili pepper bulb? so we'll design the insurance solution that fits your business. it's a very niche bulb. it's a specialty bulb. ♪ >> sean: all right, so the destroy-trump media mob again, predictably, like they every do every second, minute, hour of every 24-hour day, shamelessly attacking the president for the tragic mass shooting in texas s but not the one in ohio. no. because that shooter supportedbu elizabeth warren and was a huge socialist, but their hypocrisy is being exposed by what they are not talking about. we have chronicled on the show many, many times, a lot duringut the obama years, big liberal city, run by liberals for decades and decades and decades. the city of chicago. this past weekend, well, yeah, another weekend, a lot of gun violence, seven people ki

jones average and the s&p as you referenced and very important, walmart's increased wages to give their workers more money to shop, better customer service, more shopper loyalty, so walmart under dynamic leader dougonline and in-store. cheryl: on the heels of what we got from macy's, which wasn't a good report, the online component for walmart and target seems to be fairly strong. is that name recognition? is that execution? >> it's name regula recognitiond doug mcmillon is recruiting the best and the brightest from the industry. they're taking walmart.com and by the time of the presidential election, walmart.com will be able to deliver to 90% of the u.s. population. so check mate amazon, which is still going to do very well. cheryl: analysts expecting for a full year guidance boost from walmart as well. let's talk about the retail sales picture this morning. we're going to get those numbers out. they've been strong. all this talk about the weak consumer and the volatility in the market, the consumer seems to be hanging in there. >> the numbers will be strong. they'll be a little bit soggy because of record monsoon weather across the continental u.s. and people buying more preowned cars now as a