and joining me now is charlie sykes, contributor for weekly standard and jonathan capehart, washingtonsnbc contributor. and charlie, oothroughout there wisconsin, how do people feel about the suppression voter issues out there in kansas with dodge city, and north dakota and texas and other states? >> well, if it is an attempt to suppress the voters, it is amoral and it is going to leave a stain on the republican party. you think about the way that the campaign is closing, the closing arguments that we are hearing. and maybe it is enough to hold the senate for the republicans, but i think that it is going to be playing very, very poorly in the suburban areas, that they will determine frankly, the elections in the states like wisconsin and pennsylvania. and jonathan capehart, kevin tibbles reporting on what happened there, and you saw the line, but it is not clear that all of the people are going to be able to vote, but it might certainly have the opposite effect, and it is going to be doing that in georgia as well. >> yes, as we saw from the gentleman that kevin was interviewing, he was

. >> well, joining me now, michael steele, former chair of the republican party, and jonathan capehartuld point out i've been in touch with von all weekend, he's been chasing her all over the state. >> he has. >> either she gets on a bus or in some other vehicle, doesn't answer any questions. and so he was upping his -- you know, his chase as is completely appropriate. >> does she think this stops once she gets to washington. >> does she believe that someone like a pulitzer prize journalist like jonathan capehart is going to say, okay, you're here, we're going to ignore your stand on race. they think they can get elected and there are going to be no ramifications on it. >> you have people from the state of mississippi that are trying to deal with their past as they move into the future, having this recounted to play to the lesser interests, if you will, so it doesn't go away, it doesn't go away, and the president's coming in, he's going to hype it up tonight. >> mike pence is there now. >> and nothing changes, except the questions, the questions will still be there. >> the washington p

here with me again, jonathan capehart and josh barro as well.republicans wake up tomorrow morning and they've lost the house and they have managed to hold on to a majority in the senate, who will they have to blame? >> well, i think they'll be relieved if that's what it is. they don't want to lose the senate, obviously, craig. this is a very different election, with 36 million votes already cast. i mean, it's on its way to 105 million, which is about 20 million more than 2014, about 30 million less than last presidential election, and i'm having a difficult time modeling what's going on out there. if we wake up and the house has gone blue but the senate remains red and in fact, picks up north dakota, indiana, tennessee where the early voting in indiana and tennessee is very much favored republicans, just like in montana, and if they hang on in arizona where they have an 8% lead . >> the president and essentially begged him to stay on message and to talk about the roaring economy, the president as you know hasn't really done a when he will lot of

jonathan capehart just mentioned this one, georgia six. a special election against ossoff but it was particular choice. we will watch what happens in the georgia gubernatorial race. but see if that falls into democrats' hands. number 15, between orlando and tampa, there's a retired republican in this district, gop republican dennis ross. it's between ross spannio and kristin carlson. again, you're watching a lot of races in florida. we're watching the gubernatorial race between desantis and gillum. but keep an eye on florida 15 to see how the house will go for the rest of the evening. this one pennsylvania one, this is mostly bucks county, outside of philadelphia. a little bit of montgomery county. this is one where we're going to look at closely, brian fitzpatrick is looking to hold on to this. pennsylvania is always a careful one to look at. if it starts going more strongly democrat in the philly suburbs, this is a lot like that virginia district, that will give you a sense of what the train looks like in suburban america. these are the

. >> jonathan capehart whose name we've mastered and national political reporter for bloomberg, sahil kapur. that was a roller coaster, sitting here listening to donald trump speak for about an hour and a half. nancy pelosi presents very differently than donald trump. >> let's start with that. you have all been intently watching television with us for the last two hours essentially. what has stood out to you the most? >> i think trump wanted to change the narrative. he saw all of the stories and all of the news coverage about how he lost the house, how he was a drag on the ticket, how all of these various republicans who were incumbents ended up getting ousted by all of these up-and-coming democrats. how even though they made gains in the senate, the loss of the house is a big blow on his presidency. so he wanted to come out, he knows he has the bully pulpit and he can drive media turnout. he talked about earned media during this call and throw out all kinds of red meat and talk about different parts of his message knowing that he can change the headlines and not have as many people t

jonathan capehart. we love a nickname on this show. j.now because you have to now fight alexandria ocasio-cortez, you have to fight the planet. e.j. put the planet on the table. can you beat that with who won the week? >> oh, absolutely. i'm going with the queen of the hill. come on now. nancy pelosi won the week. we've been talking about once the democrats -- it was clear the democrats were going to retake the house, everyone had been talking about, oh, my god, will nancy pelosi be the next leader. she should go. there's all this opposition to her, but over this past week we have watched one opponent after the other drop out. the most significant one being congresswoman marcia fudge of ohio. you have all of these people signing letters saying she shouldn't be the leader. not on substantive grounds but she's been there too long. she knows how the house works. she intimately knows what her caucus wants and needs. her focus is the caucus, not her own political viability and the other thing is this is really more important here why she shoul