. >> joining me now for our "daily fix," chris alisa, and pretolit senior writer maggie haberman. why this is bad political news for democrats. explain. >> okay, i'll do it as quickly as i can. because, andrea, the reality of political campaigns is that ads are built around snippets of information, headlines, many things taken out of context. i would say that about both sides. remember how democrats used -- mitt romney said let detroit go bankrupt. well, mitt romney never actually said that. it was the headline of the piece that he didn't know was coming. this is the reality of how campaigns function, and i think for the republican base, and that's a very critical piece of the 2014 midterm election, this cbo report will confirm what they believe is the facts that obama care is a bad law, that the government has failed in implementing it, and it will further incite them to turn out in the midterm elections to send barack obama a message. i think if you're mary landrieu in louisiana, or mark begich in ago, all democrats in republican-leaning states, a really revved up republican bas

joining me here are mckay coppens and maggie haberman a political reporter for politico. maggie, since you have written stories about trump over the years, i want to start with you, do you think we're at the point he shouldn't be taken seriously as a political figure? >> i think when he fake ran for president as we would put it in 2011 because he never ran, he never declared, what he did tap into was a real sentiment in the republican party base that the other candidates weren't tapping into. there was a reason the numbers went high, a reason he was covered. i would argue this gubernatorial flirtation is a mistake, hard to take seriously. >> the new york governorship. >> and the person who seems to be helping the most is andrew cue more the current governor, donald trump is having a debate of somebody thinking, rob easterino. i think you will see diminishing returns on this for trump, less and less coverage, but for trump the dissonance is between the new york media and that crewsy bell which he was used to and the national media he got exp e exposed to in 2011 and i don't