analysis are nbc news correspondent, katy tur, "washington post" columnist, eugene rob yipson, peggy noonan, columnist for the "wall street journal," and david brody, chief political analyst for cbn news. welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press". >> announcer: from nbc news in washington, the longest-running show in television history, this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >>> good sunday morning and welcome to the "choose your own adventure" midterm elections. is there a democratic wave coming? we've got data to support that. as a surge of post-kavanaugh enthusiasm for republicans turned back the democrats momentum? there's data to support that. or could this be a typical midterm with democrats making just modest gains? there's data to support that, too. and we have plenty of new data this morning. here's what our brand-new nbc news/"wall street journal" poll shows, with just over two weeks to go until the midterms. among registered voters, democrats hold a seven-point lead in the generic ballot, 48-41. that's down significantly from the lead democrats held just a month ago pre-kavanau

eugene robinson, peggy noonan, my friend katy tur and david brody. welcome all.trying to figure out what this poll is showing us today in our new nbc "wall street journal" poll. let put this sort of -- put it a little bit of historical context here. presidential job approval connected to seats lost in the first midterm, we go back, here's president trump sitting at 47%. that seems to be an improvement for him. what would 47% job rating mean in the past when it comes to a midterm result? president obama had exactly that. a 47% job approval rating in 2010. his party lost 63 seats. bill clinton in 1994 in this same period of time in october had a 48% approval rating and lost 54 seats. peggy, should republicans feel better or worse this morning when they look at the nbc news "wall street journal" poll? >> i think they should feel as confused as everybody else. the good news for republicans is only six months ago we were talking about a blue wave that we knew was coming and who is going to be very significant. we're not quite talking that way anymore. it looks kind of

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. >>> president reagan's speech reiter, peggy noonan, reminded me about context and what all of us mightittsburgh. peggy is a columnist for "the wall street journal." she spoke on another network and ree-mailed as we sometimes do. she offered me this, quoting peggy. after dreadful stories like this weekend, it feels important to me that we not let these whack jobs give us an unhealthy vision of ourselves as a people. america is more defined by the people that ran to the shooting to help and it is by the man who did the shooting. america, she said, is the community of squirrel hill, that fabulous place, that came together in stunning acts of immediate solidarity. peggy said this is a up to that to my mind, like most of america, actually knows that tolerance is not enough, that love of your neighbor and loyalty are really what you are aiming at. so often americans are achieving exactly that day by day. i think she said that tolerance is just beginning. squirrel hill did not have just tolerance. it had love. it was very moving to see. it was beautiful. ♪ >>> two developing stories this hour

. >> i thought peggy noonan had an interesting piece. she said it's a bit like what he was saying earlier. the regular americans look at this stuff. the events, reaction, language and stuff we have seen. they just think it's demonic. it's all repellent. it is, isn't it? >> this could be the great squandering of an opportunity. if you saw the special elections of the house you saw republicans winning barely but democrats doing decently in red states. by seemingly to actively detest americans who are conservatives and moderates you're actually turning this into a recapitulation of 2016. there's 23 districts with a republican representative won by hillary clinton. they might win but they were many other seats they may have been able to wind that there likely to lose in the senate is falling out of their grasp. >> steve: they've learned nothing from 2016. >> they've learned nothing. there's a lot of people in the middle of this country, lot of independence who don't like this. the problem is they don't see the people in the middle. they don'

when the "new york times," bret stephens, and the "wall street journal"'s peggy noonan both trump hatersaid senate democrats overplayed their hand and the democrats are blowing it. you know sense was coming. and it's not the blue wave the genius pundits predicted. they know they lost not just the kavanaugh fight. but the american people along the way. americans don't like lies in justice and they don't like villagvigilante for mob justice. the insanity we witnessed by those suffering from trump derangement syndrome is shock and unprecedented. from being tossed out of restaurants to being directed to harass, intimidate, confront and make a crowd around anyone they don't agree with, they ramped it up even more during the kavanaugh hearings. screaming, interrupting. shouting down senators, block them from voting, and they are attempting to block them from voting and then in their feigned loser outrage, they claw on the doors of the united states supreme court as kavanaugh is being sworn in. americans are fair. and they have had enough. according to real clear politics, republican senators i

joining r me insight and analysis are katr tur,ugene robinson, peggy noonan andavid brody, chief political analyst for cbn news. welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press". >>> go sunday morning and welcome to the choose your own adventure midterm laek election. 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 dains? there'ta to support that too. we have plenty of new data this morning. here what "the wall street journal" poll shows withver 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'sam more. g likely voters the democrs lead gro 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 h

everyone in politics and speech writing has committed that last sentence to memory, the work of peggy noonan absolutely. i remember it so vividly. when i think back to the reagan years, that's one of the things along with, you know, "tear down this wall, mr. gorbachev." that moment i remember because it was necessary in that moment. we had watched that -- this great pageant of american technology. we watched that space shuttle take off, and we had watched those astronauts die. it was a shock. the nation was stunned. we hadn't seen anything like this, and at that moment, that speech, very brief by president reagan, was absolutely perfect. today is the day you're going to get motivated... get stronger... get closer. start listening today to the world's largest selection of audiobooks on audible. and now, get more. for just $14.95 a month, you'll get a credit a month good for any audiobook, plus two audible originals exclusive titles you can't find anywhere else. if you don't like a book, you can exchange it any time, no questions asked. automatically roll your credits over to the next month if

everyone in politics and speech writing has committed that last sentence to memory, the work of peggy noonanbsolutely. and i remember it so vividly. when i think back to the reagan years, that's one of the things along with, you know, "tear down this wall, mr. gorbachev." but that moment i remember because it was necessary in that moment. we had watched that -- this great pageant of american technology. we watched that space shuttle take off, and we had watched those astronauts die. it was a shock. the nation was stunned. we hadn't seen anything like this. and at that moment that speech, very brief by president reagan, was absolutely perfect. it was just what the nation needed to hear and it certainly made me feel better, and i think it made a lot of people feel better, put it in some sort of context. again, president trump is not going to do that. vice president pence, i don't know. i don't think president trump, frankly, wants the vice president out there taking a central role, and he does tend to be a bit old testament. he talks about evil a lot. i wish he were a bit new testament sometim

>> we have the left, peggy noonan wrote a nice column the journal. the left talking about resistance, almost armed. you have the president of the united states, you know, extolling a lawmaker who body slammed a reporter, saying that is really good stuff. i mean, you know, adults in the room, you would say take it down a notch, particularly the president. you know, i know i will get some tweets, you are picking on him so much. he is the president. he is the guy, he does have the bully pulpit more than maxine waters? >> you know what? i am amazed that the president and pelosi and schumer and all of them have not gotten together in a room and said enough's enough. we have 300 million people in this country, we're supposed to be doing something right and all we're doing is beating each other up and look at some of the outcomes that are coming right now. hopefully somewhere along the line they get they're supposed to be leadership of this country. seriously not showing any. >> on other hand if this is one person, this could be just one very crazy person.