people are saying he ran as a republican win a week ago, they were criticizing him for being a pelosi liberal. he criticized the republican tax plan, called for universal background checks on gun purchases. he said unabashedly he was pro-choice. he talked about preserving social security, medicare, medicaid, and resisting attempts to cut those. i think he ran on a pretty progressive agenda, but my personal position, and that are a lot of people who do not agree -- i don't know a lot of people who don't agree with me on this -- i think this campaign is going to be a very visceral campaign. i think this election will be very visceral in the sense that people are totally anxious and freaked out by everything happening with this administration. they want security. they want some kind of normalcy, and i think this election will not be decided on issues. mr. debonis: what parallels do you see with this election and the year you first were elected when george w. bush was very unpopular? do you see the same atmosphere or perhaps even more troublesome for the president? rep. yarmuth: i don't really se

lamb was to portray him as a lacky for minority leader nancy pelosi, they spent weeks, if not months, accusing him of being a closeted liberal and following nancy pelosi. now he has morphed into a donald trump republican. the talking points are convoluted they make no sense. he wasn't a liberal. he was a center left candidate. he opposed an assault weapons band but that doesn't put him totally outside the democratic main stream. he was a fairly conventional candidate who told a good story but if we're being honest benefitted from a backlash across the country to trump-ism. it's taking place in traditionally red districts, certainly taking place in flip districts. and it's remarkable to see some of the house republicans in denial about it. if they don't get going, they're going to be next. >> let's take a look at how the republicans ran against this guy who they are now claiming was a republican. here's the way paul ryan spent his money in this campaign financing an ad against connor lamb. let's listen to this. >> how do we know connor lamb will join pelosi's liberal flock? he has. he joined her to pose a tax cut, calling you

middle american democrat humphrey who who was the mainstream democrats you don't think nancy pelosi is liberal no no no so what way is she not so larry it isn't so much about any particular issue as it is about. this systemic problems in democratic party so when you asked nancy pelosi why should you be the leader of the democrats in the house she says because i raise the most money now in the old system they was the only thing she's no no that is literally what she said she said i raise the most amount of money and i get it to the my fellow democrats and that's the most important thing and and and reality to actual progress in the country what that says is i am the most corrupt i am the ones i'm the one willing to go to the rich and the corporations and tell them what do you need because the democratic party will deliver it for you instead of the voters where in her voting would you back that up with. barely challenge bush the entire time the bush was in charge barely laid a glove on how much of a glove are the democrats laying on trump now what are they doing there do you regulating wall stre

he won't admit he is a pelosi liberal.t seniors in medicare. >> in tv ads, they use the image of opioid addiction for political gain. >> it is getting pretty rough there. >> a lot of money is being spent on this race. i can't understate -- or overstate how much money is being spent. and i think if rick saccohen wins, it will be seen as a massive republican 56th. the fact it is even this close shows it is not paubl victory. this shouldn't be an area where they're even concerned about. if it is an indication of what will happen in the mid terms, it is not a good sign. they won't be able to pour this much money into every race. >> $8 million on the republican side. another $4 million on the democrat side. that blows my mind. donald trump going in, i haven't seen this where it was too much, announcing a tariff policy to seemingly help the candidate win and then walking it back. there's so much investment in a praise doesn't matter that much. >> a lot of republican there's tell you that cone or lamb is like a dream, a democrati

liberals demand for themselves. also tonight, the acting director of i.c.e. slamming nancy pelosi for daring to call federal immigration authorities that risked their lives every single day to keep this country safe, nancy called them cowardly. watch this. >> it not only did she say they were cowardly, she said that i.c.e. was terrorizing immigrant communities. you talk about law enforcement officers, these are men and women that put their lives on the line for this country every day. they leave the safety and security of their homes to defend this nation, so how dare you call them cowardly. to say that word that we are terrorizing these communities, some of these have assault with deadly weapons, murder, these people were terrorizing immigrant communities. i.c.e. went and remove these people. >> sean: nancy pelosi and liberals are making it clear they have no problem putting american lives in danger to protect criminal illegal immigrants. i'm not talking about daca or dreamers or people that benefited from the visa lottery, but these liberals like the only california mayor libby

he's really the nancy pelosi liberal.als has the picture of the two of them together in it, trying to link lamb to the liberal democrats. each has a different strategy. >> arthel: lamb, you to your po, he's keeping his politics local and he already said he wouldn't vote for nancy pelosi. he thinks there needs to be new democratic leadership in the house. how does that square in terms of what they're saying, putting him arm in arm with the liberal democrats. >> right now it seems to be working. that's one of the reasons the election is tight. the other way to think about it is green county, which is one of the four counties that abuts west virginia, so speaking of another individual who is already in congress, his name is joe mansion, you begin to see the situation lamb would have if he wins being a moderate democrat in obviously a very liberal democratic caucus in the house, and who knows what that's likely to be. but he can't move much beyond that should he be elected or he won't last long. i was going to say he won't la

trail because once democrats get to washington, they always do the same thing, they vote for the liberal pelosigenda down the line, straight down the line every single time. they will never vote for us, they will never vote for what's right. these days, there's no such thing as a blue dog democrat. a red state democrat, or a conservative democrat because they are all pelosi democrats. weak on crime, weak on terrorism and weak on national defense. [applause] on terrorism, in iraq and syria, we've taken back almost 100% and a very short period of time a land that they took and in all took place since our election. democrats like to campaign as moderates, but they always govern like radicals. that is why i am going to campaign all across this country to elect republicans so we can reduce taxes and further reduce crime, increase jobs, and make our communities safe and prosperous and secure. i'll be all over the country. you'll get me all over. you're going to get me all over the country and i'll be complaining every single trip, but i'm going to get there. we're going to keep criminals off our stre

he'll say anything to get elected. >> lamb sides with pelosi and now her liberal friends are spendinghis campaign. >> my opponent wants you to believe the biggest issue in this campaign is nancy pelosi. it's all a big lie. i've already said on the front page of the newspaper that i don't support nancy pelosi. >> this is an early test of a lot of things, including democrats won a national referendum on trump, republicans think we have to make nancy pelosi the issue. >> and one of the lessons of 2016, democratic enthusiasm, or lack of enthusiasm, was the attacks to the left, how many wanted like a bernie sanders type of candidate. what you see here is not a bernie sanders type of candidate. if the democrats are able to prevail in this district, it says a lot about decreased enthusiasm in trump country and says a lot about increased momentum on the democratic side. but it also says in the race where you have a pretty conservative democrat that does not have a lot in common with nancy pelosi, then the democrats have a shot. how does that help when you're ramping up for 2020 and who is goi

they vote for the liberal pelosi agenda down the line, straight down the line.ingle time. >> political parties could face an identity crises in november, only republicans have an act hero who believes he has answer, former california governor arnold schwarzenegger teamed up with ohio governor john kasich in effort to reshape republican party in golden state by moving it to center. are we moving it to middle or extremes? here to weigh in christian. the saccone concession, how big is this news? >> not very big, in part we all been operating for the last week under the assumption that pennsylvania 18 was a loss for republicans a win for democrats, i don't think that necessarily changes anything but it reminds us in this one district, democrats were able it find a candidate who matched the district, challenge for a party like democratic party, are you going to be able to put that off in every district or you are you getting hung up in primaries. >> conor lamb, a very attractive candidate he did not have to run against someone from his left, president trump just made

i don't think he can afford to move towards the liberal nancy pelosi line and stay in office for tooong. what's fascinating, even before he was beaten up in television commercials in the pittsburgh market by the saccone campaign for, you know, they put the pictures up with lamb and pelosi on television. weeks ago, conor lamb said i won't vote for nancy pelosi for leadership position. he didn't say she was too liberal. he said she doesn't get anything done. but i think you're right about that. he's going to stick more to the middle, more to the moderate position. he's going to, in a sense, be a little bit like a certain senator from west virginia, his district abuts that, if he wins, joe manchin. he's going to be much more in that vein. >> it will be interesting to see. i see seth moulton, kind of a rabble-rouser congressman from massachusetts, also a marine, has been there campaigning on his behalf. he's also raised questions about nancy pelosi. maybe democrats could get more than they bargain for. terrific insight. nobody knows more about pennsylvania politics than you. we appreciat

i can't wait to hear what nancy pelosi says and other liberal democrat. will stand with justice stevens or the constitution. >> what about that question of former supreme court justice saying that entire piece of the constitution bill of rights should be taken away. >> as a person who studied and taught the constitution, i never seen or heard of this. particularly as you pointed out in your introduction to this segment, the justice who wrote a dissent in the case that define the right to keep and bear arms as a personal individual right. the mechanics are cumbersome. it would rare two third -- it would require two thirds vote of the house and senate. the president is correct. it's not going to happen. he is in my opinion, bitter that the dissent that he wrote in the heller case has remained a dissent. because federal judges have become to follow major opinion. that majority of opinion defines right to defend yourself. it's a natural right. even if there weren't a second amendment, you would still have the right. it doesn't create the right. it prevents go

truth is, i mean, look, he was yesterday -- yesterday he was being attacked as this pro-abortion, liberal, pelosimocrat. and then today we have paul ryan coming out and saying he won because he's a conservative, he's pro-life and he's a conservative. that's ridiculous. the susan b. anthony list, which is a gop pro-life group, ran ads against him. >> he says he's personally pro-life but wouldn't -- >> yeah. so it's just you can't just switch the next day and suddenly start saying this person you have been attacking as pro-abortion rights as being pro-life and that's why he won. also he ran -- he criticized the repeal of obamacare. he was very much stood up for unions. he ran against the tax plan. this just is not a person who in any place would be called a conservative. he was pro-gun. >> james, should the republicans be nervous? >> he ran commercials where he was carrying a gun. he claims that he's pro-life, ran away from nancy pelosi. all of those things happens. and this is western pennsylvania, and it's somewhat of a swing district. >> can i just say he didn't claim he was pro-life in the way

this show -- on our show, conor lamb called for pelosi to step aside in washington. >> so again it's crazy. they go from saying he's a tool -- a liberal tool of nancy pelosi to saying that he's a republican. and why doesn't he just switch to the republican party the day after he wins. it's ridiculous and said they were with him the whole way. >> mr. lamb was brilliant. he ran as a republican. so it worked for him. he certainly didn't run as a democrat. >> conor lamb ran as someone who would line up with president trump. >> at the end of the day he ran as a republican. >> conor lamb ran as a republican. he was a republican in name so he had a republican in name versus a republican in truth. >> they ran as conservatives, ran as pro gun, pro life, nancy pelosi conservatives and that's the takeaway we see here. >> if it is truly a wakeup call as we understand you told your members this morning, isn't it also a wakeup call for the role the president should play from your opinion in the upcoming midterm. >> look, i think the president helped close this race. you saw the public polling. the public polling helped close this race to where it g

because the democrats conor lamb who was attacked as a pelosi supporting obamacare trump hating liberalactually a republican. >> both of these candidates, the republican and democrat ran as conservatives. >> lamb ran against pelosi. >> >> he ran for the president's tariff policy. >> don't think we'll see a lot of democrats doing that in the paul. >> 90% of the voters don't want nancy pelosi to be speaker and they want a conservative message. >> conor lamb never identified himself as a democrat. he ran against nancy pelosi and said he would not vote with nancy pelosi. >> in this particular case, the lesson was run away from nancy pelosi and run -- with donald trump. >> to be clear, that is what you say when you are worried about moral and retirement and to be clear, conor lamb is not a trump republican but did run as a centralist democrat and democrats do have something of a crisis on their hands because of it. because the first headline from conor lamb's post eliection interview was him saying nancy pelosi needs to go. >> i will say and continue to say, that i think we need new leadersh

they vote for the liberal pelosi agenda down the line, straight down the line every single time.y sleep-aids have pain medicine but zzzquil is different because why would you take a pain medicine when all you want is good sleep? zzzquil: a non-habit forming sleep-aid that's not for pain, just for sleep. on a perfect car, then smash it into a tree. your insurance company raises your rates. maybe you should've done more research on them. for drivers with accident forgiveness, liberty mutual won't raise your rates due to your first accident. switch and you could save $782 on home and auto insurance. call for a free quote today. liberty stands with you™. liberty mutual insurance. >> there's no such thing as a blue dog democrat. a red-state democrat or a conservative democrat because they are all pelosi democrats. weak won crime, weak on terrorism, and weak on national defense. >> bill: president trump slamming democrats while saying republicans may need to move further to the right in order to get some wins in november. i want to bring in our panel. fox news contributor, richard fowl

pelosi has sent people to help him out with his campaign? >> all of her people that supporter, steny hoyer it hoyer was out here, mike doyle, our liberal governor were out there all supporting nancy pelosi. they're the people supporting my opponents so all around him. david: of course also joe biden >> even the crazy uncle joe biden, the uncle every family has, they're pulling out all of the stops but people can see that. they're laughing at them. it's not going to help him. david: rick saccone we got to leave it at that best of luck to you there's joe biden by the way meeting your opponent. have fun tonight i know the president puts on a fine party. >> it's going to be great. david: thank you so much, appreciate it. well, jobs kicking way up as those republican tax cuts kick in. bad timing for the top democrats who are trying to kick him to the curb, and the mayor of oakland, california digging into protect illegal immigrants some of whom are hardened criminals. did the president just warn that she's going to need more lawyers to protect herself? >> how dare you villify members of our community. president trump: you said get out of here and sh

here to protect the second amendment and not repeal it i can't wait to hear what nancy pelosi says and every other liberal democrat. see if they will stand with justice stephens or they will stand with the constitution. i'm dying to know. >> martha: we will see. they will be asked. senator, great to see you. thank you very much for being here tonight. >> thank you. >> martha: here with more perspective on all of this gordon chang an asian analyst with expertise on north korea and china and the author of the book "coming collapse of china." gordon good to see you. thanks for coming on the story tonight. first of all, your thoughts on this train that looks very similar that carried kim jong un's father on his visit to beijing. do you think that's what happened here? >> yeah. i certainly think so. i think what the chinese rural told kim jong un have you got to come to bang. chinese feeling that trump had cut out china from the denuclearization process. china wanted to make themselves relevant again. kim's first foreign trip was going to be to south korea. second foreign trip was to meet president trump. the

pelosi's sheep. lamb would join the liberal flock and follow her lead voting the straight liberal party line for at the pel's extreme agenda. >> see? that was what they were say about conor lamb three days ago. republicans dumped more than $10 million into the race to run ads like that. hopefully no one was charging $10 million to make that ad. they couldn't buy victory. even in trump country, there is and chore who is weighing them down. in special elections in the trump era, democrats are outpacing hillary clinton's performance by more than 12 points. the swing last night was 20 points. while there's a lot of spin today, at least some republicans see the writing on the wall. >> this is a very toxic environment. and this is a district that's 95% white. trump won by 20 points. if you're a republican in a safe seat, you'd better be ready. >> henry olson author of "the working class republican, ronald reagan," and leon wolf. >> leon, what is your take away? is this panic time? >> it's very difficult to put lipstick on this pig if you're a republican. you kind of saw the montage there. if you're looking f

celebrating the white house legislative team made sure that christmas came early for liberals by capitulating to pelosi. from planned parenthood to barely funding any border protection, the white house got played in the president has every right to be furious and demand better. time for a veto. >> jessica: i think that is spot on. we topped before the show about this, democrats didn't get a lot of the things they wanted and i believe we would like strong defense as well but certainly planned parenthood continue to be funded. all of the spending programs did, no cuts although we could talk about how planned parenthood gets funded. as far as what the president did this morning, it was smart and savvy to have done it. i think the real issue for him as a border wall more than it is the daca recipients but certainly is democrat is made as much a part of their case that they would do anything to protect dreamers, it was smart of him to shoehorn it in there because it does make democrats look like they've given up on their priority. >> harris: whenever i hear the word swamp, i think of your rebuttal. which i

pelosi seems to welcome them. she has no problem with it although she is a liberal leader. host: sterling, virginia, gary is a republican. good morning. caller: good morning. i hope out of desperation people come to the common sense and logic and reason. the eisenhower part of the republican party, where we have andank of common sense their aim is the advancement of humanity. i think it is -- this trifling petulance we see from the donald, especially like when it comes to getting rid of janet itlen, anything -- obama, it's rid of. that was the smartest lady to grace the face of the earth. it she knew how to double clutch --ar, knew how to speech speed shift, keep the gear and she did achronized, fantastic job on the economy. i don't know what was wrong with it. this hyper hypocrisy we have going on with the enforcement of the mexico city policy, he complains all about immigrants and then he stops them from having the same birth control that we have. restaurant for 15 years and that was the first thing they told me, that they wanted help with birth control. it's a crying sha

distance himself from nancy pelosi and say that he is going to congress and he will be this maverick and this moderate and he is not going to vote with this far-left liberalave to do is look at joe manchin to see that. he tried to stand up and applaud the president of the united states at the state of the union and chuck schumer shot him the stink eye. he was forced to sit back down. steve: when you get the stink eye, you know what that is all about. thank you for giving your point of view. >> thank you, you guys. brian: who are you representing the party or the people? ainsley: should be the people. should be the people. steve: what you say to get elected. brian: more "fox & friends" in just a second. steve: yep. feel the clarity of non-drowsy claritin 24 hour relief when allergies occur. day after day, after day. because life should have more wishes and less worries. feel the clarity and live claritin clear. . . liberty mutual saved us almost $800 when we switched our auto and home insurance. with liberty, we could afford a real babysitter instead of your brother. >>hey. oh, that's my robe. >>is it? when you switch to liberty mutual, you could save $782

trying to challenge nancy pelosi for the speakership saying she was too liberal.his had a good effect when rahm emanuel was leading the dccc. he had congressional candidates that were more conservative democrats. they were able to take the house. that type of strategy where you know you support democrats even more conservative or moderate democrats in districts, where that is necessary. you know, ultimately does well for the democratic party. >> chris, conor lamb did not have a primary. a lot of these other democrats do, up to ten candidates in the primary race. what tends to happen is you get pulled further and further to your left. what jamie was just talking about, rahm emanuel and chuck schumer's play was to run up the middle. can they do that this year? >> that great question whether they can do it. clearly nancy pelosi and the congressional leadership are okay with letting them try. it's been different ever since the blue dogs and the new dems got wiped out after obamacare. they need the conservative democrats to make the majority. nancy pelosi doesn't becom

pelosi is a gift to republicans who gleefully point to her wacky statist limousine liberalism as out of touch representing the worst in washington. at this point they are the upon ones want to go maintain her status quo, while democrats want to give leader pelosi and her tired me first agenda the permanent hito. earlier today nancy pelosi claimed conor lamb didn't run against her, even though lamb himself said he did. is she delusional? jason chaffetz and co-host of "the five" juan williams, welcome, gentlemen. so jason, i will ask you, is nancy pelosi the gift that keeps on giving and what will republicans do to keep her installed in power? >> go, nancy, go,ing as long as she is minority leader i'm fine with her in that position. the idea that co-hirns, a message that resonates? these are not things we feel any threat as republicans coming from nancy pelosi. democrats took a page out of the republican book by having him proactively say he was against nancy pelosi. the first vote you take as a member of congress is who you support for speaker of the house. if you are running against a

a lot of the liberal special interest groups in d.c. including nancy pelosire spending a ton of money. they would love to get this seat. so far they have not won a single congressional special election. this is their last best chance to do that and show some momentum going to the mid-terms. i agree. there's a limit to what the ads can do. policy is critical. that's why i think republicans could have an advantage at the end of the day given that president trump is going there, given his move on steel tariffs which is very popular in that district. >> david, you know, i heard earlier today, one of the candidates saying connor the chameleon. sounds like the president's campaign style of labelling someone as something, you know, you can call it name calling or call it branding but it sticks in your mind. you think that is an effective strategy? >> it is actually one of the president's most effective campaign tactics. he's probably one of the great branding minds in the world. i'm not sure that he's great at anything else he says he's great at but he is a great br

that is when the big battles between big government liberals and get them back to them to get crumbs, as nancy pelosifamilies do a better job of growing the economy. businesses are hiring more people and giving businesses and pay raises the workers. that is what economic growth is about. why would we want to turn the clock back of putting nancy pelosi back as speaker? we areas we watch mindful of the terrible attack on you and your fellow congressman with a gunman. at the same time we are delighted you are doing so well. at the same time there is serious initiatives right now for changing gun laws. the president from time to time has said he is in favor of it. has this changed your view on the issue at all? rep. scalise: my experience further solidified my belief in second amendment because yet a gunman with a rifle trying to mow down 50 members of congress. police -- twoital officers with guns who countered the shooter and saved all of our lives. the fact you have people with guns we can counter a shooter is what stops was mass tragedies. i am blessed they were there and well-trained and ultimately

liberal wolf in mr. lamb's clothing and running a moderate now saying that he's pro-life and against nancy pelosi.y always say that in the campaign trail but they actually get sworn in and nancy pelosi rules these people with a whip and they fall in line. not one democrat voted for trump 's tax cuts in the house or senate and i suspect if he's elected he will fall under her hammer and continue to vote the pelosi line. >> but what it is saying if this democrat wins it's because he's more moderate. that should send a big signal to the democrat national party, guess what, the left is not resonating we need to get candidates more to the center. >> couldn't agree more that make sense and what i think you'll see is that if conor lamb is elected he may vote democrat most of the time, but he wouldn't vote for nancy pelosi for speaker. that's for sure. charles: well but what about the implications for 2020 because it feels like the names that are resonating most are all far left whether it's sanders, warren, ca mella harris. >> in the democratic primary those who participate are far left like in the republ

liberal democrat. personally opposes abortion but says pro choice, would stand up to democratic leader nancy pelosi and supports steel and aluminum tariffs. if lamb wins, probably another half dozen republicans will not run again. joining us now, politic editor at theroot.com. and jonathan alter and caitlin huey-burns are also back now. what democrats were comfortable with with lamb as their candidate. how much is phenomenon only see in pa 18 and handful around the country versus to think ahead to democrats choosing presidential candidate in a couple of years, see that nationally? >> honestly, i think after you keep losing and losing, you start not being as concerned about ideology as who can actually win. conor lamb could win. democrats have recognized if they're going to win in the red states and swing districts, they have to have somebody to beat roy moore. need a doug jones and conor lamb. ideological flexibility we're going to see will trickle up. where a kamala harris, cory booker, castro running, they're going to have to realize that democratic party is lot bigger than supposed liberal elites. i

pelosi so is not a progressive leftists that are. he's also pitching for the union vote. but after liberalsthey have to quit hatred for the country natured for god it is aligned with president trump. lamb has said he is not running against the president. >> this is a time in her country where the most important promises seem to be up for grabs. it's all organized labor. it's the pensions many labor unions and it's also things like social security and medicare that apply to every american. >> union leadership has put out that misinformation over and over. this is the same leadership who was trying to kill the bot coal miners and hillary clinton. reporter: while saccone has been focusing on the economic agenda coming yesterday he toured a chocolate candy factory with his son, donald junior. they had to wear those funny hats. you can have the hair falling into the chocolate to matter who you are. the president's son does not think the local races really a referendum on his father's tenure. >> is doing a great job and he will put forth the thing my father's doing. a real conservative to help pu

liberals from the west coast. it's funny to hear him running away from nancy pelosi and her message. >> interesting. you're saying while they're talking about blue, the operative color might be green in terms of raising money. he might like nancy more. that's what i'm getting from you. talk about how some political observers are also watching penn 18 as we're calling, that district in pennsylvania. because it may be a bellwether in their words. do you see it that way? >> this has some specific local issues. if the democrats are watching this race and seeing how close it is, you know, they're watching a candidate who is trying to run like a republican. trying to say he shares the values of conservative voters in southwestern pennsylvania. if that's their goal to go on in 2018 and we're calling him connor the chameleon, whether it's guns, taxes, the support for his party's leadership, they're not really running true to who they are. when you drill down on a candidate like connor lamb, he's a liberal on taxes, second amendment, pro life. that's what we're looking at. >> did you call him connor the cham

liberals. >> juan: that's up to me. here is my mind reading. democrats oust nancy pelosi if they take back the house in november.d they? that's next on the five ♪ ♪ are finding themselves morin a chevroletple for the first time. trying something new can be exciting. empowering. downright exhilarating. see for yourself why chevrolet is the most awarded and fastest growing brand, the last four years overall. switch into a new chevy now. current qualified competitive owners and lessees can get this 2018 chevy equinox for around $199 a month. chevrolet. find new roads. you wouldn't feel good not knowing the price here. don't let it happen when you buy your diabetes test strips. with the accu-chek® guide simplepay program, you pay the same low price. all without having to go through insurance. plus, they come in a spill-resistant vial along with a free meter. skip the guessing game and focus on your health. not the cost. make saving simple today at simplepaysaves.com. sarge, i just got a tip. that'll crack this case wide open! turns out the prints at the crime scene- awwwww...did mcgruffy wuffy get a tippy wippy? i'm

liberal. that is interesting, because he had some critical speech for house minority leader nancy pelosi pelosihe was moderate on the issues of abortion and gun control. that could be a potential political playbook for democrats as they go into the midterms hoping to seize upon momentum created here and launch into a blue way. former vice president joe biden campaigning for conor lamb, as well as top union leaders. this is a big victory for labor, the likes of joe biden, and it was also a big victory for centrists. conor lamb last night struck me when he said in that room to my site here that "i am a pennsylvania democrat." that is different from the more progressive rallying cries i have covered over the past couple months. shery: but you said it, he is a centrist, so why would this election be seen as a bellwether for the midterms, if any? kevin: well, that is a great point, because when i talked to republican strategists last night, they raised that issue -- they said, hey, wait a minute, no democratic challenger will be able to replicate what conor lamb did because it was such an anomaly. o

liberal candidate. they went with a republican lite moderate who watched the district, who ran away from nancy pelosi, who had to sound not like anything you hear out of the democrats in washington to win. lessons here, if you have a suburb in your district, watch out, there's no way to put mayonnaise on that crap sandw h sandwich. candidate quality matters. >> he's not wrong. politically, there was not much difference between them. there is not much difference between saccone and lamb -- >> i appreciate all three of my colleagues tonight for just painting this picture that is as rosy as possible for the republican party. the fact is it's amazing how saccone all of a sudden isn't a great candidate. relatively speaking he may not be a great candidate compared to others, but compared to todd akin, compared to a roy moore? he is a legitimate candidate. he actually served in our armed forces. he actually was an elected official prior to this. it's not as if he ran against -- >> it doesn't make you a good candidate. >> congratulations on the bar. >> regardless, it may not be a 10-alarm fire, i hope republicans

he wants to dump nancy pelosi so he is not a progressive, trying to separate himself from the democrats. he was donald trump before trump was trump, last night he went after liberalg they, quote, hatred he said for god. he is in line with the president. lamb has gone out of his way not mentioning the president after name saying he's not running against donald trump. >> this is a time in our country many of our most important promises are up for grabs, not just minors but all organized labor, pensions of many labor unions and things like social security and medicare. >> this is an open seat, we have national level interest and you can expect things to tighten up. as a political scientist you assume there will be a lot of interest, a lot of money will pour in and the race will be tight. >> reporter: for 16 years it was represented by tim murphy who was caught up in a sex scandal. yesterday donald trump junior visited along with succone a chocolate factory, wearing those funny nets to keep their hair from falling into the chocolate and at that event the president said this is not a referendum on his father. >> it is a special election, in 2018 you have years of obst

steve: nancy pelosi and chuck schumer said we were able to liberal more than when we held the majorityt just shows you how much dough the republicans got for pet projects. pete: how bad congressional republicans are. ainsley: the president tweeted yesterday or the day before that in order to get the military funding that he wanted he was going to have to compromise and give a lot to the democrats. steve: a lot. ainsley: it could happen. he also tweeted about the major announcement yesterday. he said i am pleased to announce effective 4/1 steve: now, pete, you know more mcmaster than we do because of your military background. he essential is the establishment he and the president never got along. pete: i think there was a hope they would gel. there was a sense that he came in and felt like he was saving america from president trump as a opposed to channeling week president trump was elected and helping him do that. that's the switch you are getting from ambassador john bolton. we know him from this channel and from hearing from him. those on the inside have seen him work inside the bure

specific districts, you know, nancy pelosi, the last time she had the majority more than ten years ago, majority makers, people who aren't traditionally going to be sort of liberal. and that's a really important point. >> all right. let's turn now to worst rex he ever had, calls it. the "the new york post." not many came to the defense of rex tillerson in terms of the job he did at the state department. some team e feel his leg -- some feel his legacy was the hollowing out of state and diplomats. many happy to see mike pompeo come over from the cia and say he'll be a great pick. there's the process here, right. i mean, not since sarah jessica parker was dumped on a post-it in "sex and the city" have we seen such an ugly breakup here via twitter. and this is for a man, as you point out, who's famous for this line on television delivered over and over again -- this line -- >> you're fired! we say you're fired, get out of here! and now you can say you're fired. we say you're fired, get out of here. >> okay. why does the process matter here and what does it say about the president that he can't bring himself to fire these people face to face? james comey delivered a

be a left wing liberal san francisco democrat, he will represent the trump supporters in pennsylvania. stuart: is it an -- not not opet large scale revolt at this time that challenges pelosi>> i think vast majority of members who appreciate all she has done, raised a lot of money, and eye good speaker for democrat perspective they would be happy if she retired. stuart: what is your judgment of president's speech in pennsylvania, saturday night, on for an hour it was trump unleashed. >> president closed gap, this is say race down 12 points in polls, he closed gap. we're not going to win majority of republicans in fall based on president alone. we'll make it the candidates who are running beat their opponent by arguing the president's programs will be successful, the best argument i can make any candidate, elect me i'm going to washington to work with donald trump. this man, who won, said, there will be times i am working with this president, he was a democrat that is powerful. stuart: the economy is growing nicely, thank you. there is now talk of second phase of tax cuts, whether we get it or not we don't know but they are talking about it president running in midterms, re