for the national elections in four months' time and that is partly because this is traditionally a sdpela merkel‘s challenger said and he assumed that they were going to win their and they were going to set up a strong left—wing coalition government in that area because martin shilts felt some enthusiasm from left—wing voters over the past few months and he assumed he would do well here and that this would be a strong signal for september. do well here and that this would be a strong signalfor september. he has just a strong signalfor september. he hasjust said a strong signalfor september. he has just said about half an hour ago that it has just said about half an hour ago thatitis has just said about half an hour ago that it is a difficult day for social democracy and a difficult day for him personally because he is well aware now that this is a signal that actually the support around the country may not be as strong as he thinks, because what we have noticed over the past few weeks really is that the initial enthusiasm for him seems to have faded somewhat and that polls are showing

that's what's at stake here sdp. >> reporter: you mentioned your daughter, gracie, who passed away when she was 11. is that what motivated you to get, you know, so deep into the weeds and working on trying to figure out a way to break the log jam? >> that's part of it. sorry. >> reporter: i understand. thank you, sir. thank you. back to you. >> all right. dana, thank you. we're continuing to watch the reaction to this historic moment in the house of representatives. the republicans have passed the repeal and replace obamacare legislation 217-213. i want to go to brooke baldwin, you're there with david challian. >> reporter: we've been watching all this, let me bring our cnn political director right in here as live pictures there of the white house. we were talking earlier in my office watching all of this. jeff zel anany called it a vict lap. >> i've got to believe so. i don't think we can overstate what a big short term immediate win this is for the president. it is -- you have to remember, the entire administration has been clogged, if you will, in terms of getting a legislative agend

mrs thatcher famously thought, she said the queen was the sort of person to vote sdp, because she wasvise and to listen to the prime minister, to listen to what she or he says, and to say have you thought of this, have you thought of that? meetings with the queen are a formality. they are a key formality but no prime minister should expect to get an easy ride on any part of their meeting. and from everything we understand, the queen, to this day, is remarkably well—informed, i mean absolutely, will be fully across every element of this campaign, even though it is in its early stages. the queen is the most politically informed person in the country. this is her 13th prime minister, herfirst in the country. this is her 13th prime minister, her first was winston churchill, she has seen everything, so as a consequence she has seen political trends come and 90, has seen political trends come and go, she has seen so many elections. for her, she sees it as her duty and her responsibility to stay at the forefront of political news was that she is an avid watcher of political news, and added c

eight weeks after the rochester by—election, where we could have been a libertarian version of the sdpke this with any sense of regret. we do this as a party that's been 10 successful. -- has been 100% successful. aaron banks said today the current leadership has crashed the car at the first bend of the race. ukip without positive, radical policies is finished as an electoral force. the point is that he's saying that possibly with positive, radical policies it wouldn't be finished.” don't, with respect, take aaron with anything more than a pirchling of salt. you know —— pinch of all the. he's entitled to his views as are other members. what really matters is what the 3. 8 million ukip voters decide to do. it's clear that whatever the leadership in ukip decides, the core support, the people who voted for us last time, they're off. we've lost about half our vote, i reckon in the next three, four weeks we will see ukip down to 1% or 2% in the polls. that's good, we've done ourjob. thank you very much forjoining us at westminster. i'm going to pop along to our other studio and talk tojohn