neil: carrie severino, a lot more on this and the implications later on in the show.ng of runoff losses, democrats might want to reassess something. not about what their doing, but what they're saying about russia. after this. ♪ ♪ muck flushing. ♪ ♪ neil: all right, maybe bill clinton was right when he used that famous be line, that dog don't hunt, when it comes to democrats continually talking about russia and a connection to the trump campaign and their own election loss. signs right now the democrats are reassessing after all of these special elections since the general rex, that maybe it is time to rethink that strategy. former cia analyst, fred feist, former republican congresswoman nan hay worth from the fine state of new york. congresswoman, to you first on this. we're told that some democrats are concerned they went too far or that this issue isn't registering or resonating. what do you think? >> well, it's not registering, neil, and the reason is primarily because the democrats decades and certainly, you know, eight years before the 2016 election, their polic