and then we have the have the issue of tim walsh. some of it is we do have half of our congressional delegation really and competitive races. we could even add this up and had more. if we have a couple more open seats here. we clearly had a lot of opportunity. for the two parties to pick up things in terms of flipping seats. it's very possible that they pick up again the eighth and the first. the democrats flipped the second in the third. we have a pattern that were seen nationwide. greater minnesota areas. i want to key in especially as you are talking about in many ways that is sort of a really good micro cosmetic of what's happening nationwide. it went plus 54,000. paulson won that district by about 17 or 18 points if i remember quick -- correctly two years ago. it is a district where it has a very high percentage of college educated women and as we know the battleground in many ways is where college women in suburbs go not as a race i've been arguing for several weeks that if the democrats can flip the third congressional congres

back to the issue of working governor, potentially governor.ublican >> i look forward for tim walsh of state of mips. -- minnesota. case.t that's the i know jeff johnson. i will work with him. i believe it is important to have an ongoing working relationship with everybody in state government and even at the u.s. attorney's office. we've got to be a team. leadership to convene people around the criminal a -- critical issues. whether it's opioid or what it is, we'll work together for the the people of state minnesota. we'll disagree. we'll talk very concrete way but we will look for ways to get the benefit of the people. thes far as representing governor in a court case that may come up, you'll be comfortable representing the governor? >> if it's constitutional, if we'll getble, then together figure out how to do that. people pass laws all the time are simply difficult to implement. may conflict with other laws. areong as they constitutional and not too vague or too irrational. >> apparently mr. ellison just told us he thinks laws are irracial rational h -- irrationl he will not defend

he is here to give a boost to republican jim hagedorn, competing for seat vacated by tim walsh, who isng for governor. hillary clinton won the state of minnesota in 2016. president trump won this district by a landslide. absolutely this will be a friendly crowd here. it should be a of no surprise, should he continue his defense of his embattled supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh as he did at a rally earlier this week in mississippi, calling this entire process guilty until proven innocent with regard to call mitigations against kavanaugh noting that he had not met judge kavanaugh recently. therefore he is not attempting to protect his friend but the country. that is the same rally which the president was widely criticized for appearing to mock some of the testimony by dr. christine blasey ford before the senate judiciary committee, calling out her lack of detail on time and location of the assault she says happened all those years ago. david, things are set to get underway here at 6:30 central time, 7:30 eastern. david: good stuff. alicia. thank you very much. melissa. melissa: brea