one pieces of evidence that they point to, why they think they're going to have a good november is this flood of strong candidates that they're getting. that is great in a lot of ways, the down side of that is there are more strong candidates than there are competitive distrigts to go around and you end one a lot of strong democrats running against each other. they're going to spend money, ding each other up. in the primary and then the really ugly part is in california. which is the central push of democrats path to retake the house, seven seats that hillary clinton won currently held by republicans. california has the jungle primary rule. so if there are so many democrats in these races and they split the vote you could end up with two republicans on the ballot in november. that's happened before. it's cost them a seat in the past and they're absolutely panicked about it especially in darrell issa's seat. >> kasie? >> alex, i'm curious what your reporting says about the dccc and other entrenched organizations are handling this wave of kpds. i've picked up on a level of