all right. time now for "the lid." the panel is back. emily jane fox. bill crystal, kyle wright. let's talk about the mid terms. i'm curious as somebody on the left side of the discussion here how you are looking towards this. are you looking at all of these metrics we went through the special elections, the approval rating the history and saying this is a wave building here? or are you apprehensive because of what happened in 201:16. >> you gave me chills with the headline display, i remember at the nation when we wrote that, he can't win. and how terrifying it is to think back to it. the thing is is that there is a lot of fundamentals here about the wave that's going to happen, all the numbers that you have shown. that feels pretty clear. but i think the thing that democrats are looking at or should be looking at is also on the positive side of this is the changing -- the ways that there are a number of candidates and a number of campaigns starting to talk about how they can fundamentally change the