it includes such things as the president s tax returns, emoluments violations, dismissal of epa oared members, the family separation policy and the hurricane response in puerto rico that left 3,000 americans dead. meanwhile, the possibility of a blue wave this november is real. since according to the cook political report democrats overperformed by an average of 8% or 9% in special elections. an enskrooized democratic base has resulted in record-breaking number of women running for office. to walk us through the political landscape democrats are face let s bring in msnbc national political correspondent steve kornacki. steve, what s the battleground look like? that s an interesting way to start when you talk about the special elections and those giant gains democrats have been posting. here s the big difference now that we re talking about november. not open seats in a lot of cases. a lot of incumbents. and you start look potentially for republicans at an advantage that comes with in