that is the usual process. melissa: marie, i wonder if democrats feel like this is a good issue. i don t necessarily believe in polling, but when you believe in the direction of the polls, when he comes them all together, it seems like it has, in mitch mcconnell s words, awoken a sleeping giant and fired up republicans. democrats were already fired him, they didn t need firing at. to think it s a good issue for them? marie: i do in many places. first, the republican party has traditionally been underwater with female voters across the board. we have seen polling since the kavanaugh confirmation that they have lost even more points with female voters. in the house, the places democrats need to win to take back control tend to be suburban districts, districts that hillary clinton won. they have a lot of women, particularly independent women who have been very unhappy with the trump administration. i think in the house it will help democrats. the senate, the map and the math is a lot
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swat team entered that room. right. we see this often, bill. where they decide to go out in a blaze of glory unfortunately. this was just indiscriminate fire. from that distance you can t see who you are firing at. you re spraying a crowd of innocent people. it is unconscionable. bill: i m glad you re okay. and thank you for taking a few moments with us. ed davis, former police commissioner in boston, massachusetts, now on the vegas strip in nevada, which if you look at maps and you try to piece this together i m sure a lot of folks in our audience have been to las vegas a time or two. this is the southern end of that strip right near the airport. so it s not right in the heart of las vegas but it is not too far away. as our reporters on the ground have been telling us it s eerily quiet in a city that never sleeps for anyone who has passed through there or stays there. it is surreal for people who i have had people writing me
this is u.k. time. if we move in, it was the las romblas area, this huge boulevard that moves right through the city, largely pedestrian eyes, lots of tourists there. we have reports of people killed and injured, it has gone up and down as the afternoon has progressed. then we have police calling the incident a terror attack. it took a while because at first there was always the idea that it may have been a horrible accident, that quickly was dismissed. after 5:00 there was gunfire reported near the market. we don t know who reported it, who was supposed to be firing and who they were firing at. what we do know is that police have been moving through the market in the last hour, presumably checking whether or
trump s approach, cutting individual deals with different companies in order to save jobs, then firing at them via twitter, is that the right strategy? can that be replicated on a national basis, a nationwide scale? well, do you mean firing at, like, boeing or firing back at chuck jones? well, both. i would say firing back at chuck jones as everybody on the panel has probably come to the consensus that it probably was not a good thing for him to do but for boeing and for carrier and on and on. well, you know, i mean, kevin made an excellent point because, you know, i know a lot of these union guys and a lot of them get really sort of upset with their leadership and they look at their dues going, you know, going for political things and they re not keeping their jobs. so some of this is probably not going after union workers but going after union leadership and going after the status quo. so, you know, i don t think he s