it weighs on where you are. look, i think you will see some house candidates, democrats, trying to raise the issue and fire up women who are furious about what happened with the brett kavanaugh hearings. i think in a lot of senate states, democrats are going to want to quickly go back to local issues and talking about the contrast between them and their opponents and put this behind them. all right. jonathan martin, josh green, thank you very much. three political reporters, three for three saying republicans welcome these new comments from hillary clinton. it s interesting. she s sharing her feelings. that s valid. that s her prerogative. but politically in terms of the acumen, who knows if that s right. all right. a journalist reportedly murdered in turkey. china arresting the head of interpoll and russia accused of causing cyber attacks around the
the white house is in damage control following bob woodward s book called fear and the new york times op-ed. how is this drama impacting republican candidates? let s get the bottom line with cnn s chief political correspondent dana bash. great to have you here. what is the ripple effect of everything we ve seen this week involving the white house? the headline from republican operatives i m talk ing ing to are trying to keep control of republican hands the congress in republican hands is not good. it s become more and more difficult for republicans on the leadership level and on down to raise money because republican donors are not as eager to write checks in this environment and they re seeing in the a big way, i m told. also just the chaotic environment is not good for these house candidates.
arizona and a lot of these states to defend in a way that s unusual, i will say that. the texas thing, look, i think a lot of us weren t believing, weren t believing. you know a tell when a group goes in and club for growth suddenly is putting in some big numbers now on beto. cruz didn t want to admit he s vulnerable. he doesn t want to put in his own money and you don t want really a party-affiliated money but club for growth is the perfect group to put money in there. texas is one example of this where worst case scenario for democrats they don t win that seat but buoy a bunch of house candidates. i like the fact that ted cruz has a race because that s going to make him work and help all of our down ballot culverson, sessions, a lot of our house republican candidates. but at the end of the day, jennifer duffy and i have talked about this. we get stuck on the fact that history says you don t have a
learned from some interesting reporting from spencer ackerman of the daily beast, that the democratic congressional campaign committee the committee in the democratic party in charge of electing house candidates. they have just warned, given a warning to all of the congressional candidates across the country who have a national security backgrounds, people who have security clearances or who have had security clearances in the past because of their past work. the democratic party has now officially warned all of those candidates that they should be prepared for the trump administration to potentially illegally leak their security clearance applications so that those application can be used against them by the republican party in the general election. the reason for the warn secretary because it has happened apparently once already to one democratic candidate. the new york times breaking the news late last night that this candidate, abigail spinberger, a former cia case
juan: is nancy pelosi s popularity problem putting her in peril? political reporting at least 20 democratic house candidates say they will not support her bid for speaker if the blue wave sweeps the democrats back in power in november. let me ask you, jesse. what do you make of this? jesse: i am reading that pelosi put out a statement on trump s executive order and she says it paves the way for long-term incarceration of children. he can t win. he s either separating families were imprisoning children. this is politics. i would say republicans aren t running away from donald trump. democrats are running away from nancy pelosi. that kind of shows is state of politics right now. the center right coury and the president is more in touch with the average person. juan: what do you think?