on him and his partner. he was hit but not before returning fire. the deputy was rushed to the hospital. the harris county constable precinct showing other deputies visiting the wounded deputy in the hospital and asking for prayers for their hero who is expected to undergo surgery. jon: taking congress back from the republicans in this year s mid-term elections could be harder than democrats at first thought. a recent washington post /abc news poll shows the gap between support for democratic and gop house candidates has the dropped by more than half since the beginning of the year. the most potential for change exists in the house where democrats need to flip just 24 seats to regain the majority. let s talk about the political prospects here. lawrence jones, editor in chief of campus reform.org and with us former missouri state
this is what is happening at the state level. the focus should be on 18. if people are interested in running for president, they ought to look at january, february, march of 2019. but your focus if you care about the principles and the values of our party, you d better be working hard. that s why i m traveling all over the country. i ve done things for house candidates. that s where my focus is. it is not about winning the office. bits the values you stand for. it sounds like you said you want to come on in 2019 and announce your plans. i ll be glad to be with you in january 2019. next, the immigration vote. one group is on the sidelines closely waiting for the outcome. at this point, either i get shipped or not, deported or not. that s basically what is at stake. the dreamers who are ready and willing to serve the country
last few months. a huge amount of excitement about the special elections and not winning the seat. how is this one different? it is different. steve scalise is doing better in the hospital and thank god for that. we should all say a prayer for him and his family. this was a tough week in washington. and i don t agree with steve ka ska lease about anything, but he doesn t deserve what happened to him and he used that for political gain is disgusting, and enough of us have to keep being shocked by this. we cannot allow that to become normal in our politics. it s wrong. i say that as a guy in new york politics and it takes a lot to shock me. this first time candidate is doing ten points better easily than he should be doing. we want to win and i think we will tomorrow. but we ve already won. we re seeing romney voters who have problems with the president starting to look at democrat house candidates. project that into other races, particularly in the suburban
good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. in 36 days donald trump becomes the president of the united states. today, trump continues to contest the u.s. intelligence community s near unanimous conclusion that russia directed cyber espionage against democrats during the presidential campaign. last night, we reported that two senior u.s. intelligence officials told nbc news russian president vladimir putin was personally involved in what the intelligence community concludes was a covert campaign to influence the u.s. election. according to those officials who could belong to any one of the 17 different u.s. intelligence agencies, we don t know, intelligence community now believes with a, quote, high level of confidence that putin, himself, directed the use of hacked material from the dnc. clinton campaign chair john podesta and almost a dozen democratic house candidates. now, while the kremlin calls the report, i m quoting here, laughable nonsense, nbc news
democrats during the presidential campaign. last night, we reported that two senior u.s. intelligence officials told nbc news russian president vladimir putin was personally involved in what the intelligence community concludes was a covert campaign to influence the u.s. election. according to those officials who could belong to any one of the 17 different u.s. intelligence agencies, we don t know, intelligence community now believes with a, quote, high level of confidence that putin, himself, directed the use of hacked material from the dnc. clinton campaign chair john podesta and almost a dozen democratic house candidates. now, while the kremlin calls the report, i m quoting here, laughable nonsense, nbc news reporting intelligence officials ascribing a high-level conditions in their conclusions, which is about as definitive as intelligence analysts get. and yet this morning, the president-elect tweeted if russia or some other entity was hacking, why did the white house wait so long