second, superpac money poured in. new york times estimates handel benefited from $18.2 million of spending by outside groups. and third, old-fashioned gerrymandering. its boundaries clearly were crafted to benefit republican candidates. joining me now to pick over this, michelle goldberg, who is in georgia, whose slate is titled more liberal tears. and author of audacity, and a title that this might be the worst freakout ever. you were basically like, hey, michelle s writing from the tears perspective, you re basically saying, stop crying, it s not so bad. what s your general read here? you have to adjust your point of view of what s going to happen for the party with everything that happens. in this election, it was worse for the democrats by a few points than they expected.
he is learning how much more difficult it is here on here in washington when you have to deal with the folks on capitol hill, you have to deal with a disagreement between fiscal fefsh quefshtives and more moderate republicans and the tremendous pressure that s been put to bare by outside groups. all i can tell you right now is that some intense meetings were going on as of five or ten minutes ago and they re trying to find the path forward. chris, thank you, we ll let you go. kelly o donnell had to run and get more reporting as well. i promise you, we ll check back with him as soon as we hear anything at all. for more on this high-stakes health care vote that may happen or maybe not, i want to bring in a republican congressman who s currently against the bill, congressman mark emodi. can i ask you for a status update. do you think 3:30 or 4:00 eastern time we may actually have a vote? you know what, i would be
outside groups. you re right. he had no criminal record, there were no red flags, not on the radar of authorities at all. there was a very disturbing new report out from george washington university focusing on extremism and what it shows is this unprecedented level of support for isis within the united states. we re talking about several thousand u.s.-based sympathizers. you ve got more terror related arrests in this country in 2015 than any year since 9/11. you re looking at the map where the red states, minnesota, new york, highlighted with the most sort of isis related arrests in the country. that number s at 56 this year. what do you make of these numbers, and why triple the amount of isis arrests this year than last year? is it just better law enforcement or is it a bigger problem? i think it may be a combination of both. i think right now, and for the last year when we ve started to see some of these cases, the fbi s attitude is simply if you
ideological component. this attack seemed premeditated. there may have been a longstanding issue, but something like this required some planning. especially with the type of weapons and explosives that were used. and very disturbing with a woman being involved. we ve seen women on the periphery of plots but never directly coordinating an attack before. there are some signs they are trying to cover their tracks. a couple of cell phones destroyed, found at one of the crime scenes. the computer had drive had been removed. some signs that rizwan had been deleting files over the last several days. one of the questions, if this was terrorism, was it inspired by or directed by outside groups? for these groups operating primarily in the middle east, isis, aqap, al qaeda, do they
finding a reason to carry out some sort of a hateful attack. so you re right, but they are looking at this very closely. one other thing anderson that i can tell you and that is you may see a bear cat was brought in one of the big heavy armored vehicles and i am told by the source that the body of the dead person was indeed checked for explosives and that was one of the things they were very concerned about. clearly lessons learned from previous attacks, anderson. deb, i m going to ask you this and i m not sure if you know more about this information, if you don t, i ll check with kyung lah to see if she does. the target, what we believe to have been the target of the attack and we know the facility but there was a conference center within the facility that often would be booked by outside groups. do we know exactly who the group was who was having a meeting or some sort of function at the that conference center at the time? because it seems like most of the fatalities, if not all oc