so in theory, you re looking at the top targets here for democrats when they look healed to 2018. so far they want to pin on republicans that they re targeting. 14 of the republicans from clinton held districts said go ahead and pin that on me. obviously, as you were saying, there was a lot of hesitation, a lot of concern here among republicans in districts like. this i don t necessarily the want to go on the record voting for this but republican leadership, it looks like in the end, they made just enough of them walk the plank so they could get it through. nine republicans from clinton held districts were able to vote no. 14 voted yes. if you take it to the second, if you look at the near miss districts. districts clinton lost but she was close, within 5 points. 11 of those, nine republicans voted yes. you look on payment. the top targets for democrats on
thank you, south carolina. i love you. reporter: the focus of tonight s first in the south forum will be on bernie sanders. we have a lot of work to do specifically in the after african-american community and the latino community. reporter: if he can t improve on his showing with black voters, it doesn t matter if he wins iowa or new hampshire. that will not be enough to propel him to the nomination. so do you have a question for tonight s forum? now is your chance to ask using #msnbc 2016 on twitter. and tune in tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern to see if your question was selected. let s welcome now bloomberg reporter kevin. i want to shift to the republ republicans because ben carson is talking about his violent past on his book tour. there are some questions whether the people he says he attacked were even real. what do you know? well, i was with dr. carson on the campaign trail earlier this week in an eight-stop tour
outrageous. can you give us the latest you ve been hearing? i know the house has been voting in the last few minutes. reporter: they ve been voting on the issue of conferees. but as harry reid said he will table it. what is interesting, i spoke to republican members and they were caught off guard by speaker boehner s motion not expecting him for the conferencees on the cr. they are going to have a press conference around 1:00. they want to continue this message. they want to see the government open and basic fairness for all americans. kind of this push of the vitter amendment. but in terms of where we go from here as we move into tuesday, the idea has always been from republ republicans that a one day shutdown is not the end of the world. however, we ve seen practically every single vehicle they could
in the house that probably harry reid could do it in the senate, but will republicans give something that they ve already offered before to get something? and we don t have to get even further down the road here because as i was game planning it here, with some revenue enhancement they ll have to go house side, get a conference agreement, and it s still going to be tricky but at some point the danger here is the congress it self will grab hold of the cuts on the benefits side, put them into reconciliation bill and the president will get some of the cuts he s agreed to. there s always the tricky part of that. polling wise i think this puts the president on the political good side of the angels. a recent poll shows who the public thinks is to blame for the budget impasse. who do they trust more? half say the president got 41%. he has a pretty substantial advantage over them. when asked who is responsible for the partisan gridlock, 48% blame the republicans. only 30% blame the president
larger deficit reduction plan, which is part of an economic strategy to strengthen jobs in our economy, that there s not are you ready for this? there s not one single penny, not one, that you can get from any tax expenditure, any special interest tax break, any loophole for the most well-off american that you can apply for deficit reduction. thanks so much gene sperling from the white house. the managing he heditor of the , i think normally somebody has to lead, and it s one of those things almost like in a kidnapping you have to i want the baby back, here is your $100,000. you have to do it exactly at the same time. in this case the republicans didn t want to do it at exactly the same time. the president has to lead and i think it has trickiness. what do you think? you re right in the sense the president is doing like a hostage exchange saying we know that republicans want something very specific. they would like to cut entitlements. democrats should understand