one seat of securing the majority. here s the list of uncalled races here. youd see a whole bunch of them are in california. there are several races in california whereve republicans e leading,ep that path to 218 is really opening up clearly for republicans. they find themselves one seat away with a number of different ways to geter there. steve kornacki, never receives well, it doesn t escape us that new york and california may ultimately be instrumental in handing republicans the control of the lower chamber however margins matter. steve, if we get any more calls this hour, please stand by and let usan know. we ll get right back to you. thank you as baalways. we have much more to come tonight as we wait for the once future of the republican party to make his big announcement. including the beginning of the campaign headquarters at the club. ea and michigan governor
preeverybodively really concerned about women s reproductive freedoms in the state of michigan, and you sued to challenge the constitutionality of this 1931 zombie law that would effectively kick into place should roe fall, you were prescient, and you were talking about democrats are always playing defense, and trying to explain not what republicans paint them to be. you went on offense and i wonder if there s a lesson to lever about that. i talked to governor newsom in california. he said, they need to put republicans in the corner. how do you do that offense die namic? i think it s the people, showing up and using every tool at your disposal to live your values and deliver for the people that you serve. when justice ginsburg pass and
see him as a loser, not a winner, when they see him causing more harm than good, that s when you seem republica needing to drift away. the question is whether or not republicans do.s he still has awful lot of support among the base and a lot of political figures are nervous to do anything to aggravate him because they don t want to aggravate that base. i remember interviewing once a republican senator who did not like donald trump. i said, why is it you don t say anything? because i did a poll in my state and 88% of the constituents support donald trump. and that s always been the case if that changes, if they see that i the base is drifting awa from donald trump, that s when they will begin to drift away themselves. that is d an open question, mean, you wrote in your analysis of what s happening here, i think a very relevant point is there s the republican party of it all, and then there s the trump of it all. doestr it work?
when you consider appointing a special counsel, you have to consider the costs and benefits of doing that. there s no legal requirement to appoint a special counsel, it s a discretionary call and it s done when people might tend to doubt the independence of the attorney general himself. when you ve got someone running for president against your boss, i suppose that s a fair question to ask. when you think about the costs and the benefits here. what s the benefit? maybe you get the creation of independents, but probably not. think about the way robert mueller was treated. you couldn t find a more fair person in america in fact one with republican bona fides. and with trump, accusing trump accusing him of being partisan. and to start over after both investigations have been under way for some time. my hunch is we will not see a special counsel. yeah. the timing on all of this