substantially since he was elected. unemployment, job growth, these are more or less on the same track that he had inherited when he came in. so the truth is that he is still struggling to find things to hold on to that can count as victories. he didn t get one tonight in virginia in the off-year governor s election. he hasn t got a big one on capitol hill. we don t know that he ll get one on taxes. so the one thing he hangs on to, the one thing he can point to again and again is the election. as you point out because this investigation into russian meddling, even that election is called into question. so he brings it back up again in order to dispute the idea that there was anything unvar nished about it because he thinks that s trying to delegitimize his presidency. our panelists will stand by with us. we ll keep the conversation going. another break for us. when we come back, what just happened in the common wealth of virginia tonight. voters have spoken there and in some other bi