well. they re linked together. they ve got to do it together. i think your point is well-taken, symone. the election is going to have some impact tomorrow. we ll see what happens. not a great deal, but we ll see. let s talk about that race tomorrow because it is important. the governor s race in virginia very, very competitive. trump loyalist corey stewart, he lost the republican nomination to ed gillespie, but steve bannon, the president s top strategy at the white house is now outside of the white house has this take, he told the washington post that stewart is the reason that gillespie is going to win. it was embracing trump s agenda as personified by corey s platform. this was not a competitive race four weeks ago. you could have stuck a fork in gillespie. now the idea that gillespie is more trumpy in terms of the appeals he s making to the voters of the commonwealth of virginia. do you agree? i don t. you know, virginia has been trending a little bit more blue over the last
really worried about. i m not discounting it. i m not saying, you know, i agree with chairman rogers, i think let the investigation take its place and its course. i think as americans we should all be very concerned about any type of russian interference or outside interference in our election process. think the russians are sitting back and laughing thinking about how they can exploit us further in the future. i think we need to take every measure we can. take had hearings on the hill with the social media companies. to peel back the onion there. we need more cooperation among those types of groups. i m hopeful our intelligence agencies are doing everything we can to combat these things and put uh up firewalls and fight the fight in cyber space to preclude those things from happening. symone, are you worried at all that democrats are counting on a conclusion by robert mueller that might not happen? it might be that all that he does is the two indictments of manafort and gates and pa
democrats and democrats need to ask for a litany of things. they might ask for five and might get three. we have to understand we have the upper hand here. for david, the polls probably didn t matter when y all were running for president last year, but it matters right now. republicans in congress are not going to along to get along with president trump if they know it s not popular with the folks at home. they want to get elected. the people at home are watching and have yet to see any substantial wins for them. we still see here,cy symone, 87% of the republican base, that s pretty good numbers. we re not wandering around the world like your party is trying to find a voice. we ve got a voice. are you saying that president trump is the voice for the totality of the republican party. listen, i m just saying we re going to talk about it tomorrow. think chairman rogers makes the good point that that s, you know, the house and senate realize they need to work together to get someth
he needs to end all of that. i think the biggest worry for republicans in 2018 are watching this rise of independent in that poll. you can see a steady number where independents are starting to sow doubt. and that s what will hurt republicans in 2018 more than anything i saw in the poll. it s a snapshot in time. he has plenty of time to get out of this, but, you know, he i think he would take this as an opportunity to change the way he s dealing, both with congress and maybe even the public. very the very partisan breakdowns, democrats 5% approve, 92% disapprove. republicans, 86% approve, 8% disapprove. it s the independents as you note, 39% disapprove. symone, do you think the democratic party and the officials are capitalizing on this issue? you know what, i don t think so as much as we probably can. i think that s why this budget fight coming up at the end of the year is really important. democrats have all the leverage. republicans do not have enough votes in congress to pass
than that. if that s all that happens, don t democrats have some answering to do and some alternative narratives to discuss? look, i definitely think the grassroots progressive left and democrats are looking for these large indictments, these looming indictments that come quickly, and i want to caution folks to say this could drag on for four years. we don t know how long this investigation will happen. so i think it s incumbent upon democrats on the hill and the democratic party leadership to have come to the table with something. what is the answer to countering what the russians are doing in terms of meddling in our elections in terms of social media? what are democrats saying? what are our plans in 2018 for folks in terms of the economy? it s not just enough to say the other guy is really bad. they ve got some crazy stuff going on over there. we have to bring something to the table. and i do think we are ceding the conversation on the social media piece a little too much. we ha