The senate says kushner withheld emails about a, quote, russian back door over tour. And House Republicans pass the trump tax plan. I dont benefit. New Analysis Finds that the plan saves trumps family over 1 billion. I pay as little as possible. I fight like hell to pay as little as possible. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. The same president who has weighed in on everything from Meryl Streeps acting to Social Media Policies of espn tonight has no opinion whatsoever on the voracity of the allegations that his partys nominee for u. S. Senate in alabama pursued and sexually assaulted between age girls when he was an adult. Reporte reporters today his Press Secretary studiously avoided taking a position on whether the
white house refusing to take a stand on roy moore is the same white house that claims that every single one of those women, every single one of the president s accusers, is lying. Obviously, Sexual Harassment has been in the news, at
about the economy, jobs, health care and such. did it work? it absolutely worked. i mean the problem is the democrats had to win to retake the house. a lot of zrdistricts that eithe voted for trump or were historically republican districts. and in those districts talking about impeaching donald trump wouldn t have worked. democrats didn t talk about the russia probe at all, and in fact in those districts people wanted more civility. that might have been a pipe dream in the era of donald trump, but they actually wanted to go and let people get things down even with the president. and what nancy pelosi understood was that the issue of health care and maintaining free and existing conditions against the republican effort to repeal obamacare wasn t something the democrats ran on in the most blue districts and even the most red districts, and that a very true strategy. steve, when you look at the math and you say do the math,
back in his run for the state strategy, going into 2006. and there are some things that look similar. we george pubush s approval s in the mid-30s. we forget that now, right? that s a good point. congressional job approval was in the 20s, right? you had the big wave of voters looking for change and democrats had a slight advantage on the favorability over republicans. it s a lot tighter now. but one of the things that you also saw was the energy, right? but there was also, from an issue standpoint, george bush killed us with terrorism and security, you know that, right? and then there was a values consideration. on the values, there was two big issues in 2004, where republicans had a huge advantage. there was terrorism and values. we said going in 2006, if we could cut those down from 30 and 20-point advantages, we may have a shot in these zrdistricts.