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brad blakeman. >> good morning. cheryl: i'm going to gu you what nancy pelosi has to say.of the plan. >> nothing more than than a cruel-codification of president trump's antiimmigrant theagd abandons or nation's heritage as beacon of hope and opportunity. needless to say democrats will not be supported whatsoever. >> under eight years of obama democrats promise, they ran obama ran on first term as first thing he was going to do is solve immigration, they never did yet they had to power to do it. republicans also ran on solving immigration starting with our border and promises made, promises must be kept. we have white house and congress. by the way, we have a very important midterm election coming up and the american people are going to stake stock of the promise that is were made and kept. so this is not a nice to do, this is a must do for our country. cheryl: one of the biggest, if you will, outcries that we have seen about how the administration is handling the border and illegal immigrants is the separation of participants and children and paul ryan respond today that

we are back with our panel, brad blakeman former deputy assistant of george w.bush. question] have jose aristimuno. we are the presidents branding, wacky jackie. brad, your thoughts on this nevada senate race and whether dean heller should embrace the president have a little distance? >> you cannot argue with success. donald trump has promised and he has delivered peer promises made our promises kept. the most important thing the state of nevada is, the economy. it is a tourist dependent state.people tend to travel when they have money. and the economy is doing well. if the economy is doing well, nevada is doing well. all you need to know is if democrats gain control the house or senate or both, they will push for higher taxes. we do not need to push back our economy. we do not need entrenchment in our economy. we need continued growth. we are on a pathway of historic growth in our country. not just next year but a year after. we're looking at long-term growth. >> jose aristimuno, with the split, every seat is critical. a lot of democrats are looking at the nevada se

brad blakeman, thank you for your insight. >> pleasure.hat one mother who held up the urn with the remains of her child, i mean, that was one heck of a press conference. it was very hard. you saw the president running afterwards. i think it affected him emotionally. meanwhile don't judge a book by it's cover, the truth behind the photo -- have you heard about this? talk about outrageous. deadline for rod rosenstein to hand over unredacted documents, what's the political fallout if they don't bill mcgurn, wall street journal columnist is here to sound off coming next. >> paul made it very clear there's going to be action on the floor of the house this week if the fbi and doj do not comply with our subpoena requests. how do you win at business? stay at laquinta. where we're changing with contemporary make-overs. then, use the ultimate power handshake, the upper hander with a double palm grab. who has the upper hand now? start winning today. book now at lq.com. . man: i got scar tissue there. same thing with any dent or dings on this truck. t

the tweet since deleted let's take it up with former bush 43 deputy assistant brad blakeman and fox news contributor. brad, the secret service was alerted about fonda's tweet, your reaction to it? >> well they should be. this is a threat against the son of the president, and it shouldn't stand no matter who says it and especially those people who have a way of getting it out to mass people who might have the same idea or give them an idea. i don't know what's wrong with the fondas but they're not above the law. liz: you know, doug peter fonda, yesterday deleted a tweet also calling for protest against i.c.e. agents families, and basically saying, you know, we should show up at their children 's schools, we should get the addresses of their homes , surround them in protest, find out what schools their kids go to and surround the schools in protest. i mean, we're not saying they're doing this because they want to do it. highly disputed. your reaction to that before we get to this sound bite coming up >> this is all abhorent, liz. it's bad for the country, bad politically, bad just as an am

. >> melissa: we are joined by brad blakeman, former assistant to george w.d dave brown former senior adviser and the committee counsel to patty murray and democratic strategist. to refresh the audience memory, here is a bit of the interview that caused the controversy in the first place. >> do you feel like you owe her an apology? >> no, i do -- i do not -- i never talked to her. but i did say publicly on mor than one occasion sorry. that is very different. the apology was public. >> melissa: he said he didn't get out of it scot-free and came out of the presidency $16 million in debt. brad, maybe one of the problem is he is in the interview he got angry. and he sort of made it sounds like he felt he was the victim of the whole situation. what do you think? >> the hubbub is he a serial fredor and he can't bring himself to make a personal apology to the victim who he victimized in the white house. this was the intern's first job to be hit on by the president of the united states. it's unconscionable. anybody else would be fired on the spot and run out of town.

sheer brad blakeman, former senior staffer to george w. bush.say the races are a harbinger of what's to come and that it's not a sentiment about the president but that particular district. what do you say to that? >> i don't think that's the case. in november,yes, that will be the case. politics or local, but i think there's a movement going on because there's a success of the president. riding the wave of accomplishment. you take south carolina, that's what primaries are for. it's an internal cleansing of the party. had we had mark sanford continue in that spot as a republican nominee. he was weakened and probably would have lost in the generals. primaries are the selection process but you have to be selected to be elected in nomb. we're getting trump-like candidates, who are carrying the banner of trump's message, but a message of accomplishment. melissa: but the flipside of that argument is the more moderate candidate who could win in the general as the one that gets thrown out in the primary, only voters among republicans or whichever party

let's go maria bartiromo and brad blakeman, former assistant to george w. bush. wler radio talk show host and fox news contributor. you wouldn't be the a-team if you didn't have lengthy resumes, right? brad, start with you first. what a night that was. what were you able to conclude from this? >> coattails from the president. the president came in to south carolina. the vice president came in supported candidates. remember, in election cycles you have to be selected by the party before you are elected by the people. we have selected people who are electable and where the party should be. that's the good news going into november. >> i agree with that. a good night for the president, but also i think it's really important to take a look at what happened in the democratic party. it's huge upset ousting crowley. you wonder if this is actually furthering the democratic party further left. i feel this party has been hijacked by the left and i think that's been the issue with a lot of upand the debate going on. if this is portending to further movements to the left i thi

joining us brad blakeman, former deputy sis is assistant to former president george w. bush.op laughing. i can't help it, i find it hilarious. we have to be reasonable here. i want to ask every democrat, do you believe this? what do you say? >> i say democrats do believe this kind of nonsense. it takes away from serious issues where a clear and present danger to america, like unsustainable debt. how about that? how about immigration, securing our borders. they never want to deal with the here and now. always something else something a more fick or farrell louse that nobody can-- perilous, that nobody can put their hand around. stuart: it's a around their neck, it's a millstone around their neck. >> sure it is. stuart: i don't think most people in america are buying this analysis. >> this is typical left mumbo-jumbo. this is the y2k of today. people know it. if california wants to go off the deepened, be kooky, we'll have mass exodus. taxation, sanctuary cities, everything suffering in their pocketbooks and united states federal government will step in to do what they need to

stephen colbert where he was pressed on the monica lewinsky matter some 20 years later and we have brad blakemanistant to george w. bush. marie, did you get a sense of that from the series of appearances he's done? >> i think president clinton is being tone deaf and i don't know what he expected when he wrote a novel and went on a book tour. this is a me too era. i feel bad for his novelist sitting there like we have to talk about this. what's upsetting is i'm someone who support the president and he's under cutting the work he's done to rebuild his reputation as someone who's focussed on eradicating poverty, combatting global health crises. this is hurting what i think has been a post-presidency legacy that has been a pretty strong one. >> bill: brad, i know you're not much of a fan. >> no. >> bill: and we look at the issue in a different way than we did in 1995 or even 1998 at the national prayer breakfast. on the interview in nbc he said that's when a poll -- apologized to everybody, my family, my staff, the lewinskys. does he get past this? >> i don't think he ever does. 20 years later he is

wee have former bush 43 advisor, brad blakeman, democratic strategist, richard fowler. , brad's argument on the weekendhow, the treight now is the friend for republicans. blew wave, put off talk of that? do you agree with that or just a case of one republican getting a too giddy. >> no. i think our chances look good but history is not on our side. since the civil war on average we lost 30 plus seats in the house and two senate seats. we can't afford to do that and remain in control. the good news is, we have history, not on our side but we do have the fact that we have a record. we have a record of accomplishment. the economy couldn't be doing better, regardless what pelosi or democrats say. also democrats are defending many more seats than republican this is cycle. they are out of money. they can't raise money. you need order to defend or take a seat. neil: you know, richard, do you think, regardless whether you think of the economy or the comeback is real or whatever, nancy pelosi, it is one thing to poo-poo the tax cuts or whatever, it is another thing to say that thi

so let's bring in brad blakeman a former deputy assistant to president george w.n some level it makes sense and you can't argue with it. this example with a cheese pizza versus a pepperoni pizza. the cheese pizza is regulated by the fda for safety and the pepperoni pizza would be regulated by the department of agriculture. it doesn't make a lot of sense. >> you're absolutely right. it boggles the mind, right? i also think, though, we can move away from the example of what is being done with pizzas and understand that a restructuring of our federal agencies, with the intent to dismantle social safety nets, that is nefarious and cruel in a way that is in many ways unamerican. i think we can all agree -- i hope we can all agree our social safety net programs help make america great. and i don't know if president trump really gets it or if he is just not aware of how hard some of his most ardent supporters poor, working class americans will be hit when the social safety net is ripped away. >> heather: do you think that's the intent. >> absolutely not. the democratic r