washington post chief correspondent dan balz.or and special correspondent alicia menendez. tom cole, and keith ellison, who has endorsed bernie sanders. meeting saying he's enxournlgd lindsey graham is going to stop saying things about donald trump. sit unity or fake unity? >> i think so far fake unity. progress was made on thursday. the relationship between paul ryan and donald trump is tenuous. it was a productive meeting. a decent immediate meting. paul ryan was not ready to come out of the meeting and give a put th full-throat t endorsement. >> they're different in almost every way we can imagine. stylistically. on the core issues. >> probably the same on tax reform. both believe the obama foreign policy has been a disaste there's common ground and that's normal politics. differences with your nominee are nor pal politics. donald trump is a political phenomenon. i think the speaker was wise when he said we shouldn't appear to have fake unity when there's not. let's have a process. see where there's common ground. in the end,

we begin again this evening with politics and talk to dan balz of "the washington post." >> if the end hillary clinton is sworn in in january of 2017, many people would go back and say well, what was all that about. we knew that she was the odds on favorite for the nomination. we few that she might well be the president. and we've ended up in that place. it took a lot of unexpected twists and turns to get there. but i think that what we have been through this year, charlie, tells us that we're in a different place in our politics. i mean the sanders challenge to clinton has been more successful than anybody would have imagined. and it says something about a portion of the electorate and the grieveances that they have. and their suspicion about, in a sense, establishment politics. and certainly the trump success in becoming the presumptive nominee amounts to that in spades. >> rose: we continue with michael kinsley. his new book is called, old age, we take physical ailments in our stride. you break your leg, say you broke your leg. and six months it will be healed. and no one gets turne

here with that and more of the week in politics is dan balz. the chief political correspondent for the "washington post." as always, please to have him. what do we make of the deal, or whatever it was that happened on thursday in washington? dan: charlie, i think as everyone seemed to state, this is a first step, not a final step. it was an important set of meetings that donald trump had first with paul ryan, and then the house are public and leadership, and then the senate republican leadership. there was a joint statement almost as if this was a summit meeting where they expressed confidence they were beginning to get on the same page. we know that particularly with donald trump and speaker ryan, they are very different human beings. they come from very different backgrounds. they have very different views about the world. on a lot of policy issues, they are on very different sides of the coin. while they may have a similar desire to have a unified party heading into the fall elections, i think the expectations they are ever going to be exactl

around the table tonight, dan balz, chief correspondent for "the washington post." lisa lerer national politics reporter for a.p. the legal editor for reuters and alexis simendinger, white house correspondent for real clear politics. >> award-winning reporting and analysis. covering history as it happens. live from our nation's capital. this is "washington week" with gwen ifill. corporate funding is provided by -- once again, live from washington sitting in for gwen ifill this week, john harwood of cnbc. >> good evening. the republican party has wrestled with bitter divisions for months. donald trump on one side. the stop trump movement on the other. but suddenly it's the democratic race that's awash in bitterness as bernie sanders keeps trying to spark a political revolution and democratic leaders want him to back off so front-runner hillary clinton can focus on november. tensions between the two campaigns erupted in a ballroom brawl at the democratic convention in nevada last weekend. the vermont senator officially an independent throughout his career in washingto

here with that and more of the week in politics is dan balz, the chief political correspondent for theays, we are pleased to have him. what do we make of the deal, or whatever it was that happened on thursday in washington? dan: charlie, i think as everyone seemed to state, this is a first step, not a final step.

charlie: dan balz from "the washington post." back with you in a moment.tay with us. ♪ dley is: michael kin here, a columnist for "vanity fair." what garner of the new york times says "he possesses probably the greatest journalistic voice of his generation. in 1993 he was diagnosed with hidinson's, a disease he for eight years. he writes about that and more in his new book, "old age a beginner's guide." i am pleased to welcome michael kinsley. i second everything to white said. you view yourself as a kind of scout for the boomer generation. michael: that is the gimmick of the book, that i'm experiencing what everyone is going to experience, unless they get run over by a truck. if they die the way most people die, with some sort of ailment, it will resemble parkinson's, which is very much like growing old. charlie: the tremor is one thing. slowness of movement. michael: slowness of thinking. charlie: thinking as well. , i figured i might as well make it useful. charlie: thank you, by the way. i am about two years earlier than the bloomberg, but i will take

>> well, outrageous attacks have not slowed trump's momentum in the republican primaries and as dan balz reports in "the washington post," he has no intention is of toning it down as he pivots to run against hillary clinton in the general. quote, officials say two things are not likely to change. first trump would continue to be hoof prepared to say imprudent or unpopular things. and second trump's unpredictable what critics regard as his lack of discipline would prove to be an asset against clinton. senator warren tweeted i'm going to fight my heart out to make sure donald trump's toxic stew of hatred never reaches the white house. we're back with robert costa, and joy and eli, eli, start with this. trump's -- maybe i'm alone. i'll take it. i'll take the stand. i think when you mess with something like the assassination of john f. kennedy and those of us who lived through, republican, democrat, or whatever, that was the moment of their life. 9/11 was horrible, but that was something that cut to the heart of this country to have a young president killed right in front of us, and to use i

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