joining me now, matthew dowd, msnbc senior political contributor and analyst. hank you for coming back to the sunday show. just what i am just sort of dumbfounded that i am lauding former majority leader mitch mcconnell for doing the right thing, for standing on his principles and voting against hegseth, gabbard and rfk jr. where has the republican party gone? >> well, that's the that's that's what we've seen over the last ten years. and it probably stretches further, but it's been accelerated over the last ten years. this is no longer a party that is a principled conservative party. i would argue that that mitch mcconnell, while he made machinations and did things i didn't like about garland and a number of other things, he at least acted from a principled, conservative standpoint, even if his machinations, i think, were harmful to the united states senate. that no longer exists in the republican party. the principled conservatives have been exiled if they took a stand or today they're quieted and they just respond to the sort of autocratic, populist movement t

matthew dowd, chief strategist for the bush-cheney 2004 presidential race. and tom dupree, former deputy assistant attorney general under george w bush. garrett, there have been more than 40 lawsuits now against the trump administration on a different number of his executive orders. how are officials inside the white house treating this pushback they're getting from the courts. and more added every. >> day, perhaps. >> even every hour. jose, i think these lawsuits have become perhaps the most effective brake on the trump administration, because even if they ultimately these plaintiffs ultimately lose, they are at least slowing down elements of the trump agenda. and that's the way the white house looks at it, that these are speed bumps. they believe that they will ultimately win. most of these cases, though, especially the ones that they say deal with executive authority that should rightly be used by the executive. and while there may be an individual district court judges who disagree with their assessment, they think through the appeals process. even if it

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