i am a republican. my father was a republican.her was a president of the minnesota republicans and a will keep delicate -- wilke delegate. but the election of donald trump would not be bad or every country in the world but it would be disastrous for the republican party. john: last question. will you vote for hillary clinton? rep. weber: i don't know yet. i'm not going to vote for donald trump. i listened to mitt romney the summer talk about why he would vote for a third party or independent candidate. i am waiting that. -- i am weighing that. i listen to the trump people consistently telling us this is a binary decision. if they convinced me of that, i will vote for hillary. be joined by now our friend tom rath. with us here is dancing or -- is dancin den senor. guess you haved been never trump all along. the question is what he will not go to which is what republicans are asking. is donald trump mentally and emotionally fit? >> temperamentally no. i think it is dangerous in the country. if you go back about 10 months -- or even

republicans never do this. you know, they always say democrats fall in love, republicans fall in line. i don't know about the democrats falling in love part. but republicans definitely always fall in line. i mean, what congressman hanna did today is very unusual, historically speaking. democrats are the ones who do this sometimes. in 1956, democratic congressman adam clayton powell crossed over and said he'd vote for eisenhower for president, congressman powell said he wanted to support eisenhower's pro-civil rights stance. in 1964, the following decade, it was racist democrats from the south in congress who crossed over and said they'd support barry gold water in '64 over lbj, because goldwater was against the civil rights act. in 2004, it was georgia senator zel miller, he was a democrat when he endorsed george w. bush for president. and then challenged chris matthews to a duel on live television thereafter. when chris matthews him why. in 2008, it was joe lieberman, he crossed over in 2008 to support his fri

>> well, uniting the republican party which consists of the people of the republican party.d trump set records this year. 14 million people voted for donald trump and the republican party brought out a turn out there are so many new voters that have gotten off their couch and now they're involved and that's who he's speaking to and he has to continue speaking to those voters. that is the part of america that is disenchanted -- >> >> is this the way to bring in new voters. >> absolutely it is >> it's not a new way, then you shouldn't have had him chair your own convention and nominate your vice president candidate. this is simply donald trump getting in his own way, frankly. he should be talking about hillary clinton, and he should be talking about low gdp numbers and he should not be picking these fights. part of me thinks it's a way of him saying that paul ryan is in on this rigged system he's imagining should he not win in november. he's all over the place and he's a train wreck and he has to get back on track. >> if i may, this is the problem, the establishment and those

but the republican convention is over. the republican primary is over. the republican party picked donald trump. he is their nominee. now they're talking about getting rid of him, today? in august? today is the day they're really thinking about maybe getting him off the top of the ticket. this is very -- here's abc news today. republican officials are exploring how to handle a scenario that would be unthinkable in a normal election year. what would happen if the party's presidential nominee dropped out? abc news has learned that senior party officials are so frustrated and confused by trump's erratic behavior, that they're exploring how to replace him on the ballot if he drops out. again, that's abc news. here's nbc news. stunned republicans are seriously considering the idea of an exit ramp. quote, there's absolutely no indication trump is considering leaving the race, but still, quote, some republicans are quietly considering the arcane mechanics of what would happen to the party's ticket if trump was to leave the presidential race? cnn today talks to

she aligns with several black republican organizations. she is unceremoniously hired in -- fired in the 1970's and later goes on to second the nomination of ronald reagan when he challenges gerald ford for the presidency in 1976. >> how influential where they and how successful were they within the party itself? prof. rigueur: success in terms of what these women were doing, it's a difficult term to define. they are successful in placing themselves in extremely high positions of power. one is deputy general and is the first black woman to do so. that in some respects is a level of power. she has to integrate a number of corporate towards -- boards during the 1960's and 1970's. the problem with that is, what are the kind of a coalition that they have in? -- accomplishments they have been? what kind of things happen as they are advising these republican officials? on the one hand, one testifying to the u.n. that racism is a human rights issue of the generation, saying we need to be committed to say, eradication of racism every single way. on

republicans agree republicans agree and disagrees on many, many applications. we have never disagree on the basic fundamental issues of why you and i are republicans. [ applause [ applause ] this is a party. this is a republican party, a party for free man. not for blind followers or conformists. [ applause ] in fact, in 1858, abraham lincoln said this was a republican party tonight. i quote him because he probably said it during the last week or so. it was composed of hostile elements, end of the quote, 1958. yet all of these elements adpgrd on one paramount objective of slavery and place it in the course of extinction. today as then, no urgency -- and more broadly than then, task of enlarging freedom at home and safe guarding it from the forces of tyranny abroad is big enough to challenge all of our resources and requiring all of our strengths. [ applause ] anyone who joins us in all sincerity, we welcome you. [ applause ] >> those -- [ applause ] >> those who do not care for our cause, we don't expect to enter our ranks in any case. [ applause ] and, let our

loyal and dedicated apublican since i was in republican in the -- since i was a republican in the 60'. theosition is that presidential election is already lost. no matter which of the two candidates gets elected. trump is, first of all, just a complete wild card. let alone as a candidate. point, although i spent my life telling everyone for third parties because they will just elect the other side. this whoever gets elected time around is going -- is not if it's ae helpful, republican -- the republican maintained inbe order to maintain some sanity in the national politics. question. what are the -- are there a of polls, iser there a particular group of checkthat are used to they15% threshhold, or do simply, i don't know, pick them somendom according to other standard? the pollsrned that they look at will not accurately we're really -- you know, what the people are actually thinking. a -- have they defined which polls are going to and are there any other details about how that system works? i'd be grateful. lopez, i'll let you start. >> well, i'll say, john, i might have to defer to yo

god, that is exactly what a republican president will do with the help of a republican congress.to restore a clear understanding of the tyranny of man over man in the world at large. it is our cause to dispel the foggy thinking, which an voices hard decisions in the delusion that a world of conflict will somehow mysteriously resolve itself into a world of harmony. if we just don't rock the boat or irritate the forces of aggression, and this is hog wash. it is further the cause of republicanism to remind ourselves and the world that only the strong can remain free, that only the strong can keep the peace. now, i need not remind you or my fellow americans regardless of party that republicans have shouldered this hard responsibility and marched in this cause before. it was republican leadership under dwight eisenhower that kept the peace and passed along to this administration the mightiest arsenal for defense the world has ever known. and i need not remind you that it was the strength and the believable will of the eisenhower years that kept the peace by using our strength, by usin

he was trying to calm down republicans. if they're not him and not with hillary, they probably want an outsider, but she's making the frame all about his fitness for office. >> do you agree? >> absolutely. the event dovetails with the national security advisors saying about trump and even with the democratic party is saying. his temperament can be provoked by a tweet as secretary clinton says. what would that mean when he's in office having to make key decisions. and i think the public is looking at that as a key motivating factor of how they decide who they might support. but certainly that will continue to be a line of attack by democrats. and when other republicans are joining that cause, it is a problem for the candidate. >> we'll look forward to his speech coming up and we'll see what he has to say and how he says it. thank you very much. >>> coming up, 50 gop foreign policy national security experts issue a scathing critiqountrrit donald trump saying he would an dangerous president. we'll have more on what they said a

. >>> if it's wednesday, republicans in crisis. is it time for the gop to break the emergency glass? it's "mtp daily," and it starts right now. >>> good evening. i'm chuck todd in washington. welcome to "mtp daily." and welcome to 36 hours of total and complete chaos inside the republican party. whole hour we'll take you inside what appears to be a crisis that's facing trump or the party or both and what may be dire optsions facing many in the party. grin and bear it and hope he changes? unendorse him? or three, convince him to quit and you'll be shocked by the number of republicans infiring already about the process of replacing trump on the ballot if somehow they convinced him to step aside. >>> but all of those may be unicorn theories. it's an unprecedented cloud surrounding his campaign. trump wrapped up just moments ago and right out of the gate went after these reports about his campaign. >> the campaign is doing really well. it's never been so well united. it's the best in terms of being united that it's been since we began.

i will tell you, i am seeing republican after republican. i get facebook messages.ine. people who have been in the trerjs. loyal republican soldiers for decades who have walked the walk, not just talked on tv, who actually have done the work for decades. i get e-mails and open -eds say they're leaving the party or not voting for trump. it's not panic. it's sadness. it's resignation. it's heart break. it's excruciating to be a republican and feel this party has been taken over. a person who does not represent the party of reagan. does not represent republican values. >> but still julie, i would say that trump does have a core group of very dedicated supporters. they don't like establish ed republicans, right. they don't care if he endorses mccain frankly. they like he's this firebrand kind of guy. >> absolutely. this is the broader question that republicans have to grapple with after this election. this split in the republican party isn't going to stop after the november election. there is a segment of the republican party that no longer feels like republican leaders

right now, in this republican party, the republican presidential nominee coming to wisconsin, it should be like a republican all-star game. the chairman of the national republican party, wisconsin. the top republican in washington, wisconsin. the most celebrated republican governor in the country, like it or not, wisconsin. and on top of all of that, wisconsin has one of that handful of incumbent republican cente senators who is up for re-election and who the republican party desperately needs to hold on to his seat if they have any chance to hold on to the senate. they really need ron johnson to hold on to his senate seat in november. the latest polling said he's going to louis it to russ finegold. so there's a lot of reasons for republicans to be excited about, and energized by, and desperate to campaign in wisconsin. wisconsin ought to be the republican party's laser focus right now. there could not be, on paper at least, there could not be a more auspicious time for the nominee of the president of the republican party to barn storm the state of wisconsin. and, yeah, this time tomorr

many republicans may stay away. and for hillary clinton, democrats are up so much, why should i show up because she already has it in the back. bag.n the b still keysteve -- house races. host: are the parties trying to put that message out yet? the sure you don't forget other election at stake here? guest: absolutely. they are holding rallies in some of these battleground states. there are some other important races that you guys should vote for when you go to the polls. phillip in washington, good morning. trump is a bit confusing to me. he has run as antiestablishment but he seems to swing back and forth in his support of his own party. how will could predict he be greeted by the congress? will the republicans were with him or do you think he may be depending more on democrats? he certainly has burned a bridgesidges with -- with republican leaders. trump were held to pull off an upset he would have a lot of work to do to repair his relationships, i think it is good if he ultimately won the white house he would com

long you have worked a time for republicans and republican candidates. correct, i started a republican and worked for senator john chafee and hank brown from colorado and worked on a lot of campaigns with of thel vice chairman republican caucus for some time. kevin martin from the republican libertarian caucus had a conversation that we wanted to launch this effort. and the organization came together quickly and it has been a surprising and welcome thing. host: put that support in context. how many republicans are out there that will be joining you at a voting for the johnson-wells ticket? the two of us are cochairs and we have a steering committee of six or seven people. we have an attorney in philadelphia who shared a bush effort. also we have a delegate at the convention in cleveland. we have people who worked with the republican national importantly,t more we have a lot of support in bringing in these people from nunez so we got a great team pulled together in a short amount of time. have about 30 people in place and more than that are beginning to e

the republican party.dorses and validates the positions that are being articulatedbly trump. >> a warning there. the president had words for the current democratic nominee. hillary clinton opposes the tpp. the massive trade partnership with asia that obama has been pushing so hard for. >> right now i'm president. and i'm for it. and i think i've got the better argument. hope any after the election is over and the dust settles, there will be more attention to the actual facts behind the deal and it won't just be a political symbol or a political football. >> donald trump put out his own statement blasting what he called president obama's failed leadership. and both republican leaders in the house and the senate through spokespeople declined to respond to what the president said today. >> thank you. donald trump himself appears unswayed by all the controversies swirling around his campaign right now. even as new ones explode by the day. our senior corn correspondent is with us. >> it is hard to keep track of

red for the republicans.with tim russert leading the way, people at home, all across the country started talking about the red states as a thing, and the blue states as a thing. the red for the republicans, the blue for the democrats. election night 2000, people started talking that way, tens of millions all watching their televisions at the same time, and it just kinda stuck. something else stuck after the 2000 election too. the polarization of that election, the polarization of what was a near perfect time. it was the supreme court that had to step in and settle the 2000 election, that's how close it was. but before 2000, we had a lot of landslide elections in this country. election nights that were over before they started. think of ronald reagan, those 49 states in 1984. nixon in 49 states in '72. bush sr, 40 states in 1988. but since 2000, since that election night in 2000, presidential elections in this country have been a lot more competitive. and the reason for that is now there are a large number of

republicans hated that. he called his campaign on farm policy statements as "campaign oratory" before a congressional hearing in 1941. he ran again in 1944 for the nomination, but he had so embittered the republicans by becoming roosevelt's, almost four policy agent, that he had a chance against dewey. the really was pro-roosevelt with regard to foreign policy. for the purposes of the campaign, he took an opposite position, but after the election, he came around and really endorsed roosevelt's pour policy, indoorwent over to england to store on behalf of roosevelt. in 1944, roosevelt and willkie had met. i think roosevelt wanted his endorsement. before the election he died, so he never endorsed dewey or roosevelt. >> you bring up a number of key points. we are going to talk about this book, "one world," and his post campaign visit to new york. you also brought up the 1940 fall campaign. let's touch on that. if we could. in the next hour, will focus on the second part of your phone call. he went in with such

but not a republican that likes the elite republicans. that's what attracts me to trump. >> so in that thread, trump right now is in hot water with the people in the republican party -- >> those are the elite republican party that he's in trouble with, not the regular republican party like me, the mainstream, blue collar, white collar type people that are with trump. >> one of donald trump's remarkable feats he has cast himself as the anti-elite champion of the working man despite his private planes and his gold-plated manhattan penthouse. one of the most surprising things, the candidate seems to be locked in a mode of self-destruction, it's how high the floor of his support is. for trump's base, it doesn't seem to matter what he says or does, they have found the guy who gets them, who speaks for them. for example, after the republican national convention, polling found that white women, college educated whites, independents, and young voters were less likely to vote for trump. that's after the convention. the only voters who said they we

the real action, then, is on the republican side.what i want to do now is take a look at some of the republican contenders in 1944, beginning with wendell willkie. wendell willkie, of course, was the republican candidate for president back in 1940. he was unsuccessful in that race. he had done much better, remember, than landon in 1936 and certainly hoover in '32, but he had fallen short. and ultimately he was distrusted by many conservative republicans. former president hoover, for example, with some of his contacts in the media will circulate this notion that, you know, willkie did not really do as well as republican candidates who had toed the conservative line. he was deemed to be a little too liberal, a little too pro deal, a little too interventionist. and hoover and other conservatives within the gop, willkie, even in those areas where he's winning, is running behind some republican candidates, and in some areas where there is a republican wind at the gubernatorial level, he's not winning at the presidential level. willkie is

it should remind republicans that this isn't a republican nominee. this is a virus that has infected the republican party. and he's eating the host from the inside out. he will never be a transactional person. he will never have any of the things you do in politics to build your party, build your movement, et cetera. it's all trump. this is only about him. this is only about his ego and his gratification of his little revenge fantasies. and today with john mccain and paul ryan both, who swallowed an enormous river of bile for this guy, and have defended him over and over again, you know, i can't wait for both of those gentlemen to be past their primaries. because while it sucks they can't say what's in their hearts, they're both in contested primaries right now, and you get this political imperative underneath it. on the other side of it, donald trump's pivot to the general election is still mostly about slamming his fellow republicans. it's a mystery. >> here's what's so striking to me. again, we're in the realm of -- we're so far from the realm of

republican vote. immigration and the issues about race with hispanics and african-americans seem to be what she is telling him, you have to fix this. >> that's right. those of us that watch for living and for a sport, you have to see whether bannon is winning or kellyann is winning. and jeb bush had to wake up and say, can you believe i lost to this guy? >> i can't believe he came out with interview earlier from rita cosby. what is the rest of the national review going to say? >> all right. you guys will come back and we will have more on the other side of the half hour. >>> speaking of the future of the republican party, might be the race of john mccain's career. and luke warm love for trump and then again trump's immigration stance might help mccain. we will talk with a trump supporter trying to unseat the senator. stay tuned. the no.1 choice of dentists. compared to oral-b 7000, philipsonicare flexcare platinu removesignificantly more plaque. th is the sound of sonic technology cleaning deep betwee

and republican leaders. i going to play? twoe is going to have issues. i do believe you take on too much, you get squashed. now that he is taking on the media, wall street, beyonce, now the republican party, at some point, it just steam rolls over you. it is one thing if you're running a newsletter or website to be the flamethrower and kind turds on everything. if you are trying to get a majority vote in this country. if we go back to the two conventions as i said on the american side, who we are, per trade i republicans or democrats. atticus makes good television but i do not think it will work. mark: the only chance trump has for a serious combat is to go against all these forces. this includes the party. >> i agree. he has to talk about the party problems but he has to do it with paul ryan and previous. there are areas where paul ryan would say the republican party in washington is messed up. there is area for a lot of voters. itald trump needs to build they coalition for change and that has to include so

my whole family is republican.my dad, everybody is republican. >> reporter: three debates left, three months to go. >> nope. i won't go back. >> gary tuchman joins us now. it is hard to find a lot of republicans at hillary clinton events but were there others? >> reporter: well, we did find others but their allegiances vary. for example, we found a couple of people who say they are still voting for donald trump. they like donald trump a lot. they just wanted to see their political enemy, hillary clinton, in person. we talked to a woman who doesn't like trump or clinton, a republican, says she's going to vote for gary johnson, libertarian party. then we also found a couple other people who are also republicans who are going to vote for hillary clinton but they did not want to go on camera yet because they were afraid of the reactions they would get from their friends and their family. >> gary tuchman, thanks so much. >>> up next, the sobering new development in the fight against the zika virus. this time, in califor

one top republican told me this is not crazy town. we have entered this kind of territory here, not just because of one incident or the purple heart incident or his going after the gold star parents, the khan family, after khizer khan and his wife hit him on the democratic national stage. there is pressure on donald trump and one of the takeaways i've had this morning in my conversation with republicans is donald trump's family, his children specifically, will play a key roll over these next three to five days, over this next week in terming how, weather and when donald trump will respond to this, what he might say. remember ivanka, donald junior, eric trump have been his inner circle advisers, the ones who do hold sway over donald trump. as one person told me this morning, this race's destiny is in trump's hands alone. >> thank you, hallie. let me bring in katy tur, she's covered the trump campaign from the beginning, joining us live outside trump tower here in new york. just listening to hallie's reporting that there may be some typ

hall is on the republican line. paul, go ahead. .aller: a couple of comments a woman a minute ago said trump wanted the russians to hack into our systems. the democrats never pay attention to what anybody says. he says if they had e-mails we would like to have them back. if we can work with the russians there is not a problem with that . the democrats never listen to what people are saying. they make it up as they go along. hillary is the worst out of the bunch. what has she really ton for the country? host: we hear from bob in auburn, maine. good morning. caller: good morning i'm sorry we lost people killed in benghazi, but we're overlooking another huge, huge issue here. i believe we have to concentrate on indicting all of the republicans in the senate in the murders of hundreds of americans every month. people using weapons of war that should have been banned years ago. and the republicans just refuse to allow the country to take control of that issue. host: all right. jim barnes, go ahead. guest: i think it will

so let's say you're a republican who wants to vote for the republican nominee. i think in some cases you might say, i'm uncomfortable with trump so maybe i don't go to vote. >> again, i have a big old fight with a congressman from pennsylvania last night on that issue. he said i can't endorse donald trump. i turned to him on air and i said, but pennsylvania went every single district in pennsylvania went donald trump. he won every single one. in a primary. of course. but this guy represents the district. right? >> also won in new hampshire. >> this is a bad precedent that republicans are saying i don't agree with donald trump fighting with mccain or ryan. therefore -- >> or ayotte who might lose a senate seat. i mean n a state that he won the primary in. >> katie, the next president going to put at least one, maybe up to three supreme court justices. >> i know. >> federal and -- >> and dana said you can't do it without the gop controlled senate. we'll see what happens. >> just vote for the republican again. you have to. or you're going to get a hillary. >> let m

one in five republican men see him as intolerant. 25% of republican women. so when he goes and he is in front of the white audiences, he actually is appealing to those white audiences when he talks about african-americans. he isn't really, i don't think at least, appealing to african-americans. he is trying to appeal to the audiences he is in front of. >> you mentioned the softer touch of kellyanne conway. she has never run a campaign. a lot of republicans are nervous about her running a campaign at this level. she has a history of messaging to get to more moderate voters. we saw donald trump and mike pence go to baton rouge. it's a photo op. a lot of them do. i am not criticizing him. he went and showed some compassion. helping unload an aid truck. on a couple occasions he said he thought barack obama should have broken his vacation and gone there or at least come back to the white house to monitor this. is this a smart, reactive politics, neither here nor there? >> i think it's a rare moment where he saw a moment that made him look a bit more compassionate

he went after republican leaders and all of those republicans who have endorsed donald trump and said how can you essentially be denouncing what he's saying and supporting him? he framed this as an issue as a future for the republican party. we anticipate that president obama is going to be a frequent presence on the campaign trail me s he's already appeared with secretary clinton but once we get to the fall he is going to be an even greater presence. let's listen to more of what he had to say. >> bauds a lot of people depend on the white house getting stuff right. and this is different than just having policy disagreements. i recognize that they all profoundly disagree where myself or hillary clinton on tax policy or certain elements of foreign policy but, you know, there have been republican presidents with whom i disagreed with but i didn't have a doubt that they could function as president. i think i was right and mitt romney and john mccain were wrong on certain policy issues, but i never thought that they couldn't do the job. >> kristen, are any democrats that you talk with or t

a republican primary. paul ryan being challenged by an anti-establishment candidate named paul nealon. it was just a week ago that paul nealon was being praise said by donald trump, the republican nominee per president. we are going to bring you the results from that race, from paul ryan's primary, as soon as we get them. again, polls closing right now. results should be trickling in very soon. we are expecting to hear from paul ryan once this race is called. he's expected to take some questions from the press. we'll show you what they ask, what he says, when that happens. keeping a close eye on that corner of wisconsin right now. we also have some rather stunning new poll numbers to take you through tonight. these are numbers that are making political analysts reevaluate from long-held wisdom with presidential election politics in this country. specifically the truism that electoral landslides just don't happen anymore. all of those numbers and what they mean, that's all ahead. but we start tonight with a

the news is the two of them working together to elect republican congress and republican president and think you will see that. >> also coming to trump's defense in a way, paul ryan. in a radio interview with wtaq in green bay, despite trump's refusal to so far endorse him, ryan stood by the nominee. >> the only endorsements that i want are those of my own employers here in the first congressional district and that's really what my focus is. when i did support donald i said at that time and ever since then if i see a situation where our conservative principles are being distorted, i'm going to stand up for those conservative principles. none of these things are ever blank checks. that goes with any situation, in any kind of race. >> so that blank check thing a little ominous. ryan mostly supportive. at a campaign stop today in virginia beach, trump's number one defender mike pence, his running mate, who did break with trump yesterday in saying he would endorse ryan, sided with trump suggesting the ryan thing was biased on his friendship. he did not endorse john mccain or kelly ayotte a

base, he's not doing nowhere near where romney did with the base of republicans, where republicans are continuing to pull back from him. can he recover from that? i find it hard to believe. but at the same time, we're not going to have a ten-point presidential race in this country right now. you know, republicans will begin to come back to him, but when independents, especially independent women are moving away from him, a group that barack obama didn't win independents in 2008 or 2012, but if hillary can grow strength with independent women, she should be really solid. >> let's talk about the map, because that's what i've been looking at today. that's where you start to see how difficult it starts to become for him. you have the clinton campaign pulling ad spending out of colorado and virginia. here's something that blew my mind today. this is politico's gabriel deben dety said look at the real clear politics averages. georgia, missouri, and arizona are all closer races. first of all, let's be clear, arizona -- i don't know when the last time it went to a democrat. it certainly didn't

and thinking republicans.ssage. he's talking about what we want or third possibility is mike pence is trying to keep his brand intact so if this whole presidential race doesn't work out, he has his brand to fall back on and to go forward with instead of tieing himself forever to whatever free association donald trump is discussing that day. >> his advisors will be talking to him and try to convince him to move on and not do all this freelance kind of stuff. newt gingrich suggested in his own interview that what trump is doing is unacceptable. what does he ha who does he have left in his corner? >> after newt gingrich did the interview, he walked it back. he said media has widely misinterpreted my critique. trump is vastly better than hillary for president and there's several more tweets after that. donald trump is doing himself no favors. for him to say he's not going to help them in the primary race or even he also told the washington post he's going to start super pacs to oppose republicans he just dislikes.

it is a hard state or republican incumbents to win anyway. so are a lot of factors working against ron johnson and for russ feingold, and ron johnson at this point has to hope either really putstrump wisconsin into play and closes the gap with hillary clinton or that he can significantly outperform donald trump in november, and that is what he is up against, and with that, i think i may have to sign off, because i have to british my story for the milwaukee journal sentinel tonight. : craig gilbert, thank you very much. appreciate it. guest: any time. ryan wins easily. john joins us from arizona on the republican line. : yes, thank you for having me on. i was wondering why paul ryan did not cover the unlicensed contracting that is going on for all of our state, taking our , with billion-dollar homebuilders, commercial builders, and with that going on, it causes going to our federal government, which they do not trace, and the illegals are using this to take our jobs on our construction site. host: ok, that is your statement? caller: yes. host:

all republican, all work for republican presidents.re significant national security figures. >> i shouldn't say no name. you and i know who they are. people who are involved deeply in politics know who they are. i think the average voter doesn't know who these guys are and really doesn't care about their opinions. i think the trump statement was a good one in that these are some of the same people who brought us the iraq war that so many americans, the left and the right are angry about. it's been their failed foreign policy that is in conjunction with hillary clinton's failed policy that american now rejects which is allowed for the rise of donald trump. i think it could be a benefit because i think people look at his vision and willingness to call it the way he sees it as a breath of fresh air for our country as opposed to the same policies, the same people, the same viewpoint that's allowed the world to blow up and leave us less safe and less secure. >> just moments ago the trump campaign responded with their own statement saying th

republicans have not responded on this issue and it is time for the republicans to act. let me take a moment to say thank you to leader pelosi for leading our congressional delegation. to italy and afghanistan last week. we discussed a range of issues with foreign leaders and met with military leaders and servicemen and women. their bravery and dedication is inspiring to all of us. in italy we met with the archbishop who is head of the council for justice and peace. we discussed immigration and security and global poverty reduction. these are critical issues that face our world and the u.s. has an important role to play. the united states cannot and must not put its head in the sand whether they are fighting zika or addressing the other global issues. we thank you again leader pelosi, and let me turn it back to you. i'm sorry, congressman steve israel. >> when it comes to national security, it is not just that republicans are doing nothing, they are doing damage to our national security. leader pelosi led us on a trip to meet with nato partners in italy and afghanistan.

if you're the republican party, if you're faing the prospect of the republican party with the guy whoyed all your leaders the past couple of years and succeeded in a couple them being thrown out of public life. now what? if that guy is running a disastrous presidential campaign and everybody is saying, don't worry, the trump campaign is running terribly but the rnc will run it in the end. is the republican party really going to feel comfortable stepping up to help this guy out in particular? the guy running the trump campaign is the guy who tried to kill paul ryan and did help kill air rake cantor and john boehner and crying about it ever since. how comfortable are you going to be to step up to help that guy in his hour of need? joining us now is an excellent reporter who covered steve bannon more than anybody else in the national press. joshua, from bloomberg. nice to have you here. >> good to be here. >> i feel like from looking at his output both on the radio and website he ran at breitbart, media empire he ran, i know a lot about what steve bannon thinks about the republican party