republicans got ballots there, republicans sent back ballots. if you look at the composition of electorate it was comparable to 2014, a great year for republicans. this was not a surge in democratic turnout, very similar and the results changed 16 points. for democrats, that's the most encouraging one. if you look at that list and say, if you're a republican and want to point to some optimism, it would be georgia, six. the karen handle ossof race a year ago. that's the exception there. republicans will tell you happened there, their theory, that race got nationalized in a way none of these others did. tens of millions of dollars came in. national media was there and trump was talking about it. it created this environment they say will prevail nationally in the mid-terms and get a version of georgia six everywhere. it's a theory but by the evidence, democrats have more to point to right now. >> for a nationalized race you cants nationalize everybody in the country. when everybody in the house is up you can't put tens of millions of dollars every

the republican in the house lost his seat in a republican primary. the first time kentucky teacher took the republican leader's seat. of course there was the biggest slip of them all. the democrats flipping the u.s. seat of alabama that previously belonged to jeff sessions. doug jones now hold jeff sessions' seat in the senate even though trump won the state of alabama by 28 points. even when democrats have not been winning, they have been speaking republicans in red states. mike pompeo by 31 points when he was still in the house. and the special election to replace mike pompeo when he got promoted in the trump's cabinet. the democratic candidates came to six points of the republicans. it did not win but boy, that was close. and arizona, donald trump won there by 20 points but then there was a special election, democratic candidates came within five points of winning. the math is dark and it is clear. it has been all year. question is, is this actual lly good way of judging of how the mid determinterms are going to . is it possible for democrats to t

republicans got ballots there, republicans sent back ballots.you look at the composition of electorate it was comparable to 2014, a great year for republicans. this was not a surge in democratic turnout, very similar and the results changed 16 points. for democrats, that's the most encouraging one. if you look at that list and say, if you're a republican and want to point to some optimism, it would be georgia, six. the karen handle ossof race a year ago. that's the exception there. republicans will tell you happened there, their theory, that race got nationalized in a way none of these others did. tens of millions of dollars came in. national media was there and trump was talking about it. it created this environment they say will prevail nationally in the mid-terms and get a version of georgia six everywhere. it's a theory but by the evidence, democrats have more to point to right now. >> for a nationalized race you cants nationalalize everybody in the country. when everybody in the house is up you can't put tens of millions of dollars every ra

more than a republican.in a level playing field democrats might have just but it would be pretty uphill. in a year when republicans have some headwinds in the democrats had some tailwinds as appears now, this is one that is in play and omit this race rated as asa tossup, which means it's one of the top, iton would be one of te 30 asked chances democrats have of knock it off a republican seat. so this is a top tier democratic challenge, let me turn to another race, new york 21. one of the youngest republicans, female candidates to be elected in the house of representatives and you have listed as solid republican. >> guest: that's why you can't go just hard and fast by the numbers. ine this case it's a slightly less republican district and in that 22nd. in the 22nd, the one to call asked about, democrats have top-tier really, really, really good challenger. democrats don't have good challenger particularly against her and we haven't rated as solid. this would be, she's not going to lose, let's just put it that

republicaning don republicans don't really believe in identity politics.ge gap because of the way the republicans view identity politics, as jackie was getting at. >> let's see if there's a dent, shall we say, in that ceiling in 2018. very important point. >>> up next, the republican national committee huddling in austin today. one big decision on their plate, where should the 2020 renominating convention be? right back. let's begin. yes or no? do you want the same tools and seamless experience across web and tablet? do you want $4.95 commissions for stocks, $0.50 options contracts? $1.50 futures contracts? what about a dedicated service team of trading specialists? did you say yes? good, then it's time for power e*trade. the platform, price and service that gives you the edge you need. looks like we have a couple seconds left. let's do some card twirling twirling cards e*trade. the original place to invest online. sometimes a day at the ballpark is more than just a day at the ballpark. stadium pa : all military members stand and be recognized. sometimes f

republicans unnerved. republicans unhappy. republicans acknowledging that this diverges strongly ideologically from where they stand on a specific issue. in terms of will there be anything substantive they do on capitol hill, the short answer right now, at least, appears to be no. >> more talking, no acting. we've seen that one before. phil mattingly, appreciate the reporting. with me in studio, iliana johnson, carl holtz and mary katherine hamm. we'll go inside a bit later but let's stick with the fallout particularly within the president's own party. the president was way outside the republican mainstream, way outside the ronald reagan legacy, if you will, of the republican party. will they just complain? will they just go home and say i disagree, don't blame me for what the president did or is there anything to come of this? >> i think phil is right, there are things you could do and hearings would be a fairly normal reaction to something like this. but you're also a little over three months from a midterm election that is

that is an opportunity for republicans. republicans often play defense on these issues. strags of talking about the equal of opportunity. if we create equality of opportunity everybody will succeed, grow and make more money. the right lane is weave we've seen economic disparity grow. a lot of that is among low lying racial economic classes. right now, the republicans are going in the wrong directions. they can change directions if they chose to. >> i want to continue on and get your response. it to thank yalk about what joh turkey ter did. he used the "n" word. he said colonel sowner caanders blacks "n" and received no backlash. >> i think it's unfortunate because he's on a conference call learning how not to be racist and stepped right into it. cue dows to the firm. i think what's interesting now is the louisville chapter, the n ark acp saying great, he's on the board of trustees of louisville and they're calling for the university to remove him as well. it should never be a surprise to us or a gift to us went someone gets out of the way went they're touting white supre

republican. goofy kicking donald duck. which was a republican drawn seat outside of philadelphia. >> in ohio the snake along the lake. pennsylvania 16th looks like a body builder's arm. in texas, some of the tortilla strip districts. >> maryland's third district, it literally starts kind of up in baltimore and wanders around this way and then that way. >> some people say it looks like a broken dinosaur. i think is looks like a bug against a windshield. to each his own. >> gerrymandering distorts the nature of a democracy. it allows parties to win more seats even when they have fewer votes. it's the dark art of redistricting. >> redistricting is the sole province of the state legislatures. the state legislatures are composed of partisans. >> it's a partisan free-for-all. there are few laws governing how legislatures are able to go ahead and draw these lines. >> one of the most extreme examples of gerrymandering is the congressional map drown by north carolina republicans after 2010. it's a map tha

republican tossups, 25. in arkansas, this is an ad also focusing on nancy pelosi. >> congressman hill opened his campaign by attacking me, knowing full well that i said i will not vote for nancy pelosi. we are better than that. i am the only candidate in this race who has worked with both parties to protect health care, strengthen education, and empower entrepreneurs. i will do the same in congress because my priority is our families and our future, not the politics of the past. i am part tucker and i approved this message. host: charlie cook? guest: that is a pretty good deflection add. we are seeing quite a few democrats, not incumbents, that are saying if i win i will not vote for nancy pelosi. host: look at this headline from politico that has pictures of those individuals. guest: again, i don't think it is personal towards her but a lot of it is generational and some of it is political survival. this year, there were 435 seats. we basically know who was going to win in 335 them. there are 100 we are wat

our republican colleagues? where are the republicans who roared approval when reagan told gorbachev to tear down the wall? where are the republicans who whended a strong response putin annexed crimea? where are the republicans who know in their heart the president is giving away the store to vladimir putin. for ourhe time republican colleagues to join us stand up.san and if we wait much longer, our global alliances will fracture, the institution that america created in the wake of world war ii will crumble, our allies will consider abandoning us possibly for china and others. putin's russia will emerge stronger for it. that is what he wants in that is what president trump inexplicably is helping him do. our republican colleagues can take steps right now to push back against this slippery slope the president has put us on. speaker ryan said nice things but talk is not enough. we need actions. action.isan, strong we need our republican colleagues to stand up for the good of this country. i am asking our republica

you have two credible candidates on both the republican in the -- the republican and the democratic side. this isn't one of those races where it is competitive because republicans have nominated someone too extreme. it is a good test case for what the national environment really is like. this is a district donald trump won handily. so even if the democrats are coming close, it is indicative of a bad national environment for republicans. host: let's talk about danny o'connor, the democrat, and troy balderson, the republican candidate in the race. it is an open seat. the congressman has stepped down from the position. guest: yeah, again -- with danny o'connor, you have a democrat who has been around franklin county politics for a while. he is generally well-respected, someone who is not particularly objectionable one way or the other, aside from the fact that he is a democrat in a republican district. troy balderson is the same thing. he is not someone who is a firebreathing conservative. he is someone who is solidly conservative but fits the in a normall environment, you would expect to w

republicans were terrified.unned to learn that so many of their own voters didn't mind pitchfork pat's rhetoric. were they losing control of their own party? it turned out they weren't, at least not yet. in '96 the establishment had enough juice to stop buchanan. dole went on to win the nomination, did go on to lose in november. buchanan was getting tired of the gop. in 1999 he accused primary leaders of rigging the primary race against him in 2000, rigging it on behalf of george w bush. buchanan decided to bolt the party. he would run for the nomination of the reform party started a few years before by ross perot. and that is when pat buchanan got competition for the reform party nomination, surprise competition from a celebrity billionaire named donald trump. trump joined the reform party in 1999. he said he was looking at running for president and a lot of it was like today. he disparaged enemies with schoolyard taunts, he talked about making oprah his runningmate, he claimed to be doing great in the polls wh

i think the president can do good for republicans, especially in some of these republican districts. but in the democratic-leaning districts or the swing district, i think you will see candidates avoiding him, just as candidates avoided barack obama in swing districts during his presidency. host: as you go to your site, the generic ballot giving , explain a 7.3% edge to our audience what that means. very expensives to pull individual congressional districts because you have to pull something on the order of 100,000 people. where theyo instead as people, hey, who do you want to win congress, or who do plan on voting for in the next election? can people give their answers. as of right now, on average, people are saying by a seven point margin, they prefer democrats than republicans. this is not a great scenario for republicans. the generic ballot has its problems, but it usually gets within a couple of points of the national margin. host: back to your phone calls. kelly is joining us from new jersey. good morning. caller: well, hi. thank you for taking my call. there ising because all

he transformed republicans on nato, transformed republicans on russia, transformed republicans on theign policy that we conservatives have followed for the past 65, 70 years. certainly since william f. buckley founded national review. he's also cozied up to vladimir putin personally in a way that does, does tim carney, briefly, let me push back a little bit. does suggest that vladimir putin's relationship with donald trump is different than anybody else because as donnie pointed out he certainly was very critical of the little rocket man as he called kim jong-un, attacked him, threatened to bomb him, said his button was bigger than un's button. you'll snow other than stormy daniels there's no one in donald trump's three years in political life that has escaped his wrath other than put. can you not find one negative thing he said about vladimir putin even going back before election when he was on our show talking about how american soldiers in iraq killed a lot of people too so we could be critical of vladimir putin. >> the bottom line i agree with what brett said is that to some exten

it.ave talked about republicans,ounger he is still popular among republicans. a primary challenge would fail presumably. we would not have enough support to put him over the top. is a question of whether the world changes over the next year and a half, whether the economy changes. if you want to believe it would be possible to challenge trump, you would take the point of view that donald trump is at 42% among the public, 85% among republicans. the economy has been very good. something could well go wrong, but as of today he looks pretty strong. even among younger republicans. i dont i would make is think the world changes on november 7, 2018. that is the day after election day this year. i think at that point people have to focus on the future, not the past. still, when i make criticisms of donald trump, people say, what about hillary? fair enough, i suppose, but at some point we have to have forward-looking discussions, whether tobecome allow donald trump to be president for another four years. that is a choice voters and citizens will have to make in 2020. th

republicans cheat.elections, you would think the person with the most votes would win the election. republicanst two president was -- the lester republican presidents did not get the popular vote and i understand the electoral college. anyway, all i am saying is, it is like republicans really don't matter to them. they apply to every body else but to them. ,f you can get stephanie miller you know, on the line to get her opinion? host: she has been on the network in the past. andif you go to the website type in q&a, you could see the interview. with heronnection father who ran with their he goldwater in 1964 -- barry goldwater in 1964. caller: yes. anyway, i am so glad i got through to talk to you, brother. host: we will pass on your well wishes to kimberly. caller: get her back when you can. host: she is in our building often. she is doing a lot more work with saudi other networks. john is joining us from clinton, new jersey, the democrat line. good morning. caller: good morning. how are you doing? host

to think he's not much of a republican at all and made them an entry-level product to buy on the republican shelf. >> i want to talk about a theme that is not gone away since the president was inaugurated, the ongoing tension between voters and the media. we see it in a different form between democratic voters and the so-called mainstream media but given only one president at a time and talking about donald trump and even this week he tweeted about this idea of doing something he can't do which is take away press credentials granted by the government although some people wonder if he was talking about taking away press credentials if he doesn't think the coverage is fair or nice but this is something that plays very well with his base and somewhat well at least with the broader republican electorate that may not like the way he challenges first amendment norms but has a deep suspicion and disappointment with the views of the mainstream media. two things i want to point to, earlier in the book, and one late in the book where you write trump used the red-hot scrutiny of journalists to polariz

same with house republicans. they won the overall video, which is all the vote totals combined together by about one percentage point. that is not a huge amount. there is going to be redistricting that happens. we can get more into this later, but house and state legislative district lines right now are pretty favorable to republicans. they may or may not sty that way. the g.o.p. needs to figure something out in the short term and in the long-term. in the short term, there are a lot of options. the combrask is kind of small. if you don't understand it, you don't have to worry about it. basically this is it a graphic generated by the state of change project. it simulates different scenarios for the 2020 election. the three that i have pointed out there are one where the republican party keeps its current base and voters from 2016 and then adds another piece, basically where they do something to try to deal with the fragility of their last win. the first one, the republican party could try to make inroad with white

the republicans would never take them up. it took us to -- that was in 2004, when they made the recommendations. the summer of 2004. it took until we won in 2006, first bill on the floor, h.r. 1, to enact the recommendations of the commission. to protect our country. so this whole thing has a lot of , shall we say, cultural aspects to it. but if you want to change what's happening, you've got to change the policy. and this policy is not something that emerged, as i said before, it was a decision last fall when they said, if you are a mom who wants to escape rape, murder and gang violence for your child, and you've tried to come for asylum to the united states, you are unfit and we're taking your child away from you. thank you all very much. have a good august, as we go out there, we intend to own august. to own august in terms of having the american people in a unifying way recognize that this isn't who we are as a country, to take children away from their parents. it isn't a government that says medicare and medicaid should

how republicans have made this bargain with this president. paul ryan was very, very -- i think he was very forceful but, remember, he's also been, you know, the guy who has enabled the house of representatives, the hearing that we saw, the circus that we saw last week, enabled house republicans aggressively to obstruct and demean and undermine the mueller investigation. so they do have to choose and just simply wringing hands i don't think is sufficient to the occasion. >> take it with a grain of salt obviously because this comes from one of president obama's former senior advisers and when i say "gain of salt" i mean the republicans do this when the democrat is offering up a solution, but this is dan pfeiffer who tweeted this morning that republicans could pass legislation to protect the mueller investigation, subpoena trump's tax and business records to see what leverage russia may have on him. that would certainly be interesting to see his taxes. pass a tougher sanctions law that doesn't let donald trump wriggle out of them, hold hearings

republican president, republican house and senate, attempted legislation attempts have collapsed andresident trying to rewrite history over the weekend with a tweet. here's a tweet from wednesday, house republicans should pass the strong but fair immigration bill known as goodlattxts e too. i never pushed the republican in the house to vote for the immigration bill because it could never have gotten through -- gotten enough democrats now he can make the case he didn't lobby them or twist their arms or demand their votes. so he can say factually he might be okay there but come on. >> i heard about this tweet from a house republican who texted me screen shots of both tweets and said what gives. there were a number of house republicans that voted for this thing and granted it only got 121 votes which is very embarrassing for speaker paul ryan because the president said i'll be on your back 1,000%. never fully embraced this and they didn't know how to vote. in fact, they were at the white house right before this vote and about two dozen republicans there and one of them, austinscott, a r

spokesman, republican party chairwoman ronna mcdonnell, republican congressman devin den nunes, tom fittoning me now, social media stars and president trump's most loyal and energetic supporters, diamond and silk. great to have you with us. you know more than just a thing or two about this shadow banning. i have to think that you watch the events of the last few days with great interest. let me start with shadow banni banning. has your problem with twitter be fixed? >> it hasn't been -- we've been having a problem with facebook and facebook also shadow bans. and what shadow banning is, you can put out content where people don't see your content or when people search for you, they can't find you in the search bar. shadow banning is happening on all of the social media platforms. our problem has not been fixed with facebook. people are tired of censorship that's going on on their platform. >> you can't continue to do people bad or wrong deliberately and think good is going to come to you. like we said before, facebook will be the face without the book and the book without the pages unless ma

republican tossups, 25.nsas, this is an ad also focusing on nancy pelosi. >> congressman hill opened his campaign by attacking me, knowing full well that i said i will not vote for nancy pelosi. we are better than that. i am the only candidate in this race who has worked with both parties to protect health care, strengthen education, and empower entrepreneurs. i will do the same in congress because my priority is our families and our future, not the politics of the past. i am part tucker and i approved this message. host: charlie cook? guest: that is a pretty good deflection add. we are seeing quite a few democrats, not incumbents, that are saying if i win i will not vote for nancy pelosi. host: look at this headline from politico that has pictures of those individuals. guest: again, i don't think it is personal towards her but a lot of it is generational and some of it is political survival. this year, there were 435 seats. we basically know who was going to win in 335 them. there are 100 we are watching an

-- in republican primaries. there has been campaigns that have tried to say, we are going to be the ones that when young when young -- win young voters. on the left you can run a strategy of, i'm going to get the young people. i have not seen that in the last two decades be successfully mobilized on the right. it would be a very unusual situation is suddenly you were able to held a primary challenge campaign around younger voters just because there are so few of them who participate in the republican primary process. >> one thing that is a striking to me being older than the other panelists is in the old days, conservatism was a movement of young people. goldwater was a movement of young americans for freedom challenging the old republican establishment. reagan, and i remember this, you go to a group of reaganites as opposed to a group of bush supporters or ford supporters. and the reaganites were younger. people who worked for reagan were younger than republicans who had come to work for nixon or eisenhower. co

republicans.a lmo of conservative ats, and barry goldwater was one of the early steps in cinnging that, making the parties more philosophically coneostent and idgically polarized. - socialist-minded people have invaded the kennedy administration. those are the people . i don't worry about these so-called patriotic groups rwho are outside throwingks at the tent. i worry about the people who are inside breaking the htul out of the fur. - who were his best friends, who were his good buddies? - john kennedy and my father were very close friend - they were these sexy, young rakes on capitol hill, and they enjoyed each others' company. - they served togeer in the senate, on the racket committee that was looking out after the teamsters and so going on with the unions. both he and my father sufft.ed from the same ailm it was very painful. so my father would go up to the white house, and and kennedy would both lay down on the carpet, and they both had and would inject them with the steroids, which gave the

if he was still a republican in 1940. didn't fdr run with henry wallace on the ticket and wasn't henry wallace a republican into the 1930's? it is a long stretch where it audience member: he was a former republican but when roosevelt forced him on the 1940 convention, i believe he was by then a democrat. >> and he was in roosevelt's cabinet of the time. audience member: miss brimmer, why didn't you use daddy war bucks and those types of cartoons in your speech? >> why didn't i use various cartoons in my speech? i'm not sure what you are asking but how would that relate to how it works? what are you envisioning? >> you spoke of widows of black color. >> are you talking about little orphan annie? audience member: i think that would be appropriate. >> >> i will certainly think about it. what i didn't show was. tubman, as well as susie king taylor who was a civil war nurse. we don't have a lot of visual representations, and i haven't come across any. i usually ask people who they think about as civil war widows and black unio

worn down by republican obstructionist. september 2016, we went to congress and said, here is the evidence and here's what we know about russians interfering with the election. and we would like this to be a bipartisan expression of concern about a foreign adversary meddling. mcconnell refused to sign off so ultimately there was no bipartisan statement. obama -- i was shocked and others were shocked that mitch mcconnell looked at statement,olitical admit it waso happening. , democrats.748-8000 (202) 748-8001, republicans. (202) 748-8002, independent collars. the book is called "the world as it is." what was the president's worldview coming in in 2008 and how did it change? coming in worldview was that we were overextended in the wars in iraq. and he saw the principal objective was responsibly trying to draw down troops. at thehad 180,000 troops beginning of the administration. down to 15,000 at the end of the administration. and what he wanted to do was draw those down and then refocus on a broader set of priorities. anding

where are our republican colleagues? where are the republicans who roared approval when reagan told gorbachev to do it on the wall? where are the republicans you demanded a strong response when pugin annexed crimea? -- when putin annexed crimea. now is the time for republican colleagues to join us and stand up. if we wait much longer, our global lines is will fracture, ,he institutions will crumble our allies will consider , and pugin's russia will emerge stronger for it and that's what he wants -- putin'ssia -- russia will emerge stronger for it. speaker ryan today said nice things but talk is not enough. we need action. action.an, strong we need a republican colleagues to stand up for the good of this country. i am asking a republican colleagues to do for things. first, they can start by andsing to water down instead decide to ratchet up sanctions against russia. in the house, there's right now effort to ratchet the sanctions down. given what mr. putin said today, given the indictments, that cannot happen. sanctions sh

republicans and conservatives are being squeezed. don't know at what point he crosses the rubicon. i have seen more public criticism but there's a long way to go before he loses his party. >> ron, will republicans in congress just talk and issue these statements and say things like representative turner said on my show or will they do something? will they tie the president's hands with votes that are -- that the president can't veto? what are they going to do about it? >> the first thing to be clear about is there is a lot they could do and are choosing not to do. bob corker criticized the summit. isn't he the chair of a committee that could compel testimony from the administration and other experts about what exactly was agreed to in helsinki, what the preparations were for helsinki? could not republicans pass legislation to defend robert mueller? could not a single republican in the senate refuse to vote for -- move forward key legislation until the president -- administration agrees to testify about what happened in helsinki? they

a democrat and republican. senator merkley, who defeated senator smith, brought exactly the same approach to this. and he said, well, how did it work in the past? and i said, well, we had a judicial selection process that was bipartisan, and we'd have all our offices represented, and i remember when i was the junior senator and mark hatfield was the senior senator, and bill clinton had been elected, i said, senator, i can't imagine that you and i aren't going to find common ground through our selection process and the effort to come together around judges that made sense for our state and our country. and we did. and year after year that's been the case, for almost 20 years. mr. president, i've been the senior democrat in our congressional delegation. it's been an extraordinary privilege that the people of oregon have afforded me. and year after year after year we would come together not because we always agreed on someone's philosophy or their view on a particular issue, but because we felt in the name of fair

but also, jake, behind closed doors, the house republican conference and the senate republicans meetingday they did not discuss what happened in that trump/putin summit. a sign even though the republicans voice concerns publicly, privately they hope to change the subject. jake? >> thanks so much. >>> joining me now the republican congressman from utah, chris stewart. he's on the house intelligence committee and an air force veteran. congressman, the president attempted to do some cleanup this afternoon. saying that he misspoke and he sides with the intelligence agencies. what was your response? >> yeah. well, if it was an attempt to cleanup he needed a big broom. i mean, i was pretty vocal yesterday in the sense that i love this president. i support his policies generally. i think he's trying to serve our country and make things better for people and he was just wrong yesterday on a couple fronts. one to say to the intelligence community and not to stand by them and say that, you know, they got it exactly right. there's absolutely no question that russia tried to interfere with the elec

tom is in florida, former republican. go ahead. i was a republican. taken -- were i was point i became a nonparty affiliate, an independent. at my core i am principally a libertarian. i did not realize that until i started thinking. i got older, i am 54. i am principally a libertarian. i'm in the legalize and regulate camp. everyone thinks i am talking about weed, it is included. i think there are a lot of things from my parents' generation that are taboo that shouldn't be. point iealized at some am principally at my core a libertarian. i left the republican party because i could not be a democrat either. host: what is to view that you think shouldn't be -- taboo that you think should be? caller: i am a heterosexual man. if two men want to get together that is fine. if two women want to be married, fine. who cares? i know it has been said before. they have as much right as the rest of us to be miserable. have anynment does not business trying to mandate morale of the. it is immoral anyway. have any compliments of the war on drugs, they go in and arres

that if republicans -- republicans campaigned for years and years on repeal obamacare. they were correct in saying obamacare caused rate hikes. every time the get gets involved in this messed up system in our country where we have great healthcare and a terrible insurance market, which is all this is. every time the government gets more involved, it makes it worse. the republicans put their stamp on it getting rid of the mandate. they need a couple senators from alaska and maine to say we're going to work on this. we're going to try to fix this. rights now consumers are going to blame them. >> i would interject with republicans actually coming clean about the fact that they have gotten us to a place where the program is not funded. they really have to come up with a way to generate cash. maybe they go to these insurance companies. i know that putting pressure on companies is not a very capitalistic way to do things, but you've taken away the basis for paying for the program and now you have another enrollment period in a short few months and you have people having babie

republicans seem to be abandoning the president on the trade wars john the other republican. this conversation for ford between trump and michael cohen how a lot resonate with republican voters if at all. well i don't think it at all will at all actually i mean i think his numbers when republicans were up around eighty eight percent as a last poll that i saw it just to respond briefly to the legal aspect of this lanny davis is a pretty competent attorney i don't think he would have allowed this tape to come out if he was scared that his client was going to be implicated some kind of criminal matter related to it so that's a bit of a leap to say that there's criminal liability associate with the president or michael cohen because of this tape mange to be seen but this has nothing to do with the rush of collusion this is an entirely separate matter and i think one of the things the white house doesn't do well is differentiate between the two in other words the white house is having the president constantly messaging on twitter and whatnot that this is a witch hunt while the col

askuld as republicans -- republicans, what about after trump?kind of republican party are you going to have? are you going to go back to george w. bush and republicans like that? or will you have more "trumpier trump" republicans, which flip off the rest of the world? what kind of republican party are you going to have after trump? that is the question democrats need to ask republicans. forever. going to last let's take our america by advancing the conversation pass this era of trump. host: let's go to georgia, independent line. for themy comment was guy that was on there. georgia has had such corrupt cops. all my life, georgia has had corrupt cops. i have only had republican congressmen in georgia. i just wanted to know what he wanted to do. he did not do anything about it, because i still see them running everywhere. the rollcall website, the headline. writing that commerce secretary wilbur ross said thursday he would sell equity holdings. "my ethics agreement allowed me to maintain some equity holdings to maintain the public trust." the decis

and that was just from the republicans. even the conservative "wall street journal" said the president projected weakness. the editorial board writing, quote, monday's joint press conference was a personal and national embarrassment. on stage with a dictator whose election meddling has done so much harm to his presidency, mr. trump could not even bring himself to say he believed his own intelligence advisers like dan coats over the russian strongman. let's bring in cnn white house reporter sara westward. she's at the white house. president trump initially apparently pleased with the news conference, with the summit, even though there was no mention, for instance, of many of russia's crimes, including the shootdown of a malaysian flight. it was shot down two years ago today. what is the president tweeting about this morning? >> reporter: well, president trump showing no signs of backi backing down from his performance in helsinki yesterday despite the fierce bipartisan backlash that's been building over the past 24 hours. tr

the republican party has left ronald reagan. there is nothing left of his legacy in the gop as represented by this president. this president said yesterday as between the work of his own intelligence director and the word of vladimir putin, who strongly asserted he was not responsible for the election hacking, he did not know who to believe except that can't imagine why the russians would have done what they did. i for one cannot believe the president could be so naive as to take the word of this former kgb operative. i believe the president feels this is in his personal self-interest. his only ideology is self. whatever motivation, the result is queer -- is clear and in equivocal, a denigration of our justice system, its values, its alliances. he is realigning our country not with fellow democracies, but with fellow autocrats. as men and women who have served in our intelligence community to help strengthen democracies around the world and fight authoritarian regimes, that was an unprecedented betrayal. so i'm proud to join wit

republicans on the watergate committee, republicans on the house judiciary committee who voted articles of impeachment against a criminal president of the united states. is donald trump a criminal president of the united states? we don't know that. we have an investigation that is intended to determine what his relationship was to these russian interference attempts in our election. let the investigation proceed. what we saw today was obstructionism really verging on beyond irresponsible by the republicans. it verges on undermining who we are as a people. >> josh, i just want to replay the gomer thing because, again, that was just kind of an extraordinary moment. let's play that. >> i can't help but wonder when i see you looking there with a little smirk, how many times did you look so innocent into your wife's eye and lie to her about lisa -- >> josh, i'm wondering what you thought about it? again, it's louie gomer so perhaps not that surprising, but what'd you think? >> it's not surprising, but i think it's no less disgraceful when you have a member of congress sitting there questioni

to think he's not much of a republican at all and sort of made them the entry-level to buy on republican shelves. >> i want to talk to you but it seemed that is not gone away since the president was inoculated and that is the ongoing tension between voters and the t media. we actually see it in a different form between democratic voters in the so-called mainstream media.ne but given we only have one president at a time and we are talking about president trump, eden this week he treated about the idea of doing something he can't actually legally do, which is take away credentials even though you talking about the white house taking away press credentials if he doesn't think the coverage is fair or nice. this is something that plays very well withng his base and somewhat well at least with the broader republican alike to the kuwaiti challenges first amendment norms, but does have a deep suspicion and disappointment that the mainstream media. just two things i want to point to in the book. trump use the red hat screwed me to polarize plurality of voters in primary after primary and then in

real estate collapse and the wall street collapse and made a lot of republicans rethink the republicans elation ship with wall street big business and the polity party was graded. i think we been heading this way for a long time. if you're in a county that's toward the water from the interstate you will reflect the democratic party abilities of coastal cosmopolitan. if you're in the middle, disproportionate number will have a different worldview. i think that framework will go for a while and republicans will win some and democrats will win some. >> before trump threw his hat in the ring you were writing about a grim discontent in a large part of the country. people were growing more disenchanted with the political parties and the choices of the politicians that were available to them and a lot of it had to do with changes in the global economy in the transitions. in talking to the people you did all these years, how much of this populous moment has entered in all that discontent. additionally people i've talked to that would learn so much from the great revolt who want to know how long

he is a republican. know she is from wyoming and hawkish like her father and issued a strong statement on twitter that i want to read. i'm deeply troubled by president trump's defense of putin. russia poses a grave threat to our national security. do you think we are going to see action? i mean, i don't want to discount liz cheney speaking up. that's something. are we going to see actual action from members of congress? >> we also saw an interesting statement pushing back from the ambassador to russia jon huntsman's daughter and seeing people connected to this even come out. >> abby huntsman? >> yeah. on the congress issue, remember, it was only days ago we saw a republican congressional delegation go to russia, try to talk to putin himself. they talked to sergei lavrov, the foreign minister, and force the issue of hacking the u.s. election and trying to do something. we saw that unanimous -- practically unanimous action on sanctions and to try to push russia and strangle their economy as much as possibl

jake, that's what republicans are saying. what are republicans doing? there is a legislation right now to protect robert mueller. is anybody talking about bringing that back up? anything happening on the hill whatsoever? >> the answer you get from a lot of republicans is, what would you like us to do? this is not me saying this. this is what republican lawmakers are saying. there is nothing we can do. he is the president. he has the ability to conduct foreign policy, at least first blush they don't believe this is treasonous. this is not impeachable in any way. so there is just a clear divide here on what elected republicans in congress believe russia's role in the geopolitical system is and what the president believes it is. and, i mean, it's stunning because if you rewind a couple years, you had people like john boehner and harry reid and dan coats who is now trump's director of national intelligence banned from moscow. that's how low the relations have gotten between the u.s. and russia, and now you have this. and i think as people start filing into

so in that sense, you would expect for republicans to mostly say, yeah, it's about the same because republicansve built their coalition around older voters who tend to be the types of folks who turn out in these midterm elections. democrats have strug ld whgled t comes to enthusiasm, especially getting younger voters to the polls in 2016, not loving hillary clinton or donald trump. what they're banking on is this time around you've got a lot of voters who don't tend to participate in house elections. they're not usually that excited. and they are fired up to send a message to trump. that's where i think republicans should be a little worried, that our coalition on the right tends to participate in these elections. they don't have to be that excited. but if democrats are matching it and overcoming it with a lot of enthusiasm, republicans need to run like they're ten points down. >> what are you thinking, chris? do you see republicans running like they're ten points down right now? if you're a republican congressman, how much are you sweating? >> i do think that the signs have been there for a wh

how can the republican base become energized? when we would be if you want to try to deny the president's supreme court pick, that would spark a fight that might energize both sides and could prevent democrats from taking the house. islso think impeachment talk actually damaging to democrats hopes for the same reason. the problem of course is that the democratic base are agenda and they want to have these fights and they want to try to impeach the president and so this is going to be the tension that democrats are going to have to deal with is how you keep your base energized and not disappoint them without actually having them energize the republican base. that's going to be the game from now until november. host: from new jersey, this is pat. caller: the justices seemed to be getting a point to the supreme court at a younger and younger age. why can't we have some kind of compact between the executive and congress that maybe the supreme court should be limited to appointees who have reached the age of 60 with a lifetime of expe

house republican leaders. you're looking at mccarthy, the number two republican, the majority leader. he's talking now, the topic, addiction. before that, steve scalise, the whip, was speaking. paul ryan stepping up to the podium now. we'll spring you anything he has to say about russia, about that meeting yesterday between the president and vladimir putin. so far though, this has been going on for ten minutes now. the subject has not come up. again, if and when they switch to it, we will bring you there live on capitol hill. >>> meanwhile, as we continue to keep an eye on that, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle remaining critical of president trump's summit with putin. russia seeing it as a major victory this morning. russia's foreign minister calling the meeting, quote, fabulo fabulous, and better than super. state-sponsored russian tv is pouring praise on vladimir putin, calling him, quote, a master of rhetoric, and a more skilled negotiator than president trump. let's go to nbc's chief foreign correspon

for republicans who confirmed her for -- for republicans who the president for who nominated her. so very important in having a third woman on a nine-member -- and having a third woman on a nine-member bench is probably important as well. reporting ons is congressman jim jordan knowing about allegations of sexual assault and activities that went -- aside the sauna half-dozen other wrestling team members saying jim jordan had to know about this. he denies the allegation. what this is me for the ohio republican? guest: it is tough to know -- what does this mean for the ohio republican? guest: it is tough to know. it seems that he is under siege more and more as these rustlers have come forward. some of their critics have pointed out some of them may have an ax to grind. some may not have the most stellar background. but when the numbers start to rise and you start to see 6, 7, coming out and saying, giving specific details about conversations with him or things he may or may not have known, it starts to get into the semantics game. certainly, this is troubling for him. we have seen

spokesman andrew and republican party chairwoman, republican congressman debra nunez, matt gates, tomenton -- do you see the theme there? i think it is pretty obvious, don't you? joining me now is social media star and president trump's most local and energetic supporters, diamond and silk. you know more than a think or two about the shadow banning. i have to think that you watch the events of the last few days with great interest. let me start with shadow banning is -- has your problem with twitter been fixed? >> we've been having a problem with facebook. facebook also shadow bans. you can put out content and people don't see your content. when people search for you, they can't find you in the search bar it is happening on all of the social media platforms. our problem has not been fixed with facebook. facebook stopped it, and it is tanking for a reason. people are tired of censorship that's going on on the platform. >> that's right. you can't continue to do people bad or do people wrong deliberately and think good is going to come to you. like we said it before, facebook will be the