, but the fact is is that most of the republican party supported trump who you just said is promotingboldening people. i don't want to dispaerj any party or any group. but, it does seem that if you're not racist right, you're at least overlooking it and you're supporting it by, when you go to the ballot or -- ballot box and voting for these people, or by not denouncing it when your president else spouses some of these views. am i wrong in that assessment? >> no. look, don i lost a lot of sleep over the last several years working for candidates that are men of honor and integrity and dignity. unfortunately they were not the parties' nominee. in the end i voted for someone i viewed that would at least -- the number one issue for me was supreme court justices. i worked really really hard for candidates for our party that would bring dignity to the office. unfortunately that was not the case and this is where we are today. >> i want to get other people. i don't mean to cut you off. david, did you want to say something? >> i do, i love also alice's optimism but i disagree strongly and almo

shouldn't that be the republican party? >> should be the republican party. the reason they can't repeal and replace obamacare, they have hundreds of republicans who have no intention of replacing obamacare. they're as bad as the democrats. in senate 2015, they voted to repeal obamacare. straight vote. and seven of them, when it actually mattered, less than two years later. we didn't really mean it. mark: and the house was even worse. they voted to repeal and wouldn't vote to repeal it. >> the house passed bills that the senate never took up. over 400 of those, i give them a little more credit, not a lot. here's what's missing, where is the principle of lower taxes, cutting government, cutting

the republican party and the democratic party, democratic party is depicted. the democratic party was associated with the irish, which that was a typical prejudiceable image of the irish. and the republican party is depicted as being involved with corruption. there were bad scandals. what puck is saying is look, democrats and republicans are horrible. we need a new political party. that sounds familiar, i'm sure. and you have of course, the wonderful image of the farmer who is looking at uncle sam and saying, look at this terrible problem. we should have a third party. of course, agriculture and farming was dominant during this time period. >> absolutely. that's exactly right. we're going to move on to the next cartoon. this is from 1887. it shows a paris tariff monster. >> taxes that are added to goods that are added. you add a tariff and now the chair costs $40. interestingly, at this point in time, the united states had no income tax. the major income source of the united states was tariffs. and the united states is really good at it. take a look at the car

he's gotten just over 90% of support within the republican party.blem... he is playing to his base, and is it not the case that he's doubling down on that policy? whether it be with signature issues like the separation policy at the mexican border, or criticising nfl players for taking the knee, supporting white supremacists, it seemed, in charlottesville by saying there were some good people on a demonstration which most americans regarded as absolutely vile and unacceptable. on all of these different levels, is donald trump not playing to a white, american, working—class base, which is a policy ultimately that will do the republican party no good? well, i think he's playing to issues that he cares about, and it's obviously got him elected, and keeps in very high standing despite a very negative barrage. the economy is booming. we have not had economic growth — the average economic growth during the obama years was i.5%. the first year of the trump administration, it was 3%. ioo% gdp growth. that has not happened, anybody can remember, since the re

the republican party. that you have -- treason was used by so many people. criticizing donald trump. even the "wall street journal" said that congress needed to pass a containment plan not only for putin but also for donald trump. you had the president of the united states doing vladimir putin's bidding, exactly what he wanted them to do. attacking nato. attacking theresa may. attacking germany. attacking angela merkel. attacking al of our closest -- our closest allies. as we're hearing just about every night on russian tv, commentators shocked saying we couldn't even succeed this well in the cold war. now donald trump is doing all of our work for us. but what is the long-term impact of a republican party now who not only is embracing vladimir putin and embracing vladimir putin's agenda, which is to destroy nato, and disrupt elections, but now they're also -- i think i saw somebody last night a quote that 73% of republicans now support tariffs and protectionism, which, again is a complete reversal that wil

republican party is the vehicle for the movement of conservatism. republican party is the vehicle for the movement of conservatism. about threelk you points, are republicans winning now, can they keep winning, and what should happen after that? this is one i put together when i was working at my last job. is, it is an index across a bunch of levels of government, which party has power when. 2016.ther way to higher, black line is the republicans have more power and when it is lower, the democrats have more power. if you follow it all the way you see 2016,d, republicans actually have a lot of power. partye-trumped republican had a good strategy for winning elections. ofy did not get a ton nonwhite voters, black voters, hispanic voters, but the free trump political party did well, traded off some white-collar graduates and ended up having more power than any version of the republican party since the 1920's. so right now they are doing pretty well, but this can't keep up forever. a couple of quick numbers on what happened in the last election. trump won

party. republicans during richard nixon went to the white house and said you can't stay there anymore. t what our party stands for and we can no longer accept this. if we see members of republican leaders in the house and senate are saying this was a terrible conference, but we are still for donald trump, we have an even bigger problem. we also have elections this fall. >> also that question about republicans and their role here in sharp rewilief tonight. >> we have to make sure the elections work. >> presidential historian, thank you, my friend. stay with us. in 5th grade. we got married after college. and had twin boys. but then one night, a truck didn't stop. but thanks to our forester, neither did our story. and that's why we'll always drive a subaru. when it comes to strong bones, are you on the right path? we have postmenopausal osteoporosis and a high risk for fracture, so with our doctors we chose prolia® to help make our bones stronger. only prolia® helps strengthen bones by stopping cells that damage them with 1 shot every 6 months. do not take prolia® if you have low blood ca

seems to be a russian government supported effort to use alexander and maria to influence the republican party and the united states. using the nra as the russian point of leverage. and it is clear that the political party in question is the republican party. and the gun rights organization is definitely the nra. that's how you have to read it. the fbi retains what they call her project proposal for this spying operation. if you insert the proper announces, it is pretty surprising what she says as of march 2015 she was trying to do. this is her project proposal. the first line reads, project description. diplomacy. it goes on to state that a major political party, the republican party, would likely obtain control over the u.s. government after the 2016 elections. the project proposal says the republican party is traditionally associated with negative and aggressive foreign policy, particularly with regard to russia. however, now with the right to negotiate, seems best to build constructive relations. the project proposal notes the central place and influence in the republican party played by t

the preacher republican party both have pretty good strategies for winning elections. they didn't get a ton of nonwhite voters. partyetrial republican .id well with politics the trump arrow republican party got blue cutter white voters. they ended up having more power than any version of republican party since the 1920's. right now they are doing pretty well. this can't keep up forever. a couple quick numbers on what happened in the last election. trump won the presidency but he got the popular vote and he 46% of the overall vote. that's a fragile win. same with house republicans. they won the overall vote. point.t one percentage that's not a huge amount. there is going to be redistricting that makes the lines change. house lines are pretty favorable to republicans. they may or may not stay that way. needs to figure something else out in the short term and in the long term. the graphic is kind of small, if you don't understand it. a bunch of these think tanks, it simulates different scenarios for the 2020 elections. the reason i pointed out there, are ones where -- keep

party in a good way . there is trade-off that i would say personally the republicans have gotten awfully invested in mobilizing the base and less invested in growing the party. the democrats have the same problem. there are democrats who want to reach out and figure out how to get trump voters back and has get college-educated voters, to move more quickly to the democratic party, but there are democrats who are all about mobilizing base. that will be a very interesting fight in the democratic party. >> that is all the time we have. please call your children and grandchildren and send them this message of hope. thank you so much. [applause] announcer: c-span's "washington journal." live every day with news and policy issues. morning, cnn's news editor in chief discusses whether the american dream is still attainable. that the washington post discusses challenges facing american democracy. be sure to watch "washington journal." wednesday morning. join the discussion. of this week, you are watching c-span programs in prime time at 8 p.m. eastern wednesday, goldman sachs chair and ceo lloyd blankfein. >> you can g

the problem with both parties, it is worse with republicans but a problem with both parties.they want to be pundits. they don't want to do anything that costs them a slot on fox and friends or morning joe. they would rather complain about something the president is doing than actually write a lot and take responsibility for it. a lot of the problems we have, a lot of reasons we got trump, this was a problem before trump came along, barack obama ruled with a lot of executive orders, did a lot of things he himself said were unconstitutional, broke a lot of faith and confidence in the system and we have a parliament of pundits right now in congress. it is a real structural problem and one of the things i would love to see is for congress to clawback its trade authority. donald trump is imposing a lot of tariffs on the assertion that canada and our european allies pose a national security threat to us. that is just ridiculous. and he has that authority because we gave him the authority to decide what a national security threat was during the cold war. congress needs to take that

he emerges from the republican party and he leads the republican party successfully through the war, and in the last of the war, he works with republicans in congress to achieve quite a bit. the most important is the passing of the freedman's bureau bill. that was in 1865. this is a federal government agency. the southerners said this was the federal government overreaching. this is a federal government agency. the official name is bureau of refugees, freedmen and abandoned lands. it's a federal government agency that would oversee the transition from slavery to freedom in the south. it was not just to protect the rights of free people, but also giving food, shelter, sometimes opening hospitals and schools, even to southern whites. but it was portrayed as an awful overreach of the federal government that was only helping black people. actually, they were doing a lot of things. they ended up being identified mainly with the free people. what does this picture show you? this is a contemporary illustration of the bureau. it is a short history of reconstruction. it has two views of the fr

the republican party should not be the party passing $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bills. the republican party should not be the party that is not reducing the size and scope of the federal government. the republican party should not be the party that when we look at our personal income tax rates, the president said initially he wanted to go down to three. the house of representatives said four, the senate seven. we didn't see massive change. mark: on the individual side. >> on the individual side. on the corporate side, yes, 35 to 21% and see what has happened with our economic growth, gdp numbers and what have you. but the important thing is that the republican party should be standing up for individual economic empower. because we know what the progressive socialist left believes in, they believe in economic enslavement and the dependence of society. mark: is the problem the republican leadership, or the problem that the republican party, they've had, by my calculation, really two solid conservatives in the last century. coolidge and reagan. >> yes. mark: and we'll see

i believe is a perversion of what the republican party used to stand for. i say perhaps the only thing that can right the ship is if democrats take over and republicans pay a price for this behavior, because they have become hypocrites and this is not good for the political health of this country when you have two parties that are dysfunctional. >> you just asked tara and i a question, and both of us had a hard time answering it directly. >> neither of you have a hard time answering request es. >> it's a difficult question and it's a painful question. when you hear what you just read at the beginning all the reasons that -- for the next two years, unless bob mueller pulls off some south of hail mary, we are stuck with donald trump and if we want to provide any sort of checks and balance to donald trump, it cannot be this republican congress. because for the last two years they have shown complete and abject failures of checking and being a balance to the obstruction, to the abuse, to the verbal divisiveness. when you're voting against the republican party, y

>> well, i think that donald trump has really transformed the republican party, and this is certainlye 1980s under ronald reagan. it's not the party of mitt romney or john mccain or so many other republicans, including some that i worked for. donald trump has really made this into a european-style nationalist party sort of like the national front in france. he has made demonization of immigrants a key part of his agenda, and he began his campaign in 2015 by calling mexican immigrants rapists and murderers, and more recently he's been referring to latin american immigrants as animals who breed and using other demonizing terminology. for a while he was trying to separate families and lock children of newly alivrrived immigrants in cages. he has catered to racism. for example, vilifying african-american nfl players who kneel during the anthem to protest police brutality, praising white supremacist protesters in charlottesville, and on and on and on. i think it's really just transformed the republican party because the republican party has never said, no, we repudiate what donald trump is

relief they were worried that this might turn into a full blown trade war and that has led the republican party trumps party to be worried because there was a lack of enthusiasm among a constituency that normally is the bases of the republican party in rural areas and so they put pressure on trump so in the way of course the european union did goods to stand united but also young couples lucky that this was a good timing and trump was ready to declare victory and move on our correspondent cost and fun and naaman in washington thank you constance well the concept of free trade was found fed at the brick summit in south africa and leaders of the brics nations signed a declaration stating that the signatories want quote an open and inclusive multilateral trading system as envisioned by the world trade organization but critics say political and economic self interest play the leaders of the five brics emerging economies immortalized their hand prints in clay they'll be put on display in south africa's creative even claimed to see him but the oldest find if human bones are also exhibited. it's an im

the republican party was able to dump johnson and have ulysses s. grant as a presidential candidate. -- you willic party see this in the photo book -- this is a white man's country. it is a white man's government. that is the slogan of their party. they did not mince words, they said what they meant. many times you will read -- this happens a lot. -- itay this is all about is not about this, it is about that. you should go back to those documents. that is why i give you some money to feed. they are very clear about being for white supremacy. this is why, the radicals and up rewriting the constitution, amending it to a substantial a great -- degree to make it quite clear that americans are included within the protections of u.s. constitution and u.s. government. that is a story for next class. i will give you back your papers. i know you have been very patient. hopefully will be able to do that. i will see you next class. goodbye. join us every saturday evening at 8:00 p.m. and students inwe join college classrooms to hear lectures ranging from the am

let's look at the republican party. dnumber of moderates, ford consider himself a moderate, have declined. collins,ke susan others like olympia snowe have left. i come from south carolina. lindsey graham has been under attack from the tea party on the grounds he is too willing to engage in bipartisanship. so, i think he would be seen as a rino at the very least. >> who do you think influenced gerald ford the most? dr. kaufman: who influenced gerald r ford the malls, i do not think there would be any single person. i would certainly, if i'm talking about people, but his parents up there. his upbringing. two individuals, for example, there strength and perseverance, his father's belief in not relying on the government for federal assistance, by pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps, their belief in their spirituality, all of those things i think influenced ford. >> given ford's view of people, that he sought to find the good in them, was his pardon of richard nixon inevitable? dr. kaufman: historians do not like the w

he was loyal to republican party. i should point out loyalty meant at times he changes positions on the issues. which i will say more about momentarily. last, pragmatism. ford was loyal, but he was not an ideologue. he was willing to reach across party lines. grand rapids, his hometown, was and i believe still is, a city marked by which scholars and contemporaries have referred to as a midwestern form of conservatism. this meant limited government. it meant fiscal frugality. it meant piety, but of the non-fundamentalist sort. it also meant political moderation, pragmatism and a , willingness to reach across party lines. a willingness to compromise. this could be seen in ford as a member of congress and as a president. even as an ex-president, he was willing to reach across party lines by setting a precedent, working with a democrat, jimmy carter. let me talk more about the book and tie them into these broader themes. ambition, pragmatism, and party. ford's personality and political views were shaped by a variety of fa

president has been facing since to with blood in there putting criticism most notably within his own republican party with republican lonely occurs describing what they saw in housing key areas seem disgraceful and shameful and with republican leaders in congress trying to distance themselves from this president and tromso all of this on t.v. we know that he likes to look good on t.v. we know that he seems to be obsessed with optics and this is actually not the first time that he backed down it was the case when he's administration implemented its policy of separating migrant kids from their of parents at the mexican border and after harsh criticism from within the republican party on this the president changed this policy so let's hear more from the statement that was issued here is on claims of russian interference in the sixty election. it should have been obvious i thought it would be obvious but i would like to play it just in case it wasn't and if you sentence in my remarks i said the word would instead of would have. to say and should have been i don't see any reason why i would or why it woul

something like passing legislation that might change the image of the party and a good way -- there is a trade-off. personally the republicans have inome awfully invested growing the party. democrats who intelligently want to reach out want to figure out how to get voters back and college-educated voters more quickly to the democratic party, that they are the democrats all about verbalizing -- mobilizing the base. >> unfortunately that is all the time we have, please call your children and grandchildren. thank you for listening to our panel. >> this week you're watching c-span programs in primetime. tonight, kirk cameron, jeff sessions and cory gardner speaking at this year as a question conservative summit in colorado. >> we're hammering the criminals and violent groups especially ms 13. that vicious gang is one of the most violent or inhumane groups in the world. rape, ando is kill, control. this on c-span, c-span.org and the free c-span radio app. president donald trump will announce his nominee for the supreme court, filling the vacancy left by retiring justice anthony kennedy. watch seen of him live on c-span or c-span.

and it became extraordinarily controversial. lpi don't think he really the republican party. us culture war speech w viewed as divisive in a way that ultimately ended up hurting the republican brand. - weust take back our cities and take back our culture and take back our country. he ran away from the speech, though. co and he took the nsequences. i think bush could have won. - right after the republican national convention, we started building for the '96 campaign. at we did not know that buchanan was going to decide to run in '96. we just knew he had to be ready if he decided to. - it is good to be back home again. [cheers and applause] let me... let me first introduce my wife shelley, om you all know, and my--and my sister bay. [cheers and applse] - buchanan is a racist buchanan is a racist! raci! racist! racist! - what made you come back in? - everybody believed i'd run very strong and run a good camteign in 1992, and i haific support. and i st didn't think bob dole was a prohibitive favorite. and i thought if i could get on one-on-one with bob dole in debates that i would

you wrote recent something fascinating about the gop and the republican party. they have different camps within in. tell us what your thoughts were. >> 90% of republican voters support donald trump. they might have issues here and there and don't love the tweets but republican voters are united around the president. republican voters in washington, in my column i wrote about four different ones. the republican who donald trump has done to the republican party what they always wanted. they are tough on immigration and trade. not a ton of them in washington but folks like steven miller fit the mold. the as i could group is republican establishment. folks you were talking about and have been in power for a long time. they fight for who is wearing the red jerseys. they will fight for donald trump. steve: even if they don't love it. >> right. there are still divides within the republican departty but they are keeping their mouths shut because donald trump is their guy. he's appointing someone to the supreme court and putting points on the board broadly. then there is

down the immigration thing, and he reverses himself, he does so because he's so infected the republican partyblicans. do you see any way that you and the senate which is supposed to be the deliberative body could be working with republicans and maybe could spill over to the house to sort of say we can actually do a bipartisan thing without the right-wing of the republican party rebelling against that? >> there's always hope. as i said the senate actually had a bill. this was about the fourth iteration of a bipartisan bill that we thought the president would be willing to go along with because that's what he said he would do. you know, i look at it is the senate is the one body and while it would being a great for the house to wake up to their responsibilities, i think that we should do what we need to do in the senate to pass a bipartisan bill, which we came up with. so, i'm hopeful that we can do that again. but at the same time if we wait around for the president to make up his mind what he deems acceptable, we should live so long. that's my attitude. >> senator hirono of hawaii. report bac

rick: john mccain's republican party has its ups and downs. the fundamentals -- john likes to say the party he ,elongs to is teddy roosevelt abraham lincoln, and ronald reagan. there is a pretty big group of guys with ideas that i would say, the vast majority of america on any given day would want to assemble behind. oft is a history of all -- our party that we need to cling to. i would add, john mccain to that list. [applause] rick: if i am a young, hungry political leader, regardless of where you are in america or what kind of job you have, i would want to look at john mccain's that is the, gee, guy i want to emulate. that is the attitude i should have in politics. to be able to go across the aisle and create change. every major piece of legislation that john mccain past he did it on a bipartisan basis. every major bill that comes out of the armed service committee where he is chairman, called the national defense authorization act, which is now named after john mccain, than i can authorization act, has been passed overwhelmingly in out of t

california's republican party is turning its shoulder on a republican candidate running for congress in the east bay. some say candidate john fitzgerald is racist. and an anti-semitic robocall backing his campaign is causing concern. in an e-mail, fitzgerald said he did not authorize the call and does not support the message, but the chair of the contra costa republican party who is jewish says that the california republican party does not endorse fitzgerald because of his racist views. you can check out the candida candidate's website at social media pages reveal he's a holocaust denier and while republicans do not endorse fitzgerald, 36,000 people voted for him in the june primary. and he will be on the ballot in november. >> it's really, really unfortunate that this happened. our party is going to take action in the general election to see that this doesn't happen again. >> and the republican party says it's sending fitzgerald a letter saying he is not welcome in their organization. they're also working on a strategy to inform voters about his views before they cast a ballot in no

he is continuing with his project by instinct to remake the republican party. his foreign policy appears to be designed far republican party that is closer to the roots, distrustful of treaties and in many senses flootly isolationist. in his rallies trump describes trump's closest allies as our worst enemy and says they kill us on security and trade. he writes in new york magazine that trump is straining his base to hate nato and like putin. he has been remarkably successful. 51% of republicans now believe that the united states shouldn't defend nato allies unless they increase defense spending. it is to cooperate and the republican party has it ideal logically the party of free trade is far more solidly behind protectionism. the party that celebrated the optimism now contains a majority that supports separating families at the border and prosecuting undocumented immigrants. it continues to be that he recognizes the base of the republican party is right for this ideal logical revolution, that while the formulas may still be subscribed to by republican elites in

flake, john mccain, mitt romney issued a statement, ben sasse, these are the outlers in the republican party, and i think you're going to find republicans continue to support the g president,ss we'll see. >> you say mccain and romney from thehe outliers, they're last two presidential nominees to have the republican party, but it is erno lo thain republican party. it is now donald trump republican party and it's proved to be very difficult to shake the hold that trump has had in a party that's been ready find in its own image. most notably in attitudes against russia, if there's one thing that characterized republican politics in the pa, it's been a pretty hard line on russia. we certainly did not hear that ustoday. >>to add, terrific points, just to add, i was looking at a pew research center series of surveys from 2015 to 2018, and the attitudes toward vladimir putin have changed significantly among republicans. there is less disapproval of vladimir putin and less criticism of russia as a threat to u.s. interests. so it's remarkable how the president's attitudes toward putin have filtered d

he emerges from the republican party and he leads the party very successfully to the war. in the last year of the war, he works with republicans in congress to achieve quite a bit. the most important was the bureauan'sthe bill. this is a federal government agency. this is what southerners say, this is the federal government being overreaching. this is a federal government agency, the official name is the refugees, freedmen, and the abandoned. it is a federal government agency that will oversee the transition from slavery to freedom in the south. it was that not just to protect the rights of free people. it was actually giving food and shelter and sometimes opening up its hospitals and even to southern whites. but it was portrayed as this awful overbid by most southern white people. it was only helping black people. actually, they were doing a whole lot of things. they ended up being identified with the free people. what does this picture show you? this is a short history of reconstruction, it has two views of the freedmen's bureau. what does this tell you? here's a man, he

he worked with his party, the republican party. johnson was a man without a party. he does these things like -- remember the field order number 15 russian mark all these abandoned lands that they had free people settle on? he takes these lands and gives it back to the planters. otherwise our complaint in that they don't want like voters -- black voters. his ownearly working on plan for reconstruction. , when it reconvenes, these are the things that he is doing, his proclamations, pretty soon after lincoln's death in may of 18 since the five. when congress reconvenes, forms this joint committee on reconstruction, the joint committee of the house and senate to decide what to do with reconstruction. they have a testimony of violence in the south, of contention in the south from free people, etc.. they are trying to come up with some plan that johnson could agree with, that he could be on board with. these are the moderates, not the radicals. they put together two bills. they want to extend its life, this will continue to try to maintain sums him was of order and peace

trump has 85-90% of the republican party, the republican base is trump's now.s not a bunch of populist nationalists. it's a mainstream of the republican party that supports trump. they hate this cowering before the democrats in the media over government shutdowns. they hate giving up every policy idea in the face of the blackmail the government shutdowns. they love trump saying, he'd be willing to do it over this because the issue of immigration is what got him elected. >> sean: i am with him. shut it down. shut it down. the people with the president. that is all the time we have left this evening. remember, this show was always going to be fair and balanced. we are not and never will be the destroy trump media. we have a couple of big things coming up this week, i will tell you later in the week. let not your heart be troubled. the news continues. she's actually in the next studio over. she's here. so i saw somebody this weekend, last night is a matter of fact, she said, why do you call laura ingraham? like "the ingraham angle"? you purposefully mispronounce h

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our federal courts have been at the center of the republican party strategy to dismantle, gut and weaken the affordable care act, aca, since it was passed over eight years ago. supreme court narrowly upheld the aca's core provisions in 2012. the aca afords affordable health insurance to millions of people in our country who are otherwise not have such insurance, but the republican party's efforts to sabotage this critically important law through the courts continues unabated. right now, texas and 19 other states have a lawsuit pending in federal court that claims among other things, that the affordable care acts for americans living with pre-existing conditions, illnesses like diabetes, asthma or cancer, are invalid. the trump administration filed a brief supporting texas in its attack on the aca's protections for millions of people in our country with preexisting conditions. this case will likely end up before the supreme court. if texas wins its lawsuit, the health care of millions of americans will be at stake. with nearly one in four americans either losing their health coverage or p

do you think the republican party will hold the house? hink they can if the republicans will stand up and do what they need to do. people are tired of congress. they're absolutely fed up with the congress that does absolutely nothing and they're fed up with the justice department that keeps stonewalling congress and hiding the evidence that we know we're entitled to. the taxpayers want to know the truth and something needs to happen to expose it to them. i don't know whether the president needs to appoint somebody outside doj and give them a security clearance to look at the documents themselves and take the white house out of it and the doj out of it or something needs to happen that eats different that allows exposure of all of the truth. lou: christopher, you get the last word tonight. >> the midterms elections are a base election. that's when the hard core people come out. what if the republicans or conservatives say this is a referendum on paul ryan or mccarthy or do you want jim jordan. do you want nancy pelosi or do you want to go f

he's always been the conscience of the republican party when it comes to actually taking action on issues like these. a few of our republican colleagues have spoken out and talked the talk. but it is time for the republican party to walk away given the dire notice of this situation. mr. president, you are doing great harm to these united to thewhile kowtowing number one enemy we probably have on the globe, vladimir putin. he will continue to do so if he is not checked. the best people to check him are not democrats, but his fellow republicans. what the president has done is an insult to all of us. democrats, republicans, independents. we'll have to stand up together and push back. i'm ready for your questions. think your view that the only explanation to the president's behavior is that the russians have something on him? >>'s behavior so inexplicable, so against advice, all americans will tell you if that is not the explanation, what is it? what the heck could it be? you said republicans are the best check. but what check on democrats? you whisper on the edges about impeachment. if it is

i don't know where it goes and i think the republican party and the republican base, they're not homogenousthere are wings in there. i do hope that they finally now see what they have in the white house and that they're willing and prove able to push back on him in meaningful ways. not just the tweets today. that's reassuring but pushing back with legislation to limit some of the -- his powers and his ability to further this relationship with russia. >> i'm no expert on liz cheney. he is a republican. i 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 co

of all the clips you showed of my friends in the republican party. he does not trust, like, or want anything to do with our intelligence community. this is nothing difference, nothing new. the only difference is that he said it standing next to vladimir putin. this soul mate that he has an infinity for has something far beyond what the republican party ever thought possible. will is no real new news here other than seeing with our eyes what we have heard out of the president's mouth for the last 18 months. >> i think i hear something, i like to watch how people move and what they are doing with their arms. and i got the sense that putin was in heaven. i was smirking as if he owned the guy. and trump seemed to be uncomfortable in the role of captive. you are the expert. >> vladimir putin is a human intelligence officer. a person who manipulated people to betray their people. steal technology. he is a former communist. and now, and is now the president of russia. the only thing that i didn't see yesterday was exactly how putin could not move his finger

was uncalled for, unacceptable. >> the dam he refers to is the solid line of defense from the republican party has been able to rely on so far. we are seeing more evidence of that dam breaking. now a republican from texas and a member of the house intelligence committee. he has written an op ed for "the new york times" saying trump is being manipulated by putin. what should he do? he says, quote, over the course of my career as an undercover officer in the cia, i saw russian intelligence manipulate many people. i never thought i would see the day when an american president would be one of them. specifically heard right, the president's failure to defend the united states intelligence communities unanimous conclusions of russian meddling in the 2016 election and condemn russian covert campaigns and his standing idol on the word stage while a russian dictator spouted lies confused many, but should concern all americans. by playing into vladimir putin's hands, the leader of the free world actively participated in a russian disinformation campaign that legitimized russian denial and weakened the c