the republican party as a presidential partis apresidentis figuring it out at the congressional party doesn't know what hit them yet. but slowly it is coming around. they offer plug-in ideologues moved away i think and will see a different kind of republican politician. you know what, it's going t' be otmore o like the conservativesn other countries generally. france and england and so forth. not ideological, and concerned about just regular ordinary people. >> host: you wrote in the book the party that this group of people or this workers party is liberal economics like the overwhelming majority of americans you write. it's also conservative on social issues like the majority of americans and bustle supporters feel too for that s reason suppt the liberal welfare policies and you want to write hits the sweet spot in american politics go, te place where the presidential elections are won. explain that a little more. >> host: you mention the word nationalist. what does nationalism due? ites gives you a fellow feeling for other americans, so what's it like if you think that americans you

our party the republican parties missed a really big opportunity and that is to insure its own survival by making it appeal to new voters new communities minority communities specifically i mean we are supposed to be the party that was formed for that very purpose was to you know to liberate provide equal justice and i think jack kemp's message was the right one and one we should get back to and it's a shame that. the media has a lot to do with with misrepresenting a lot of where our party stands on issues but it's a shame that our party is not focused more on that and should be right now. to get to some of the areas the investigations the explosive devices continues with so it was the march of immigrant count of them two of the u.s. born in this interim states that there were terrorists within the count of and nothing's been proven what do you make of that mess. well the president statements are incredibly shameful and this is just another example as we were just talking about of him just making the statement that inflammatory and offensive withou

as he demolishes the republican party. david jolly and i usually have to remind ourselves that trump wasn't in the party when we were. but he seems to be trolling trump politically. by getting out the vote for democrats. >> you have to understand, cohen can't really speak publicly much because he's waiting to be sentenced in december. so there are little ways i think make him feel a little bit in control and who he's saying privately to people, which is that he has absolutely no taste for anyone with the last name trump anymore. those subtle little digs he's able to say on twitter or perhaps spin himself in a very positive light, he's going to take every opportunity to do just that. >> so michael cohen joins david jolly in the former republicans club. you made it public, made it official, that you've left the party. you want to talk to us about that a little bit? >> sure, probably a very different journey than michael cohen. >> i'm guessing. >> the republican party, listen, i've been a member of the republican party since i

voters are walking away from the republican party at the national, at the state, and at the local levels. republican voters are not showing up at the polls. what does the confederacy do in fall of 1862? they invade maryland, they invade kentucky, they invade missouri. the idea that we will show the north it is not invulnerable, it is very vulnerable and they should change the occupant of the white house. farmers are not happy. they now have to ship their goods not on the ohio, not on the mississippi river, they have to put them on railroads, which are now charging a lot of money and have to go through the great lakes. the morrill tariffs, the idea that imports are expensive, and people are looking at the republican party saying, you guys are all about the people who grow the economy, such as bankers, but i do not see you caring a lot for farmers. there is a group that is going to help lincoln somewhat. this is called the union league. the most recent book is entitled "the most complete political machine," that lincoln does have, his friends who do write letters to the editor, who are som

facts, a certain dignity and humility, a certain style of governance, is completely gone in the republican party. we attack all of those things that i just outlined. so for us to stick around in a party, which was not only intellectually bereft, but has become mean spirited, nasty, and cruel quite frankly in the way they behave towards victims of sexual assault and sexual abuse, really is not a party i want to have anything to do with. the question for people like tom and i, where do we go? that's going to be the challenge for us. the challenge for the parties and maybe for a third party candidate in 2020. >> a lot of big questions here as we look at what's going to happen in the midterms. >>> coming up, new revelations are a different story. bob mueller's in the secret republican effort to buy the clinton e-mails perhaps. and what trump said about that bombshell investigation into his money trail. >>> and the battleground states. we'll hear how women voters are planning to hit back to what some are calling a me too election. >>> and later, there's a new film "the oath" and that's on "the beat"

the republican party. so why don't we just change the , so of the republican party most democrats will feel ok with voting for a republican? it is now called the national union party, as of june 7 and 1864. in 1860, lincoln won with only 39% of the vote, which came from the north. they need to pick up an additional 20% from somewhere. either they need to get more republicans to the polls, or they need to have democrats who are enthusiastic about the war to vote republican. looking foro union sympathizers that have moved from tennessee into kentucky. the republicans are running on a platform of unconditional surrender. there is no defeat. the confederacy must cave in. they are also running on a platform that there will be a 13th amendment. let's take a step back and say, did lincoln know about the 13th amendment? there has been two. in january,peared 1861, the corwin amendment, an attempt to bring south carolina, georgia, mississippi, alabama, texas back into the union. the first 13th amendment appeared in

i don't think that the republican party, those in the party like myself who have very big differencesthe president and can't stand the type of divisive leadership that he has shown in his 20 months as president is the party that i believe in, and it should be -- we will see that either change or not, but i'm really hoping. i think we have to give it more than two years, we have to give it four to see if we can see any significant change. >> how about the kavanaugh confirmation? he's two for two in materiaterm getting his appointments onto the supreme court. that cemented something relative to donald trump that will be here for a generation. >> yes, and almost any republican who is running in 2016, gorsuch and kavanaugh were not justice nominees that wouldn't have been done under them. i can see george, jeb bush or marco rubio easily pouring forth either of those names. the one thing about trump, he's transparent. he said this is exactly what he was going to do and he got elected on it. it's not so much the republicans that are being put on the bench, it's the way donald trump sees to

guest: the republican party will happily take you if you are independent. caller: i am definitely republican. i have been watching all this mess going on with liberals acting the way they are acting. i was appalled at the way they -- democratsaugh are on my list. i cannot believe what is happening today. to me, it is like riding. -- rioting. host: anything specific for the senate race in ohio you want to talk about? caller: it's between bad and worse. i am definitely not going to vote for brown, so i guess i will have to vote for an aussie -- rena -- is that bad to you the way you see it? caller: i don't particularly like either one of them. i don't like the democrats either. might as well get a republican. host: thank you. think, clearly, there are a lot of republican women going back to our point who had that response to the kavanaugh hearings. i think one of the mistakes the democrats made, they could have used their question time to ask more probing questions that could have perhaps gone to the same position of establishing christine blasey ford's credib

i'm out of the republican party. they have become all about winning. winning means not losing. and consent, congressional republicans now act like a parliamentary party facing the constant threat of a vote of no confidence. so i'm out. the trumpers and the hucksters and the consultants and the hangers on like a colony of bees who exist only to sting and die have swarmed together in a dangerous but suicidal cloud. and when that mindless high finally extinguishes itself in a blaze of venom, there will be nothing left. all right then. >> tom, thank you so much for being with us. i wanted you to be on after i noticed i had retweeted you about 14 times in one afternoon. soon after i did, then of course the punch line came and that was that you were leaving the republican party. i thought one of your most interesting and important points is that the republican party became what they hated. and that is a group of people that wanted to achieve by judicial fiat that which they couldn't achieve at the voting booth. >> yeah. it's really remarkable the way that the republicans and democrats

party lines even here in. general gender lines because while most democrats women and men believe for most republicans men and women say they side with cavanagh or so it seems that in today's washington party politics basically trumps everything else. michael can you get in washington thank you. time now for some of the other stories making news around the world the funeral of a thirteen year old boy said to have been shot dead by israeli soldiers has been taking place in gaza officials in the territories said he was one of the palestinians killed in friday's clashes on the border with israel the israeli military said thousands took part throwing explosive devices and grenades at its troops. people in latvia are casting their ballots in parliamentary elections today opinion polls suggest a populist party catering to the country's large ethnic russian minority is in the lead ahead of parties in the governing center right coalition. now the biggest fish market in the world has held its final tuna fish auction tokyo's suki market is one of japan's major tourist attractions but now thousands of traders are packing

party lines even here in. general gender lines because while most democrats women and men believe forge most republicans men and women say they side with cabin are so it seems that in today's washington party politics basically trumps everything else. michael can a day in washington thank you. cameroonians go to the polls on sunday to elect a new president the incumbent eighty five year old paul b. a is seeking a fifth election victory but worsening violence in the country. casting a shadow over the pool with many unable to vote because our minority in western cameroon and for the last two years under separatists have been fighting against government troops in the majority francophone nation the violence has prompted thousands to flee their homes and our correspondent adrian krishna filed this report from a refugee camp in nigeria near the border with cameroon. people this has been. for almost a year ever since the village she used to live in was. just with her blind brother on her back and the twins on her she fled into the forest to what's nigeria. if there is peace in my country. just leaving as big as becau

party lines even here are. general gender lines because while most democrats women and men believe for it most republicans men and women say they side with kavin are so it seems that in today's washington party politics basically trumps everything else. michael can in washington thank you. time now for other stories making headlines this hour at least fifty people have been killed in congo after an oil tanker collided with another truck authorities say at least one hundred people were injured now the tanker was on its way from the western city of my teddy to the capital kinshasa it's not yet clear what caused the collision. the funeral of a thirteen year old boy said to have been shot dead by israeli soldiers has been taking place in gaza officials in the territories said he was one of three palestinians killed in friday's clashes on the border with israel the israeli military said thousands took part during explosive devices and grenades at its troops. people in latvia casting their ballots in parliamentary elections today opinion polls suggest a populist party catering to the country's large ethnic russian mino

the republican party ended up dumping resources into his race. 2016 was a presidential election year. it looked like it might go better for democrats, right? lee zeldin in 2016 was definitely on the bubble as to whether or not he was going to be just a one-term congressman. but at the apex of that crucial race for him in 2016, congressman lee zeldin's campaign did something that was a little hinky, especially in retrospect it seems really hinky.

party lines even here in. general gender lines because while most democrats women and men believe for it most republicans men and women say they side with kavin or so it seems that in today's washington party politics basically trumps everything else. michael can you get in washington thank you. now to some of the other stories making news around the world a funeral has been taking place in gaza over thirteen year old boy said to have been shot dead by israeli soldiers officials in the territories said he was one of three palestinians killed in friday's clashes on the border with israel the israeli military said thousands to throwing explosive devices and grenades at its troops. people in latvia casting their ballots in fundamental elections today opinion polls suggest a populist party catering to the country's large ethnic russian minority is in the lead ahead of parties in the governing center right coalition. now ukraine has unveiled a solar plant in sion or build the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster three decades ago the one megawatt facility produces enough energy to supply two thousand apartments

i think you're the mod cat ring of the republican party, and you're not in that party. to the dust bin of history? >> this is the closing chapter of that. sus this is a fiction that one thing we have learned through the kavanaugh process is there is no right wing of the republican party anymore. >> trump is asked what message the kavanaugh nomination sends to women and this is his answer. >> what is your message today to the women across this country who are feeling devastating, feeling like the message sent here -- >> i don't think they are. i think, actually, that women look at the biggest -- i can tell you the people that spoke to me most -- in the strongest of terms were in his favor were women. women. women were outraged at what happened to brett kavanaugh. outraged. >> if the producer could break, thank you. put it back up. reel up some of the tape from before, from earlier today. jason, donald trump says the women who were out there, people who were trying to storm the supreme court, don't exist. that you didn't see them. this is classic autocrat behavior. you di

very clear that he's coming down very hard on immigration that it is a central part of the republican party's position in these midterm elections deploying troops just a week before the elections take place showing strength in his view of president trump categorizing the immigration caravan as an invasion as president trump put it in a tweet today this is playing to politics it would appear rather than deploying forces to repel the immigrants when or should they arrive at the border mike thank you very much for that is mike hanna live in washington d.c. still ahead on the bulletin hate crime in the usa just want to play over the rise and racist attacks during the trumpet ministration. and jewish leaders in pittsburgh tell president trump that he isn't welcome there are at the synagogue shooting unless he starts targeting minorities. hello again welcome back to international weather forecasts well across the philippines we are watching typhoon you to make landfall here right now you can see the storm as it approached across the parts of luzon so that storm today is going to be bringing some ve

the things seems to be a miracle in fact a small wedge of the republican party internationalist banking to a great degree. what was the foot in europe. in the consequences. the registration as a republican. he described it vividly. he was 17 years old. it was his first convention. and marveled that then noise is coming from it or determining. where the decisions on the floor. and that is because of the remarkable the secretary of defense and state for both roosevelt and mckinley. they wrote an interesting manifesto. in which he summoned all of the graduates of the rest. see mac to go to the balcony in philadelphia. give this remarkable response. the tickets in the balcony were distributed as something is a nine-one ratio in favor of what recalled or in roots boys. in the death of the campaign manager the convention manager something mysteriously to proficiently he had been in fine health but he was a taft man. and when he dropped dead and advocate sam pryor who went on to be vice president opinion american. became the manager of the convention. it was in that man's pockets. so wilkie se

>> if you look at the partisanship, the republican party has been shrinking as partisan identification largely law of trump. if you look at the independents and democrats, republicans don't have -- they're not an expanding party. >> right. but they showed, jason, they could still win being a party getting down to basically white voters, including some white college educated voters. the congressional ballot now has democrats 48.5, republicans 41.3. the big factor has been whether educated white women would shift over towards the democratic party, thus far they really haven't. so you have 58% of college educated white women saying the senate should reject kavanaugh's nomination. i have yet to see that translate into white female voters voting for democrats, but anything could happen. >> it probably won't. there's a bit of history to pay attention to. everybody talked this week about clarence thomas and anita hill, that was 13 months before the election. this is four weeks. people will still be angry in four weeks. i think there's an enthusiasm level here. there's been a change. all these

point that's passed is that this president now is in full -- he's holding full sway over the republican party. he is talking about republicans. he is leading republicans. he talks about we republicans. there was a time until about i would say somewhere -- just roughly putting a time on it, i would say it was sometime around the 1st of september that things started turning for the president where he was in charge of both -- not just in name but actually in charge of the republican party and he brought republicans in to -- no longer just trump supporters, no longer just conservatives, he now is the absolute head in a very real way the head of the republican party. >> as he should be and is, and it was hard-fought to get there, but it is now his, and he will basically drive the agenda just as he has driven the agenda of the nation. equally important he stood up to the dictators around the world and held tough and i think to a certain extent there's nothing you can sit back and say that he hasn't shown strength. lou: you know, it's funny. he talked about on the campaign trail and he reminds us ev

i hate to tell you. >> well, to state the obvious, smeerg and mocking one of the republican parties mostected leaders and one of our military's greatest heros as a republican candidate for president would not end up being disqualifying for trump. for conservatives like me this was the first of many signs that something was amiss in the republican party. insults of course continued from mocking a disabled journalist to attacking a gold star family. every time he went low, republicans in congress and many republican voters stooped down to meet him and give him cover. now trump supporters are trying to smear jamal khashoggi on behalf of the president. not because he opposed trump, but simply to justify trump's muted response to his brutal murder. >> one thing we have to understand is khashoggi was not a good guy himself. >> now some things have come out and we are just reporting the facts. but khashoggi was tied to the muslim brotherhood. >> and there was this at a rally this week, trump burst into applause when he boasted about a republican house candidate assaulting a reporter. >> greg is

chairman mcdaniel the intensity meeting democrats all the numbers are up the division of the republican partybe not the trump voters and his populist base not because he ran as a republican but they are afraid conservatives care the most about the supreme court than any other issue we saw this in 2016 this is the main social issue even because of tea to that reactionary cultural supporters and this has been an eternity. >> some of that last no matter what but we have all of the unknowns with russia and the jillion other things so i will refrain from speculation. >> given the fact democrats are mobilized with their oppositio opposition, it does energize those republican voters is this a net plus quick. >> in the short term i get your point between now and election day but given that white male dominance there has been an outpouring about making judgments before that convincing evidence and then putting the man on the high court. >> and the white women in the republican independence so if you look at the races talk about the suburban districts many went for hillary clinton but have in the repub

he has he has denounced white nationalism and so has the republican party and let me add this one of our guests used the word mob well that word mob didn't come out of the president's mouth that came out of the mouth of some of the river the democrats that was maxine waters and that was eric holder they were the ones that said let's get the mobs after the republican leadership in the restaurants so you see that my point is is that look we can point the finger in the direction of the president or in the direction of the democrats it's the person who commits the act of violence yeah we can do better we can work well together but what we must do is recognize the root cause of this problem has been going on for decades and decades and decades and we still have massive violence in chicago massive violence in baltimore that has nothing to do with the rhetoric that's going on my point is together we could work very well together if we start elementary school level start refocusing on the things that we need to focus on to stop violence and may i add one more thing it also begins in the home

the republican party used to be a conservative party with a white nationalist fringe. it is a white nationalist party with a conservative fringe. host: san diego, jason is watching there. caller: good morning, sir. i have two comments. maybe you can give me some insight on it. that,ecently -- prior to donald trump is always talking about the media is the enemy. the enemy, the enemy. just recently, a washington post journalists went back with his wife to get some papers in saudi arabia. they murdered him, cut him up in the little pieces. i would think they feel it is ok because of the weight they are reading -- way they are reading trump. fox news is talking about mob rule. i hear trump say mob rule. the republicans talk about mob rule. were walkings through charlottesville and murdered this girl -- people.d them good sir, i can see what you're upset. this mob rule thing is a canard. there are some uncivil protesters on the progressive side. i don't agree with jason government officials at of restaurants, but this is not mob rule. supremacistswhite in charlottesville wh

the republican party is a party of just racist white men. i think it is all about who benefits from who is in charge. benefit.ll white males even white females. it is not black women or men and children holding anyone else back. i think we are being tricked. i think all white women still vote with the republican party, so they can benefit from white men being in charge. if the democratic party is a party of everybody, of different different people, then we should be the majority, and we should be ruling. three white gentlemen sitting there -- i think you are intelligent enough to know that something kind of greeks here. if hillary clinton had that something kind of ree -- something kind of reeks here. the democratic party does not point out -- they let the republican party run over them. even now, donald trump has not showed his taxes. we kind of cover it up, move from one thing to another. is allowingic party him to do everything else like this -- host: thank you for your comment. al weaver? guest: he has from mississippi. that is another b

he has he has denounced white nationalism and so has the republican party and let me add this one of our guests used the word mob well that word mob didn't come out of the president's mouth that came out of the mouth of some of the river the democrats that was maxine waters and that was eric holder they were the ones that said let's get the mobs after the republican leadership in the restaurants so you see that my point is is that look we can point the finger in the direction of the president or in the direction of the democrats it's the person who commits the act of violence yeah we can do better we can work well together but what we must do is recognize the root cause of this problem has been going on for decades and decades and decades and we still have massive violence in chicago massive violence in baltimore that has nothing to do with the rhetoric that's going on my point is together we could work very well together if we start elementary school level start refocusing on the things that we need to focus on to stop violence and may i add one more thing it also begins in the home

the republican party has essentially become a whole little owned subsidiary of the trump organization. there's almost nobody in that party aside from a handful of outliers like jeff flake on their way out the door willing to speak out against donald trump even as he engages in this shocking demonization of minorities of the opposing party. think about the violence of his rhetoric where he's saying that democrats are evil, they're traitors. they want to open the borders, they're in league with ms-13. all these horrible things that just the kind of poisonous rhetoric we've never heard from a president before. republicans are earring joining in or pretending not to hear. one of the most dismaying things for me has been the silence of the republican party elders. i think in the senate of folks like senator lamar alexander or rob portman who have been around since the paleolit thick area, they are the wise old -- what do they think when they hear this kind of stuff? i don't know. they don't call out trump when he lauds a congressman for attacking a reporter when he incites violence in that

senator heidi heitkamp for the democrats, and nevada senator dean heller for the republicans is doomed. and both parties are still spending millions to keep those races in play and hoping for a poll-defying victory. david jolly, former republican congressman from florida and reporter for "the guardian." welcome back, both of you. sabrina, at the risk of repeating again in this hour, sometimes grieving will get people to the polls in a way so, how's it going? well... we had a vacation early in our marriage that kinda put us in a hole. go someplace exotic? yeah, bermuda. a hospital in bermuda. a hospital in bermuda. what? what happened? i got a little over-confident on a moped. even with insurance, we had to dip into our 401(k) so it set us back a little bit. sometimes you don't have a choice. but it doesn't mean you can't get back on track. great. yeah, great. i'd like to go back to bermuda. i hear it's nice. yeah, i'd like to see it. no judgment. just guidance. td ameritrade. >>> i think that the politically expedient vote here was a yes vote. >> why not, then? >> because this isn't about politics. this

parties? >> democrats have just absolutely annihilated republicans in hard dollar fundraising.his is largely because of small donations being given online. democrats have long had an advantage on this front because they have this portal, act blue it's called, which serves across different campaigns and the electoral landscape to alert democratic small donors of races they might not have heard of and allow some of these candidates, like a beto o'rourke, who has shattered fund-raising records in his race against ted cruz in texas. to raise a lot of money from out of state. of course, there's also small donor enthusiasm because of antipathy on the left for president trump. republicans have tried to offset that advantage by raising the this big money into super pac's that come into these races were democrats have a huge small dollar advantage and even the playing field a little bit. it is the job of priorities usa to make sure the democratic big money is holding its own and keeping democrats with that financial party overall. >> what are the polls telling you about how voters are r

so i think it's another example that it's not the republican party any more. is donald trump's party. this is a particularly ugly manifestation. >> but the president thinks it will work with his base. everybody stick around. don't go too far away. there is a lot more unfolding. we'll be right back. your insurance rates skyrocket after a scratch so small you could fix it with a pen. how about using that pen to sign up for new insurance instead? for drivers with accident forgiveness, liberty mutual won't raise their rates because of their first accident. switch and you could save $782 on home and auto insurance. call for a free quote today. liberty mutual insurance. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ if your moderate to severeor crohn's symptoms are holding you back, and your current treatment hasn't worked well enough it may be time for a change. ask your doctor about entyvio®, the only biologic developed and approved just for uc and crohn's. entyvio® works at the site of inflammation in the gi tract, and is clinically proven to help many patients achieve

republican strategist? how likely sit that your party loses the house? >> well, it's historically likely, but as republicans and as an operative, you look at the organization, the machine the republicans have built. and that started years ago but really accelerated are george bush and his eight years in the white house of putting an infrastructure in the local state parties and the republican national committee to not do the sexy work but to do the hard work. we learned that with victories during the obama administration. one thing that i will fault the obama team was they did their own political party and left their democrat national committee and state parties out there to fend for themselves. there is a huge difference in the organizational set-ups when it comes to that. that's because they understood what redirecting meant to the republican party and what a local house member and local senate members mean to the republican party. so in the overall scope of things, certainly the president's numbers are helping us. they're not hurting us now like they w

. >> i think the interesting thing here is as a young woman my biggest issue with the republican partythat we've often been talked down to and it's been amplified if anything. so in looking at the democrats i'm mobilized as a former republican voter to vote for democrats because they're bringing obama out there again. i have not, you know, i've been wondering why they haven't brought him out sooner, quite honestly. because while he may be the old guard here in some ways he is able to turn out the youth vote how many years ago, right? and if we're going go into this election and we're going to mobilize young voters, obama was the person who was able to do that and that was really my first voting election. so i really do think we need to look at that piece of it and realize that that will be engaging for young voters out there, and i think, going against trump and bringing obama out there is the best thing that the democrats can do at this point in time. >> let's play more tape here and two pieces of tape here and you have president trump talking about joe biden and joe biden talking abo

i do not believe we should allow the republican party and right-wing conservatives to spend hundreds of millions of dollars tearing down democrats and progressives and sibley sit there on our hands and watch it happen. from our perspective, if a candidate chooses not to have a super pac engaged in the race, we would not be engaged in the race and that is how we would approach 2020 as well. >> you mentioned the races in which you are involved in this cycle. you were last on this show back in may and you at the time said the democratic chances to take back the house were in great shape. you said about the possibility of even taking that the senate shot." "we have a 18 days until election day, is that still where you see the landscape? mr. cecil: i do. leading in enough races to take back the majority of the house. we still have a ways to go. there's no question that the math, a mathougher dominated by states that president trump won, and a think a unit half ago, you would be hard-pressed to find a democrat that would imagine we would have six or seven races within the margin of error,

intensity is huge but i will put it this way, the gift of this is there is a division within the republican partyservatives who were maybe not trump voters, trump skeptic at least ten trumps populist base who voted for him in spite of him being a republican, not because he was one. the coalition was frayed. they agree on this one because the conservatives care the most about the supreme court than any other issue that they have. we started 2016 but on the other side quite significantly, this became a social issue because of the ground over which it was fought. his reactionary cultural warrior supporters come into the space. >> chris: and trump world, 30 days is an eternity. 400 new cycles, does this last? >> some of it last no matter what but the question is, we've got all of the unknown unknowns that are going to come between here and there in a release to russia and up a jillion other things i could come to bear on this. so i will refrain from speculation. >> chris: given the fact that democrats were clearly already mobilized, a lot of them in their opposition to president trump, if it does ene

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>> susan collins was a big disappointment in trying to reclaim the moral high ground for the republican partyok at her doing their dirty work. i put her there, but lindsey graham, i guess if you are a republican strategist, he reclaimed the kavanaugh nomination when he had the outburst and turned the hearing around. >> you think he did? >> he did. >> he did it with anger. who is bringing up what? he brought up his white maleness for whatever reason and said because he's a white mail from south carolina, he is not allowed to talk, but he's gonna. >> this is the most unethical sham since i have been in politics. if you really wanted to know the truth, you sure as hell wouldn't have done what you have done to this guy. this is hell. this is going to destroy the ability of good people to come forward because of this crap. >> now that mr. kavanaugh is likely to be installed on the court, maybe lindsey graham will go back to being his folksy south carolina self and someone who works across party lines. i wonder how he is dealing with the loss of john mccain. he was mccain's wingman. i think maybe t

we have seen a lack of courtesy and empathy by the republican party. ey have shown who and what they are. they do not respond. guest: i think republican would argue they were shown a lot of discourtesy if we are talking about the cap hearing. the president speaks in a way many people find between offensive and repulsive. he may be speaking less that way. senator flakehat says about courtesy. it would be preferable if the president adopted a more courteous tone. he needs to fight back. he needs to fight back. he needs to fight back more politely when he feels he's being unfairly attacked. that's one of the things his supporters find as a virtue. host: right now, bill nelson is withinning a narrow lead the margin for error. the governor has not been able to break that. guest: rick scott has one two races as governor by one point. he never hit a majority of the vote. times when iy few say it comes down to turn out. this is going to come down to turn out. do african-americans come out and vote? rick scott one because of the turnout drop off. if that happens

small l liberalism, conservatism is a root branch of it and the democratic parties and the republican parties, both liberal parties, compete in the arena of ideas -- >> a democratic society -- >> to move the country forward. what we are seeing is the co-option of the conservative republican party in a personality which is fundamentally unconservative led by donald trump, that is authoritarian in nature, that is antithetical to the orthodox is of the republican party and the conservative movement as they have existed over the last 40 years. but it is something more. it is the incitement. imagine, after a bomb was sent to cnn, the president of the united states goes and says, the press, the free press, is the enemies of the people and then he says, the anger in the country is caused by the press who reports critically of him. what he is saying to the next sick person on the end of the transmission is, if you take an action, it's because they deserve it. what we are seeing, just as we saw young, displaced, evil or sick or just plain losers be radicalized by isis, we are seeing the same thing in

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he looks large in how the republican party changed. oms large in what the democratic party did in response to what it saw with a republican party. he looms large in the clinton wars of the 1990s. he looms large to this day with donald trump. and i think what you saw in that moment from 1984, this was key -- this was a turning point not just in the rise of gingrich but in our politics because what he recognized then was this was the era of the old big three networks. nbc, cbs, abc, as you have from the excerpt there. gingrich looked for a way to go around that. what he was doing on the floor of the house, there was no fox news channel, but that was the fox news channel. he was producing pretty much a nightly talk show on the floor of the house and finding an audience. he found the political power of that. >> you say that through visible clashes, they feel they can spotlight their agenda scene draw clear distinction between the parties. their aim is not to pass bills but to influence the viewing and voting public at home before that, even

senator heidi heitkamp for the democrats, and nevada senator dean heller for the republicans is doomed. ask bo and both partiesre still spending millions to keep those races in play and hoping for a poll-defying victory. david jolly, former republican congressman from florida and reporter for "the guardian." welcome back, both of you. sabrina, at the risk of repeating again in this hour, sometimes grieving will get people to the polls in a way that gratitude will not. >> absolutely. and i think that when we talk about midterms, you have to remember that they are typically a referendum on the president. this president has the distinction of having historically low approval ratings since taking office. despite the fact that the economy is strong, he, of course, resorts more so to these culture wars, to this us versus them message that he believes drives his base to the polls. and a lot of that has to do with also the fact that his signature legislative accomplishment, the tax bill, that remains increasingly popular in polling, so perhaps he's also not really in a position to talk much about his agenda since taki

i think a lot of people in the republican party disagree with their leaders but they're not coming out and saying so but party line to toe the party line and that's why i have distinctions. there are a lot of things i find parties and ioth usually tend to vote my -- conscience but this time i'm voting for the moral high ground. congressd like to see go to the democrats to see a change in values and views and while.t for a going toure if that's matter but i'd like to see a change. >> as a democrat, i'd like to party take control of congress. i think that if congress changes inds and democrats are charge, we're going to have prounion,hat are more pro-environment and necessary check on erratic, unreliable white house. states, partm the tour.pan's 50's capitols >> election day getting ever closer, three weeks away. by jan leakily, of public affairs. general, the common thought is midterm elections are lower turnout. what are the reasons they give for not voting? guest: a lot of times they report they do not have information about the election. they do not care or do not want to have anythi

republican. because what has happened is what trump brought to the party has been so embraced that this is a republican party issue now. it's no longer just a donald trump issue. it is a republican party issue because mitch mcconnell and paul ryan and mike pence and every single leader who we used to think brought certain principles to the party resigned those principles over at the alter of donald trump. >> we'll continue this conversation. how about that? we'll try to do that. thank you so much for coming in. >>> coming up for us, turkey's president promised to reveal the naked truth on what happened to jamal khashoggi, but did he deliver? >>> plus, have you ever grabbed someone by the collar, shoved him toward a wall at work? no? sounds slightly unusual, maybe? maybe not so much at the white house. ask chief of staff john kelly. details on the fight that boiled over and why. that's ahead. valerie: but we worry if we have enough to last. ♪ cal: ellen, our certified financial planner™ professional, helps us manage our cash flow and plan for the unexpected. valerie: her experience and training gave us