but the elections are not going to separate donald trump from the republican party. in fact, the linkage is tighter than ever, because he has a narrative that he can sell to republicans, that he helped them to pick up senate seats, he helped them to pick up gubernatorial races, and that his kind of demagogic politics actually works. and so a lot of republicans will believe that. they're already imitating his style of campaigning. i think you're gonna see more of that in the next two years. >> my view is -- we would have a chance for building a robust party that sponsors the kind of ideas that i think you and i are more apt to agree on if some of those moderates survived. >> well, maybe so, but what i've see happening in the last couple of years is that the moderates have become very quiet. they have not become vocal in the republican party. even those who have objected to trump have not really tried to stop him in congress. and so you can say that maybe, you know, the moderates are not gonna come to the fore out of a defeat, but they're certainly not gonna come out to

but a republican in my world would drag them into the street to horse with him. this party always had an element we pretend that it wasn't there because we did have republican leaders at the top ronald reagan scorched the plan in a c pack speech. i'm surprised they don't have a white hood concession stand. so where these people whistling to the volume of the air raid siren. i don't know the rules here but i do have a notoriously salty tongue. [laughter] . >> are you on a 72nd delay? . >> but as profiles of chickenshit. [laughter] i'm told i should not say things like that. but it is florida. let itan rip. [laughter] but the touch of trump those horrifying consequences are playing out in slow motion the fact they are in the state house and senate races across the country by the time the council is done they will have lost 40 house seats then plus heone and plus two in the senate. when republican started the year they looked at the tax bill, thend economy, and the gigantic lake of money and said we would pick up nevada, arizona, they were predicting a plus six or plus seven.

i'm sorry, republican in my world would drag david duke into the street and horse win him. this party always had an element in it and we fought against it because we did have republican leaders at the top who were absolutely not tolerant. ronald reagan scorched the klan and david nuke a cpac speech one year, this time i'm surprised cpac doesn't have a white hood concession stand. the people around the alt right that infested the republican party and the conservative movement, where these people are overtly dog whistling to the volume of an air raid super. when you refer to s-hole countries -- i'm sorry issue don't know the rules but i have a notoriously salty tongue. >> the seven second delay. >> i referred to republicans in on the more than show as profound chicken shit. there was a second set delay because it was national broadcast. i'm told i shouldn't say things like that on national television. >> like in florida, let it rip. >> florida man right here. but trump -- the death touch of trump, the horrifying consequences of being an ally of donald trump, have been playing out in slo

it became more republican over the time he held it because of redistricting. the party made it more republican and also the cross currents in wisconsin. it was not a typical district, modern-day republican district. it has three democratic cities. janesville, racine, and kenosha. one of those has a significant african-american appellation. -- population. they are part of his constituency. i think they influenced his politics. i think these were constituencies that maybe didn't necessarily vote for him. but he had relationships and dialogue with these people. with democrats and citydwellers, which is not true of a lot of house republicans. i think that also played into that side of paul ryan, the outreach side. the side that is trying to have a conversation with the people you disagree with without it devolving into a food fight. host: let's go to marlene in host: let's go to marlene in north carolina, independent. caller: good morning. i'm listening to this. don't laugh, my family fought in the revolutionary war. if they were alive, they would probably be overthrown thi

i am not joining the republican party. carla: and david, you are a democrat whose party is divided right now, and talk a little bit andt those personal choices how they will contribute to bringing us all back together. some people feel like love it or leave it. or love it and change it. and i believe in staying in the republican party. because of this election before -- because when i came to america and i listen to these debates in this presidential november, there were debates going on and press conferences. i was sitting there and i could not speak english. i had a friend who spoke english and german, and he helped me with the translation. i listen to nixon, and i said what party is he? he said, he's a republican. and that is exactly the case today. i think that i admired him, what he said. the philosophy of a strong military, fiscally conservative. to be inclusive and make the world a marketplace. all those things i could leave -- i could relate to and believed in. then i became a fan of ronald , reagan because he was g

a decentry needs republican party. the truth of the matter is before liberal became an epitaph in the 1970's, liberalism in the sense of pluralism and a commitment to our constitutional ideals,ur freedoms and the parties are two branches of liberalism. we debate and disagree. what the governor said is important. we are seeing a rescission of liberalism and democracy around the world. career, thecal field was divided by vertical lines. we debate hyperbolically. ie two presidential campaigns had a senior role on, if you listen to the rhetoric, you between a top was 39.6% andax rate of 35% preferred by republicans. aat we see now is that is defining american politics. it's a lateral line. most of us are above that line. people, all of the economic ain sefra accrued -- gains have accrued. see two lines below that. where a middle-class people believe they are one economic misfortune weight from catastrophe. their kids will be worse off. there is a chance they will fall off into the bottom 40%. of the country doesn't have $40

a party of donald trump, it's not the republican party anymore it's the party of donald trump and to put one quick fine point on it, i never forget this. barack obama when he was out here to fund raise on the west coast talked about pennsylvanians clinging to guns, god and religion, right? and those voters in pennsylvania didn't forget that. they wore shirts with that, and they were proud of that and democrats have forgotten that. >> we can be elightist -- elitist and-- >> and the biggest time, we cannot forget the amazing cocaine mitch and how he was able to help the president on the hill to maintain those, that support and part of the reason that president trump-- >> elisha, can i ask you a question, hang on, it seems as part of what you're doing is invoking what conventional conservatives are invokininvoki don't like trump's style, but i sure like what the guy is doing and interesting so many republicans especially in congress who started out so opposed say-- >> lindsey graham. >> oh, man, lindsey 2.0. >> you will i'll complain about trump until the cows come home-- >> i'm happy w

the president reflected a mood in america, people who attend all the rallies, those folks, the republican party, the president is the head of the party but the party is the basket of deplorable, that is the republican party. i will tell you, what the governor said, i was in washington working on a bunch of campaigns, rick santorum's 2012 campaign, he drops out, a free agent, i think trump will be the president and people said you are out of your mind. during the primary, my friends were calling and saying you are going to ruin your reputation. what are you doing? you have a good reputation. what are you doing? i drive around pennsylvania, done a lot of campaigns and it is something i have never seen before. people showing up in the primary in pennsylvania, i would go to polling places and people saying this is the first time i ever voted. they were excited. >> from supporting santorum it is hard to think of two more different candidates. >> not true at all. economic populism. look at rick's books, they just didn't say it artfully. the president got it out there. there is, democrats abandoned th

that the california republican party went on. and ultimately, we do have a party filled with crackpots and nuts and all that is in the california republican party where steve bannon is the keynote speaker, john mccain's , the party will collapse. these parties are not self-sustaining, and they certainly can be self extinction. >> i don't think he shares her optimism. arnold: i agree with steve because i told her republican ,arty in 2007 to give a speech and i said, you are dying at the box office. and they were appalled by that and it is exactly what happened lostse i could see that we one million republican women, that first three years in office because the republicans refused discussionn any about the environment, which is very important to women. they refused to engage in health care issues and refused to engage in education issues. they were the three most important issues to women. if you don't offer some kind of solution and tell people this is , youwe're trying to do have nothing. so i could see firsthand, the decline of t

whenever the party gets a new leader, it changes. i came in to national republican bush,cs when george w. the u.s. attorney in new jersey in 2001. the whole world was different than. much different presidency than we have now. no matter what a party thinks it is, it is who its leader is. the democratic party was different under bill clinton than it was under barack obama. even though many of the same players existed in major positions. the president writes the hymnal and the party sayings -- party sings. that is the way it works in our system. i think that is why the party is different now. we have a different leader. some people sing loudly in the choir. some people don't like the hymnal as much so they pretend they are singing. [laughter] some have their melts moving and nothing is coming out. nobody is listening, it is ok. >> what about you? where are you with the choir? >> i look at politics as a binary function. to me, people ask me all the time, you were the first major person to endorse donald trump, why did you do that? because i didn't want hillary clinton

-- >> i'm not joining the republican party. [laughter] >> and david, you're a democrat whose party is divided right now, fighting -- talk a little bit about those personal choices and how you think those are going to in one way or another contribute to bringing us all back together again. >> well, i mean, some people feel like love it or leave it, or love it or change it. so i believe in staying in the republican party because when i came to america, and i listened to the debates, during the presidential election, before november, there were all the debates going on and press conferences, and i was sitting there, i remember, i couldn't speak english, and i had a friend that luckily spoke english and german and he helped me with the translation. i listened to nixon. i said what party is he? and he said he's a republican. i said, you know, this is what i like. i'm a republican. and that is exactly the case today because i think that, you know, i admired him, what he said, the philosophy of strong military, fiscally conservative, b

let's start with -- i was talking with the head of the republican party in florida. is becoming a tight race between traditional republicans and rinos, and left-wing socialists. you couldn't ask for a tighter race than what they ran against in florida and arizona. ed: we lost a two-term orange county district in california, we don't have an orange county district any more in california, we lost them all. only thing south of los angeles is hunter who basically has lots of political problems ahead of him. he's the only member of congress we have. we lost five seats? kevin mccarthy's home state. lou: democrats who won are basically running as republicans. ed: there were 7 million more democrats vote for congress than we had across the country. lou: what are the republicans going to do? >> you cannot run national campaigns. you can't run congressional campaigns out of washington. if i was running the trump administration, i would gone it four states he has to win. and do just what -- lou: what happened to ohio. ed: and ohio. the margin is very close. we have to start in

in point of fact he's running against every one of the idiots in the republican parties who are really posing as republicans. i think you're right in that construction. but this president is, right now he is harvesting the seeds of anti-establishment that he's been planting throughout the country for several years now. this is a real war. it's a fight that i hope the president doesn't ever, ever get tired of waging, because so much depends on his strength, his leadership and the weakness of these fools like -- there's no other expression for what a paul ryan is. >> there's the sentiment i thin- lou: and kfn mccarthand kevin ms coming in right behind him. >> i'm sure people are telling him the fight will be over after the midterms. everyone will settle down. it will not. lou: who told him that? >> otherred a sizers within the establishment probably are telling him that, when in fact they know, as you are correct, this is a long term fight. this is not just about this term or this presidency. this is about whether or not the donald trump attitude, the new gop would survive and it's a gop

my republican party had become trump's party. my conservative movement had become trump's movement. the first thing i did the next morning, was to go online to change any voter registration. i had been a republican since turning 18. just before the 1988 presidential election, now with age 47 i became an independent and politics is a team support. suddenly i was without a team. i was politically homeless. in an instangt i felt alienated from some of any oldest friends and fellow travelers conservatives with whom i had been in one fight after another over the past quarter century. how was it possible that 90% of republicans had supported a charlotte recently been a democrat with a few fix conviction racism, and sexism -- my sense of alienation has only deepened as i have watched trump presidency in action. no other president has been more hostile to values of conservatism i conceived it. conservatism american style means different things to different people. there is afterall an tension in advocating conservative vision in a liberal society in which social economic and technological ch

he became more republican over the time he held it because of redistricting. the partye it more republican and also the cross currents in wisconsin. ,t was not a typical district modern-day republican district. it has three democratic cities. janesville, racine, and kenosha. one of those has a significant african-american appellation. they are part of his constituency. -- population. they are part of his constituency. they may be did not necessarily vote for him, but he had relationships and dialogue with these people. citydwellers, and which is not true of a lot of house republicans. i think that also played into that side of paul ryan, the outreach side. is trying to have a conversation with the people you disagree with without it devolving into a food fight. host: let's go to marlene in north carolina, independent. caller: good morning. i'm listening to this. don't laugh, my family thought in the revolutionary war. -- fought in the revolutionary war. if they were alive, they would probably be overthrown this government. paul ryan doesn't have to worry about is the fu

bush was talking about immigration, making the republican party bigger. the big tent. nald trump has turned it into the pup tent, right? this is where are republicans, we all know what the demographics are in this country. what is this going to mean for the republican party down the road. >> which is why jeb bush in florida used to win the his ppac vote hands down. and george w. bush got 44% of the hispanic vote. in our lifetime, it feels like dinosaurs were roaming the earth when that happened. but something else i want to tell you. when i heard oprah's speech and she talked about, i have earned the right to my vote wi, i have earned the right to my opinion. so i'm marrying a very traditional cuban american man, a latin man. but i think it's important for women, for spouses, regardless of gender, to be able to have a civil conversation about differences and what their priorities are, and to be able to exert their expect right to a political opinion and a vote when that happens. so if your wife wants to vote different than you, you've got to let her and you've got to su

shawn hannity changed his mind again to conform with the trump position as did the entire republican party. but some republicans who worked on that republican autopsy six years ago are starting to think again about how to save the republican party. kevin mccarthy is one of them. kevin mccarthy is the new leader of republicans in the house of representatives because paul ryan saw the defeat of republicans coming over a year ago and decided not to run for reelection to his congressional seat. today kevin mccarthy told nbc's kasie hunt that recruiting women and minority candidates will be a focus of his. he said give me two years, i've only been leader for a few memts. he admitted to kasie hunt that the republicans have a structural problem. that was the term they used in their discussion today. meaning that republicans are appealing to too narrow a selection of voters to actually win elections. donald trump the republican's structural problem. and as of tonight the president does not stand a chance of being re-elected. only 37% of voters want to see president trump re-elected. 58% of voters

when i heard the president talk about us, it takes me completely away from the republican party. if i come around to think a little bit if i could myself the republican, i do not see how i could result. talking about the visa lottery, coming from nigeria, i have not wayn any way -- been in any -- the benefits nor from the country of my organ -- origin. i will always vote democratic. all of the rest of the recipients of the visa lottery that i know have gone to become medical doctors, lawyers. i am one of them. my masters program. the rest of the time i have cannot saymerica, i that i have not contributed. for the benefit of the country. guest: let me pick up on where he is. rather than respond directly to some of the things that he raised, let me enhance what he said. the issue of immigration is very sophisticated. there is multiple layers to it. i feel both political parties ultimately dumb down the issue to such an extent that most americans look at it and say, you are missing so much to what is a very complex issue. i think if we were to make this a muchre sensitive -- more sub

but some prominent republicans definitely disapprove and after trump was elected, they left the partyincluding george will, a pulitizer prize-winning columnist and longtime defender of the conservative movement. and bestselling author, max boot, who was a lifelong republican. until president trump was elected. boot explains his decision in his new book, "the corrosion of conserve tim: why i left the g.o.p.." max boot, thank you for joining me. soledad: max boot, nice to have you. so our relationship started with a tweet and it was not as it used to. i'm a little embarrassed. i think we have a relationship now. we've tweeted and my students. that's actually like nextstep controversial to actually absolutely go and tell your husband. you had written about this epiphany and leaving that led you to leave the republican party. i think it was in foreign policy magazine. you got that right. and when i answered back to you that someone called it gutsy and i said i didn't think it was gutsy that i thought actually that you'd been oblivious to basic experiences of women and people of color and

crenshaw was written about by david french and david french said if this is what the future of the republican party lax like after donald trump, guess what? we're going to be okay. last night, mcsally facing pressure from donald trump, the.republican -- the head of the national republican party. and also people in her own state saying, hey, you've got to fight this out. .you know how those calls were going. hey, if you want any future in politics, you have to fight and show people that you're tough now. i've heard that nonsense before. but actually, mcsally showed the character that voters will remember if she decides to step back up and keep serving her country like she has already. >> i think the reason both of these felt so good, and feel so good to the american people, both lieutenant crenshaw's apology, the accept kwans of the apology on snl and colonel mcsally's concession last night is because there's so little of that grace in the public life right now. we see so little of that on tv and our culture.

the republican party was wholly against this.heir leader astonished them by returning from europe, where he had gone to england to see how likely the british were to deal with a blitz and the possible invasion by germany. he returned to testify before the foreign affairs senate committee. after lindbergh and our own ambassador and the college presidents have said, no lend lease. that is putting our foot into the water. that means we will be drowned. wilkie returned and spoke so effectively. he can do so because no member of congress had ever been abroad in those days. no member of the foreign affairs committee, not senator bora or mcnary. they had never been abroad. he came back able to speak about church hill and even and beaverbrook and others. he said this is serious and existential. this is 1940. brian: during the election. mr. lewis: right after the election. brian: there is so much and there we are not going to talk about. he lost the election and it again in 1944 and did not get past wisconsin in the primaries. jumping to

today, the republican party is now the party of donald trump and of trumpism. it wasn't that the beginning of 2015. the democratic party is defined by the energy and activism of its grassroots. that grassroots activism had a massive effect on the election in terms of the amount of money that democrats were able to raise, the doors they were able to knock on, and it is a big difference going forward as we head into the 2020 cycle to have these two different parties then we had at the beginning of the last presidential election cycle. >> i'm going to respond point by point to that. [laughter] >> no, first of all, good evening. it is a pleasure to be with you. i disagree with a lot of what geoff had to say. it was a good year for democrats. it wasn't a fantastic year. i think a number of democrats were disappointed in the results . a strong point was the strong showing in the house of representatives, but if the republicans get four additional senate seats can i don't know many people that predicted that. that is dependent on what happens in arizona. to win florid

republican party. proud of the history of the republican party, what it's built on. the very first republican president was abraham lincoln. i think we stick to our principles and goals and you'll see this party continue to grow and be the majority that represents all of america. in gender, faith, reality. we'll be back. thank you. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2018] >> the incoming class of freshmen members of congress posed for a group photo in front of the capital. they will not be sworn in until january 3 but they are in washington for training sessions and to vote for house leadership. the newly elected 116th congress will have a record number of women and a record number of common veterans. -- combat veterans. [indistinct conversations] bring them up on the next row, the two ladies over there. [indistinct conversations] >> this side. bring them up on the next row the two ladies over there. can we pull the

the republican party is not the same as it used to be. >> reporter: you considered yourself republican, consider yourself independent now. how did that happen? why is that the case? >> the republicans have lost their way. the republican party is a joke as far as i'm concerned. they want to repeal health care but they don't have any replacement for it. they talk about that too. they have no immigration strategy except to create fear in people. >> reporter: martha mcsally, stephanie, has a heck of a resume. she is the first female fighter pilot in this country. but she in this campaign has made the decisive decision to stand with donald trump. here on the campaign trail, she also joined mike pence on the trail as well as don junior two days ago. she voted back in may 2017 for that house health care essentially repeal bill that would have weakened protection for those with preexisting conditions. she's stood firmly behind this administration, which as you heard from those two, prompts them to go and vote for kyrsten sinema. i want to play you one other sound bite from a republican who sai

a republican party. and donald trump. the republicans made the affirmative decision, one by one by one, lindsey graham is the great avatar of them all, to capitulate to it. to surrender to it. the vileness, the meanness, the cruelty, the dishonesty, the assaults on objective truth. the liberalism of it. the assaults on our important institutions from the department of the justice to the intelligence community. the politicization of the military. it is beyond belief. we always look in campaigns and we say the campaigns determine by the last meaningful thing that happened as opposed to the first significant thing that happened, and this election was determined two years ago by the capitulation and surrender of the republican party, the throwing out of the window of every orthodoxy, every claim, every fidelity of belief, that these people once claimed. that they stood for election on. and so tonight, the country gets to weigh in. one of the things that is for sure unique, we have never seen in this country a billion dollar p

the problem for the republican party for some time has been you can't be a mostly white, mostly male party and thrive long-term in this nation. you can eek out some wins now, but if you look at demographics, they don't lie. this nation has a shrinking white population. the more they harden as the white male party, the more long-term republicans should be worried. >> gist, you brought up a great point earlier. donald trump can't afford to lose any votes. he didn't get that many votes in 2020 and as we've been saying forever, he ain't going to have hillary clinton to run against in 2020. because if you go back to those 2020 results, it wasn't that donald trump was a great candidate. it was that a lot of wisconsin voters stayed home. didn't you point out that mitt romney got more votes in 2012 than donald trump got in 2016 in wisconsin. >> that's true. and people didn't pay enough attention to this. it was so many democrats just weren't quizzed by hillary clinton. so what we needed to see from the 2018 elections were was 2016 a fluke, basically, did these states revert back to form? ever

i think the real challenge over the next ten years for the republican party, and democratic party and independents, is to move forward in a way that is bold, and that tracts more people not because they agree 100 percent with their policy agenda but because they know 10they're trying to solve the bg problems. >> when is your last day of service? >>big january third or fourth. >> what then? >> be a dad, i haven't signed up ?with anybody. i have practiced law, my goal is to not practice law. i will speak out on issues. i don't know what it will be, but probably a blend of things in washington as well as the philadelphia suburbs. >> this is ryan cos tell o representative of pennsylvania, sixth district. stacey plaskett service the virgin islands and she's a member of the oversight and government reform ctt

most recent data from last year, 54% of white catholics identified with or leaned toward the republican party. democraticy with the party, with the remainder independent and not leaning toward either party. one interesting piece of data, we have looked at this by age. you know what is super interesting is that young people, within a variety of religious traditions, are distinctive in some ways. they are more politically liberal than their elders in some ways, especially on issues having to do with sexuality and homosexuality in particular. but that pattern does not hold true whatsoever with respect to partisanship. whether you are looking at white catholics, or white evangelicals, or white mainline protestants, young people, young adults in the late teens and 20's are just as republican as are their elders. it is not the case that there is a political trend leftward among any religious group in the united states that is being driven by young people. they tend to be just as republican as their elders. john: ana, before i asked you, i will remind you if you want to join the conversation, thehas

not just of the president but of the republican party as a whole in the trump era. now the president and congressional gop face a new congress. one that's divided. what comes next is anyone's guess. will republicans continue to wrap their arms around trump despite stunning election losses or will they try to find common ground with a house that's now controlled by democrats. in an interview kevin mccarthy was asked that very question. >> our number one goal here is to make sure we move america forward. i have a second job as becoming the republican leader to win that majority back. i'm focused on that. >> if you ask mitch mcconnell, the question of whether or not washington grinds to a halt for the next two years depends on the democrats. in a recent op-ed he wrote there will be no shortage of stunt to continue this impressive record of cooperation across the aisle and across the capitol. will our colleagues choose to go at it alone or choose to work together and actually make a difference. there's the president who is still reeling over the election and facing the t

the republican party has many good people and good ideas. but none of them matter while it houses and feeds fantasies, conspiracies, and paranoia tinged with racism, bigotry, and anti-semitism. republicans are now squarely the party of joe mccarthy, and until that cancer is excised, it should not be entrusted with power. >> for more, go to cnn.com/fareed and read my "washington post" column this week. let's get started. >>> let's go to today's political panel. katrina vanden heuvel is the editor and publisher of "the nation." anthony scaramucci was briefly the communications director at the trump white house. he's the author of a new book "trump, the blue collar president." and james fallows is a national correspondent for "the atlantic." he and his wife debra are the co-authors of a terrific book, "our town's 100,000 mile journey into the heart of america." jim, let me start with you. if you were to look at the state of america, the statistics, economy is doing very, very well. consumer confidence is very high. unemployment is down. things l

i'm proud of the history of the republican party. proud of the history of the republican party, what it's built on. the very first republican president was abraham lincoln. i think we stick to our principles and goals and you'll see this party continue to grow and be the majority that represents all of america. in gender, faith, reality. we'll be back. thank you. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2018] >> the incoming class of freshmen members of congress posed for a group photo in front of the capital. they will not be sworn in until january 3 but they are in washington for training sessions and to vote for house leadership. the newly elected 116th congress will have a record number of women and a record number of common veterans.