the republican party from 1932 until the late 1970s doesn't have a coherent philosophy. democrats have a coherent philosophy and they are the party of optimism, the party of hope, party of the future. franklin roosevelt runs for president, happy days are here again, john kennedy says we need to get this country moving again. the democratic party from 1932 until 1976 and beyond, the party of hope, optimism and the future in the republican party is green eye shade, eat your spinach, balance the budget party and their message is me too. a lot of conservatives accused moderate republicans, me too, we can manage government better than the democrats, just do it better. that was their pitch. it was not a very inspirational pitch, which is why they are in the naughty from -- why they are in the minority from 1932 until 1968 and beyond. 1968 was an aberration. reagan comes forward, the early leaders of the conservative movement like bill buckley and others have a coherent message that was based on the framers, founders, the constitution which had been cast aside or at least put on

it's not just the republican party anymore, it's president trump's republican party. that's a drastic change from three years ago when the republican establishment made it clear they didn't particularly care for the president, to be loyalty to him, whether it's reince priebus who told him to drop out our paul ryan, the house speaker who took away his endorsement in the last days of the 2016 campaigns. you can't imagine that happening today. the fact we're talking about senator romney so much is because it is so rare rather than what it used to be just three years ago. >> senator romney also told fox news today, he told chris wallace, he could handle the political consequences of his vote but not the personal consequences of inaction. here he goes. >> i have broad enough shoulders to be able to weather personal changes in my career. political or otherwise. but what i don't have is the capacity to ignore my conscience. i don't have the capacity to say that what was wrong was not wrong. what the president did was grievously wrong. i believe he made a very serious miscalcu

that is big enough to allow other competing thoughts into we have a lot of that going on in the republican party and that is a strength of the party and when you juxtapose that with what you have on the left, which is absolutely litmus , especiallysolutely in terms of political candidates, is there room for her life political candidates in the democratic party? i think the answer is no. kate: we actually had a story on remaining, that antiabortion democrats in the house are having hard time finding allies among various groups. i just wanted to step back a little bit. you were writing in 2010, 2011 about the rise of populism, and we've really seen that play out in the trump administration when it comes to trade policy and other matters like that. you see it in the rise of bernie sanders on the campaign trail. what is going to happen next? is this populism going to continue and how would that play out in policy issues, or is this reaching its end point? tim: i think the populism will continue, but i think it will begin to mature in a sense and i think the populism on both sides is going to begin t

folks, and they say, i don't understand this new republican party. party this republican better than anybody. me and my family have been the object of their attention for three years. book -- object of their affection. the president of the united states, people have spent over 12 to $15 million running negative ads against me. the vast majority of mainstream media won't even carry the ads, because they are flat out lies. and folks, i was told that there

inside the republican party there's a civil war because republicans could have nominated marco rubioor maybe even ted cruz and one. you can see that the whole time but instead they elected this lunatic. it becomes increasingly discredited and there's a sense to everyone again instead of letting hillary clinton and. in that world from roebling and party moderated that. i think exposure to the demographics of the era is a healthy disciplining force for political parties. how can you deal with the country as it is, not as your college and would like it to be is good because your to change your message to went over those people. i can't say for sure what be true if we were a parliamentary system, i don't think it would erase all conflict, another version of politics everyone will look internationally, as i like the uk looks great right now. canada is having problems but specific ungovernable toxicity of our system and logistically questions and so on, then how to be here and it would be a have three playset they weren't. [applause] will be selling and signing books here. >> right here. t

i thing we've seen with the republican party is a pro-life party, there's no doubt about it and i'm a proud pro-lifer. but you see party that's big enough to allow other competing thoughts into the tent and so we have a lot of that going on in their publican party. when younk that's juxtapose that with what you have on the left which is an andlute litmus test absolutely, especially in terms applicable candidates, a pro-life political candidate and i think the answer is no. today,ad a story on that the remaining antiabortion democrats in the house or having a hard time finding allies among various groups. i wanted to step back a little bit. you were writing back in 2010, 2011 about the rise of populism and we really seen that play out in the trump administration when it comes to trade policy and other matters like that, you see it in the riser bernie sanders on the campaign trail. , is populismhappen to continue and help it play out in policy issues or is it kind of reaching an endpoint? >> i think the populism will continue, but i think it will begin to mature in a sense and i think t

what you think this is about the republican party in general? >> plenty. [inaudible] >> it makes my case. if you stand up when you think the president is wrong, and by the way the vast majority of americans and a good chunk of republican said the president is wrong. they may have come to a different conclusion but this it is wrong, and in one to three out of the party? that's what the percentage of americans who are republicans are less today than when donald trump took office. >> senators gardner and the tally voted against conviction. you think -- >> you all asking his political question. ask mitch mcconnell. were interested in finding out the right thing, the truth, okay? yes. >> has lisa murkowski said -- [inaudible] do you agree and if you great i'd expect the senate speeders on the quantity what she said but i went to her last night at a told the key said no one could come to an agreement. i said it went to mcconnell three times before i sent the letter that asked for witnesses and documents and said let's negotiate a a bipartisan agreet and he was no

does mitt romney fit that that world, in which republicans say if mitt romney would lead this party one day, republicans might be republicans again? >> reporter: yeah. i mean i think that's wishful thinking. i think first of all mitt romney did leave this party eight years ago. i think mitt romney himself would say his time has passed as far as being a standard bearer for what the republican party has become. he is already getting a great deal of praise on social media. i'm sure there will be a lot of blowback too. but about his decision to do this. it's obviously very unpopular. when i talked to him earlier he was very mindful of the narrative of his career. he took some heat i think, you know, during his presidential runs for being opportunistic, for being someone who might sort of contort himself or flip, to use his words, to suit the political moment, to suit what might be the easiest thing to do, whether on abortion or other big issues. and he is mindful of that. and i think he told me that he's regretful of some of those things that he did. maybe this is a chance not only for a se

who have come out saying there should be a republican -- what do you think that says about the republican party? >> well it makes my case. you stand up when you think the president is wrong and by the way the vast majority of americans in a good chunk of republicans said the president is wrong. they came to different conclusion but they said he's wrong and they want to throw you out of the party? that's why the percentage in the republican party are less today than when donald trump took office. i didn't call you but i will do you. >> senator gardiner voted against witnesses and conviction. >> you are a all asking these political questions. go ask mitch mcconnell. he is interested in the politics of this and we are just in finding out the right thing to this, the truth okay? [inaudible] >> am not going to tell you what she said that i went to murkowski last night and i told her because she said no one could come to an agreement. i said i went to mcconnell three times before he sent the letter that asked for witnesses and documents and said let's negotiate a bipartisan agreement that he was not

and then even his own party the republican party the republican party said a second happen. i will never forget a cold night in washington dc. and listen to this. i want you guys to read it. i did not read it --dash but mean it the way it came out. i will never forget a cold night in washington dc. i was invited to the republican national committee building. reince priebus was the have of the rnc. and there shauna spicer was a consultant. they can ask some of the cream of the crop black supporters to come because they were looking for the black vote and they were on the driveway. this is what were you in ado and this is how it's can happen. this is what working to do. and me and myself i'm always raising my hands i said wait a minute there is a candidate out there in this field of 25,000 that is talking to vision. it's not about coming together or a unifying to win. i will never forget how they were up against that wall like they were the king makers. they knew what was can happen. i said you have a candidate who is dividing the nation on race. how are you going to get him t

the last no, ma'am northeast republican party it appears on msnbc.calling it a criminal. a high criminal. that doesn't matter. donald trump fought this fight by shoving every piece of information into a corner and locking the door. when bill clinton, when the bill clinton impeachment end in the january of 1999, i remember it well. everyone was exhausted. you can judge the facts for yourself and everyone wants, decided this was closed. the facts aren't on the table. there are going to be subpoenas now. before there was a time to litigate whether john bolton should answer a subpoena. now there is time litigate. there are four consolidated cases. one from the district attorney in manhattan and three from different committees of congress heading to the supreme court. they'll be argued in march. one of two things will happen. trump is going to lose or to prevail on probably a 5-4 decision with the deciding vote, maybe cast by brett kavanaugh. is that something the country will submit to? with donald trump, every day is an explosion and there are more expl

this is not the old republican party. this is a very inclusive party. this is a great party. icans are proudly fighting for nationwide school choice, including right here in south carolina. to give school choice to every child in america who needs it from kindergarten to 12th grade because no parent should ever be forced to send their child to a failing government school. i passed criminal justice reform to give former visitors a second chance at life. that is a big deal. done byld not have been anyone but the republican party. they came to me, a group of people, and they wanted criminal justice reform. i was not sure about the issue, but we had a lot of great republicans in favor of it, including people that are here today. issue andstudying the criminal justice reform, you saw alice johnson come out of prison . 22 years. she had another 20 years left for a phone call. a great woman, but we have many people coming out that should not be there anywhere near those terms.not for those they came to see me, a group of people. four senators. they needed help. i called everybody. th

everybody that watches this program knows that i'm i'm a conservative i'm not a member of the republican party but i am a conservative but i have to say in complete honesty that what they're doing to bernie sanders is just simply wrong and it's being done so openly in broad daylight i mean then you have to question if the demo the democratic party actually believes in democracy now fine he don't he's not a registered democrat ok but democrats want to vote for him ok that's what the process is all about so i mean again this is probably one of the problematic areas of the democratic party is that rigging it again and right in front of us and getting away with it but d.n.c. flies into iowa where it takes care of the elect accounting of the votes i mean you know that's like putting tony soprano on the supreme court go ahead most palm beach . and it is if and when we watched you know i think that lack of authenticity is what the american people have woken up to and you know when we watched nancy the other night and the democrats who didn't stand you know for a little who are all who is getting educ

i think it's a change of the republican party. >> harris: jerry, i want to get your response. ty today and what you think the challenges are? for the democrats. >> it's as diverse as it's always been. when we talk about voting cohorts, my age group actually is the largest percentage of people voting, which is interesting. i'm delighted that young people are also doing that. >> harris: you've met, i should say, many of the candidates. >> just about all of them, and 12 of them were at our home. we hosted 12 of them. >> harris: what do you think about joe biden taking off today? he won't be at his own watch party tonight. he sort of conceding, if you will, at least by his actions, new hampshire. >> i hope he explains the reason he did it. i can't even begin to guess why that is. i'm sure people on his campaign are disappointed that he won't be here. >> harris: going to get votes in other states. that's what the statement is. >> he has been a new hampshire a lot. i've seen him several times here. >> harris: why do you think he didn't do well? >> you know, it's interesting -- >> har

really what we saw this week was the death of the republican party as anything other than the cult ofjoining me now is david jolly, former republican congressman who is no longer affiliated with the party. and michael steele, former rnc chairman who's hanging on as a republican as long as he can. i'm sorry, i feel bad for you, man. here is the vote on no witnesses. senator lamar alexander, who tried to make it seem like this high-minded decision with this lengthy tweet storm explaining why no witnesses. lisa murkowski, no. senator susan collins, yes. because she's really in trouble for her re-election. senator mitt romney yes. just as former party chair, michael steele, what were the calculations that these four made, and why were they so different from one another other than lamar alexander, who's out of there? >> yeah. and i think when you're looking at the no votes, it's -- it's really kind of being beaten back into the proverbial corner by mcconnell. it shows his very good ability to whip his vote in such a way that it holds. it genuinely holds. and the unfortunate part, though, w

this is the republican party and we are inclusive. right?ere in america, in arizona, we have created 240,000 new jobs. including over 60,000 new manufacturing and construction jobs here. nobody thought it was possible. you had the best year that you have ever had. arizona, you have had the best year, the most successful year you have ever had in the history of the country. the best year that you have ever had. i am going to take all the credit away from your governor, i don't care. we have a great team with doug and everybody else. number one year in the history of your state. incredible achievement. incredible achievement. this has to be pretty good stuff for the debate stage. in many states, the best year they have ever had. let's get a new president. i don't think that is going to work so easily. the country has had the best year it has ever had, let's get a new president. let's put in crazy bernie. unemployment has reached its lowest rate in over 50 years, happy century -- half a century. the average unemployment rate from my administrat

donald trump, you and i discussed this, controls the republican party. ronald mcdaniel tweeted against her own uncle mitt romney in the speech that he made on the floor of the republican party. what levers have thinking principaled republicans have at this point. a republican party of which 94% of the people support donald trump. >> well, my main leaver, ali, i am the better of the two candidates because i'm an economic conservative. i was rated the most fiscally conservative governor in the office and that used to be worth something in the republican party and i'm a realist about protecting the government and the steps we have to take to avoid because of the polar ice cap melting. i am a realist because multipliers and no point kocozyg up to dictators. the fact that he has all these side bars and side steps and you never know what is going to pop out of his head next, that is just an additional icing on the cake. >> you have called him a boil and i'm just reading an article from the "new hampshire union leader" which was filed about ten hours ago in whi

there are some elements in the south carolina republican party that would do these kinds of things. it's unfortunate. there are a lot of really good, decent republicans in south carolina as there are in the country, but there is an element in their party. john: should south carolina consider going to a closed primary process were only registered democrats can participate? rep. clyburn: i would not advocate that. i always say if you want to be independent, you ought to have an opportunity to choose which one you want to caucus with. i think independents go back and forth. republicans and democrats, republicans and democrats. they offer every election season to go into whichever primary they want to participate in. you just cannot participate in more than one in anyone -- in any one election. sarah: tell us about the field in south carolina. after we are seeing some of these results out of iowa, we see this really top of the lead with the former mayor pete buttigieg and bernie sanders. what does that mean for the field in south carolina? what does it mean for joe biden? and what does i

of lincoln but some say trump's republican party is the antithesis of lincoln's ideals we know that many of you millions of you struggle with what you are she every day wondering what this party has become and like you we know that what we are witnessing is not normal it is not ok. it is. this is not a see pack a vent but the people on this stage in new york call themselves the true republicans their leaders of the lincoln project a group focused on promoting conservatism while ending the trump presidency but the renegades they don't like the i don't like them or the other one trump calls any republican who who says him a never trump are off in the end of their political career and at c pac disloyalty will not be tolerated. how do you castro al-jazeera washington. several actresses have walked out of the french film awards after roman polanski won the says our prize for best director he's wanted in the united states for the statutory rape of a 13 year old girl in 1977. did not attend the event because of protests against him taking place outside the 87 year old's

i don't think mitt romney should be expelled from the republican party. it's a big tent party.e ought to allow people of all kinds in. i think for mitt romney, though, donald trump has a high approval rating in the state of utah, it's up to him to explain to his constituents that approval of donald trump, why he thinks that the president should not only be thrown out of office, but in this impeachment, would have resulted in the president being thrown off the ballot and not be a candidate for president, this november. it's for mitt romney to explain to the republicans in utah, why he thought that was the best course of action. and i'm sure some of the folks in utah, are not going to be happy with romney. but the great thing about being a u.s. senator, it's a six-year term. romney doesn't face the voters again for a couple of cycles. >> scott jennings, thank you for joining us. appreciate it. >> thank you. >>> let's get the view, now, of the democratic strategist. chris cofinas joins me from houston, texas. welcome. >> thank you. >> the democrats weren't able to convict the pres

the republican party is 90% white. it doesn't make a dins because thaw don't really do well and they don't really even try to compete for -- not often for nonwhite voters. they don't compete, they don't do well but democrats need and depend on nonwhite voters in order to get elected so i think you'll start to see the democratic national commit tease really pressured to change the order and we have the spokes person for the dnc that's going to be here and we're going to ask her about it. that's one of the many things i'm going to ask her today. >> this is a week when we should have had some sense of momentum coming out of iowa. it sort of got broken and the air got taken out of the room by the state of the union, the prayer breakfast, the thing that donald trump did after wards and then the purge of anybody who worked against donald trump. do you get a sense that the next three days are going to be some ability for democrats to take back that energy and momentum and for us to start to see what this race is going to look

it became an emblem of how cold-hearted the republican party was supposed to be. our understanding of the past, particularly the immediate past is changing because it moves so rapidly. and president trump has immensely benefited from that. you rightly and commendably started your broadcast by pointing out and talking about this is only the third time in 242 years that we've ever had a vote to potentially remove a president from office. and it's kind of the third story of the day. that's a remarkable thing. and i think that, therefore, what democrats have to do and all of us have to do, forget the partisan thing, we need to remember our responsibilities as citizens and do, to go with what the congressman just said, do what doug jones just did. try to do the right thing. whether he's right or wrong, i don't know, i tend to think he is. he's a blue senator in the reddest of states and he decided -- and his won't make a difference in the outcome, but he just decided courageously, i agree, to say, you know what, this was my oath, this is my view of things. i think the

polling from gallup shows a huge surgeon approval for the republican party.t is what has driven nancy pelosi to lose her mind here. all these personal attacks, ripping up the speech, utter embarrassment and doubling down on this. i think she is not composed. shannon: do you think she should step down? there are calls for her to step down. >> he will step down when the last glacier melts. that is not going to happen. of democrats don't do well in 2020 she is out. heather: in terms of who this has benefited you went through some of those polling numbers do you think it is -- when she looks at those polling numbers? and take a look the polling numbers for the democratic candidates for president? >> let's think about the polling. the polling says people don't like what is happening in our country and they blame the divisiveness, more on democrats than nancy pelosi put on donald trump. has the coarsened the discourse? he has. has she double down and made it worse, without a doubt. this is a political act. i think she is in trouble. heather: you think they will bri

beyond whatever is afflicting president trump is that the republican party is going along with him. >> thanks for your time. that's going to wrap up this hour of msnbc live. i'll see you tomorrow morning on "today." "andrea mitchell reports" starts right now. >> i'm andrea mitchell in washington where we are moments away from an unprecedented victory lap from an impeached president. president trump will tout his acquittal from the white house east room telegraphing what we will see this hour with a stunning display at this morning's national prayer breakfast, gloating to the crowd while using his platform at the annual nonpartisan religious event to attack mitt romney and nancy pelosi, the speaker sitting just feet away from him at the head table. >> yesterday courageous republican politicians and leaders had the wisdom, the fortitude and strength to do what everyone knows was right. i don't like people who use their faith as justification for doing what they know is wrong. nor do i like people who say i pray for you when they know that that's not so. >> speaker pelosi responding toda

arizona republican party state chair kelly ward. come up.have a lot of other leaders but we have to get back to speaking. do me a favor, before i introduce a very special guest, i would like to ask your great governor -- he won by 16 point. it was not even a contest. he is tough to beat. doug ducey, say a couple of words, please. >> mr. president, we are going to keep arizona red in 2020. we are going to return donald -- president donald trump and vice president mike pence to the white house. return -- we are going to keep our republican majority in our congressional delegation and our state chambers. mr. president, thank you for what you have done for the cause of life. for what you have done for our economy and reducing regulations and for what you have done for the united states supreme court. we are looking forward to working with you for four more years. pres. trump: these are great people. thank you very much. before i introduce somebody important to all of us, to me, i have to say with us tonight is an arizona hockey great, a friend o

he helped the new hampshire republican party specifically line up some national firepower to bring into that race to try to get john sununu's son into the senate. this operative from the rnc arranged for a national republican firm to come in from out of state to work specifically on get out the vote operations for that senate race in new hampshire in 2002. and to be specific about it, what this group was actually hired to do was not run their own get out the vote operations for the republican party but, rather, sabotage and undermine and obviate the get out the vote operation that was being run by the democrats. it was a criminal scheme, and people ended up going to prison for it. what this national republican group did was they hired a call center to jam the phone lines that the democratic party was going to try to use to help people get rides to the polls to go hopefully vote for jeanne shaheen. these were call centers set up literally at like firefighters union halls and local democratic party offices. people would call in to a hotline number, a get out the vote hotline number for th

the geniuses in the republican party led by george w.ould do. here is what happened to the republican party. they lost that year, 2006, 30 house seats. they were in control of the house of representatives. they lost control and 30 congressmen lost their jobs. in the senate, they had control of the senate. both houses controlled by the republicans as well as obviously the white house. they lost six senate seats and gave it up to 51-49 to the democrats. what genius in the white house, what genius in the senate, what genius in the house thinks this is a brilliant idea for president trump and the republican party? >> it's not a brilliant idea. it's a broken idea. president trump won the presidency in large part because of his immigration stance. he opposed illegal immigration. to pass an amnesty bill at this point in time, i can go to sleep at night feeling good about myself base opposed that tooth and nail. my organization opposed that tooth and nail. but you are right. when it gutted the republican party, you have to ask yourself why would

all they have done is swayed me over to the republican party for the first time in my life. host: you think the democrats shot themselves in the foot? caller: i heard schumer say that people were for the witnesses and most people i talked to and listening to the calls on c-span which i listen to every hour, i think 90% of the people were voting for donald trump like in california, maryland, and new york. it shocked me how many people were for donald trump in those liberal-type areas. host: what do you do in branson, missouri? caller: i am retired. i am a veteran. it is warmer here than in miami and i think the next couple days we will have ice rain. i am retired. host: do you consider yourself a swing voter? politicallyally -- in the state it is republican, and i voted for josh -- and i loved him. i voted basically republican the state. i am more independent. i didn't care for hillary, for sure. i call him pencil not, he just lies. that is terrible -- pencil neck, he just lies. that is terrible. one thing donald trump said certain things he would do and i think he has done i

is the republican party vastly different than it was back then in terms of their willingness? it was republicans in the end who went to nixon and said, look, this is -- you don't have my vote. barry goldwater and others. >> i remember caldwell butler, who was a republican from rural virginia, very conservative man. and he was a huge fan of president nixon, and he ended up voting to impeach nixon. but he said something -- this isn't an exact quote but something to the effect of, this is on us. this is on the republicans to clean up. and we never heard that in -- certainly in the house. but i think we did hear from senator romney a very principaled statement that his oath counted more than his party, and that was inspiring to me. now, he's getting a lot of grief from the president about it, but i think when you do the right thing, when you honor your word and you look at the facts in the end, you will never be troubled by doing that. and we didn't see enough of that this time. but i have tremendous faith and confidence in our country. and i know that the voters will be looking to

stands behind this president and the utah republican party said that they disagreed with their senator and they stand with president trump so the republican party is a 100 percent united with president trump because we understand what he is doing we understand the impact that he's having in the time that he was impeached in the house and that sham charade you saw the president get through the u.s. in ca china phase one trade deal as well as the possibility of a peace plan please pick a peace plan but tween is one palace that believes and as we know has been rejected i've been raising our strong and let me just let me just ask you one last question before we let you go i mean you talk about the president in a strong position and leading and going forward but i skim it he said you know when clinton was there he 20 years ago after his impeachment he called for unity but we're not hearing that from the president right now judging from what we heard of the breakfast specious morning he seems to be more combative the never is that really the right way forward well i think if you list

there was a friend of our as chairman of the new hampshire republican party, steve stefanik steve stefanik. that was a big evening. [cheering] pres. trump: and three friends of mine that are cochairman, al barta sorrow, and lou gargiulo. thank you all very much, and david and cory, thank you for being here. know, veryy people

representatives and so i agree with what chris cuomo said, that this party is donald trump's republican partyliever in conviction, i'm a believer in following my ethics, my code. and if i can't be in a party and support donald trump and support who he is and what he does, i don't need to be in that party. and i think those of us at the lincoln project made that very clear that we're going to do everything in our power, poppy, to make sure donald trump doesn't get reelected, try to get the republican party back on track. >> why do you think you're sort of the exception to the rule in this case, right? because even lisa murkowski's statement, and remember the context, she was willing to vote against the president on cavanaugh, and she just said essentially the whole thing is broken, congress is broken, the senate is broken, i am sad but i am not voting for witnesses. why are you sort of the exception to the rule and everyone is standing by the president? >> i can't speak to that, you have to ask her. if you look at the statements by marco rubio and by lamar alexander, by lisa murkowski, they're

sharon that say the republican party has more e concern for latinos has doubled over 15 years. but the one category that's telling is latinos are saying there is little difference or no difference between the two parties area that share has grown to almost a third today we say there's no difference between the two parties when it comes to concern for the hispanicpopulation . >> stephen in el paso texas, good morning. >> caller: good morning. i just wanted to say that we cannot forget because of news cycles happening so quickly what happened on august 3, 2019 in el paso texas at the walmart and the fact that that person was enabled by the current administration the way people think about latinos in general and the fact that there was a manifesto saying that mexican-americans or mexicans needed to be eliminated along the southwest border goes we were corrupting and employing america. if that's that is enough to motivate a vote just to vote against, this is about voting against them and what they did people in spanish and getting beaten up in public places and all that, that shoul

>> but it's 90% of a much smaller republican party. >> right. >> the trump republican party is a shrinking. 20,000 fewer registered republicans in the state of new hampshire today than on election day in november of 2016. >> he's for everything they used to oppose. thank you. still ahead, i spent a weekend talking to candidates and voters, real voters here in new hampshire. here's what they had to say ahead of this key primary coming up here on "hardball." don't go anywhere. ♪ everything your trip needs, for everyone you love. expedia. and my lack of impulse control,, is about to become your problem. ahh no, come on. i saw you eating poop earlier. my focus is on the road, and that's saving me cash with drivewise. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ doprevagen is the number oneild mempharmacist-recommendeding? memory support brand. you can find it in the vitamin aisle in stores everywhere. prevagen. healthier brain. better life. [ applause ] >>> welcome back to "hardball." with all eyes now on new hampshire, we hit the road this weekend to check out the democratic campaigns. as the front runner in the polls, sen

there was a friend of ours, chairman of the new hampshire republican party. steve. that was a big evening. [applause] at three trump: friends of mine that are cochairmen. -- al and fred. thank you very much and david and corey.

it became the normative force shaping the republican party. that normative force became oppositional. it became narrowly tailored to tell people that they were hated by the liberal elites, a choice between good and evil. it narrowed the political space of the republicans little discussion further and further and further and things like the tea party rose up after 2008 it narrowed it further and further. it became less important to do things and more important to oppose things. they are chickenshit. they are afraid of donald -- no. they are afraid. it is not the money. it has nothing to do with the money. mcconnell's power comes from any. trump's power comes from fear. they are terrified of him. they almost always there are some yahoos, jim jordan and those idiots that are real trumpers. almost all of them hate donald trump with the fire of 1000 suns because he is a jackass, however, they love 3 things on this earth, they love their power, they love holding their office, and they love being alive and they are terrified of trump's record. i have

donald trump, steve king, and roy moore are the problem with the republican party, a party that supportsose folks and not someone like mitt romney. and history will remember that correctly. >> do you think -- i mean, i think i kind of know the answer to this question, but some of the senators who voted for acquittal said they felt the president has learned his lessons and then clearly we see, no, it's still the perfect call and there was no sense of lesson learned from this address he gave. >> it was a copout. i don't even believe that any of those senators believer th that. you could make an argument to acquit this president based on the evidence or what they thought was lack thereof. but to say i think he's going to be fine without the punishment, he did the crime, but the punishment doesn't -- he doesn't need it because he's going to have learned his lesson? that was a copout. that was about saying i feel good about this. i feel okay. i can sleep at night doing this because i think he's going to prove me right. he was never going to prove you right. he was always going to prove you wr

the party has become a cult. >> you thought there was some kind of an opportunity where you could convince republicansthese states. what changed? >> i didn't see how cultlike the party was. i mean, ten states around the country canceled their primaries and caucuses. the conservative made ya world, fox news and all the rest wouldn't give me the time of day. i'm a republican candidate for president. but they bow down in front of their king. and then out there everyday, john, talking to republican voters i just became convinced that these folks have been fed nothing but lies and mistruths about president trump. and they can't be gotten back. >> so you're out of the republican race. what now? >> same thing. i'm going to do whatever i can to stop trump. i think this is one of those rare moments in american history. i'm a conservative. where conservatives and liberals, republicans, and democrats, independents and moderates got to come together to stop this guy. he's everything our founding fathers feared. so i can't stop him in a republican primary. but i can sure do my level best to try to stop him outside

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