so that the moneys of a wide segment of the republican party i am a republican is important to say i am a republican there are some democrats that fewer and fewer people that will identify that is increasingly a society said donald trump is the living embodiment. >> so there are roughly 3,000 in the country. and those of voted for rock obama -- barack obama in 2016. and i believe that he saw that was a possibility. and that is to donald trump is representing. and those people. who did they hate even more than doubled from? i do not think that dynamics has been lost. the leader of the democratic party lit that gubernatorial elections to get those voters back. but that dynamic to favor that republican candidate. >> so to keep it honest california if you are ahead of the curve with the non party preference voters because some of those people >> there is no question. the way that manifest itself. if you don't have a message then these are voters who don't like republicans that they are not motivated by a the party they said they really don't like republicans. >> the other one to ask abou

will the republicans rebel on this? 90 republicans in the house voted against this. what if they reach a critical mass against a deal? >> what if republicans missed understanding president trump, michael? that chuck schumer and nancy pallone -- nancy pelosi recognized? michael: he operates in the moment. he will change from day to day based on who he is talking to. he doesn't see a problem with that. that is the way he has been. they came in with a deal, republicans did not have a deal. trump was willing to make the jump. the difference -- i'm not optimistic about tax reform, but the difference is that tax reform is a sliding scale. you can move the numbers to get more votes. you could not do that with obama care. it was a black and white issue. and so there's a lot of places for negotiation and if ryan and mcconnell can't come up with the votes, that is the signal to get something done on the rhone, to bring the rates really low, the president says we will change the numbers and i will talk to my friend chuck. >> are we seeing a new coalition on capitol hill? mainst

nominally head of the republican party has very little support in congress to get his agenda done which the american people voted for there's no doubt about that but also we have in the democratic party will hillary simply will not go away and this. new attacks on bernie sanders i mean one would have thought it would be time to start healing i mean you know in the republican should get in line instead of aligning themselves with sometimes democrats. responding more to donors and their own political future here so you know do we have the two parties that are really kind of diffuse right now we don't have a very clear mission because we have individuals that do but we don't have the parties doing the same thing and needless to say the democrats have absolutely nothing to say go ahead. well yeah i think the democrats are are in bigger trouble i'll get to the republicans in a second i think the democrats it's been what how many three four congressional elections in a row that have resulted in in the. where we are right now with the congress being overwhelmingly in the house republican in th

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that's really problematic for republicans. >> well, the republican base, they usually are the peopleho erupt when an immigration bill comes to capitol hill. can we expect steve bannon, the former white house steve strategist, breitbart, can they actually knock this whole bill off the playing field? >> i don't know. i think that's going to be a really interesting thing to see, because brit breitbart is freakg out about this. the big headline claiming people are burning their "make america great" hats and ann kohlter, laura ingram. on thon the other hand, other fs on the populist right, rush limbaugh, have been cautiously supportive. so, you know, i think it will be very interesting to see which was the dog and which was the tail, so to speak, when trump and breitbart were working together. was it -- was breitbart popular because people like trump, or was trump popular because people like breitbart? and if it's the former, then it's breitbart that has more to lose from this than trump does. >> erica, it's not just immigration that leader mcconnell has to deal with. he's trying to move

a republican president.the supreme court ruled that flag burning was protected by the first amendment, president george h.w. bush led washington republicans in an attempt to amend the constitution to protect the flag, the president saying that the flag was just too sacred to be exposed to the first amendment. republicans knew that the amendment could not win the necessary 2/3 vote in the house and senate, but washington republicans were hoping to draw enough democrats into what they would then characterize as the defense of flag burning. nebraska democrat bob kerrey rose in opposition to that amendment in the senate when he spoke, everyone knew that they were listening to a former navy s.e.a.l. who last lost half of his right leg in vietnam, and had been given the medal of honor by republican president richard nixon during the war. >> take the american flag and use it, not just to perhaps win the majority in the senate. not just perhaps to win a few elections in november. that's the least of what they'll acc

job is to elect republicans. if you are a democrat, your job is to elect democrats. because of this infrastructure outside the political parties, wealthy people -- on both sides -- are able to exert influence. >> no one has mentioned the situation in france. left-wingo parties, and right-wing and you had emmanuel macron come out of nowhere. the majority of their version of congress, do you see something like that happening here in the next 10 years? is that possible to happen here? are we too much of a two-party system? mike: i think institutionally, it is very difficult. you are at a breaking point. you are starting to see the look off. youg nuts come are seeing it very clearly. i do not think it will -- know if it will go to a european model. we do not know. i'm very strongly convicted. what we see right now is not what we are going to be seeing in the medium to short-term future. >> that is all the time we have. toore we end, i would like thank the japanese american national museum for hosting us. [applause] i

you see republicans furious, seething. use of both speaker ryan and senate majority leader mitch mcconnell putting the best face on it, this is what the president has done, to a large degree he has cut their legs out from under them. they've got to go along with it, that's the deal they are going to get and they are putting the best face on it. i've talked to some top republicans and democrats and one of the words both sides used was flabbergasted. the democrats who have been arguing all through the obama years, you need to have the debt limit, suddenly it was the democrats who yesterday were setting a three month debt limit tied to harvey, using it in effect as a bargaining chip. that's why you saw paul ryan yesterday saying he thought it was disgraceful and outrageous that they would suddenly be using the debt limit as a bargaining chip. other than the president agreed to the bargaining chip and a lot of republicans felt the democrats were just bluffing. the president has basically caved, folded to their bluff and that's

my job is to focus on what we believe are republicans values in republican principles. if you are counting on democrats to get something done, for me that is counterproductive. >> one of the big developers -- big developments this week was the deal reached by president trump and congressional leadership to get to this legislation that passed on the floor and friday. can you talk about the dynamic within the conference and how you felt personally when the deal was reached. it was a pretty surprising development to anybody on capitol hill that the president decided to not go with the idea from speaker ryan and leader mcconnell. with speaker ryan's leadership, it doesn't seem like any sort of direct challenge right now, republicans are quick to say they support him, but do you think he could do anything different in the future? rep. walker: when you say he, you were referring to the president or mitch mcconnell? >> could speaker ryan do anything different? rep. walker: i think speaker ryan is the best policy person in the house. i do think there are probably some areas whe

that's not what the republicans are talking about. they are talking about a whole new set of wealthy individuals being able to dodge their taxes through this new provision. the early returns on this one give an approximate estimate of $660 billion in tax cuts to mar-a-lago's most loyal members. that's the pass-through provision. and through shell companies and tax shelters, well-to-do people, the richest in america, will be able to disguise wages as business income to avoid higher income tax rates and paying their fair share of payroll taxes. we want to make clear because all this tax lingo is kind of eye glazing stuff. payroll taxes fund social security and medicare. programs that the american people and the two of us feel so strongly about. this pass-through tax dodge jeopardizes those core programs. medicare and social security as we know it today. finally, the president lowers taxes as the leader indicated, for america's wealthiest individuals. to add another $2 trillion to the heaping pile of tax cuts for the fortunate few. let m

victor, line for republicans. our congress -- caller: our congress has a 12% approval rating and they are getting nothing done on health care. they will not work together for the benefit of the american people. interested in a health care bill that is a tax cut for the rich. that is why they failed. if they really wanted health care and made it on a bipartisan basis, they could introduce rand paul's will -- bill. basicallys bill is joining an association or they can get a catastrophic bill. they do not want to fix the problem. they want to destroy the health-care system and give tax cuts to the rich. that is why the bills are not passing. it is nothing more than a tax cut for the rich. this is the lobbying run in washington. host: the conservative editorial board of the washington pond -- washington times, repeal and replace leads everyone else at the mercy of obamacare headed for collapse. caller: peanut the nail on the head -- he hit the nail on the head. nervous and we don't have any strong leadership to help u

and now that they a republican house, republican senate, and a republican oval, they still can't do it says a lot about the republicans, but it also reflects on the president, as well, his efforts to try to get it overturned. a campaign promise, another one, probably, possibly, but probably that he won't be able to fulfill. >> yeah. and you know, rebecca verga, jimmy kimmel tweeted, "thank you, senator collins, for putting people ahead of party. we are all in your debt." it certainly looks like it's over, at least right now. they had until the end of this week to get it passed with only 50 votes. after this week, they would need 60. >> sure. it's possible that this will also open the floodgates, wamp, for other republicans who have been on the fence including lisa murkowski, on the more moderate side, and ted cruz on the more conservative side, to announce that they are not going to support this bill. we'll have to wait and see what happens. certainly i think if the bill, in fact, dies in the next few days, republicans are going to have to decide what comes next, are they going to seek

leadership in the republican congress?now the president is committed to working with the leadership we have. >> my god. politico reports that bannon is also plotting primaries against several republican senate incumbents. he is specifically targeted four senators -- dean heller out there in -- where is it, nevada? jeff flake in arizona, bob corker, tennessee. and roger wicker i believe in mississippi. the challenge from the right is yet another headache for majority leader mcconnell, who was snubbed last week by the president after trump struck a deal with democratic leaders. democratic leader chuck schumer says he got a call from the president raving about the press coverage of the deal that's struck. here is what he told "the new york times." >> i got a call early this morning. he said this was so great. and here's what he said. "do you watch fox news"? not really. "they're praising you" meaning me. >> rachel bait is congressional reporter for politico. the national analyst for nbc news and msnbc. rachel, thank you for j

folks, republicans are whiners. this thing to a sales tax and vote for some other party other than democrats or republicans. you host: will win your nation back. host:-- you will win your nation back. the: our last caller in segment, but we will continue talking about this later in our program. up next, our 50 capital tour continues with the bus spending the day in the capital city of virginia, richmond. we will speak with douglas wilder, the first african-american to be elected governor in the united states. board theoin us a c-span bus. and republicans unveiling that tax plan today. we will talk more about it with grover norquist. we will be right back. words,"ay night on "after a report on the mental health industry in the book "mental health incorporated: how corruption lax oversight and failed reforms endanger our most vulnerable citizens." we will also speak to the author rinks: we untold story of psychiatry." anit is often per trade as dutch portrayed as -- or trade as an alloyed good. the current health care

republicans see that as a fundamental principle of senate republican economic thinking. the leaders said this is not breaking in a blue state, ready state issue. the -- red state issue. we are going to see lots of folks paying pretty significant local taxes, saying, not so fast, when they look at others. >> health care is a personal thing people interact with on a more daily basis. people are often confused by taxes. how will you keep this conversation about making it personal to people? sen. schumer: if you ask people basis, the i issue number one thing they want is reduction in drug costs. the wealthy is number two. the old republican plan gave a little break to the middle class and a huge break for the wealthy. in 2016, that doesn't work. the leader is saying what we all hear. me, aes this relate to hard-working middle-class family? republicans propose increasing the standard reduction and eliminating the personal and dependent exemptions. you were going to have a lot of families, or to clearly the large ones -- particularly the large ones. net taxlks have a increase

but it's an interesting race that pits republican against republican republican in a critical state. >> the g.o.p. is concerned about this race not because he could lose the general election but because he could win it. if there is any slam dunk race on a statewide basis, alabama is going to be it. democrats haven't gotten more than 40% in the senate on the democratic side in a senate race since 1996. this is almost certainly going to be the deciding election in terms of the primary. the problem is that the g.o.p. faces is who do we want as our brand ambassador? people like tim scott are very articulate and can speak to the real issues of the country which are described as a political culture war. in the 1980s the cultural or was about social issues, today it is about free speech and attorney general sessions is talking today about free speech and civil rights. the race in alabama is really a litmus test on political correctness. my sense is primary voters are going to pick the least politically correct member but he may not be the most effective brand ambassador in the senate. >> jo

by repealing the estate tax goes only for the very wealthy, republicans are not giving -- republicans are giving $269 billion to the richest 2/10 of 1%. the president said he didn't want to give tax breaks to the rich then he should denounce repeal of the estate tax which goes exclusively to the rich when you repeal it. by slashing the top rate, this was an unpleasant surprise, top rate goes down from 39.6 to 35. the very wealthiest of americans get an even bigger tax break. the high end, the 1%, they're doing great, god bless them, they're doing great. they don't need a tax break. middle class people do. so look at what this plan does. it gives huge tax cuts to the wealthiest and the biggest corporations and socks it to the middle class. eliminating state and local deductibility is a blow to the wallet of millions of middle class taxpayers across the country, in states like new york and california, doubling the standard deduction and eliminating the personal deduction will not make up for the loss that middle class people particularly in the suburbs will -- will not make up for the l

republicans who ignore the deficit when it's republican legislation that is increasing the deficit. john mccain is taking a similar position on tax cuts to the position he took on the republican health care bills. john mccain said we need to do it in a bipartisan fashion. and if john mccain holds to that principle, then he cannot vote for the trump tax cuts. a bipartisan bill would be a very different bill from the one president trump is pushing now. the democrats would insist it not increase a deficit and a much smaller corporate tax cut if any at all and the elimination of more corporate tax cuts. the democrats would also insist on preserving the deductibility of state and local taxes and preserving some form of the estate tax, perms a higher threshold, perhaps on all estates above, say, $20 million. that's all negotiable. and, of course, democrats would insist on no increase in the bottom tax bracket and they already know that donald trump is ready to agree with them on that bottom tax bracket. there's always a deal to be done with tax legislation. it is numbers. it can be compro

they have 52 republican votes. they can in the afford to lose more than two republicans if they were going to have a shot at passing this. we know susan collins has been indicating she is not for this bill. and lisa has not decided where she is yet. john mccain shifted this into this bill is not going to pass. that's how significant this vote is. we should really pause here far moment. not only is it hugely significant in the latest attempt not getting through but think back now to where john mccain is in his career and this moment in time when he came back after his cancer diagnosis to the united states senate on the last time that the senate was trying to pass a republican repeal and replace bill. he gave a floor speech. it is -- if you listen to that floor speech it should not surprise many people despite the fact that lindsay gram is as supportive of this bill. in that speech he laid out the exact argument you just read in the statement. he is not going to spend his remaining time just as the president's man or

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i am a moderate republican. he associated that more than election,a general i'm going to vote for a democrat. that is the way i'm want to protest. i'm a veteran and i on early veteran and i on of the flag, but if you don't come i believe you have that right. host: who do you think is going to win in tuesday's primary runoff? caller: it looks like judge more is. he is very extreme. he is going to be number 100. he is very adamant about his beliefs and it is a bad reflection on alabama because , or when i'm in live chats to tell them you're from alabama, nevada wants to talk to because they think were all races and were not -- racists and were not. -- we are not. guest: i think it judge more winds, he will probably lose to a democrat and one of the most conservative states in the union in this is a reflection of the republican party. theuld simply like to see president show some discipline, leadership. stay away from these cultural wedge issues because they only create more chaos. inre some work to be done the cit

republican senators will look for graham cassidy. one republican has already come out against the bill which could be voted on next week. he is a friend of mine but he is such a negative force when it comes to fixing healthcare. this morning we talked with a reporter following the bill. u >> joining us now, they are talking about the latest effort in the senate toha repeal and replace the affordable care act. >> talk about the drivers of this. who are the two senators, what are they interested in. >> the republican senators working on this plan are built cassidy and lindsey graham. lindsey graham and him started working on this plan earlier this summer. looking they were working to overhaul affordable care act in july and started coming up with this pla plan. they officially rolled out there updated legislation last week. this girl would take the funding to help people afford insurance and out-of-pocket payments and medicaidge expansion, put it all into a general fund. that's what were looking at. >> talk a little bit about why they

is a republican in any way. president booted the hapless fool of the speaker out of the way of those trying to get the nation's business done. here is ryan talking about tying harvey funding to an increase in the debt ceiling. >> what the leaders proposed is unworkable. i think that's ridiculous and disgraceful. if they want to play politics with the debt ceiling that's a ridiculous idea. i hope they don't mean that. lou: they did mean that because within hours the president reached a deal with the democrats to funds the government until december while finding funds for harvey relieve and tax reform while he was at it. rienls insults, object city nance and subversion of president trump to the behavior of democratic leadership much late. they calmed themselves, they have been far more conciliatory in their rhetoric and ryan is fully exposed to the nation. his congress accomplishes next to nothing this year. nothing in ryan's two-year tenure as a speaker has been done. all who will recognize what else before their

only republicans to craft this plan. the plan that comes out is a republican plan.think the gap between republicans and democrats on this issue is why. you have 44 senate democrats who signed a piece of paper saying i will not vote for anything increase the deficit. yesterday, mnuchin said they would probably increase the deficit by a couple of billion dollars. they said they would not vote for anything that cuts tax on the relat wealthy. that is almost certainly coming out of here. one of the conundrums they faced the requisiticogniz reconciliat. you really want to try to get 60 votes in the senate to pass corporate tax reform so it's permanent. like a rubik cube they have not figured out how to get it together. >> he took it behind the scenes role for health care and outsourced most of it to congress. he has privately expressed great frustration he was led away. tax reform he feels more passionately about and something he is more familiar with. we will see if it plays out. as reported, they are considering getting him out there on the road. he did very likely litt

republican, republican. >> this is truly a wildly historic night. >> the republican victory in '94 hadn bill clinton. because president of the united states was suddenly marginalized and newt gingrich, the speaker of the house, was the big man in town. ♪ >> last september the house republicans signed a contract with america. we signed this contract and made some promises. you elected us. and for the last 93 days we have been keeping our word. >> president clinton, republicans have dominated political debate in this country since they took over congress in january. do you worry about making sure that your voice is heard in the coming months? >> no. the constitution gives me relevance. the power of our ideas gives me relevance. the record we have built up over the last two years and the things we're trying to do to implement it give it relevance. the president is relevant. >> the press assumed and i assumed that clinton was toast. that he was never going to be able to come back. >> watch the electricity lines! >> we had an explosion downtown. >> we have had some kind of explosion. >> her

our republican line, go ahead.aller: what aggravates me about this -- let me preface by saying, of course, you have to come up with the money to take care of the disasters. that is worth borrowing money for. what really aggravates me here is this constant attaching of unrelated issues to the same piece of legislation. to make a deal to raise the debt limit, which is literally suicidal financially for the united states of america, and we just keep pushing ourselves further and further into the whole and undermining the purchasing power of the dollar. it would take me a long time to explain why that is the case. a weak dollar will be a lot than case for the country if 1/10 of the country has health care or not. this is what they do all the time. they attached one unrelated piece of legislation to another. this should have been a clean bill. shall we fund assistance for texas and florida next? no problem. it with thegain for democrats by raising the debt limit, which is as i say, i don't know if people really understa

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particularly are there republican critics? couple of do see a republican critics from different angles. senator rand paul says that it is too similar to obamacare, he says it does not repeal enough of its taxes, it leaves a lot in place. collins has not said she won't vote for it, but she has said she has a lot of concerns and questions, wants to see an analysis of this bill about people moving coverage and the transition. there are critics of the process. this bill was formally released by the senators last week. next monday, the finance committee will hold a hearing on this bill. that was called two days ago or so. the congressional budget office is not released an analysis of the bill. they said early next week they are planning to put out a preliminary analysis. they won't have coverage numbers or specific details. host: that largely impacted the last ever they made when those numbers came out. guest: a lot of republican say i can't look at it until i know how this will affect my state. there are different organizations co

on the plane, senate republican leaders were joined by senators graham and cassidy after the republicans weekly party lunches. quest good afternoon everyone, i think you to know that we have spent much time talking about graham cassidy with lots of interest in the bill that senator cassidy and senator graham have been working on. have added guys. >> i have never felt better about where we are at. meis pretty well clear to where the country is going under obamacare and bernie care. it is going into further bankruptcy, it is more decisions further away from where you live and in 1996 we bought money for welfare reform and it worked like a charm. we put governors in charge of the program and held them accountable. here is the choice for america -- socialism or federalism when it comes to your health care. four states get 40% of the money under obamacare. california, massachusetts and maryland, they represent 20% of the population. her goal is by 26 to make sure that every patient, in every state gets the same contribution from the federal government and allows people in your state to make d

he's been railing against republicans. i think if you were to do an accounting of his tweets, there is far more anger directed at republicans in the 7 1/2, 8 months than democrats. >> provably so. robert, this brings us back to if you're paul ryan, what do you do now? you came out more forcefully than we've seen paul ryan of late, to have that reversed publicly. you wrote tonight about a meeting he had with some disaffected worried members of a critical caucus within the republican caucus. >> there was a moment today at the capitol where members of the freedom caucus, the hardline conservative group, in the house, confronted the house are speaker at the capitol and said they're deeply disappointed with some of the developments in the republican agenda. they even questioned some of the leadership decisions ryan has made. ryan remains popular as speaker, has wide support and there's not a coup attempt at the moment. but it is important to know that the freedom caucus is having these kind of frank conversations with the speak

it passed unanimously with republicans in the committee.t is time to put it on the floor and if people do not want to vote for it, those folks need to go on record. >> do you think there are enough republican votes at this point to pass the budget? or to adopt the budget resolution, and do you and your committee support it? rep. walker: i don't know there are enough votes to pass it right now. according to the latest count, it may be in the ball park. the second question, yes, i do plan on supporting it. i believe the bulk of the republican senate committee supports it as well. >> one more question. >> congressman, one suggestion that came up yesterday from chuck schumer and president trump was to suspend the debt limit altogether, do away with it. is that something you would support? rep. walker: no. it would not be something i would support, and i do not see it happening, i think it was just a conversation between a couple of new york buddies or -- it is not something that either myself and i believe most members in the committee would ha

we are willing to work with our republican colleagues. so far as they are working on tax reform that is deficit neutral and provide middle-class tax relief. i think that point was made by my democratic colleagues who went to the white house last night. we will not go along with tax scheme to lavish the wealthy with lower rates or even more that explodes the debt and the deficit.lican p unfortunately, what we have heard of the republican plan so far reveals that they are designing a tax plan that does exactly that, helps the wealthy above all. case in point, last week president trump said the estate tax was a tremendous burden for the family farmer and it was crushing the american dream. does everyone here know what the estate taxes? it's a tax-cut that's been reformed. it changed several years ago. it is now a tax-cut for the 5000 richest families in america, approximately point to percent of all the estate owners in the country. the estate tax only kicks in when couples with the states with nearly $11 million, they transfer their wealth

the process is awful, our republican colleagues -- we heard just as being blind, our republican colleagues should be walking around with blindfold. they don't want to see what is in the builder being forced to vote for. with all the basic meanness in this bill. they don't want to go home and tell the mom who learned her thatter or son has cancer an insurance company can make insurance unaffordable for them. they don't want that. they don't want to tell him middle-class family in the suburbs that mom or dad in the nursing home may no longer get coverage. they don't want to tell a 23-year-old young man who desperately needs opioid treatment that it may go away. this isn't simply making the decisions has a state -- they make the cuts here in washington -- this is not a neutral bill. this is a built-in and medicaid as we know. why -- that is why 10 governors from the date of colorado, ohio, alaska, montana, pennsylvania, virginia, massachusetts and vermont -- five democrats, five republicans have said don't do trumpcare to. don't do graham cassidy. our budget and policy priorities will result

could beg families paying more under the republican parents -- under the republican plans? >> absolutely. lose more from getting rid of personal exemptions than they gain from the higher standard deduction. they say they are going to raise the tax credit, but they don't say what it is. the plaintiffs are big on how it families,ct working but very specific on how it would affect the wealthiest people. why can't they specify with the child text credit will do? >> mr. levin. >> thank you. i think the timing is impeccable. the same day as we receive the republican plan. i think it is useful to look back at 1986. i said and a lot of the , the hallmark of it was bipartisanship. yesterday inussion how the leadership and everybody with the white house sactown before the plan was put together to really discuss how to proceed. this is really the opposite. budgetdy said until the where we and we know have a runway to land tax reform on, we will not begin the tax reform process. at essentially, they began by putting down this plan. you here willf think the democrats are on autopilot op

for trump republicans. not necessarily for white working class vote ares as steve bannon calls them the hobbits. they probably look at the idea of raising taxes on the wealthy and say okay, great. bring it on. >> republicans on the hill have to be so frustrated because we're not even -- this is day one or day two of them rolling out this tax plan and the president has already made things difficult for them because of the mixed messaging. he is out there saying, high income earners, the highest earners will not get a break and what had he want to do is you know, lower the highest rate to 35%. this is exactly a repeat of what we saw the president do during the health care rollout, back in january remember how surprised we all were when the president gave an interview saying everyone is going to have insurance, nobody is going to lose coverage. that was so not the republican message. >> right, and then the house passed a bill, the president threw them a party in the rose garden and then he called it mean as da

republican line. good morning. caller: hello. would like to say that i don't believe in 13 being the best .resident we have to get out of affordable but i don't like the republicans bill. veteran. host: let's go to robert in maryland. independent line. caller: i keep hearing all of the callers say we should look into what other countries do and try some of the other countries way of doing things. if you are so fascinated with other countries and the way they do things and you despise the america perhaps you should get on a plane and leave the country and go try that out and stay there. it's like these guys running around making $2.4 million a year and they are just off that america. if you don't like it here we have international airports that will put your little asked on the plane -- the problem with the black people is, they don't understand or the black people -- host: wait a minute. how did it come to that? , disrespectespect to the united states which is all anybody does, what you are doing pedro is turn this country down i

he has 52 republicans and he has the support of all 52 republicans. the question is what -- if i'm mitch mcconnell or paul ryan, i'm looking at monday morning and wondering what donald trump or not even monday morning, friday night in alabama when he's onstage -- >> tonight. >> yeah, listen, he will be angry. he will wonder why republicans can't get their act together and he's going to go do business with democrats which he's shown he's plenty willing to do. >> i don't think mitch mcconnell's in any danger of losing his leadership position but i do think this is damaging to him that once again, the senate republicans who talked about this for so long weren't able to do it. let's talk about the alabama senate race and if roy moore wins that against every force mitch mcconnell tried to array against him. that would be bad news for donald trump, since he endorsed luther strange. it would also be bad news for mitch mcconnell. >> not just bad news. if the reality hits him when moore shows up in the senate, you know, to start work, that's the new reality fo

republican senate, republican house. republican governor, state legislatures, local offices, government across the country is a wash in republicanism and so that's where this resistant mind-set comes from on the left, but on the right, what they see is a culture that they feel, a popular culture they feel is dominated by liberalism and feel in a way weaponized by liberalism and trump connects with that. a figure of popular culture to go to war with popular culture. is that what the base wants today? >> no. not responsible republicans. that's a way of engaging the public to go to the cultural side whether we see it most, on twitter and social media we know people operate in silos, the most dangerous thing since we know more than half of americans get their news from facebook. meaning they are picking and choosing what news they want to hear. that just -- going back to your original question. do republicans want to have that culture divide? no. it's the worst thing we can have, similar to what the democrats had, a problem,

as republican, these are republicans only.king the country in the right direction? 79% of republicans say yes. only 16% say the president is taking the cup in the wrong direction. these are republicans only. how about republican leaders in congress? 40% of republicans say right direction, 53% of republicans say their leadership in congress is taking the party in the wrong direction. so there's no question, president trump capitalized on this in the 2016 campaign. the republican base is angry at the performance of their leaders here in washington. this race is going to go a long way in either -- it's not going to settle that, it's not going to close that divide, but boy, it could blow it wide open. >> as john mccain might say, the only republicans who are supportive of the republican leaders are his close friends and family right now. joke that mccain always makes. i think one of the interesting things to watch will be if roy moore wins, luther strange lose, is what lesson does donald trump take from that? you know, you can ima

donald trump may be a republican in name, but there are no tangible benefits that republicans have to show for any of their republican leadership across washington so far. and there is -- it is very little in the way of a functioning republican majority ipeither house. >> so, jill, all the evidence points to you that this is a thing. this is going to be the president's new mode, do you think the. >> i think for the time being, look, the president feels like he had a very good reception when he reached that deal just over a week ago with democrats, the three month deal that included all of the money for the hurricane funding. he felt like that actually looked pretty good to him. and he's been deeply frustrated by the fact that republicans were incapable of actually passing a repeal obamacare and replacement bill. so for him this is something worth trying. you also have to go back to campaign and remember the president never ran as a traditional republican. this was someone who ran promising he was the multipet deal maker. and because he had this history as a businessman, his pitch was

that is that the republican base is furious with the republican establishment.onnell. the idea of washington, d.c., of capitol hill. one of the things roy moore ran against was the idea of mitch mcconnell holding sway in the republican party. >> then indulge me. allow me to be a twisted sister here. could a true conspiracy theorist not make the argument this is all the grand plan. president trump has been kicking mitch mcconnell for months now. a huge failure for this administration is they've got no legislative wins. all republican-controlled situation. and trump wants to distance himself from that. so here, yes, in theory in name he was supporting luther strange. could trump not change his tune on that in a heart beat? at the end of the day, trump is far more closely tied to steve bannon than mcconnell or ryan. >> the message of the moore campaign was donald trump's already winking at us. he was at the rally with luther strange saying -- >> i may have the wrong guy. >> in fact, that became an ad for roy moore at the end of this campaign. the theme here on the

this is a classic republican plan. over time, as the country debates this, that difference between those two different visions is going to be very clear and make this politically very difficult. >> the president, yamiche, seems to not even like the 20% rate for corporations. he'd rather see 15%. is he really going to sell this? >> i think in some ways, yes, he might say he wants that. but i think when you think about what his brand is going to be, and 2018 is going to be all about donald trump. i've been talking to congressional aides. donald trump is going to be on the ballot, even if his name isn't on the ballot. if he can't put together a win, he can only get away with that for so long. what is he going to say in 2020 if he says we couldn't do health care, tax cuts. what does the president have to say if he's going to stump in 2018? in some ways, this is going to be like health care. if republicans say we have the votes to pass this, i think he's going to be ready to sign it. >> what's the mood among conservatives o