. >> that was democratic senator sheldon white house leading a group of senators on the floor of theate who want president trump to stop the smear campaign against the fbi. how did that effort go? he joins us now. good morning, senator. >> how are you, alisyn? >> i'm well. last night you did this. you were trying to get republicans's attention is and the white house attention. how did it go? >> well, i think we got a lot of people out there. and i think we made the point that this episode of the trump administration and group of supporters doesn't help anybody except vladimir putin. in fact, it sort of follows his lead, as john mccain pointed out. and it's also up to us to start pointing out that the republican majorities in the house and the senate have done virtually nothing to listen to the warnings of trump's own administration officials saying the russians are coming at us again in the 2018 elections. here's things we ought to be doing about it. let's get to work. instead, we see the one thing we have done, which is the sanctions on putin and oligarchs passed 98-2. this was not

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sheldon whitehouse tried to do that, he fumbled it. >> you told mr. campbell, "i believe that donald trump in the whitese would be more abusive to the constitution than barack obama. and that's saying a lot." do you recall saying that? >> i don't, senator. >> would you -- >> and i don't echo that today at all. >> i guess not. >> given your comments about hubris -- >> afraid i lost it. [ light laughter ] we have -- i'm having technical difficulties. >> seth: oh, my god, democrats you're not even good at being nerds. [ light laughter ] you use an iphone like dads trying to take a prom photo. "how does this thing work? oh, no, i accidentally snapchatted myself." [ laughter ] nonetheless, pruitt's evolution from trump critic to lackey very much captures the modern gop in a microcosm as trump has become more authoritarian, more unhinged, more lawless. the gop has only gotten more protective of him. just take the secret memo house republicans voted to release claiming to expose wrongdoing by the fbi in its investigation of the trump campaign. the memo is reportedly four pages. selectively cherry picked for t

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white house that is dreamers are lazy? >> the position is we want to fix a' problem that was created by the previous administration. >> sheldon whitehouse, your response to the president saying he would love to see a shut down over his immigration vision. >> well, you've got to believe that the republican leadership in both houses is smacking their forehead with their palm as their president threatens a shutdown. it's hard to figure out exactly how that works because what we're doing is working on a bipartisan continuing resolution that would empower the appropriators in bipartisan fashion to put a proper budget before us and we have the immigration issue on a separate track with also bipartisan negotiations taking place. but if he means he's actually going to interrupt the continuing resolution process and the budget measure over the immigration question, that's got to be alarming to the republicans. he's very often letting them go out a little bit on a limb and cutting off the limb behind him. he's not a great ally, let's put it that way for the republicans in congress. >> i want to make sure understand this. the whole idea