steve schmidt is the one who chose sarah palin as it has running mate.ow, george will is advocating everyone vote democratic in the midterms to quarantine trump. and the current culture of instability is blamed on everything from the president to hollywood, social media and the politically polarized country. what can be done about it? i'll ask film maker, actor and activist, rod rider. the images are as upsetting as the policy. immigrant children housed in tent cities and transported around the city. i will not defend separating children from parents. i'm pleased, for the first time, the president yielded public opinion. that's a good thing. people who despise donald trump ought to note on immigration, he listened to reason and changed his mind. people who don't like what the president is doing on other issues, try to replicate. try to realize, the border crisis is not of trump's creation. we cannot allow people's antipathy toward the president and images and sounds of kids to overshadow the reality we have a crisis that requires resolution. how to contr

joining me from new york is vice chairman of public affairs for edelman and msnbc contributor steve schmidtnd his debut on "kasie d.c." steve, it's great to have you. great to have all my panel here in d.c. as well. charlie savage, i want to start with you on this because you were part of the team that unveiled what we have now been talking about all weekend which is this behind the scenes memo. we've been picking apart kind of the details of this, but we were talking right before we went on the air about what you think the most important broad take away here is and that is the sweeping constitutional challenges here. >> that's right. so, this memo is a top to bottom set of, you know, legal claims, ual claims, arguments why he didn't obstruct justice, couldn't have obstructed justic. but the one that's really breath taking and that makes all the rest of them not matter if it's true is this vision of a president who wields absolute unrevealable control over the justice department, over the machinery of the federal law enforcement, as a result he can shutdown or director close any investigati

there's steve schmidt. there's nicolle wallace. there's charlie sykes, people that exist in the world and bret stephens. are there voters who at what's happening and say i'm a republican and can't abide this. i don't know if they exist. >> i think there are acts of kindness and decency that take place every day in this country. i think about the las vegas 33-yr-old african-american , runs into a hail of gunfire. he saves 33 people's lives. he's running towards a group of school kids to save them and he's shot twice in the neck. and then a white cop runs into the gunfire to save johnny smith's life. that is also america. the author alex haley had a saying, he said find the good and praise it. nobody can compete with donald trump in a vileness contest. he's the most vial. nobody can compete with donald trump in a dishonesty contest. because he's the most dishonesty honest. we have to find the good and praise it in this country. free market american capitalism is worth defending in my view. liberal democracy is worth defending. the u.

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joining us by the phone to weigh in on that, our friend steve schmidt. steve, your thoughts. >> well, nicolle, i think there is a very unfortunate -- where strength is an important policy in a democracy, particularly in a country where the politics are closely divided. and the reality is you have donald trump lost the popular vote by 3 million. he won by 78,000 votes across three states. and the rub cans control all three branches of government. the legislative and by republican nominees on the supreme court. so, we have a minority that is ruling the majority of the country who are opposed to this president, and that is extremely unhealthy in a democracy. as you know in the white house, i ran the robertson/alito confirmations. i was supportive of president obama -- with kagan and sotomayor. because i believe presidents -- with regard to the supreme court nominations. but mitch mcconnell has as much as anyone done great damage to the united states senate as a institution that was once known as the world's greatest deliberative body. they stole a supreme c

steve schmidt, he is the one that chose sarah palin as the running meat and columnist george will isdvocating everyone vote democratic to y r quarantine trump. i will ask rob reiner. first, there is no doubt the images are upsetting as is the policy. immigrant children housed in shelters our transported around the country. i will not defend separating children from parents. i am pleased that the president yielded to public opinion. that is a good thing. people that despise donald trump ought to note he listened to reason and changed his mind. people that don't like what the president is doing on other issues should focus on how it happened and try to replicate it. but the border crisis is not of trump's creation. we cannot allow people's feelings towards the president and the images and sounds of kids to overshadow the reality that we have a crisis that requires resolution, how to control the borders and make immigration an orderly, legal process. as pointed out in national review there is a significant morale cost to not enforcing the border. there is obviously a morale cost separat

what steve schmidt said and what we saw today really does underscore in many ways the crisis in this country right now is no longer simply political. it's moral. and i think, you know, you really see that individuals matter. the people who are in certain roles matter. i mean the drama we saw play out today in that hearing, this is all amongst republicans. >> rosenstein would normally be a towering hero. >> that's right. >> career prosecutor, a career public servant. >> but he's also a republican. >> yeah. >> and so is chris wray. and so i guess my point is here this is not about partisanship. it's about what's right and wrong. ow... make the call now. i must have said "call now" hundreds of times. millions of people have already called. but what about those who haven't? (announcer) isn't it time for you to call about the number one most popular whole life insurance plan available from colonial penn? recently, a friend of mine died, and although his funeral was a modest one, it cost more than the national average, (announcer) the average cost of a funeral today is over $8,500. life in

the lack of humility from donald trump is -- well, it's breathtaking but steve schmidt, i'm hoping someamily members who still think donald trump is worthy of their vote will understand he's lying to them non-stop. he says he inherited a bad hand on immigration when, in fact, immigration went down eight years of the obama administrati administration. you look at the fact that we have reverse immigration going into mexico. the economy growing every year under barack obama. i ask people, google gdp. world gdp compare other countries to our's. not a close call. not a close call. this country is small and it's been moving upward. make america great again. no. america had seven straight years of an exploding economy, of illegal immigration going down. donald trump actually inherited the best of all hands in those areas that he's now trying to screw up. >> there will be no small number of soybean farmers who lose their farms generationally because of the trade war donald trump has precipitated because when the markets dissipate, when they dry up, they're gone, the chinese been lying their soy

i think steve schmidt makes very good points. i don't have a party to go to that i believe in more than the republican party. i'm part of the stay and fight faction. i mean, november elections are upon us. and let's see which republicans are rewarded in november. those who blindly follow a self-described strong man leader who won't be president forever or those who served like dior remember at least president reagan and george herbert walker bush and president bush 43 and some of the principals that made this grand old party the grand old party. >> this president. >> we have to grow. >> this president helps them look all the better in history. joe straus of texas. a democrat who has no problem with a partisan issue, terry mcauliffe who may play a role in keeping trump to one term. you're a politics, as well. why did trump wait till the day, play his cards to the end, say he couldn't change this policy, denied it was his policy and then flip late this afternoon? what's it all about? >> first, he created the mess and actually he th

what steve schmidt said and what we saw today really does underscore in many ways the crisis in thisountry right now is no longer simply political. it's moral. and i think, you know, you really see that individuals matter. the people who are in certain roles matter. i mean the drama we saw play out today in that hearing, this is all amongst republicans. >> rosenstein would normally be a towering hero. >> that's right. >> career prosecutor, a career public servant. >> but he's also a republican. >> yeah. >> and so is chris wray. and so i guess my point is here this is not about partisanship. it's about what's right and wrong. and it's about upholding democratic traditions and those who are attacking them. and essentially jordan is a lap dog at this point for the trump administration. and how embarrassing, not just for his constituents or for him personally, but for the country. how sad and how embarrassing. >> david jolly, i mentioned lbj earlier for a reason. you can go get his recorded phone calls in austin, texas, and hear him, as president's do, giving marching orders to his lieut

that's the audience. >> and they know things aren't going well, steve schmidt. -- kevin mccarthy now being donald trump's parrot sitting on his right shoulder and regurgitating his twitter feed. say nothing collusion, nothing's been produced. well, i'm sorry, we played the clip, let's go over the list again. 13 russians have been indicted. three russian companies have been indict ed. the man donald trump picked to run the national security team indicted, charged, cooperating with robert mueller in the collusion investigation. the man that donald trump said he had to have if he was going to win the republican nomination to get the delegates, indicted, facing trial. the man that donald trump told the "washington post" was one of his top two foreign policy adviser ins the campaign indicted, charged, pled guilty, cooperating now with the mueller probe. again, if you look historically and compare this to what ken starr did with bill clinton, there's no comparison. a lot more charges and it's happening at a far quicker pace and again we don't even know how far along m

steve schmidt is at the table. i know he doesn't read books, steve, but he doesn't read the newspaper either. the last two american presidents tried comprehensive immigration reform. george w. bush did it with the late senator kennedy and john mccain. barack obama did it with marco -- i mean, how, how ignorant is he? >> he couldn't be more ignorant. he's a super nova of ignorance. it's incredible. look, there's a couple things going on here. one, he's inciting through mass rallies and constant lying, fervor in a political base. escape goats minority populations affixes blame to them for every problem the country faces. he alleges conspiracies of nefarious forces. he creates a mags sense ss sens victimization among his base. he asserts extraordinary claims of power to protect victims from the scapegoated populations and the nefarious conspiracy. that is fundamentally a liberal, deeply unamerican, and frankly could be straight out of munich circa 1928. it's very alarming. >> and, cal perry, you've had this sort of out

i know steve schmidt is getting vis rated that steve gave back a lot more than he took. >> yeah. >> but guy that i have known and a lot of us have known and liked for a long time, actually a couple nights saying we are at war. >> right. oh, my god. >> saying we are the only network, fox news is the only network you can trust. we are at war. i will let people draw whatever conclusions they want to draw about what that sort of language -- >> we may have differences of opinions, but i think we all can agree with our friends at fox news, we want to know where the girls are, we want to know where the babies are. i'm sure you do, too. >> apparently not if you look at the articles attacking you, instead of talking about the question of, where are the toddlers? >> i just want to know. >> where are the toddlers? jesus said let the little children come under me. better than the mill stone be put around somebody's neck and they would be thrown to the deepest sea. i just wonder who can be against this and why you attack people who are actually trying to figure out where these little girls are, the

steve schmidt. not just any republican, a leader in the party has renounced his membership in the republican party. that's where some people are. >> i think the reality of it is you listen to president trump we'll say it again, every time he says it's a democratic loophole, the president can end it with a phone call, a stroke of a pen, full stop, period, end of sentence. the question i guess is kasie hunt what to do with the energy and outrage? what's the productive way to change this? how do you fix this? they're trying on capitol hill and the house, they're trying in the senate to some extent, chuck schumer says it has to be done through the president and not legislation. >> the reality again, is that the president could change this by picking up the phone. this was an administrative policy change, now could congress in theory do something about it? yes, but there's really no clear path forward. democrats are arguing that essentially the president is holding these kids hostage and this is a repeat

i think the republican party left people like steve schmidt and nicolle wallace a long time ago.aises the question -- a great question, good thing i'm writing a book about this -- what is the republican party right now? it is the trump party. it is nothing but fealty -- >> going to be a short book. >> it is about fealty to the individual, not the policy. i went through and looked the other day at instances in which the republican electorate has reversed itself, and these are things like basic questions, like what is your opinion of vladimir putin, positive or negative? number of republicans whose positive opinion of vladimir putin has tripled since donald trump became president. on questions like whether or not morality and public life is important. overwhelming number of republicans no longer say that's the case. >> selena? >> i want to say there is a connection between the rhetoric of the past and what's happening right now. it's just more explicit. donald trump normalized racism during the campaign and so he said openly racist things without using dog whistles. when we talked

you are not alone, there was the likes of steve schmidt, a long—time strategist who was advising georgeunced his membership of the party because he says it is fully the party of donald trump, it is corrupt, indecent and immoral. 0ur politics are broken. what is the option for someone like you, to stand for another party? no. our history has proven that two strong parties produces pretty good government, usually divided government is best, if you believe in fiscal conservatism for example, liberal government, economic freedom, you at least need a divided government periodically. so i hope the republican party can come back. so you are not walking away from the party, renouncing your membership? no. i'm not. you will stand in the party and do what? stand against him as president? i said i hope someone else does run in the republican primary. would you? i haven't ruled it out, but i would rather not. i have been in politics now 18 years in congress, i would rather wait until this fever breaks. i did go give a speech in new hampshire because i think republicans are dying to know that there

this is what a former republican steve schmidt advised.his is what he said about the travel ban. >> today was a fantastic fulfillment of osama bin laden's vision by donald trump. what osama bin laden hoped to provoke was a war of civilization. a war between the west and one billion muslims. what donald trump and this muslim ban signals to the world is muslims are not welcome here. >> laura: having unprecedented high level meetings with majority muslim countries about how to move forward together and perhaps make peace in the middle east a reality. do you agree with what he said there? >> i think the message is already clear whether immigrants are welcomed into this country right now or not. it heightened that. one the things as lawyers is to talk about the posture of the court. this goes back to a full trial in the local court. the only thing that was won is the injunction. >> laura: what is the likelihood of success? >> that's 90% of the battle. game over for the most part. let's not kid ourselves. >> laura: you can explain that. if you w

steve schmidt, a top gop strategist is urging americans to vote democrat. he tells the washington post, our founders predicted a leader like trump. that is why they designedhe system the way they designed it. the definition of conservative is now requirement of complete and utter obedience to the leader. >>> and michael bloomberg announcing $80 million to the midterms. he said republicans have failed in control of congress. adding i believe we the people cannot afford to elect another congress that lacks the courage to reach across the aisle. bloomberg's previously divided spending between candidates of both parties. a cnn poll shows support for house candidates has ticked up to 50%. that is up three points in the last month. >>> all right. a teenager shot and killed running from police in east pittsburgh. what police and the family lure a -- family lawyer are now saying. pack in even more adventure with audible. with the largest selection of audiobooks. audible lets you follow plot twists off the beaten track. or discover magic when you hit the open road.

. >> let's bring in nbc news political analyst steve schmidt. good morning. that was a huge upset last night there was something about this young woman's political ad that did capture a lot of people's attention. just watch a little bit of it and explain why you think she won. >> this race is about people versus money. we've got people. they've got money. it's time we acknowledge in a not all democrats are the same that a democrat who takes corporate money, profits off foreclosure, doesn't live here, doesn't send his kids to our schools, doesn't drink our water or breathe our air cannot possibly represent us. >> powerful ad what did you see there? >> sure is. politics used to be defined by this vertical line that ran down the middle of the field. we debate between the 45 yard lines, just like the message that elected donald trump, and the message that bernie sanders ran on, what she's saying is there's a group of people above the line. one set of rules for them and a different set of rules for everybody else. that message runs and is effective from the left o

on twitter today steve schmidt announced today i renounce my membership in the republican party.lly the party of trump. here to talk about it tonight, connie schultz, a long-time veteran of the cleveland plain dealer, now a nationally syndicated columnist, and editor at the nevada independent, welcome to you both. connie, the great and sensible state of ohio has given this country eight american presidents on its own. this last time it went for donald trump. i'm counting on you to tell me where, if at all, public opinion has migrated on this president during this crisis. >> well, brian, i'm on the receiving end of a lot of reader mail from trump supporters every week. much of it unhappy with me. i'm seeing a change in the last couple of weeks. i think that a growing number of trump supporters, particularly women, have been unhappy with who he is as president. they weren't going to apologize for their vote. this is giving them the chance to break free. you and i both have children. most of your viewers watching love a child. i would do anything to save the life of my children. i w

john mccain's 2008 presidential campaign manager, steve schmidt, leaving, as well. these are dramatic departures. do will and schmidt sway voters? what's the significance? >> i'm thinking that's two votes. if they can get 20 million more, they might get a head of steam together and maybe change the party. the reality is there's a deep split within the party. some of the more prominent voices are not in power. when they're leaving, what they're doing is showing they don't have a place and the mainstream has movered beyond them. where the mainstream goes, you can look at the polls, and every appalling act that we've seen over the last week, that cnn documented, the malice and infighting in the white house, is deep root in a vast majority of the republican party. what is the party is today and tomorrow is not what it was when george will joined it and supported it over the years. there's an argument that he could have foreseen this and helped it get going. but with a revolution, it's hard to put the brakes on it. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >>> next, a car th

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. >> i like the guy, but i think he's absolutely -- >> what i mean is steve schmidt has noing to loseunning for reelection. those are the people i wonder about, the people who actually have something to lose in the midterm elections that are choosing not to speak out. >> elected members of congress if you speak out, you get a more trumpian-like figure in the party. there are many who are afraid to speak out, not that they're worried about trump tweeting them, but what does it do to the republican party in the long term. if they keep silent, thee -- >> what about the party in the long term when you support a policy that recommends -- or that enforces separating children from parents at the border. >> the republican party -- most republicans do not support that. look at ted cruz, one of the most conservative members of congress. he put out a bill which donald trump pooh-pooh'd immediately, which said let's increase immigration judges so we can deal with the baglog. >> but evan, 55% of the party supported the separation of families. it's terrible. >> it's immoral, absolutely. >> the quin

. >> our friend, steve schmidt, put out last night a beautiful picture of his handsome son standing next to a veteran of the 82nd airborne. they're over in france for the 74th anniversary of the d-day landings. i'm looking at this member of the 82nd airborne. this veteran, who knew he was part of something grand and glorious and special. the formation, though we didn't know it yet, of the post-war world. and that's what we're seeing these enormous fissures in. and i'm wondering about these great codgers going back for what is for many their last reunion, wondering whatever happened to this. >> it's so weird. it's like the state department spokesperson a couple days ago saying, you know, we have a great relationship with germany such as on d-day. it's like, whoa, it's all right not to sort of have a deep feel for history. but to have sort of a fake history as your only framework, it's just appalling to me, especially since it's breaking up what has been the most important alliance to protect freedom and free markets and trade and everything that has made a prosperous world for the past 70

when you see steve schmidt, when you see george will calling for leaving the party or calling for themocrats to take over, you know there's an epic crisis for the soul of the republican party, but the trumpification of the republican party is what you're seeing. this is a group of americans that are terrified by the demographic shifts in our nation. this is what the underbelly of all this is about. it's a fear of immigrants, a fear of people of color, a fear of women, a fear of what has never been and people that have voices now, so this callousness and this coldness that you see is also deeply rooted in who we are as a nation going back to 1619 when we brought slaves here for the first time in august of 1619, 20 african slaves in chains and then the process of separating slave women from their children and ripping families apart is really a part of our history, and we have to deal with that to come forward to understand the callousness that we're seeing right now. >> sophisophia, i don't know thu can separate the trump base from the republican base. you had nixon with the silent majo

. ♪ everything is working just like it should ♪ >>> long-time gop strategist and msnbc analyst steve schmidtlared last night he was leave the republican party which he called now fully the party of trump. ronald reagan he tweeted would be ashamedf mcconnell and ryan and all the rest while this corrupt government establishes interment camps for babes. every one of these complicity leaders will carry the shame through history. they have disgraced their nation and brought shame to the party of lincoln. the governor of utah was tweeting can't sleep tonight. i know i shouldn't dwight tonight i'm angry and sad. i hate what we've become. with me now a conservative congressman who described the separation policy as terrible, congressman roger marshall, republican of kansas. congressman, it was yesterday i believe or a few days ago the president said explicitly i can't just sign an executive order to stop this. today he signed an executive order to stop it. was the president lying? >>> no, not at all. i think the president was much like a big ship sailing into the wind trying to tack back and forth.

you know, steve schmidt, the man who ran the campaign for john mccain, has made -- offered a similarendorsement of voting democrat by a republican. e you saying now here on television ta people who vote this november should vote for democrats? >> i'm saying the republican party is now so thoroughly the trump party, particularly after the episode such as his intervention in the south carolina primary against an incumbent congressman of his own party mark sanford in which he successfully got him thrown out because of insufficient abeyance to trump, that for that reason, if you now vote for republican candidates, are you voting essentially to -- you can't pretend there's pluralism. you're voting to affirm this man in his leadership of the party. i believe it's important for the future such as it might be of the republican party that they pay a terrible price for what they're doing. >> are people that you know like senator mcconnell, are they waiting had him out? >> sure. senator mcconnell says look, i have a job to do. and i can exercise my article one powers in collaboration with his e

. >> jeremy bash, our friend steve schmidt talks about the absence of rigor. it's a word he loves, and so do i. was it an absence of rigor that led our president, our side to say "sure, just you and me and the translators in the room. nobody needs to know for posterity's sake." >> well it was certainly a mistake to wing it, not to prepare. i think there could be room for two leaders to get together to have some private conversations. but i think that conversation was really kind of basically niceties. you and i are going to work together. i think we're now down to brass tacks on the u.s. side, the secretary of state, and the national security adviser. let's not forget the big picture. the united states is the most important bastion of freedom in the world. north korea is the most important bastion of repression. it is a prison state. it is a police state. we have elevated that police state. we have elevated that dictator by putting him on the same stage as the american president. now, it may be worth it if we can help guarantee the security of our allies and o

. >> this is wa republican straft jit and msnbc contributor steve schmidt said on "morning joe." >> what you saw there, i think, is the end of bill clinton's life as a public figure in this country, because of that interview. i don't think he's campaigning anywhere ever again unless he can clean it up and fix it. >> do you agree? >> no pt certainly there's a democrat somewhere that will try to get bl clinton to campaign for them. has uncomfortable questions no mat whir doing an interview. always going to get these questions, and that's fair. i think that these are fair questions to ask him. and he should come up with better answers and we saw a better answer yesterday than we saw on monday, which is important. >> you have known the clintons for a while now. you worked for hillary clinton's campaign. were you at all surprised by his initial response? not so much the cleanup after but surprised by his initial response to the questions? >> i was surprised because i felt it was tonally off. i felt he was two defensive and that's surprised me considering the fact that this is a story that's d

. >>> this after a long-time republican strategist steve schmidt tweeted this on wednesday.quote, 29 years and nine months ago i registered to vote and became a member of the republican party which was founded in 1854 to oppose slavery and stand for the dignity of human life. today i renounce my membership in the republican party. it is fully the party of trump. >>> in another tweet he called the gop a, quote, danger to our democracy and our values. >>> john meacham, put this in perspective for us. i mean, i have been reading george will for, you know, my entire working life and he has always been kind of viewed as a conservative touch stone, intellectual, a place where you could go to hear kind of the arguments that under pinned everything that then was played out across our governing system. he is now not simply saying i'm leaving the gop, he is saying vote for democrats. always been kind of viewed as a conservative touch stone, intellectual, a place where you could go to hear kind of the arguments that under pinned everything that then was played out across our governing

we saw steve schmidt decide he's leaving the party and encouraging republicans to vote for democrats.ring from mark sanford and even senators like bob corker saying that the republican leadership in congress has become sort of a cult of trump. that's a sign that the president is not adding the support that he needs to his base in order to win in the midterms, that he's really doubling down as we saw during the event day as we saw with the immigrant families with divisive policies, divisive issues that appeal to a very small minorities within his base, but do not expand the majority he's going to need to hold congress, to hold the house. that's very clear that the president's really looking to continue to double down, continue to focus on divisive policies when people in his party would rather have him focus on the fact that this is a six-month anniversary of the tax cut bill. there was no, you know, celebration at the white house about cutting taxes, something that could appeal to the suburban voters that he's going to need this november. instead he's turning off a lot of suburban vot

republican party, you have a long time republican strategist who worked for john mccain campaign, steve schmidtg the party. 29 years and 9 months ago i registered to become a republican party which was founded in 1854 to oppose slavery, today i renounce my membership in the republican party. it is fully the party of trump. is that a one-off or is that something that the party should be concerned about moving forward? >> first of all, the analysis is connect. i mean, there was no reason for the white house to think that this was the moment at which house republicans would balk because they have followed trump step-by-step into his redefinition of the party around these themes nationalism. the opposition to the wall during the primaries is gone. even the compromise bill fully funds it. every senate republican vote today deny funding to cities that don't fully cooperate with i.c.e., all but seven house republicans vote today deny fundings. the compromise bill would create a new right of actions against cities and states that don't cooperate with i.c.e. they have marched themselves into this quagmi

. >> where is steve schmidt? is he okay? what happened to him? >> he's resting.s resting up for all that eloquence takes rest. >>> fox news and north korean state tv. you're going to have to see it to believe it. don't go anywhere. y blue. you don't really believe it. and then you see one for the first time. it's a miracle. [ roar ] you see that? holy! rated pg-13. in the movies, a lot of times, i tend to play the tough guy. but i wasn't tough enough to quit on my own. not until i tried chantix. chantix, along with support, helps you quit smoking. it reduced my urge to smoke to the point that i could stop. when you try to quit smoking, with or without chantix, you may have nicotine withdrawal symptoms. some people had changes in behavior or thinking, aggression, hostility, agitation, depressed mood, or suicidal thoughts or actions with chantix. serious side effects may include seizures, new or worse heart or blood vessel problems, sleepwalking or allergic and skin reactions which can be life-threatening. stop chantix and get help right away if you have any of the

and i think that george will is, just like steve schmidt earlier this week, said that we have to take stand in this moment as americans, as decent humans, and draw a line and say we are rejecting this essentially white nationalist policy that is putting brown families and their children in detention camps. >> that's grotesquely inaccurate. >> it is not. >> different sort of versions here of where the republican party is right now. do you think anything about this week has changed the way any voter looks at the republican party? >> i think absolutely. look, i think george will is singular, and there aren't that many george will voters out there. for as long as i've seen anything happening in politics, he has been the epitome of a conservatism of ideas. and trump represents a conservatism of blood and soil. in some ways he's barely conservative. there are certain people who are going to look for something different attitudinally. i actually think trump has the better of this argument. i think most of the party is more like him. it's a politics of revenge and not a politics of ideas. it'

when we were doing the circus on the last run, we were down on the border, alex wagner and steve schmidtr patrol guy saying, here's the problem. america is a beacon. we have the beacon on. the beacon draws people here. how do we deal with that? do we really want to turn off the beacon? jeff sessions, donald trump have set out an explicit, particular, intentional way to shut the beacon off. that's what is at stake here. it's not just the lives of these children that are obviously at stake, but that's what this fight's about right now to go back to the very top of the conversation. it's about is america still the beacon or is it not the beacon? that's the war we've got to win because as soon as we shut the beacon off, we are not the same country as we were before. >> and all those children down there. >>> after the break, so much love for dictators. what gives? once again, we'll go inside donald trump's head and try to understand his attraction to autocratic leaders. the blade quality you'd expect from gillette... at a price you wouldn't. the new gillette3 & gillette5. available now for $7

. >> steve schmidt laid it out bluntly as he often does on twitter.hink it's time to give vladimir p h due. he's clearly the greatest intelligence agent ever. he's engineered the unraveling of the western alliance, fidelity to democracy of the united states and severing the u.k. from the e.u. a remarkable achievement. and director of national intelligence dan coates says russia is attempting to influence u.s. midterms and devise alliances. western ideals and democratic norms. >>> talk about the conundrum for men like d.n.i. coates with someone as jeremy bash said, attracted to moscow. >> russia hasn't been subtle in its actions, right? and they didn't like the encroachment of nato on its borders. they didn't like protest of ukraine friendly to . they developed this information warfare capability they first used in ukraine, social media bots, creating fake news. >> they all follow me on twitter now. >> my they brought it to the united states. why would putin do this? does he want sanctions relief? he wants what we just saw at the g7. that's the return

and not anybody sitting in power, the steve schmidts of the world who walked away from the republican party and want to stop this and not give trump any more power. there will be a gigantic effort on both parts. my pac will be involved in raising resources and many others will be out there too. trish: talking to the team this morning, i said you know who this is good are? all the political consultants. you ain't seen nothing yet, right? if you thought there was division already, get ready, folks, now you're talking about possibly overturning roe versus wade which is one of the hot-button issues for both sides. >> i'm not going to interpret what the court is going to do, certainly that is the argument that's going to be made. it's been a long time that roe versus wade was there. i thought it was based on lousy legal judgment, but i think to a certain extent the impression will be they're going to do something, sometimes law becomes law because it's there for a long time but certainly it's going to be very pro corporate. pro business court and i think it will be a good court for trump b