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Anti-democrat tea party rallies nationwide on tax day, april 5, 2009, and on through the summer and into the hall of that year and at the time barack obama was a popular president, he won that election in 08 convincingly, had huge majorities in washington, his polling numbers were good. but that protest movement, that bottled up frustrated conservative energy, that was soon put to specific electoral use. they got their first big chance of turning their new protest movement into political results...

Met with the russians. so what is unusual about what youve lrnd about trump advisers constant? >> two things. one, the frequency. constant communications, not just an introduction here or there. two, the level. were talking about the senior most advisers to trump, close proximity to the president having these communications. i was speaking to somebody from the obama administration last night who said during 08, the transition then, that she met with foreign officials, but maybe once or twice, to...

Right thing. i am hoping that we do it now. >> when president obama ran on that in 08 and in 2012, won the white house both times. it is an overwhelming issue, and we tried to have the bipartisan gang of eight work on this -- marco rubio of florida as one of the leaders trying to make immigration, comprehensive immigration reform work. just looking at the i.c.e. website today and the totals out from what we saw in 2016, i.c.e. removed a total of 240,255 aliens, a 2% increase over 2015. but meanw...

Small and mid-size banks are strangled in this. when you think about why dodd-frank was put in place, its because of the egregious practices the big banks took. why do you feel confident president trump and people around him will create smart regulation? he is surrounded by goldman sachs people right now. >> we have seen some of that pattern of the president dealing with people at the highest levels, but it gets quick response from that. i will say this, i walked through this here in congress wh...

On friday and sunup on monday. >> hes an observant jew, its happened two weeks in a row, and sources who are close to jared and the trump administration have noted this fact to me. and quickly the administration tends to walk things back on sundays. >> is that david or alan? >> this is david. because -- >> i just want -- >> its an interesting theory about the shabbat as a jew. >> it was at 4:42 friday, sundown was at 5:08. all of the fallout happened during shabbat. >> the executive order was si...

About -- it didnt work in the campaign to just be anti-trump. its not going to work in the opposition, either. >> doris put her finger on it. i remember two weeks after barack obama had been na inaugerated, and im like, what do i do next? the base is all over the place. you have to figure out where you came from. we came from the desert 06, 08. the messaging is critical. those who are running for chairmanship of the party dont have a galvanizing message. they dont have a way to animate the base....

>> doris put her finger on it. >> two weeks after barack obama was inaugurated and im sitting at the rnc thinking what do i do with this? i have a base thats dysfunctional and the message is all over the place. you have to figure out where you came from and where we came from was the desert. 06, 08. so the messaging is critical. right now those who are running for the chairmanship of the party dont have a galvanizing message. they dont have a way to animate the base. the base is going in one dir...

To do next. and it cant just be anti-trump. they have to reach out to the values of the democratic party. it is going to be hard, but they have got to have a positive out look. it didnt work in the campaign. >> doris put her finger on its. i remember in 2009, two weeks after barack obama had been inaugurated, im sitting at the rnc saying, what do i do with this, right? ive got a base thats dysfunctional. the message is all over the place. you have to figure out where you came from. and where we ...

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