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Welcome back to "newsroom." the white house counselor kellyanne conway, one of president trumps most loyal defenders and lately she might have to defend him from someone very close to home, her own husband. jeanne moos takes a look at an intriguing family feud there. >> reporter: some families feud against other families. >> welcome back to celebrity "family feud." >> reporter: this is an internal family feud. she is the presidents pit bull. >> how dare you? >> how dare you. >> no, how dare you....

Well, kellyanne conway and her husband on opposite sides over president trump. heres jeannie moos. >> reporter: some families feud against other families. >> welcome back to celebrity family feud. >> reporter: but this is an internal family feud. she is the presidents pit bull. >> how dare you. >> no, how dare you. >> reporter: while her husband, the guy holding her coat, is also holding president trumps feet to the fire, writing critical op-eds and essays and especially tweets, describing the p...

Immigration, build the wall, go after em. and thats what hes trying to do. trying to get his base revved up for the mid terms, with these red meat issues. its so far that the big absence is that republicans dont have a strong message. when they thought they were going to have a message. i tell you -- >> jesse: the economy. >> juan: even on the immigration issue, at the white house theyre having big fights between john bolten and john keller, chief -- kelly, with the rhetoric, a spike, mean many ...

I dont know. but it all looked like, some guy ranting, and i am, personally offended, by the kind of profanity he brought. there i dont understand why anybody would tolerate that. i dont get this. when you have people like common, jay-z, kendrick lamar doing things with president obama the right wing went nuts, they said theyre rappers, some of them associate with thugs and begansters. what about this guy? the man who insulted republicans, the man who has no to say other than his hat gives him s...

Temperament and that he does not have the character to serve on the supreme court. >> absurd. >> no, its not. >> yes, it is. >> hold on, ben. ill come back to you in a second. hold on, ben. >> can you let me finish, please? >> finish up. >> ive been hearing a lot what youre saying. >> what we have seen from his past testimony, there is already prove that he has perjured himself. >> not true. >> we saw -- >> democrats arent saying that on the hill. >> hold on, ben! >> ben, let me finish. jesus! w...

Of racism, quote, absurd, but as their statement was read on fox news, the anchor then adding this. >> we do not condone this language. >> reporter: desantis, a congressman, has made his support for president trump the backbone of his campaign. >> ron loves playing with the kids. >> build the wall! >> he reads stories. >> then mr. trump said, "youre fired. " i love that part. >> reporter: the president returning the praise. >> hes tough, hes smart and he loves florida and he loves our country. >...

Previously people were reluctant to say somebody told a lie especially the president of the united states. president trump has so clearly adopted the attitude, if i donald trump say it no matter how big a lie, the word is just, no matter how big a lie it is, it isnt going to matter. there have been books written about authoritarian technique in history. much of what the president has been doing is aversion of a big lie, tell a lie, know its untrue, but given the bully pulpit. >> repeat it over a...

Its traditions. in every despotic tyrann call country that the leader has tried to seize the institutions of justice and undermine the press as the real means of controlling through authoritarianism. people are starting to realize that. >> dan, just the lies, whether something is against the law or not, we had good people on either sides arguing good law. just the lies, the swamp, at the heart of the swamp, the the number of lies is overwhelming. >> this is a good example how much has changed in...

Scorsese, i say this half ingest that he had a lot of experience -- in jest -- this whole trump era has moved to a completely different position now. by my own analysis, i say my own upon, in the last 48, 60 hours, there is an outrage fatigue in the country. trump, i cant think about that anymore. the manafort guilty verdict and the cohen guilty plea, i think, changed the dynamic into a much more dangerous period for donald trump personally and politically for the american presidency, and theref...

A chemical agent on british soil. this has to be seen in a much larger context, which is president trump has, when pressed and has taken some pressing from congress, taken much tougher actions than the previous administration took against russia. the most notable example of that youve seen the sanctions. the most notable example was sending sophisticated anti-tank missiles to ukraine, which is something the obama administration did not do. but trump has not done it eagerly. but under quite a lot...