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Credibility to that of judge kavanaugh. it is not that he doesnt want to support him, but he doesnt want to get too intertwined. again, it is a man he likes, it is a man he nominated, but theres not a deep, personal affinity. so he is not going to go to the mat for someone who he thinks could lose or who he thinks the public sentiment might turn against or new information might emerge against. >> what is going on with the white house, john? you have kellyanne conway yesterday saying there should...

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Republic. thats why many appointees have done what we can -- the root of the problem is the presidents amorality. anyone who works with him knows he is not moored to any first principles that guide his decision making. the president shows little affinity for ideals long aspoused by conservatives, free minds, free markets, and free people. at best, he has invoked these ideals in scripted settings. at worst, he has attacked them outright. in addition to his mass marketing of the notion that the pr...

Has no taste for expanding beyond his base. and his numbers are in the low 40s. republicans have to run in a ditch political atmosphere in november, in the midterm elections. and when he feels put-upon, rather than trying to find a way to appeal to the people who arent necessarily turned totally off to him but arent with him, he goes way back into his own base. >> is it fair to ask, does he not have a taste for democracy? i ask that not just with this and his affinity for strongmen, affinity tow...

His willingness to confirm putin. to the contrary he likes to say hes like to send soft messages to the russians. for example his statement at the g7 summit. that russia should be readmitted. his only direct statements might belong to russia. >> eric: why do think the president takes those positions? >> i dont know the answer to that. i just know he says things like that regularly going back two years ago. by the same token, the policies of his administration have been stronger and tougher again...

Republican members of the congress are afraid to challenge trump. trumps afraid to challenge russia. hes always backing them. he acts like vice president pence acts towards him towards russia. >> i dont think hes afraid. i dont think he cares that russia attacked the united states in 2016. we say meddled, intervened. it was an information warfare attack. he doesnt give a darn about maintaining relationships or more importantly values with our allies. it seems to me he wants not a g7 but really a...

Does he get out of this? >> well, putin has everything to win and nothing to lose in the summit. the optics, the russian president sitting across the table from the american president is a huge win from the russian point of view. two great men, deciding about the fate of the world. he also has a lot of potential concussion concessions he will try to get. putin has been a savvy reader of characters, a very savvy reader of previous american presidents. he will certainly try to use presidents trump...

Wouldnt. the sentence should have been i dont see any reason why i wouldnt or why it wouldnt be russia. >> president trump wants you to believe even though the problems of his comments in helsinki exceed would versus wouldnt. yesterday he repeated twice that putin was powerful in the denial of the interference and the rest of what the president said. his mention of the dnc server, a favorite subject of those that dont believe that russian military intelligence officials of the gru hacked the dnc...

The thing that you have to sort of step back and realize the thing thats happening -- and we dont talk often about the big picture by the individual thing. donald trump has a real affinity for authorityism, the people he tends to like and speak months tifrly of and want to be friendly to and flatter seems to be authoritarian. if we like somebody its usually because theyre somewhat like us. look at what hes doing day-to-day, and hes doing thing that are classic authoritarian maneuvers. attacking ...