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Now, turning attention to the ron johnson letter if i may. Yes. On august 31st, Senator Johnson is getting ready to travel to ukraine on September 5th with senator murphy. And he wanted johnson wanted the aid released, he calls the president , he actually sought permission to be the bearer of good news. Right. The president said, im not ready to lift the aid. And they had this Senator Johnson. He writes a ten page letter, very detailed. And he gives some remarkable deta detail. And id like to re...

Didnt have any idea that the aid had been held up, when we had -- at least five people testify that they did. >> they knew in july -- >> there were a lot of people who knew -- that they knew it had been held up and they were concerned about it. he was making these arguments that had been making republican talking points. i would expect more from him frankly. >> im not sure anybody was moved by what they saw today. the only thing probably more confusing for the american people than watching congr...

Bit -- you start to question what the motivation is, the other thing also, i dont think that people are just looking for excuses to defend the president, i think theres been some mistrust back and forth, and i think theres some members of the gop that have justified some of these things in their minds. >> theyre sitting there saying, well, this cant actually be happening, so it must be this or it must be -- i just think that -- >> why? why are they doing that? >> i know. >> its like the republic...

Give them flu shots. and after the murders in el paso and daten, he has one phone call with the nra and he backs off meaningful background checks p.m. he told the nra they were off the table. as he left the white house today, the president could not send a clear message on this incredibly urgent issue. >> i have an appetite for background checks. were going to be doing background chics. were working with democrats, republicans, and we already have very strong background checks. were going to be ...

Really change after that, because -- i mean, at some point he seemed to side with am dids, and then republicans would speak and hed go back to their position and go back to the democratic position. i mean, really things havent changed since that immigration meeting. both sides were treated to their partisan corners. >> that is my worst fear, everyones worst fear, we are where we are. and i think one difference is, that he has made this really clear, ten times, he wanted a strong universal backgr...

Petraeus was on capitol hill, he was not necessarily enamored with how donald trump put in the muslim ban or the travel ban, however you scan want to call it. he thought that better implementation and better planning would have made things go a lot smoother in that. it will be interesting to see how the conversation between president trump and david petraeus happens tomorrow, as gloria did note, for all his controversy, david petraeus is well liked by am dids and republicans, it will be interest...

Campaigns were in secret talks to boycott the fox debate if trump were included. in 15 states, the republican bosses can keep donald trump off the ballot with the stroke of a pen, in all honesty, if hes not treated fairly by the republican party, if hes not given a level playing field, he should preserve the option of running the third party. at the same time, i know donald trump doesnt want to do anything that might distract from the defeat of hillary clinton, because we dont need a third term ...

Kna kornacki. where is the inflexion point between lets take over this lousy party and lets get out of this lousy party. did last night get us any closer to that one? >> its not heading in the direction of a third party. i think its a significant moment last night, i think this is part of the long story, the sort of tea party republican split, it began in 2009. i think its going to play out a lot longer than 2014, 2016. its going to take a while to think out. its going to be a symbolic rallying ...