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Ask your doctor if switching to eliquis is right for you. infrastructure, tax reform, immigration. all those issues pushed aside as the release of the nunes memo takes over washington. joining me now to talk about what it means for the fall midterm elections and for you potentially, political commentator andre bower, an opinion columnist at the hill and former aide. gentlemen, welcome back. an del andre, i want to start with the tweet from trey gowdy. he tweeted yesterday, i remain 100% confid...

Big question mark in terms of maybe not collusion, but i have always thought where theres going to be the nugget is where it comes to his financial entanglements with russia in terms of money laundering. and frankly, steve bannon also mentioned money laundering is there, and that also connects to the midterm elections and how incredibly excited the opposition is. we saw it in the elections of last year in virginia, new jersey, alabama, and all the special elections. were going to see it in 2018 ...

Carolina lieutenant governor andre bower with us. lets start with you, maria. the defining moment of president trumps first year. >> i have to say that its this shutdown because i think you can encompass what so many people like myself who were opposed to president trump even before he became president, which frankly is the majority of the american people, because lets remember, the majority of the american people did not vote for him, and hes still at record low approval ratings. but i think th...

Reasons, i see how this could help donald trump. the democrats have not clearly messaged this. they dont have a public face for why theyre shutting down the government for the daca recipients. unless they make the case, this is going to whipsaw them. >> i dont agree with that. >> we will see. all right, thank you guys so much. maria cardona, andre bower, amanda carpenter. a happy new year. it starts january 20th. >> still ahead, melania trump is marking her first year in her role as first lady. ...

That is the way that he feels about people of color. and i think those two things are, i think, really indicative and are defining moments of trumps first year. >> andre, what do you think? >> i think the defining moment was getting the tax bill passed. for decades, people have talked about doing this. this was a monumental change that will affect millions of lives for years to come. we see companies that are not even trump supporters coming back to the country, bringing 10s of billions of dolla...

The president pushing back on a report that he considered scrapping neil gorsuchs nomination to the supreme court after gorsuchs criticide his attacks on judges. with "the washington post" standing by its story, trump thought gorsuch wasnt being loyal enough. lets talk about this with the author of "the truth about trump" and andre bower. good evening to both of you. the president has said he called the fake news, he doesnt believe it. but the post is citing 11 sources here even the director mar...

Hes treated shuck schumer and nancy pelosi roughly at times but well at other times. i think if you back the president and show any sense of independence, hell interpret that as disloyalty, and you wind up sideways with him when youre really trying to support his agenda. now in the case of justice gorsuch, its not his job to support the presidents agenda. it wasnt his job to support it presidents agenda when he was confirmed. so this is a classic example of why this president is so hard to work ...

That circumvents the whole electoral process to carry through their agenda not their underlongs. >> it sounds like youre confusing the process and how things are done, right? the chain of command with loyalty. >> loyalty is a cheap value. loyalty is below fealty to our constitution. its below support for what makes our country great and what makes it work. >> andre, what did you want to say? >> if youre violating the constitution that would be vastly different, but if youre surrounding yourself ...

Collar suburban voters who are already pulling away from the republican party on cultural and personal assessments of president trump, and that, i think, is a big gamble for republicans representing orange county, new york, new jersey, philadelphia, northern virginia. so this is a policy win, no question. it is also a political gamble. >> let me bring andre into this. andre, let me ask you, is this tax cut and jobs plan to republicans in 2018 what the affordable care act was to democrats in 2010...

Again, that re-enforces what has been the most distinctive movement of the trump era, especially white women, that we saw in new jersey, virginia, and again even in alabama, which is not the first place you would expect to see that. >> let me read a response here from a group here. the executive director of the national center for transgender equality sent this out. "the trump administration is full of dangerous science deniers who have no business near american public health systems like the cd...