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the world on january 15th. >> seven days left before iowa, and the gop field is warning voters, your first chance could be your last chance. >> i dont think donald trump ultimately can win an election. these polls are garbage. >> if donald trump wins iowa and new hampshire, its over, guys. >> reminding iowans, they set the pace. >> iowa knows how to do this. you tell the country where we should go. >> but did those warnings come too late to knock out the runaway favorite? >> we are lea...

I mean, marry men to men and women to women, to do all of these things that are counter cultural for them, anticultural for them, which is really the animating idea, and then of course how that ripples out into other aspects that we see play out, critical race theory, book burning and bans and other things that feed that particular progressive narrative. the one thing about the gop is that they are holistic in their approach, always and forever. they connect every dot along the way. that is some...

Are still very much there, that the party is wholesale trumpian. it is trump-like or wants to be. and youll see that as the lead-in indicates with candidates who are emerging now to run for every office from dogcatcher to governor of the states and the u.s. senate and beyond is this kind of one-off from trump. and so theyre going to perpetuate the lie, and theyre going to perpetuate the narrative that they think may land a trump endorsement at some point in their race. so, i think thats still th...

It in the book. president obama told him, joe biden was in the office when it happened. i think plenty of people warned him about mike flynn. i think sally yates walked over and told don mcgahn. we can watch it again. >> we felt it was critical that we get the information to the white house because -- in part because the vice president was unknowingly making false statements to the public and because we believed that general flynn was compromised with respect to the russians. >> so i mean genera...

You know, thats what he tells himself. the thing is the republicans for years won this battle over immigration because they focused on border security, this phrase that encompassed, you know, a great many things. it encompassed workers. it encompassed drones. it encompassed fencing. there was, you know, some sort of perimeter security that got into border security when they focused on that. you know, president trump is so focused on the wall and sort of making that the -- you know, the animating...

On border security, this phrase that encompassed, you know, a great many things. it encompassed workers. it encompassed drones. it encompassed fencing. there was, you know, some sort of perimeter security that got into border security when they focused on that. you know, president trump is so focused on the wall and sort of making that the -- you know, the animating idea for his base, keeping out the others, keeping out those people, those sort of dangerous people. and as long as he keeps talkin...