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>> i think its an open question whether the trump playbook hes using as his closing argument will actually work it when hes not on the ballot and theres a lot of independent women who had two years to get really angry about his rhetoric and when he doesnt have hillary as a foil. i think this argument based on immigration may help them keep a narrow set of seats but i it definitely hurts with the house. lets not forget, the task that are not polling very well. many people in states and districts ...

Our national debt. 21 trillion is indefensible. so the republicans cant just stop at these tax cuts. we need to make sure we complete the job and thats going to require some hard conversations about spending. >> neil: all right. what kind of conversations though? i mean, a lot of people talk about trying to get a handle on it and no one does. >> well, because any solutions youre going to offer up are not politically popular. i do think that we need people with a little bit of backbone and say th...

Two -- >> theyre motivated now. you saw them raise their hands in general. >> ive been following this a long time. well see. everybody should be open to change. every big change in the society has happened because of a populous movement of people deciding to take it. in terms of asking them what their solutions are, thats not as relevant as their seeking out people who will solve it, right? >> sure. >> if we say to voters, your vote is only worth as much as your solution. people vote for all kin...

Talking about mass shootings can act as contagion. we dont want to limit press freedom because its contributed to the problem. >> you dont need to limit press freedom. you can have journalists and journalistic institutions take responsibility by not glorifying or glamorizing people committing these shootings. some of the coverage ive seen borders on doing that. everybody laments what nikolas cruz did. but theres a sense of celebrity that is created around him that i think people who are watching...

You think he is or, lets say, michael wolff thinks he is -- >> no, its not my thoughts. im just saying. >> i get that. but let me just back up a second. as someone who has supported the president for many years and got in line quickly when he decided to run for president, ive always supported donald trump because hes a disrupter. and those of us who backed the president from the very beginning there wasnt a man or woman among us who thought that donald trumps approval ratings would be sky high i...

Going to stay with the trump vision on trade and immigration or are you going to moderate to the old gel less pea position. i think thats going to play out for us. as van points out, that engines up our populist edge. the question is whether it turns off others. were going to see that play out. but remember, in 2018 theres so many jerry manned erred districts, i dont see how nancy pelosi does the bath to flip that house. >> at least you admit that its not because the ideas arent popular. you jus...

That arent popular. the more we see these numbers coming down, i hope that we see some backbone starting to be inserted into the republican members of congress who frankly are the only thing that we have right now until the next election to put our hope with. >> okay. as a classic republican, lets call it that, for all of your life, how do republicans govern with these numbers? do you know that ryan and mcconnell have a secret path just kind of around the president running toward daylight, real ...

That this person was walking into the white house without a lot of popular support, with a potentially tainted election, was that whether or not he had strong political standing, was unfortunately going to be the difference between whether or not republicans were able to put country ahead of party and potentially follow where any investigation was going. whether they would be able to really recognize that unpopular things like a health care repeel that only had 20-something percent of the americ...

American people. these are campaign promises. some people are so surprised that we are having strong borders. well thats what ive been talking about for a year and a half, strong borders. they are so surprised. oh, he is having strong borders. well, thats what ive been talking about to the press and everybody else. one promise after another after years of politicians lying to you to get elected. they lied to the american people in order to get elected. some of the things im doing probably arent ...

Have to have a strong military. we have to have strong law enforcement also. so we are really searching for peace, but its peace through strength. at home, we have begun the monumental task of returning the government back to the people on the scale not seen for many, many years. in each of these actions, im keeping my promises to the american people. these are campaign promises. some people are so surprised that were having strong borders. thats what ive been talking about for a year and a half...