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Seen a version of this story, sadly, play out before. it is a base play and thats what he has. >> on the nra, too, lets distinguish between the nra leadership and membership because a majority of the nra members actually support universal background checks as do a majority of republicans. mitch mcconnell, of course, is very important in this. he can basically determine whether the senate will even consider one of these measures. listen to his comments this morning speaking to an interviewer in k...

The political sense to understand that he could get -- he could make real headway and be a useful president for a change by getting behind some of the basic gun control laws that he himself suggest head might support, like bans on bump stocks after the parkland shootings. so this is mcconnell -- >> but you know why, bret. you studied ideology. he has to carry all the weight of the farthest right. he doesnt have enough angry white people to give away any of them. >> right. >> its all the way to t...

Not vote for donald trump. we are told all the baltimore talk and all the elijah cummings tweeting is a base play. that hes strengthening his base. shoring up the people who put him into the white house in the first place and this is smart politics. some people have argued. that poll right there -- although it doesnt reflect the baltimore riff and rant is not reflected in the poll. that would suggest otherwise. wouldnt it? that the plays hes making to the base arent helping his numbers. >> well,...

Only 4 republicans crossed. and hes consolidated the republican party. hes running for president for re-election. it is a base play. and he sees that vote in the house as representing having solidified his base. >> and john allen, we have another vote in the house today, and all the cable networks carried it live. it was for an impeachment article. a lot of democrats said this is not a good look for us, why are we doing this? in the end it laid bare the split. 137 against, 95 for impeachment. th...

Weekend. he could have shut it down. he didnt. and the president himself out on the south lawn today said he thought it was working and said that he had no regrets, that he was happy with it. and i think that a key moment in his remarks that gets at why this matters for him is that he said look at that vote yesterday that the house took, 187 republicans stayed with him, only 4 republicans crossed. and hes consolidated the republican party. hes running for president for re-election. it is a base ...

Say about the four democratic congresswomen. he did not shut down the chants of "send her home" that echoed his racist tweet over the weekend. he could have shut it down. he didnt. and the president himself out on the south lawn today said he thought it was working and said that he had no regrets, that he was happy with it. and i think that a key moment in his remarks that gets at why this matters for him is that he said look at that vote yesterday that the house took, 187 republicans stayed wit...

Moderate. >> neil: so that crowd will come out and vote. >> its a base play for sure. this is -- >> neil: hardly the first party to do that. >> no. the risk is saying the trump brand, the risks theyre playing with, youre going to veer so far to your base to the most extreme voices that youre going to scare off absolutely everybody else. thats how you win a primary. not how you win a general election. yet, i think with these very -- theyre not even running for president and setting the terms of t...

Of playing for the base. it obviously fits the pattern of never backing down or apologizing even when people in his party said he went too far. by the way, in this case, we have not necessarily seen that pushback. i think theres an argument to be made this is not a great idea just from a strategic standpoint, setting aside moral considerations here. if you look at polling about how americans feel about immigrants and what they bring to this country even over the last three, fours years since don...

Both bianna and sara, one of the first things they bring up is the politics here. is this a base play by the president? is the timing a week and a half before the cnn debate, does that play in here? but theres a flip side as well on "the new york times." this quote. agents have expressed apprehensions about arresting babies and young children. officials have said. theres still concern about how to pull this off. and theres still concern about people who might be affected. >> yes. the optics of t...

Conference on the census and citizenship. now, we dont know at this point. were trying to find out and do reporting at the white house as we speak. is this going to be an executive order to try to get a citizenship question on the census? how would that work legally? might he just back off and say hes not going to try to get the question on the census right now? were not sure. but bianna, one thing we are sure about is talking about this at all again seems to be a base play. >> i dont think him ...