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National republicans have done far worse than simply march along to mr. trumps beat. their defense of him is imbued with an ugliness, a meanness, and a willingness to attack and slander those who have shed blood for our country, who have dedicated their lives and careers to its defense and its security. they basically say there are those enabling the presidents behavior. how do you feel about that? >> listen. there is a very, very small sliver of the republican party that are never trumpers and ...

Office? here its conditioning foreign aid on the opening of an investigation to a political rival, period. >> it cant be nebulous, right, if democrats are going to serve this to the american people. >> with less than a year before a presidential election. with a primary that will probably go pretty far into the calendar. this is a huge uphill battle for them right now. there is a messaging problem. they have an election less than a year who is going to require enormous amounts of money and a shu...

Him we can say that this is abnormal and inappropriate but it is as long as theres transparency and the people and the base support him and if they continue to support him so be it. >> you see him using his most senior officials, dispatching bill barr, right, to other countries to pursue the investigation and bears repeating, watch this moment with mike pompeo asked about what he knew about this call and his answer now. lets play it. i want your reaction. >> what do you know about those conversa...

Least been primary opposition. i can think of nothing, frederick, more un-democratic if youre president trump and things are great and you feel fine and strong you wouldnt do this. they must be afraid of the fact that maybe hes not doing well. >> s.e., its not just south carolina thats considering this. whats your reaction? >> ive been reading the press statements from the rnc and from the gop on shutting down these primaries, and if you read them theyll say how fired up we are about trump and t...

Yes, they sent out signals but in terms of reality. because this is a president who showed no interest in doing anything who would upset something to be his base support. after parkland he kind of talked about stuff and even, you know, laid into republican lawmakers for being afraid of the nra. but if its about presidential leadership, it aint going to happen in an election he proposes as being close. >> look at what the president said in one of his gaggles on the white house lawn last week wher...

That says stocks drop after trump orders to alternatives ordered by china. the writing is on the chyron. so as the talk runs into the reality in a very dramatic and jarring way today, what do the political markets say about that in terms of the kwepconsequencer not just the country but presidency? >> i think we are seeing two things play out. that clip or series of clips reminds me of "the apprentice" if you watched that show. everything he talked about was in superlatives. every trump property ...

10% favor biden. some wouldnt vote for any and some are undecided. thats a flashing yellow in this poll. >> especially after the 2016 election. people who didnt like hillary, he won them by 17% and the crucial battleground states that afforded him his electoral college victory. and theres something else in that poll that the aaron blake at "the washington post" wrote about the base support and margin of error between that and the folk who actually support him. the people who approve of his job i...

Presidents for the past two decades have attempted or made some efforts to address immigration from george w. bush, from president obama who some called the deporter in chief because of his tough stances on immigration. and here we now have donald trump and were still arguing about the same issue. look, i think for many republicans, they would rather see some type of actions on this, if we dont see comprehensive immigration reform. and keep in mind, there was some bipartisan support in the senat...

Will shape the 2020 election. but nra chief executive wayne lapierre is warning the president a background checks bill would not be popular among his supporters and other conservative figures seem to agree. >> the only thing a new law would do is drive wage between trump and his voters and the nra. >> despite those warnings. the president seems to believe his base and potentially republicans in the senate are going to follow his lead, no matter what. >> i have a great relationship with the repub...

Agricultural goods. $5.6 billion worth of farm products went to china last year. you cut that off, and at the will of the farmer. the base support for president trump -- for the most part they say they support the president. "we know china is cheating, everyone knows they are cheating, we know we were doing." but the pain for the farmers is there. he said that he will give subsidies, but they want to deal so they get back to normal. >> melissa: i think with the really want -- when ive had privat...