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Because i have something at risk. i think this book needed to be written. i think we are facing a crisis of conservatism. weve got to get back to the principles of limited government, economic freedom, free trade, if we want to be a governing party. i think i just felt compelled to do it. i didnt tell my staff, i didnt tell my political advisers, i didnt want to be talked out of it. but i felt it was important. >> i talked to general michael hayden a while back and he talked about the thin venee...

A conservative is nothing if not, with foreign policy particularly, deliberal. i think our allies need that. certainly our adversaries need to hear that. and im concerned we dont have that >> how big do you think the credibility problem is? >> i have a chapter in the book, information, fake news and how we deal with it. it is a problem. exacerbated by social media and 24-hour news. its tough to believe some of what we see. it used to be, there were truths that were self-evident, that we all beli...

For that long. >> and donald trump was a big proponent of that, obviously. >> yeah. that was just -- just wrong and just hurtful and terrible. but people still clung to it. and so i -- yeah, i am concerned. thats just one conspiracy theory out there. there are many. and i talk about it in the book. i hope that theres a marked response. we certainly dont want to move in and try to censor what is printed or what is broadcast, thats not who we are, but i hope we can be more discerning. i think its ...

I think that weve reached the limits of what we can do as republicans. we tried. we obviously need to reform and repeal whatever obamacare. its not working in arizona on the exchange, i can tell you that. 200,000 arizonans will wake up tomorrow without insurance. its too expensive. theyre paying the fine, but they dont have insurance. so it desperately needs reform. i would have liked to have kept that reform alive. but now were going to move in the committee process and do a bipartisan bill. th...

Whatever the white house press core is doing or spokes people are doing, the reality is he is mislead investigators. >> we got to take a break. coming up the white house back as plan for legal immigration and a senior advisor went after acosta. well play that for you and later ill speak with republican senator jeff blake who is so anti-trump he wrote a book about it. if youve been diagnosed with cancer,

Reelection. >> in 1960 felt the republican party had been compromised by the new deal and today we have different things that are of concern to republicans and conservatives. poppialism and nationalism and protectionism and those things i think are a danger to the party and really i think dont bode well for the future if we stick to them. >> in the book you said -- excuse me. you talk about the sugar high of poppialism and that the crash is going to be severe. >> this didnt start with his admini...

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