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The message, who is the messenger, how do we get these numbers back up? >> i spent most of the day yesterday trying to watch some of those football games and i think about the cliche in sports that winning fixes everything. is this a situation that all of fighting going on between chuck schumer or jamie harrison gets better if democrats put more points on the board legislatively? >> certainly if this were making some gains legislatively that could help but arguably people keep talking about if t...

Twitter fight. they need to put points on the board legislatively. >> and maybe thats why lindsey graham thinks no big deal. send this big ole kiss to the president. he shot a 73 on the wet golf course, isnt he special? is grahams goal let me make nice with the president to get something done? sort of like rand paul? or does he maybe want the secretary of state position? >> reporter: i think thats unlikely that hes angle for any other position than the senate. but he said his goal is to make nic...

Calling out "build the wall" in supporting him, but politically, its much more difficult. difficult to find the funding for it, which is a big price tag, difficult in the face of other big concerns like infrastructure spending. so can that big achievement that the president wants, can it be done over the next year? hard to say. the president says it will be done in his first term, but politically, thats a big test. so, for the president, nothing on the board legislatively yet that is of high lev...

Scoring points and making gestures and having conversations about race that somebody else is dragging him into than he is in getting stuff done and things passed. and i think thats legitimate, even though he messed up badly in this particular case. >> its a totally cogent argument. i think the cost of it and its wrong is because they puts the points on the board legislatively. and they take these hits over and over again, their political enemies, taking hits and never punching back and never goi...

You have to keep your eye on the ball. obama is less interested in scoring points and making gestures and having conversations about race that somebody else is dragging him into than he is in getting stuff done and things passed. and i think thats legitimate, even though he messed up badly in this particular case. >> its a totally cogent argument. i think the cost of it and its wrong is because they puts the points on the board legislatively. and they take these hits over and over again, their p...