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from msnbc world headquarters here in new york. welcome, everyone, to alex witt reports. we begin this hour with new developments from the fallout from the fbi search of mar-a-lago. a federal judge in florida is now signaling that she is inclined to grant a request from donald trumps lawyers to appoint a special master in the case. the hearing is set for thursday. a new reaction today after the director of national childrens told chalk lawmakers in the house oversight intelligence comm...

A revolution against trump. what do you think? >> those are two different questions. the first one has a more obvious answer. the fever is not gonna break. i wasnt arizona leading up to the midterms, went to a lot of kari lake events, let me tell, you this is a bottom up problem. its always been a bottom-up problem. its a republican base fighter that is demanding the denialism that is leading the republican party down the road to hell, so to speak. so the question is, now, they look at trump and...

Questions. the first one has a more obvious answer. the fever is not gonna break. i wasnt arizona leading up to the midterms, went to a lot of kari lake events, let me tell, you this is a bottom up problem. its always been a bottom-up problem. its a republican base fighter that is demanding the denialism that is leading the republican party down the road to hell, so to speak. so the question is, now, they look at trump and say, okay, weve gotten all we wanted to get out of him, and we can get al...

Republicans and as david and kasie pointed out, their primary process is producing extreme nominees. and they are not willing to acknowledge that and address that problem. maybe they cant. its not a top down problem. it a bottom up problem. republican voters are choosing largely extreme nominees and when those candidates get to the general election, this extraordinarily favorable environment, theyre struggling. >> im reminded of a piece dana did in this cycle where you went down to texas in the ...

And how you interpret trumps numbers? >> it seems like we are still on the, road have, alex? i interpret it as, the republican partys problem since 2015 has really been this bottom-up problem. voters are demanding politicians that channel their grievances, they resentments their anger. and donald trump does that better than anybody else. so if they are angry at political elites, they are angry the democrats. and they, see obviously this is. bogus but if they are made to believe by conservative m...

Are essentially joe biden democrats right now. well see how things shake out, but when you look at the problems in the republican party, i mentioned that trump has some unique pathologies. but the bigger problem, back to eugenes point, its a bottom-up problem, not a top-down problem. crazy is what the voters want. and whether or not all 54% of them believe it was antifa dressed up in maga hats, or not, it doesnt matter. both types of voters have a very deep-seated hatred towards the elites that ...

Exercise, and i probably should try to start figuring it out. because as tim said, this is a bottom-up problem, essentially. but the kindling was all set for the match, right? it was going to, it was there. and its probably a combination of things, some resentments that built up over time, a lot of these sort of culture war issues that people have coalesced around. the biggest ones are abortion and guns. but also, you know, all of a sudden, you know, transgender athletics has become, like, you k...

What the voters want and so as long as the voters want that this isnt getting fixed, right? we can hopefully get rid of trump permanently and get rid of some of his unique issues but these underlying issues arent going anywhere and its in every poll that you look at and its in the actual results when you go in front of voters when you go for the republican primaries. were gonna see that for the next 18 months. >> eugene, ive got 60 seconds left. have you ever done as a columnist, as a journalist...

With someone is satisfactory. >> i dont think its something that should be addressed at the federal level. this is a state issue. the second amendment is a federal statute but we do have background checks. each state has different background checks. here in california its nearly impossible to get a weapon you have to wait a very long time. you have these things in place. i believe its a bottom-up problem, not a top-down problem. for all the reasons rob just mentioned and you quoted ben shapiro i...

With someone is satisfactory. >> i dont think its something that should be addressed at the federal level. this is a state issue. the second amendment is a federal statute but we do have background checks. each state has different background checks. here in california its nearly impossible to get a weapon you have to wait a very long time. you have these things in place. i believe its a bottom-up problem, not a top-down problem. for all the reasons rob just mentioned and you quoted ben shapiro i...