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Digesting what theyve wrought here. what do you think of the message that hes delivering on that point? >> the republican party has a huge branding problem and they have to own up to that. because donald trump didnt just appear out of nowhere. a lot of this rhetoric and policies, you know whether its the muslim ban or you know, not allowing any refugee into the country, this kind of language has been part of the republican party not for a couple of years, but for several years. decades. now with...

Podium saying we create jobs. they create mobs and go beyond president trump. if you ask the average american which party is most focused on jobs and the economy and business, theyre going to say republicans. >> thats right. so, democrats do have the branding problem that you mentioned. republicans on the other hand have a data problem and if you want to know who recognizes that, none other than president trump. in 2004 when president trump was interviewed on cnn he was asked, you know, trying t...

Department of labor. looking at gross domestic product, you know it as gdp, growth, another growth metric to measure the strength of the economy, we can also see substantially better performance under democratic presidents. again, our dotted red and blue lines paint a clear picture. real gdp grown about 1.6 times fast we are a democrat in the white house than a republican. according to figures crunched from the department of commerce. further more, a paper released by the wilson school and depar...

Give the democrats one more issue to beat up on republicans over. this is very, very damning. the damage will go beyond the trump administration, and to see republicans signing on suggests that theres -- this at least the perception of a branding problem, that others who are running on the democratic ticket in these midterm elections are going to suffer from the misdeeds of the scott pruitts of the world. hes got his own sort of political future. its a mixed and interesting one where hes got pro...

City. turning now to politics and the presidents response. president trump met over the weekend with members of his cabinet as hurricane irma pounded florida. heres what he had to say about the rescue effort yesterday when he returned to the south lawn of the white house. >> a group that really deserves tremendous credit is the united states coast guard. what theyve done, they have gone right into that, and you never know. when you go in there, you dont know if youre going to come out. they ar...

The problem is the larger american electorate and his problem is also governing. i mean, if you look at what he has done in hiring anthony scaramucci here, it seems like the president thinks the problem is a branding problem, and that he needs somebody in place who can really smoothly stroke his own ego, right, somebody who in some ways works for the propaganda arm of donald trumps ego. i mean, thats what he was doing today with saying, oh, donald trumps good at basketball and football and golf....

The promises hes made. >> shepard: seems clear that people want the program. theyve showed up in mass across the country. theyve called them paid protesters. theyre not. people want the provisions within obama care. it sounds as if what they want is obamacare by another name. its a branding problem. its a messaging problem. obamacare has become the boogie man, but wow, the programs inside the affordable care act are awesome. >> its not that people werent disappointing with the advent of obamacar...

This it laest poll, jeb bush is not only in single digits, but this is crucial, less than half republican voters say they would vote for him. that number is 60% trump, 77% ben carson. should jeb consider dropping out so the party can coalesce and deal with a more manageable field? >> no. you are going to ask the guy whos got $100 and super pac whos got double-digit cash on hand who has teams on the ground in the early states to drop out, when there are so many others on that debate stage who are...

Because those three dozen freedom caucus members, if they really want to advance the agenda that they are supportive of, they have to control the white house. they cant get it done without the white house. the harm being done to the gop right now, i think, is a branding problem. if i were jeb bush, im not happy about this. if i am donald trump, i probably am. it fits with where i am. but ive got to believe that marco rubio and john kasich are looking at this saying, come on, man, youre killing m...

Welcome back. volkswagen announcing it will refit up to 11 million vehicles containing illegal software. the german automaker attempting to overhaul its brand new following the scandal over rigging the emissions test. plans to refit diesel vehicles could cost billions of the bucks. we got a billion problem plans here but we got a branding problem as well. >> we do i deed. the 11 million cars come back, they get them fixed. they refit them. theres a problem with this. they my get rid of the emiss...