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Mccain -- >> you know -- >> oh, kori, go ahead and finish. >> you know, i was going to say, i think his experience early in his life as a prisoner of war gave him his steeliness, because he understand everybody had a break point and it made him sympathetic for people who did break, but he also had the liberation of knowing what he believed in and knowing who he was and standing tall and helping others do the same. >> yep. in terms of his place in the gop history books, frank, where does john mcc...

>> im admitting a was a republican. i wasnt listening closely enough. >> thats a problem. tell them how you got to where you are. >> i grew up in a republican household. i came of age in the reagan 80s. when i registered to vote when i turned 18 in 1980, there was no question as to which party i would join, i would join the republican party. for 30 years, i was not only a loyal republican voter but very active in the party and i had unique experiences at all levels that culminated when i was 29,...

I would join the republican party. and for 30 years, i was not only a loyal republican voter, but very active in the party and i had unique experiences at all levels that cull monated when i was 29 in being appointed to a subcabinet level position in papa bush, bush 41s administration. papa bush was my kind of republican. if papa bush and those of his ilk were still running the republican party, id still be a republican. but by 2010 id had enough. barack obama was the first democratic presidenti...

Is just kind of like not stable as he presents himself the american public vouching for the president. >> i prefer runaway beer truck. >> you like that one? >> thats a joe scarborough expression. >> it just seems like any time he goes on air he makes things worse for the president but makes things better for anybody investigating the president. >> theres a qualitative difference in what he saeaid whh is that hes introducing a new theme into the talking points which is that its okay to take infor...

Bill, including sds 700 billion in defense spending, congress has until tomorrow to pass it or they avoid another government shutdown. joining us now is republican cngressman paul gozar of arizona, a member of the house freedom caucus which opposes the bill. good to see you. >> good to see you. >> are you standing firm on this? >> absolutely. this represents everything thats wrong with this procession, bad process builds bad policy builds bad politics. >> i was wondering when you guys would get ...

His son in law, jared kushner or firing mueller? >> i think they both cause him a problem, personally. >> will the republican party break with him in any sizeable percentage if he does one of those? >> i think it will be a break point particularly in the senate. starting to pardon people like flynn. >> i actually think hes more -- i think the republican party would be more concerned with mueller and the pardons theyre going to try be more thoughtful for future presidents. the country went thro...

For mr. flynn, mr. trumps former political adviser said they will to the stop communicating with the presidential legal team. >> its almost certainly a sign that now flynn is talking. and the question is what is the story that he has to tell? and how far will it lead towards the president? its clooer that the mueller investigation doesnt need flynn to talk about what happened with flynn in turkey or russia. they have a ton of material on that. what they want is to go after bigger fish. so the qu...

The conservative movement, and for many reasons he is, partly. but you have an entire party that rallied around the theory that there was a coordinated conspiracy driven by multiple scientists around the globe to deceive people about the basic science of this matter. if you can believe that, its not surprising to me you would produce a president like this. do you feel like theres a connection there? >> oh, yeah, absolutely. i think that donald trump is the most extreme form of a trend that actua...

And throughout the -- my whole life, ive watched this trend. and its been -- ill tell you the break point in my observation, was when television began to dominate the media space. but listen, hear me out on this. when our founders created the american experiment, it was a printing press which gave individuals a chance to use logic and reason and the best available evidence, and discourse with others. it enabled us to harvest the wisdom of crowds. and we made better decisions than any other count...

Computers. an employee in vice president mike pences office will collect and store any data. do you see any problems there? >> well, former homeland security secretary chertoff, a republican, said that there was a huge security risk here to ask all of our millions of personal files to be all sent ironically enough through unsecure e-mail. and theyre going to take this and try to compare all the files and show that this imaginary conspiracy is really real. there is a silver lining here. the respo...