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>> im not reading into words. >> no, you dont. >> here is what i did. i made a mistake so i surrender. you will never, you will never call him out for whatever he says, whatever he does. you are choosing pragmatism over principle. >> thats not true. >> i should know this. >> thats not true. >> listen to what ronna mcdaniel told me last night. i should have learned this lesson already. she gave me the lesson last night. >> i go to church for my moral leadership. i look on politicians, are you ali...

>> no, you dont. >> here is what i did. i made a mistake so i surrender. you will never, you will never call him out for whatever he says, whatever he does. you are choosing pragmatism over principle. >> thats not true. >> i should know this. >> thats not true. >> listen to what ronna mcdaniel told me last night. i should have learned this lesson already. she gave me the lesson last night. >> i go to church for my moral leadership. i look on politicians, are you aligned with my issues. are you t...

Group. this is not okay. ever. but especially not now. the temperature is already too high. too many of us have too much heat from this kind of talk. and the reaction to this kind of talk. this president is jumping up and down on too many fault lines and he knows it. and it seems he likes it because he keeps doing it. it is by definition in the law reckless behavior. he knows the risk the words create and he does it, anyway. and his party is now apparently moving away from the message of charact...

Too many of us have too much heat from this kind of talk. and the reaction to this kind of talk. this president is jumping up and down on too many fault lines and he knows it. and it seems he likes it because he keeps doing it. it is by definition in the law reckless behavior. he knows the risk the words create and he does it anyway. and his party is now apparently moving away from the message of character counts to being okay with a man named donald who talks like a mafia don in the white house...

Republican party. you remember with trent lott and george w. bush, how lott was making a joke about strom thurmond and george w. bush came out and said, this is not who we are. segregation was a horrible period. lott apologized. he actually stepped down from a position. that was the republican party. the conservative values, character counts. what the hell happened? >> well, i will say -- let me carry a brief for my republican friends for a minute. kevin mccarthy and steve scalise, two republica...

I have many american nationalists. >> how does white supremacist, how does that phrase become offense i have? he said that! when did this phrase become offensive? you dont have a problem with that? >> thats -- i do have a problem with that. and thats why i said that steve should never have gone into a "new york times" interview -- >> oh, yeah, because its about "the new york times." youre right, he was a lot safer when he was talking to that white power outlet in austria, about this stuff! he wa...

Take a public stand and criticize the president? >> im fascinated by romney because like a lot of people over time, i keep wondering which mitt romney is going to show up. >> right. >> part of the answer to that i think is there are two mitt romneys. theres the mitt romney who acts one way when hes run acanother that acts one way when hes serving or hes not running for office. at the core of mitt romney i thistle is somebody very mccain-like income that he has a sense of honor and the dignity of...

Romneys. theres the mitt romney who acts one way when hes run acanother that acts one way when hes serving or hes not running for office. at the core of mitt romney i thistle is somebody very mccain-like income that he has a sense of honor and the dignity of the office and that will character counts, country first. soles i think people were really wondering to see which mitt romney was going to show up as the senator. i think its the public servant mitt romney. he made it very clear right out of...

The candidate thinks he is a terrible human being. >> i would call out the first and foremost, have a bottomless appetite, putting up with what he is doing, and just comparing to past scandals, there is a sense that like clinton, nixon, were basically presidential but flawed personalities where as trump just seems like a consummate carnie or something. >> this is a party that was always character counts, right? it was so engrained in the party message. what will that like like in the post trump ...

Thats lost. his presidency, his legacy of a president is debatable. his character is not. and character counts. and if we take away anything from the trump era, it should be that. >> eugene robinson, it struck you, you were on the news side of "the post" for quite a bit of the bush presidency. >> yeah. >> one of the things that struck me the most yesterday was how we were talking about how shocking it was that he worked across the i aisle, or how extraordinary it was he had a relationship with s...