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In 2018. >> connell: did you have a problem with that? it place well to the base to some extent, what about the idea of attacking the heroism of john mccain? >> i think some of the rhetoric is troubling. i think most republicans, the broad majority of republicans have made their peace with the fact that the policy, on the policy they agree with what the president has done. you can take issue with that. heres the thing. judges, taxes, regulatory reform, on a whole number of different issues, repu...

Country. this isnt a normal republican party thats going on right now. hes becoming toxic and destroying the party as a whole. as a democrat i believe we need a healthy republican party to get things done. >> one of the things weve seen, i think its kind of interesting, i guess michael youre getting at this is that people who disagreed or gone after the president aggressively in the past in his own party they do sound more accepting and mitt romney would be an example of that, running in utah. >...

The people united in defense of their future. >> shannon: okay. dont want to read too much into that but i think we know what he was talking about. richard, what do you think of his response? >> it was an interesting response and i think it speaks to a larger issue that i think president trump has, as b and his first year and he starts a second year is president, if you listen to the speech on the merits, its a very typical republican speech, ronald reagan would deliver, you would think he would...

Next year because this is just an unpopular bill and the republicans have yet to sell this to the american people. its really hard to sell something that is bad, jim. really hard. >> for the life of me i cant understand why the democrats want to run against republicans on the tax cuts when they have so much other material. the russia investigation, me too, all of donald trumps character issues and you want to run against the tax cuts. good luck. >> we ran against donald trump -- >> democrats nee...

>> i think it is to a certain extent. ive talked to a number of republican voters who are horrified by the accusations and by the fact that the women, by and large, are local women. they still live in alabama. there may be a few who no longer live here but most of them do live here. there is a lot of discussion about the rumors that have been reported that have supposedly circulated for years in the gadsden area. at the same time, you know, during the presidential campaign, secretary clinton att...

Scaramucci. watch this. >> i dont think its right to relish in somebody elses problems. so just as a person i dont think thats right. but again, i think it proved my point that to do this job is one in which you have to have the proper background. >> i imagine you high fiving everyone there. >> sandra: bre? >> yeah. i thought it was nice of him to say hes not gonna revel in someone elses misery. you dont kick a man while hes down, right? but i do think he does have a point when he is talking abo...

Be with him. this focus group is testing that. and whats striking here in the vulnerability and what the supporters are saying about him is theyre speaking directly to character issues and temperament issues. those are not going to change. this man is 71 years old. donald trump has been the same way his whole life. hes not going to change. its not like theyre opposed to him over one specific policy decision that he made and maybe he can win them back easily. theyre becoming disenchanted and disi...

Trump does have character issues, does have a problem with impulse control, does seem prone to fly off the handle and just be reactive rather than thinking things through. i dont think that six months is premature to say -- to give this analysis. i think six months -- we have seen every single day the chaos that this man has brought to this country. i dont think thats premature. >> matt, i want to follow up. get my voice in there. i had to jump in quickly. matt, one person who is dissatisfied af...

The harsh language he had or, you know, some of the things that happened at the campaign rally. why not then? >> i accepted the fact that, you know, the american public by their vote spoke and put a particular individual in office with all of the flaws, with all of the character issues. i was not there to judge that. i was there to see if there was an opportunity to effect change. i was especially concerned when i looked around the room that there were just a handful of persons of color there, a...

Washington political operator and good judge of character as prosecutors tend to be. i think its clear from the moment that donald trump won election in november, that comey recognized that he knew he had been investigating collusion between the russians and the trump campaign since july. and i think he recognized from a very early phase that there was going to be -- serious jeopardy for his job and he recognized the person that he was dealing with and some of the character issues that you have ...