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Were looking at a political landscape where republicans can lose 40 or 50 seats. to have discussions about racism and immigration and anything besides what the president has done for the economy, i dont think republicans want to have period. >> you are paying close attention to the math and to jakes point about whether or not this is really where republicans want this conversation to be. and were talking a little bit earlier how theres been some suggestion that the president initially when he ma...

And immigration and anything besides what the president has done for the economy, i dont think republicans want to have period. >> you are paying close attention to the math and to jakes point about whether or not this is really where republicans want this conversation to be. and were talking a little bit earlier how theres been some suggestion that the president initially when he made these comments thought he was making a play to that core base of supporters. he re-evaluated it since then and ...

Reporting in a second. let me start with you. phil bump, just about the body of evidence that renders stupid any debate about whether or not the president is a racist. >> i mean, i think people forget from the first three minutes of his campaign he started off by saying weve got immigrants coming over the mexican border and theyre criminal. some of them, i assume, are good people. and that, quite frankly, is the statement and argument, the fight that built a core base of support to carry him thr...

Lady isnt negotiate with north korea on his administrations behalf. vivian salama joins us now and evan mcmullin, former cia operative and one-time independent candidate for president. well get to your incredible reporting in a second. let me start with you. phil bump, just about the body of evidence that renders stupid any debate about whether or not the president is a racist. >> i mean, i think people forget from the first three minutes of his campaign he started off by saying weve got immigra...

To go. what kind of dynamic is happening in washington around the lion of the senate? >> if orrin hatch does retire its not in play for the democrats, so its not going to affect the balance of power, and he was standing last week praising president trump, perhaps as one of the greatest presidents of all-time. that is not how utahens who are diehard republicans for the most part, many of them, feel about donald trump. we saw a resistance to trump among the core base in utah throughout 2016. there...

This is people who recognize a core base within the republican party stepping up, wants to stand with donald trump, staying alive with donald trump despite everything done over the course of past year and value from voters and conservative media in standing with donald trump no matter the odds because partisan tension is so high. because republicans are, team republican and team democrat, team democrat so forcefully, standing with trump despite all the flaws weve talked about today and every day...

Little bit, something about energy independence. and they said that the content of the policy remains the same. they will as people who work in the government arent shifting with the ideological bent of each administration. and the policy and the content stays the same, its some of the language. >> but is it stirring the pot unnecessarily? >> absolutely. and some of this is responding to certain core base, which rejects a lot of these things. the idea of entitlement. the idea of any diversity tr...

President to back roy moore, but mitch mcconnell encouraged the president to back luther strange. they both lost. >> no, i think it does put the president in a very precarious predicament because i think steve bannon certainly understands the language, the moods, the feelings of many of the individuals who support president trump at the base and that as his core and i think for the president stepping away from steve bannon too much i think he jeopardizes losing some of that support with his base...

Last night. and the bigger question of why, why doug jones won. i stated in the introduction it seemed to be a call to decency that was responded to. do you think thats true, or is it being too optimistic? >> i think there was a call to decency and just a rejection of roy moore as someone who has embarrassed the state deeply within political circles. from the outside we were looking at alabama. it is easy to caricature the state and its voters on roy moore. will alabama set that record straight....

>> youve got a platform in the house, you should use it. i love to argue. robert, is president trump happy with the way this things turned out, a battle between him and kirsten gillibrand? >> he always likes to be at the center of things. he now faces the point that if doug jones wins in alabama or he comes close to winning, its going to show that even in red states, questions of character and conduct÷igu matter. even to trump voters. trumps core base. that could have reverberations in the 2018...