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Personality does matter and its only going to get worse. >> and it fuels for him the tremendous victim concept. i find this moment terrifying. the russian investigation circling in, whatever relationships he had with his own party is disintegrating fast. and he gets scary and unpredictable when hes in a corner. and right now what the setup is everybody is after me. the media is after me, fake news. my own party gets in the way of doing this thing we -- who is we? any and my 30% of people who lik...

One interesting thing in the campaign is that there was a belief that trump wouldnt do well among young people but he did slightly better than expected given the historical turn out. here were seeing young people leaving in droves now. >> they werent a lot of them in the first place. i toured a lot of college campuses last year and folks were not hearing his message. theres a core base of republicans that are young. obviously, we see that he appeals to young white extremists. lets not pretend th...

Senators flake and mccain, very critical of this pardoning. how does this perhaps set the stage or might this be a continuation of a real strained relationship between the president and members of congress, in this case, senate, in trying to get things done moving forward? >> sure. well, i think you had a more cautious statement from senator flake who in general has been one of the most vocal republican critics of the president but hes up for re-election. senator mccain, who is not up for rehe l...

>> yeah, i do think president trump is a huge consumer of the news and the news probably. probably the biggest consumer of political news that anybody in the west wing has had of modern political times. hes keeping track of what that means. as far as the core base. his popularity has sagged in recent weeks and has been the core supporters which are a lot of the breitbart readers that have continued to stick by him. bannon is a real threat towards whether or not that kind of base remains in trump...

Great. scott pruitt is at the epa. you have other figures at the sec and elsewhere pushing that agenda forward but steve bannon was incidental to that once these cabinet members got there. i would argue the vast majority of the cabinet members donald trump didnt know who they were still doesnt know very much about ham eback on helped pick them. i think at the end of the day, well see how general kelly does and i hope he does well. he better pick a new team and make this run smoothly or he will b...

Everything from the pair iis accord thats donald trump. who said even at breitbart will push his agenda? donald trump. the good news for steve bannon and breitbart, they have not heard this, but the good news for the american people, no reasonable republican reads breitbart. i have never been on breitbarts website nor do i care what they say. steve bannon and breitbart will not expand the base that elected donald trump, a man who lost the popular vote. they might strengthen his base that are 32 ...

Hes like teach me how to be more racist and more effectively racist. that is what their relationship was. whats dangerous is now that bannon is on the outside, he can pretend he has a globalist agenda, start a media empire, expose how dangerous and how close this administration is to white nationalists and how dangerous that is going to be for all of us. trump has no ground to stand on. he cant say i dont have these beliefs. he is surrounded by people who dont agree with that. >> that is the que...

Dangerous that is going to be for all of us. trump has no ground to stand on. he cant say i dont have these beliefs. he is surrounded by people who dont agree with that. >> that is the question, john harwood, for the republican party. because to admit this is the core base, that donald trump still has it has base would be to say that white nationalist base is the base. if donald trump loses steve bannon, does the bottom drop out of his base? >> not necessarily. i think the kind of people that we...

Different level. i think its driven by a number of things, his background is different than other politicians, he operates by a different set of rules. i think the environment in this country, as john meacham writes in our issue is similar to other incendiary times. its different in the last 20 or 30 years. its gotten worse. the anger and frustration from a core base of white working class voters is more so much aware of where it was in the late 60s when president nixon was running than its been...

Neon neo-naziism. the presidents instinct is to get out there and continue to dig a hole for himself. while you see that he has not -- there is not anything he has done in the seven months of his presidency to expand his reach to represent a majority of americans. he continues to dig a hole deeper and sort of convenient back to his most core base. i think what you saw today is losing touch with the country he represents. >> it is really remarkable, jen, we know from reporting that the new white ...