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Me ask you. why do you think theres this phenomenon where the president gets in his own way and steps on his own message time after time? >> he cant help himself. whether its tweeting responses or morning joe or news of the day, he cant help himself. he always does it. whether its a theme week he gets in the way of or anything else, his ability to dominate a news cycle is what weve seen for more than two years since he announced running. i think the smart thing to do would be to dial it back a l...

Would be unproductive. as somebody who worked on health care, it was going to be a cul-de-sac. thats exactly whats happened politically and economically, and its wrong. my view is, he made both a political and a policy blunder of the first order, which is what rookies make when they come right out of the box. >> do you think it was because he listened to people like paul ryan and mitch mcconnell who said this is what the republicans want? >> yeah. i think a lot of people -- i dont know. i only k...

Opposite, which is to go to a set of policies on health care that would be divisive and unproductive. as somebody who worked on health care, it was going to be a cul-de-sac. thats what happened. politically and economically and its wrong. my view is, he made both a political and a policy blunder of the first order, which is what rookies make when they come right out of the box. >> do you think it was because he listened to people like paul ryan and mitch mcconnell who said this is what the repub...

Saying these populist movements that were saying and not just in france but other parts of the globe are changing the landscape of politics. we saw this in this particular lace where it was in the traditional values they were running on it but nationalism versus globalism. how are you seeing that trending across the world really? >> is the net across the west. marine le pen is that this herself. its not left or right against globalism and nationalism. we see this throughout races and throughout ...

Theres a very specific terrorist threat that we need to look for and were not sure that hes telling the truth. that makes us less safe. a second really practical reason, were all out here trying to raise kids who tell the truth. and when youre sending your kid to school, you know, to elementary school where he would get in trouble for doing what the president is doing and turns and says, well, the president does it, i mean, hes a role model. >> what do you say that to, senator santorum, especial...

A potential for democrats to make some headway in those crowds that are showing up at town halls worried about their health care being taken away? >> well, absolutely. i dont think youre being short sided on this point at all. having been in the spot that the new chairman perez finds himself in now on the heels of the election of barack obama, i walked into the rnc. we had no cash coming in. had just lost a big election. the party was splintered at its base. when you have the white house i would...

Grievances. womens rights, lgbt rights, immigration, is that a risk of diluting the core message? >> i dont think so, intersectionality is important and key. thats what the march highlighted. can talk about the rights of women but so many women dealing with fear of their families being snatched away in the middle of the night byice, who are children not comfortable with themselves, dont feel can exist in society because discriminated against because lgbtq, we have to touch on interseksality and ...

So we have to preserve this truth with jealous anxiety that we should reject the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest or to enfeeble the sacred ties that make us one. >> im joined by john avlon editor-in-chief of the daily beast and author of "washingtons farewell, the founding fathers warning to future generations." im sometimes overwhelmed by history and here we have the first african-american president quoting reverently from the first president ...

Doing you would without question, everyone would agree with us, because we are right. they never go back and sort of question the people and go back and say it is or something wrong with our core message? but that is not what the site is doing right now, they are staying we are still right you just didnt understand. >> dagen: every time president obama would say, let me be clear, that is what he is saying. im right, and the only reason you dont agree with me is because you are stupid. my grandmo...

Onto. john podesta,s campaign chairman saying theres things broken at the fbi. theyre all having different responses. it is true what wur both referring to is they dont want to look inward at how many democratic voters just wouldnt get in the car and support her. and you know, bill clintons wrong. the e-mail deal was not bogus. the e-mail deal really killed off her candidacy because it showed her like repeatedly long before the fbi letter from comey. she was under an fbi investigation. people fe...