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Becomes a member of the united states senate, what does that mean? >> its a branding issue. because everybody in 2018 will say they elected a child molester. >> it will be the party that didnt elect the rape guy but decided for the sexual perv that goes after children guy. >> i think its worth repeating. the republican party had a moment last year during the presidential primary when the ""access hollywood"" tape came out. they had a chance to make a moral decision about the president. this is w...

To stop it. >> i dont know about very good friend but i appreciate you saying that. no, i think he needs to focus on legacy items. i think he needs to focus on tax reform. people want that. thats what they elected this president for. thats what the people bought into. they need to build the wall. and they need to work on the healthcare. and fix the v.a. those are the things that we talked about. energy independence, things like that on the campaign trail. thats what elected this president, i thi...

Job done. >> why does he engage like this? >> you have the president, hes a fighter. the people didnt elect somebody to be weak. they elected somebody to be strong. when he gets hit, hes going to hit back. i think senator corker knows that. maybe hes trying to get a headline or two on the way out the door. >> thanks, sarah. the president has taken office and two republican senators, senator corker of tennessee and senator flake of arizona have both announced theyre not running for re-election. i...

Taxpayer to fund trips to texas, oklahoma, kentucky. it already bans kansas, mississippi and tennessee for similar reasons. blocks nonessential travel forever things like out-of-stated conferences and training. facebook legalized marijuana to car crashes. data institute says collision claims in colorado, washington and oregon all increased by nearly 3% compared to states without legalized pots. eight states and washington, d.c. have legalized legalized marijuana for adults. a big statement to su...

One of basket members and starting to feel irrelevant, johnny has to make stupid comments to be liked, i think you just lost half of your fans today. it does look like he was doing this for attention. heather: going to one of his islands. quite a lot of bills to pay. >> moving on, a texas man making a big statement to support the president and i mean big literally, check this out. kyle courtney of boerne, texas bought a billboard, the entire billboard slamming abc news over there russia coverage...

Admit i always say nothing is going to surprised me any more, but when i hear that a sitting republican president might get on air force one and go into a district and campaign against a sitting republican member of congress, what is going on? >> well, i think it comes down to the fact that these members of congress didnt elect president trump to be president. the voters elected president trump. and he came in with a platform of trying to take care of a lot of the problems that are facing americ...

Then 2008 and 2010. what is the political lesson you are taking away from what happened in the last 24-48 hours? >> a couple of lessons. number one, everything that people did to have their voice heard had a huge impact. it made the republicans scared and mostly, it made them confused. they really couldnt find their tail as much as they were chasing it. that is because the majority of americans that im part of, didnt vote for this man, didnt elect him and the majority is still out there. the maj...

Quickly tables had tushed in just the last eight or ten years that ive been covering politics between 2004 and 2006 and then 2008 and dwen. what is the political lesson here that you are taking away from what happens in the last 24, 48 hours? >> a couple lessons, number one, everything that people did to have their voice heard had a huge impact. it made the republicans scared and mostly it made them confused and they couldnt find their tail as much as they were chasing it. that is because the ma...

Tail as much as they were chasing it. that is because the majority of americans, that im part of, didnt vote for this man, didnt elect him and the majority is still out there. the majority did not want this. by the time of last night, chris, the last poll that showed that only 17% of the american public liked the republican health care plan, 17 -- theyre down to 17% so huge, huge movement there. a lot of people, you saw this in west virginia when you went there with bernie. people are getting it...

Democrats. they elected barack obama twice. they didnt elect hillary clinton, but voted 58% for her. they dont come out during the midterms. they dont come out for down ballot voters. our leadership is old and creeky, including me, and weve got to have this guy, 36 years old, running this party. >> i believe i called him the governor there. i dont mean to promote you there, pete. heres a question. does this matter? i mean, people pay less attention to parties. weve had two presidents in a row wh...