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Other presidents is he hasnt shown a lot of willingness to reach out beyond his base. >> whats if rationale? why not grow? >> part of it is is his power drives from his base. part of why republicans are still wary about creating distance between themselves and him is he does have a lot of support in the republican base. >> why doesnt he grow? addition is better than subtraction. we all grew up, i did, you did too, reagan started with a core on the hard right. then he won the battle on the republ...

Get the votes? he better get them. he better get them. otherwise ill say, tom, youre fired. does everybody like micky? otherwise she can easily be replaced, right? this was the one we were worried about. you werent there. but youre going to be. look, he wants to remain a senator, doesnt he? >> the difference here being, you have live laughter. it doesnt seem like something thats later claimed to be a joke. those seem to be recognized as perhaps nervous laughter as jokes in the moment. whats goin...

No one should be surprised that spontaneously his -- you know, his idea was, well, violence on all sides. on all sides. but then when hes given these -- oh, i cant finish my thought. its just so frustrating, and i feel so badly for this girls family and the loss of someone that was really trying to do something good and right. and, yeah. >> jamil, what the president said today, weve heard enough of it, and i dont want to give it more prominence than what heathers mother has to say. but what he s...

Said today, weve heard enough of it, and i dont want to give it more prominence than what heathers mother has to say. but what he said sounded like the standard script that republican speechwriters would have written for a republican president. but to the white house supremacists who watched the president hang in there all weekend not saying those words, clearly fighting against saying those words, he gets the credit with them today, doesnt he? that he hung in there all that time before he read ...

To turn them off. i think that today was a revealing moment for him as a president. it revealed kind of his values and who he fights for. those folks who were in charlottesville, many of them white, many of them black, who stood on the other side of the nazis and the kkk, i salute them. i salute them for standing up to them. >> my question is why doesnt he? >> those folks are not the same thing. what we saw down there was hate on one side, and then we saw people who were standing up to hate on t...

There is a distinction between him and the president. he has to continue to embrace that if not showcase that distinction. doesnt he? >> absolutely. many vice-presidents have been in this kind of position where either they have ambitions about what comes next, or more common, theyre frustrated with whats going on in the white house, but they have to remain silent. famously, vice president hubert humphrey, the vice president for lyndon johnson in the 1960s, you know, didnt say much about vietnam,...

To carry by himself? >> but the president has openly and repeatedly attacked members of his own party on twitter. sadly, even republicans carried over the line on my back do little to protect the president. the president also targeting lisa murkowski last week writing in part that she really let the republicans and our country down, voting against efforts of obamacare. and also reporting that targeting it dean haller of nevada with ads during the health care debate. >> you didnt go out there. th...

This was the one we were worried about. you werent there, but youre going to be. youre gonna be. look, he wants to remain a senator, doesnt he? >> ha, ha, ha. trump also took aim at republicans at large for not "protecting their president." he attacked his administrations own attorney general as beleaguered and publicly toyed with secretary tom prices future at health and human services. >> by the way youre going to get the votes? >> i hope so. >> he better get them. he better get them, oh, he b...

Relative to radical islam and the nation being under siege it seems like the wrong time to tell anybody, no, youre not fit to serve. the president has no problem tweeting that certain of his enemies are quote-unquote crazy. but when it comes to diagnosing public figures, psychiatrists are limited by a 40-year-old rule and some of them are fighting this. plus, does president trump hold sway over his party? hes been threatening gop lawmakers, but are they learning they dont have to fear it? >>...

Trying to change basic, the basic contours of the first amendment. thats scary. >> in your new piece, you write that one of the things saving trump from more damage is his cowardi cowardice. it is another weakness of character. so is denying his worst behavior when he is caught red handed. >> he has not actually gone through with so much of what he has threatened and the way he is slow tortured, jeff sessions, and tweets and interviews this week. many of your guests have made this point. why doe...