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I think he wanted to bid the wall. this was an entrenched establishment republican candidate. this was not a make america great again candidate. trump would say he should have been more trump. im a product of special elections. my first race was a special election. to johns point, one of the things the party apparatus has to do is convince the high dollar institutional donors they can win these races. i saw it in my election and conversely, i was running during the implementation of obamacare an...

>> bret: doesnt move the needle electorally? >> i think this is an issue where you are seeing huge division specifically in the republican party, the donor base that wants to continue the immigration policy as it has been but the voter grace that has gotten rather sick and tired of continuing with things and not dealing with some of the systematic problems in our immigration policy so its hard to see how it plays out because you have a divided repair, the donors versus the voters. >> bret: speak...

Heres the thing, its a tough year for republicans in new jersey and in a lot of places and a lot of blue states and lets be honest from the start, this is a long shot. this is a hard one, but you have in mr. hugin what republicans love to see. if they have a lot of places where they are spending money to try to gain seats in the senate. this is one where you have a person who has money of his own and has a donor base that he can call on to help them out and he can become instantly viable essenti...

Clear, which is take what you can get, however you can get it, but dont become a political liability. and what scott pruitt did was he became a political liability because his offenses were so legion and garnering so much coverage that it overshadowed everything else, including the things that hes done. i mean i have deep objections to what hes done at the epa, but a lot of people in the republican base do not. they like it. certainly the donor base in the old energy community, they really like ...

Of the base of the republican party and certainly the donor base in the energy industry, but the fact is that these investigations are piling onto the point where he was becoming a liability to the president. and so the president cut him loose. i think its just that clear. i dont think it had anything to do with the presidents disapprobation of pruitts behavior. in fact, the president had nothing to say about the subjects of these 14 probes. in this white house and in this administration, if you...

Family dating back to the 50s and this was a list that grew and grew and grew that when george bush ultimately ran for president in 1980 the list was 10,000 people strong and that group, that list made up the donor base that really drove the bush political dynasty. >> and thats before the internet. and by the way, i should add, she was the first first lady to use a computer in the white house. she learned how to use a laptop, and she was somebody who always did keep current. she was even, at one...

Reelection.e once regarded as a rising star in republican politics, hes been speaker for almost three years and he leaves behind a party in shambles. republicans are on track to lose the house this fall for the first time in ten years. who knows if they will but they are close. ryan deserves a lot of the blame for that. donald trump won unexpectedly in 2016 by vowing to secure the borders and focus on this countrys vanishing middle class. ryan acted like none of that ever happened. he never like...

Do hack that and the president will have to tell us what to do and how to panic and can he actually give us verifiable facts that we can trust? the lack of trust is going to lead to a crisis at a certain point because we essentially have lived this way and its become so normalized. >> david jolly, folks showing up in missouri where they want to raise money to take on the incumbe incumbent, what are those folks doing? is this just basically republican donors and hes a republican president? >> yea...

Information. the story about the power grids and power plants is what if they do hack that and the president will have to tell us what to do and how to panic and can he actually give us verifiable facts that we can trust? the lack of trust is going to lead to a crisis at a certain point because we essentially have lived this way and its become so normalized. >> david jolly, folks showing up in missouri where they want to raise money to take on the incumbent, what are those folks doing? is this j...

The scope of what donald trump has done like they are really worked up about this. >> i think randy said it really well. follow the money with all of these issues. the donor base has not been that upset about racism and sexism. they know it worked for him politically at least with the majority sadly of white voters in this country. so they sort of are okay with that dog whistle strategy. they are not okay with him bucking the conservative economic orthodoxy. i actually think that we shouldnt say...