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>> who want their country to be prosperous and safe. >> enjoining me now are msnbc political analyst jovan wall, and e.j. deion, former rnc chairman michael steele and rick wilson, senior veras for the evan mcmullen campaign. ive got to go to you, mr. chairman, because the party of lincoln, the party of reagan and the party of eisenhauer n eisenhauer --ines hour -- eisenhower who are not afraid to go on tv screaming something like that man said. what should be the pare be doing to distance itsel...

Effect. add to that donald trumps unfailing ability to change the topic to himself and to essentially double down on a lot of the problems that hes had, has really i think benefited the clinton campaign. i do worry about it a great deal. particularly given that history i mentioned of the russian doctors of information. >> lets set aside the leaks and talk about, before i let you go, this e-mail. republicans are now pressuring the state department to remove undersecretary patrick kennedy. these e...

In the polls and pretty similar profile pattern behavior, l.a. times had found a bunch of women who had said he had groped, sexual assaulted, inappropriately touched them, also in a sort of similar situation, hes a star, he can do what he wants. he very famously basically didnt deny it. rather than sort of double down, he basically said, yeah, i have done a lot of stuff on movie sets and where theres smoke theres fire. that essentially worked for him. donald trump got up in front of 6 million pe...

Do what he wants. he very famously basically didnt deny it. rather than sort of double down, he basically said, yeah, i have done a lot of stuff on movie sets and where theres smoke theres fire. that essentially worked for him. donald trump got up in front of 6 million people and said absolutely not. >> this is a guy whos made the case over and over again, hes said hes done these things, theyre on tape, you cant just go back because youre in the trump realty distortion field that things he said ...

The squishy middle, that aint gonna work. so basically you have a double-down here and honestly, kate and john, i got to tell you, he has an argument to be made about the mainstream media. i know a lot of folks in the mainstream media will disagree. but there are voters out there, and im not just talking about donald trump rabid fans shouting at cnn and other outlets but he can make an argument to say, well, isnt this interesting, in october, how "the washington post," then "the new york times,"...

Iowa about this situation. he said, look, other republicans in the race will try to throw rocks and sling insults, but im really not going to get engaged in that. heres more of what he said last night. >> i tweeted out a response to donald trumps raising questions about my natural-born citizenship. it was a link to fonzie jumping the shark. and i think im going to let my response stick with that tweet. >> reporter: so very clear that ted cruz does not want to touch this right now. he does not wa...

Not just where their nexus is located for now syria and iraq but far further than whether its lib yashgs egypt, afghanistan, yemen and now here in california as well as in paris. the situation gets worse and worse as we militarily double down on what we know are found strategies. the one thing were most reluctant to try is conflict resolution, diplomacy, engagement. secretary kerry did that incredibly well with iran. i think he may be on the path with doing that with syria. but thats the one thi...

Like what he said. and theres no film or video of it to prove it. he says he saw it on tv. it didnt happen. >> the first time you were asked about it, you said you didnt think it was true but you didnt recall it. as a former prosecutor, you know when a witness says i dont recall that, it sounds as if they dont want to answer the question. >> its an honest answer. was not focused on everything else going on in new jersey that day. my wife and brother were both trapped in lower manhattan. i didnt ...

100% right. >> just because something repeats something doesnt make it true. >> i dont mean i had two calls, chuck. >> my sense is that chuck todd was trying hard to challenge him. >> when someone challenges you and you just double down, theres an art form called the big lie, which weve seen in other countries and other moments which is corrosive for a democracy. i think were at a critical moment for the media. i think journalist can look it up. you dont just say because trump has supporters who...

Propaganda. >> and it was right in the middle of the discussion on capitol hill today. and i think what the main question will be for carly fiorina going forward is, what does she do about it now? does she disavow what she said earlier? does she make this double down on it and say it doesnt really matter, what was on the video, what matters is her interpretation of what planned parenthood -- >> it is an opportunity for her to say, look, i was -- i was bamboozled. >> and that will be a political ...