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Charleston church shooting. and what that moment was like, learning about it and then experiencing the tragedy, not only with the country, but with south carolinians. and congressman gowdy, you write in the book, dylan roof saw the cracks in the foundation of our society, where people have begun to retreat into their own echo chambers, removing themselves from the melting pot into individual bowls based on identity. this happened in 2015. do you think racial divisions right now are worse or bett...

Journal" op-ed, our next guest describes her experience, quote: shouldnt we want to engage with people who arent convinced of our viewpoints? why arent there more conservatives at democratic rallies and more liberals at cpac in what are we afraid of it. former hillary clinton staff and the founder of the flip side dot io and joins us right now. good morning to you. >> good morning. thank you for having me. steve: why did you want to go to cpac? >> thats a great question. as you said i worked for...

Daca? nobody knows. the president made a self-imposed deadline of march 5th, which -- >> already here, basically. >> a couple days. yeah. you know what. so it comes back to that. my future is uncertain. but this is why im here. i lay my voice to the politicians. i tell them, you know, whether it be immigration or what stance you have, you know, have some sympathy towards children who were brought here. thats all i ask. this is all we know. >> i have to say, it was refreshing to have different op...

Pastor, who is so highly reveered. so highly respected by people of all walks of life. you know, christians, are not covering this more extensively. that problem is that so many journalists in this country are so out of touch with the people of middle america and particularly people of faith and the values that are so important to them. ainsley: one of four that didnt serve in office that was selected to lie in honor at the rotunda. i mean, this is a big deal. this man, he influenced presidents....

Buy a gun. thats common sense. lets realize something has to be done and not just happy talk. >> havent heard anything from ryan or mcconnell. your party is in control. if its going to happen in congress, they have to motivate it. >> ive been an outlier in my party on this for a number of years. i would hope, again, the speaker and the majority leader would realize we cant just operate within our own echo chambers. there are reasonable people, not just people who are anti gun, not just people wh...

It was like the super bowl. at the same time, once the memo came out, there was an awful lot of campaigning from the left, media figures trying to discredit it, trying to denigrate it, saying it was eur rel hrapbt. trying to shift the focus to the president versus the fbi and doj rather than the contents of the memo itself. so its like there are these echo chambers that are competing at all times. >> dana: the president tweeting this vindicated his position that theres no collusion and this inve...

You feel theres a brief of trust or fracture of trust in the relationship between congress and the intel community? >> well, i think in the history of the fbi -- and its been around since 1908, there have been a number of times in history where congress, the oversight committees and fbi have butted heads, or the white house and fbi senior executives have butted heads. tribalism is alive and well in washington. what were witnessing now, i think to walters point, i think is more the way that congr...

Hill in the house to attack the inquiry. >> and even credible republicans like ron johnson. >> and what we call the normal republicans who are not on the fringes to be talking about conspiracy in the fbi and the conservative echo chambers who put at the beginning, echoing the notion that the deep state is out to get trump in a way that would be incredible if you told me six or seven or eight months ago saying that routinely day after a day so hes laid ground work for firing mueller. >> and i wan...

Do you think people who are watching only the trump channel see one thing and people watching other networks -- >> no question about it. i have friends over at fox news, but i mean, you turn on fox and juxtapose it to the headlines and the breaking news stories on other networks, it is like another planet. theyre talking about what hillary clinton ate for dinner and how that should be illegal or something and the fbi is in a conspiracy theory about this, while were all talking about whats happen...

Juxtapose it to headlines on other network it is like another planet. they are talking about what hillary clinton ate for dinner and how it should be illegal and the fbi is in a conspiracy theory with this while were all talking about whats happening now with the person who actually got elected president. so president obama makes a fair point that people are retreating to their own echo chambers and i think thats very dangerous. i can tell you my mom and i have been going rounds on facebook with...