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Good people opposing the kkk. this is what tim scott went with him yesterday and one of the people on the sides of angels lost her life. help me understand what he did today and why? >> i think the president believes that he taught senator tim scott a little something about race today -- yesterday in his meeting. at least his world view on it. i was skeptical that senator scott, dispute his intentions, was going to get far with donald trump. look, donald trumps views about race have been clear l...

Florida. but that did nothing to quell the primal scream from his conservative supporters. >> what would you call a republican who sounds like jeb bush now when it comes to immigration and daca? you would call them a republican in name only, right? a rino. well, the president of the united states is apparently a rino. >> imagine if he called out to the crowd, were going to build samples of the wall! samples of the wall. and were gonna make the american taxpayers pay for it. >> is trump -- im ask...

Defining antifa, the counterprotesters, in negative terms. and so you get all of this all at once with this president. and its hard to sort of definitively say hes having a good week. hes having a bad week. certainly i think new chief of staff john kelly has put some structures in place and has to be credited with maybe restraining this president a little bit in terms of the tweets and calming him down in terms of what were used to. but its still the same donald trump in the oval office, and you...

Going to need more than 100 republican votes. but i dont know where the litmus test or power is anymore in the republican party. were finding that out every day. >> kasie hunt, eli referenced the steve king tweet. let me put that up. steve king, a hard liner on immigration. if ap is correct, trump base is blown up, destroyed, irreparable and disillusioned beyond repair. no promise is credible. let me ask you a -- a two-part question. one, how are republicans dealing with being blindsided two tim...

And weve talked about this before. trumps loyalty lies mostly to himself and to the things that will increase his own popularity. if he thinks this is the way to do it, he may forsake his base for that. he certainly doesnt mind forsaking house speaker paul ryan or mitch mcconnell. >> eli, my friend steve schmidt, friend of the network and friend of the program said he saw a video of a rattlesnake biting a man on the face. he tried to kiss him and he said what does anyone think is going to happen...

Bad guys on both sides response to charlottesville. lets listen and talk on the other side. >> scott has been a friend of mine for a long time. i was one of his earlier supporters. i supported him when he ran. we had a great talk yesterday. i think especially in light of the advent of antifa if you look at whats going on there, you have some pretty bad dudes on the other side also and essentially thats what i said. now because of whats happened since then, with antifa, you look at, really, whats...