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>> lets turn the page to israel and what is happening now with israel blocking the entrance of congresswomen ilhan omar and rashida tlaib to they then granted congresswoman tlaib the right to go on a humanitarian visit to her grandmother in the west bank but not to speak about the sanctions, et cetera, bds. we heard the president making the announcement yesterday saying it would show great weakness if israel were to aloam them in. and he has in many ways tried to make them and their peers in the...

Without changing the system. >> does he make a point? >> to some extent. it remind me of a conversation in 2016. i told him my job was for jessie helm. and emphasized we worked together on a lot. and agreeing with karen having worked for eric canter i know how closely they worked on the violence against women act. thats something he could talk about. talk about john mccain. thats bipartisan and gets under trumps skin. something hes been trying to do. it would be a good way. >> before biden spoke...

He said be careful what you wish for, this will have broad implications. at some point its safe to say youll there be another democratic precedent. they have another precedent they can look at and once you cross a threshold you never fully cross back. its very easy to see and nancy pelosi has intimated this or said it outright, that the next democratic president could do this on climate or on guns or on something else. republicans, be careful what you wish for here. >> it was your job to get tic...

Appropriate. i think she should resign from congress, frankly, but at a minimum she shouldnt be on committees, certainly that committee. >> so lame apology so says this president, doug, this is the guy who once upon a time said grab them by the you know what and talked about s-hole countries and the recent trail of tears tweet, trail of tears genocide, a dark period in this country, charlottesville, good people on both sides, muslim ban. i could go on. should she resign? here he is saying all of...

The speaker of the house. its moent to require compromise and give and take the ones that dont work that way havent been around long enough to understand it. it does concern me a lot of them pride themselves of being defenders of the constitution. they clearly havent read it. a lot of the things they suggest were founding documents. >> okay. michael, words of wisdom for those still in the house and those recently left in your party? >> run. >> john boehner listened. >> yeah, he did. he did. i gu...

He is a bit of a dragon slayer having taken out the house majority leader after being outspent 5-1 here. what extent has mr. brat been embraced by tea party factions or larger republican interest groups, or conservative interest groups in virginia. has he been kind of a stand-alone guy, running a stand-alone campaign or part of a larger movement that has embraced him against the republican establishment. >> he has been embraced by the tea party movement. whats interesting about this is that up u...

Nobody saw it coming. now, everybody has got to figure out what it means. >> thats right. there are certainly a lot of ways to look at it. i think before we get to some of the analysis, lets play for our viewers some sound bites from each candidate to show just how shocked even they were. >> obviously we came up short. its disappointing, sure. but i believe in this country. i believe theres opportunity around the next corner for all of us. >> the reason we won this campaign, theres just one reas...

About it. off the table at least now through the election. and the biggest question now is will eric cantor try to keep his job as majority leader through the end of the year or will he step down from that job, will he be smush frpushed from that job the year is out. compromise aside now through election day and be sure of this, tea party organizations had little or nothing to do with what happened last night. this was an insurgent campaign in a district nobody saw this coming. but now they are ...

Negative against dave brat. brat was saying last night it did. >> at the convention this past weekend, people got a sense, there was the warning was late but people got a sense, whoa, theres something brewing here. im told the establishment went to eric cantors team and said, can we help you at the last minute? do you have a problem? no, we got this. >> he never saw outside help you have seen in these primaries in part because of what bob said. the fact that he himself thought he was rushing to ...

Brought the republicans back into power. i think all of those members are going to look at this and say if the guy who got me here can lose, why cant i? >> in terms of what happened to the republican leadership, most of the reporting and wondering is focused on how long john boehner is going to stay speaker. when is he going to step down so cantor can get the job, thats moot at this point, but in terms of how the leadership gets rearranged, do you think the dynamics in washington right now are s...