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"daily beast" column was essentially basically donald trump became george w. bush this week. his policies are looking for like bush. that is causing a lot of consternation among the bannon-ite wing, breitbart wing of the party. are you hearing the same thing? are people in the base of the party saying, wait, this is george w. bush? >> well, the base of the party shoo came out for bush where they havent before, yes, a lot of their view was lets focus on america first, get our own house in order b...

Stage at cpac this week. did steve bannon and reince priebus convince everyone that all is well behind the scenes at the white house? what we took from their appearance, next. the democratic national committee is set to pick their next leader today. theyre meeting right now in atlanta for day three of their winter meeting where they will be casting their votes for a new chair soon. joining us is nbcs alex seitz-wald. alex, how would you describe the mood there now? >> reporter: good afternoon....

And we can also see at any moment votes rolling in for the next chair of the dnc. the two front runners emerging for the dncs top post are former labor secretary tom perez and minnesota congressman keith ellison. each representing the two forces that currently divide that party, the progressive movement versus the establishment. cnn washington correspondent ryan noble is at the dnc meeting in atlanta. ryan, what exactly is happening? >> reporter: well, fredericka, right now whats happening is pr...

Low si and chuck schumer not necessarily to the chairman of the dnc. and jamel, im fascinated that the mtv guy is leaning towards the establishment. showing you how far the tv has gone. >> you have the wrong impression. it is not leaning towards the establishment, but the democratic party is larger than bernie sanders wing of the party that has created so much quote, up quote energy a., and there is energy on the other side, too. >> and as somebody who is a close observer of this, ja meal or any...

Multi-round battle, thomas. back to you. >> the consensus has it anywhere between one to three ballots so we will wait on that. thats coming up at 11:00 a.m. sarah, thanks so much. joining me now is nile stanich and melanie from "the washington examiner." an article from the hill gives some credence to this division. what are you talking about the division, who is the person that could, i guess, stem the bleed from any of that? >> well, i mean the division is enclosurely the idea that this is ...

To cpac. thats going to be donald trumps challenge. hes the first republican since ronald reagan to come to cpac in his first term as president. if what steve bannon said as his strategist, i think were going to hear fighting word from now president trump. one thing to watch for is how much influence do people like priebus have over this speech, the more moderate, establishment wing of the party. how much does president trump talk about his supreme court nominee, for example, or is he spending t...

State legislature. they move on going forward, which is part of the reason why you are seeing this division between the two front runners in this race for dnc chair. keith ellison on one hand who comes from the bernie sanders wing of the party. the anti-establishment wing. tom perez who was in obamas cabinet, supported hillary clinton, comes from the more establishment wing of the party. flz a lot of other things going on in this race, but that is certainly one big factor at a time when democrat...

In assisted suicide which evangelicals believe is showing them what he will do. perfect choice. united right wing of the party with the establishment wing. from democratic point of view this smart man is going to be very, very difficult for them to filibuster if they -- >> and if didnt think he was pro-life wouldnt have made this appoint. hes federal appeals court judge in denver. mom the first -- under president reagan. delivering on what was arguably his most important campaign promise here. >...

Thats right. you know, whens interesting is early days of trumps ascent to the republican nomination where a lot of establishment republicans were being very critical of donald trump, jons huntsman is a few voices of the establishment group with relatively nice things to say about him and then as the campaign went on and more controversies of donald trump, huntsmans tune changed a little bit and never too far from trump as a candidate. you know, what is interesting about this particular pick at ...

>> good morning. in terms of who we know will and does have president-elect trumps ear. so we have reince priebus of the establishment wing, we have steve bannon of the alt right white nationalist wing and we have jared kushner of the family wing. how are these power plays going to play out? >> you missed one person. we have barack obama also whose ear, indeed, donald trump is attuned to as well. and i think we saw that in the meeting. the people ive talked to say theres no question that the pre...