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Nuclear age at the highest levels. >> that is two presidential historians described president trumps recent behavior on "morning joe today." "how trump could get fired" impeachment and the lesser known process described in the 25th amendment. republican who worked in the office of the vice president in the first bush white house said this in the new yorker about the chance of president trump being removed from office. its somewhere in the big middle ground between a 1% chance and 50. its some pe...

Board. he didnt lead with something like infrastructure where it would be very tempting for democrats to get on board. he led with the muslim ban. things on how democrats view our country as one of incluiveness. the other thing that i find laughable, the idea that democrats are obstructionists when republicans control all branches of government. we cant obstruct anything that hes doing. the only reason why things have not gotten passed is because of the dysfunction on the republican side. >> the...

Insurance companies, no, you dont have to give those people health insurance. so yeah. >> president trump has gotten wind of democratic opposition to all of this. listen to his take on it and also that of senate minority leader chuck schumer. >> the democrats are been obstructionists. the democrats, all they do is destruct and delay. chuck schumer is such a bad leader. >> the president -- name calling doesnt work. lets look at values and issues. id say the presidents first 100 days have hardly b...

Evan, christy are here. to you first, evan. are they going to get the repeal and replacement of obamacare done? >> i think they ultimately will. i dont think the votes are there for this week. theres many things that are missing from this bill to make it a truly great bill that will help low er the cost of care. its moving the removal of state lines and allows people to buy better insurance plans because of that and missing allowing small businesses and individuals to pool together and bye cheap...

>> hes not changing policy with regard to north korea. not a wit. president obama didnt take things off the table. he didnt talk about how they were on the table in terms of preemptive attacks. >> he spoke about chocolate cake but had a similar policy of lets get through this. not lets escalate it. >> the only issue is if the rhetoric has an effect of escalating, you can get yourself to deescalate nuclear situations. >> thats an under statement. >> evan and then -- maria and then evan. >> when p...

Democratic house caucus, former governor howard dean, and 2016 presidential candidate evan. evan, first to you. look, 100 days is construct. and if he does get health care or tax reform pass the, no one will remember if he got it done in the first 100 days or not. its fa its fair to say its not as easy as he thought it was and he admits it. >> he does admit by his own admission, this is harder than he thought it would be. i think hes in over his head. but i think his supporters priced that into ...

The problem is there is no evidence that he has any real game plan. he does this stuff, maybe its good, maybe its bad, but theres no long-term strategy here. thats what makes me very nervous. i think many of us sort of who pay attention to foreign policy are relieved that james mattis is the defense secretary because we know, even though he may be a little more hawkish than some of us are, we know that he has a plan. we know that he has vast experience. donald trump has no plan. i laughed in the...

President -- he still has his base. what do you make of that? >> i think evan is exactly right. i think his base is hard core. they really -- they expected him not to be truthful. they sort of knew that. its baked in. but his base is not that big. he has 38% favorability. you can peel a little more off of that. dont forget richard nixon had a 29% positivity rating on the day he resigned in disgrace. president trump is 9 points away from that. i think, you know, i think hes in over his head. i ag...

The manchester guardian pretty much hot off the press, it says the british intelligence agencies have documentation of him -- his campaign people going over and meeting with russian agents and arranging payment for doing certain things to help the russians hack, to pay for the hackers. i dont know if thats true, but the guardian is a pretty reputable paper. if that turns out to be true, his presidency is over. whether he gets impeached or not is immaterial. hell have no credibility on the world ...

Everybody else have the preconceived notion that they are doing very well and that every republicans in trouble. >> sandra: all right. simon, last to you. the georgia special election. any predictions? >> look, i think what we now know, there have been three special elections. democrats performed better than they did in the last election. well take that. if that ends up being the case in the fall next year, well win the house back. were excited ab what were seeing. we know we have a lot to do. i...