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You have subsidies, fines that go through if you dont have insurance. so completely enmeshed in the federal government. to say that well step back, i dont see how that can be possible actually. >> thats right. and the one thing you wonder is republicans have been trying to repeal obamacare for seven years. so if they fail, if they can admit defeat that, and im not sure that will happen, but if they do, does that mean the fever breaks and they start to work with democrats and conversely do democr...

Trump is donald trump. >> exactly. particularly this tweet. over the years we have gone through the mccarthy period and the watergate period and for a long time it just seems that a president or a high-ranking politician can get away with anything. and people go through periods and say theres no end to this. but there is a point where sort of the fever breaks. we havent reached that point with president trump. perhaps what we learned from history wont hold and hell go through and get away with t...

Expected of a president of the united states. in the end i think it hurts donald trump more than anybody else. and when people say, well, the press is all over him or the congress doesnt do what he wants, the biggest enemy of donald trump and hurts him the most are these tweets. >> the biggest enemy of donald trump is donald trump. >> exactly. %-p for this. over the years we have gone through the mccarthy period and the watergate period and for a long time it just seems that a president or a hig...

Mcconnell said today, once the fever breaks for the democrats, he think theyre going to want to come to the table. do you see that? >> not yet. mitch mcconnell also said that he thinks this is going to be a republicans-only deal, that democrats are basically following the republican rep of obstruction. he is not counting on democrats coming to play ball. to me, even when you look at what is going on, i am reminded that yesterday the president said his administration is a well-oiled machine, righ...

Story i think people are telling themselves in political circles which is biasically the shutdown kind of broke the fever of the tea party in washington. and theyve been domesticated a bit. that theyre no longer as powerful and this clean debt ceiling raise means basically their power has ebbed and thats where things stand now. do you buy that story? >> ive gone back and forth on it, myself. im not sure. it would have seemed to have peaked at the time howev. however, weve seen boehner go back on...

Caucus effect, right, theres a story i think people are telling themselves in political circles which is basically the shutdown kind of broke the fever of the tea party in washington. and theyve been domesticated a bit. that theyre no longer as powerful and this clean debt ceiling raise means basically their power has ebbed and thats where things stand now. do you buy that story? >> ive gone back and forth on it, myself. im not sure. it would have seemed to have peaked at the time. however, weve...

Caucus effect, right, theres a story i think people are telling themselves in political circles which is basically the shutdown kind of broke the fever of the tea party in washington. and theyve been domesticated a bit. that theyre no longer as powerful and this clean debt ceiling raise means basically their power has ebbed and thats where things stand now. do you buy that story? >> ive gone back and forth on it, myself. im not sure. it would have seemed to have peaked at the time. however, weve...

If we do have a catastrophe october 17th, 18th or 19th. we dont know what day it is. what does he say? obama could have moved the money around, but he didnt? he brought on the catastrophe? whats their fall back? >> i dont know. pat toomey is my kind of republican. im a club for growth republican. im sure that will come back to haunt me on twitter sometime. but hes a small-government republican. hes also a guy that actually supported background checks at a time that it cost him a great deal polit...

And backed away from it. its hard to find mike barnacle, the "wall street journal" says were for small government you guys are walking into a canyon. youre going to get killed by this. i think this is the point, mike, isnt it? where the fever breaks and the people that have fund ad lot of these campaigns in the past say you guys have stepped over the line and what youre doing is not only bad for the republican party, its bad for my business and its bad for america. >> well, the koch brothers hav...

It. >> states like illinois have problems. let me go back to this skid in the game. pat toomey is smart. what skin does he have in this game? if we do have a catastrophe october 17th, 18th or 19th. we dont know what day it is. what does he say? obama could have moved the money around, but he didnt? he brought on the catastrophe? whats their fall back? >> i dont know. pat toomey is my kind of republican. im a club for growth republican. im sure that will come back to haunt me on twitter sometime....