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Into a great deic experiment. taking a guy from the business world and putting him in the white house. i dont think theyre willing to give up on that experiment just yet. if you look at those especially in the democratic party running for office, every ad says im not a politician. now, i know you know that thats poll tested. theyve sat down with their focus groups and figured out thats what people want to hear which tells me they arent willing to give up on whats going on right now in washington...

Does that -- or does it resonate with those trump voters? if it does, how? >> the president himself has been pushing from day one the narrative that the mueller investigation is part of a democratic sinister, nefarious democratic operation to try to take him down and undermine his presidency. that has been his core message. his aides and allies have been putting out there for the last year and change that mueller has been operating. its something that, based on focus groups and polling, seems to...

Spokespeople are better on your behalf than you are. >> laura: back in the 2016 election cycle, you had interesting focus groups. this is one of them. >> how many of you in this room love the tweeting. you think its appropriate for the president to do that? >> he needs to tone down the language but the bottom line, its his way to get the message out. >> i would argue that donald trump shouldnt tone it down. thats what got him elected. >> we can deliver a message. telling the people what they wan...

Than you are. >> in the 2015 election cycle you had good focus groups. >> you think it is appropriate for a president to do that? >> needs to dont down the language the bottom line is it is his way to get the message out. donald trump should not tune it down. >> we can deliver, telling the people what they want to here and not just bs. >> wow. >> anything changed from them. >> me. >>you are like trump. focusod yourself. i see how much weight. you look great. kwivenlth if you are trying to appeal...

But they believed the current atmosphere was toxic and not sustainable. page four of the report, focus group comments. some specific quotes and comments from the focus groups concerning the command climate are noted. quote, worst command ever. senior officers are not leading. quote, passive aggressive behavior is exhibited by leadership. command climate is terrible. the leaders are child-like. again, the leader in this case, whos been reviewed, alongside this other officer who he apparently coul...

They said it doesnt exist and then they gave it to reporters. that was weird. so now weve got the inspector general report, and its not good. i dont know why they sent this around if they were trying to save dr. jacksons nomination. just going to quote to you a little bit from this inspector general report on him which was sent out by the white house tonight. quote, the medical inspector general command climate findings were based on observations obtained from both officer and enlisted focus gro...

Focus groups and 14 interviews of staff members over a two-day period. finding one, lack of trust in leadership. trust in the organization is noted to be between two and three on a scale of one to ten. there is a severe and pervasive lack of trust in the leadership deteriorated to the fact that staff walk on egg shells. its largely attributed to the open decision of captain kuhlman and cant jackson. now hes one star rear admiral ronney jackson. captain kuhlman and captain jackson complained abou...

Eventually -- >> hes macing a mueller investigation as well. and while that might be very high stakes, nothing is come of it as of now for him. so is there a sense that he feels invincible and it doesnt matter what he said. >> it is amazing that donald trump chose to amplify the stormy daniels story. it had faded and now this is going to give it a sed set of new legs an it is a story the public is fascinated with. whether they are defending it or just trying to understand it, that was one of the...

Because the focus groups found people of color, asian or americans and more reluctant to return the census if this question was asked. and so this will have real consequences not only in terms of disenfranchising people but leading to the loss of critical dollars that help communities. >> and the census bureau had done -- i think you might be alluding this and to ramona, and they found that when this question was asked, lower numbers participated in the census. at least in their testing in the p...

Point. is no what you want to be doing right now and you just fired your secretary of state. you worked on focus groups and this is important, given all the fascinating, troubling and really important questions pertaining to russia, you spoke with trump voters in tennessee and mississippi and heres some of what they had to say about russia and the russia investigation. >> i came from the days of the cold war. if we can find ways to coexist, i ame not going to say were best butt dis, but lets fin...