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Because of income disparity, then people will start believing that and it can have a positive impact. >> yeah. the big thing about business and the economy is the regulatory effect, stripping the regulations away. that has had an enormous and positive effect in american business. but frank, you know, in your really well done and interesting focus groups that you do, do you think that if you probe deeply enough and maybe not that deeply you would find that a lot of people have faith in donald tru...

This has been a frequent feature of news coverage for the past year. focus groups, interview, panels, stories, all about why trump vote ares are till with him. some liberals hate it. they say theyre wasting time. theyre practically in a cult. signed up with a race and never going to change. thats what liberal critics say. on the other side theres concern these features sometimes treat voters like a species. >> were one year. the one year in. >> how is he doing? >> fantastic. great. better than i...

>> at least in his own rhetoric. >> and he will be very successful at selling that. he will blame the congressional republicans if there is a shutdown and he wont be blaming himself, he will blame the democrats and he will skirt blame. and at the 100 day point of donald trumps presidency back in april, there was another potential looming shutdown and i was in texas doing focus groups that week and again you heard from broth si both sides of the aisle that they would be more likely to blame congr...

Of disagreements. the discussions will continue. >> are you going to shut down tonight? >> so what i will were waiting for kasie hunt, lets me bring in heather mcgee, elyse jordan. elyse, what do you make of what chuck schumer just had to say? >> well, it didnt reveal very much. but i think that republicans are making a big mistake if they think that they will be able to skirt blame if there is not a shutdown and blame it on the democrats. just from all the focus groups that ive done over the pa...

Hours, is democrats negotiating with republicans, republicans negotiating with democrats. the house is going to negotiate with the senate. and donald trump negotiating with donald trump. he said something one day and reversed himself the next day. i have to say, this fascinates me, i sat through all these focus groups when i was in congress and donald trump was running, the one thing people said about him, i may not agree with him on everything. but he means what he says. what were seeing now is...

Reversed himself the next day. i have to say, this fascinates me, i sat through all these focus groups when i was in congress and donald trump was running, the one thing people said about him, i may not agree with him on everything. but he means what he says. what were seeing now is a president who not only does he means what he says -- but i dont think he understands what hes trying to say, so youve got a president whos not leading, but dancing around this issue. >> the question was on the -- e...

South lawn celebrating a tax cut. he gives evidence to what his view is. he is telling the palestinians the way he has told others whether its people who contribute to nato, the folks in the paris accord, in other words, why arent you pulling your weight? we give -- the president is right. a lot of americas research this in focus groups and research. why are we giving millions of dollars to folks to help them protect their borders and we dont protect our border? to help them when they show us ve...

>> are you sure thats true, any of the actual focus groups ive been in, no one has said im going to the polls on russia. i think the democrats on the house and the senate side are interested in the investigation because we need to know what happened. >> im sure its all moral high ground. >> theres got to be politics involved. >> weve got to take a quick break. everybody on the panel, brace yourselves. the unforgiving cold striking much of the u.s. could become more miserable this week. a monster...

Some people once does not mean youre not going to interview them again. >> look, the democrats motivation on the house and senate side are up coming elections. they want to continue tadrag this out as long as they can to try to impact the 2018 -- >> are you sure thats true, any of the actual focus groups ive been in, no one has said im going to the polls on russia. i think the democrats on the house and the senate side are interested in the investigation because we need to know what happened. >>...

Since the first indictments came out. i was in wisconsin, and i was doing focus groups for lord ashcroft polls. we went around talking to wisconsin it voters, and overall they thought that the indictments against paul manafort and rick gates were just a witch-hunt. we went to nevada and heard the same thing from a distinct silo of trump supporters, trump-base voters who are getting news from outlets who are not reporting on anything but the possibility that this is an absolute witch-hunt and out...