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We well, it was offsetting penalties. if you hated trump, this is the evidence that you yelled at your brother and cousin. if you hated hillary, here we go more e-mails. it was all trending toward hillary clinton until the comey letter and that weekend ended up being a wash. >> the comey letter was important because it came after four weeks of hillary clinton e-mail. e-mail -- and you talked to the po pollsters and they did the focus groups, independent voters in swing states thought that all of...

Spread the make afake ads, righ? >> yeah. mike, youre right about facebook. right after the election, zuckerberg claiming that it was just absolutely ridiculous that anybody would suggest that the russians interfered with our election process through facebook. and then he slowly but surely dragged kicking and screaming to this position, and then doing his focus groups with ohio families that voted for donald trump, and we move forward, and then hes doing the state of facebook address a couple of...

A little bit last hour. we had a lot on facebook. it really looks like now if you scratch the surface and look into it, twitter may have been more active for russia and their operatives and getting into the election than facebook was. >> i wonder how much influence twitter had on the electorate. just anecdotely, facebook was more of a driver of the fake news starting from the very first state we went to, wisconsin. for focus groups, it was clear the information that was being driven from faceboo...

>> yeah. he needs to get this thing through. look, hes had many achievements or things that i would consider to be a very good things happen, the supreme court appointment first and foremost, but he needs to get this health care plan through and republicans need to deliver on it. if the republicans dont deliver on health care reform they will have a real rough midterm cycle. >> poppy, two things, one the health care, but the health care bill is unpopular with everybody. no one -- >> 20% of ameri...

Not otherwise consider doing. >> sort of noticeable because a lot of focus on donald trump jr. for his russia meeting many months ago. putting pressure on his own dad. let me ask you about the elder flynn. hes no longer at the white house now. the younger flynn isnt really all that well connected to the president himself. is this something the white house -- the president needs to be worried about? >> look, what director muler is doing, hes playing four dimensional chess here. hes going after th...

How hes doing. p eight months in. what are your biggest takeaways from what the focus groups are telling us? >> importantly, these are democratic internal polls and focus groups being done by democrats. theyre looking at what attacks theyre making on the president or how theyre registered with voters. what theyre seeing is a lot of those attacks arent sticking. what voters do seem to be registering all the time is just exhaustion with president trump. they feel chaotic and nothing is really stab...

Polling and focus groups show none of it is working. the article goes on to say its focus groups say they are still impressed with trumps business background and tend to give him credit for improving the economy. the window is closing, but theyre still inclined to give them a chance to succeed. joining me noah simon rosenberg, president and founder of a think take an advocacy -- and paul botticelli is a foreign policy advisor for president george to be bush and director of programs and education...

Power. on day to go over bookstore, they revealed today a series of private focus groups conducted in recent days showing that while democrats have developed these constant lines of attack against the president ahead of the 2018 returns, nothing seems to be sticking with swing voters, which is why the website dubbed the president "heflon do don." how hes bearing and his democratic focus groups. "people do think hes bringing about change so its hard to say he hasnt kept his promises." if the demo...

Office, kim jong un is the one whos controlling the tempo and thats something the trump administration is to think about. we need to try to shake this up and change the game were playing. >> what the analyst went on to explain to me is that president trump may be has to go back to plan a, remember that offer, to speak with kim jong un directly over a hamburger. since then, weve seen many more missile launches and at least one nuclear test, even more dangerous times. back to you. >> jon: scary st...

On a number of grounds. first of all, very hard to start a third party in america and be successful. our state laws in the electoral college are biased toward a two-party system. second of all, this is overblown because it assumes that the disruptive forces inside the republican party, whether they are the freedom caucus or the bannon economic nationalists which incidentally have distantly different views of which way they want the country to go, this assumes that both of these groups have decid...