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Why was the anger directed at a lot of the elites in the establishment. how did this come between people in washington, d.c. who were trying to advance the priorities of the american people. i think people who learn from those past mistakes and past campaigns always ask that question, why. >> how do you think president obama, as someone who worked on his 12 campaign, how do you think president obama, who was an elite, was able to win over those voters who had anger issues with the elites -- i sh...

Does that haunt them? maybe this guy knows my partys base better than i do. >> what im hearing from a lot of my friends on commeapitol hi. it depends what you represent. if you represent a strong trump county, you are scared to death the president will primary you. thats real. he won those counties by a significant margin. if you are a flake or a susan collins or maybe a pat toomey, maybe not. so maybe you dont fear the president as much. based on the focus groups we heard from, im from pennsylv...

The main supplier for several major cities including washington. the news has already sent gas prices surging up 6 cents in just a week. all of this because of oil refinery outages including the nations largest which was forced to shut down yesterday because of flooding in port arthur. up next, we continue to follow reports of possible explosions and smoke from a major chemical plant outside houston in the wake of harvey. well go live on the ground there. plus trump supporters weigh in on the pr...

Heilemann brought a bloomberg focus group to us early, may have been in august or september of 2015. it was one of the most revealing focus groups ive ever seen because thats where you had working class people saying hes one of us. i think out of new hampshire. this is one of the most telling focus groups ive seen along with yours because those people are saying exactly what all of my friends are saying to me on the phone this week, this month, not what they were saying two or three months ago, ...

Politicians. the public views them as cowardly and pandering to polls and focus groups. thats how many too many republican officials have behaved in the face of trumps reactions. many, with some honorable exceptions, have gone mute on the biggest subject of the day. i know they worry about the base, primaririeprimariries, rio nors. shouldnt they ask themselves about their public and why they went into public service. when they see someone trampling on the values of america, shouldnt they speck u...

Disagreement on something that is not true. it is not true that he was born in africa. it is true he was born here. its not true hillary clinton started the birther thing. and donald trump spread it for years. >> yeah, it is, in the primary in 2007 in iowa -- >> simone go ahead. >> the thing that struck me with the interview that you just had, i thought it was fascinating. but ive had the opportunity to sit through a lot of different focus groups and interactions with obama/trump voters. when yo...

Only not fit to be president. in my book, his lack of empathy, his lack of leadership, his lack of courage, hes unfit to be human. >> okay. lets talk about him as president of the united states for a second, anna. we are told the white house says he will address this later today. what could he say, anna, that would correct this in your mind? >> nothing. its been three days since the march. its been two days since heather heyer died. its been days since all sorts of spiritual government elects re...

Knock em/sock em way he was a candidate, but people inle polling expected something different. yes unorthodox, but not dangero dangerous. >> i did focus groups with a british polling outfit. even the most hard-core trump supporters, the number one fear was his loose talk would get the country in world war iii. >> someone with his temp rarmt knowing the nuclear codes. last night north korea doubled down on their threat to guam. we have this report. >> reporter: the north korean mill want is uppin...

Steve: little less than that disapprove. what does that tell you? >> what it tells you is these are the counties he won. and, remember, he won 306 electoral college votes. it was overwhelming electoral college victory. is he still maintaining it we see it in our surveys by the way. trump voters his job approval rating is well over 90% with those voters. whats going to be a real key is over the next couple weeks for him to expand upon that base, if they can get healthcare reform, i think they are...

>> harris: because it came from a friend, from the beauty pageant industry, someone that they knew. again, i question, would you take information from somebody who was a publicist in the other realm? were talking about opposition research, and i have a question from the get-go with this whole thing about getting your arms around russia. before they got into the white house, why did the trump team not to its own research on itself and see what was coming? they had to have known already from polli...