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Are the trump voters ready to turn on trump? 35 trump voters in the focus groups who have not had any buyers remorse. they are clear why they voted for him and pray he keeps his challenges. the president has a lot of channels ahead, but all the evidence is his base in america is still with him. which is why republicans say full speed ahead. listen to speaker ryan here. we talk about 100 days and he says double that. >> and we have a 200-day plan and were right on schedule with it. the real why i...

Thats a medicaid expansion site. it will be interesting who shows up. we dont know a lot about trump voters and how they feel about the gop plans in terms of our repealing and replace on obamacare. well have the cbo score by then. it will be interesting to hear from those folks. and to see whether or not the progressive movement is able to kind of reach out to those folks and make them a part of the messaging going forwards. >> iowa is a fun state for democracy, shall we say? the sessions were c...

The border where that is probably not the best way to secure a border. but i think general kelly knows what hes doing. and i think the president picked an outstanding person to be in charge of homeland security. and my suspicion is we will take his advice. >> reporter: do you believe that mexico will pay for it? >> uh, no. >> uh, no. >> so mitch mcconnell is trying to help president trump redefine what it means to build a wall. i think the focus group numbers are fascinating because they go to t...

Having winners and losers is part of the process. >> we do focus groups. who is our customer what do they want. we talk to franchise partners. theyre boots on the ground. >> employees get evaluated regularly too because theyre on the front lineses of the companys growth. so customers get the chance to rate instructors. >> we do surveys with customers pretty often to find out what theyre feeling about a certain person. we train when they come into the system and also do training after theyre in t...

>> sandra: it is a chance for him to rally the troops. i know we are watching at 77 minute news conference, there were certain shows and certain networks that were leading off with images of constituents filling the representatives offices, protesting across the country. it poses a chance for him to change that. >> meghan: everything without a job depends on your perspective. if youre a big fan of his, this is great. if this is him taking into the streets and doing what he does best and campaign...

Are expecting the sun, the moon, and the stars? >> no because expectations were so low. the level of pessimism, the level of fear of the future was so high, neil, that it was really hard for me to do my focus groups for fox because everyone was so depressed and so not looking forward to the future. and over the last six weeksetel number that i look at, i know youre looking at the stock market, i look at consumer confidence and i look at actual consumer purchases. and both of them have been racin...

Building permits. >> i talked to undecided focus groups and i heard a lot of people with reservations about donald trump. not a single person all year said their reservations were the fact he had a wide variety of business interests. not one time. i never heard it. >> liz, to brads point, a conflict of interest really only exists when people are unhappy. so if people get jobs back, if the country is doing okay, people might not feel conflicted. they might be okay with it. >> right, and look, jus...

Explanation for what went wrong for democrats in the comey letter. what is it? >> well, first of all, i havent been grieving for the last month because i got over my five stages back in june when i wrote a blog that millions read that said the five reasons trumps going to win. and i said and this is how hes going to do it. hes going to win what i call the four brexit states. hes going to win pennsylvania, ohio, iowa, michigan and wisconsin. >> you got 4 out of 4? >> yes. i have some lotto number...

This is an s-show. >> in fact, on the clinton side there was acknowledgment of fault not so much in messaging and scheduling but they said should have sent more people to michigan. what about sending the candidate to michigan and wisconsin? they were paramedrotective of h. they were hurting not only because she lost and shes in pain, they are in pain. but it was so nasty from the other side. people dont like her. thats what they were saying. your candidate is not relatable. mandy grun wald said ...

>> try to describe it all, and by putting this lost just on donald trump voters are racist, it really misses the big picture that people were dissatisfied with what hillary clinton was proposing to actually change the lives of americans that are struggling right now, and something consistently that i heard, doing 48 hours of focus groups in seven battleground states in this election, people on both sides of the aisle did not perceive donald trump supporters racist because of their vote, it was m...