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Heard crowds use chants like u.s.a., build the wall, lock her up. last night we heard a new one when he was talking about one of the freshman congresswoman. send her back the crowd burst on. brian: on their own. ainsley: unsolicited. he did go through all four of those congresswomen and talked about what they are doing to america and what their agendas are. also another chant last night was four more years. i think he is really loving the fact that the democratic party is separated. steve: even ...

So thats the risk he runs here. there is people influence these voters by persuading them that the democratic party going as far as hes gone and as far as he will go, he may persuade them that we cant take four more years of this. >> you look back to the promises made during the campaign of the wall, mexico is going to pay for it, of a new health care system on day one thats going to be better and going to be instantly transferred, infrastructure. and preexisting conditions will be covered. >> r...

He continued on with his attack. now you see the president and his allies lindsey graham among them trying to rationalize and refine this racism, try to say its really about ideology when, really, the president is giving his make america great again base some powerful imagery in the form of these four congresswomen. four women, one hispanic, one african-american, two muslim, one of whom is a somalian refugee. so if there is any strategy here at all its this. donald trump stands little chance of ...

Nancy pelosi herself ran afoul of this i think amazing house rule that doesnt allow anyone to say that the president used racist words. who knew that rule existed? and so it was a bit of a mess. and the outcome seems to be that president trump just is using these four congress women of color as a new foil and he likes to have a foil. is this what they were hoping for? >> you know, i think they walked into this knowing there was going to be some commotion on the floor. there was a private meeting...

People animated by attacks like this. >> i think youre absolutely right about that but that worked for him in narrow margins in 2016 a victory in the electoral college and in 2018 there is not a lot of evidence that worked out well for republicans. >> does he care about other republicans? >> but at least as an open question, is this a strategy that will work beyond just that one election. weve only had one case study of this strategy for president trump and will it work again. >> i think the pre...

To capitalize on this. how does she navigate this moment? >> i think she goes back to 2018 and how democrats won, right? we knew exactly what the president is, and was, and what his plan is for re-election. this is a re-election ploy. theyre able to view this as it is. democrats often say democrats are divided and so on. whats important to think about the democratic caucus is we dont have a purity test within the caucus, right? if something needs to be voted on, they vote on it. theyre going to ...

Democrats, but at this point it has turned into politics. they are seeing that this can work for them, that the squad, the four democratic women are sort of the foil of the president. hes making all democrats like them. they are very progressive, liberal, and hes going to show how this s-you know, this is what were up against. this is how i can win. hes feeling good at this point. hes feeling hes relishing the moment and that he can win politically on it. >> david, im fascinated by kind of one t...

Capitol hill. this was going to be a little bit of counter-programming. mueller wouldve been his foil. now the president has a new foil in these four fresh ran congresswomen. and again the president speaking right before boarding marine 1. and we will hopefully get that audio out to you as soon as possible. >> kasie hunt, we will be returning to you im sure throughout the hour. at least ahead for you, thank you both for joining us. as kristen mentioned, the president caulkitalking to the at the ...

Push back on that and trying to do the job that we all have been sent here to do, which is centered around the people at home. >> what we are are four women who have an alignment of values, shared policy priorities. there is no insurgency here. theres nothing conspiracy -- >> reanna, weve seen this vocal defense from congresswomen, alexandria ocasio-cortez, omar, talib. tlaib. do you get the sense, whether its obama, clinton, comey, whether its pelosi, and now the so-called squad, is there any c...

They believe there is political value in having "the squad" as the new face of their political opponents when mr. trump is tracing a path to reelection when it runs through pennsylvania, michigan and wisconsin, where the four women are unpopular. anita, your reaction. >> they were slow to respond buzz they didnt know what to say. republicans, too, and now were a couple days into it and you can see where its going, that these four women are the foil of the president and they want to talk about th...