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You know this, she was the foil republicans were running against. >> kennedy: why do democrats who ran against her do so well? >> marie: i think the democrats got good candidates for their districts and 15 did not vote for her today a speaker. they found candidates that are not just liberals, not just progressives like aoc. they fit their districts. we have a lot of moderates. shes going have to bring them together. >> jesse: those moderates are going to lose their seats if they go far left. >> ...

Same time trying to balance a more moderated approach understanding that in 2020 democrats cannot win the white house if theyre a foil for donald trump and number 2 they cant win without places in the midwest that trump won like ohio and our neighboring michigan and et cetera. these people dont want to see donald trump impeached. what is more interesting, he said it could be possible for a sitting president to be indicted. thats been up to question because its a policy of the department of justi...

Resentful and angry, presidential leadership and qualities of character sin dispensable. and it is in this province where the incumbents shortfall has been most glaring." didnt take long for trump to fire back on twitter. "here we go with mitt romney but so fast. question will be is he a flake? when asked about romney at todays cabinet meeting trump drove home his team player theme. >> the "washington posts" robert costa wholl join us in a moment captured the impact of romneys movying "romneys a...

There are those who want him to move forward. how does nancy pelosi manage to do that and not make the democrats a foil for donald trump? >> i think no matter what she does, she will become a foil to at least some extent. i think it will be hard for the president to make a more effective foil than shes been. because the president and his administration have given the democrats so much meat to work with. its harder to make an investigation or subpoena look politically motivated. i think the thing...

Highest-profile republican foil in the new congress. in stoking talk of trumps vulnerability to a challenger for the partys 2020 nomination." in an interview today romney seemed to leave open the possibility of endorsing a trump challenger in 2020. >> i havent decided who im going to endorse in 2020. i think its early to make that decision and i want to see what the alternatives are. >> as trump prepares for what could be some monumental changes in the second half of his first term, hes also jug...

Middle of the cabinet room table so that everyone can admire it. >> chris? >> no, and you didnt even include all the comments. the crazy comment he made where he said, you know, i could have been a great general as well. i seem to recall a conflict called the vietnam war that he made a lot of efforts to get out of. and so, yes, we could have just -- we could do an entire show on crazy moments that came out of this cabinet meeting. >> heres the thing about this. like, hes still the president and ...

To you. how much pressure is donald trump feeling right now, and is that part of the reason we see rudy giuliani making outrageous claims like that on television? >> well, look, you know, he does feel pressure, obviously. the last few weeks for the holiday break were filled with one court action after another. the possibility of real threat to this president in the coming year. then you see, of course, the house democrats taking over the house today. that is a different kind of threat where for ...

Ways,b and y ways, and perhaps you will see it in the packages which include votes for medicare for all, and this is a moment of great time, because it is a little hope for the democrats to have power, but it is also a time of peril, because if they are using this moment to fight among themselves, they will not be an effective counterweight to president trump and they well wind up losing the house and the presidency as well, so it is a time of great promise and great peril. >> and so let me pick...

Plans to withdraw troops from syria, and the president also not giving specifics about that yesterday. what is the timetable? what will that look like? that all raises more questions and concerns for some around the globe about the presidents foreign policy and who is exactly advising him, andrea. >> and there was a moment in the situation room when the president was not on camera, and he turned to pelosi and talked about the vatican and claiming that there is a wall around the vatican, and ther...

He chose the press. the press became the big foil. not putin. not china. rather the american press. all right. now he does have the foil. the democrats in congress. this is kind of in his comfort zone. hell beicknames, belittling comments and have these kind of televised meetings and hes very comfortable in this mode. its kind of like the tabloid fights that hes been engaged in for decades in new york. so, in that sense, he may be enjoying it and may be very comfortable. >> its also the case, ch...