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>> i think its an open question whether the trump playbook hes using as his closing argument will actually work it when hes not on the ballot and theres a lot of independent women who had two years to get really angry about his rhetoric and when he doesnt have hillary as a foil. i think this argument based on immigration may help them keep a narrow set of seats but i it definitely hurts with the house. lets not forget, the task that are not polling very well. many people in states and districts ...

Up to be mad. >> david jolly, do you have an answer for that? >> im glad you played that. i think thats one of the most perfectly put contexts of todays politics, the fact that republicans won and theyre still angry. i know youre going to be interviewing captain sully, and his column put it perfectly. its because the leader of that movement continues to project that, and hes doing so for his own personal gain and political campaign. its the reason he stokes fear. he needs an enemy. look, we dont...

>> david jolly, do you have an answer for that? >> no, i dont, and im glad you played that, that was one of the most perfectly put contexts to todays politics, the fact that republicans won, but theyre still angry, and i know youre going to be interviewing captain sully and his column put it perfectly, its because the leader of that movement continues to project that. and hes doing so for his own personal gain and his own political campaign. its the reason he stokes fear. he needs an enemy. we d...

Another. to make us believe that order will somehow be restored if it just werent for those folks who dont look like we like. or dont love like we love. or pray like we do. >> now of course president trump has used obamas re-emergence on the political scene as a foil. he went after obama at his rally in indiana yesterday. were likely to see trump continue to take aim at his predecessor, and with seven rallies still left on his schedule between now and election day, we are likely to see the presi...

Well talk about anything else which doesnt help republicans. yesterday, brendan buck, the great communications counselor for paul ryan said well talk about this all day, right? the obvious point being no were not because the president consistently takes us off message in a way that doesnt help him and i dont think helps republican candidates. >> thats frustrating his advisers who wish he would tout the economy and talk about those achievements that he should be boasting of but then clearly, the ...

That hillary clinton brought to it. so bringing a president obama out, who is popular with the constituencies that they need to come out and vote i think is not going to harm them. there wasnt much anyone could do for hillary clinton. she was an awful candidate. ran a terrible campaign and a lot of people did not personally like her. that dynamic is absent this time around which is probably why the president is using things like immigration as a foil, because he doesnt have the hillary clinton t...

Their incumbent senator or congressman. you dont have the same effect that hillary clinton brought to it. so, bringing president obama out, who is popular with the constituencies that they need to come out and vote, i think, is not going to harm them. there wasnt much anyone could do for hillary clinton. she was an awful candidate. ran a terrible campaign. and a lot of people did not personally like her. that dynamic is absent this time around, which is probably why the president is using things...

White males in rural areas on the republican side. >> how do you think the president is going to do if democrats take the house, some say he likes having a foil, he would like to spend two years fighting with nancy pelosi if she hold onto the leadership battle and there are questions of a potential challenge but how will he react if he has to wake up the day after and say lost the house? >> he will relish the fight with white house staff will suffer most. we will prepare the oversight documents ...

Press secretary sarah sanders becoming visibly emotional at times. >> this atrocity was a chilling act of mass murder, an act of hatred and above all it was an act of evil. speak with the president also took on his favorite foil, the news media, tweeting: "there is great anger in our country caused in part by inaccurate, and even fraudulent, reporting of the news. the fake news media, the true enemy of the people, must stop the open and obvious hostility and report the news accurately and fairly...

Fight and he sees the press as a useful foil. he uses the media and hes probably i think in the last 20 years or 30 years, ive never seen a politician manipulate the media out the way the president has. >> martha: let me read this from brit hume. one of trumps main feelings is that he thinks everything is about him. one of his critics main feelings is that its about them too. >> that really nailed it because look, while its vying for the press to kind of hold president trump advisable for the so...