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Stop looking in the rearview mirror. >> boy, you know, this is what presidents -- this is where the divide is, you know? i think lbj went out and handed out water one time when there was bad weather down in louisiana. w. flew over. you know? you only get one shot at this. and trump is not looking good. >> you know, natural disasters are trouble for politicians. people expect the public officials to be there if theres a hurricane or if theres a riot. politicians are punished for not showing up wh...

That still counts. thats mick mulvaney, the omb director talking to party people. politico reports that a collective conservative groups are launching a rescue effort right now for senator cruz. report notes the other republican senator from texas john cornyn said he had a simple directive to gop contributors. quote, were not bluffing, this is real. its a serious threat. im joined now by rick tyler, republican strategist and former spokesman for ted cruzs presidential campaign and victory dee fr...

>> i dont. i dont know. but i do know they should resign and leave this administration. >> should all top officials take a lie detector test and would you agree to take one? >> i would agree to take one in a heartbeat and would submit to any review the administration wanted to do. >> well, back in may columnist george f. will wrote, the oleaginous mike pence -- thank you for the help -- could become americas most repulse i haive figure. hes the lick spittle. i cant outdo you, george. thank you. ...

The assuredness how right he was yet totally instinctive where he had to push woodward, and youre pushing me because youre a better writer because you do it without thinking how bruised it could get. >> woodwood, if the word is -- he would go a, b, c, d, and his investigative work and bernstein went a, b, h. >> we had the luxury of a fat dynamic institution. it was right at its peak. >> theres always been some mechanics in american politics, some under handed dealings incomparable to this. >> en...

On the heals of mccains words from the grave, if you will, on the heels of this op-ed take to heart the warnings being placed out there and begin to inquire publicly about what is going on inside the white house, it will have a profoundly important impact on how we go forward. >> the other remedy, which we were discussing at the top of the hour, as some of our guests were debating how to do this, and the propriety of this piece, which is, i admit, weve covered, controversial, the public resignat...

Two-thirds of the senate. not going to be easy if the president is saying im fine, i shouldnt be removed. >> thats well put, that it was -- that we have high -- we have high bars for this. >> absolutely. >> and with the 25th amendment we really were talking about physical disability. >> that was at the point we didnt have a vice president. it was that moment everybody was worried and lbj and there was no vice president too. >> and thats been used twice, we know how it works for anesthesia. >> so...

Things so immoral that you stand up publicly and resign. should that be done more? >> i think theres a big difference between the lbj analogy and here. lbj, that was about a war, it was about a singular decision, a singular act, a singular moment in time. this is about something beyond policy, this is about the way the president is governing, how the president is governing. here these folks are in a dilemma. the natural inclination is get the hell out of dodge. i cant do crazy town anymore. >> i...

I think vietnam put a mark on him like it did on all of us and i think -- i find myself still fighting that war from my side. i was against the war. i didnt serve. i was in the peace corps in africa. he went over and got captured. avenues pilot that got shot down going into the enemy capital. pulled out of the water and got beat up for five and a half years. thats his life. he was hawkish out of that. im telling you when you talked to him in the old days he would say he was really hated what lyn...

Suddenly gone silent when america needs them to speak out the most. >> im not sure, joe, who youre speaking of there, if you have any specific person in mind. let me, as you think of how you want to answer that, it occurred to me this morning that part of john mccains mystic is not that he was a legislative master. we sort of implied that in the past few days. he was not like lbj and not even like ted kennedy. these were men who were masters of the senate and masters of arranging legislation. i ...

Politics of the midterm elections? does that generate enthusiasm in his wanted base? which is as we discussed a little bit of a shinny object. can they be more enthusiastic? does it gain him anything there. does it just cause the voters who really matter in the election, which is largely democrats who are already stirred up, but particularly a bunch of college-educated women in the suburbs who kind of vacillate between republican and democrat who arent necessarily committed dependents african-am...