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>> it is fun, isnt it? we havent done one of these in a while. >> no, we havent. should we keep going? im kefeeling good. i could give you five more minutes. >> you know what survey says is a reference to? >> its a reference to the game show. >> which one? >> "family feud." >> i asked if you knew. survey says no. always good to see you. >> survey always says yes. youre not being truthful. >> always good to see you. several big stories. donald trump and ted cruz making up in texas. will it be eno...

>> theres no one making up -- >> the fact checks dont necessarily stop trump. >> the context here thats important to remember, women arent a monolith when it comes to these hot button issues. remember, a significant number of women voted for donald trump even in the wake of that access hollywood tape. christian evangelical women are going to find a lot to like in kavanaugh. its not just a battle of the sexes. >> i have been listening around my world. this upper middle class crowd around kavanaug...

Completely capable of separating anything having to do with russia from attacks on his victory. but this is a much bigger picture. the problem for republicans and the rebukes i think are good and necessary. the problem for them when it comes to action not words is that in fact the trump administrations actions on russia dont line up with the presidents words. they have been tough in many cases, giving arms to ukraine, kicking the consulate out of san francisco, various indictments and various sa...

Getting a lot of push back on sessions. that announcement on transgender people serving in the military certainly came as a surprise to a lot of people, including folks in the pentagon who seemed to be making up -- some people certainly seem to be taken aback. its a policy that i should -- its a policy that needs to be worked out. they havent actually fully announced full details of how this is going to work. but thats also gotten a lot of pushback from a lot of conservatives in congress. theres...

Its just the administration when he has nothing to back it up? he is just sort of making up -- >> it is possible the administration was conducting surveillance on trump advisers and trump supporters. weve reported due to contacts with the russians. >> those are not the accusations that donald trump is making. this is more like there is a political agenda to tap trump tower and whether it was president obama personally doing it or whether it was the administration doing it. so i think that the id...

>> or it works. >> there are been a lot of republicans making the pilgrimage to trump tower since the election kissing the ring, making up, saying that voters spoke and that theyre willing to look to him as their president. and hes more than willing to have them come through the lobby, sit with him at dinner, speak to reporters, praise him. and its unclear what they will get out of it. >> look at paul ryan. he values paul ryan in part because he had to come and kiss the ring. i mean, they have a...

People that didnt exist. >> well, because they had to have a 90% return rate and because they couldnt get 90% in the new york and the philly areas, what this guy was told on the phone by one of his bosses, just make the stuff up. >> go ahead and fabricate it. >> what that did then was that made -- by making up, somebody has a job, that reduced the number. back in 2010, the guy who used to run ge got on the cavuto show in 2012 and said this. >> this whole number is made up of a whole mess of assu...

Red-handed making up so-called scanned deals out of thin air to stir up false rumors of vast cover-ups happening in the white house. did they find a single sled of evidence to back up their outrage just claims -- outrageous claims he says? no. >> democrats have two problems. one is represented by woodhouse quote. that may be good fodder for fund-raising e-mails to the true believers, democrats dismiss these as made-up scandals, whether irs, benghazi, ap the more disconnected they are with the am...

The way he got the nomination as typified by that ad showed weakness in this camp. >> lets go back to the strategy, which it was. somebody is going to be the republican nominee and that person is going to be obama. therefore, all you have to do is be that nominee. >> that was his theory. as howard just noted, and neil sedaka made famous "making up is hard to do." once he secured that nomination in early spring, he wanted everybody to fall in line and support him, and it just wasnt there. >> thro...

Also, the partys new organizational director, the person in charge of iowa republicans presence in the countries in this election year, also a ron paul guy, a backer of ron paul, and whats going on up there in alaska? in april, ron paul backers elected one of their own as the new party chairman in alaska. in may, following month, faced with a full-on ron paul revolution in the making up in alaska, the outgoing chair of the party who had been ousted by the ron paul guy, he urged alaska republican...