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Within the republican party. its been them that has diverged in terms of of what they want to do. the president, by tweeting this publicly, is kind of giving the leverage to democrats in a lot of ways. and so i think republicans already had a difficult time. put aside the broader agenda like tax reform, health care, other things. the they have to focus on raising the debt ceiling and passing a budget to fund the government. on both of those key issues, basic tasks of governing the president has ...

Base. so if hes going to back to republic republicans, hes going to stop this need for a free for all. >> maybe this wasnt such a bad idea and its a picture of president obama speaking at a classroom with two teleprompters there, kind of funny about how controlled president obama was with the joke being, maybe, sticking to telepromters not such a horrible idea for presidents. >> all the grief that president obama got for sticking to prompter. and now donald trump is getting praise when he sticks...

Blame on both sides. i have no doubt about t you dont have any doubt about it either. >> there was violence coming from both directions, but only one side gathered the night before to denounce jews, minorities and others. trumps about face essentially blaming both sides equally had republicans speaking out against him and his comments. >> im not going to defend the indefensible. im not here to do that. im here to be leclear, concise. his comments on tuesday started to erase the comments that wer...

Bender, i want to go to you on this. whatever he decides, this is going to tell us something about the trump doctrine. its also going to tell us where he is on that spectrum of republican approaches to foreign intervention. julie talked about what his base expected. i think they didnt necessarily expect more foreign entanglements, particularly not in the middle east. >> thats right. i think the last couple of weeks, last month or so, weve seen more of a kind of nationalist versus national securi...

Potential military operation in venezuela and was very upset with the presidents rhetoric toward north korea, the militaristic rhetoric. >> and contradicted the president. >> exactly. and were still waiting for the presidents decisions on afghanistan, which was the purpose of his camp david meeting on friday from which bannon, of course, was excluded. so, i think theres a lot of people in the base that are looking at how interventionist and expansion abroad he is going to be. many of them though...

He talks about what you talked about. its a different moment at this point. >> all of a sudden, these monuments, these equestrian statues became touchstones of terror. they became these twisted totems that these people clearly are drawn to, trying to create a whole architecture of intimidation and terror and hatred around them. it was visited upon our town. it was evil. >> bender, you see some municipality municipalities college, duke university. in a moment that trump may not be on as safe a gr...

Sunday, michael bender of the wall street journal, michael warren of the weekly standard and cnns sarah murray. word there would be a new sheriff in town came friday evening after a bloody and public week of west wing warfare. retired general john kelly, can current homeland security secretary, starts tomorrow as chief of staff. >> reince is a good man. john kelly will do a fantastic job. general kelly has been a star, done an incredible job thus far, respected by everybody. a great, great ameri...

Sitting president to endorse trump and introduce him at a rally. >> i think of a great man. i just want to introduce you to him for a sec, do you know who i am talking about do. you know who i am talking about, nobody knows rights now. because we have kept it a surprise. senator jeff sessions. >> what a crowd. >> wow. what a crowd this is. >> back now, with the panel. just, maggie, in terms of the presidents mind set, what does it say that he so easily seems went from that, to, to where he is no...

Will -- its kind of like senator none isnt it? we will stand in recess for ten minutes. if i had a gavel i would bang it. >> and you have been watching the conform -- confirmation hearing for the fbi director, christopher wray, youre watching inside politics, im filling in for john king. youve been watching pretty much at times contentious, but for the most part, in a bipartisan way, a supportive group of senators, impressed with the person they have before them. we have with us a group to share...

Mad at the attorney general and mad at the news media. >> he gets criticized by the media all day. and two weeks later he is pruovn right. it happens again. were going to keep calm and carry on. maybe we have to keep calm and doing something. i think thats what hes trying to say and hes been proven right. >> part of that was about the presidents war on twitter with the london mayor. like father like son that is taking the mayor out of context. julie pace, jonathan martin, michael bender, and mag...