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Described as the base that stuck with him. no. the 37 percentish is the base. then you had independents and democrats who couldnt stomach voting for hillary clinton and voted for him thinking he likely wouldnt win and their vote didnt matter. that is not what its likely to look like in 2020. again, we have no idea whats going to happen this november. we have no idea whether the house flips. if all this takes place when hes in a severely weakened political position, i think youre looking at a dif...

From different departments, different areas of the white house. i think youd see the president whitewash this, if he was going to be the person he would sell who could be the rightperson for that job. i do think puzder is a possibility. navarro is a possibility. kudlow has been toyed with for a job with this president. i dont think hes going to be the one. navarro has been on the rise, as you said, for several weeks now. i do think thats possible. or it could be somebody whose name we havent hea...

Investigators? >> i dont think hes going to. >> they telegraphed as much, they dont want him to. why do we think he ever would do that. >> because hes going to get subpoenaed. i think his lawyers are trying to -- theyre trying to force muellers hand on it and see whether mueller wants to go the extra extraordinary step of subpoenas a sitting president. >> this is the legal question, can he plead the fifth? >> yes. >> thats not going to look great. >> there is a way, because remember then were ba...

Total votes was more than the vets of the two democrats combined. republicans had a great showing in texas. texas is a republican state. theyre low taxes, they care about limited government. this is a state that i travel to a lot. they support this president. they support whats happening in washington, more jobs, deregulation, lower taxes. >> democrats have not fared well. its impressive their numbers are coming up despite the fact they dont have realistic chances of winning. do you think that w...

Affair. dams and her laup claim kohn tried to silence her as early as last week. >> she may have proof, whereas other women may have come forward and its their word against his, she alleges or infers shes got text, shes got video, may have pictures. >> a key exhibit in the lawsuit, the non-disclosure agreement daniels and kohn signed shortly before the 2016 election which repeatedly refers to texts and images. >> people will focus enormous attention on the salaciousness of it, and that will be v...

Republicans in the majority. >> theres a zigzag effect going on. primaries did not work out well for the man who primaried ted cruz. are you worried about seeing trump folk primary -- >> i want to see the republican base which includes the trump base which has brought in new voters. i saw it in michigan. we need them to turn out for these congressional candidates. >> what if they dont agree with the trump positions? what if you have somebody -- even ted cruz. if you looked at it on paper, he won...

Remember, he almost resigned last year or at least talked about it and drafted resignation after charlottesville. he has known the presidents positions on tariffs for a very, very long time. up until the last few weeks there have been enough people -- we keep saying moderating influences. that isnt really how this process is working. its people willing to jump on the grenade. one of those people was rob porter, the staff secretary, who basically knew enough to run into the oval office and stop s...

Lewinsky-esque fear up the spine that people around him have say he cannot sit down with anybody who has the ability to charge him with lying because he will not tell the truth about this? >> i think this is one element of a much broader fear about him sitting with investigators and not telling the truth. somebody close to him said to me the strangest thing you hear said over and over again is theyre going to set a perjury trap for the president and thats what his lawyers are afraid of. this per...

Evidence developed of that. to be fair to the american people, lets get our report out. if something more comes out after that, all of us would be look to look at that additional evidence. lets tell the people what we know. >> as you know, there have been lots of complaints of leaks from your committee, primarily republicans complaining that democrats have been leaking, and even the president has been complaining that some of the democrats on your panel have been looking. it looks like at least ...

2006 alleged affair with the porn star during his many years in the public eye. so why does the stormy daniels scandal now stand out? brian todd is working this part of the story for us. brian, tell us more. >> with all the allegations of groping, inappropriate advances and worse from other women, its stormy who president trump and his attorney michael kohn spent the most time trying to keep quiet. we found daniels has exhibited a unique ability to keep her case in the public eye and to give pre...