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Dont respond. particularly when those books are untrue. this president has spent personally and through sanders responding to things he says. that makes me wonder. to your earlier question, the timing of this book is unfortunate. i think that we are now seeing a scene play out that was expected. the presidents base are using this book to kind of bully james comey. its a distraction at a time when we have an investigation under way and 2018 midterms coming. a lot of people are saying shed light o...

>> things can be rocky, experience this for the obama years, it didnt split them that much. >> reporter: people here say this movement is different than what conventional wisdom might say and it is a fight within the democratic party. >> what unites the parties? >> an opportunity to say we can continue championing organic voices, need to be represented. >> reporter: the conference is set to last four days, it is just day one. the question is will it help those candidates win in 7 months? shannon...

The balance of power in the region. >> bernard: thats a fait accompli, thats already happened. nothing that we can do about it. and the question is who are the quote unquote rebels? people who hate our guts. >> rachel: and the kurds who like us so its very complicate complicated. >> kennedy: it is the backyard of many other actors and nations who have much more skin in the game. >> rachel: trump was elected because he said he was going to focus more on domestic, not get entangled in those kinds ...

Directionless party. with that they have? identity politics, sanctuary cities, protecting criminals. i would take jobs, tax cuts, economic growth over that. i would put my money on the former over the identity politics and a sanctuary city and all of that stuff any day. >> rachel: added russia to gaza, still havent figured out when they lost the midwest. to me, i look at the poll numbers for the president and i think about the media against the president, im surprised they are not as high as the...

Year. now heser the one urging political warfare. a president who has a very limited legal team and his outside advisors working his way through. even though bannons coming back whispering to people inside of the west wing about what to do next. >> let me ask you about the huge news today that speaker ryan is not going to be running for reelection. obviously there had been previous reporting and they said his retirement was coming. do you have any sense of how this decision was to speaker ryans ...

A president with a limited legal time and its outside advisers working through. even though bannon burned his relationship with the white house with that "fire and fury" become, even bannon is coming back whispering to people inside the west wing what to do next. >> robert let me ask you about the hunl news in washington today we all woke up to that speaker ryan is leaving. not going to be running for re-election. obviously there has been previous reporting that had hinted at this. the speakers ...

Have changed your mind if youd known speaker ryan was going to leave. is there truth in that? if you waited a day, would your decision have been different? >> no, i made this decision some time ago and -- but, again, paul has been -- hes been here my entire career. i mean, he got here in his 20s, i got here in my 50s so hes a guy ive admired and had the chance to be on his committee for four years when he chaired budgets so i consider him a close friend and ally and hes somebody who represents w...

It means democrats need to pick up a net gain of 23 seats f they can net 23, they get the get the majority. paul ryan and every is looking at. this is the history. presidential approval rating. 41% here. who else in the midterm has been a the that level? bush was at 38, clinton at 46 in 94 they called that the republican resolution. and reagan, 42% and 1982. and obama, 2010. low presidential approval rating. right where trump is in the past, translated into sizable gains for the opposition party...

He is by far and away the estbiggund raiser in a party. this i a party that in a tough midterm cycle needs the money. over the course of this cycle, hes transferred $40 million over to the nrcc the republican campaign. hes extremely valuable in this regard. if he leaves, that fund-raising would drop. the other issue is whether this sets up some type of leadership battle in the republican conference again in the middle of a difficult midterm year. however, whats obviously the most important thing...

Back in 2016 and you look at the poll numbers for this party for the president trump and how the first midterm of a new president always becomes -- historically is very difficult for a new president, all of which points to the very likelihood scenario of paul ryan, if he were ho run and win, he could be minority leader in a congress and that is a different environment and circumstances and maybe not have support to maintain that leadership position. and the factors that ultimately led to him pro...