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Donald trump and president of citizens united. we have a lot to talk to you about today. >> absolutely. i got to meet charlie daniels a moment ago. ainsley: the 450eu89. >> highlight of my day. brian: great book that looks back at illustrious career. you are going to be on outnumbered later today. president goes down to meet with republican senators about tax reform. this is going to be different -- some say what is going to be different about healthcare where he was so optimistic. whats going t...

Seats for doing that she did a good job there.e. she has had no victory since then. you know as well as i, i talked to a congressman about it today. she is not going to get to 218. if democrats win in the midterm, she is not going to i be reelected speaker because she has failed again and t again and again. >> everyone in d.c. knows that those losses cannot be blamed solely on nancy pelosi. >> tucker: not solely. >> so many other factors that play into that. >> tucker: okay. i mean, look, pullin...

She lost historic number of seats for doing that she did a good job there. she has had no victory since then. you know as well as i, i talked to a congressman about it today. she is not going to get to 218. if democrats win in the midterm she is not going to be reelected speaker because she has failed again and again and again. >> everyone in d.c. knows that those losses cannot be blamed solely on nancy pelosi. >> tucker: not solely. >> so many other factors that play into that. >> tucker: okay....

And be ready for this in the long haul. >> sandra: youve got the last word. new questions about whether hillary clinton is an asset or liability for democrats ahead of the midterm. vulnerable senator joe manchin saying no thank you if he said he wants clinton to join him on the campaign trail but is not a good move? we will certainly debate that. sarah is a fifth-grade teacher. when it comes to molding young minds, nobody does it better. she also builds her own fighting robots. destroy. but when...

Right now, they arent feeling the heat. >> sandra: what if it does get done? how big of a win is this? >> lawrence: a celebration. this could be the one issue to get republicans through the midterm and a reelection for donald trump because people want more of their money. theyre tired of the government taking and abusing it and the raising debt. >> sandra: theres a little bit of a concern about that 401(k) issue, but they cleared the air on that, the president tweeting this morning. >> kennedy: ...

>> kennedy: welcome back. ive missed you so, so much. senate majority leader harry reid making a surprise appearance at the full meeting over the weekend. slamming president trump on several issues, including his push to rollback obamacare. saying "health care is basically been ruined by trump." also bashing white house chief of staff general john kelly for getting involved in president trumps feud with frederico wilson. saying "i would hope that they would stop sending this four-star general ou...

If you want a commercial, you can just make it and buy time for it yourself. >> okay, and ron, speaking of rich, president donald trump apparently offering $430 million to assist in the legal fees of campaign or white house staff members. how does this look? >> well, first off, one last point on tom steyer, it does reflect the increasing modern theory of politics. this is designed to energize and turn out the democratic base, and the theory thats more important than kind of reaching swing voters...

The question, who could that would get any kind of excitement from democratic voters. i want to talk about this a little bit. kick it around the table. this seems to be, we spent so much time talking about republicans, their problems, their civil war, their divisions. democrats are struggling to get it together in the background. >> one thing i like to ask senate and house democrats is who is the leader of the democratic party. >> good question. >> more often than not, they look at me and say, i...

In modern american electoral history, 2006 is a real swing of the pendulum moment. george w. bush elected in 2000, his party did up expectedly well in the 2002 midterms. usually a presidents party loses seats in the midterm. that was not true. republicans did great in 2002 because of the mood of the country following the 9/11 attacks. in 2004, george w. bush was reelected, but it was time for another midterm in 2006, and in 2006, after the three previous elections, it was no mystery that the cou...

Done. he wants to deliver on the campaign promises that he talked about, and i dont think he really cares about who is involved and what the deal looks like. he just wants to say he got it done. steve bannon on the other hand has kind of aligned himself with trump, but i think hes using president trump as a way to either destroy the republican party or remake the republican party into something he thinks it should be. i remember last cycle i was getting e-mails from speaker paul ryan -- about sp...