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>> kimberly: saying they are traumatized. making moderates move towards trump. >> bob: look at millennials. >> eric: how could you be traumatized? >> bob: i dont agree with what he said. >> dana: wave elections usually happen in the first midterm of any president. 2002 was because of 9/11. any president should be doing what president trump is already doing which is thinking about how to shore up and make sure that doesnt happen to him as well. it did happen to reagan. it happened to clinton, geo...

Ego and business ideas about himself -- >> when you hear a comment like that, youre still two years out from the midterm. is that a bad sign? >> this is terrible. this is all bad signs for the country. this whole idea that two americas bring us down the wrong path. im just waiting for that half of america to demand running man for our prisoners. >> its healthy because that congressman probably doesnt want border security the way that trump does. he probably doesnt want extreme vetting the way th...

Things are going well. i mean, so the leak is a -- is certainly problematic, but its not the main problem. >> but its complex. and look, you can sort of see this viewpoint in the house, rather than the senate, from intelligence chairman devin nunez who really came out with a statement last night praising general flynn. which i think reflects a viewpoint, its in the administration as well, its not shared by mike pence, that the intelligence community was out to get flynn. and so, you are going to...

That isnt really even asked about or dealt with. i think a lot of the press doesnt even know that the president has already filed to be candidate in 2020. that is externally unusual before a midterm. >> it has been reported. >> its been reported, but when it comes to what we see in the overall dynamic of what the media is creating or what they are discussing, you see with the headlines are. its not about subjective things. i think thats frustrating obviously to sean spicer, it must be frustratin...

They failed to campaign in the midwest. now, the rallying cry will be -- >> remember merrick garland. >> bill: this far left stuff will re-energize the democratic party to take back power? >> i think they are a party that exists in name only. i think that these leftists will energize it so that it might recover in the midterm and for the midterm elections. >> i think the democrats realize that they cant win any of these. they can put up a big fight, they can get on tv, they love the tv cameras, ...

Adjustment taxcutting in in the way of that. everything the trump administration does needs to be scrubbed with is it growing the economy? is a growing wages? is it bringing jobs to united states? if he can get that done in two years, its going to be a tough midterm. >> brian: i would say a couple of things. they say why it was bill clinton able to survive the scandals, why can other people get through with what they do? thats what people care about. the rest is a sideshow. when it becomes intol...

War goes on, well see how much political juice he still has with republicans. if his ratings still staying under 40% in the midterm, you will see people moving away. you will see if theyll stay with him or not. >> the opportunity for the democrats, hes not really seem to be hearing that voice loudly now. >> if the democrats are only an opposition party, theyll never get the white house back. there is one thing to be opposition, you have to show the american people that you have a better solution...

Really pulling at the senators. >> you look at 2018, the states, imagine donald trump showing up in your state, a stay he won by 30 or 40 points and have a big rally for your opponent. that is a tough landscape. >> it is tough to think about the cycle, its a long time to 2018, but the first midterm of a new president is usually very bad for the president and the party. but senate democrats have terrible math going in and if you just look at those states, they could very well lose seats. >> the c...

Make them believe he is doing what he said he would do. we dont know the extent to which hell carry out a lot of what he promises. >> this connects to something lynn said about promises. he made a lot of promises today. in fact he said he was going to eradicate radical islamic terrorism from the face of the earth. now, i went back and i looked at barack obamas twine inauguration. whats interesting about that as a document is all the hope and change rhetoric, that was a very kind of clear-eyed sp...

>> we werent exactly thrilled eight years ago. but we bucked it up. we held the tea party. then the midterm in 2014 we did the same thing, tried to help romney. in this case, this unlikely vessel, we had someone who had a better pulse on the americanun people than all of the elite journalists were moping around h washington in the last few days. all the elite media, the elites in hollywood. the financial community. they all look down on trump and by the same token, were looking down on the milli...