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Republicans and making sure they stay in line. it was the same issue in 1998 which is we didnt worry about what the republicans were doing. we just needed to make sure the democrats stayed with the president. spent a lot of time and effort on it. so the fact that there are republicans now like senator grassley who is directly criticizing the president on the whistle-blower issue is significant. >> let me read you what chuck grassley said. ought to be heard out and protected. whether it comes the...

One, he agrees with king. and there is a case for that. trump did visit with king early on. he did adopt his pet issue of border security. he does discuss it the same way. and king describes himself the same way the president does. >> under any fair political definition, i am simply an american nationalist. >> nationalism is not patriotism. they should not be conflated and he knows it, and so does the president, or he should. the second choice, the president saw no upside. the media, the left, t...

All of congress, and this president said nothing. why not? only two choices. one, he agrees with king. and there is a case for that. trump did visit with king early on. he did adopt his pet issue of border security. he does discuss it the same way. and king describes himself the same way the president does. >> under any fair political definition, i am simply an american nationalist. >> nationalism is not patriotism. they should not be conflated and he knows it, and so does the president, or he s...

Look at the overall divide on this are numbers i think that have gotten folks to fold in the past. so it seems like those old political rules arent applying necessarily as the white house certainly, which is losing on the side of overall public opinion right now to believe the polls, they dont seem to apply here. what would it take politically? is there any sense that would change that equation? >> there are a couple things that are very different about this shutdown, steve. generally speaking d...

Whole world, how what is happening with different types of experimental launch systems. all of those things are just flat out wrong. >> it was an interesting -- that moment was particularly interesting because the president has this pet issue with steam catapult launchers on aircraft carriers, how theyre launched into the air, versus electromagnetic. he put that officer on the spot saying which one do you support? i was waiting for his answer. to his credit, he said listen, these are better. and...

>> whats the balance. we had a scroll of 85 different investigations that various members talked of wanting to do. we know everybody has their pet issue with him, probably in your 230 plus caucus these days. how do you prioritize. >> 235. making sure that, one, the mueller investigation is allowed to continue. thats incredibly important. making sure that we have the ability to get to the bottom, the real bottom of what happened with the russians who were absolutely clearly trying to influence th...

>> i cant tell you. not sure. >> the former mayor railed against cohen for secretly recording the president. >> hes a scum bag, a horrible person. never heard of a lawyer taping his client. zpl giuliani is blasting a trial thats about to begin for paul manafort, argue iing the case i being used as leverage to take down the president. >> just a big fish, the reason they got manafort in solitary confinement so hell give up donald trump or a russia p. >> instead of answering questions, mr. trump re...

>> she had a pet issue, literacy, she had a number of causes she supported, literacy was the one that was most conspicuous and i went to be the emcee at the 75th anniversary of pearl harbor a year ago last december and that was at the bush library, bush 41 library in texas and the first night we were there, she was not there because she was away at a literacy event with her son neil. there was a cause that she lost sight of. the springer spaniels were out of the picture and she had a couple of t...

Serious price to that. but if they dont ask that question, that will show i think that theyre not very serious about taking these republicans, including hope hicks, seriously. >> or maybe steve bannon threads the needle, tries to save president trump and goes after his adversary for months and months, jared kushner. i want to read from a quote from "washington post" last year. about the presidents decision to write a statement about that trump town meeting back in 2016. quote, president trump wa...

Okay? the major departure, you say, is that this was written by only a few people and they did not allow interested agencies and departments to put in their pet issues. this was not a priority. explain that process because i think that really goes to the guts of what was said yesterday. >> normally these documents is an unwelcome homework assignment mandated by the congress, administrations get it out in the second or third year, full of lofty aspirations and every department and agency that has...