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In the midwest, in the west, in the south. if you go back to 2016, theyre pretty much all centered in the midwest. all he needed was a midwest earn polling error and he won. here democrats could still win because then they would still be doing well in the west, northeast and south. >> we will go back to the panel. the divisive rhetoric of the last couple of weeks, how the president has handled the violence of the mail bombs, the shooting in pittsburgh, are there any polls that give you an indica...

Impacted by the president thus far are those with high numbers of immigrants. so now the president out of nowhere brings birthright citizenship up. its political malpractice. thats a republican congressman who wants to hold the house, saying this is actually going to hurt republicans, because the marginal seats that republicans have still a pretty good hold on have a lot of immigrants and this is going to get them fired up. >> look, im sure william hurd agrees with that. im sure mike kauffman in...

I think david duke is a former klansman and a white nationalist. but, richard, lets move beyond the raceism, the overt racism and lets go straight to policy here. we talked about angela merkels problems in germany. shes not running for re-election. that changes the political map in europe in dramatic ways. but talk about donald trumps use of the world nationalist to define himself and the policy implications. and also i think some of the policy inconsistencies that it brings up. >> well put asid...

Conventions of the presidency. he does that up to a point. today we saw that in the reverse. the president in the immediate aftermath of this pittsburgh shooting was asked about it as he was boarding air force one. he suggested if the synagogue had an armed guard perhaps the results would have been different. he also talked about the policy implications, talked about the death penalty. someone asked if it meant we should have tighter gun laws. i dont think that would make any difference. then a ...

Will be happy to see him. when we drove up the line of trump support others stretched some 300 yards. the thing were waiting to see is what the president says if anything about todays violence and, of course, the uptick in political violence weve seen this past week. the question is, will we see twitter trump or teleprompter trump? im referring to what is now an established ritual where the political moment, a nation in crisis requires the president t to hue to the traditions of the president he...

Remarkable that you really dont see many republicans running on the tax bill that they passed last year, which is the presidents signature legislative accomplishment. a lot of that probably has to do with the fact that polling has found that the tax cuts, which of course disproportionately benefitted -- theyre increasingly popular with the american public, not a winning argument. you talk about these politics of fear and its also important to note that this isnt just about a political strategy t...

Very draconian immigration law that not only would crack down on undocumented immigrants already in the country, but also try to scale back even legal immigration. and so those are the policy implications of the way in which theyre trying to change the way that their base and if not the broader public perceives the issue of immigration in this country. >> a new book is about these very positions and conditions in the political country and how to try to unwind them. >> well, yes, i mean, the case...

Getting at for instance. youre already seeing efforts on the democratic side to sort of preemptively delegitimize any majority decision, especially a 5-4 decision that includes brett kavanaugh. theres already discussion of impeachment proceedings or efforts to pack the court and add another two justices. michael avenatti has tried to make that sort of a litmus test for any presidential candidate. so the policy implications should not be overlooked. they are dramatic and we will feel them for yea...

Ignatius and eugene robinson. and political reporter for "the washington post" and moderator of washington week on pbs, robert costa. >> you know, mika, last hour we were talking about september 11th and talking about it from policy implications, but also, obviously, theres so many personal stories, so many tragedies that happened on that day. but you actually, that was one of your first days at cbs -- >> ah-ha. >> and tell us what happened that morning for you. >> well, we were covering it like...

Cases are there actually are and whats going on, donald trump isnt going to be able to get anywhere it. >> jason: ilene, in your situation, we talk sometimes about the status, illegal illegal-- sometimes people will argue, it is really not the cogent part of the discussion. whats your perspective? what are your thoughts? >> i think his immigration status or citizenship status has a lot to say about policy implications going forward. and how we handle these kinds of things. you know, if theres a ...