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The retweet from the president this morning getting a lot of buzz. retweeted what was seen as the best eclipse ever. this a couple days after the total solar eclipse, that all of us were covering just the other day, but you see the president slowly -- eclipsing his immediate president -- predecessor. why would the current president undermine and ridicule his immediate predecessor? people are wondering, has that ever happened before? a president really goes after his immediate president sayser in...

Breath easier about kind of being more honest about what trump is doing. >> that is a fascinating point. they can sort of change the dynamics of how much in the conservative media people feel afraid or wary about criticizing if they are doing it themselves. >> yeah. i think thats probably the biggest impact of where it is felt. >> thank you for taking the time tonight pb ahead, the presidents prime time remarks. is he about to about-face on one of his policy issues. thing one, thing two, reach...

Of what the groups might do in the future. >> i think so. i think the police in boston learned from what happened in charlottesville, they kept the two sides apart. they didnt meet. they didnt fight. it looks like there is still some straggler troublemakers in boston trying to fight with the police but over all, being against nazis, against white supremacists, not a partisan issue and not hard to do and it should be easy for our country to come together against extremism on both the right and th...

Speaking out because i think its important for the country to see there are republicans standing up for what america stands for. the most important thing that bob corker, a guy who supported donald trump, he is a guy who cut him a lot of slack on policy issues where donald trump has been all over the place. bob corker has given him a chance and defended him. this isnt a policy matter. enough! this is moral compass and clarity. it should not take a teleprompter. it should not take days and days f...

Thinks -- we lose the opportunity to learn from history, these memorials are beautiful, and it hurts our parks and towns where they are taken down, that again reopens this whole conversation, you know that there will be people who will say you shouldnt refer to these as beautiful, and other people say no, that is part of my southern heritage and pride, the president got it right, it seems like this is just reopening the conversation all over again. >> and it is evidence of exactly what he said i...

Path forward to confront trump on agenda items. i think they want to be able to kind of like deal with some of these moral issues in another lane and then deal with policy issues in another lane and i think its unclear whether thats going to be a tenable solution going forward. when trump gets back to washington next week, when congress gets back later in the month, they will have to deal with some difficult issues and i dont necessarily think we are seeing any sign, really, that republicans are...

Enough anymore to be quietly upset, privately upset, complaining to your staff if youre an elected official that youre really upset with the president. this is a seminal moment. this is the time for leadership. thats what people in elective office do. >> mayor -- >> they lead. >> in this seminal moment, we heard from the bushes, just read that statement. what do you think president obama is thinking right now? hes been mostly quiet since president trump took office. hes spoken out on a few issue...

Not in trump, you believed there was a chance for the base, to do infrastructure. that seems to be something hes ready to get rid of. >> the business community has amputated trumpism. if you look at the policy issues, most of them. if they were to be interested. the reason that they got out of the council is because of the moral dimensions of the issue and the business community is far ahead of the political leadership. and of course, the political leadership has not reconciled itself to what th...

Months of his presidency, and then if you go back over the campaign, donald trump has not given me any reason to hope that he will face the challenges of today. >> at the justice department, we have seen report that is they are transferring funds in the civil rights division. theres certainly enough signals of policy issues that have changed dramatically in the last couple of months. >> theres no question about that, it begins with the case in which we were and are co-counsel challenging voter i...

Answered. maybe, but a breaking point of what? where will the breaking point be? where our moral stance is on twitter or breaking point where it matters in terms of backing the president in various other things that he does and policy measures places that it would matter in a day-to-day way. this matters, but were not in election season right now where there are people going to the polls. >> were getting closer by the day. >> the first year. were talking about tax reform and health care and what...