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Of things we cant sugar coat about the coming administration, but i am really hopeful about, you know, changing the rules of the -- you know, of the game when it comes to the electoral college. im really hopeful about, you know, the amount of passion that were seeing right now because i think that might mean that were going to go from beingike indifferent and kindf lazy citizens to really mobilized, motivated sit sense, and i think that would be really exciting. >> i mean, on the policy level, y...

Thats what that government would look like. >> look, on a policy level, what republican establishment figures that have lined up behind trump are basically trying to say, look, we dont like him personally and thats why hes going to lose. but the bottom line is we didnt realize all the american people really wanted was protectionist paul ryan. on a policy or political basis, i dont think thats true. but we do know thats how they would govern. but his presidency would be completely overwhelmed by ...

Influenced him most, an eye for an eye. joining me is michael steele and benji. its also not like hidden. hes very much explicit about the role that vengeance, retribution, you hit me, i hit you, its central to the way hes conducted his campaign and his world view. >> this is part of what people like about donald trump and what donald trump thinks himself as his guiding principle. im a counterpuncher, hell say, you have to fight fire with fire, hell say and applies this to so many different thin...

Coming up with some excuse saying they attacked him but also with a policy level, torture, taking out families of suspected terrorists. >> killing terrorist family members is quite illegal. >> yes. >> michael, the thing i keep thinking about it, theres this creation with donald trumps campaign how he went to the last correspondents dinner and the president dressed him down and poked fun at him and ill get you back. you wonder how thats going to be directed at the republican party should he fall ...

Short sound bite, but he is not that strong on it. >> well, sits an issue that hillary clinton has to address and the tweaks are necessary as the segment showed. there are broad swathes of the country where people have a single insurer to choose from and if you dont have competition, you wont push the prices down, and so they have to make the changes in the coming congress, and the republicans in congress dont want to make any changes, because they want to repeal it, and they dont want tweaks an...

Like machine guns or guns with silencers. that was in the year 2000. 900. by the year 2014, it wasnt 900 applications anymore. it was over 90,000 applications. this has become a significant issue. so today president obama naupsed that people using gun trusts to buy restricted weapons he, they will now have to undergo a background collect. that will not be a way around the background check for those restricted weapons. this is one of those things where the hardest thing about it to understand is ...

To understand is this wasnt already the case but this wasnt already the case. on the policy level, theres a lot of really interesting specific stuff about what president obama announced today that he could do as president on reforming gun laws. even if congress refuses to do anything themselves. and the policy level, theres a lot of interesting specific stuff. on the political level though, the thing that is remarkable here, of course, is the level of upset caused by this issue. how upset the ri...

>> we have been hearing reaction from members of congress concerned about what we reported, namely, the department of homeland security did look at this in 2010, 2011, didnt go into adoptive policy to review social media. i talked to the dhs again, some whatever theyve said is background but what they did want to stress, they dont have any sort of secret policy prohibiting this, that we didnt say they did. we said they never advanced into it. they are on defense, as they were trying to explain t...

Again, donald trump is lead that field with we heard about talk about what he would do, deport refugees in the united states. clearly this is hitting a mark with a lot of republican voters. why is that? hes not appealing to most americans. >> what most republicans can easily agree is the obama administration middle east policy has been muddled and unclear. they should establish a clear concise message that seems strong that seems tough, that anyone can understand. trump was the first to actually...

The 9800, then you really get to understand that we dont have the trigger pullers that are out there. >> colonel, thank you. always nice to see you, sir. >> thank you, greta. >> president obama promising to bring the troops home by the time he left office. well, thats not happening. is that a flip flop or is that evolving based on changed circumstances? and how do you tell? the "on the record" legal panel is here. from the hill bob cusack and political director rick klein. i guess if you dont li...