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Changed his position three or four times. my gosh must be steamed right now at donald trump. whats the reaction? >> mitch mcconnell and donald trump smoke not yesterday but the day before. in between these tweet and before donald trump made all those remarks. i think that tells you a lot about how that phone call went. the sense among mitch mcconnells cramp is that the president does not understand how things get done in washington, that this is counterproduct of, he should they only needed thos...

Bannons dream we have heard of that maybe donald trump moves towards being an independent president. thats the only thing that makes sense here. >> in a sense it does. it does raise an important question. it sounds kind of attractive and romantic and brash to say im not a member of the republican party. im an independent force. in order to get things done in washington on your legislative agenda you need to get some votes somewhere. he is never going to get a democratic vote. if he will alienate...

News had been the unifying force for all republicans and all conservatives that were running for office on the national level over 25 years. anyway, coming up, were going to take you through the time line of how more scrutiny has been piled on paul manafort. from whispers of ukraine connections to ledgers of payments. from campaign chairman to an fbi raid, to donald trump saying paul who? "morning joe" coming back right after this. ♪ ♪ award winning interface. award winning design.

Critical of jeff flake and other republicans for not being loyal to donald trump. its not about being loyal to conservatives. in the past you would have debates about whats conservatism and the most conservative way to go, but it doesnt seem to be that way anymore. it seems to be more of a channel thats in defense of donald trump. youre either on donald trumps side, or you are -- you are against what fox newsstands for. >> yeah. joe, i mean, 20 years is a snap of a finger in terms of history. bu...

Him look incredibly weak on the foreign stage. >> and its like he has a hammer in his hand, and he keeps banging his hand. doing one thing after another, and then he holds up az hand and goes why does my hand hurt so much? like on health care. he has done everything possible to lose one health care vote after another. pressuring republicans, having steve bannon, my god, what a stupid thing to do. having steve bannon going up insulting house members, threatening house members. they finally pass l...

Significant. so where are the republicans on capitol hill with trump here? are they at the end of the day going to line up behind him on this, outside of, of course, john mccain. >> joe, i think theres a will the of deference with republicans and democrats. this is a aggressive and a situation that union foo evening chuck schumers initial statement said, look, we have to be deliberate and strng i think now there is a significant level of fear, quite frankly, coming from both weve talked about th...

Lets get it done. they should have had this last one done. they lost by one vote. for a thing like that to happen is a disgrace and it shouldnt have happened. >> reporter: some conservatives say its time for him to retire. >> ill tell you what, if he doesnt get repeal and replace down and doesnt get taxes done, meaning cuts and reform and if he doesnt get an easy within to get done, infrastructure, if he doesnt get that done, then you can ask me that question. >> its unbelievable. hes blaming th...

Is the crisis that has most threatened to set the entire ship potentially sinking. they may not say it publicly but there as a lot of fear ind the obama administration kicked the can down the road. its fascinating, you have republicans and democrats alike from the bush administration, the clinton administration and the obama administration all saying quietly behind the scenes, yeah, we could have done a better job on that and the.

Immigration advocates there to strategize and lay the groundwork for actions this coming here. on the occasion of that big confab of immigration activists, this weekend, the arizona republic did some reporting on the prospects for any movement on the immigration reform nationally. the paper quoting the number two democrat in the house, steny hoyer saying the house democrats idea for a discharge petition to get a vote on immigration reform even if john boehner doesnt want it. steny hoyer telling ...

Immigration reform group, united we dream who held their annual national congress in phoenix bringing more than 500 immigration advocates there to strategize and lay the groundwork for actions this coming here. on the occasion of that big confab of immigration activists, this weekend, the arizona republic did some reporting on the prospects for any movement on the immigration reform nationally. the paper quoting the number two democrat in the house, steny hoyer saying the house democrats idea fo...