kimberly, thank you for having me. i spoke to steve a couple of times today. he s in great spirits. he s completely 100% committed to helping president trump get his conservative populist agenda congress and to enact those promises that president trump made on the campaign trail. those that steve bannon was keeping track of inside the white house, on a daily basis and trying to stay true to those conservative principles. i think steve, whether he s inside the white house or outside, he is going to continue to do just that. kimberly: what about this push poll inside the white house between the populist agenda and those that were perceived as globalists? typically there s this discussion about a battle currently between steve bannon and h.r. mcmaster and perhaps
donald comes from new york, embodies new york values. listen, the donald seems to be a little rattled. any time someone is attacking your faith, it suggests they re getting nervous about what s happening in the race. i would be happy to invite donald to come to church with me any time he would like, he would certainly be welcome there. donald trump perhaps not surprisingly isn t letting up, tweeting this morning sadly there s no way ted cruz can continue running in the republican primary unless he can erase doubt on eligibility. dems will sue. steve kornacki joins us now. steve, this offensive we are hearing more of from ted cruz is really something new in a lot of ways, but we re also hearing they may have been testing attack lines, making calls in iowa. that term that pops up every four years, push poll. there s a possibility that push polling is going on in iowa. what is that? it is a fake poll.
released in the time being, it will be very hard. even bernie sanders not just clinton who said oh, cecile richards as the head of planned parenthood has apologized for the tone. and i think that was sufficient. that s not a response to what we ve learned. it s not a response. you know planned parenthood steve, points to this hart research associates poll they did. i don t know the internals of this poll who they re asking. the question was do you agree disagree with republicans efforts to end all government funding with planned parenthood. there you see the numbers disagree with republicans high. again this is hart research. 800 registered voters. they re saying that this does not have traction long term and that politically it s going to backfire on republicans. it s a common theme. sure. but the other thing that poll the question mentioned was ending funding for all of planned parenthood activities including family planning and cancer screenings. that s mentioned twice. that s
conservative think tank under jim demint. this is the self-styled center of conservative thought in 2013. they have this new project trying to convince republicans everybody will be super okay with it if the republicans shut down the government. look at this. heritage action. submit to my superior brain. the sentinels, right? heritage action released a new poll designed to make republicans take the leap to shut down the government over obama care. heritage is saying trust us. house majority not at stake. it will be fine if we shut down the government. look, their unique take on this is getting pickup. here s the same poll reported in politico. poll shows shutdown blame would be split. in the case of a potential government shutdown, less than a third of people would blame republicans. washington post had a slightly more accurate take. just how stupid does heritage think republican politicians are? heritage poll was a pseudo poll conducted by a conservative polling firm, a push poll
be split. in the case of a potential government shutdown, less than a third of people would blame republicans. washington post had a slightly more accurate take. just how stupid does heritage think republican politicians are? heritage poll was a pseudo poll conducted by a conservative polling firm, a push poll with loaded questions asked in mostly republican districts in order to get the answer heritage wants. here s an example of the way they asked the question. check this out. this is how the heritage poll asked respondents if they d support republicans shutting down the government to defund obama care. this is how they worded the question. in order to get president obama to agree to at least have a time-out on implementing the health care law and its full effects, would you approve or disapprove of a temporary slowdown in nonessential federal government operations which still left all essential government services running? slightly different from do you support government shutdo