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Care about the economy, you care about homeland security and you care about national security, everything is better today than it was two years ago. if you care about the style and you dont like the presidents style, thats not going to change. hes not going to drop the twitter account tomorrow and stop tweeting. i think his base is more emboldened than ever. hes stronger with the republicans than hes ever been when you poll them. when it comes to the left, hes more vilified than ever there. so i...

>> she needs them and she also has to show value to people, to your point, who took risks. she has to show value to the brand-new people who ran in part to be something different than she is, and i have not heard her say yet just how shell do that, but being effectively in going after the white house, running down that list of investigations will be a start. >> i think she is more well aware of the problems she may offer politically to her party than the president does. he -- >> that may not be ...

Against the republicans and so the president went i think from a victory that night to now coming to the realization that the house is not where it wanted to be -- >> did he really believe republicans were going to hold the house? did he believe it? >> i think he believed it would be closer than it was and we see a number of these close races within 1,000 votes that the republicans are losing and we didnt see as many gains in the senate. hes looked at his staff and going in his first and re-elec...

To go public with the -- with whats going on in the white house? is the president not listening? >> i look back at nancy reagan and how hillary clinton was very much involved in the day-to-day operations of the white house. this is not uncommon. melania trump is a private person and when she shes something when she wants to weigh in on, shes done it. shes done two separate interviews now when she said there are people in the white house that dont belong and thats going to come to a change pretty...

He remains a close ally to the president and currently serves to the senior adviser to the vice president. welcome back to the show. >> thanks for having me. >> i feel like weve been down this road before. the presidents furious at john kelly, his days are numbered. you said that six months ago and 12 months ago. are things different this time or not? whats your sense? >> i think what this president is now seeing a week after the election results were on election night as the number started to r...

>> she has self-awareness that he does not have. >> president trump has offered her an escape hatch that maybe we republicans should give her a few votes to put her in the speakership and actually, there have been some discussions among some republicans about the idea of getting some reforms and in return helping her. i think that would be enormously difficult in both parties -- >> explain that. >> explain it to either base, right? how do you pull that one off? >> it would make for an interestin...

Having to be out in south dakota campaigning for the republican governor the day before should be a wake up call to the republican party. i also look at the states like new mexico and arizona and nevada. places where the state party needs to do a better job of recruiting good candidates, making sure theres not a competitive primary process for those candidates and having the resources necessary in states where the demographics are changing considerably to make sure theyre reaching out for those ...

Way, you may as well be in the minority -- >> be in the most useless part of the minority which is the house. >> a lot of the semi-moderates, people who could have been a check on the entire process didnt even run. theyre not -- its not that theyre gone, they checked out -- >> and theyre had the ones who lost. >> well, those that did run, a lot of them lost. the president ran down that list of helpful. >> mia love, no love for me. nice try, mike. good job, mike. >> so what mccarthy has going for...

That may want to move from one side of the aisle to the other. brown, eight days after thinks revictory and two days after his wife tweet that had hes thinking about weighing for president well he wade in on the georgia governors race. >> if stacey abrams doesnt win in georgia, they stole it. its clear. i say that publicly. its clear. they cant win elections because theres way more of us than there is of them. if they cant win elections fairly, they win by redistricting and voter suppression. >>...

Minority caucus and hes got to manage a nonentirely reality based president who doesnt seem to recognize that his side lost the house or recognize the consequences of that, and, by the way, hes also going to have to manage however much pelosi does or doesnt manage to keep them in place, this is going to be a new world where theyre not just in the minority but theyre in minority against a very energized house democrats who are going to be making trouble and making trouble for his president. >> th...