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Built. its there. this is an alternate reality bubble. this is a key promise to his base. this is something he cant walk away from. the desperation of that made me feel like he is trying to woo an coulture back into his loving arms. it was an astounding weak moment from a guy, hes so loose with the truth to begin with that it seems pathetic almost today. >> rick wilson, speaking for the republican establishment. >> stop. >> this is the second time the trump administration claimed new wall constr...

For other people who are not in that reality bubble, its very disturbing. >> he hasnt said this publicly in a speech but the fact that he has said this to other people, hes the president of the united states. things are going to get out. >> right. >> its just sort of stunning. >> well, also, the thing that we know about donald trump, he never says something to just one person. these conversations that he has are always with multiple people. >> hes trying it out with them. >> correct. he tests th...

With big questions, how did we get here. and former long time radio host charlie sykes looks at how rhetoric made donald trump and his own exile from what the conservative movement. he said there is no point in mincing words. for me 2016 was a slog when i realized that conservatives have created a reality bubble and i had perhaps helped shape it. joining me now is charlie sykes and welcome back to the show. congrats on the book. but it is a -- -- it is a tough thing to say you were part of this ...

Arented. >> well, merry christmas. >> liliana gil valletta and toure is my colleague and the co-host of "the cycle." governor lincoln chafee seems to suggest that the war on christmas is made up, that its not a real war. what is he smoking? i thought it was a real war. >> i love saying merry christmas to people. i dont feel we need to be so pc that if i say merry christmas thats xaking jews or muslims or people who want to celebrate kwanzaa. this is bizarre to me. >> every year fox news says bot...

Can treem masses of textreme ma gops, of blacks, single women, latinos especially, and they take those ideas and believe in them and its a reality bubble where facts cant survive in that bubble. so the electorate is getting filled with that stuff. and when you have moderate candidates, like a jon huntsman who is an adult, a reasonable thinking person, they cannot survive in that primary atmosphere and you get people who cannot win in a general. look, do not forget, they have lost five out of six...

But what hes been doing his entire career, you know this very well, is try to wield certain facts as he wants them to be into existence. he said it was very embarrassing and a very striking moment because he almost never says something like that. this was one of the rare times that you can think of him experiencing public humiliation. he did not consider his divorces to be humiliation. "the new york post" front page headline about his head life with marla maples, he loved that story. his bankrup...