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I mean the health care went down in flames. i doubt for all the reasons that bill raised out, i doubt the transgender law will become law. its not working. >> heres where some republicans are. they were glad that hillary clinton didnt win. >> why, is this what they wanted? >> no. well write the policy, hell sign it. and whats happening now is the dysfunction of the white house and the inability to hold a message to drive a legislative agenda is actually causing congress to be less fearful of his...

He is cocky and hell say things that are not true. i come back to the transgender thing. im so infuriated by it. because there are questions about women in combat, paying for certain operations. those are debated, i would say very seriously and in a dignified way over the last six, seven, eight years. dont ask/dont tell, and grappling with the tensions between the small combat unit an outpost and then the integration of the genders -- >> and we have been at war. >> it shows deeply though he thin...

Should pay for gender reassignment surgery, fine. thats one debate. im not sure what -- >> thousands of people? >> to separate 2,400 people from the military based on what incidentally? based on their own -- how do you know what peoples gender preferences are? in fact, a couple hours after the presidents tweet the defense department website has up on the website, transgender service members may serve openly and they can no longer be discharged or separated from the military solely for being tran...

Then. first few months in office you dont have your system set up very well. donald trump doesnt have that excuse. trumps damage is entirely from him. hes not being deceived by anyone. >> and i bet this played pretty big in russia as all of these things do. i think one of the more disturbing and pretty unfunny aspects of everything weve been talking about is no one is laughing at the kremlin. >> we, i think, have had a lot of self-inflicted wounds here in the united states. i think we need to ge...

Base. let the democrats run trying to defend transgender individuals v. chuck grassley and joni ernst, herself a veteran, married to a veteran, the other senator from wai iowa both came out against trump. >> the other thing you can almost see with the president picking this fight with jeff sessions that its given republicans an excuse to say things that theyve been wanting and itching to say for some time because it feels okay and everybody supports that the president has gone too far. >> do you...

House -- i had the job of communications director. and the job was about getting your arms around all of the ways that the president communicated. so to me the first mission for anthony scaramucci is either responsible for the tweets that are of questionable sort of -- you know, reprehensible on the substance level and questionable legally. but what do you think about just the early signs that scaramuccis direction is to, you know, if trump has been sort of drinking -- you know, like drinking ou...

Committees, whether they agree with it or not, and i think youre beginning to see a more reassert active congress, and were beginning to learn now more than ever why our founders wanted checks and balances. >> i agree with you, bill kristol, it took a very long time for republicans to wake up to the reality of what theyre dealing with. >> i dont know if theyre there yet. im starting to see -- >> you got my hopes up. >> tea leaves. >> you got me all hopeful. all right s. up next, this really happ...

Thats literally out of donald trump -- candidate donald trumps mouth. the stuff there about i can be more presidential than abraham lincoln. he said those exact words during a campaign speech a year ago. its almost as if weve gone back to the future. i think i had agree with you. let trump be trul. we cant control this ming, so lets just let it go. >> lets just call it a ploon. >> i do hope youre right that congress will start being more assertive in protecting its perg activities but also in pr...