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People who ever served our country, who sacrificed incredibly for our country. >> you may have a policy disagreement disagreement. but we should never, ever ever question the patriotism and heroism of someone like john mccain. >> so is it over for donald trump? joining me now is msnbc contributor robert trainem who served as a senior adviser for the bush-cheney campaign. and principal and ceo of impact strategies. with a welcome to you both. im actually going to change the question. not is it ov...

Creeping up in the polls as well. hillary clinton doesnt have a passion for this. she doesnt seem to be hungry for this. i think a lot of democratic voters are saying listen hillary, we want you to be our candidate, but talk to us and fire up the base here. she has yet to do that. i think thats why you see the passion on the hard left side with bernie sanders and others. >> robert angela thank you guys so much. >> you, too. have a sunday. the gun control debate. who may have come up with a com...

Politics. im very proud of many republicans in my party that are just saying these are just beyond the pale. they are offensive, they are wrong. but it also is an insight to donald trump into what he thinks. hes very artful in saying these bombastic things. but something like this is just absolutely despicable and i think this is the beginning of the end for him. i think he will probably be in the debate next month with fox news but i think hes going to be so much on the defense, not only from t...

Come june. we also know that this is probably going to be an issue not only for republicans but also -- lets remind ourselves that secretary clinton shifted on the issue over the last years, along with president obama. its not just a republican or democrat issue, it is an american issue that i think all presidential candidates are probably going to have to answer sometime this summer. lastly, alex its been unbelievable how the numbers have been shifted in such a quick way when it comes to marria...

University, robert trainem. former director of the national black caucus angela rooim. viviana hertano, founder of latino club. and michelle benard, bernard center for women and politics. before the march on washington, there wouldnt be a congress am black caucus. 3 even if 50 years feels long away, it is somewhat transformational. >> sure, and i think even after the march on washington, even after the civil rights act of 64 and the voting rights act of afc 65, it still took time. there were a f...

Redistricting processes that worked well, there are now 43 members that are african-american in the united states house of representatives. and one in the senate. >> you could argue at least in the house, 10%, its roughly at least matching population. robert, she brings up the senate. politically, were not -- there is still big gaps. >> one would think that south carolina, mississippi, alabama, the south ironically, with large african-american population would have african-american -- but becaus...

President tomorrow, you could probably [ inaudible ] to do it. >> you could probably get the votes in the house of representatives to do it. it is the latest in a series of attacks against obama. but do they have any real purpose except to rile up the base? im joined by jason stanford and political contributor for msnbc robert trainem. former senior adviser to president bush. good morning. >> good morning, chris. >> good morning. >> fairenhold is speaking at this town hall in texas and he did ar...

Appealing to that small group of texans, we do hear this from time to time, it doesnt go away. is this about fund-raising? firing up the base? what is it? >> this isnt a very small group. this is the republican based vote. grand, its texas and texas is the high church of stupid republican ideas. but this is a good example of how the republican party is now not a responsible partner in governing our country. the best part of this there is a subset of birthers in this country who know that obama w...

Any plan has hamstrung the president. house republicans cant pass what one would think would be as simple as spending bills. the senate republicans are watching the houses inability to give them leverage and are now splintering. knnegotiating their own deals, showing up at the white house. the fact remains, they dont have any agreement on what they want in any realistic budget negotiation. said senator mccain, i still dont see the strategy for the path towards result. he joked, its always darkes...

>> i think another difficult point for him, robert, was when an audience member asked him about his opposition to the voting rights act, and he tried to say, well, i was really only opposed to part of it, so let me play that. >> i have been concerned about the ramifications of certain portions of civil rights act beyond race as they are now being applied to smoking, menus, you know, listing calories and things on menus and guns, and so i do question some of the ramifications in the extensions bu...