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Spouse of the late Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) Cindy McCain said Thursday on ABC's "The View" that the Republican Party has lost its way. | Clips

Constitutional duty of impartiality and he talks about the oath of office. so, julian, is this holiday season going to serve as time for some of these lawmakers to either reconsider, reassess, hear from their constituents? might it actually change any of their thinking on their strategy moving forward in this impeachment? >> i wouldnt bet any money on that. i think the fact that this is coming from senator flake whos been very eloquent, but when he was in office he didnt really cause many proble...

Against republicans and say that if were going to have this trial and come up with some sort of agreement bipartisan to push forward at trial, we need to make sure were hearing from the people that have the actual evidence. and these emails show that michael duffy is one of those people who was intricately involved in this process. democrats definitely wanting to hear from him. some republicans may want to hear from him as well. whether they can reach some agreement will be key to what the trial...

You saw senator flake and corker forced into retirement. do you believe this contesting the water as some sort of challenge to the president? >> it could be but its not really new for justin amash to be doing things like this. he has a long history of being independent minded and criticize his party. kevin mccarthy criticized him but what he left out is often when justin amash wasnt voting with him, it wasnt because he was liberal, he was coming at him with a conservative standpoint. hes a membe...

We know the host of never trump republicans who, you know, lost their magazine and weekly standard have been meeting on a regular basis trying to find a third party person to come in and ross perot the president this time around and i think amash is doing a tryout now. >> kirsten, over the weekend a michigan state representative said that these tweets launched him to -- sitting republicans criticizing the president can be the downfall of their careers. you saw senator flake and corker forced int...

Pendulum tends to kick out those that are in -- towards the center of their party, be it republican or democrat. and whether this was a wave election or realignment if youre a republican in the suburbs in a swing district, the electorate had your number. i dont think it was personal. it was frankly -- >> you think it was about the president? >> no question it was about the president. >> i cant get kevin mccarthy to say that out loud. >> you had state reps that had favorability ratings of 55 or 6...

>> you had state reps that had favorability ratings of 55 or 60% getting 45% of the vote with voters coming out of the booth saying, i cant do it this time. i have to send a message that i dont like how the president conducts himself. >> would you vote for president trump in 2020? >> i would echo the sentiments of senator flake and corker that we should have a battle of ideas. i do not -- >> so you think there should be a primary? >> yeah, i do. i think its healthy. and let it play out. but i do...

Recognized. >> i want to thank the two leaders for what they have done today and what they have done even though i know some people tuning in my not understand what just happened. the understanding that has been reached and i want to thank senator flake and johnson and others is, were not voting on anything else in this chamber relative to this issue until a global agreement has been reached between the president and these two leaders and the leader of house. there wont be test votes. not going ...

Win. jimmy carter, gerald ford. george w. bush george w. bush. the idea wosh to damage trump in the primaries so he could not win the election. >> senator jeff flake says whether or not he runs he wants to see somebody run against president trump. he doesnt think president trump is a great president. he wants to see him challenged. the idea would be to weaken president trump and possibly to hurt him down the road. but the risk is that you lose the presidency to democrats. if these republicans li...

Them pause? >> we talk about this every day because its critically important that congress pass a statute protecting the mueller investigation. we should have done it months ago. this president has tried to interfere in this investigation in so many different ways. the firing of the attorney general sessions was just the most recent attempt hes made to marginalize the investigation. overlooking mr. rosenstein as the next likely person, all this is aimed at trying to compromise the investigation....