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Tamara sat down with hillary clinton to discuss her memoir in an interview out today. more on that in a moment. steve, the better press secretaries have preprepared wording that you can follow their eyes and glance down at it and that was clearly the case today. clearly they were not going to take the high road and are still kind of relitigating the election as is hillary clinton. >> and well see if donald trumps twitter feed has more to say about the book in the days to come. of course, if he d...

Might imagine about donald trump. in todays white house press briefing, sarah huckabee-sanders responded to clintons book and a question about whether the president would read it himself. >> will the president be reading hillary clintons book and what does he think about the excerpts that have gotten out so far? >> whether or not hes going to read hillary clintons book i am not sure, but i would think that hes pretty well-versed on what happened. and i think its pretty clear to all of america. i...

Many of these are the moderates and it happens cycle after cycle. the moderates were the democrats that dropped out, too. and that ultimately ended up losing in 2010. and -- and it leads to this increasingly polarized congress where people are more concerned about primaries than they are about the general election. and that basically just leads to more of the conflict that, you know, voters left and right will say, we just want congress to do stuff. we want them to get things done, but the polar...

Sort of at the root of all this. when you think back to the primaries t primaries last year, donald trump wasnt endorsed by a republican member of congress until after he won the new hampshire primary. absolutely unheard of for a nominee in either party to have that complete lack of support from capitol hill and then go -- >> crickets. >> -- out there and win the nomination. theres this element here, charlie dent is certainly one of those guys who wouldnt even endorse donald trump last year in t...

Rolling from crisis to crisis. fiscal cliffs and debt ceiling fights and continuing resoluti n resolutions every few months and its just not a very fun place to be. add to that the basically constant fund-raising that a member of congress has to do and, you know, they get a republican president. its a republican congress. and it hasnt vastly improved. you know, things havent been sailing through. and so if the frustration level is there and they cab see wrin writing on the wall, why stick it out...

>> whether or not hes going to read hillary clintons book i am not sure, but i would think that hes pretty well versed on what happened. and i think its pretty clear to all of america. i think its sad that after hillary clinton ran one of the most negative campaigns in history and lost and the last chapter of her public life is going to be now defined by propping up book sales with false and reckless attacks and i think that thats a sad way for her to continue. >> steve kornacki and tamara keith...

Which makes me one smooth operator. ah! still a little tender. (vo) go national. go like a pro. welcome back to "the 11th hour." were back with our national political correspondent, steve kornacki. fascinating stuff at the board today. happy to be joined by host of the npr politics podcast, tamara keith. so tamara, welcome to the broadcast. let me ask it this way. these republicans we just talked about who are vacating these seats, one way of asking it is, what do they know about whats going t...