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Mayorkas. it is something that voters care about and theyll have to deal with before 2024. >> republican senator mitt romney is surging fellow republicans to focus in on the economy, for example, and not necessarily these investigations that the new house republican leadership clearly wants to do. do you think this is a miscalculation by the new republican leadership. house? >> i think what youre hearing from republicans right now is the plan they thought they would have in place if they had a h...

I think it was actually a total misreading of the republican base. he changed the republican base and republicans in congress arent up to speed with what his base is. thats a political analysis, but its actually, if you look at the history -- >> your point is his base is actually -- >> more jobs focused, more america focus. >> and working class anxious about health care, not really interested in the ideological debate about repealing obamacare. >> totally misreading, i think, what the base is. t...

We had a situation in syria not long ago. put down a red line and assad crossed the red line. he got ready to do something about it. announced he would move on it. talked to our allies about it. at the last minute backed off. bill: that why yesterday. senator john mccain has been outspoken of the presidents handling of the crisis. he is with us in studio. nice to see you in new york, senator and welcome back to manhattan. drew the short straw today. weakness, syrian situation is classic. that is...

And obama made a speech here not to long ago about three monthsing on in may, basically said okay, now we are returning to the pre9/11 days. we are not at war. we are going to pre9/11 and it is just a law enforcement problem and well try to roundup the bad guy when they blow something up. and we are no longer on a war footing if you will. i think that is dead wrong. i think it is a total misreading of where we find ourselves today. >> as president george bushs second in command. cheney helped to...

He had two-thirds majority in the house and senate. >> and still was opposed by a lot of the republicans just wasnt enough of them. >> thats correct. and after 1966, he had a lot of trouble because he lost seats in the midterm. look, this whole thing thats been created, maureen dowd started it, its a total misreading of the situation, in my view. the president had a nice response to it at the correspondents dinner. they say, why dont have you a drink with mitch mcconnell? why dont you have a dri...