I think peel dont trust he word anymore. I think the people that vote the for and came out and supported him still do. Plus law and disorder. More upheaval as more attorneys decline to represent the president in the russia probe. Will the white house bring back some of the ousted staffers. The census will ask people if her citizens, now states are saying no way. This latest move by the Trump Administration to threaten california is not just a bad idea. Its against the law. This is mtp daily and it starts right now. Facing a blue wave in november, republican members have said theres salvation in their message, but right now the republican message is being consumed by the messengers. If youre a republican running in a competitive district, legislative affairs, not extramarital affairs. Market highs, not president ial lows. Tax cuts, not tweet storms. Job hirings, not white house firings. Not russia, conflicts of interests, ethics complaints, you nay it. Right now the president s conduct is consuminger, and there its polls that say voters want a koens that stands up, or original about facing a referendum, or warning how suburban voters threaten the gops grip on the house. Today the white house was asked about the president acy morals, and they answered by pivoting to his agenda. I think that the people of this country came on the by the millions to support donald trump, support his agenda and the policies he is pushing forward. He has been delivering day in day out on that front. I think the people that came out and supported him still do so, and do so because they believe the agenda that he was driving, and hes been delivering on that since he came into office. They were asked about the president s alleged affair with the porn star, and their answer was pretty clear that they want this story to go away. The president has addressed this, we have addressed it extensively. Theres nothing else to add. Just because you continue to ask the same question over and over and over again doesnt mean we have to keep up coming with new things. We have addressed it extensively, and theres nothing new to add to the conversation. Theres an answer she could give. The problem is the story is not going away. The problem with the president s conduct is that it is not changing. Just ask republican congressman ryan costello. He backed trump in 2016, now he is retiring, and it sounds like hes seen enough were talking about porn stars and the president rather than tax policy. He calls this environment deeply from us at a timing. He said if i had a town hall this week, it would be question after question do you believe trump or do you believe tomorrow, . Why dont you believe her . He says he wants to talk about substance, but trump blocks everything out. What fuels the energy isnt issues, its trumps personal. Im joined by congressman costello. Thank you for being here. Thank you. Are you saying essentially your party has become a cult of personality around donald trump . I think particularly in congressional districts like mine, you have to push back over and over, as often and as loudly as you can, to not have that happen to you. Yet youre not going to be on the winning side of that fight very often just because of the unending cascade of these news stories, and voters want to know where you stand on his conduct on a daytoday basis. Thats not an unreasonable thing, but its also very difficult in a competitive seat like the one i have occupied, where policy arguments and what you want to do matters, but thats not the only calibration that a voter is going to think through as theyre evaluating your job performance. Then why dont you answer their questions on the conduct . Why dont you answer what you think about what hes done and then move on to the issues of policy, what do you say . Is she telling the truth . I mean, i think she is. I do, katy, ive a number of town has. I do do that, ive always done that. You do get to the policy, but ultimately you get back to more questions about it. From the left its never good enough. From the right, the moment you say anything, often the response is why are you out there saying that about the president . Why arent you defending him . So youre in a nowin situation . No question about that. That doesnt mean that republicans in suburban districts cant win. It just means its a very catch22 type of conundrum that we find ourselves in. Im not here to complain about that, but obviously im certainly comfortable diagnosing it, because ive love there it. Part of congresss job is to act as a check on the president , and part of the complaints is congress isnt doing anything to act as a check on this particular president. Should something be done . Should there be a hearing on this payment, this 130 grand . Should there be hearings on the president and his family enriching themselves on Trump Properties while on they hold Government Office . Do you think there should be any hearing with whats going on with the president beyond this russia investigation . Total legitimate question. My feeling, katy, is that when members such as myself say a special counsel should come about, and it did, that to know what the breadth and width of the investigation is at this moment in time is somewhat difficult. What i dont think it should not be interrupted. It should not be per versed, for lack of a better term. Thats where i think the investigation should occur. It is occurring. I would also say, in terms of what trey gowdy has done, i think hes called balls and strikes pretty fairly here, so you have to trust your oversight committee. Having said all that, no matter what you do, i dont think the most ardent antitrump voters will think its enough. I do think mueller should be left to do his on. What about, though, investigating why Donald Trumps private businesses are profit ing my sense is the investigation may end up there. I dont mean to be eludive leer, but because there is an ongoing investigation. Ive always tried to set mea attention on balancing theres a number of policy areas where, as a member of congress i should be pushing forward on, thinking that mueller is going to take the investigation where it should go when it should go there. You know as well as i do, if you have a government hearing, Congressional Committee hearing on this type of thing, it turns into a circus. It turns into a circus. On both sides. Youll have some republicans defending at 110 , democrats will be doing the same thing. I will also say that right now you do hear in many hearings that those types of questions are being asked anyway. Let me play devils advocate for a moment. Should Donald Trumps conduct be surprising . It was very clear how he conducted himself burg the campaign, and a adviser for you said in a statement that you have stated all along its vital for republicans to win in november, so you supported donald trump in his bid for the white house, despite everything you saw. Do you regret that now . Boy, thats a good question, the answer is, look, i supported the tax bill. I think its good policy. If you look at the Labor Participation rate, its much improved, low unemployment, stock market while volatile the past few weeks is still strong. Money is being returned to low and middle income americans. Capital is being deployed. Theres a good story to tell. There is. This president has signed into law some legislation that i fully support. Much in the way of Regulatory Reform measures, but katy, im going to be the first person to tell you, i have little kids and i dont want them to ask me what does Stormy Daniels do for a living. I dont like to hear a lot of the things i hear or when we tweet the way we tweet. I dont like it. When the question was asked during the president ial race, if someone had asked me if afc role model, i would have said no. Nobody asked me that. I think supporter support the policies, but we cannot discount the fact that a lot of americans legitimately look at the president of the United States, any president of the United States and say he or she should be a role model. I disagreed with many of president Barack Obamas policies. There were some i agreed, but i disagreed with many of them, but he was a good role model. He conducted himself in an appropriate way. I cant disagree with him, but i think a lot of americans want their president , even george w. Bush, there were very tough times in 2006, but even democrats i think now particularly look back and say hes a decent man. He had high moral character. That matters. It matters in a lot of ways for a lot of reasons. Yeah. This kind of stuff is not good for our country. Its not good for our culture. We saw a number of demonstrations over the weekend, and we have children who are becoming more and more political engaged. We want them to be engaged on issues, but you cant ignore the character questions. Let me ask you one more time, do you regret your vote in 2016 . No, because the choice was President Trump or then secretary clinton. I never really felt that the writein route i think that was avoiding one of two choices. I hope he i hope he governs, and gets rid of some of the tweeting and all that stuff. Its not good for him i dont think hes going to get rid of the tweeting. Lets be honest. If he was going to change his conduct, it would have happened by now. I agreed, and im trying to be honest, but we have another 2 1 2 years of him as president. He would do himself and republicans in congress much, much better if he were to focus on governing and leave these other stuff to the side. No doubt about that. When i voted for him, i had a feeling that he would surround himself with good people as the executive as he is, and he would let them run their agencies and some of the soap opera stuff of the campaign would fall by the wayside. I legitimately felt that way. There were a lot of other voters that felt the say way. No doubt about that. I think thats a feel that a lot of folks had. They wish he would left the campaign behind him and be president ial. And just read your book if they wanted to know any more about. Campaign. Thank you, sir. Congressman costello, thank you. We appreciate your candor. Thank you. Lets bring in the panel. Not teague to inwardlooking, but act from now into the future, its a bit pie in the sky, i think for anybody to look at him during 2016 and say hes going to change in 2017. When i took my never trump stance during the elen in 2016, one of the points is hes going to be a disaster for the country, probably a disaster for the world, but also will be a disaster for the republican parties. He will permanently a certain said of ideas that transsended simply the question of tax policy or regulatory policy. Now with this huge wave of republicans says they cant take it anymore, thats coming true. You may see a sweep now, as colossal as what the democrats achieved in 1974, a total republican wipeout and republicans deserved it, because they knew who they were getting into bed with. I lie down with dogs, you wake up with fleas. Its regardable that its still not that business of a wave of republicans. They cant walk away from him. Its not them, not paul ryan, not any thats washington. Its trump. He knows that and hes playing if for as hard as he can. Congress mast Costello Just for a moment, had a hard time answering whether or not he regretted his vote. Ultimately he calm bake said and said no, because he couldnt vote for hillary clinton. Does that mean the democrats can put up any other candidates . Not at all. 2016 was a change election, he became a so if democrats believe they can be opposed to trump and thats it, they will lose. Theres the slept of trouble, and then the i was struck by the faustian bargain. We know hes not a paragon of future, we know hes indecent. We know we cant let our kids listen to him. We have to explain who Stormy Daniels is. Who howard stern, we know that, but hes going to sign the stacks bill. Heing with used for our ends, and then i cant vote for the other side. I cant vote for those people. When you have a cultive type of society, and then you get this disaster. And its an tune to put on the connor lamb face of the party. Bring forward candidates who are responsive to their districts and their niece, who are moderate, not hyper part sans. Norm ate people not wedding themselves to a figure in washington. The great danger i always thought for the Democratic Party in the age of trump is it would start to mirror trump in terms of the celebrityification of politics, like bringing oprah in, and based on cultural motifs rather than policy niece. This room for that, though, when you look at the progressive base or the very angry part that wants trump out there and out of think immediately . This is the same kind of vitriol as there is how do you come back to the center and build consensus now that hes done so 67 to exploit and widen the division. None of his positives, that visceral popularity with the base, its republicans trueing to do trump lite. So its really the answer is its up to democrats to come up with good keats. You can have an argue at the national live. Republican lite will not work for democrats anymore. Thats what clintoniism is. If you have a choice between a duck and something that acts like a duck, youre going to choose the duck. Over and over again we have folk trying to behave like republicans, when they should put forward a Progressive Agenda that isnt wild, left wing. Thats not what connor lamb did. Thats not to say you cant run people who are right for their sdrigs. You can have a National Platform that sets out the there a plat much that can move and flow . Guys dumb back later in the hour. Ahead the president seemsing to increasingly embracing chaos. Is it any wonder his search for a new lawyer is coming up empty . Directv now gives you more for your thing. Your letting go thing. Your sorry not sorry thing. Your out with the old in with the new, onto bigger and better thing. Get the live tv you love. No bulky hardware. No satellite. No annual contract. Try directv now for 10 mo for 3 months. More for your thing. Thats our thing. Visit directvnow dot com you or joints. Something for your heart. 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Last week the president s top lawyer handling the Mueller Probe resigned, and hes having a tough time finding a replacement. Complicating the search, the shallow pool of qualified lawyers who agree with the president s legal strategy, and dont have a conflict of interest. While from the outside this looks like a white house in the midst of a staffing crisis, that chaos may just be what the president likes. Is. Do you think this white house can function if prompt backs his own chief of staff as steve bannon and cory lieu wantn dowski. The policy process, its easy for the president to make policy. The tricky part is understanding the consequences of the policy, and need to process to make sure that there are not unintended consequences to the policy. Thats the chief of staffs job, but you have to have discipline in the white house. John kelly i think has done a good job of trying to bring discipline to the white house. The president should empower him to do it. If the president is not there yet, i think the president will be in trouble. Hell continue to be in trouble until he recognizes he shouldnt try to micromanage the white house and shouldnt look to have yemen and yes women around him all the time. He needs lots of diverse opinions and views, and he needs to be challenged on his policy so they can understand the consequences before the policies are defined by the unintended consequences. Andy, youve been watching alongside us the past 14 months, do you think its becoming clearer that that is all he wants, yemen and women in the white house, or do you disagree. The tweet can fire off the confetti gun, and maybe he likes that, but thats not good for the country and its not good for the world. We dont want the world to be looking at confetti. We want them to understand there is a stable leader in the white house, because the president of the United States is truly the leader of the free world. We are the ones who give definition to democracy around the world. Is john kelly doing a good job if he cant be totally empowered by the president , can he possibly be doing a good job . Into doing what the chief of staff wants, maybe, and to following direction first of all, you dont want a chief of staff that manipulates the president. Thats a turnoff, but maybe keeps him in line. You bring discipline. Structure around him. Put structure around him. Whether they were planned actions of the past or anticipated actions in the future. Just