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If you're mitt romney, it makes sense that the rnc would fall in line with the president. they're worried about there being a rupture in the middle of the party. there is real frustration with trump and they don't agree with his trade policies and i think romney has shown he is what really the heart and the gut of the gop would be on those kind of issues absent president trump. he's potentially threaten, though he is a very back bencher in terms of his rank in the senate. he was the party's political nominee. he's known as a face, even if he is a freshman senator from a state that is not, you ...

He had a sense, joe, that he was the temporary custodian of the oval office. he didn't own it. he was simply the 41st president of the united states, he knew there would be a 42nd, a 43rd and so on. so he was very aware, he had been given this trust. he was a borrower, if you will, of the office, but ultimately he knew there were limits and you had to pass it on to who came after him. >> and you brought up kuwait. it's o interesting. i remember being a young congressman and my chief of staff coming in and saying, do you have time to talk to the president? and since i was a back bencher, i said...

Challenger but if i were just a republican back-bencher i would ask myself. donald trump knows he has a lot of issues in the republican party, too. i think that's part of his seven-days long fury as well. >> and cornell belcher, the old professional advice for one party when the other party is destroying itself is to simply get out of the way and stay quiet and let them do that. the trouble is a field of democrats candidates for president is going to have to develop and develop relatively quickly, so they're not going to be able to just kind of silently watch the republicans struggle

They are not a majority party today. they are just not a majority party today. they are in the senate because of basically the structural problems of the senate, but the house is much more representative. even with gerrymandering the democrats did so well. so i think if i were a possible challenger but if i were just a republican back-bencher i would ask myself. donald trump knows he has a lot of issues in the republican party, too. i think that's part of his seven-days long fury as well. >> and cornell belcher, the old professional advice for one party when the other party is destroying itsel...

Close to resembling a mccarthyism of the left. >> he loved that. and you write how that's a thread that republicans are still pulling on today. explain that. >> yeah. that was from the 80s but that was now gingrich got power. that was how he newt gingrich captured the attention of a republican party that used to look very different than it did before newt gingrich made his climb. nafs 1984. he was in his third term. he was sort of a back bencher and staging these almost gorilla attacks on the floor of the house with a small band. that was him baiting tip o'neal. newt gingrich called him the fa...