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All. so i think republicans should take heed of their critiques and perhaps attempt to do something to move the needle forward on this. >> and historically gun rights advocates have been single issue voters. it is the gun control advocates who have not been single issue voters. and if this generation looks first at your position on back ground checks and minimums to purchase, that could certainly change a lot of these seats. >> you're right. and i think republicans should already be nervous looking at all of the elections, special elections since donald trump became president. it hasn't been g...

And people thought how competent he was over the fact there were potential red flags in his back ground that later came to light. regardless of how he feels with hope hicks, we've seen with it a number of staffers the. we know it is true of hope hicks. he didn't like her sit go outside the president's office and not having a well defined portfolio. that was one of many staffers that he tried limit down exactly what they were doing. but certainly he was very dismissive of hope hicks, of ivanka trump and jared kushner. certain people very close to the president that he doesn't feel are contribut...

Not necessarily have a back ground in it. >> not everybody on television is an expert. and larry kudlow, as was mentioned earlier, he plays an economist very well on tv. he's not trained as an economist. and if you look at what he has done over the years, he's not just been wrong, but he's been wrong so consistently and so spectacularly, so much so, that if people had followed his advice, say, six weeks before the economic crash, when he says he sees the beginning of a recovery, you would have lost everything. that's one thing. that's on you if you're watching cnbc and you took larry kudlow's ...

Into real trouble. that's when sessions recused himself. and the other thing is as imprecise as trump is, he's always very careful when he talks about russia. i don't think it's an accident that when he talked about it today in the oval office, he purposely did not bring up -- purposely did not tie the sanctions to the campaign and did not criticize putin directly. >> do you agree with that? >> i do. >> do you want to turn to the other story in the news? >> i do. >> so, today andrew mccabe, deputy fbi director fighting for his job just a little bit back ground, we talked about it on this progr...

Keeping the president happy. >> what about the president's joyce of gina haspel to become next cia director? >> i think with respect to miss haswell, in particular, the trump administration is engaged in an out and out cover-up to keep the american people from knowing about her professional back ground. as you know, there are many public stories linking her to torture. i'm a john mccain guy on these issues. he points out it is not right morally and he points out it is not effective. the cia has actually lied to the american people and to the congress. they have claimed that torture stops terro...