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He's dug in on a position that destroyed the republican ma joerts in both the house and the senate. he's dug in on a position that polling shows an overwhelming number of americans are opposed to, even republicans supporting immigration. >> he's a president that doesn't have much in the way of fixed ideology, certainly playing to the base is a core tenet for who donald trump is. >> that has happened before. it's happening now. that's not going to change. to piggyback on tom's point, a close adviser told me, the president, not that he's thinking nothing ahead months or years, he tries to think ...

Government, but they want to make sure that republican base, the trump base, is with the president heading into 2019, a turbulent year with robert mueller's investigation, a divided government. this is as much as playing to the base and making sure they're with this president as much as securing funds for a border wall. >> and yet the numbers playing to that base doesn't seem to make a lot of sense. when you look at the polling you've got only 33% of americans wanting to build the wall if mexico doesn't pay for it. almost 50% of americans blaming donald trump for the government shutdown. there...

Because the president doesn't want to hear anything that's not what he believes. >> reverse engineering actually fits with a segment we're going to have coming up about a new yorker piece. about the apprentice where donald trump was so woefully ill-prepared for those boardroom scenes where he fired somebody that he would often fire the person who was the most effective through the entire week. they would have to go back and reverse engineer in the editing base and find something terrible or find something that would suggest the person should be fired and often it was very hard to do it. believ...

On defense, maybe half the cold war average, a period in which the economy has grown at a record pace. the reason? global stability is a prerequisite for economic growth. and, you know, brett, it's important that we learn from our mistakes and you've made mistakes, i've made mistakes, we've all made misjudgments at times. i wanted us to get out of afghanistan. we were spending $2 billion a month. it didn't make a lot of sense to me. then i saw what happened when we got out of iran. and unfortunately, we are in a position in a post 9/11 world where there are a couple of countries where we're go...

Well that trump's base doesn't necessarily reflect the country as large. and i think women are kind of the way to make those inroads. a majority of americans voted for hillary clinton. that majority last night, plus others who were moderate republicans, who were independents, came out big last night and said this is -- they looked at donald trump and they said this is not the country that we want. >> john, when president trump won we often heard that there is a rise of the fear of the country growing more diverse. and we saw a lot of white america not comfortable with that. >> that's right. >>...