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This as a base issue, immigration. and the polling to a certain extent bears that out. i think my question is, is the number of those republicans shrinking as this presidency wears on? >> that may be true. i don't know. the problem i have with it is i think the base is pretty well locked down at this point. to be honest with you, the stuff the republicans would want to run on, economy, ending regulation, judges, that's really good for the base as it is on the republican side. and you don't have to lose people, per se, in droves when you do the hot button issue like immigration. i think that's ...

That is that what you were suggesting? >> well, yes. i mean, i'm not suggesting there is a conflict of interest in any business world that would be a conflict of interest. it's just a matter of whether you know it would impact his decision making or position on these issues. he has in the past taken some strange positions. for example, after tiananmen square he was one of the senators letting trade continue with china despite human rights violations and voted in that manner. he has had votes with china that one would question. the base issue here is that businesses are always concerned about c...

National guard troops to the border. he's barely sending more than president obama did in 2010 and not as many as president bush did in 2006. >> charlie, the whole base issue with the president, we put scott pruitt in that bucket because you could make an argument, it's pretty clear, if pruitt weren't popular with the base he'd probably be gone. >> i think that's true. the president number one, identifies with pruitt. the press is going after pruitt. the press is going after me, so i think he identifies with him on the one side, but i think the other side is that put -- put behavior and the ju...

That people in industrialized countries will see the facts and hear the truth film and that they give more attention to base issue. one general young is no longer allowed to show his film on china's strictly controlled internet but he's convinced his work has helped raise awareness and the country about the need for change. and now it's time for global ideas this week we visit the rain forests of ecuador home to a wide variety of little known delicacies reporter michelle knight and hannah traveled to the town of. that he met people determined to protect the local way of life and the rain fores...

In fact, we're not going to reopen negotiations on illegal immigration until they reopen the government and give you our soldiers and your families the benefits and wages you've earned. >> i'm sorry. we got the wrong tape there. gene, what do you make of this the fact that they're brutally using this, saying the soldiers are not getting paid, but the politicians were? >> well, a lot of tough talk. this was a base issue for trump. and whenever -- when he met with schumer, for example, and made a wall for daca, a deal, you heard the outcry on the right. you heard the outcry from his base saying ...