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Polling that you pointed to now. >> it's striking me, betsy, that the successes and the victories don't seem to provide the emotional motivating force that republicans feel that their base needs. so the kavanaugh win or the tax cuts, it's like it has to be that you're under threat and under peril is the means why you get vested. >> that's a fact with which the trump campaign is intimately acquainted. if you talk to people in ted cruz's orbit who are close to cruz's 2016 presidential candidacy. the moment they saw trump's numbers go up and cruz's go down was a night in march of 2016 when protes...

Base needs in terms of jobs. >> you know what they say about me? i'm a uniter, not a divider. i brought you and john boehner together. never seen that happened here or any place else. i want to ask one last question. just think about the political consequences. the president is on a role with the economy. it's doing well. we've got a new low and the unemployment number, everybody kind of. even the president's fiercest critics and acknowledged the economy is doing well. the tariffs that could tank the economy. any thought within the white house and more importantly, congressional republicans by...

Against him legislatively? we don't know what that's going to end up. publicly there is more resistance to this than anything else president trump has done in his presidency it seems to me. >> one, they understand that a trade war which we can lead into with this, can damage them particularly in a little thing called the midterm election. >> right. >> if there was a time they didn't need him to do this, it's now. >> right. >> and secondly, i think -- and i will pardon myself for saying this since we talk about pardons, i agree, boehner, there is no gop. it is the party of trump. and i think th...

Guy and have you ever wanted to quit. no. we have a close relationship and interesting listen to miss mccain when she talked about how her father will be remembered for hundreds of years. i think john kelly and the staff in the trump administration will be remembered for all of the lies they told and not anything that they are doing. and i just have trouble taking any of this ser yus -- seriously and he sprinkles it with hateful kmentds because that is what the base needs, and that is what we're talking instead of substance. >> but this is nothing new. >> and this brings up the larger conversa...

hold over the gop? answers, let's go "outfront." -- i'm erin burnett. "outfront" on a friday night, the most shaky republican race since 1964. six different candidates have led in the national polls so far this year. it's amazing to think about it. but there is a big reason for it. the tea party. a cnn poll shows that the republican party is literally split down the middle. half of them support the tea party or are active members. well, 49, 51, some call that a mandate. i call that a split. the tea party is really the tea parties. christina boterri from the national tea party feder...