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From november, when everybody had you losing, you shocked the world. it wouldn't because of russia but russia's goal was to upend the electoral process. they hate democracy. he went on to say, this has to be corrected. the president later corrected it. so, charlie, were minds changed today, when even members of the president's base saw that statement he read in the cabinet room? >> only the minds that wanted to be changed, because as a walk-back this was ludicrous. i mean, as an excuse, this made the dog ate my homework seem like a brilliant alibi to say, oh, i just dropped this contracks. bec...

Class issues. that's why he won. that's why i nearly upset ed gillespie. >> hold on. just going with your line of thought. if the president is the figure head in the me in the tweet, how is it this was not a referendum on the president, this election last night? how does he not get any of the blame? >> because the guy who lost last night, ed gillespie, did not embrace the president. he wouldn't even respond to the president's request to go and help him. he was never seen on stage with the president. he wouldn't even mention his name. he wouldn't retreat the support that he was getting from the...

Trump's base saw this guy as a reality tv star on "the apprentice" talking about deals for over a decade. he has told us he makes the best deals. he has promised to drain the swamp. what's the chance, what he did today was brilliant or at least he will paint it as brilliant in the days to come? >> well, what we don't really know, is this the beginning of a sustained new strategy, which he moves away from the approach he's taken which he worked entirely with republican majorities and kept democrats at bay, or is this one of those moments, a president who can't be predicted and he's sticking one...

Strategy. it is shaping up every plan that was laid by republicans on capitol hill. >> peter, robert just opened this ball and you alluded to this of a piece you wrote this evening. trump's base saw this guy as a reality tv star talking about deals for over decades. >> he had told us he made the best deals. >> well, what we don't really know is is this a beginning sustained strategy. and kept democrats at bay or is this simply one of those moments where the president cannot be predicted and he's sticking one into mcconnell and we'll go back to the deals tomorrow. you cannot tell. this is the f...

Idiocy. >> robert, you spent the day on capitol hill, i understand. >> i was at the house and senate talking to lawmakers, republicans, and they watched from afar and they saw this president become not so much a republican leader today, but an independent president, a defiant president. and they're all puzzled but they're trying to navigate this. the president is clearly angry with some elements of the republican leadership about how things have failed on health care and other initiatives. and now he's turning to the surprise of many republicans to democrats for a hand in figuring out the vstr...