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Since he's been there, he's been interviewing people to bring into his administration. multiple sources telling cnn homeland security secretary kirstjen nielsen could be the next to go as well as the white house chief of staff john kelly. we know these two are the more moderate voices in the administration. >> donald trump is going to double down on the far-right that he's going to try to get re-elected with his base strategy and divide the country. he doesn't think that those two are tough enough on the border with mexico. that he doesn't want anybody coming in. he brow beats them for not bei...

Is about to hit him having a party out of power. he hasn't lived through what that is like, divided government for an administration. i think this will be new for him in many ways. politically, you are so spot on. do you know that four years ago the republican party won the suburbs in that election by 12 30i7b points. you can't go from that big of an advantage to just dividing with the other party. independent voters, we forget this all the time because we talk so much about his base strategy, donald trump won independent voters in 2016 by four points. his party lost them by 12 points yesterda...

Some places it's enough to have one point higher. that puts this question mark on so many of these very competitive races. >> one of your colleagues and brethren put out that he thinks the president has overdone it. he gets it. he makeless the point s the poi rallies the part of his base and may turn away and stay home and vote and turn away in the case of women to vote for the democrats with his tone. is there a way to know that? >> this is why you are seeing the results and the expectation so split between the house and the senate. the places where republicans benefit the most from getting t...

Start, and one of the things people try to understand about this is where does this come from? why does he -- he plays on people's fears more than their hopes. it seemed to work very well for him in the primaries. i think he alone figured out on that whole republican ticket that, you know, the people didn't want to hear a version of the reagan formula. they wanted to hear about mexicans, about chinese people, about muslims. has it become instinct for him now? >> well, i would frame it a little differently. what the president was basically saying about the illegal immigration is by stopping ill...

History. it is a base strategy, fareed, because he is trying to get the participation up. he recognizes as most president do he's the leader now and the opposition is going to be more angry and they are going to come out and vote pour aggressively. a lot of other presidents took more of a rose garden strategy as it related to to go out on the campaign. he decided not to do that. he is barn storming the nation. he is making a bet, if he makes the bet and he wins people will say he is a genius three days from now. if he doesn't win, people will say president obama bot shell acted in 2010, lost 6...