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His own family, as they fight for sort of what the priorities and the message of this re-election should be. what's winning now and what is clear is what you just talked about in the last block. clearly donald trump is running a base strategy. he thinks his best way to both hold on to the house and senate this cycle and then get re-elected in 2020 is by mobilizing the coalition that turned out in 2016, which are working class whites and people who traditionally don't vote in presidential elections. people who are disaffected and alienated from presidential politics. >> we have this big picture...

Counsel's credibility but also want to paint trump as a victim of this liberal witch hunt. and in doing so, his bases trump as a victim and themselves as a victim. so this is about keeping the base energized and moving them through to the midterm elections, because trump's strategy is a base strategy for the mid terms. >> quickly, gloria, because i heard you say off camera that is ridiculous when we were listening to rudy guiliani there. do you think congress is doing a good job of defending bob mueller or propping up bob mueller and defending his reputation? or do you think that's their job? ...

This is a play to the base strategy that benefits from polarization and hyper partisanship and allowed the nra to hijack a party and move away from a clear broad consensus to the american people. this is a decisive issue. we had an assault weapons ban in this country. kids do have the opportunity to elevate the debate in a way that didn't occur after sandy hook. president trump deserves credit for taking a step yesterday apparently on bump stock. >> and background checks. and he may be open to raising the minimum age. >> let's stay tuned to see what the actual follow through this. >> at least ...

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 ...

Upon learning this president upon year one in office is the lowest of any in the modern era of presidential polling? >> it shows he's got real problems with his mid-terms and 2020 should he run for re-election, most likely. but the other thing, brian, it tells us something about this first year we didn't know before. on election night last year popular vote he got what, about 47% of the vote? you know, most presidents would have said i'm going to use that and try to build on that, expand my following among the american people and try to unite the country match he's had this base strategy, you ...