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Through the president's embattled supreme court pick brett kavanaugh now facing two allegations of sexual misconduct ahead of this thursday's public testimony. and there might be a third according to an attorney for a woman who has yet to come forward. but folks, it has been 24 hours of what you might cause a shock and awe strategy from the judge mt himself, the president, and white house communications team and senate seemingly trying to shore up the base which didn't make kavanaugh more confirmable, but this is a base strategy right now. the airways are awash in a trump style playbook of den...

Is unpopular any time you deal with taxes it's going to be unpopular also has to do with the president at 35% lowest he's been in our polling. why with a booming stock market, a strong economy, he's going to have a win when it comes to taxes, why's he have numbers that are so bad? >> i think a lot of it has to do with the chaos. >> the rhetoric. >> oh, sure. it's rhetoric and he's been communicating to his core base of constituentcys not broadly to the middle or democrats and people feel he's been very partisan that he's attacked everybody across the board except his base and he hasn't governe...

The african-american growth but a marked decline of the number of whites who turned out. we are talking about the gop base, this gop base strategy is completely not the way to get these voters to turn out. it's white working class somewhat rural voters in the north kind of perot voters turned off by both candidates in 2012 -- >> these are older voters, if they're perot voters they've been around for awhile. a lot, it's been interpreted by people on the right. limbaughs and hannitys saying this is further proof the republican party isn't conservative enough. we think of the republican party, th...

Some way or casual, what does this say about mitt romney's judgment? >> not very good things. >> not very good things? >> i want to take issue a little bit with what we've just heard. not in my condemnation of this actually quite pathetic comment. but in terms of whether there was a strategic motive behind it. i don't believe there was. i think you can sort of see from a statement from the headquarters they were not thrilled this got in the way of the message they were trying to convey today. they have a gaffe-prone candidate who does not have control over his own mouth. it's true they are now...

And i think the question is, do we want a government that is the side of helping people help themselves? or do we want a philosophy which the national republican party has been pushing anyway, which says that everybody's on his or her own? i think at the end of the day, the american people are going to choose a partnership with leadership in the form of president obama, which is about helping people help themselves. and the jobs bill is just the most recent. and i think very important -- >> what is he doing now? is this a base strategy? sp that where you think the president finds his voice? >>...