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>> you get a fair shake. >> why would i allow a hostile network and allow people that are polling at zero, polling at zero, one is zero with an arrow left. why would i allow people at 1 and 2% and 0% to be hitting me with questions all night. i don't think it's fair. >> that was former president donald trump's noncommittal answer on debating the other republican candidates because of their polling numbers when new data shows his own are starting to slip amid his federal indictment and the possibility of another indictment for january 6th coming this summer. >> the numbers are startin...

Here to talk with me -- and i'll start with you as a professor of political science. i think mitch mcconnell cares about one thing which is staying the majority leader of the united states senate. and that depends on keeping people like cory gardener and susan collins and martha mcsally. and i think he's a savvy enough political operator to understand if he could make this go away, he would. >> it's funny because we talked about public opinion today in class and we talked about these very numbers. this is the bind republicans finds them in. they have cast their lot with donald trump, shown the...

Political science. i think mitch mcconnell cares about one thing which is staying the majority leader of the united states senate. and that depends on keeping people like cory gardener and susan collins and martha mcsally. and i think he's a savvy enough political operator to understand if he could make this go away, he would. >> it's funny because we talked about public opinion today in class and we talked about these very numbers. this is the bind republicans finds them in. they have cast their lot with donald trump, shown them time and time again they will support this particular president....

>> what is it that causes the president to purposely, purposely create distrust in these institutions and what we're doing? >> senator, i disagree with most of what you just said there. you somehow disconnect the administration's activities from the president's actions. they're one and the same. every sanction that was put in place was signed off by the president of the united states. >> i mean, this shows what a bind republicans are in. of course, we're only seeing the ones who have decided they're not going to run for reelection actually press the members of the administration, which is why ...

More than two people on the fence? >> yeah. think nobody wants to be the third senate store that kills it. you're the one that did it and you have to look at a republican primary. it's always darkest before it kbo goes completely black. what republicans are trying to do is make sure they don't get to that point. a lot of people don't appreciate about the bind republicans are in is when i talk to republican strategists and say what worries you about the midterm elections. they don't say trump, don't say russia, at least not yet. what they tell us is if we don't pass health care, our voters will...