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from msnbc world headquarters here in new york. welcome, everyone, to alex witt reports. we begin this hour with new developments from the fallout from the fbi search of mar-a-lago. a federal judge in florida is now signaling that she is inclined to grant a request from donald trump's lawyers to appoint a special master in the case. the hearing is set for thursday. a new reaction today after the director of national children's told chalk lawmakers in the house oversight intelligence committees that her office would conduct a risk assessment of republican mar-a-lago materials. democra...

A revolution against trump. what do you think? >> those are two different questions. the first one has a more obvious answer. the fever is not gonna break. i wasn't arizona leading up to the midterms, went to a lot of kari lake events, let me tell, you this is a bottom up problem. it's always been a bottom-up problem. it's a republican base fighter that is demanding the denialism that is leading the republican party down the road to hell, so to speak. so the question is, now, they look at trump and say, okay, we've gotten all we wanted to get out of him, and we can get all this, you, know and ...

Questions. the first one has a more obvious answer. the fever is not gonna break. i wasn't arizona leading up to the midterms, went to a lot of kari lake events, let me tell, you this is a bottom up problem. it's always been a bottom-up problem. it's a republican base fighter that is demanding the denialism that is leading the republican party down the road to hell, so to speak. so the question is, now, they look at trump and say, okay, we've gotten all we wanted to get out of him, and we can get all this, you, know and elite, and he -- extremism that we got from trump, but from someone who's ...

Republicans and as david and kasie pointed out, their primary process is producing extreme nominees. and they are not willing to acknowledge that and address that problem. maybe they can't. it's not a top down problem. it a bottom up problem. republican voters are choosing largely extreme nominees and when those candidates get to the general election, this extraordinarily favorable environment, they're struggling. >> i'm reminded of a piece dana did in this cycle where you went down to texas in the room of the guy drawing the lines on the computer screen and i remember when you were reporting ...

And how you interpret trump's numbers? >> it seems like we are still on the, road have, alex? i interpret it as, the republican party's problem since 2015 has really been this bottom-up problem. voters are demanding politicians that channel their grievances, they resentments their anger. and donald trump does that better than anybody else. so if they are angry at political elites, they are angry the democrats. and they, see obviously this is. bogus but if they are made to believe by conservative media that this is part of some plot by the elites to get donald trump, it should not be surprising...