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Digesting what they've wrought here. what do you think of the message that he's delivering on that point? >> the republican party has a huge branding problem and they have to own up to that. because donald trump didn't just appear out of nowhere. a lot of this rhetoric and policies, you know whether it's the muslim ban or you know, not allowing any refugee into the country, this kind of language has been part of the republican party not for a couple of years, but for several years. decades. now with donald trump, i mean if you're a republican who is small government, a little bit libertarian, ...

Podium saying we create jobs. they create mobs and go beyond president trump. if you ask the average american which party is most focused on jobs and the economy and business, they're going to say republicans. >> that's right. so, democrats do have the branding problem that you mentioned. republicans on the other hand have a data problem and if you want to know who recognizes that, none other than president trump. in 2004 when president trump was interviewed on cnn he was asked, you know, trying to figure out his path in politics and asked do you think yourself as a republican or democrat? he ...

Department of labor. looking at gross domestic product, you know it as gdp, growth, another growth metric to measure the strength of the economy, we can also see substantially better performance under democratic presidents. again, our dotted red and blue lines paint a clear picture. real gdp grown about 1.6 times fast we are a democrat in the white house than a republican. according to figures crunched from the department of commerce. further more, a paper released by the wilson school and department of economics at princeton concluded, quote, the u.s. economy has performed better when the pre...

Give the democrats one more issue to beat up on republicans over. this is very, very damning. the damage will go beyond the trump administration, and to see republicans signing on suggests that there's -- this at least the perception of a branding problem, that others who are running on the democratic ticket in these midterm elections are going to suffer from the misdeeds of the scott pruitts of the world. he's got his own sort of political future. it's a mixed and interesting one where he's got prospects not only back in oklahoma but possibly on the national stage. we shouldn't write him off ...

City. turning now to politics and the president's response. president trump met over the weekend with members of his cabinet as hurricane irma pounded florida. here's what he had to say about the rescue effort yesterday when he returned to the south lawn of the white house. >> a group that really deserves tremendous credit is the united states coast guard. what they've done, they have gone right into that, and you never know. when you go in there, you don't know if you're going to come out. they are really -- if you talk about branding. no brand has improved more than the united states coast...