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hello and welcome to "inside politics." i'm john king in washington. very busy news day. thank you for your time. five men, one room. the stability of the global economy on the line. today the white house is the stage for talks and what happens could set the country on a path towards paying its bills or on a path towards financial chaos. pluses heartbreak in waiting in alan, texas. two school-aged sisters robbed of their futures. we're learning more about the victims and the shooter who slaughtered them. his fascination with guns, police stay quiet. and donald trump's civil case go...

But i do think establishment republicans do. i think there's this myth about the trump base, that it's only post-industrial white working class voters. he needed affluent republicans in his camp. >> and women. >> and women. >> who he's losing i'm sure rapidly. >> i think when somebody like george bush comes out and says i find this reprehensible, that does mean something to a certain segment of the gop. >> but to tim's point, there were a lot of people who voted for president trump who are not part of the base you're talking about who felt that washington was broken, and when they look at a br...

For. the number retiring is one thing, the type of retirement is another. the type of republican who came to washington expecting a very different model of politics. the model of politics we had in this country until nine months ago. but it is changing and different. do i want to do another two years, four years or eight years of this? why? >> does any have to do with steve bannon and the war he has openly waged on the gop? if i'm a sitting congressman, if i'm a sitting senator, do i really want to go to war with someone who will go to such low levels to destroy my life and reputation and fami...

His job, traditionally you may see that. i think what a lot of republican members of congress are realizing as establishment members is this is not a legislative presidency. this is a cultural presidency. this is a president for better or worse, whatever you think of him, this is a president who sees it as his mission to go out and change the culture of the country. he loves to get into it with the nfl. he loves to get into it on the cultural hot-button issues. if he interested in calling the leaders of congress over, haggling over legislation, it certainly doesn't seem that way. so it leaves ...

Clearly used for abusive conduct. i should have seen that coming. i didn't see it coming. now that i've seen the result of it i want to undo it as quickly as possible. >> quickly, the health care deal. on again/off again/on again srb off again/on again. do you believe you will ever sign on to a deal that does have -- this money for insurance companies in order to bring down premiums? >> what the money is for is for the people buying premiums, buying the health insurance from the company to subsidize their premiums. so does the money go to the insurance companies? yes, through the consumers. we...