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The executive branch and everyone around the world knows who that one person is. it's an anxious presidency and a struggling presidency and to me, the question has always been can this man who succeeded so well in new york as his own boss bring those rules to the washington ecosystem and the telling moment for me was a week ago last thursday when trump dispatched his director of office of management and budget mulvaney to say to the house republicans, we are done negotiating. we are leaving the table in essence. what they failed to recognize was that the house freedom caucus had already left t...

On which -- >> that's money. you have to be able to raise money. >> exactly what this is. this is donor driven on both sides. only the donors that like get amped up on this, right? >> this is exactly what's going on. this is about focusing on that. let's be clear. this didn't start with harry reid or mitch mcconnell or now chuck schumer. this has been going on for the last 20 or 30 years as gene pointed out. >> actually, the impeach earl warner started in the '50s. >> but we're a more polarized world. the other point is that the president was elected exactly for a lot of people to break this u...

>> money, i got you. but the party itself is more united on these hot button issues. >> wait until trump backs off from his nafta statements. that's not going to make things better within his caucus. >> he's got to build a different type of coalition. we've got to stop, unfortunately. quick programming note. "nbc nightly news" anchor lester holt will be live from south korea tomorrow and tuesday to give us a deep dive on the threat from north korea. lester will have unprecedented access to u.s. military capabilities at a time of increasing tensions in the region. something we must take much mo...

Of it. >> when you talk to nancy pelosi about when she ran the democratic majority, she spent endless time with the various caucuses and parts of the party. >> and she raised the money for all of them. >> she raised money, built consensus, got favors owed to her. >> she raised money, let me go back to the money. >> somebody is going to have to try to do something like that for the republicans. this party will be governing for the next couple of years at least. and they can't govern. >> this had been happening long before trump came in. the only thing that's kept them together, their various fa...