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Needs. so it's kind of a dangerous time there's a lot of high stakes kabuki going on. and if you blow a debt ceiling vote, you really, that's dropping a new color bond on the economy. so i predict by the weekend, they are going to extend the government and cool heads are going to prevail on the debt limit. if the republicans don't, if they play the game of chicken all the way, their brand can be in danger. >> professor, i'm gonna read for you what a friend of this broadcast former congresswoman donna edwards has written in the washington post. quote just as republicans have falling in line wit...

Me that question. >> reporter: the breakdown started monday night when mcconnell gave a seemingly innocuous speech to a very small group of members in northern kentucky. >> our new president of course has not been in this line of work before, and i think had excessive expectations about how quickly things happen in the democratic process. >> caller: mcconnell's comments were enough to set the president off, and he voiced his displeasure by tweetig about mcconnell three times, including this afternoon. quote, mitch, get back to work and put repeal and replace, tax reform and cuts, and a great i...

Hugh are you doing, mitch? hey mitch, are we going to be okay? >> reporter: the president's digital attacks are a calculated political risk. he is banking that the average american is on his side. new cnn polling shows that 68% of americans view the republican congress a failure, and only 24% have a favorable opinion of republican leadership which includes mcconnell. but, an open feud with mcconnell could seriously hamper trump's legislative agenda. >> the back and forth between the president and the senate majority leader isn't going to add any additional votes to the obamacare repeal effort....

Of losing mete ining their seat >> well, if those two senators who are republicans would vote for it, they could try to restrategize. >> mcconnell knows that, he would not take my call. i would have told him that, all right? all of the senators that i talked to and the republicans say they will vote for kate's law with to aggravated felon wording put in. and that's it. >> now that they know that they need to have a rethinking of it. >> i don't know if mcconnell is a villain or not, but he wouldn't pick up the phone. i am asking everybody in the united states to call mcconnell. >> but here is t...