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Wisdom was if you cross the aisle you're politically dead. one of the things we have to look at is are there facts to support that? i've never run for office or faced voters so it's easy for me to say. when you look back on the people who decided to defy their party's basic conventional wisdom, you find it their political futures were not automatically pushed to the side. >> one of the things that i wonder, tim, about all of this, you know, you have this extraordinary cavalcade of administration officials, trump's ono figures alls saying, look, we were pressing the ukrainian government. we wer...

About when michael bloomberg first ran for office and today arguably is 2016 when a lot of conventional wisdom was thrown out the window. everyone has a camera crew in there. we have a current president who criticized his predecessor for golfing a lot and then himself turns around and golfs a lot. so i think the idea of this notion that he is somehow restrained by this conventional wisdom of what the office dictates, i think is sort of receding. michael bloomberg has given people the impression that he woke up very early, worked nonstop, even worked on saturdays, was at parades, was kissing ba...

Expecting it to be. >> you know, senator conventional wisdom in washington usually wrong, it was always wrong in 2016, first starting by saying donald trump was not going to even be relevant, then saying there was no way donald trump was going to win, and certainly we said that time and again that, you know, he was too far out there to win. i said there are not enough white people in america to elect donald trump given what he said. i was proven wrong, and so now this year, this election cycle, conventional wisdom has become fixed around the idea, and i'll admit i'm part of that conventional w...

Members who are deeply concerned and alarmed about what has become public. >> give me an estimate of numbers. how many numbers, do you think? >> it's both what i've heard and a bit of an educated guess -- >> go ahead. >> i would say in the house, at least two dozen, but i wouldn't be surprised it's even more than that. just based on my american knowledge, i would say about 2,000. >> fascinating, and thank you for the insight. i really appreciate. you'll have to come back and see if that number gets updated at all. congressman, thank you. >> yeah, thank you. coming up mike pompeo and his depa...

Handling the economy he's actually in positive territory there. 49% approve of his handling of the economy. 46% disapprove. if this were his over all approval rating you'd be saying he is at least an even shot to win re-election probably better. but he's not matching that with his overall approval rating. why? it's because of his behavior as president, probably because of the tweets, also because of something like this. how did he handle the recent shootings? how did the president of the united states handle them? less than 40% approve of his handling. a majority disapprove. that kind of behav...