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That moment in republican electoral conventional wisdom. now, looking back on it from this distance, it's a good big picture reminder how good common wisdom can be at every one moment. every aspect of that was wrong but at the time september 2015, heading into that long holiday weekend, that's where the republican party was at. over the course of a few weeks as this problem, this war was solidified. republicans thought the way they would solve this is with a loyalty pledge him do you republican candidates for president have any objection to signing a pledge that you will support and campaign f...

Regardless. so, republicans were really worried about this worst case scenario where trump would not win the republican primary but he'd stay in the race, and he'd run as a third party or an independent candidate. and from that position, he could also definitely never win the presidency, but he might siphon off enough republican votes to really screw up the general election chances for whoever did eventually become the republican nominee. that was the worry. that was what was going on in that moment in republican electoral conventional wisdom. now, looking back on it from this distance, it's a...

Great people here. kevin mccarthy the majority leader behind him steve scalise. >> bill: he gets your vote? >> when the time comes i believe so. right now let's focus on delivering, uniting, working with this president because we have to make sure we have a speaker to vote for come november. >> bill: can you keep the majority given the head winds against you? >> i believe we can. look, conventional wisdom says it will be difficult but i believe that we're not voting in april, we vote in november. i think the american people will -- >> bill: thank you, kevin brady. you have a big job ahead of y...

Influence us but he also admits that the fact that she was leading in the polls did enter into his head. >> that is key. i want jeffrey toobin to come in on this because that seems to have influence frankly, his and many other decisions along this campaign because part of his assumption was if i don't do this when she's president, then there will be a question whether her election was somehow unfairly helped along. >> god, i thought that was bizarre and like off key and wrong. i think there is this weird washington conventional wisdom that if the left is attacking you for one thing and the rig...

Have learned in the past 18 months in washington, conventional wisdom can be thrown out the window. this isn't the first time we have been down this road before with north koreans dating back all the way to 1994 when they actually did agree to denuclearize and this is what president clinton had to say. >> north korea will freeze and dismantle nuclear programs. south korea and our other allies will be better protected. leland: okay, and good deeds did not follow good words, they cheated, lied time and time again, you lose count after -- after a while from the north korean's cheating. how do you...