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A dozen of them this morning when they were coming out of a closed door meeting. their districts are strong pro-trump. they themselves are strong pro-president trump. so they are unswayed by all these arguments. they're criticizing the leaks. they're criticizing the news media. but still, overall, on balance as he said, it's a toxic atmosphere. it helps house republicans. i think that's the majority view of the leadership and certain republicans, rank and file as well. >> and it will certainly be interesting to see how the american people feel because he is the elected president, and there are...

You were the party of no and a lot of their constituents were right there saying this is terrible but there was no strategy for republicans to when they got into office if they did get into office put something in place so there's a little disappointment. but going back to your previous point about a few districts that could be target sod there's wiggle room. for these solid republican districts it's not about the general. they're worried about the primary. democrats should worry about getting primaried in their solidly blue district and if i were a republican i would be worried about being pr...

For these solid republican districts it's not about the general. they're worried about the primary. democrats should worry about getting primaried in their solidly blue district and if i were a republican i would be worried about being primaried as well. >> i remember back during the first tea party in the aca fight. i was at a dinner with a congressman. i was working in washington, d.c. and he was talking about having these people show up to his town hall. this was someone who wasn't in danger electorally but he was spooked. i remember seeing it. as a human being he was like -- and i think it...

Just the military iron dome but diplomatic and legal iron dome and to understand the citizens of this country are facing threats that are not faced by americans every day and when they go to the polls, they vote for leaders who they think will best protect them. and probably the biggest problem we had with secretary kerry's speech was the insinuation that somehow, he and others in the administration under stand what's best for israel better than israel's citizens do and better than our democratically elected leaders do, and here i'm quoting myself, i'm a drmically elected leader. >> you spend ...

That's not okay to say. that's wrong. that's corrosive to democracy. it's irresponsible. right now i don't think paul ryan is finding that balance. >> i understand, and i certainly would do that if i were in somebody's position to do that as a republican elected leader. at what point do you then cross into the territory where you're spending your entire time defending what donald trump -- okay. what about the tweet that donald trump said 3 1/2 weeks ago. at some point paul ryan wants to talk about what paul ryan is really going to do to push back on donald trump which would be fighting 35% tar...