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Could make in those depositions under the circumstances. what's going to be different next week when the cameras are on, when your former republican colleagues take their seats in this hearing? >> yeah, they're going to be playing to the cameras. and if there is a political strategy in this for republicans, they're playing not to lose the base. they're not going to win anybody over with their political hijinks. they have to keep the base riled up with their conspiracy theories. because they can't go into 2020 with an eroding base. there's the jim jordan, matt gaetz kind of comprise caucus argu...

Nothing to say which was the most professional choice they could make under the circumstances. what's going to be different next week when the cameras are on, when your former republican colleagues take their seats in this hearing? >> yeah, they're going to be playing to the cameras. and if there is a political strategy in this for republicans, they're playing not to lose the base. they're not going to win anybody over with their political hijinx. they have to keep the base riled up with their conspiracy theories. because they can't go into 2020 with an eroding base. there's the jim jordan, ma...

Into it. three-quarters of americans don't believe what they hear from the white house, including over 50% of republicans, that only a majority of americans are basically embarrassed to have him as president. only 34% are proud to have him as president of the united states. these are gut check emotional numbers that have to do with trust worthiness about honor, about decency, about dignity in the white house, things that you'd hope could be personified by the president, and instead you've got the opposite. these are deeply troubling. >> let's look a little bit more at the trust issue. 60% say ...

They are getting tired of the blame shifting. the buck stops everywhere else. some people with a propensity for self destructive behavior can't help themselves. president trump among them. the most effective proponent is donald j. trump. sign that is the general public is starting to grow fed up. the president's approval rating is consistently in the mid-to high 30s. 38% today. while his eroding base might love the decision to exit the paris climb et agreement, the general public doesn't. many parts of the president's not that deep seeded base, but many other parts of it. they are in danger of...

Republicans will only gain eight in the senate. that's not enough to knock democrats out of control there. jenna: a real problem for democrats, seems to be president obama's eroding base, the now poll finding the so-called coalition that helped elect him just two years ago is now drifting over to the gop, that coalition includes middle class americans, women, and independents. now, last night the president tried to reconnect with part of his base, the young people, young voters, by appearing on the daily show, mike emanuel is live at the white house with more on this story. mike, the president...