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We're not mentssaging on foreig policy, et cetera. we have a messaging problem and we had an obamacare face-plant in the senate. we've got to correct that and move forward. and we failed to do that last night. >> but ed gillespie did run on some of the issues, some of the cultural issues that have been most important and prominent to this president. like immigration, like confederate statues, like the nfl, you know, kneeling or standing for the anthem. he did run on that stuff. i think what we're trying to understand is do you think that helped or hurt in virginia for this race? >> some of tho...

They may or may not have shown to sway the election but there's this whole other track which is how much of it had to do with donald trump's policy and the gop's policy toward russia. they have taken a warm turn toward russia that i think is not based on what's going on in the world or any kind of common sense policy or philosophy. >> you think it's based on common sense? >> no. i listen as carefully as you do and it has not been articulated to me why it makes a great deal of sense for us to forgive putin all of his sins and cozy up to him. so these early meetings, were they about collusion, w...

What happened at the convention, the language change, sessions meets with kislyak. kislyak meets the team. what really went down there. and it comes back to also mike flynn and what has been his role. i'm told by people who were familiar with the trump campaign that mike flynn's role was very big and pretty sweeping and he was throwing around the orders. people responded. so until we really know what actually mike flynn was in control of, there's a huge part of this story that we just are speculating about. >> juan, what is the most generous explanation for the gop platform to change, to inclu...

Changed the language for the first time in the history of the republican party platform process. and think about -- john mccain was the gop nominee in 2008. mitt romney described russia as our greatest geopolitical adversary. trump comes along and changes the only policy language that i think changed was around russia. so isn't it -- aren't we trying to find out whether sessions was involved in meetings with kislyak and other russians around that policy change? >> well, i do think that it all goes back to what went down at the rnc convention in cleveland when that language changed, which no on...

Policy, see who is sitting next to him. he has been given the role of foreign peace. i don't want an adviser like that, someone so close to the president, so trusted, to be weakened. you want that person to be effective, to be able to be a key, and to not be distracted. if he's distracted because he's personally potentially liable, but now he has tone gau engage battle of what he can reveal or not because he's key to the president of the united states. and given his role on foreign policy issues, you don't want him in that position. >> if you don't want him to be distracted, maybe you shouldn'...