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Party calls for giving illegal immigrants the right to vote? that's actually happening in some towns in maryland already. yesterday on this show, we interviewed an immigration activist who said that foreign nationals ought to be able to vote anywhere in the country. that used to be a fringe position. it's not anymore. on the second amendment, meanwhile, the democratic party has moved to advocating for gun-control -- that's been going on for a long time -- to pushing for government gun confiscation. that's a big change. just two years ago, here wasol hillary clinton's position on firearms. >> i...

Designed to do? >> you know, i think we started to see it this week. if you watched the house judiciary committee this wednesday when the deputy attorney general was there, something that a few months ago was a kind of fringe position in the republican party, that law enforcement couldn't be trusted, was really the mainstream position of republicans on that committee. just about every republican was asking questions designed to undermine the public's belief in the fbi and the justice department and ultimately the special counsel. i think the republican party is there. i don't know that they wo...

Steve schmidt talk about this kind of three pronged attack mostly on public institutions, what will be your indicator personally as to, well, it's getting through, it's doing real damage, it's doing what it was designed to do? >> you know, i think we started to see it this week. if you watched the house judiciary committee this wednesday when the deputy attorney general was there, something that a few months ago was a kind of fringe position in the republican party, that law enforcement couldn't be trusted, was really the mainstream position of republicans on that committee. just about every r...

Might believe it. it's coming together as a strategy and it's headed in a very disturbing direction. >> matthew, when you listen to steve schmidt talk about this kind of three pronged attack mostly on public institutions, what will be your indicator personally as to, well, it's getting through, it's doing real damage, it's doing what it was designed to do? >> you know, i think we started to see it this week. if you watched the house judiciary committee this wednesday when the deputy attorney general was there, something that a few months ago was a kind of fringe position in the republican part...

Couple -- having said that there are a couple theories i would present. one is, you know, trump needed competent foreign policy professionals to run his national security apparatus. there's only so many people who can do that. you really can't find many people who are way out on really what was kind of a fringe position that he adopted in the campaign. you have people like h.r. mcmaster, general mattis, as defense secretary, and a lot of the other people who have come in around him to formulate policy are much more kind of mainstream, center right, establishment figures who i think are counsel...