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For this reason. alabama has a split republican party among populous lines. sessions base is in the church going rural republicans. shelby is the guru of the affluent republicans in birmingham and montgomery and mobile. and his signal to them is to all you birmingham law firms and other people in the republican establishment, sessions is our guy. we need him for nasa in huntsville, the medical center in birmingham and the ship building industry in mobile. >> i love the way you talk, hal. i love this inside stuff, thank you. and robert, as always thank you for your analysis. up next it looks ...

And "the washington post" reports that the president has even joked to senators and white house aides he would move to alabama and compete against sessions himself in the primary. what does that mean? for more i'm joined by robert costa, and hal raines. robert, why would a president talk about going down and competing in a primary in a senate nomination when he's already president of the united states just out of spite? >> just a few days ago on the way to that kentucky rally trump was musing to his allies about senator sessions and his reentry to politics later this week saying he shouldn't g...

Counsel is going to forget that remark. okay, since you've got them, let's see them. so it's not within the normal rules of political combat, congressional procedure, certainly jurisprudence to see the targets confessing in plain sight. >> haven't seen that before. we'll take a break. michael schmidt, thank you for joining us with your breaking news report. we really appreciate that. ned price, thank you for joining us. hal raines is going to stay with us. we'll hear from him later. and as we've been talking, rachel maddow has been making her way over to this studio. she will join us next. i...

Request or him needling the press knowing that you would get outraged by it. >> you are one of the loudest critics of china and its human rights abuses. is it okay for him to ask to say that -- >> i don't think it's a real -- i think he did it to get you guys, to provoke you to ask me and others and get outraged by it. >> joining us now is ed mcmullen, former cia operative and former independent presidential candidate. co-founder of stand up, republic, and hal raines is back with us. evan, your reaction to marco rubio today. he thinks it's funny. he was laughing about donald trump asking china...

That donald trump has decided to subordinate to his own personal and political prerogatives. >> hal raines, "new york times," michael schmidt, doing more great reporting tonight. advancing the story. and then we see the congress then taking sometimes what we've discovered in newspaper reports, advancing that. have you seen this kind of rhythm before unfold in -- in these kind of stories? >> yes. there are echoes of watergate and of the clinton impeachment. first i want to say, though, lawrence, those of us who worked in washington and these previous times know there are certain days when you c...