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Motivate his base and carry significant crossover appeal to independent and moderate voters. is it smart? it seems to me like the economy is a much more uncontroversial way. but maybe it doesn't rally people as much. >> i think the economy is the issue where you traditionally -- or lately have been seeing the strongest numbers for the president, the strongest numbers for republicans. so it is much safer territory. on the other hand, there's a lot more intensity, i think, on the right than on the left in all of the data i've seen. when it comes to the issue of immigration. so to the extent this...

History. i think this is smart politics to get this out of the way now to address it, and look, president trump is going to be the front runner in 2020. democrats are kidding themselves if they think trump is going to be an easy out but senator warren lacooks like the first person out here to do what she needs to do to take him on. >> let me ask you, was it smart of warren to do this so close to the midterms? do you think it could be more of a distraction? could she wait until after the midterms? does she need to do it? >> she could have waited. i don't think anybody cares. what i do think peo...

Say that warren is, you know, only somewhere between 164th and 1/1000 american indian. she took this test as a response to all of the feedback she's getting from president trump and others in the republican party. that's number one. number two is she has never -- someone at some point will come on twitter and say the cherokee nation said she has no right to triable citizenship. she never claimed that. she said that this is her family history. i think this is smart politics to get this out of the way now to address it, and look, president trump is going to be the front runner in 2020. democrats...

Enough of a majority, that this is going to continue to happen in the future. so he's trying to use that as a messaging tactic. the white house feels they have energized republicans with this. but whether or not they can sustain that energy for a month is a big question. >> is that smart? i mean, if brett kavanaugh is under water with women voters, 29% like him. 53% have a negative impression. is it smart for president trump to make brett kavanaugh the -- you know, the rallying cry at his rallies? >> i think a gender gap already exists in this election. it was clear in all of the national poll...

Tweet. the first is maggie haberman, generally considered one of the best reporters on the white house beat who has known trump for years and years and who despite what trump says has an ongoing relationship. in fact, there's a documentary about "the new york times" coming out soon and the trailer for the documentary, one of the first clips in the trailer has a shot of maggie haberman talking about how trump's about to call her. so, it's just not true that he doesn't know her or talk to her. >> we do know that he reaches out to her frequently, especially when he wants to talk about the news, a...