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Party that used to get really upset about any appearance of impropriety. i mean, law and order, worried about moral decay. what do you make of this? is this technically a problem for them? >> politically it may not be a problem. they look to have a big political year, certainly in the house of representatives, potentially the senate. obviously the republican party has morphed over the last couple of years and by and large we can't elect this guy. overwhelmingly every guy who was running for president in 2016 said this guy is terrible until they stopped doing that. and as that happened the repu...

Politics. it's no secret that kevin mccarmy wants to be the speaker of the house. the idea of the ends justifying the means, do you see that as being a viable end result, assuming republicans are able to reclaim the majority? is the idea of that flip flopping and the revelation he had those thoughts, would that be enough to disqualify him from that running? >> i think it would disqualify him among moderates. but i think he's playing to the hard core base and freedom caucus and people like that who made so much trouble for john bainer. and i think he's concerned about shoring up his position wi...

This so our service members can go in and out safely. it seems to underscore what a foolish decision it was for trump to turn his back on such useful partners who have sacrificed so much in the counter-isis campaign. >> thank you joshua gelzer. joining me now michael steele and a former spokesman for house speaker john bainer, and michael starr hopkins who serves on the presidential campaigns of hillary clinton, barack obama, and john delaney. the president, you just heard joshua address this. president gave some credit to the syrian kurds. he listed them last. his first mention was to russia....

Before he replaced john bainer? >> it's the one thing that -- members came to him and said why don't you take this job? he said i don't want the job, i'm chairman of the house ways and means, this is my goal in congress and he had it for 10 months, but he went to all these groups and said we have got to start working together if we're going to do this. obviously, that's going to have problems. but i can tell you what speaker ryan is going to do, he's going to go back, try and work with his members and develop policies that will get through. that means more of these people from the freedom cauc...

Completeness to her answer. she called our office today and we're having somebody get with her that can provide some specifics that she was looking for. and that's the way we're going to help our constituents work through this. we're not going to run away from it. we're going to provide the answers that they're calling us, and that they want to get. i think that that's the responsible thing to do. >> very quickly, baugh i want to talk about mexico as well, but john bainer, the former speaker, you heard what he said today, that this is fiction that you're going to be able to repeal and replace ...