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The clip was posted the day before the new congress was sworn in, in an parent bid to embarrass the young est woman ever elected to congress. it called her a comy and a clueless nitwit and inspired a back lash from those who saw nothing wrong with a college student having fun. she responded by tweeting a new video of herself dancing into her office. this was just the latest example of an ongoing effort by critbics to diminish her. >> a socialist. >> proud socialist. >> democratic socialist. >> reporter: she's become a lighting rod for conservatives. >> she's surez suggesting we br socialist --...

Certainly a lighting rod for the right, he does sit at 63% approval rating, that's across the board when it comes to the american people, his presidential legacy to me right now with sort of like the family photo that marty mcfly use today carry around, disappearing right in front of our eyes with the stroke of a pen from donald trump, he wants to go out and remind brand of politics, this will help president like gillum in florida but heidi heitkam they might want to shy away from his support but it is what it is. heather: do you think it would backfire and motivate more conservative actions t...

Lighting rod. i think that the problem that president obama is going to have is he's going to talk about trying to be reasonable, we need to be serious and the hard left of the democrat party has gone off the rails. i mean, they are talking about impeachment, they are talking about -- you look at the kavanaugh hearings, the average american voter look at the democrats and say do we really want to give them power. i mean, that's going to be very motivational not only for republicans but for swing voters who are saying, do we really want to turn this over to democrats who are on this complete pa...

To change the house, will president obama help or hurt that? >> i think president obama will definitely help in that effort, i think what he said yesterday and what he echoed today is very true, he's not making this about one person but he's calling on reasonable thinking people to engage -- or exercise civic engagement which we haven't seen, what we are seeing on the right the rhetoric coming out of the white house has certainly energized people on the left and even people, even republicans as you see, there's discord within the republican party not just within congress but even discord with ...

Things but also been very much a lighting rod on the issue and immigration. we saw rick perry talking and rick talked about it and get this senator john mccain graham will be on the same stage in just a few hours. >> oh my goodness. can't wait to hear that. what were we hearing there? the audible reaction as he was saying and holding his hand up to say whoever was interviewing him or moderating like be quiet, i am saying something here. help us understand and interpret what was transpiring as he was saying the things about john mccain? >> right. there was much surprise. i mean unlike most pres...