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Come down to whether president trump believes he's too much of a distraction or the work he's doing at the epa is outweighed by the questions he's asked. >> i heard that will a lot of people on the republican side would be happy to get rid of the pruitt controversy, the senate doesn't want another nomination right now. we have the -- >> they're all controversial. >> they're all -- >> because the epa is often a lightning rod position on both sides, quite frankly. senators on the republican side that have a very tiny majority are saying we may not love scott pruitt, they like his policies but th...

Moveon.org. and i wonder what you think about this. 54% of americans have an unfavorable opinion of the democratic party. some of those people presumably might be democrats and you might have people on the right and people far on the left saying this. right? >> yes. i think the wikileaks matters here. folks to have an unfavorable view of the party because of what they have seen and found in the wikileaks. talked to a lot of people, bring up something they saw or heard in the e-mails that affects them. we're aware, democrats are aware and actively trying to report. >> and talking about a divide...

Suspected vacancies coming upon us, but that job in particular will tell us a lot about what president obama's going to do in this second term, whether he moves to the left, moves to the right -- center, i should say. >> well, the deal for the attorney generalship and, as you say, this is a lightning rod position, and by choosing eric holder for that job, the president was sending an express message to his base that he was going to embrace very liberal policies and use the department of justice as a way to sort of pursue the social justice ends as it relates to issues of race, gender, sexual p...