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Basically made a choice when it comes to trump's twitter attacks. they choose to virtually ignore all of them. what happens as a result of that is it often looks like they're accepting them. they say they don't want to be distracted. they would rather talk about other issues. but they are the president's party. when they don't push back, then it does look like they're accepting them. lindsey graham is somebody who was clearly trying to strike some sort of balance today by talking about his best friend john mccain, but again, it does look like he's more scared of what the president would say? r...

Far-right ideologies are on the rise. here's how the president's acting chief of staff is responding to the criticism. >> we've seen the president stand up for religious liberties, individual liberties. the president is not a white supremacist. i'm not sure how many times we have to say that. >> while mulvaney is doing damage control, the president is busy on twitter taking aim at the late senator john mccain and others. mark uptegrove is director of the lbj library in austin, texas. mark, how concerning is it the white house staff feels it has to continuously tell america that the president i...

Governors, people with real experience. and look who slipped through. it was donald trump who was able to capture the nomination with a relatively small percentage of the republican primary electorate. but in a big field, you can divide it up in a way that you don't need the majority of support to get through. >> mark, biden almost announcing. does this mean, yes, biden's in? and who could be impacted the most if he gets in? >> look, i think he is in. he has been dropping those crumbs, as we spoke about earlier. the bottom line is that there's a yearning within the democratic party right now f...

To go. >> had a quick question. >> okay. >> barbara bush is someone that people can relate to because she spe speaks her mind and she looks the way everyone's favorite grandmother looks. people are drawn to that. >> obviously that isn't the clip i expected us to play there, mark, but do talk about the relationship between barbara bush and her husband and really how integral her support and presence was him as a man and as a president. >> incredibly important to his rise in politics. i mean, she managed the family and allowed him to be him. to build his business and then to build his political ...

For more on the president's renewed attacks on the late senator, i want to bring in cnn politics executive editor mark preston and cnn analyst julie pace and patrick healey. what does the president stand to gain by attacking a republican senator who's widely regarded and very well respected by both parties? >> sadly, i think this is largely about the president's own ego. it's not like he has a ton to gain with independent voters who were shown in 2000 and 2008 to rally strongly by senator mccain's side when he was running for president. there's certainly parts of the republican base that very ...