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You. cousins of it's not normal. one of them is never before. so, brian, never before have we had a president who would publicly threaten, prod the justice department and his own prosecutors to go after the opposition party as the president has done over the donna brazile incident and the democratic party. never before, brian, have members of the president's own party been so reluctant to say publicly what they say privately. publicly you have just a couple of senators, senator mccain, senator flake of arizona, senator corker of tennessee publicly denouncing this president. privately, broin, a...

So the last time we talked the president had -- the little clip you showed, the president attacking the mayor of london. after the terror attack on the bike path in new york, you have the president attacking the leader of the senate democrats, chuck schumer, saying that he was partly responsible for immigration policies that allowed this individual to be in the country. brian, that's just not normal. >> thank you, michael lesson, for preserving your role as the guy who reminds us of what normal is or should be. the cooffender of the axios news service. thank you as always. >> before, brian, ha...

Senator, including john mccain. we had a great conversation yesterday about the military. i think we had a -- i called it a love fest. it was almost a love fest. but maybe it was a love fest. >> now, michael lesson of axios reports he did get standing ovations. you also heard the president cite those as a party united. keeping him honest, though, this isn't about what we're saying. it's about what other republicans are saying. >> privately a of any clegz super fresd concern about the decks of your politics and the behavior of the president. i think in the coming months you'll have more people ...

Where donald trump's base of support -- and this is a guy who has never had anything more than his base of support. when people say you talk too much about trump's base, this guy never tried to reach beyond his base. that's how he got elected. and the weight of evidence when we look back two years is if there's a point where he loses that base, we p haven't found it yet. and he has taken that base through no political figure has ever taken a base through him before and they have stuck with him. it's a kploetel different situation, obviously, but two, three weeks before election day 2016 he's h...

Party, he's not using the term we, us republicans. it's just like him saying, you know, i'll go campaign for whoever wins this alabama race. it's them. and that's a difficult position for the republican party. for susan collins and lisa murkowski, what do they have to loses voting against this? they've already voted against it once. it didn't go forward because of them. there's no political captain involved there. so when you watch a speech like this on president trump on a turf like this where people are really riling him up and cheering, i think it proves to everybody that he is not going to...