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-- step to their own success. >> joining us is cnn senior political commentator and former senior adviser to president obama, david axelrod. thanks so much for being here. the more the gop attacks donald trump, the more his supporters dig in and like him and support him. >> absolutely. the essence of his appeal is that his anti-establishment, he's appealing to people who are very angry about what's going on in washington. they think the republican party has been a part of that. and so, yes, he will use this to his advantage. >> i mean, they feel abandoned by what was previously their party, mo...

Convoluted attempt to defend himself. and it backfires. >> your honor, i represent the court but i had a heineken at lunch yesterday. >> you drank a beer at lunch yesterday? >> yes your honor. >> before you picked a jury? >> yes, ma'am. the reason i raise that issue, judge, because if i have one beer at lunch it's not going to effect my ability to effectively represent my client. >> you really can't have a heineken during lunch when you're on jury trial. you just can't. that's bizarre to me. >> at this point even the prosecution is concerned that he is ill prepared to defend his client. after ...

Winning. but if it backfires, that's two disastrous situations he's created. number one in ukraine, where there's an unresolved conflict, several thousand people dead for no reason thanks to a war that he started. if the syria conflict begins to reverberate against him, too, he's really created a double disaster. >> what does this tell us about isis in the sinai? there are two things going on here. the egyptians have been battling terrorism for a long time in the sinai. what does it tell us about the egyptians? what does it say about having contacts in the sinai? >> well, you're talking about ...

Something in return. they're intention is to sure up assad and use that leverage perhaps to stabilize syria more broadly and get something out of that from the europeans from the americans. that can't be done on isis's timetable. the russian have to delay here. >> doesn't this make putin's strategy in syria look a lot let brilliant, a lot more dangerous than was previously portrayed? >> i always thought it was an incredibly risky and dangerous strategy because it's game of perceptions. physically his souldiers left ukraine and went to world attention and refocus his people away from ukraine an...

The space. if it doesn't happen soon, he says he won't attack them. can he afford to lose iowa and then new hampshire and then if he doesn't win in north carolina, can you go 0-3. they have a plan for the southern states but in most elections, if you go 0-3, the bottom falls out. >> here's another question i have. if you have a bad debate and you're carson and you have a bad debate and your trump, or a don debate, debate, but if you're jeb bush and you have a bad debate like tonight or it's not a great debate. you don't seem joyful. you attack rubio, it backfires. it's killer. >> no. let me an...