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To attack your open -- own party there's the philosophy of burning down the establishment. i want to get these things done and if mitch mcconnell and paul ryan don't work with me i'll burn them down and i have a base solid behind me and i'll primary them one by one until there's nothing left of the republican party. there's this wing of outside -- outer circle advisers that's advocating for that. and i see that this is feeding into that. >> well, phil bump, that makes sense to me. and i thought that the party that i knew and worked for 20 years died in the room the night that he gave his conve...

The majority leader praised the administration. can came during a breakfast speech, though he did not answer questions that were hurled to him after the speech. joining me now, two men who worked very closely with the majority leader, both served as senator mitch mcconnell's chief of staff. hunter baits is now a cochair. and brian is now a policy director at -- both of you graduates of mcconnell university. both of you think that the idea of a feud between the president and the majority leader is overblown, and, but, brian, since you know the majority leader so well, what does he make of it? w...

Anything done, anything at all legislatively are -- they have to be qualified as i disagree with lindsey graham. i think they are crazy because what you get from insulting mitch mcconnell and insulting paul ryan? you don't get tax reform. you don't get money for the wall. you don't get what you said you're going to give to that base. you keep promising these accomplishments. so i just think it's a bad strategy and somebody ought to give him a better one. >> bret, i have a theory that lindsey graham hears these questions from corker and clapper now on whether the president is fit to serve. i th...

Could have been so easy. now it's a mess. he says. now, it's a mess. the president says. so it's not me saying it's a mess. it's the press of the united states, brian, suggesting the way that mitch mcconnell has handled this is a mess. >> look, i appreciate that the president is anxious to get his agenda through. so are republicans in congress. but the simple fact is if you attached the debt celling to the va bill, both would have failed so i think the more constructive approach would be to focus on the republicans you into ed to get this thing 0 through and the democrat the and to talk about ...

>> when a dozen guys took a knee from the cleveland browns took a knee, they are playing. why is that? >> when you look at what happened with the 1968 olympics with john carlos and muhammad ali and paul rosen, they were persecuted for making a social stance. history did something unique. they deemed them all heroes. a similar situation will be done in colin's case. they will look at what a sacrifice he made. >> a lot of teams need quarterbacks, that's for sure. this goes way beyond football. an honor to have you with us. >> my pleasure. you didn't win. one person did, but there is some intri...