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Text message, which in context does not portray a political bias. >> a we're being naive also. the idea that these human beings don't have ongoing political feelings -- >> of course. >> -- the question is whether or not it influences their work. hillary clinton and her people made the same argument to my face about the e-mail investigation, they don't like me, they never liked me, they don't like my husband. that's what they were saying. we've heard it before, jeffrey. >> what i think is interesting about the whole issue of the text messages, it shows how the house republicans who are pushing ...

With the president. here's flake admitting today he probably couldn't have won. >> i can tell you, it's very difficult to be relegisla-elece the republican party in arizona in particular. doesn't matter so much the po policies that you adopt or your votes. it's if you're with the p president. >> or you're not, obviously, and jeff flake thinks if you're win the president, you can win. "outfront" now, doug brinkley, april ryan, white house correspondent for american radio nedworks and mark preston. senator flake very honest. admitting he wouldn't win. it's about whether you're with the president...

The people i have been talking to abroad is what would he stand for? you have this odd situation where the president of the free world, the leading -- the world's leading democracy has been elected and the people who seem ecstatic are al-assad in syria who says trump will be a ally. the hungarian president, who is very liberal, populous nationalist, the government in poland, which has been trying to shut down or close media and independence of the judiciary in various ways. another made a statement saying maybe we will be able to restore our relations with the united states. >> and the people ...

Forward. >> manu raju, thank you for the report. back with our political panel sorting through this fallout we're seeing here. juana summers, a.b. stoddard and dave icmawina. i remember an aide that said to me, looking at the majority in the house, because of the way state legislatures are controlled by republicans and able to create districts in a certain way that in the absence of that, at times in recent years, the republicans actually should be in the minority, but they're in the majority and so they find themselves in this sort of odd situation, and it kind of gums up the works. but that'...

Loan. >> paul: how is this going to turn out, how do you think? >> the thing that happened here, president obama suddenly decided to do some math is and figured out the federal government was going to be in big trouble so they put in the budget of tying rates to the market. this has long been a republican proposal. you've had a backlash from democrats, an odd situation where they have been at odds with the white house. with the white house pushing for this, republicans pushing for this, they are losing this battle. you are likely to see a compromise which interestingly will follow along the li...