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The republican congress you're faced with questions about the president. what do you think of romney, this being his opening gambit? >> the fact he wrote the on sed op-ped is unique. most don't say this about the president not having the requisite character -- when you get down to the practical applications of this op-ped, what romney says sounds exactly like what paul ryan said for the past two years. which is, i'm not going to comment on every tweet. >> right. >> i will speak out if something egregious happens. like if the president sides with putin over the u.s. intelligence community in fr...

After donald trump won the election, there was the same guy. that guy. the guy you just saw in the clip, that's him, that's mitt romney breaking bread with the president-elect in hopes of becoming a secretary of state. and then later, when romney decided to run for senate in this cycle, he was more than happy to accept the president's endorsement. now, one day before being sworn in as senator, romney is flip-flopping yet again publicly denouncing the president's character in an op-ped for the "washington post." the thing is, romney is actually not that different from most of his party. particu...

She responds to the op-ped, for an incoming republican freshman senator, like, who's this guy? barely heard of the guy. to attack @realdonaldtrump. what the democrats and media want is disappointing and unproductive. ronna mcdaniel's name is romney mcdaniel, niece of the freshman republican senator. this, to me, feels like a baroque expressions of frailty that the donald trump republican party demands. >> sure. that's her job is to speak for the party. and support the president. and that's what romney said in response to this. he said something like, you know, it would have been less civil if ...

Especially defenders in congress. rand paul held a press conference about the op-ped which was interesting to say the least. >> part of it is so weird, there's like this witchcasting, there's this aggrievedness, mckay, you have sprub ca republi are you on my case about the guy i support and vote with who's the most powerful person in the world who i think and you think is a psychopath? like, what's the problem? why are you in my face about it? it's like, that's why because that's why. you just said it. and romney has the same m.o. here. >> well, i think part of the kind of animosity that other...

Probably. >> maybe. look, he obviously thought back in 2016 that he could mend fences when he -- >> right. >> -- after the election when he had that dinner. i think romney probably has now learned his lesson from that and decided to assert at least some modicum of independence. >> the other part of this, just the sort of perfect capsule study of the republican party's relationship with donald trump over the last five years, honestly, five, six years, is here's the head of the rnc, her name is ronna mcdaniel. she responds to the op-ped, for an incoming republican freshman senator, like, who's t...