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Exhausted with defending this president, day in and day out, and it means defending t ining indefensible. and we saw them step out in the case of syria, mitch mcconnell has an op-ed in "the washington post," condemning what donald trump did there. i think we're starting to see republicans move away from this president. >> and olivia, you wrote about that this week, the exhaustion. >> i think the way that the media or liberals have trump fatigue, that exists on the right, as well. it's just different. because they're not outraged. they're not trying to get rid of him. they're not trying to acti...

Actually, there are ways of chronicling is there a change in our condition. i think partially it does speak to the fact that the outrage cycle demands ever and ever greater levels of outrage. it also suggests the president himself has been angrier in the course of august, that he is feeling defensive and boxed in. and again, if you just look at the tweets and put them all together, you might have a sense that he insults people. but when you see this scale and nature of it coming directly from the overall office and the president of the united states, there is something different going on here....

Little bit. >> neil: but they're not chilling, congressman. >> somebody has to say it. i did. >> the rhetoric is way over the top from all angles quite frankly. but i personally expect leadership to come from the top. i hope that at some point we can get down to really tackling the issues that matter to the american people. >> neil: by the way, what teamed these two guys up, they're talking about the pension plans that are on the verge of going belly up and could respect in one million retirees seeing their pensions wiped out or cut down. emily larson with more. it's a good cause a good missio...

Okay. that's not a fully new message and frankly is a very populace message. if you don't like it here, leave. there are still enormous things wrong with that message but he has already stepped away from what was the racist core of his sunday message. it is hard to focus on that because we don't want to because it's heart breaking. we suffer the outrage cycle. it should be heart breaking that the president of the united states suggests that if you are a person of color who dissentence and in his mind they were an immigrant. it doesn't matter that factually that is not true. in his mind they we...

They're bringing drugs. they're bringing crime. they're rapists, and some, i assume, are good people. >> that really happened. as i said, that was four years ago tomorrow when donald trump gave us his first outrage-inducing comment, and since then it's been one cycle after another. let's bring in some people to break down the outrage cycle. leigh ann caldwell, cornell belltry, and michael steele, former adviser to jeb busch and john bayoehneboehner. i do like to remind people, michael steele, that donald trump planned his entire campaign that day, that entire announcement was planned to troll ...