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The executive order not explain how he will implement it. he has had mixed messages on policy grounds telling house republicans he needed to pass legislation not just to deal with this issue but also larger issues involving border security and then drop that, we don't need to worry about it. in the mid terms this has been a bungled policy and the policy not surprisingly didn't want to talk about it because it is a huge embarrassment for the situation and they haven't explained about what they are going to do to reunite the families. >> i think he is torn a little bit about how to message this ...

Can't criticize poly or behavior. >> i don't think that is true. this is a phenomenon for a number of years. when you have a president of your own party, there is very little tolerance in the primary for folks who make the core identity criticizing the agenda of that president. they want people to pick up the hard hat and the lunchpail and go to work and try to get things done. and so for folks like jeff flake or bob corker and in this sense sanford, you see primary voter anxiety about that and i think mark sanford is the latest victim. >> and he said he thinks the president's tweet did cause ...

Laws, he is attacking us on the policy grounds. >> and nick it is the manner in which they did it in that i find it fascinating, because if you are taking doma, the analog of the big public debate, and congressional notice and defended it in the lower courts and then stopped at the appellant level, and so you were noticing this, like they were going to try to sneak it past everyone, nick. >> this came out nofwhere. the three line attorneys who withdrew their name from the case, these are civil servant, and serving across administrations, and defended the programs they have disagreed with, and ...

And mitch mcconnell spoke to npr essentially saying he didn't hear anything that changes his view. >> this is what trump ran against. it's trying to have your cake and eating it, too. it's politics without accountability. and they are afraid of donald trump. that's the thing. they are afraid of -- they have decided that they can criticize him on policy grounds or even potentially on ground of division is ripping our country apart but they can't do it by name and they can't take responsibility for their own role in it. >> matt miller. >> and they won't confront the president about that. >> no t...

>> you think it will? >> i think it's unlikely that there is less there than more there. >> i think goudy getting involved is an indication it could come back. >> of escalation. >> when it is just democrats it makes it easier for the news cycle to move forward. the president is really good at dismissing democrats as being personal attacks or being about him. when you bring in a republican voice it kind of creates a longer term thread. >> susan collins had things to say about scott pruitt. >> i think congress needs to do some oversight. after all, we don't know the extent of the recommendations...