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More gres nif public. the big picture for me when i talk to lawmakers this is not just a gianforte issue for the republican party. in georgia, in the special election there, karen handle is facing constant questions about president trump's conduct and his behavior and, of course, in montana, gianforte putting his hands on the neck of a reporter. if, for a party that for so long fought battles with democrats on intellectual grounds, policy grounds, now it is, ahead of 2018, really becoming about character, conduct, complicity. these are the issues dogging the gop in the trump era. >> you know w...

A lack of a score from the krksbo. it feels like it wasn't a big deal for them? >> it seems like that. it's interesting, i spent a lot of the day with a lot of my colleagues asking member after member of the house republican conference are you concerned with the idea you'd be moving forward on a bill where you don't know how many people it would cover and how much it would cost? this is what they had to say. >> how do you feel that they voted without a cbo score? >> yeah, the three amendments that are new aren't going to change dramatically that cbo score. so the basic cbo score is still going...

This judge in particular? >> i think the president makes a mistake going after judges. he quoted me correctly, i do think he'll win many the united states supreme court. it will be an important decision because it will be the first time a court has hand led political statements during the campaign used to strike down a facially constitutional statute. i hope the president doesn't misinterpret my statements to say i support the order. i don't support it. i'm opposed to it. there's a difference between not supporting an order on policy grounds and finding it up constitutional. i do not think it'...

Particularly from romney saying that donald trump was not fit to be president. but do you just chalk that up, ron, to how the game is played? it's certainly not the first time we have seen two people really go at each other, and then suddenly they've decided to work together once the election is over. >> right. we're looking at the extreme version of that. the plus sized version of that. the comments that mitt romney made about donald trump, i believe, certainly in my lifetime are the most caustic made by a former nominee about a prospective nominee. the criticism was not only on policy ground...

Obamacare and its impact down ballot. how big of a political boost is this story line, this thread for vulnerable republican senators and congress members down ballot? >> peter, you see immediately senate candidates and house candidates down the ballot are seizing upon the issue today. what makes this whole moment interesting is that the election has been one about temperament. secretary clinton running against donald trump's temperament. trump selling himself as changed to american voters. it has not been a war that's been fought on policy grounds. >> what's striking as you say it is donald t...