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Side. he took a lot of incoming fire last night. starting with the question from cnbc's john harwood who asked if his campaign is a comic book version. that is a tough question. trump said that is not very nice, but he answered the question and pivoted to his message and he stayed on message instead of going on a tangent. he did not level personal attacks to other candidates. he did go after john kasich. it came after he was attacked and he went after him on policy grounds on the fact he was a lehman brothers associate before and points about the economy in ohio. we definitely saw a different ...

The deductibility of state and local taxes. those of us living in new york city and california and high tax states, that's not going to be a popular perhaps there. i guessat he's not going to win those electoralo states, kim? >> i don't think he was necessarily planning to anyway. but this is immensely important. you can see c when you lock at hillary clinton and bernie sanders, this was going to be their main theme. and what he's doing making the argument that, you know, republicans if they had any tax plans, it was all about the wealthy and helping them and not the middle class. the dwrout a...

Local taxes off your federal taxes. those of us living in new york and california in high-tax states, that's not going to be popular perhaps there. i guess he's not going to win those electoral states, kim? >> i don't think he was ever necessarily planning to anyway. but this is immensely important because this has been -- you can see when you look at hillary clinton and bernie sanders, this was going to be their main theme, and what he's doing, making the argument that, you know, republicans, if they had any tax plans, it was all about the wealthy and helping them and not the middle class. as...

And we reject. we reject racism. we reject the sort of invidious personal attacks that you're talking about. and we stand on policy grounds. and if you -- if the reason you're supporting this position or you want to join with us is because you don't like the president's color or you want to say nasty things about personalities on the right or whatever, then we don't want you. should make that clear. >> i think that's a fantastic point. make it about policy. got a problem with health care? talk about health care. you got to problem with somebody on the right, talk about policies. speaking of po...

Administration seems like it does a lot of things, not to say that other administrations don't have executive orders and haven't done executive orders, but it seems like they have done a lot of things unilaterally without congress. >> often in the name of enforcement discretion, and it will be interesting when next there's a republican president, the capital gains tax is just not in the national interest and i'm not going to collect it, i'm just not going to enforce that provision of the law. this argument is older than the republic. modern conservatism was born and n reaction against two stro...