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Comes on the heels of him escalating the attack. you do have a number of lawmakers rushing to the late senators defense. you also have daughter megan mccain and cindy mccain saying she has gotten some bullying tweets because of the president's escalating his attack. all of this basically serves to overshadow the policy message. he is heading to the major battleground state to talk about jobs, cars and the economy. this is what he is focused on. he is going to depart today. we'll have a chance to ask him about all of this and his messaging. is it a preview of things to come? undoubtedly it will...

Obviously, after the race against ted cruz where he narrowly lost that. does he still have it? >> i think once you have star power, you don't usually tend to lose it just within a month or two without doing anything crazy or illegal. so i think he's seen as a rising star in the democratic party. of course, he would have wished to be elected to the senate, to replace ted cruz but now he has a totally open schedule, but he's getting some criticism from people about what is his policy message and his favorablity approval rating has gone down in iowa and he's down at 5% in the polls. when you talk...

Difficult to sort out and prioritize and decide what they want to take the most aggressive tack against. you see them wanting to balance a policy message with an accountability message to talk about things like the family separations or prescription drugs so that people, they hope, don't get the message that all they're doing is going after trump himself. but we'll see if that message gets through, especially with the president tweeting and taking up so much of the news cycle focused on himself. but as kara was saying, there may have been red lines in the mueller investigation. congress doesn'...

Political message than a policy message, possibly about why the wall is needed, all the things that a wall would do, as if to sort of education nancy pelosi, chuck schumer. it will be interesting to see if the cameras will be there again. you can imagine the democrats are going to be prepared to go into this not just thinking they're sitting back and getting some sort of a briefing about what the wall would do but knowing they've got to come up with a counterstrategy to try to get a bill that would open the government but from their point of view not fund a wall that is basically a political m...

Is it strategy? is it ptsd from 2016? >> why not do a little dance? kind of end zone celebration. >> or just pat yourself on the back that you ran on health care, policy at a time when a lot of people are debating whether or not policy gets through with all the tumult and all the sort of junk in the system that trump -- they ran on a policy message. was complicated, about preserving obamacare, and they won. >> they don't know who is in charge, which is part of the problem. as we see the battle for house speaker kind of coalesce and it looks like nancy pelosi will win out, but she's also going ...