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And not undermining them going forward. even when you look at policy stuff, so the trump administration appoints someone who may be described as someone maybe pro-settlement with israel, the next day john kerry announces and follows through with the speech basically undermining and scolding the new administration for doing what frankly the people in this country have elected them to do. trump was clear on israel throughout the campaign. now he's just following through. >> peter, there was a honeymoon period of sorts. they sat together in the oval office, it was kind of like a truce between the...

All of those are yiinstruments. the central thrust are going to be the scandals. >> when you say the total contradiction of everything he ran on for a year, you view that as a sideshow, because you're concerned that this purpose will actually be corruption and bilking the government by trump? >> i don't think, i think he tends to bilk foreign governments more than the american government, bilking the american government is hard, it's got a lot of safeguards and legal sanctions. so he's not going to transfer yosemite park to his own bank account. that would be dangerous. but to use his position...

Governments more than the american government, bilking the american government is hard, it's got a lot of safeguards and legal sanctions. so he's not going to transfer yosemite park to his own bank account. that would be dangerous. but to use his position as president to direct flows of foreign wealth to himself and his family. and without his tax returns it's going to be very hard to know that's happening and hard to enforce. the policy stuff, some of it's pretty good, actually, but it's not the point. >> david paints a dark picture. we're going to be talking about that later in the hour. leg...

Problems that down-ballot republicans are worried about but also, what is the republican party in 2016? what are you voting for? what are you getting when you vote for this party in 2016? >> it's funny because people talk about a three legged stool of conservatism. trump has kicked out all three legs of the stool. he does not run on social issues at all. it's not at all clear if you're a serious social conservative he's your guy. he's abandoned the conservative positions on trade, the economic aspects of immigration, doesn't talk about taxes very much, doesn't embrace the bush vision of foreig...

Positions on trade, the economic aspects of immigration, doesn't talk about taxes very much, doesn't embrace the bush vision of foreign policy. so if you take away all of the policy stuff, all you have left is sort of this anger. and that's what donald trump has run on and it's left the down-ballot ka down-ballot candidates a little bit awash as well. >> in 2012, the ryan budget was a manifesto and more than that, an operational document that was actually a plan for what the priorities were and they got attacked over it and i, for one, was not a big fan of it but it was a thing that, this is w...