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We're not that anymore. we've become a regional myopic angry party that is afraid of the demographic shifts in this country, that doesn't understand diversity and what it means to be a true big tent and a party that has tolerance for ideas both on the left and the right and in the center. that's not the republican party i grew up in with jack kemp and christie whitman and 's a disappointment. bottom line, it's trump's party, not the replican party. >> you look at the president's -- the three major republican presidents through the ages, abraham lincoln, teddy roosevelt, ronald reagan, all incl...

Picking fights with people who do look like me and because he's picking those fights, even if i don't love everything about him, at least he is fighting the people i think deserve to be fought and that's why despite breaking all sorts of rules, you don't have to like him, you nonetheless as a republican, that's why 90% of people who still identify themselves as republican say yeah, he's my guy. i may not like everything he does but he's fighting the people i want to see fought. >> so john harwood, let's bring this back to the republican party, is it just completely the party of trump or can ce...

Take things issue by issue but that faction doesn't have infrastructure to it. people fit into that category but there's no meetings, there's no super pac. this remnant group doesn't have any organization to it. i'm curious as the weeks unfold if the story gets grimmer for republicans in terms of the midterms, if this family separation issue takes its toll at the polls do more republicans shift from that establishment we fall in line group to begin becoming a little more sfloeg a it wi -- rogue? >> so along these lines, john harwo harwood, your column for cnbc is "how the gop morphed from the ...

Week? >> i get asked what are the divisions within the republican party look like? by and large outside of washington there's not a lot of division, president trump's job approval was 90% among republican voters last week. the highest it had been in gallop's tracking among republicans since he was first inaugurated so republican voters are by and large behind the president even on a policy like the family separation policy which is very unpopular broadly, a majority of republicans would say yeah, we like this. but inside of washington you have some folks, stephen miller is the trump enthusiast...

What her son madison called extraordinary privileges. so they've done an amazing job there. go down and see it and discover our american history in all of its fullness and let me end with this. rememberry, slavery was legal in this country in this country, the japanese internment was legal, it didn't make it right and moral. and what we're doing in this country with these immigrant children and putting them in cages like dogs and animals, it may be legal, president trump, but it's wrong and immoral and not who we want to be at this time in our history. >> and what an incredible story of a woma...