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>> and the margins, too. what's more important is how not just the northern virginia suburbs, those nonvirginia part that i happen to live in and it is part of virginia. but it's the suburbs arn richmond, the suburbs in the tidewater region. this to me is the bigger problem for republicans. it's they're losing the suburb yooits which are such a core part of their coalition. they're adding a lot of coal coalition and doing that really since george w. bush endorsed strip mining in 2000 in west virginia. if you can't hold the suburbanites it's where everybody lives. >> you're already losing the u...

He strip mined the credibility of h.r. mcmaster, which was a great line, and that's what he's doing again, strip mining the credibility of his own justice department by doing this. why in the world -- this cannot possibly help his legal argument and it -- why would you want to work for a guy who does this to you on a regular basis. >> part of the reason why midwin can speak to this better than i can, part of the reason why this challenge hasn't done well in court is because of some of the president's statements. >> previous comments. >> right. >> and statements and it also doesn't go over that...

What the president has said to his base about who he is and what he's going to fight for. it's always been -- i've been confused why democrats make a bigger deal of the fact that they are manufacturing their goods overseas in places like china so i think politically it could become a problem but just from an american perspective, bill used a line earlier that trump was strip mining the credibility of mcmaster, they are strip mining the credibility of this country for their own benefit and not just in china, you look at turkey, you look at saudi your look at the philippines where it's been so p...

>> the president says that staying in would shrink the u.s. gdp by something like $2.5 trillion. >> i don't see that math. i would be interested to hear that in more detail. if you look at the coal industry that's his base, these are people that voted for him. jobs in the coal industry were being cut dramatically even before the epa was created in the 1970s. those jobs were changing because of technology. got out of us pick and axe mining and strip mining. these jobs are not come back. they have been changed. this other industry that's growing. look at china employing eight times more people i...

Reduce funding to monitor greenhouse gas emissions, reduce funding to implement health care reform, all of those have been out there, some of the major riders we've been talking about, but there are other ones, too. like blocking new restrictions on strip mining near streams. blocking new restrictions for nonprofit colleges. defunding a program to track toy related injuries. moving money from one program to another. and this is the tricky part about all this, anderson, which is worth bearing in mind. you're absolutely right, some people will look at this and say that's frivolous, there's nothi...