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When vice president pence was supposed to go to the zelensky inauguration and though you're not going now. rick perry went instead. but he's insisted the conversations had nothing to do with these conversations. now there are emails saying actually what we talked about, there's a follow-up on that. it's only going to raise more questions for him. >> as you point out for republicans, there haven't been any -- we heard all weekend republicans coming out and saying the talks points we've been hearing either nothing wrong with the call or none of this is impeachable, or we have to hear from the wh...

Impeachment here. and it's fine but once you think that you would have some republicans expressing deep concern, you've had a couple. that guy, rooney, he said it, but where is this going to go? and are any republicans going to look at this oar ar are they go to be steam rolled and are they going to be told, you do this, you're going to pay a high price? it's going be a really important thing for republicans to have -- >> i think they've already been told that. i mean, you look at the talks points in the white house and according to sources that we had that they were being bombarded yesterday ...

Right now the political strategy is this, don't let the base erode. that is it. because if they let the base erode, they will lose in 2020. >> and to that very point, i got a peek at the rnc talking points that go out every week for their people who go out on television. and the talks points for this week we're authorized by diamond and silk. true sorry. diamond and silk are out there, this is all just a witch hunt. like that is the strategy. it is true. and i don't understand. and it is going after the whistleblower, it is outing the whistleblower who was not on the call. the whistleblower wa...

The white house's message out there. the president really is his own communications director. he's the one setting the white house communications strategy and what he does often is he repeats things that he's heard on fox or that he's seen on twitter from the right wing personality that is he follows. to that point, i would contend that there's been talk why doesn't he have a war room? he might not need one. a right wing media machine defending him between 24 hours a day really serves as a war room. it is setting perception for the public. it's getting the talks points out there, combatting th...

5,000to 6,000 troops south to protect their border, that is question what are the troops actually going to be doing? so we don't know at this stage because everything is wrapped in a mystery that trump says is coming later. all we do know is that the mexicans at least of this weekend claim there is actually nothing that new on the table. they concede a lot of great talks points to the white house because donald trump was trapped. he had promised a tariff. everyone if not democrats, republicans too knew that could never be the case. and what this was was a dance to get trump out of his difficul...