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Espoused the sentiments but that half the nation embraced them. for me, this was a personal journey. this was my last year in office. i had called on trump to drop out of the race in 2015 nearly a year before this. i never came around to him. but the part that from tim alberto's reporting that speaks to me and that has me relive this moment is paul ryan goes ahead and he goes toes this wisconsin brats and brews annual rally that trump was supposed to appear it. ryan gives the speech instead and ryan gets booed by the republicans in the crowd because they wanted trump. when we watch a trump ral...

Built that spreadsheet, tim. they clearly are getting ready for this. >> they know what's coming. you will talk to some republicans around town who have presence here who believe in some sort of three dimensional machiavellian scenario that losing the house of representatives is the best possible thing that could happen to ensure donald trump's reelection in 2020. they believe that a young inexperienced house democratic majority with possibly new leadership in a number of positions all the way up to speaker perhaps would overreach and provide the ideal foil for donald trump and sort of rally t...

>> yeah, i don't respond to tweets. >> whoever the president is is always an issue in races for congress. and a lot of people ask me, mika, how do you deal with donald trump. when the president does something right i will support it, i will get behind it. if the president is doing something wrong that i disagree with, i will be outspoken about it. >> so, tim alberto, we showed a handful of republicans in tough races, not necessarily the majority. what is your take on how much these candidates should embrace the president? obviously it depends on the district. the chunk of people the house is g...

We are rapidly approaching that. that only guarantees the investigation will continue after the election. meanwhile, you have mueller sort of parsing out bits of these threads that he finds, investigative threads to other prosecutors. we saw just friday a guilty plea from a lobbyist who had worked in a similar space as paul manafort for similar clients with similar associates. that was farmed to the u.s. attorney in washington by mueller. and you have the southern district of new york, the prosecutors there investigating michael cohen as well as skadden arps. it's all these tentacles, not just...

Extent we may have forgotten what a committee with teeth looks like because we have not seen an opposition party go after a president in at least a little while. >> couple years. >> in a couple of years. but you remember back to, say, the benghazi probe with trey gowdy. it was an incredible power, went on for years. th >> speaker of the house, they put trey gowdy on that and he went to town. there is a play book. the democrats and house oversight, the democrats on some of the other committees have sent a lot of letters, have asked for a lot of things. they can't get because they don't have the...