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Political capital to come out and say something. because it could backfire in terms of not only the president but also what else the president is going to say. >> right. you can look at it almost as a downhill scale since the campaign where when he first attacked mccain and he said this comment about mccain, i was reminded after mccain said trump brought out the crazies. in his commentary at the time trump questioned mccain's war hero status and republicans were upset as were some of the president's advisers when the president attacked -- got into a fight with khazir khan around the time of th...

Trump also getting into a fight with a gold star family. there was that family whose son died serving the military, and the president was relentless with that family. so this is a president who is, as soon as he perceives any sort of threat, his strategy that he thinks is working, his strategy that he thinks will carry him to 2020 is to be strong in his mind, and that means to never let down his rhetoric. >> it also seems, too, yamiche, i said throw it right back in their face. but it also seems part of the instinct here is to take the thing perceived as a strength, the thing perceived as unto...

And fair or not, there is certainly a segment of the republican party today to whom this rhetoric appeals. these are people who are frustrated with president obama. who perhaps never saw him as quite legitimate in the first place. they are frustrated with the republican establishment. donald trump entered the race insulting john mccain's war hero status. that never hurt him. these are people who are sort of ready for a candidate who will say no to everything and everyone that's been in power for a good long time. so, no, this rhetoric, while inflammatory, while perhaps troubling to a lot of le...

United states is hoping will fight back successfully against never mind isis but against bashar al assad, so it is very complicated and some of donald trump's rivals say he just doesn't get it. >> yeah, i want to hear more about that because he is -- he has said to me and other people that russia should handle isis, let's let russia handle isis. how do other republicans view that, dana. >> i think the most interesting response today was from the senate armed services chair john mccain who has had kind of an interesting reaction to donald trump in that, of course, remember there was a big dustu...

It is an effective argument. it rings true on its face that he is a good negotiator and we think he's better than the other guys because he's made $10 billion out of it. >> let's put the numbers on screen. we asked people to tweet when you listen to donald trump you like him more or less. this is not a scientific poll. let's get the numbers up there. 82%. the numbers are rather staggering. people like him 82% more. doesn't sound like he says anything that makes, at least the audience of this show upset. they like him more. >> amazing. no matter what he says he can want hurt himself. remember a...