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>> congressman, what does that mashup tell you? >> a bunch of hot garbage from republicans today. call it what it is. it is not hard to take the side of a victim in a case where you know donald trump was just found liable for sexual assault. and that includes the likes of those being silent. ron desantis and others, it is not hard to say i'm glad e. jean carroll had her day in court. and i think donald trump should be held accountable. you can still hug his politics closely if you want to out of partisan loyalty. i think what you saw from cornyn is an interesting angle, which is he does not th...

Engage, decided to let the primary process play out. now they want to take a heavier hand. one person who suggested as such was senator john cornyn. he said elections, the candidate quality is so significant here. he would know. he was chairman of the committee when they had nominated lackluster candidates about a decade ago, what happened? >> they didn't take the senate. >> this is so fascinating. the reason they didn't weigh in on these primaries was trump. trump, they knew, was going to back some candidates that they weren't comfortable with. so what they're saying in between the lines of w...

Affiliation and, you know, support people who -- >> i want to listen to a moment involving senator john cornyn. you mentioned, of course, berman, crenshaw and sort of what he was getting because of his support for some gun legislation. this is some of what cornyn got. [ crowd boos ] >> do you worry that something like that endangers bipartisan agreement on -- on guns? >> oh, yeah. i think it absolutely blocks it. somehow or another the nra and those like-minded people have a lockdown on the republican base and everybody is scared to death to do anything about it. the whole thing is totally off...

We need to see more polling. as for the texas gop, you're absolutely right, it is an unrepresented minority. but cornyn has problems inside his own conference, as i reported. there is a rebellion inside the senate gop among the conservatives against john cornyn for cooperating with democrats and negotiating over guns. there have been pretty heated meetings behind the scenes that mitch mcconnell presided over and cornyn has at the lunches. you have members like ted cruz, tom cotton, mike crapo, john kennedy, there's a whole bunch of them who are really agitating against what cornyn is doing. so...

>> didn't get much coverage, actually. >> it didn't, but people should have paid attention to it because it was mitch mcconnell's way of sending a signal to president trump saying, we are not afraid of you. we will do this to you again and they will do it certainly if there is this declaration of national emergency by the president. that will be tricky, though, because you already have people like lindsey graham who are saying, we need to get behind this president, so where does the party come out at the end of the day, if there is a vote to rebuke him on the wall in the national emergency? i ...