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Grumb grumb grumbling. this is absolute nonsense. the like attacking alex cora for not kicking a field goal at the end of the braves game. >> why didn't he kick a field goal? >> it's a good question. >> this weekend had me thinking a bit. i think about how american politics is usually played between the 40 yard lines. you know, you have broad consensuses between the parties about how the country should be run. occasionally things go really haywire. for instance, the iraq war. but by and large you stay within those 40 yard lines. what donald trump is, someone well without, outside of the 40 yar...

Spot but right now they're between the 40 yard lines. >> bill: clark tucker say democrat from arkansas and -- is a democrat from arkansas and represents little rock and put out a spot saying i'm not going to vote for nancy pelosi. now, is that starting to gain traction among democrats or is he the exception? >> no, i think especially in districts like that in appalachia we claim that too and cross the midwest it's good for democrats to be able to say i'm not voting for her and this is where pelosi's situation is precarious. she said she'll stay with the democrats and return as speaker and i'm ...

It is one thing to go from wilsonianism to that? >> i think they're afraid of trump and his base which is shifting. they don't wants to lose those base voters. >> i don't think i ever thought about the red line, that material, the new term is red line. is there a red line where the republican base will say, you fire mueller. i don't think that's a red line. >> i don't think so either. >> it would be a tremendous mistake. but the republican base is now trump base. they elected there guy because he is politically incorrect. they want someone politically incorrect. he is for the free market and s...

Politics is a learning procession, you learn as you go along. democrats joined in correcting a macetake made in the wake of charlottesville. they allowed the issue to shift from the president's moral equivalency about naziism and anti-naziism to the question of statute use of confederate leaders. the democrats shifted the question which 90% of the people disagreed with president trump to an issue that remains a hot debate somewhere between the 40 yard lines. this is not the first time i recall the democrats decided to pick the wrong line on which to fight. i remember when president reagan was ...

Whether it was the clinton folks handing off to -- you know, president bush in 2000 or bush to obama in '08, you're talking about the transfer of power between traditional politicians. people who were in the arena. politics between the 40 yard lines. this is someone who ran a very different kind of campaign from outside of politics. i think the nature of his appeal, so scared the left, including the folks in the white house, it's going to be did i cut to pass the baton on to somebody who they think basically ran as a racial delagogue, that's a tough thing. >> "the washington post," cross divid...