this is somebody who is in a major position with the rnc, with their finances. they can't keep running away from this. they are accountable. and as these republican members of congress and other candidates get past their primaries and have to appeal to somebody other than trump's core supporters, they're going have to answer to this. i just don't see how they can continue to act like this is no big deal, the president with his rhetoric. >> and that's some of the politics. i want to go back to the leadership, to you, jim messina, having served president obama and having been in that room that so few of us have been in today. we speak against the backdrop of chemical attacks in syria and the generals gathered to deal with that. we speak of the backdrop of the independence, the doj and those institutions. your view that the leadership test that donald trump is facing tonight and how he is doing. >> he is absolutely failing it. you just don't do what he did today. you have a really big crisis in syria. you have the joint chiefs sitting around you.