issue. the senate votes later today on the nomination of senator jeff sessions to become the attorney general. last night senator elizabeth warren was rebuked, banned from the debate after criticizing senator sessions. democrats say republicans miscalculated. listen to democratic jim hines. as a political matter, if mitch mcconnell wanted to further activate an already activated democratic activist wing, boy did ever do that last night. do you believe, senator, and i know you are a strong believer in free speech, that senator warren should have been rebuked and shut down by the majority leader? well, you know, i think a lot of people on the other side of the aisle are very still very unhappy about losing the election, and i think their frustration is boiling over into ad hominum. basically character assassination, and i don t think it s fair to jeff sessions, you know, to say that he is against voting rights. i have seen the pictures of him marching in selma with john lewis in
deliberately from his other story. very rarely is there a larger architecture to the kind of decisions that are getting made. if it seems that trump s team is at war with itself and taking strongly held preferences public and acceptance of the boss, but not necessarily on his instructions. that s probably what we re dealing with. kellyanne is somebody who are for a long time represented the conservative, more conservative, more activist wing of the republican party and i think you could very easily imagine a scenario where jeb bush were elected president and he is thinking about when mitt romney secretary of state and kellyanne was out on television saying this is a terrible idea and an insult to the party s base. however, if you want to believe that they want to rub mitt romney s nose in it. if you listen to kellyanne s comments about the speech he gave in utah and how he was wrong about donald trump s intellect and integrity and on
evangelical community. i m wondering how you feel about the new numbers out of iowa. i m not really surprised not only because of declining support for donald trump but also because of the support for ben carson. i think both of those things are predictable. i m somewhat surprised that there is not more of a surge for ted cruz among that activist wing in iowa but i think there is time for that to happen. but it doesn t surprise me at all. doesn t surprise you based on trump s past comments or what you field all along? because of the way that donald trump is running the most intentionally secular campaign i ve seen since perhaps howard dean. this is someone in out reach to evangelicals tends to be reaching out to the fringe of evangelicals meeting within the video clip that you just showed with prosperity gospel teachers on television that would be seen
there are a couple of things, we saw people on msnbc, he only has a couple of years experience in the senate. hole low hello? what do you think of chris matthews going off and this is not the first time on the joe mccartney-like figure. this is come tear and not straight news. sure. but fair. is it fair? it is not fair it is easy to demonize him. what is fair, he demonizes him by calling him joe mccartney but he does represent the split in party. he is part of the activist wing of the party and there is a strong part of the party now that wants to prove they can govern and he rubs them the wrong way and that is fair game for coverage. it is a true that a lot of the g.o.p. colleagues do not like him and it is not a smear but the whole thing a couple of weeks ago he frightens the three year old because he gave a speech of the world being on
the question is where or notther or not he can do that. he only has a couple years experience in the senate. hello. barack obama. and what do you make of chris matthews going on off on cruz? first of all, this is comment taker, it is not straight news. but is it fair, it s not fair. it s very easy to demonize him. but what is fair coverage is to what you alluded to that he does represent the split in the party. he is part of the activist wing of the party. there is a strong part of the party now that wants to prove that ththey can govern and he rubs them the wrong way. and i think that s fair game for coverage. it is true, though a lot of his gop colleagues in washington do not like him. but the whole thing a couple weeks ago where, oh, he frighten