contributor and washington anchor for bbc world news america catty kay, former chairman of the republican national committee, michael steele and direct offer domestic policy studies at stanford, a research fellow at the hoover center, chen. michael steele, what is going on with your party? this is only a two-hour show. what s going on is a whole lot of things but the short and long of it is you have right now this real battle line has been drawn between, i would call traditional republicans and this new emerging trump republicanism. and it s going to be a battle that s going to be played out the remainder of this administration. but the problem right now is the lineup with the moore race. a lot of the stuff the president is saying, you played the clip of the president doing that phoner. you know, the bottom line is the
fair trial or not. exactly. we have mike barnacle with us. sam stein with us. joining us from london washington anchor for bbc world news america catty kay and in washington, d.c. columnist for world view al hunt. let s get to politics. funding for the department of homelands security runs out, mitch mcconnell has one vote to fund homeland security, a clean bill followed by another to stop the president s executive actions on immigration. i don t know what s not to like about this. this is an approach that respects both points of view and gives senators an opportunity to go on record on both. both funding the department of homeland security and expressing their opposition to what the president did last november. however the deem was not immediately embraced by house
and washington anchor for bbc world news america catty kay here in new york looking fantastic and in washington editorial director of the huffington post media group and msnbc political analyst howard fineman and another howard former governor of vermont and former chairman of the democratic national committee, howard dean. good to have you all onboard this morning. we re going to go through the scandals. i want to get to the college story. i want to put a question out to howard dean who has been at the center of the storm at times and also helped analyze it. i m just wondering, howard, if a couple months from now we ll be looking back and making fun of ourms for going deep into the weeds on interagency battles and that really people right now are thinking about other things, getting their kids out of school, moving on to the summer. there is no election here as a backdrop. are we sort of i don t know kind of drilling down on this to the point where people will tune out?