obstruction pattern? i think there s serious exposure here. you re right about that. but this was a spin. it happens in the city all the time. if you start criminalizing spins, half the city will be frog marched into a federal penitentiary. they try to manage messages. all a personality types. they try to control messages and events. it s hard for a lawyer to say the best thing you can do is nothing at all. you re making this a lot worse. but spinning a statement like that is not a crime. otherwise most of what happens in the city is a crime. we sgaut got to leave there. thank you both. joining me now is gloria borjer, mary catherine ham and becarry sellers. you heard the legal advice here, gloria. i think the president has a problem here. i think the statement was
who i am. i spent decades learning about what it would take to move our country forward. reporter: clinton promised more in a book she s publishing in the fall. i am writing a book, it s a painful process reliving the campaign. so did we make mistakes? of course we did. did i make mistakes? oh, my gosh, yes, i did. you ll read my confession and request for absolution. the reason why i believe we lost were the intervening events in the last ten days. reporter: and those events will likely be revisited tomorrow when director comey testifies before the senate judiciary committee. he ultimately cleared clinton two days before the election but by then, democrats say the damage was done. all right, breanna, thank you very much. steve israel in new york, mary
if the party and the conservative movement are together, similar to steve and i, it can t be responded. reporter: conservatives may yet find their faith tested if president trump strays too far from their orthodoxy, and he could find party support softening if his approval ratings continue to fall. but for right now, as they say, everyone loves a winner, and conservatives believe they are winning big. anderson? tom, thanks a lot. to discuss, the panel, mary catherine ham, amanda carpenter and matt lewis. how do you think it played with conservatives around the country? i think this is the first time i ve heard something new from donald trump. what he laid out in this speech, if you take away the media critique, the bragging with his electoral prowess.
whether they are from there or not. you would imagine brooke, yet again the border wall will be a topic of conversation, we still have not heard how they are going to pay for that but mexico has made it clear they have no plans to pay for the wall. thank you much. mary catherine ham, jamie gangel and cnn senior reporter kn nia-malika henderson, how dangerous is it to paint with such a broad brush these constituents? i think what was very important was three little words sean spicer used, he said a bit of, when he was talking about
and, jake, we re going to see a lot more of it. talking to democratic officials, they believe this is the seeds to what they hope is their next tea party. the big question is, is it sustainable and will it help them electorally in 2018. jake? phil mattingly, thanks. let s bring in the political panel. contributing editor for the add lan tick michelle connell, mary catherine ham. let s go down the line. this was shockingly similar to the same reports going on, except angry conservatives and democratic lawmakers in 2009 and 2010. is it the same thing, do you think? as far as the democrats go, this is what goes around comes around. they don t have any power base in washington. they feel like they have to take it to the grassroots to get their message heard. and they re really kind of stoking up the anger out there across the country. so, they thoroughly intend to focus on this and make it as painful as possible for republicans to repeal any part of this. and, monthly lly, of course