part of the republican party. and he will continue to do that. reporter: and joining us now is washington post national political reporter isaac ards. thank you so much for being with us. i want to start with the piece that you co-authored entitled trump plots aggressive midterm strategy seen in gop as double-edged sword. so could you mean by the double edged swords. in the primary, what we heard was trump s first general election rally. in the primaries he was the envy of all. his endorsement, his backing, every candidate wanted that and what you started to see almost immediately after those candidates won the primary was, taking trump off the top of their website, like dr. oz did. and starting to try to put some distance between themselves and trump. because while he is the number one thing for primary voters, the republican base, with the general election electorate, it is a little bit of a different story. and so what strategists are trying to figure out, republican s
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I am committed to working with my colleagues, as later today all senators attend a classified briefing and an update on isis and as next week committees in this senate hear testimony from secretary of state kerry and secretary of defense hagel, i am committed to working with my colleagues and with chairman menendez on the Foreign Relations committee to review, consider, draft and approve an authorization for the use of military force when submitted to us by the president that gives congress an appropriate role in oversight and the president the authorization he needs. Mr. President , we need to do everything we can together to ensure that isis will be stopped. It has already shown itself, demonstrated its capability to commit unspeakable crimes, and if left unchecked, these terrorists will spread their reach beyond our abilities to stop them. We cannot let that happen. As my colleagues discuss and debate this mission, i only ask that we leave the politics of the moment out of it. With