text message, which in context does not portray a political bias. a we re being naive also. the idea that these human beings don t have ongoing political feelings of course. the question is whether or not it influences their work. hillary clinton and her people made the same argument to my face about the e-mail investigation, they don t like me, they never liked me, they don t like my husband. that s what they were saying. we ve heard it before, jeffrey. what i think is interesting about the whole issue of the text messages, it shows how the house republicans who are pushing this issue are more interesting in investigating the investigation. look at the memo. the #releasethememo. this is such an odd situation. they show a memo with vfisa.
with the president. here s flake admitting today he probably couldn t have won. i can tell you, it s very difficult to be relegisla-elece the republican party in arizona in particular. doesn t matter so much the po policies that you adopt or your votes. it s if you re with the p president. or you re not, obviously, and jeff flake thinks if you re win the president, you can win. outfront now, doug brinkley, april ryan, white house correspondent for american radio nedworks and mark preston. senator flake very honest. admitting he wouldn t win. it s about whether you re with the president or not with the president. so does this mean trump s victory lap is well deserved? i think it s an odd situation, erin, where everybody involved can take a victory lap. i think donald trump has an 80% popularity rate iing with among
the people i have been talking to abroad is what would he stand for? you have this odd situation where the president of the free world, the leading the world s leading democracy has been elected and the people who seem ecstatic are al-assad in syria who says trump will be a ally. the hungarian president, who is very liberal, populous nationalist, the government in poland, which has been trying to shut down or close media and independence of the judiciary in various ways. another made a statement saying maybe we will be able to restore our relations with the united states. and the people concerned have been germany, france. it s been very interesting to watch how the united states s closest allies have real
forward. manu raju, thank you for the report. back with our political panel sorting through this fallout we re seeing here. juana summers, a.b. stoddard and dave icmawina. i remember an aide that said to me, looking at the majority in the house, because of the way state legislatures are controlled by republicans and able to create districts in a certain way that in the absence of that, at times in recent years, the republicans actually should be in the minority, but they re in the majority and so they find themselves in this sort of odd situation, and it kind of gums up the works. but that s not going to change. so what is the way forward here for republicans? i think david made a great point before the break. we re heading into, no matter who wins at the top of the ticket in november what s going to be a pretty depressing, frankly, era of congress with not a lot of room for compromise
loan. paul: how is this going to turn out, how do you think? the thing that happened here, president obama suddenly decided to do some math is and figured out the federal government was going to be in big trouble so they put in the budget of tying rates to the market. this has long been a republican proposal. you ve had a backlash from democrats, an odd situation where they have been at odds with the white house. with the white house pushing for this, republicans pushing for this, they are losing this battle. you are likely to see a compromise which interestingly will follow along the lines of what has long been a republican proposal that the rates need to have some basis in market reality. paul: this is a real switch eeroo. obama used to flog republicans and mitt romney and saying you don t care about college kids