he put out a milquetoast tweets. i should give him credit for two. he said as the senator john mccain showed did he votion to his country, he stepped forward to serve his country and served honorably and wads one of the most consequential service to the body. nothing about his service willing change order diminished. do you think had lindsey graham been attacked by the president like that that john mccain would have put out a tweet as mild as that? i don t. think mccain s tweet would have been much more forceful than that. mccain, you know, well throughout the trump president trump s time in office was not afraid to criticize the president. and graham himself during the campaign was a fierce critic of trump. but has since morphed into an ally of the president and really i think that what we can take from that is that it s probably for political reasons. graham is facing re-election in
line. here s what mccain said last week about kim jong-un. china is the only one that can control kim jong-un, this crazy fat kid that s running north korea. tom: so great. north korea, as usual, brushed off the insult. a spokesman said hard-line conservative lawmakers of the u.s. congress have dared to take on our greatest dignity. it is the most hostile expression of our ideology and a severe provocation, equivalent to a declaration of war. he added that north korea they also included what they claim is a recent photo of kim jong-un. he looks a lot like jack elaine, doesn t he? meanwhile, i don t think
look at how many elections republicans began to lose before they and they moved further right, not to the center. and now they have lost total control of the state. there is no reason to think that republican base voters look at this. they still think they need to nominate one of their own to be their nominee. they don t think romney was that, they don t think mccain was that, they don t think it s happened that they have really nominated one of their own. and i think that will play out for one more election before they begin to reform. i know we began the process, our voters began to say, god, we can t lose anymore. we ve just got to win. bill clinton had some supporters, some union support that didn t agree with him that said, you know what, we just can t afford to lose anymore. i don t think the republican party is anywhere near to that conclusion. stan groeenberg, it s always good to have you on the program. thanks, stan. we ve learned just in the last hour that republican se