when donald trump was running for president, sort of rank and file leaders of the republican party did not like him. so in some ways, it is a surprise to come to this moment where they are in lock step with this president. whatever he says, whatever he does, they re pretty much can i add one quick thing to that? yes. first of all, will herd is a young man who is retiring now, but wants a future, obviously. and there s no end in sight to the trump takeover of the republican party. he sees that. he s a moderate republican from texas. who was a former clean destine officer in the cia. exactly. that s why he of all republicans you would think would want to open an inquiry. one of the things that phil mentioned when he was reporting there was fred upton. he is a republican from michigan. he and many other house republicans were at a trump fund-raiser earlier this week. and we are both told that the president pulled fred upton over. he has been critical of the president. he s not
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belong. who with is not hoeld to any other standard anybody is held to. the president posted a snuff video of killing muslims? he posted a video where he claimed muslims were killing people. but it turned out to be a fake video from britain first who had been banned in their own country. and that was being amplified by this man. and i keep repeating over and over. i don t care if you re doing this for votes. i don t care if you re afraid. this is the time to be brave. we need people in power to stand up and say enough. and i don t want to pile on nancy pelosi. why are you using xenophobe? nobody knows what xenophobic is. call it what it is. violent, dangerous hate speech and racism. . there s a new book out this week called american carnage talking about the trump takeover
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say, we re with the president. there is a national emergency at the southern border the president will declare today that doesn t exist. to deny there is even a problem on the border is beyond me. we will stand by the president to make sure we can secure this border and confront this national crisis. the word president is key there in the sentence. yes, there are still tensions within the republican party about the trump takeover. but when it comes to votes, a vast majority will be with the president, because even though they don t like this, most of them don t like this, they look at the polling approval and it s 80%. at the end of the day, the majority of these voters support the president. not all, however, so you have some who will be defecting, but if it doesn t sync up with what the president wants to do, this will be what propels this
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i think it depends on how smoking that gun is, so to speak. you know, this is a very slippery slope for a lot of republicans because you have two dynamics going on. you have the trump party, you have people that voted for trump, it s trump s base, and they will stand behind trump, reverend al, no matter what he does. and then you have the regular, the establishment gop that had to swallow the trump-style applications and the trump takeover of the gop. and those people i feel like if the smoking gun is that smoking, i think that that will ease some of these republicans to break away from donald trump. but if they do, my question is where do they go? there s no one really challenging donald trump in 2020. so the question is, where do they go if they re upset with what they find out in the report
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