Heres isaacson days after john mccain died. Anyone who in in way tarnishes the reputation of john mccain deserves a whipping but most of the ones who would do the wrong thing about john mccain didnt have the guts to do the right thing when it was their turn. Let me read you rwhat isakso said. Quote, i just want to lay it on the line that the country deserves better, the mccain family deserves better. I dont the care if hes president of the United States. Owns all the real estate in new york, or is building the greatest immigration system in the world. Nothing is more important than the ented gri of country and those who fought and risk their lives for all of us. He is close with majority leader mitch mcconnell. This is not someone who speaks out often when theres news of the day and something to react to. I want to read a little more from isaksons interview. Quote, when the president is saying that he doesnt respect john mccain and hes never going to respect john mccain, and all these kids are out there listening to the president of the United States talk that way about the most decorated senator in history who is dead, it just sets the worst tone. He said nothing about his service will ever be changed or diminished. You all had mitt romney saying, quote, i cant understand why the president would once again disparage a man like john mccain. This is coming from Johnny Isakson whos the chairman of the Senate Veterans committee. Given just how senior he is in the party and the fact he doesnt react on a daily basis to the president s tweets. Yeah. He clearly thinks this is worth saying and saying loud. Lauren, thank you. Another president ial feud running hot pits George Conway, the conservative married to white house counselor kellyanne conway. He calls him a, quote, stone cold loser and husband from hello. He said he suffers from narcissistic personality disorder. These are two grown men. These are not 5yearolds. Thats absolutely rietds and what a window this is on some of the tensions that are percolating in the background here at the white house and elsewhere. George conway, as you know, a top shelf conservative lawyer of his own right, married to kellyanne conway, who is a top adviser to the president of the United States. They have been engaged this backandforth twitter war after the president , of course, had his tweet storm over the weekend. George conway questioning the president s mental fitness. The president firing back. And in a very extraordinary way, actually getting inside the marriage of one of his subordinates here at the white house, which is extraordinary in and of itself. And then you add in the fact that the president has 59. 2 million followers on twitter, its a real window. George conway this morning responding to the president s tweet with three words punctuated by periods. You. Are. Nuts. He responded in an interview with the Washington Post. The audacity, incompetence is maddening. To watch the tweeting is just the way to get it out of the way so i can get it off my chest and move on with the day. Frankly thats it. Frankly, so i dont end up screaming at her, presumably talking about kellyanne conway. So the president has referred to George Conway as mr. Kellyanne conway and has suggested as well mr. Conway very much wanted a job in this administration. Conway seems to deny that suggesting that he withdrew himself from consideration for the job here, which i believe was the solicitor generals job. Back to you. Joe johns, thank you so much. We have that letter from the Washington Post obtained. It was in may of 2017 to the president. Let me read it to you. Dear mr. President. Im profoundly grateful to you and the attorney general for selecting me to serve as assistant attorney general for the civil didnt of justice. Ive reluctantly concluded, however, for me and my family, this is not the right time to leave the private sector and take on a new role. Kellyanne and i continue to support you and your administration. I look forward to doing whatever i can from outside of government. That was, you know, just about two years ago. So the president s top adviser, George Conways wife, kellyanne conway, sat down for a wideranging interview recently with dana bash. Its part of her badass interviews. She asked her about the back and forth between her and her husband and the president then. Watch. Now we have a president whos actually criticized his own attorney general. Watch tv and twitter lately, and one of trumps most vicious critics is her own husband george striking hard and deep with his latest attack on the president s mental state calling it narcissistic personality disorder. No, i dont share those concerns. I have four kids and i was getting them out of the house this morning before i got here, so i didnt talk to the president about substance. We spoke before the latest drama but well after her husband started going after her husbands boss which she says she didnt see coming. George was so excited, literally crying with joy in his mega hat, so in that way, hes changed. Hes changed his opinion, i guess, on matters of the president. I havent and donald trump hasnt. You mean mr. Kellyanne con y conway. The day he was out on the south lawn and he called george mr. Kellyanne conway struck me, sounded like he was sending a message. I thought it was him being alan j. Trump. It was clever. Its an unusual situation in politics, in washington, in politics, certainly for a husband to get his notoriety and power through his wife. Its usually the other way around. Its funny, people will say, george, you should come to harvard and speak side by side and do this and that, and i think, oh, okay, but then id have to give him my power. The president and top allies restrained before are stepping up to George Conways response on twitter and rallying around her personally, the mother of these four children. These children are 14, 10, 10, and 9. Theyre all old enough and have been able to embrace it as their home. Its a tough age. Lets face it. It is a rare occasion where a family is moving for moms job. All right. That interview says so much, even the fact that it happened before the latest backandforth. Jackie kucinich is with me and kirsten powers. Good morning to you both. Id like to start with whats so relevant and important this morning and thats what the senior republican senator of georgia, isakson is doing in standing up to the president. Kirsten powers, the rebuke from this republican senator, its really just him this publicly and this forcefully. We have mitt romney and a few others. I wonder if you think hell be followed by a majority of other republicans in congress. I would be surprised if he is. I dont think that weve seen a lot of appetite in the Republican Party for going after donald trump, especially publicly criticizing him because of the backlash that they suffer. We see whats happening with Kellyanne Conways husband, George Conway. I think hes intimidated them in to staying silent for the most part. Jackie, politically does the president think that these attacks on john mccain actually help him, or does he not care. I dont know that theres a lot of forethought here when it comes to attacking john mccain. Its pretty clear the president doesnt like him, and he theres never been a resolution. The president couldnt really win in this situation. John mccain had the last word. So the president is known to hold grudges, and this just seems to be a continuation of that, that he just cant let go, the fact that mccain sachk the health care bill. Obviously this goes on well before that happened, but i think the fact that john mccain got the better of him, the president cant let it go. With just a thumbsdown. Thats all it took. Right. Signal on that point, kirsten, for a moment. This is not the first time the president has attacked john mccain so publicly, so viciously while he was fighting for his life and now after. Theres a new cnn poll out this morning that shows nearly eight in ten republicans who say the president is the one with the best shot of winning in 2020 in terms of all, you know, the other republicans who are running in terms of the president who has the best shot. I think 76 are in support of the president. I mean isnt that evidence that politically this doesnt hurt the president . Well, it seems to not hurt him. I mean theres also in that poll, you know, 57 of Republican Voters are very excited about voting, and thats that says a lot about the support for the president , that they feel so so excited about going out and reelecting him. So i think that, you know, youd have to ask a republican to explain this because truly its mystifying to me. There are some basic decency issues in the world and one of them is you dont attack people who have just died really for no reason. Thats the other thing. Whats the current problem that john mccain is causing from the grave, right . Its just theres not even a reason to be talking about it. Its just gratuitous, its hurtful to his family, which is a family that has been dedicated to serving this country. Like i said, i do have to ask a republican to explain this to me. The question, jackie, can be is the president sort of haunted by the shadow of john mccain and what he represents in terms of republican civility . Yeah. Again, i think this is just an old grudge that the president he cant get beyond john mccain. And, you know, your question to kirsten, republicans ive spoken to that are outside of d. C. , theyll say they dont like when the president does this sort of thing. They dont like when the president is uncivil. What theyll point to is the things hes been able to accomplish and the things that he represents in terms of, you know, their core beliefs. And his other stuff, yeah, it doesnt is it discouraging . Yeah, it is, but i think they keep on going back. Again, this is just who ive spoken to. Can i Say Something about that. Im just reporting what i learned. No, no, no. I agree. Thats what ive heard. You hear that all the time. Thats the same as hearing people say, yeah, im going to vote for him again, i really dont want to, he really upsets me with how indecent he is to other people, bigoted. But it doesnt explain the people being very excited voting for him, right . I think this economy explains a lot of that. Well see if the economy hangs on. Before you go, guys, if the president used this platform to his 59 million twitter followers to repeatedly condemn white nationalists in the wake of what happened in new zealand, you know, jackie, wouldnt that be a thing . It would. It wouldnt necessarily be its just not something the president does. Thats just. He doesnt thats just not what he uses this platform for. I think what youll hear from the white house is they have condemned it, but should the president use this for good and for trying to send a message that could potentially, you know, help heal and help move things forward, sure. Thats just not where we are. Thank you, both. 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With an ingredient originally discovered in jellyfish, prevagen has been shown in Clinical Trials to improve shortterm memory. Prevagen. Healthier brain. Better life. The crowded field of democratic president ial hopefuls is still being dominated by a man who isnt in it, at least not officially. Joe biden tops a brandnew cnn poll favored by 28 of democratic voters and voters who lean democratic. Bernie sanders comes in second with 20 , up six points for him since december. Camela harris is third after a huge jump from 4 in december. She now sits at 12 . Beto orourke is another name in double digits at 11 . A lot to unpack. Nobody does it better than our cnn political analyst. Good morning, my friend. Lets talk about aspirational through pragmatism. Thats when youre talking about Bernie Sanders. When you ask the question about Bernie Sanders, is the Democratic Party better or worse. Not a great morning for him. Still aspirational. Only 33 believe the Democratic Party will be better with him at the top of the ticket. That largely has to do with the fact hes very aspirational. He talks about policy measures that are very difficult to get past here in washington. However, hes also very influential. If you go back to 2015, 2016, it was Bernie Sanders who took the debt caratic party as you know, poppy, moving it incredibly to the left, raising minimum wage and, of course, medicare for all. Totally. When you look at the poll, what does it tell you that democratic voters are looking for most in a candidate. You feel hopeless. You feel helpless in many ways except for what you see in the house of representatives because the democrats have control of that chamber. What do you want to do . You want to defeat donald trump. Look at these numbers here. Thats the kind of trait they want to see in a democratic nominee. 56 . Only 35 believe that they want somebody that is entirely in lockstep with their beliefs. Again, this is going to be a very important question as we go forward, poppy, specifically with the field of upwards of 20 candidates all trying to vie for the voters attention and support of the voters. Many have similar policy divisions. Yes. The next step up, whos going to win. Before we get to that, do you have any idea why senator Camela Harris had such a big jump from december to now, an eightpoint jump . Okay. Its a couple of things. One, i dont think that you can argue this. She has probably had the best Campaign Rollout weve seen of any president ial candidate wee had. She jumps around the country very quick and she came into the president ial town hall on cnn. If people go back to the town hall, it was the first one cnn did. People who didnt know Camela Harris all of a sudden got to know Camela Harris. People got to paying attention to her. Shes done a very good job on the campaign trail. She was asked tough questions about her role as a prosecutor, her history, et cetera. So enthusiasm. Voters fired up, but some more than others. Right. A lot of talk on the democrtic side . But guess what. Theres enthusiasm on the republican side. 57 of republicans are enthusiastic about their vote while only 46 of democrats are. Again, were very early now, poppy, in this race, but the fact of the matter is if democrats think that their enthusiasm is going to be enough to carry them to defeat President Trump, then theyre badly mistaken. If you look at these numbers now, republicans are still in lockstep behind President Trump by and large, enough so right now hes in pretty good shape of having to fend off any kind of primary challenger at this point, and he still has support of just about every republican right now as he heads into 2020. Yep. All right. Mark preston, all well said. I know youre getting ready for the town hall tonight. Thank you, my friend. Thanks. Robert muellers team has said, quo, its been too busy this week to meet one of is deadlines. 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