The russia investigation inside the white house, despite the indictments, despite the many of the controversies, like charlottesville, is President Trump marching into 2018 living up to the name, teflon trump. So i dont think trump is teflon teflon don, don. But i do think that he has managed to get through this year that has been a difficult year for him and still have some political resilience. Even though in the gallup poll today he is at 36 overall approval rating. If you look into polls about the tax plans, the other specific policies they remain popular among republicans. And his white house and political shop and republicans in general are working from the base out inward out. They know they still have a reservoir of support among republicans and thats what they are pivoting off of in 2018. Even though trump has proved himself to be unpopular with democrats and a lot of swing voters. He has given Establishment Republicans what they want in the form of the tax cut bill. And he has given his hard core base what they want in terms of having the right enemies. He put his finger in the eye of the establishment. Put his finger in the eye of the what they perceive at Political Correctness. Made good on the idea of being a champion or spokesman or tribune for a base that wanted to make great again. Bring america back to different past times. People liked that and stuff with him even though the base of support remains in the mid30s to maybe 40 he is carrying that he has had that the beginning carrying it into 2018. Mr. Gergen President Trump is devoting attacks on the fbi, tweeting on the dossier today and also tweeted this tonight. He said all signs of that business is looking good for next year only helped further by the tax cut bill will be a great year for companies and jobs. Stock market is poised for another year of success. So david gergen the president signed a major piece of legislation and didnt matter that republicans occasionally spoke out against the president , didnt matter that there is a russia investigation. The division that didnt matter as well. So what has what is his inincentive to do anything differently next year . His incentive, well listen at the moment if you look at the the intentions of voters in november of 18, the cnn polls finds a wide biggest gap since 1938 with democrats far more people saying theyre voting for democrats than the republicans on the ticket. And they people are sensing there is a wave out there. And if so it could sweep the republicans out of a majority in the house and that would that would put a stop absolute dead stop to much of President Trump trumps legislative agenda in the second half of the term and put a cloud over the reelection. He has a lot at stake to think about this much more carefully than he has. One of the questions, don is wove been sponsoring weve been focusing for a long time on how firm the base is. Its held firm process. The bigger question now is how firm is the opposition to him . Can win people back . Can he stop the wave in the coming year . Yeah, april do democrats and republican critics of the president who are waiting for one of these controversies to blow up or take down the president , do they need to find a new strategy . Well, theyre always reinvening themselves as each issue comes be it twitter with the president , basically opening up a hole and jumping in himself or when it comes to this issue with russia. There are controversies that will continue if if this first year is indicative of that we see that controversy follows this president. But whats going to have to happen is is that there is going to be to have to be right now while republicans are in the majority on the hill that republicans are going to have to sing together in chorus to go against the president. And thats the key. Until things change, until elections happen and things change if and when it does, right now its all really up to the republicans. The democrats can keep screaming and impeachment. They can scream this is not fair not right. But as long as the republicans are in the majority as david gergen has said theyre within lies the problem. Yeah. David swerdlick from an op he had from the washington psz it says sheer outrage at the president scandals is pointless. But worse still is directing anger at supporters. Then you are doing the same thing trump is believing your side is all right and opposite is all rieng. Rejection common humanity and sense of country you play into the poorlization game instead of defeat going. What do you think about is that . The president playing the poorlization game better than opponents. Its a good peace edited by one of my senior editors full disclosure. I think he makes a good point, don, that democrats coming into 2018 and then more specifically into 2020 need to play the populist game better than trump. President trump has captured the moment of populism. What do you mean by that . You how do they do that. Not seen as the party of the average work a day american, even though in fact democrats have championed issues in recent years that have favored working class or middle class americans theyre not perceived that way by many voters. They need to to do a better job of messaging. Thats the take away from that piece to a certain extent. But to a certain extent in 2018ing this this is about Building Blocks for democrats thp david gergen knows more about kwhous positioning than anybody out there. I agree that republicans do have to stake stock of the fact that polls are turning against them. Theyre facing an uphill climb in many districts in 2018. But im not sure if i see a wave complete will i in 2018. Im not sure if i see democrats taking back the house or Something Like that even though gaining seats. Democrats need to make some intermediate gains in 2018 and then have their eye toward 2020. This is this is not one thing here. Its not like a big stack of jinga blocks and where one thing collapses the Republican Party and democrats take over in a wave. Its a Steady Movement back by having good candidates. Good issues. Having a positive agenda and building the party back to where it was a few years ago. David, for democrats at least somewhat it looks like the the anti or resist trump thing is working. But at David Swerdlick said they need to build on that where do you see this going in 2018. On which side . Listen i think that donald trump does have this economy working for him in a positive way. It hasnt totally lifted him yet. But you have another six, seven, eight nine months. This tax cut does bring the jump start to the economy kicks it up onto higher gear. Already doing well. He inherited a good economy from barack obama. But if he can get it higher that makes a major difference. I think if he could find a resolution on issues like the dreamers that he could work with democrats on if he could now shore up the Health Care System working with with senator collins for example, or working with Alexander Lamar alexander and patti murray on their health care bills. He could change the conversation. Always, always worried about that dark cloud called mueller and just how close its coming. Yeah. Do you think april that democrats are you know counting chickens too quickly here theyre excited about virginia, excited about alabama, and it seems to be on a roll at least with those two and maybe a couple more . Do you think its too fast. I think its too fast democrats cant take it for granted because there is always the unknown variable. But at the same time they do have momentum where we keep focusing on the base of the president , this 30 some . The vast majority of people disapprove. And thats the by big piece. Not only that. When you talk about tax reform, the pay force thats a big issue. Its not a perfect plan or bill but there are the pay for issues. When the budget axe swings who is hurt. And then the entitlement reform from the head of the congressional black caucus. Thats next when you deal with that you deal with medicaid and other issues affecting the least of these. A lot of the president s base is the least of these. And you know we talk about the least of these we talk about race a lot. But lets talk about poor, poverty. You have a large portion of appear lachia loving this president. The poorest of the poor. And theyre white. These people could be askted by entitlement reform by the tax plan when theyre cut. We have to say to see how it pans out. But democrats can use the momentum if they use it wisely. There is a lot that could be said about not just their base but the president s base of how they can be hurt by some of these issues that are getting ready to come up in 2018. April, david, david, thank you very much. I appreciate it just ahead President Trump upset for not getting enough credit for his accomplishments at least thats what he believes. But are his distractions you will all just for the reaction . Is it all on purpose . New york times columnist frank brunny joins me with thoughts on that. Thats next. Struggle with obesy lose weight and keep it off. 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I want to bring in analyst and frank bruni the columnist for the New York Times. Frank hello to you. Good to see. You i thought about this when before we get to the strategy and you talk about that in the column i woke up this morning and then i watched the news because i wanted to be tuned in for work. Everybody started tweeting what the president said. Apparently the president had said seen sop fox news im sorry fox and friends segment and started tweet bag it. What if people just didnt report it because the president is reporting from fox and friends. Thats part of the Entertainment Division of fox. Not a news program. Is it even consequential . Why are we reporting the president s tweets because he is going to tweet Something Else just as outrageous and nonsensical. Youre right. Youre asking the question why do we let him whip us into a constant frenzy and stay in the frenzy. Yes. Ace wrote in the recent column there is a danger to that. Because when everything he says and does provocation unmitigated outrage and fury. How do we get americans to focus on the stuff that trump is doing that warrants sustained attention, stuff that really is damaging the country . Things get lost in this welter and whirl. Thats what trump wants. When we answer the mellow drama with our own we play his game by his rules and i think he wins. Very well said. Lets talk about your column in the tops times called the end of trump and end the of days speaks the democrat dlem aif responding to the president youre right. When trumps opponents react so so much what he says and does with unfettered outrage how does this how not become background noise . And how do we make sure that his unequivocally foul manners stand out from the debatably foolish ones when we constantly conjure the duress scenario dont we risk looking like ignorable hysterics. If events unfold in damnable fashion. Thats well put whats the answer for democrats . How do they react to oech outrage and one outrage after another . Because he its just one in a row one after a another. Injury those of hue find trump to be a dangerous president and dont want him to stay in the presidency any longer than we have to have him there. We need to do a couple of things. Pick and choose fights wisely. Focused on the issue that is matter and need to patrol our language. As you said, the column is called the end of trump and the end of days. Thats a reference to nancy pelosi echoing many other democrats when she called the tax overhaul legislation armageddon. Thats dangerous to language. Theyre notice smaller withholding from paychecks, more money in pockets. And theyre not going to say wait a second the rich are get are better than i am. Wait a second were ballooning the deficit and whats happening in a couple of years . Some will think this isnt so bad. We need to wind chill our language more carefully so we dont set ourselves up to look like hysterics always denouncing trump. This president is always saying he doesnt get credit for accomplishments. But he creates the distractions. I mean if you wanted to talk about the accomplishments he could have tweeted about the tax bill and just kept you know talking about the tax bill all day. Is that part of the plan though played, the outrage game get his opponents to react and claim theyre against him. He wants to kret an atmosphere in which everybody is screeching at the each other in which those of us opposing him screeching so loudly he can say to supporters and more importantly say to all americans in the squishy middle, see i cant catch a break. This is just all out partisan warfare. Im no worse than they are. Were all the same. He wants to say that. But its a big question with trump is he turning the page constantly tweeting something today different than yesterday stirring up a new fight because he is trying to distract and keep us in a state of imbalance or is that just his nature . Is that the way he operates i think its both at the same time. The silliest the war on christmas which im not sure is a shiny object or just doing it for fun because i dont think people are that stupid that they believe there is a war on christmas. He has been tweeting and talking about it for soo many some time he said people are proud to say Merry Christmas again. Im proud to have led the charge against the assault of our cherished and beautiful phrase Merry Christmas. I mean to me this is a joke. Its not funny because there is no where on christmas. Im like what is he talking about . And i mean are people that stupid to think that there is a war on christmas . Does he actually believe that. Apart from the fervent base i dont think people at a are that stupid. You just comb your memory. I comb mine i do not remember over the 8 obama years feeling scared to say mere skry christmas. I dont remember hearing people stared scared to say that. He says whatever he wants. If you go back and we talked you talked earlier in the show about trump being again at one of the properties and again playing golf. You go become and he was constantly karping about obama playing too much golf. Obama being outside of washington tovi off zbloon he plays way more golf. Wae the wall street journal ran something fascinating in the last 24, 36 hours. More than 1007 days during this year President Trump was at one of the trump branded properties. And many days playing golf. Thats almost one in three days of the presidency. So, you know, donald trump doesnt live up to his own supposed standards. Yeah. Well i mean also considering how many houfrp he is away it would be great if he got of an activity that involved some cardillo im being serious. Look at his diet. You remember all the mcdonald meals. This president could use the last two president s before him did lots of cardillo, barack obama worked out at the gym. George w. Bush did a bicycle. This president plays golf, not a cardillo activity. Obviously he could use it. Im just being honest here. But im wondering, is this is he doing this is it on purpose . I have no idea whats going on. Should we ignore that he lies about you know the other president , plays more golf than the other president , criticizes the other president , away from washington more than the other president . Should we ignore the hypocrisy. He does what he feels like and spins whichever way he pleases. I was laughing as you were talking about the card yes. I remember back in sicily for the meeting of world leaders. He was in a golf cart while everybody else walked. And i predict next show we will talk about the latest physical of trump. I believe Sarah Huckabee sanders says the results will be shared with us. I have wait and see attitude about that. We shall see. Thank you, sir. Happy holidays. To you too. When we come back the president back to business lashing out on twitter. How are his attacks on the russia investigation and against the fbi landing . Im talking to a former assistant director of the fbi and chief of operations for the cia. Its the final days of the ford year end sales event. Im on top of the world, hey. Its your last chance of the year to get our best offer of the year zero percent financing for seventytwo months, plus an extra onethousand cash back across a full lineup of ford cars, trucks and suvs. So hurry and save big on americas bestselling brand. 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Fbi cant after all the time verify claims in dossier of russia trump collusion. Fbi tainted. They used this crooked hillary pile of garbage as basis for going after the trump campaign. That wasnt the main basis of going after the trump campaign. There are some fact checks that can be done with that tweet. But the president implies that the dossier is a basis for the Mueller Investigation thats not accurate. No fantastic obama era intelligence official have gone on record from odi general counsel bob lit has gone on record that the dossier wasnt the basis of the assessment or investigation. Even though you could fact check the other assertions he makes including it does fbi the corroborated some elements not all elements of the dossier and disproven others, you know clearly it was not a part of the sort of the basis of this investigation if in the first place. The warrant process, the process of going to obtain warrants from the foreign Intelligence Surveillance court, the notion that what amounts to essentially unsubstituted rumors right this private intelligence document, that thats the kind of thing that a judge would issue the warrants weve seen reported in the media, you know thats just not how the process works. Steve, president seems to be referring to a fox abfriends segment when he calls the dossier boegz. But u. S. Intelligence corroborated some of the contents of the dossier and found russia was trying to interfere with the 2016 election from their own sources. Two things here, i dont know why he is listening to fox and friends again. I keep sighing fox and friends is entertainment program. I want not news program. Its part of the Entertainment Division. And also why the attacks . What is the president trying to do here . You know, don at any given time especially on this particular topic its hard to try to figure out what the president is doing. But one of the things that concerns me about the tweets and these patterns we see from the president where he calls things garbage and not only is the evidence in the dossier or the allegations in the dossier garbage he turns out and basically calls the fbi in at that timers and essentially garbage. He said the same thing or similar detrimental comments you know about cia at the beginning of the tenure when he compared them to nazis and talking about the people who brought us wmd. I served my career the vast majority overseas where democracies are young, volatile and politicians hadnt figured out the idea of loyal opposition loyalty to country over loyalty to themselves personally or party. And i saw a lot of the of the same patterns reaching out and attacking and just not you know not being statesmanlike and not putting the country first. These are things you expect in a young developing democracy. Its not something i expect in the most developed democracy i would argue in the world. And so concerns me the pattern does. The president using the weekend to go after the the fbi the deputy fbi director Andrew Mccabe as well chris. Here is he said. How can Andrew Mccabe, the man in charge along with leaking james comby of the phoney Hillary Clinton investigation include her 3,000 illegally included people mm fiv director Andrew Mccabe is racing the clock. To retire with full benefits, 90 days to go. Its is that Even High School . I mean when i read that i mean is are these tweets coming from the president of the United States . Two senior fisher officials told cnn that mccabe made the decision to leave months ago. But if he leaves will it embolden the president and others. Fbi agents can retire at 50 mandatory at 57. It may well be he was retiring anyway. The truth is though he should have rekuzed himself from any part of that investigation. Its legal. The hatch act allows fbi agents to make politic willing contributions restricts other activities but it doesnt look good. Yeah. The idea, steve of there being a deep state that is actively working to bring down President Trump is something that the president s allies have seized upon, representative francis arenty a republican from florida was asked about enemies at the doj earlier today fake a listen. I dont want to discredit them. I would like to see the directors of the agencies purge is it and say look we have a lot of great agents, great lawyers here. Those are the people i want the American People to see and not know the good work is being done not the people kind of the deep state. Purging the Law Enforcement agencies in the department of justice . I mean thats the language that we heard in the old soviet union. Yeah, i mean these are this gets back to my earlier point. When you talk about purging a Major Institution you know the premier Law Enforcement organization in the country. When you talk about purging anything quite frankly unless its corruption or Something Like that again you get back to sort of developing brandnew democracy kind of stuff that i just think has really has no place here in the United States. And its just its you know the whole thing the whole ning thing is concernsing. And rubbing me the wrong way to see our democracy it might have been jim clapper who said a while back democracy is something you have to work at to maintain that level, the high level of a truly independent democracy with rule of law. And it feels like that is slipping when you see comments coming like this out of the out of the chief executive. The idea of a deep state by the way anybody worked in the federal government more than a couple of months knows often times we struggle to figure out who is using what conference room. The idea that we would be able to some senior or midlevel people in the federal government can figure out an internal secret opposition i mean its ridiculous. And it should be claims like that should be treated as such. Susan, in an interview with the wall street journal President Trumps attorney is squoeted as saying i know we collectively the lawyers are looking forward a expedition wrapping up of this matter. Have you heard anything that would be giving the president s legal team in optimism. No apparently theyve been pushing this end of the year deadline. It does appear that sort of the majority and the republicans are looking to wrap up their investigation. Thats over the objections of the vice chairman adam schiff who says wraer mot done. But as far as the special Counsel Robert Mueller there is no indication what so far. Were seeing reports just this evening that he is potentially considering issuing a superceding indictment. Another set of charges against paul manafort. By every indication this is a complex investigation. Were looking at months if not potentially sort of beyond the next year in terms of what the time frame might look like. Steve, are you uncomfortable that enough has been done to prevent meddling in the 2018 midterms . No not at all. First of all, to be fair, its a very, very difficult thing to try to figure out how to keep a nation state like russia or perhaps china or others who might be interested in further disrupting democracy in the United States. Its a really hard chore. You have to do good defense work and try to strengthen the system to mes which is hard enough but that requires a lot of money, concentration and perhaps most importantly political will. 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Is it surprising since he once claimed he wouldnt have time to golf if elected is it surprise he says one thing and does Something Different . No. Yeah. We knew he would be this way. We knew he was going to frequently play golf. Look, i for one think he can get a lot done on the golf course. Often times he is out there talking with members of the congress and others. He did, purdue from georgia. Im saying he does things differently than any other people with regard to business. I have never. You dont think a hypocritical that he criticized the former ppt ppt and he spent more time on the golf hours than barack obama. Thats you will did. He is on the golf too much. He is on the golf course way more than the former president was. Its extremely hypocritical. This is not out of the ordinary. I never criticized president obama never criticized any of the other president s for golfing or horse back riding or mountain climbing whatever they did on time off. They worked hard and 24 7, 365 days a year they are available for whatever is needed. And look while the president was on the golf course today he was briefly earlier on a suicide bombing in afghanistan which was important. But look i think that no one should be surprised in the least that President Trump is out playing golf as much as he is. This is how he lived before and its no surprise he is doing it as president. I. Simone. I want to go go ahead, bill. Since i dont play golf im happy to criticize both president obama and President Trump for wasting soechl time walking oenga manicured lawns. Taking a stick and hit ago ball into a hole. This president doesnt do much wug. Always on the government course. More of a government cart. I just said that so 100,000 viewers how i dont appreciate the great sport of golf. Buttic like watching it sometimes. Anyway, President Trump did what he had to do. It was the tweet you referenced earlier attacking the fbi early this morning. The main occupation honestly the one thing he wants to do more than ig anything else i believe is discredit the Mueller Investigation, discredit the fbi and lay the predicate for ignoring the report that mueller comes up or more likely pardonening people. People are treating him as if he is annoyed irritable. Isnt it funny he tweets this. He and his allies systemically tlaeft for a month since flynn pled guilty and it was announced he was cooperating. Since peek i copicked spent time testifying before mueller. He is worried about the investigation. He is doing his best to discredit it. And thats what he did this morning before going out to play golf. Were off topic a little bit. But sitting here thinking, if there is something that im not worried about if someone says something about me thats not true or just go hey look look into it here is my phone. I didnt do it what have you. I wouldnt be talking calling them fake and phoney. I wouldnt care. It wouldnt be in the orbit. He has to be worried about something. Im not saying there is collusion. But he has to be worried about something or otherwise he won be crowing so much about it. Yeah i think the president is wrd. I also think that this cloud of an investigation of something gone awrie has been over the entire presidency. He is probably frustrated. But he brought it on himself. I have no sympathy for President Trump in the Mueller Investigation. Because had he not fired the former fbi director we wouldnt have mueller or a special counsel. These are unforced errors he brought upon himself. He is going to continue to inject himself in this conversation because somehow donald trump thinks he is smarter than all of us. But he is not. He makes it worse. Its high time he starts listening to the people around him. Lets get back to what we were talking about though. Because spending so much time, do you take umbrage with him being on the golf course so much . Yesterday he said, look this was a Great Holiday whatever. Back to work and making America Great again and the first thing he does is plays golf most of the day. I take umbrage because he criticized obama so much and he spent more taxpayer dollars and on the golf course than president obama in the entire eight years. There is one standard for president obama. One for donald trump. The one is the first barak barak ppt. The other the pioneer of Birther Movement pch he uses his position as president of the United States to publicize and profit on his personal companies. Thats something that folks talked about a lot in the beginning. But have not talked about as much. We call the maralago the winter white house thats branding. Doing the work of the Trump Organization for them. I definitely think its not formal a president to you know be profiting oft properties while in the white house. We have more to talk about. Stick around alice ill get you on this. When we come back the New York Times out with a new report revealing what President Trump is saying about immigrants behind closed doors. Including saying that nigeriaen wouldnt go back to huts after seeing america. I saw the change in rich when we moved into the new house. But having his parents over was enlightening. You dont like my lasagna . No, its good. Hmm. Oh. Huh. [ both laugh ] here, blow. Blow on it. You see it, right . Is there a draft in here . Im telling you, its so easy to get Home Insurance on progressive. Com. Progressive cant save you from becoming your parents. But we can save you money when you bundle home and auto. Progyou or joints. Something frfor your heart. Parents. But do you take something for your brain. With an ingredient originally found in jellyfish, prevagen is the number one selling brainhealth supplement in drug stores nationwide. Prevagen. 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So samone, there is a startling report in the New York Times, over the weekend according to two unnamed officials, President Trump said in a meeting in june that people coming from haiti, this is a quote, all have aids, that recent nigerian immigrants would never go back to their huts in africa, and that afghanistan is a terrorist haven. When you think about his past comments about africanamericans, about mexicans, what do you think of this . I stand by the comments i made earlier this year, in stating that i believe donald trump was not only a racist, but he identifies with white supremacists, because he does in fact hold white supremacist views. This is also very ignorant. But this is a subset of the American People that believe what donald trump believes in this moment. And thats dangerous. He strikes me as someone that doesnt read and hasnt been anywhere in these comments. There are folks i know that i asked about this. People that are affiliated with the white house and they noted that they have heard this before. This is not the first time they heard this story in the Washington Post pardon me, the New York Times. Alice, the white house denies the report, saying general mcmaster, secretary tillerson, secretary mattis, all deny these outrageous claims and it is sad and telling that the New York Times would print the lies of their annoy mouse sources any way. Do you think President Trumps past comments make this more believable for some people this i think it makes it more credible given his try. Hes not a politically correct person. He has never been or ever will be. But there is a sense take the immigration issue. For lack of a better phrase, in his view, the ends justify the means. He is for immigration reform. He wants to secure the border. He wants to end chin ain migrat and have a secure vetting process to get immigrants into this country. Thats what he strongly strands for. But theres a difference between Political Correctness and decency. And hes ignorant. Look, in his mind, hes never been one to mince words. He says exactly whats in his mind, and i think in his mind, this is about policy. Ive never agreed with everything he says and the tone he uses and his demeanor, but i support his policies. Alice, you know i love you, but i have to push back. He said folks from haiti had aids. That people in nigeria lived in huts and they dont want to go back to their huts. I dont think thats policy, i just think these are his ignorant views. Look, i hear you, but look, these two reporters that wrote these piece are phenomenal journalists, but when were having people that were in these meetings saying look, that language was not used, we have to take that into consideration, too. They often deny reports, though. I dont believe anything that the white house says. Theres plenty of stuff that hes said publicly that is deplorable that cheapens our public discourse. One can believe whatever they want. Things he says in public matter are more. People that let off steam in private is one thing, but hes said things publicly and stood by them, the mexican judge or other things about immigrants, charlottesville that do damage to the public discourse. I think theres evidence bill, lets remember, i think youre referring here, he said very fine people on both sides when he was talking about the charlottesville protest. What does that tell you how this president sees race . I think hes not a i dont think hes impartial or color blind or an equal opportunity when it comes to race. But again, i dont think one has to depend on a contested private report. Theres enough on the record there. And i come back again, if i can since im obsessed with the fact that everyone is interested in psycho analyzing them instead of the facts. Less than a month ago, his former National Security adviser pled guilty to the fbi and is coop naerating with the investigation. This is a factual question here about the integrity of this administration, about his attacking Law Enforcement agencies and other parts of the u. S. Government in ways that diminish Public Confidence in our government. Theres plenty hes done in public that is plenty deplorable, if i can use that term, you dont need to depend on contested reports of things he said in private. Don, donald trump, while on the campaign trail, went to the little Haitian Center in florida, and told the haitian people there that he wanted to be their ally if he got to the white house, that he wanted to fight for them. And these reports coming out of private do not and what he has said on the record about people of color dont stand the smell test to what he told the people at the little haiti cultural center. Others in the party and the Republican Party, including jeff flake, have been speaking about diversity in the party, and also as it comes to this president. Is there a wakeup call for republicans coming, especially with 2018, alison . Quickly, only a few seconds left. Ises the wakeup call is to continue what theyre doing, continue working together as a party and furthering the policies. I think what we have to do is tune out what the president says and the divisive language he uses ive got to go, alison. And Work Together to get things go. Sorry to call you, alison. Thats it for us tonight. See you back here tomorrow. Not in this house. cause thats no average family. Thats your family. Which is why you didnt grab just any cheese. You picked up kraft mozzarella with a touch of philadelphia for lasanyeah kraft. Family greatly. And lead them in conquest empires will fall as you claim your place in valhalla play vikings war of clans you can switch and save time. It pays to switch things up. [cars honking] [car accelerating] you can switch and save worry. You can switch and save hassle. 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