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Talking about, i don t think anyone in the trump coalition think donald trump is best friends with mitch mcconnell and supports everything he wants. they view it as the fact that they need him now and why donald trump is doing it. this is not a broad sweeping endorsement of the establishment. all right. friends out of necessity. i feel like that s all of us right now. friends out of necessity on any given day. eric fight with me in the break. i have to go. everyone thank you so much. thanks, kate. all right. coming up for us, president trump moments ago, again addressing how past presidents have communicated, made contact with families of fallen soldiers after he did falsely claim his predecessors did not reach out to families. is the president changing his tune and trying to clean up after that? that s next. beyond is a natural pet food ....
Donald trump has about 65% of republicans in the donald trump republican camp. mccain, bob corker, ben sass, jeff flake, they have about 33%. and, you know, in a one-on-one primary between jeff flake and kelli ward, for example, in arizona, a third is not enough for jeff flake to win that primary and donald trump still retains the sort of dominant hand as it relates to the politics within the republican party even though the party is more divided against him than we would traditionally see particularly at this point of a presidency. so on this kind of bannon versus mcconnell war as bannon calls it, eric, president trump embraced them both yesterday. he said when he was standing by mitch mcconnell that he was going to ask steve bannon to back off on some of his relationship primary targets. if the president asks, will you back off as well? well, i think the key word there was some of the primary ....
Overall, folks trust congress more, republicans in congress more, among republicans they trust trump more. what message does that send to congress on who should be leading the charge on key stuff and getting stuff done? i think the shared responsibility, all the way around. president and congress with regard to what s not getting done. the surprising thing with that typically people trust the person you voted for. your local congressman and local senator. exactly. i hate congress, but but love my congressman. i met him at the fish fry or fourth of july parade and more confidence they understand what you need. those numbers are surprising. but i do think that as we saw yesterday, we had the president coming out there embracing mitch mcconnell who they ve had the war of words but realizing he needs mitch mcconnell to get something done in congress. but at the same time showing his support for steve bannon who has declared virtually a war on the gop because he needs bannon and fol ....
Day, president trump or the republicans in congress? when you ask americans overall, only 30% say president trump. 47% of americans in this poll trust paul ryan, mitch mcconnell, those guys there on the screen. but kate, when you ask republicans, this is everything, to understand what president trump and steve bannon are doing, 63% of republicans trust president trump to handle the major issues, only 29% of republicans trust their own leaders in congress to do so. so informative as to where the conversation is, the targets are and tweets go for sure. great to see you, david. thank you so much. great to see you too. joining me to discuss this and more, politics reporter and editor at large chris cillizza, nia mallika henderson, former communications director for ted cruz s presidential campaign, alice stewart and chairman of the pro-trump pac, too many ps, great america alliance, eric. i m just going to simplify your ....
Surgery. is this about the money? a major new york city fund-raiser for democratic senator called off after mayor michael bloomberg sent a letter urging rich donors to pull support for democrats who voted against gun control. more on those stories in a moment. first, news nation is following breaking news. the fbi says two new york state men are now under arrest accused of planning to fight against enemies of israel. nbc news justice correspondent pete williams joins us. this is an odd story. you have details for us. yes, indeed, it is on odd story. we should point out that the fbi says these men never posed any danger because they never got the support they thought they were getting. all of the people who they met with who agreed to help them turned out to be either informants or undercover agents. but according to the fbi, two men from new york state glendon scott crawford, 49 years old of gallway, new york and eric ....