. today on inside politics, epic failure. dysfunction, humiliation, and inability to govern. that s the most charitable way to describe congressional republicans right now. a stunning series of mind boggling defeats. and minutes from now, senate republicans will almost certainly torpedo the most conservative border bill before them in decades. plus a win for, quote, none of these candidates. nikki haley loses nevada s nonbinding primary even though she was the only candidate on the ballot. her campaign insists it s full steam ahead. and the trump campaign s moment, all eyes are on the supreme court preparing to hear arguments on whether donald trump can be disqualified under the constitution s insurrection ban. a sign of how serious the former president takes this, he s staying out of washington trying to avoid a political spectacle. i m dana bash let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. we start in the nation s capital where senate republicans are about to ki
I think he has an emptiness inside of him and a hunger for affirmation i ve never seen in an adult. and as he told you yesterday, this book is not about donald trump. he said it is about a higher loyalty and this is about having not loyalty to a person but to integrity and honesty and comparing three presidents, two of them with integrity and one as he said is a counter point. but so much of the big is i view as personal in nature and personally attacking the president and the comments that he made diminishes any kind of bigger picture statement that he would want to make about loyalty and about integrity in this high office and i think it dip diminishes that and i felt it was very misleading and you pointed out, for him to continue to say that it is possible for russia to have damaging information on trump. it does lead you to believe it is possible. which is more than unlikely or
Ethiopian capital, and good to see you. the president also talked about donald trump in 2016. so what more can you tell us about that? well first of all, i think that this whole thing was surprising. the president was asked that direct question about huck awe, and he used it as an opportunity to make his most extensive comments yet on the 2016 field, to go after the republicans in general, and a couple of them by name. you heard what he said to say about mike huckabee. on donald trump, he said look, when attacks were made on me some of the people going after him now were silent. he made this big picture statement that essentially this is unbecoming of the process. he says about 18 months i m going to be handing over the keys and i want to make sure i m handing them over to somebody who is qualified and somebody who has a real sense of sort of a dignity of the office. he went after, without naming them by name tom cotton ted cruz talking about, you know there used to be a time when yo