I was Talking to Adam Kinzinger one time and he said it's like Congress believes there's a super Congress. Some people think we have like a giant button we can like press and stop things. There's no button. This president has full control over the base of the Republican Party in a way that no president in my lifetime has ever had, Democrat or Republican. Yeah. Nobody has commanded that type of control over the base. And he is very willing and able to use that against anybody that he perceives as a political foe or enemy. (44:55–45:05)
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Asserts that the current president has unprecedented control over the Republican Party base.
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