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2/23/2017 6:00AM Transcript

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... the ... to read stories of the week has been the way people have been turning out to meetings out in the country ... that lawmakers members of the House and members of the Senate are heading ... back to their home states in the home district ... to protest Donald Trump to protest Trump policies ... to basically go in the attack to some extent against Republican lawmakers at their town hall meetings back home ... give this movement has been dismissed by the White House among some Republicans as ... especially something as manufactured a people who are turnout by organizers on the left who are generating these crowds ... and are certainly some truth to that there is deftly some organizational owns ... behind these people who are turning up at town halls ... but they're also two other factors at work in a probably ... would give Republicans pauses to think about this ... the first is is true that there's some organizational effort to turn out people at these town hall meetings but people tend not to show up just because some is ask them unless they feel some passion in such an extent people are showing up ... to demonstrate passion about unhappiness with the Donald Trump immigration ban for example ... or with the way Republicans are trying to repeal Obamacare you have to see that a summit in genuine not manufactured ... the second thing is that well this movement has been compared to some extent with the tea party movement that came sprung up on the right in twenty ten it has been a factor ever since ... there's one is significant difference only so far the tea party movement a lot of energy was actually directed at Republicans people in the tea party movement on the right side of the political spectrum or angry Republicans ... for not being sufficiently conservative or for not challenging President Obama sufficiently ... so far this movement this town hall angers been directed not at Democrats but Republicans people on the left not going after people in their own party the people of the opposite party and basically try to lay down some markers in that differ ways of the tea party itself while I think Republicans will probably dismiss some of this as manufactured and to some extent fake ... and not representing a majority of opinion in their own districts to show the elements of these town hall protests that think Republicans ... are going to have to take seriously ...

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