Scarborough: ‘The Republican Party Is at War with Itself’

SCARBOROUGH: “Kristen, the second most irritating thing for a Republican growing up — well, the first is of course, Supreme court justices appointed by Republicans who grow in office. That was the number one irritating thing growing up. But the second most irritating thing growing up was having to hear that the Republican party is at war with itself. It’s a civil war, the media always love to say that. Let us say this morning, the Republican party is at war with itself. That debate was ugly and it seems like the curtain is torn right down the middle.”
SOLTIS ANDERSON: “There are divisions within the party that have been sort of simmering at the surface. Debates that never should have been had. Debates over should we have gone into Iraq ion the first place. Should we be in the business of going and trying to address situations where countries are being led by bad guys. These are debates we have not had out in the open in robust way, to what extent were Republicans or Democrats or what was responsible for the financial crisis? This was never a debate that Republicans tried to resolve in the 2012 election. So now we are at this point where it’s Donald Trump who's the one who is coming out and saying things and everybody says, 'You’re a Republican, you can’t say that.' They are forgetting there are large swaths of the Republican Party that are frustrated with the Republican Party.”