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Plains. >> gobs of oil everywhere and no signs of any effective effort to stop it from spreading. >> after nearly 7 1/2 years of war here, the united states combat mission in iraq, for all intents and purposes, is over. today made history. one of the most sweeping civil rights rulings in american history. it was dangerously toxically and perhaps irreversibly wrong. the water was bad. chris, did you say big s at one point in the lunch hour? >> it was on the prompter. >> if 08 was about change...

Rarely work so what is president obamas mission? is it to bring back those democrats who voted for him in 08 and 2012 but voted for trump in 2016 or motivate the base who didnt show up in the levels in 2016? what is his primary focus? >> the one strategy in electoral politics is turn out your base. some politicians trite to get the voters on the fences but that doesnt win elections. what matters and i know is cliche, its turnout. its really turnout in your base and focusing on battle grounds lik...

That sort of enthusiasm that democrats so desperately needed. >> lets talk about that jeskety track record as siraj refers to. this is president obama in 2016 a month after before the election. >> after we have achieved historic turnout in 2008 and 2013, especially in the african-american community, i will consider it a personal insult, an insult to my legacy if this community lets down its guard and fails to activate itself in this election! >> black voters didnt, in some really important state...

>> is barack obama though, is he the right person to put out there to go after independents for democrats? >> im not sure im the right person to respond to that. but let me tell you why he would want to perhaps. he makes the case clearly. he is not on the ballot. and he is using some of the playbook from 08 where he is saying to everybody this is your chance to change the world. what he is attacking today and what he attacked yesterday was the politics of fear. and what he is saying is, if you d...

To that 08 and 2012 election. that place really well, too. >> as part of this, that might play well and we were reporting on nbcnews.com. the number of women that are moving into the general. hillary clinton going to be hitting the trail for women that are democrats and trying to get them elected. how will that resonate? >> hillary clinton needs to be used as a surgical fund-raising tool. when you talk about helping out menendez in new jersey who just came out of a huge investigation and yes, he...

Me a favor here. i will tell you this op-ed was written by a speechwriter and it wasnt written by anybody who on has been a former politician nor a governor or somebody who has held office and been elected. its written by a bureaucrat somewhere, maybe in the administration, maybe out. im not sure i trust "the new york times" telling me their source is asenior administration level or if theyre in the joint chiefs of staff or wherever it is. youre right. not a whole lots going to be done. will we ...

Argument? it. >> has been an eye open are for a lot of people that want the kind of change they thought they were going to get. obama was appealing to them. >> i think its right that the appeal was targeted and the problem is those voters, those arent the kinds of voters -- >> yeah. but we have got a lot of evidence from a lot of elections in recent history where those arent the voters that matter. it is how juiced up is the base on one side and another. both of these guys can do a great job of ...

Re-energize our democracy. heres the magic number. 54.2. 54.2% of the eligible americans voted in 2016. when i ran in 04, the eligible vote was 60.4%. when barack obama was elected in 08 it was 62.3%. and then it dropped down in the re-elect to 58%. last time it was 52.4%, al gore. so the lesson its not the people who did vote who elected donald trump its people who didnt vote. young people need to understand the importance of the vote. historically they dont always turn out. we have to motivate...

Foley who represented the 5th congressional district in washington in spokane. he lost that night and it was the symbolic loss of the night. theres some concern that cathy mcmorris rodgers is in that trap. >> there is concern about her. she doesnt seem to be as strong of a candidate as they would like her to be. and shes a member of leadership so that would be a huge loss. another race i want to pay attention to is claudia tenney in upstate new york. shes been trying to outtrump trump and aides ...

Am a religious guy, im fitting, you know, what you think a presidential candidate of the republican party is supposed to be. it was something that sustained him privately, that he cared about, that he embarked upon as a man and as a father and then when it came time when he knew that he was going to probably lose his battle with this terrible cancer he could put together the kind of send-off that he wanted that involved those religious traditions. >> he had chosen these hymns, these passages, be...