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Traitor as smooth. >> you talked about the message that resinated with voters. were we seeing the seeds of what carried president trump into office? a powerful desire to change the old guard in washington? >> look, i think what were seeing from that 08 race and what we saw in 2016 just a couple years ago is that change is always a much more powerful me message than the status quo. particularly during a time when washington and politicians and institutions are seeing with such dismay and people a...

Message of change ask new direction for america. >> its been five days since they took control of congress, but the focus is shifting to the next political prize, the white house. >> when the election season begins in 2007, the climate is not very good if you are a republican. >> the war in iraq is very unpopular. and made democrats think they could win the presidency. >> senator biden joining a growing list of candidates announcing their intentions for 08. >> you had a lot of candidates like ch...

Resounding and unmistakable message of change and new direction for america. >> its been just five days since democrats took control of both houses of congress but already the focus is shifting to the next big political prize, the white house. >> when the election season begins in 2007, the climate is not very good if you are a republican. the war in iraq is very unpopular, and many democrats think they can win the presidency. >> senator biden now joining a growing list of democratic candidate...

Potentially through global instability. and, remember, in 08, in 90, the u.s. acted very much as a global stabilizer, helping turkey -- sorry, helping europe, helping all over the world in terms of trying to get the financial system from blowing up. donald trump is not quite putting the u.s. in that stabilizing role anymore. he sort of shows up at the fire rather than shooting water, shooting maybe gasoline on some of the fires here. and thats okay if the u.s. economys going to remain strong. an...

Rewarding republicans for their attacks on women. >> rick, im going to play you an array here. it goes back ten years of ads. im wondering, cant you come up with something else? heres our montage of pelosi from 08 to now. >> a vote for don is a vote for barack obama and nancy pelosi. >> he already votes with pelosi 90% of the time. now what you think hell do? >> spratt is nancy pelosis budget chairman and it has a trillion dollar deficit. meet kathy who said about pelosi -- >> shes done a great ...

Across what they call the black belt in central alabama, a higher percentage of black voters came out to vote for doug jones in that special election than voted for barack obama in 08 and 12 percentagewise, is unheard of. it is historic. its probably never happened before, and donald trump is the reason it happened. right. joe, ill ask eddie about that. the president thinks this strategy helps with his base clearly. theres plenty of evidence to suggest that donald trump is a stone-cold racist....

Really these wounds that have been a part of the american fabric since the beginning of our country. and it is a real test, i think, for american voters to see, okay, you know, are those women that you mention, are they going to come out to the polls in droves in 2018 and then in 2020? or is this presidents strategy of inflaming these racial wounds going to really be shown to actually have been effective, joe. >> yeah. and, eddie, i ask you this same question about the long-term political impact...

Could have possibly predicted the role that social networks would play in the u.s. presidential elections. >> candidates are gaining political supporters the way social networkers find friends. the potential voting audience is immense. myspace.com sees up to 56 million unique visitors a month and about 80% are voting age. >> while both campaigns hope their supporters spread the word, obama is friended almost seven times more than mccain. >> the obama campaign happened around the time when social...

Into talk of barack obama. of course, theres no one who donald trump talked about more for years and years and years than barack obama, that hes missing from the rallies. i asked a few advisers to the president why is that? they said one of the reason is the o.t. voters, obama trump voters are some of the most important political commodities if you will, the people who voted for barack obama in 08 and 12 and donald trump in 16. its not that president trump is thrilled with the obama administrati...

And he and nici were exploring the idea of swingers clubs. >> nicis good friends knew it differently. >> she was very appalled at that idea. >> she was like, absolutely not. >> a wobbly marriage, a hound dog husband, straining at the leash. the circumstantial smoke was getting thicker for investigators. >> it was very apparent to me that, you know, he was leading an alternate lifestyle. >> what im not hearing, captain, is motivation. >> that was a concern for all of us, too. >> maybe the husband...