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We turn to our next guest, neera tanden, the former senior adviser to president obama and hillary clinton. shes the president and ceo of the center for american progress. neera, lets take a look, another look at that cnn poll, the latest poll of the democratic primary field because its kind of fascinating. joe biden at 29%. a jump of 7 points in that poll. bernie sanders holding steady at 15. elizabeth warren holding steady at 14. kamala harris down to 5%. a drop of 12 points. pete buttigieg hol...

Round of polling? >> you know, i think one way to look at what is happening is that essentially this is the contours of the race. then we have these debates which create a flash point, but this might be the equilibrium until we really get to iowa. polls in iowa are different than these polls, than the national polls, and iowa can change the calculus pretty dramatically for the national polls. we saw that in 2007. we definitely saw that in 2007/2008. we saw that in 2015/2016. candidates who can s...

Of the support that we got from the riders. so we wanted to do something for active responders. and college scholarships just seemed to be the way to go. weve given away 422,000 dollars in college scholarships. >> wow. >> how old were you the first time that you remember being involved in this and what is it like now today for you? >> so i was 1 when the attacks actually happened. i was born in 2000. the attacks were in 2001. and i was too young to go on the first few rides obviously. but i star...

Which means there are co conspirators. other individuals that southern district is looking at. wouldnt be surprised if we didnt see additional indictments coming dune for those individuals who aided and abetted him in the sex trafficking ring that we learned so much about in the last couple weeks. and theres also the civil suits. just because hes dead, victims wont have their day in court in term ozf being able to confront him in a criminal trial. but civil claim can be made against his estate. ...

Alleged victims will also be speaking during this bail hearing or might have already spoken. how might that affect the judges decision and how unusual is it for that to happen during a bail hearing? >> its extremely unusual during a bail hearing to have victims or witnesses talk or testify beyond a lead detective or fbi agent who might want to relate incriminating facts to give the judge context about the ruling he or she will have to make. stephanie brings up a really important point that i thi...

In secretary acosta. at this point the president has publicly embraced acosta says he is doing a good job and he feels badly about this. and the white house is measuring very carefully the public fallout as people learn more about the deal that went down back in 2007/2008 involving then u.s. attorney alex acosta and how that has been reflected over time. especially with the southern district of new york getting involved and details and more alleged victims coming forward. all of this shining a l...

In the person of the president, the united states is behind their husbands, their wives, their brothers, their sisters. >> general, talk about that. having been to iraq, what will it mean to see president trump up up close and personal? >> it is critically important, as add mrl -- i was there in 2003 when president bush surprised everyone at thanksgiving. he showed up at, i was there in 2007 when president obama came, 2007/2008. we didnt get to see him at that time, he was more out in the wester...

Issues. the question is whether he can branch out and talk about wider issues, assuming he gets into the race. and then the fifth person is whatever dark horse emerges who were not talking about right now or who we are not giving much credence right now. this is the democratic party way. the person who ends up being the nominee and eventually goes on to win is the person we werent talking about at this stage in the campaign. at this stage in 92, we werent talking about bill clinton. in 2007/2008...

Well, spoke about her son when he was in the world of politics. 2007/2008, she was out there with him, supporting him, of course, as any mother would do. >> for sure. she was an active member of the campaign in 2008. she was certainly a huge supporter of her son. she also liked to be in the fmi and was. as senator mccains whole family was. the campaign in 2008 that i had the privilege to cover with kelly and others was a family affair. that included not only his mom but certainly his wife, cindy...

This has to be said. no fbi agents cried. rudy giuliani is imagining that in his wild ravings. joining our discussion now david frum, senior editor for the atlantic. and david, the -- theres so much that the giuliani and some republican senators today tried to extract from the idea that there were some members of the fbi who thought donald trump was a very bad presidential candidate. so bad that they didnt want him to be president. like, of course, all of those republican senators at that hearin...