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Tell me something i dont know. >> trump wants to attack amazon. did you say he would last one or two terms? >> the reuters poll found two-thirds of the voters say they shop online this holiday season and more than half of them on amazon. so he is attack a company really popular with a company that helped him into office. >> anthony scaramucci said he will fire everybody. i would narrow that substantially to people who are really nervous inside and have rnc on their resumes. >> democrats seem t...

Now we are the same distance out from the next election. we are a year and a half out from the midterm elections that are coming up, the 2018 elections. brookings has updated its chart. you want to see what it looks like now? you want to see how the count of house challengers is going for this next election? put up this year. oh, 209 democratic challengers have filed with the fec and have at least $5,000 in fund-raising. way more than double the previous high on the republican side ahead of that...

So thats people running for the 2006 elections. you get it. you see theres a big spike in 2009, where the number of republican candidates jumps. that was ahead of the big tea party wave election for 2010, when republicans took back the house, right? remember they had that huge year in 2010. that election began with an early outsized presence of republican challengers, republicans running for congress. it really did prove to be a case of chart imitates life, right? you look back at those numbers....

>> it has become the issue in the election race. pete wilson is pinng his re-election hopes on anti-immigrant sentiment. >> were going to take back california for the working, tax paying, families of this state. >> the main under current of all different measures being held from 1994 on ward dealt with fear. fear of the other. of an expanded demographic. >> its that kind of incident that has generated so much heat in california. a controversial ballot measure. >> proposition 209 would end all ra...

It was an hour long. whats interesting about this is that the other people present at the g-209 din ker, u.s. allies, leaders of u.s. allies in europe, theyre the one whos found it unusual, strange at this dinner for the president, stand up, go sit down next to the russian president and speak that length of time, unusual to them. american allies. and then not disclose it until and this is the latest in a series of meetings between people in trump world and russians, not disclose it till challeng...

>> thank you very much. a message when it comes to russian meddling. lots of clearanc answers on thi today? i suspect not? >> in his first briefing in eight days, sean spicer was eager to talk about tax reform and the health care bill. when it came to russian meddling in the election, which most everybody agrees is what happened, spicer isnt sure the president agreed. >> sean spicer wanted to change the cloud of the russian investigation. but not being briefed for eight days, sean spicer said he...

Laundry. were going to follow up, see if we can find any more metal, any more contraband. go up to the cell, strip the inmates out, bring them out of the cell and complete our cell searches. get to the door, go ahead and pop them. >> were pretty much looking for any kind of contraband, any kind of weapons, drugs, tattoo paraphernalia. >> turn around. >> strip out. turn around. you smell anything? im telling you right now -- you will be -- did you swallow something? >> swallow something? are you ...

Laundry. were going to follow up, see if we can find any more metal, any more contraband. go up to the cell, strip the inmates out, bring them out of the cell and complete our cell searches. get to the door, go ahead and pop them. >> were pretty much looking for any kind of contraband, any kind of weapons, drugs, tattoo paraphernalia. >> turn around. >> strip out. turn around. you swallow anything? im telling you right now -- you will be -- did you swallow something? >> swallow something? are yo...

You think that that is not only premature but perhaps irresponsible at this time? >> i think every member of congress has the right to express themselves on the floor. and al green has that right. i believe that we need to find the facts. we need to get 209 bottom of this and let the facts lead where they may. >> youre clearly not comfortable using that word right now? >> i think its putting the cart before the horse. i think we need to get to the facts. get to the base here and find out what ha...

Later? >> thats right. and that was my first official knowledge of such investigation, particularly as it addressed potential political collusion. so, the bottom line is, i dont know if there was collusion, political collusion, and i dont know of any evidence to it, so i cant refute it and i cant confirm it. >> when you say official knowledge, what does that mean? >> well, i took director comeys announcement that he made at the house committee for intelligence hearing on i think 209th the 20 mar...