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Officials. they signify the systematic decimation of the personnel most directly responsible for protecting critical infrastructure, shielding our elections from interference, and guarding the white houses data, devices, and networks. at some point, we know that donald trump doesnt want to accept that russians interfered in the elections because he feels that delegitimizes his election. but this is bigger than donald trump. this is about our democracy. how do we counter this? if -- if -- if peop...

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Prayerful, all the rest. this seems to play into politics of all of it. cory booker in the senate saying mitch mcconnell will not be an impartial juror. >> well, the constitution assumes that the senate is going to try this case but it doesnt assume theyre all going to come in with no feelings whatsoever. mr. booker himself a little hypocritical he said months and months ago impeach president trump. ed: before the ukraine call. >> every democrat member of the senate already called for the presid...

Anymore impeachment thing has given the country an opportunity to reel see how good she is. and waiting until the exact right moment, getting a lot of pressure for impeachment but not taking the bait. and waiting until the exact right moment to move forward with impeachment, when some stuff about president trump came out, when some of our moderate members, especially with military backgrounds, started to move a little bit. and then she moved with i think perfect timing. and then really in the la...

Her numbers. >> her donors are going to be excited. and a whole lot of people who didnt know who she was are going to pay attention to her. buttigieg is going home and is going to worry about wine caves. thats going to stick to him like binders stuck to mitt romney. those attacks, even if it ends up being a joke and a meme, that kind of aggression helps you when youre trying to differentiate yourself and trying to make distinction in the primary. everybody has a year to attack donald trump. righ...

Stage tonight. were going to bring it into the discussion. >> corinne gets -- >> i need my rebuttal, 45 seconds. who watched this debate? >> people who like moving backgrounds. >> through the ears. i mean, were days before christmas. nobodys watching. and not only that, i think no ones going to pay attention until after the holidays in january. were, what, less than 50 days to iowa. >> right. >> i would be surprised if anybody watched this debate. i dont think it will move the numbers all that m...

I think the point there is political talent is political talent. they all come from different backgrounds and they all have different narratives that introduce them to the political world. so i dont think that argument sticks against mayor pete. i think probably the thing youd be more concerned about if youre mayor pete, or again, the push back that he had to deal with around the fund-raisers and the wine caves, and also just the fact that hes in a very crowded space in the middle now. the three...

Diversity of our country or of our party. >> lastly before i let you go, are you worried people of color, black and brown folks will tune out of the election if we do -- if we are looking at a ticket that doesnt have a person of color on it potentially? >> of course, im worried about that. the last time we won was 2012, and the time before that was 2008. and it was barack obama who assembled a coalition of people of diverse backgrounds, working class people, people in different parts of the coun...

There is enough pressure on them to go back and evaluate those, as well as the point that i made about our nominating process and the order of the states. i dont think that a iowa and new hampshire should go first. not because there is anything wrong with the people there, but because they dont reflect the diversity of our country or of our party. >> lastly before i let you go, are you worried people of color, black and brown folks will tune out of the election if we do -- if we are looking at a...

Electorate who is sort of playing arm chair quarterback at home and trying to figure out who can beat donald trump is theyre thinking about electability. theyre both midwestern candidates. ari berman tweeted out the last time amy klobuchar ran for reelection she got 1.5 million votes. mayor pete was elected with 8500 votes. is it a stylistic thing of who people think is electable based on the way they present themselves? >> i really dont. you know, you pointed out that tweet. i saw another tweet...