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>> the way i look at polls is this, instead of cherry picking one, you have a cnn poll, i believe you believe in the cnn poll, fox believes in the fox polls. i look at the average of all the polls. some people say the polls are skewed to trump and some skewed against trump, thats a waste of tim time. obama was lower than where trump is at this time. >> the time you get screwed up is if you have a bad economy or a scandal abroad. >> and thats what -- >> kavanaugh -- >> no, thats not true. i think...

A cheap shot. it would be one thing if biden forget what he said, but he didnt forget what he said. >> there was an issue over the concept of opt in and buying in. >> i think castro was cherry picking joe bidens comments. >> it is focusing on -- i think it was clear to people on the stage what bidens meaning was. but then castro seemed to focus on individual words in order to make this broader point. but -- >> which he seemed prepare to make. >> watching the exchange, it makes you wonder if he -...

Year-over-year growths. the consumer has been carrying this economy. that should be able to continue. so on net i would give this a b overall number. by the way, there is a part of it called -- two surveys, establishment business house old. house olds and household survey 590,000 people got a job last month. i dont like to use it all the time because its like cherry picking but larry kudlow is pointing to it and it is a significant number and some people believe its a better indication for the f...

To davids point, the presidents insecurities are making america insecure in a very specific way. we have been reading today about the chinese government, the communist government using information war fare to spread lies about protests in hong k g kong. we know that vladimir putin sews conspiracy theories. the president of the united states is doing exactly the same thing. we can analyze why hes doing it, but the fact of the matter is that its almost like hes waking up every day and deciding hes...

The vice president on stage in the next debate. peter doocy is tracking the candidates in des moines. okay, peter, what did joe biden say this time? what happened? >> reporter: dana, there are two things that joe biden said at the debate two weeks ago that in the time since have some immigration activists very upset. here are the two things. >> the reason we tier country we are is weve been able to cherry pick from the best of every culture. immigrants built this country. thats why were so speci...

The way it sort of sort of their fault because they dont make available to researchers this stuff so that you have political activists cherry picking data to point one political direction or another. we have incredible data about human behavior and about human te tendency, we have not been able to look at it. >> what a change that could make. >> i hope this ends up being a fruitful conversation. some solutions have finding consensus while others are definitely not. president trump as well as m...

Strategy in this cycle, it would be to attack barack obama. if you have limited minutes on a debate stage. do you think you should take aim at the current leader of your party or president barack obama. i think its a bad strategy in the long run. >> the high number of deportations under his administration, is that fair game. cory booker rebuked biden for pulling out his obama credentials when its convenient. cherry picking when he wants to align himself and when he doesnt. can you have it both w...

Criminal justice reform, so the other part about it is that the vice president uses the safe justice act, which was written by congressman bobby scott as the baseline of where he starts in his criminal justice reform. to say justice act was always put out there as the gold standard in criminal justice reform. i supported it, senator booker supported it, everyone supported it, so he starts with the safe justice act and then he moves very far because there were some lessons learned from the clinto...

I suppose thats possible here. but eventually, particular if they issue a subpoena, he will have to show up and answer questions. >> right. and its odd because from the public reporting, he seems like hes willing to answer questions, he even wanted to do it in public. it is normal, you would want to first meet with him in private with your staff investigators to get a preview of what hes going to say. im not sure why hes not showing up, whether its a change of heart or not. >> a final question o...

Shan wu. lets get to white lawyers instructing a witness not to answer any question because of executive privilege. >> its like qualified immunity, if theyre acting in the scope of their jobs. its testing the boundary here, theyre being very aggressive. theres a three-tier defense, one is absolute, meaning they cant be compelled to talk, period. second, they can go to the more traditional executive privilege. and third is hope hicks saying i dont remember. the last quote you just played from her...