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Structure structures in our political system, as envisioned by the founders, that sometimes theyre going to disadvantage democrats, but the truth of the matter is, is that if we have a strong message, if were speaking to what the American People care about, typically you know, the popular vote and the Electoral College vote will align, and i guess part of my overall message here as i leave for the holidays is that if we looked for one explanation or one silver bullet, or one easy fix for our pol...

We also just learned just now from a republican lawmaker who came out from this deposition. i asked him if mike pompeo, the role of mike pompeo was discussed behind those closed doors. he said yes, it was. he wouldnt go into a lot of details, but we know thats a big question, especially for democrats and these geshl investigators on what role mike pompeo had. what did he know about the shadow state department operating in ukraine, and what did he do about it? but richard, we are also told that w...

Does something about it. pulls this thing out of the fire and everybody moving on with their lives. well see. >> trace: i dont want you to put your chief congressional correspondent hat on here. can you gauge it for us? it doesnt appear theres an easy pathway for legislation on this any time soon. is that a fair assessment? >> yeah, i dont think theres an easy pathway to much legislation on capitol hill, particularly in an election year. we dont know if this will path muster with house republica...

Whats going to be done in terms of retaliation. it struck me it illustrates some of the ways in which it is so difficult to respond to the unique set of threats that russia and president putin present to the u.s. jake? >> clarissclarissa, let me ask h your senior international correspondent hat, somebody who has covered whats going on in syria, from the front lines, president obama said he feels responsible every time he sees images from syria, whether its children being killed by sniper fire or...

Venues or gymnasiums and has a better way of connecting in some places small places where she can talk to people personally and not do the big, big speech. >> kelly with her capitol hill correspondent hat on, what about this opening to cuba? youve got two presidential candidates, ted cruz and marco rubio with cuban-american background. how controversial is it as the president takes cuba off the terror list, that does have to go to congress. my head count is they dont have the votes to overturn t...

At the oval office. were joined by kelly odonnell on the north lawn at the white house. i want to put your congressional correspondent hat on for a second here and talk to us about what a huge political maneuver this was. even "the wall street journal" argues this was a bad move in part the editorial read as follows, the problem with the gop letter is its a distraction from what should be the main goal of persuading the american people. mondays letter lets mr. obama change the subject to charge ...

Issue is concerned, theyre going to have some detail the europeans promise are going to bring stability and some rules to the road for their financial markets, and for their banking systems. is that enough to calm the markets, obviously this isnt going to get solved until this meeting of the eu member nations at the end of the month. >> take off your hat, your chief white house correspondent hat and put on your political director hat, just a footnote from indiana, it looks like from the tea leav...