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People, not to the american people just in places like iowa, south carolina, nevada but in appalachia and nebraska and you have to be able to talk to everyone. they may not like what you have to say but if they believe youre authentic in your message, they may decide to vote for you. >> dan, simone, lets do this again for the next two years. >> sounds like a plan. >> im down, im down. >> thanks guys. the vice president led a meeting on the shutdown today but did he make any progress? ill have ...

Spectacularly. no way native american. candidates who can beat donald trump, she has proven she cannot. for that reason alone, democrats can do better. disagree? okay, lets discuss. here to tell me why elizabeth warren should be the 2020 democratic nomnominee, just kidding, former senior adviser to president obama dan phifer and simone sanders. i would not put you in that position. i am kidding, of course, way too early. but dan, to me, even this early, it seems like warrens candidacy is doa. do...

The best most popular finely honed economic message of anyone whos thinking of running and that will be very valuable. theres other challenges. the dna test is something shell have to navigate. i dont think it will be a hugely damaging problem and she has to answer questions about it. >> simone, to dans point, having the most popular economic message. i mean, its bernie sanders message and to me, from where i stand, bernie is everything warren is but better. hes more energizing, more unifying an...

Against donald trump is some sort of like perfect political candidate designed in a lab. he has flaws as well im told so were going to have to see this play out and shell make her case and she has real political strengths and challenges and so i cannot tell you. >> of course, and dan, dan, i get you hedging. i understand. its early. why would anyone come out this early to back anyone? but coming in, and i said this same thing of hillary clinton, coming into the 2016 election, hillary clinton had...

>> erin -- >> again, whoever it is whos lying is doing so in the most egregious and horrible way every. >> if jim comey does something to attack donald trump, the republicans are going to side with -- or the democrats are going to decide there. if he does the other way, the republicans will side for that. im going to call balls and strikes here. there were two losers in the testimony yesterday. the first -- its hard to say this but im going to say this. the first was jim comey. no one thought he...

Lose. this president will further vindicate himself and move on to his agenda of making america great which is what 63 million people voted for him to do. >> dan? >> lets not count the millions who didnt vote for him to do it. it is so obvious,000 trump does not have tapes. he can warily organize his white house. its hard to imagine in the early days hed installed a secret white house taping operation and he wont adds mitt it -- >> one of knows spy pens that you can get at hammer slemer or somet...

For that matter. erin? >> go ahead. quickly, dan. >> the fact of the matter is -- go. >> no. i was going to say, look, well find this out for sure. im confident there isnt one. when the white house tells the house intel committee there are no tapes, trump will be proven a liar. >> next, the senate judiciary asking comeys friend to hand over any memos from the fired fbi director. the deadline is tonight. will they get them? senate judiciary committee out front. plus a republican comes out swingin...

Not. i dont think dmib can deny that. dan? >> erin, you hit upon it. the trump explanation is absurd. iflt cant be that james comey tell us the truth only when it helps are donald trump and when it doesnt hes obviously lying. >> to your point, look, we dont know what was said in that room but we can use our common sense. comey wrote these things down in real time, talked to people in real time about them. prosecutors will go back and talk with those witnesses. comey has a decades-long bipartisan...

With a response talking about some of these meetings saying mr. curb her volunteered to share what he knows about these meetings. he will do so if asked in any other venue. dan, how significant is this news, jared kushner under investigation talking about the fbi. >> look. we dont know as matt pointed out what this means for jared kushner did. the person closer to the president, the more debilitating the investigation is. we have to wait for the investigation to play out to see who did what. the...

Investigation. isnt that definition snal. >> i think thats one thing that they have to scrutinize. jamie grillic, you brought up her statement earlier. he has not talked to them. he is also willing to talk to senate investigators. he has not done that yet. this early december meeting with kislyak involves mike flynn. mike flynn later has a conversation with kislyak over the phone, hides that fact from even the vice president. i think the fbi sees a lot of smoke there and wonders whats going on. ...