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You looked at the exit poll on election day in 2016, hillary clinton had a very negative -- her numbers were 55% negative. trumps were 60. but the key for trump was the voters who didnt like clinton or trump broke for trump by nearly 20 points. what were seeing in this nbc poll is voters who dont like biden and dont like trump, theyre saying pretty overwhelmingly in our poll theyd go for the democrat now. >> we wanted to try something new in 16. we dont like either. so lets go with somebody we t...

You dont have to displace assad, but try to limit his reach to the areas of the country where the sunnis who have been killed by him, mostly by conventional weapons, the last six years, where they lived, where they deserve a better life. so even if we cant unseat assad, we can try to work on protecting them. its actually giving some seriousness to this whole idea of safe zones and thinking them through. >> all right. michael ohanlon, michael crowley, ayman mohyeldin, thank you for joining us. ...

Basically a column a day about the fiscal cliff standoff here. watching boehner, i was struck by -- i feel like i saw that a year and a half ago. the summer where he walked out and hit the detonate button on the grand bargain talks. the question everyone is trying to figure out is was this posturing on boehners part or is the idea of a deal really crumbling before our eyes. >> its largely posturing and we tend to swing to emotional extremes. they were saying the deal is done and obama will spare...