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Vice president said. >> in the weeks and months to come, it is the congress job to pursue the facts and to hold donald trump accountable. in the meantime, my job, our job, is to make sure that above all else we beat donald trump. >> reporter: and so chuck, what is interesting is that weve had this discussion since the beginning of bidens campaign about his biggest strength in this race being his ele electability. so he is deferring the question of what happens next in terms of impeachment to con...

Also the same day that his campaign launched the first biden 2020 tv ad in any state. they say that they are spending high six figures to get it on alomar k -- all markets today. theyre just flashing polls onto the screen, urging primary voters to consider that despite him not being the most progressive, he does have the strongest polls head to head against president trump which is similar to what his wife was arguing up in new hampshire. >> dana: we talked about ele electability and if thats yo...

Here at the iowa corn feed event, they were talking to 1,100 people. it was a festive atmosphere. an opportunity for many candidates who arent polling high in our most recent nbc news/"wall street journal" poll as an opportunity for voters to meet them and hear from candidates for the first time. richard? >> thank you so much. busy time there. lets go to vaughn. what are you seeing in terms of the same topics? number one, the tweet put out go back to your country and new numbers coming out from ...

Those three states. those things are usually exclusive. 200,000 people, black people in wisconsin, have their vote suppressed. the margin was way short of that, john, and you know that. >> but lets -- >> we have some instead of the 2016 and going back to that, lets look at the new poll that came out today. one of our guest newspapers, washington post" abc poll. on that question of ele electability, watch them up against donald trump in a head to head race. you can see biden leading by ten points...

We brought democrats and republicans together and i think thats the message. as a small business person and entrepreneur, we took that kind of scrappy spirit into achieving progressive goals but without having to have big government. >> so for people who arent familiar, just to be real clear, is your aversion to socialism about electability or is it really an economic aversion? >> well, i this i both. i mean, i think in terms of ele electability, republicans will call us socialists and that is i...

Seriously speaking, there is a hunger to sort of get this on with and figure out who the nominee will be, but thats where the grassroots will have their say. i think theyre a little bit tired of this fiction of ele electability. who can win? theyre asking who can lead, not who can win. electability doesnt really work, does it? in the end we didnt have presidents dole or mccain or romney. i just end on this. he won the nomination, so somebody who wins the nomination has a thing or two to tell you...

Thats interesting, the response that generated from the crowd because that brings me to something else i want to ask you about. the basic dilemma the tea party movement faces and anyone faces in politics between purity and ele electability. the idea of christie being, win, baby, like the old al davis message. forget christie, forget 2016. youre looking at 2014, we have all of these, you know, republican primary challengers still to come on the docket. sounds like talking to the republican base, ...

santorum and ron paul. new cnn polling shows a statistical dead heat. look at that, 36% to 34%. well within the five-point margin of error. romney there at the 36%. thats from sampling done sunday, monday, and tuesday. as always, expect the numbers to change. expect tomorrow nights debate to move that needle as well. also expect more of what we saw today. each candidate hammering the other. [ speaking spanish ] >> the gingrich campaign today stopped running the spanish language radio s...

arnold schwarzenegger and the scandal. youre in the situation room. hes a billionaire and head of a powerful world agency. the international monetary fund dominique strauss-kahn now sits in the new york city jail cell facing sex crime charges for assaulting and he does not qualify for diplomatic immunity. whats going on? >> wolf, its 24 hours now for dominique strauss-kahn. he has had one unidentified visitor so far. prosecutors are analyzing forensic evidence strauss-kahn cannot do ...

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