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Has a headline and as he think about the take-away from the night of the debate, it reads, female candidates challenge electability question in debates. do you think this changes the way voters think about electability? do you think these women are now being seen as, yeah, they have it and they can do this? they could get there? >> well, it was funny, i was talking to a group of girls right out of the debates and they said, is this normal to have this many women who are typically running for off...

Hood. they tried to cross a flooded stream, it flipped and nine soldiers were killed that day. certainly, people are going to be looking at this vehicle and whether its prone to these rollovers and fix it if something needs to be fixed. kasie. >> and steph, it does seem like that is the question. they didnt really provide a lot of details as to how exactly this accident happened. so well be following that investigation. stephanie gosk, thank you very much. still ahead, has elizabeth warren fou...

Presidents comments to fox news are any indication, we think hes unwilling to compromise. >> what must mexico do? what can they do to stem this massive tide, 140,000 people in may? >> when youre the piggy bank this everybody steals and robs from and they deceive you and they -- like theyve been doing for 25 years, tariffs are a beautiful thing. its a beautiful word, if you know how to use them properly. republicans should love what im doing. >> so our big question today is, can the white house r...

And the president of the united states might look at it and say, no, thats not good enough. i think thats a trick anytime youre negotiating with this white house or this administration at this point, if youre a foreign government, how do you know a deal would stick, unless the president himself is in the room. thats a real challenge at this point. and the president oversees, as you were just saying with kristen, that makes it doubly challenging. so i would expect that, yes, they can make progres...

Polling on all of this, what is your sense on whether -- i take zerlinas point absolutely about women being affected by this. we have a lot of religious voters in the democratic party. many african-americans fit into that. where is the balance here for those voters on this issue? >> so my understanding is that most people are kind of a bit more middle of the road on this issue. many people are, i should say, are a lot more middle of the road on this issue. and so the question that i have, i gues...

Hinged on health care. that is one of the issues she said she is not going to compromise on. listen to what she said. >> let me put it this way. i believe in working across the aisle when that lets us get things done. we are talking about things like health care coverage. im not going to compromise when people say i want to take away health care coverage from 30 million people. we will just take it away from 15 million and thats going to be okay. health care is basic human right. we fight for ba...

And donald trump. they were getting at the same dien kinds of issues. they were talking about problems. i think that this is not strained too far from that sort of same set of voters who are interested in blowing up the way things are in washington. elizabeth warren is trying to make end roads into that block of voters and going back to indiana, donald trump made a lot of noise around carriers staying in indianapolis and not shipping jobs over to mexico. she is there trying to make the point tha...

Candidates have flocked to atlanta where the dnc is holding a summit before a fund-raising gala this weekend. mayor pete buttigieg just wrapped up his remarks at the podium and earlier the crowd heard from new jersey senator cory booker. >> this has got to be a movement election, because what i see, and particularly for african-american communities is unacceptable. this assault on womens reproductive rights is an assault on women, but particularly an assault on african-american women! >> joining...

The candidate who is most likely strongest positioned to beat donald trump, and the poll shows right now the answer to that question is biden. how do the other candidates compete on that question? >> well, a couple things. i do want to throw some caution in the conversation. a couple things. one is, the electability question if you go back to 2008, look at democrats just suffering loss after loss to george bush. he electability question was one of the leading questions, one of the leading top is...

Electability question, ive got to say, cornells point of barack obama was way behind hillary clinton in 2008. he changed that balance. and did he do it primarily through debate performance? what changed in voters minds about barack obamas electability? >> iowa. the reality is that cornells right. the democratic party. >> didnt he have to convince those iowa vote ares. >> he did. >> that he could beat the republican in the general election in order to get their votes in the first place which then...