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Clinton than every single one of them. in new hampshire hes ahead of trump by 19 points. shes only ahead by one point. do you think democrats want to be spending money in a general election to defend new hampshire? >> do you think -- honestly now. do you think head-to-head polling this far out from the election -- i mean, i remember six weeks ago ben carson was going to beat everyone in the field in head-to-head polling. that seems like pretty shaky data. >> look, thats one proof point. right? h...

Suddenly bernie sanders is no longer a nice guy and hes wrong on this and hes wrong on that and hes wrong on that. that is not surprising when you have a clinton campaign that is now in trouble and now understands that they can lose. >> hillary clinton is expanding her efforts to challenge bernie sanders on his signature issue. that would be economic inequality. rolling in a brand new plan to impose what shes calling a fair share surcharge. a 4% tax on people making over $5 million a year. i got...

>> look, senator sanders has been in public life now for decades. he is a well-known person in washington, d.c. hes been a united states senator since 2006. hes been in the house since 1991. he was mayor of burlington before that. he has been in many, many very, very difficult campaigns against republicans. and he has really been through the sort of -- been put through the ringer. so if theres a suggestion people dont know who senator sanders is i think is really not fair. the truth of the mat...

Candidate bernie sanders. jeff, let me start with the last thing hillary clinton said about electability. and the case as far as i can understand it is hillary clinton is probably the most scrutinized and vetted figure in american public life and thats almost certainly true or shes in the top tier of that. >> absolutely. >> whats that? >> i said absolutely. go ahead. >> and that with bernie sanders there might be -- you know, with bernie sanders you might get some surprises, that theres a long v...

They dont want to see a republican going back into the white house, then i think its fair to say im the most prepared and ready person not only to win the election but to be president. >> all right. democratic presidential candidate hillary clinton, great pleasure. come back again soon. >> thanks a lot. good to talk to you. >> all right. >> bye-bye. im joined now by jeff weaver, campaign manager for democratic presidential candidate bernie sanders. jeff, let me start with the last thing hillar...

Which i have. now, its interesting because senator sanders promised to be providing his tax plan before the iowa caucus. and yet i dont think weve seen those. so i think im telling the voters what i will do, where i will get the revenues from. you can see, you know, what im proposing, how much it will cost. i think thats what voters deserve to have before they make their decision. >> all right. final question. you know, i had someone whos an adviser of yours, a friend, david brock, on this progr...

And you know, this is the ele electability question. i took a look at a "new york times" survey just last week which came out and said that electability was of very low importance to gop primary voters. i think by a margin of 7-1, when you said whats the quality or characteristic thats most important, being a strong, tough leader came in at number one and way down on the list of choices was electability. you wonder, alisyn, if at some point, because the desire among all the people who will be in...

So the electability question, they say trump, but the numbers tell a different story. >> steve, thanks so much. well be watching later tonight. the hillary clinton fund for 9/11 first responders expired last month. now a group of firefighters are putting republican presidential candidates on the spot ahead of tonights debate. the international association of firefighters ran this full page ad in the milwaukee journal sentinel today. it reads, quote, a question worth asking in tonights presiden...

Hillary clinton when it comes to the benghazi hearing. this is not about rallying democrats behind her. they are going to behind her and see this as a partisan witch hunt. what this is about is the electability question. coming off of joe bidens announcement yesterday, theres going to be a reckoning with the democratic party. can she win, virginia, north carolina, colorado, new mexico, the states that obama won in 2008. because if florida and ohio are kind of off the table if its a bush or kasic...

The electability question, which at first seemed to be an obstacle, seems to be disappearing. >> reporter: it does soon that way. i am consistently surprised at how many different times of people do support -- people that just say frankly what weve been saying over and over again, that they are sick of politicians, specifically that they dont necessarily need to agree with everything hes saying in order to support him. last night was a good example of that. donald trump did not talk about the 9/...