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Was handled is as well. thank you for debating tonight. appreciate it. >> thank you. so for the first time ever in a major new poll, elizabeth warren has caught up with joe biden, and it is happening in a very crucial place. question, whom does it hurt more? biden or bernie? you know whos got the answer? that guy, the wizard of odds, next. do your asthma symptoms ever hold you back? about 50% of people with severe asthma have too many cells called eosinophils in their lungs. eosinophils are a ...

Co-equal government, in a government like the united states. and you know what? what i am going to do is implore with republicans, elected republicans particularly in the senate, to for once during this administration put your damn country over your damn party. you know, were talking about the ukraine. this is -- this is a country where republicans invested so much. i remember all the times that john mccain went there. theres a street named for him because the u.s. was with the ukrainian people,...

The president was a consequence of the ukraine presidents unwillingness to launch an investigation into the bidens. two questions. one, have you ever heard of a u.s. president asking another nation to investigate one of americas citizens? >> no, but i do know of joe biden saying if you dont fire the prosecutor in question, were going to withhold, you know, a billion dollars in loan guarantee. >> he was operating as the v.p. of the united states of america, not personally, and he was joined by a ...

Hearsay? >> well, we dont know what the report says, and if i recall, we do have the ig or the dni are going to go before congress. what they reveal is completely going to be governed by the law, and there is a lot of legal discrepancy right now in terms of whether this law with the inspector general even applies to something that might involve the president of the united states. the law says it has to fall under the guidelines of activities in the office of the director of national intelligence...

That feel shes the one that can beat donald trump? >> i think that she will have a lot of momentum because i think a lot of voters are looking at -- well, conventional wisdom, but a lot of voters are looking at the electability question. unfortunately, a lot of voters are defining electability in terms that have not held up in recent years in 2016, for instance. but i do think elizabeth warren, people forget that when she was maybe about six months ago, she was struggling in fund-raising. she ha...

Reading it. >> shes excellent at explaining her positions. and attracting people. when i talk about the electability question, i want to make sure im clear about what i mean by 2016. people thought trump was not electable, right? thats what i mean specifically. >> now that hes in and people know that not only is he electable, but hes in, will that help turnout against him? because a lot of people said they didnt vote because they didnt believe he could win anyway. >> right. exactly. thats exactl...

Business. and they broke stormy daniels and a series of these stories. so this is not a situation of smoke. this is a five-alarm blaze. >> shermichael, as the republican on the panel, are some of the friends of the republicans, when you hear rupert murdochs paper has been one of the leads on this -- >> sure. >> -- whistle-blower story, the fact that youve not heard any senior members of congress, republican, come out. are they beginning to say wait a minute. this is becoming a bridge too far? >>...

Should not have, for some of them, many of them, particularly those in leadership like mitch mcconnell and others, this he see through trump a vehicle, a mechanism to sort of finally see some things that republicans have wanted to do for a very long time, specifically as it relates to the judiciary. so im not confident that you will see a significant percentage of republicans at all, if any, coming out against the president. i think that means it shifts the question to democrats, then. that is, ...

Debates. just the last debate, still have 14 million viewers. if youre the biden campaign you still see a candidate that has pushed back and also to note has maintained strong support among the african-american community. we should know eight years ago ultimately thats how barack obama defeated hillary clinton, by proving himself to black voters as being able to win. essentially that electability question that joe biden is trying to hold firm to his own candidacy at this point. if youre looking ...

American people are going to ask themselves this question, whats to stop the next president from doing the same thing if we dont say there has to be an ethical, a moral, a legal limit? we are a society governed by these types of structures. >> i can only imagine if this was president obama -- >> we know how that would have worked out. >> yamiche alcindor, thank you for being with us. well have more with tara and shermichael later in the show. coming up, speaker of the house nancy pelosi still ...