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It and then another slice of bread. we say its a ham sandwich. mueller says i didnt make a determination whether or not it was a ham sandwich because i was instructed that i cant call it that. but its still a ham sandwich. that to me is an example of democrats trying to figure out how can we sharpen a message that can maybe pierce the publics lack of interest or fog of all of this complicated legal stuff. how do you think democrats are doing in approaching that task? >> i think what you saw from...

Current thely does n currently like him, but heres what she wrote -- why is america turning the gates open to americas foes? the president is clearly disturbing, that is what president trump wants. p why doest perfect want the cup country to lower its guard against russia? president trump expects vladimir putin will help him win in 2020 just as he did in 2016. im not saying just that he expects it, kim, hes inviting it. we saw him on george stephanopoulos saying, russia can you hear me? come bac...

And it was not good. you have harris and bernie looks like hes fading to me. bernie looks like he missed his time. >> rev, heres my question, donald trump has the worst poker face in america. he says what he thinks and he also says a lot by what he doesnt say. in that group he attacked everybody or dismissed everybody in the top tier of democrats except kamala harris. theres been some reporting about republicans looking at her with a little bit of nervousness. what do you make of that reporting?...

When you look at what is happening in the senate, particularly senate republicans shutting down election security measures, you have democrats in particular but political players of all stripes saying this is terrible but we dont know what to do. >> i want to turn to this. i will get to you because i know you have a lot to say about this, rev, but i want to turn to that question now and what republicans did this week in the face of all of this report, and what mueller said and everything else we...

More pressure from members of congress and and they will feel that pressure over the next few weeks. its important to i poit out the mueller testimony, which was considered a dud mostly in new york and washington u. its not like the number of members calling for impeachment went down. its continuing to tick up towards 100. thats a significant number. and as we just talked about, there will be more in the following weeks. >> rutger i ask you the same question, basically, when you hear from people...

Consideration. p it adoesnt mean there will b an impeachment trial on monday. we heard speaker pelosi be a lot more cautious and judicious in her approach to this, and this is her word, the democrats needed to be sophisticated how they approached this. they want to have the best hand possible if and when they move forward with paecimpeachment proceedings. she means gathering more evidence, having more hearings as don mcgahn, the former white house counsel, who nadlers committee is trying to brin...

Large ways to the african-american community. he was saying he wasnt sure joe biden could do that. there are other people saying the electability conversation is a fine one to have. but lets be clear, its the middle of july in the off year and no one is paying attention. >> i want to play donald trump doing his punditry which he loves doing about the democratic race. lets listen to that and i have a question on the other side. >> sleepy joe, these fading fast. the only good thing about mueller i...

Nick matter or a mum anitarian matter. so think about whos having the conversation. you see the president. you see the secretary of homeland security out speaking. but there is the humanitarian community, where are the people who frankly can address the public corruption in guatemala and el salvador that can fix this. but at the end of the day when you have a hammer and everything looks like a nail. yes, youre going to end up with military at the border guarding little kids who are in cages. so,...

>> i think they should kick his ass. [ laughter ] >> im saying it nicely. >> nicer than me. youre nicer than me too, go. >> and heres where the fight happens. >> with all due respect to all my brothers and sisters at the table, the electability question relative to the quinnipiac poll, there is no correlation in my estimation at this point between the two and the voters mind. i think the voters saw that performance by both of those women, very fine performances those two nights and said i like t...

The electability question -- i dont think -- this is the thing about -- i dont the voters are in that space yet, where maybe you have some democrats in the primary sphere maybe. im thinking more broadly. these polls are not distinguishing between a primary and general election. theyre lumping it all together. you have to look at how the voters are seeing it in totality and i dont think theyre making a judgment this woman is a fighter, she can beat trump. >> thats who gets the priority. >> go ahe...