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America still has to provide world leadership, in a troubled world. we have a lot of dangerous flash points that are out there. and the next president of the united states cant run away from those flash points or hide from them. the next president of the united states is going to have to face it. and i think everybody recognizes that, you know, we have one of two possibilities for the future. donald trump could be an unmitigated disaster. as the next president of the united states. if -- if he d...

Administration. top aides had a call and i asked robbie mook who was on the call, how do you plan to deal with the fact that you are going to have an fbi director that you have now putted heads w the campaign is not commenting on this. they say they r focused op winning. this could be a dragged-out war if she wins. they are arguing that if she wins, the 9th seat wont be filled in a republican is in the white house. this is not just bare knuckle politics. >> in the supreme court, regardless of wh...

Strategy. this is another sign of that. more on that coming up. we want to bring it to you. i want to switch over now. immigration and race have been major flash points in the election season. just today the justice department announced that they will be dispatching fewer election observers to look for voter intimidation because of a 2013 supreme court opinion that took out a key part of the voting rights act. for more on this i want to bring in former president of the naacp. >> good to be here....

York. right now when you look at the map of the middle east, we see not only conflagrations, potential conflagrations and real ones in yemen already, potential in bahrain and elsewhere, but also real threat to any hope of the saudis and iran working together with john kerry on the syrian peace talks only a few weeks from now. >> reporter: absolutely. if you were to take a look at the map of the middle east and look at key flash points and the countries that are really engulfed in turmoil, syria,...

Your morning. make some good memories out there today. >> jake tapper is live in las vegas and he has donald trump on the show on "state of the union" at top of the hour. but stay with us. "inside politics with john king" starts in just seconds. ted cruz on the rise in iowa. >> its certainly true that going up is better than going down. >> reporter: donald trump under fire. >> the republican front-runner has made a name for himself in the last months by trafficking in prejudice and paranoia. >...

Im john berman in for jake tapper. iowans only have ten weeks to make up their minds, but in a change election where outsiders have changed the conventional wisdom something like 47 times now, there has not been much change on top of the polls for really a while now. donald trump leads nationally, according to the latest polling. its been like that for a while. and trumps views more evidence that his claim the silent majority is no longer silent. over the weekend trump was anything but silent ab...

Will happen, inside the wynn las vegas. jim acosta, where all the action will happen just one day from now, jim. >> thats right, john. we said everything this morning except, lets go ready to rumble, so we are one day away from the cnn democratic debate. you can see the podiums are right behind me. there they are, all five of them. taking center stage will be former secretary of state, hillary clinton. she is the clear and print front-runner in this race right now. to her right will be vermont s...

20,000 people, showing up to support sanders. hes giving hillary clinton a run for her money. and some potential flash points for this debate will be the iraq car. sanders has been saying he opposed the iraq war. hillary clinton voted in favor of the war. also the transpacific partnership, the big trade deal, bernie sanders is opposed to it. hillary clinton used to be for it. now shes against it. and then the other candidates on the stage are martin omalley, chafee, and webb, the former senator ...

A couple of flash points, bernie sanders in the last 24 hours, going after hillary clinton in her vote, in favor of the iraq war. of course, bernie sanders against the iraq war back in 2002, thats an indication there might be give and take on this issue. candidates like martin omalley, he hasnt gained any traction in the polls, hes going after bernie sanders on gun control. bernie sanders a bit moderate because hes from a state of vermont where gun rights are a big issue up there. thats a potent...

And questioners dana bash and juan carlos lopez but viewers at home will be able to offer questions to these candidates to be fielded during the course of the debate. a couple of potential flash points to be looking for just based on what weve been hearing over the last 24 hours, bernie sanders has been going after hillary clinton on her vote in favor of the iraq war. bernie sanders pointing out to his supporters he voted against the iraq war. thats echos of the 2008 campaign. barack obama who w...