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Thats who got tv guide. most people dont even know what a tv guide is anymore, but, at that time, it was the largest publication in the country. everybody got a tv guide. - [man] and we placed that in the tv guide across the country. where you could tear it out, and, on the back, it listed every piece of the contract, and a place to check off, if they did what they said. and heres our ten things. and, as we do em, check em off. done, done, done. in the focus groups, when we tested the ad, one ke...

That having been said its going to be that much harder to renegotiate a new one. iran has been squeezed and they feel the pressure, but it doesnt seem at this point that theyre letting up. we shall see what happens this week. >> dana, we only have 30 seconds left. the president is skipping the event today which many consider the existential crisis of our time, and that is the climate crisis. >> listen, this is a huge problem political already fly f the key suburbs. four years ago polls showed --...

Last week we showed video of him crowd surfing. this is not a side of yang we see in the debates or in interviews. >> not really a side of any presidential candidate. you dont see joe biden out there body surfing at rallies. its really unique to yang. he does seem like he is having more fun than anyone. that might be because he is an unconventional presidential candidate. he doesnt have maybe the same pressure as someone like joe biden to be serious and presidential. he is kind of doing his own ...

Think of jim carrey last week from hollywood. he complains that mitch mcconnell is worse than osama bin laden. that more people have died because mitch mcconnell wont do anything, then they come back from their recess and they are not saying lets take a trip down to pennsylvania avenue to the white house and find out what trump is willing to do, which is what mcconnell and all his people are doing. we will do something depending on what the president says he is for. i dont blame them. i think th...

But the secular conservatives, the moderate women independents have been driven away. and we now face a lot of trump voters who are swing voters, not the base, who are saying what was i thinking? they look at him on tv, and we played in focus groups, we played tv ads of the rallies, you know, of watching him speak about what he was doing. and they shake their head. they look at the divisiveness. they look at the lack of respect for women. and there has just been a movement away in places that le...

Played in focus groups, we played tv ads of the rallies, you know, of watching him speak about what he was doing. and they shake their head. they look at the divisiveness. they look at the lack of respect for women. and there has just been a movement away in places that lead you to say this is not what were going to -- were not going to face in 20 what we faced in 16. >> stanley greenberg. the book is "rip gop." stan, thank you very much for joining me. >> thank you for having me. when we come...

Toward, lets say, new hampshire theres been some unease with donald trump up there, suddenly you look at these approval ratings, you look at the numbers on the economy and you start wondering can somebody like mark sanford pull, you know, 40% like gene mccarthy did in 68 that ended lbjs campaign or pat buchanan did in 1992 that forever crippled george h.w. bushs campaign or what happened with bob dole. suddenly as these numbers go down, the possibilities for sanford and some of these other repub...

Background checks. 89% of the american public powered background checks. 76% supports red flag laws. i bet if more knew what they were that number would be higher. buy back programs gets 75% and assault weapons ban gets 62%. i dont know how many things in american politics get 89, 76, 75 and 62% support from anyone anymore. >> from the bare minimum of universal background checks to banning certain weapons, it still has the overwhelming majority of the countrys support, not just the republican pa...

Competency i think are the two biggest problem trump faces more than any of these other things. >> i think thats right. i take to heart something michael bennet said if you elect me as president, you wont have to worry about me being president. >> you are the third reporter whos quoted michael bennet. yes, the exhaustion candidate. >> but i do think you do hear from these voter wheres they dont want to hear about the latest tweet to your point every day. they want somebody that makes sure their ...

Voters may have been longing for time. >> i was just going to say if something like that, most voters you look at oklahoma as half a are not republican, and so the billion and even if you reality is even though the president and his team have been extrapolated it out evenly you very vocal about their strategy, get to 25 billion in a hurry and something tells moo he that appealed to their base and try to encourage turnout, the oklahoma isnt 1/50 of this. reality is there are large >> exactly go t...