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Howie: how polarized is america right now. frank luntz has been conducting focus groups across the country and he find the audience erupts with animosity and cynicism. frank: how many of you lost a friend. >> he says hes not my president. but he is your president because you live in this country. >> hes a despicable human being. >> the media has really -- if you meet people in general like you used to before facebook, et cetera, i feel like the media has really fanned the flames.

Prospects as speaker. but putting that aside, i have not asked one person for a vote. whats important is and i know better than anybody how important it is to win this election. i see up close and personal what the republicans and this president are doing. >> i dont know, steve, once youve lost nbc. >> next, tweeting about the fake news media and the failing "new york times." i think that this is so ridiculous. this is not exactly sort of deep investigative journalism by nbc here. like these are...

>> whats the status of the infrastructure there as well? one has to think that if the infrastructure continues to deteriorate that thats going to contribute to even more health problems and potentially even deaths. >> so when you read the specific story cited in that report, because these are more than numbers. at the end of the day this is about people and human beings and the focus groups, the interviews, they all highlight deaths that were related to the infrastructure. for example, doctors s...

Are put at risk when they are loaded and unlocked and unsecured in that home. >> youre making a difference here and oftentimes youve got the antigun, pro gun world and never the two shall meet. but i know that you sat down, you had focus groups with gun owners, gun rights activists. >> yes. >> what was their sentiment when you sat with them and how do they feel about this initiative? >> they are fully supportive of this initiative. we had such interesting conversations. and one of the things tha...

On immigration. ivanka trump in 2016 went to the suburbs of philadelphia and vulnerable republicans right now are very unese i about the president focusing on immigration. but my sources say the president talk about this witch00, his words about the russia investigation, hammering a proposed border wall. all about juicing up that republican base because talking to pollsters inside the party and people conducting focus groups they are concerned a blue wave could be coming. the quarterly growth, t...

Republicans saying i cant go there with you, mr. president, on this. after charlottesville trumps job approval did take a slight hit, mostly losing ground with republicans, and this stayed in place for a number of months. but as soon as the new year started, tax reform passed, we were on to a new issue, the presidents job approval came right back up. >> were told the president has a meeting with congressional representatives at the white house at 2:00 about economic issues. but were told he will...

Groups in ohio nearly three weeks before kennedy announced his retirement. during a focus group of ten educated white female voters one woman said when it came to judges, quote, i dont see the impact on my day to day life. though kennedy who had been the swing vote for years voted just that week for a colorado baker who declined to make a wedding cake for a same sex couple. seven out of ten women in the focus group didnt know who he was. and when asked about roe v. wade, the landmark decision le...

Down allies about hillary clinton, whether you liked hillary clinton or not. >> hold up, don, you know i voted for hillary -- >> i am questioning the strategy and the intelligence of shouting down an ally and damaging a candidate and all of a sudden you get this, thats all im saying. everybody jumped on the republican side on donald trump -- >> i will make a 20-point second on this. the fact of the matter the democratic party failed together. we failed to make the courts a motivating factor in 2...

The fact of the matter -- >> simone i disagree with you. >> t not understanding how elections work and how elections have consequences. they were people who were on the flask side, many of them including bernie sanders supporters who were shouting down allies about hillary clinton, whether you liked hillary clinton or not. >> hold up.don, you note i voted for hillarily -- >> i am questioning the strategy and the intelligence of shouting down an ally and damaging a candidate and all of a sudden y...

Being leaked out or produced by wikileaks as part of a russian operation stolen by russian hackers, and what that did for three weeks was keep the words clinton and e-mail in the headline. even though she was the victim of that, that operation day in, day out kept reminding voters of clinton and the e-mail problem. >> right. >> focus groups that were being done by the clinton group at the time showed them that swing voters could be separate the podesta e-mail tact from the whole issue of her e-m...