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Its political in nature while the establishment says thats not true. well have this other hearing on thursday, the eighth. thats become less of a hindrance for her. >> i think there are a couple of things happening. the clinton campaign had a very tough summer. the e-mail issue was seemingly swamping them. and then it was just overwhelming at times. and then the admission by republican leadership that the benghazi committee was political kind of opened up the flood gates against the republicans ...

Of people that would use social media, a lot of young people and so im not surprised that they would react that way but lets face it, in every kind of met tri -- metric about debates, if i were here i watched the debate dozens of times and i would take a tape of the debate, put it on a plane with her and watch it over and over and over again and realize that she can in fact come across a substantive likable and that was the challenge that night and she did it. >> look at the focus groups, look a...

She doesnt have to campaign anymore, right? >> the media was pushing the joe biden line so long they were desperate for some drama. what they really want to do is be able to help mostly hillay clinton. they could written these stories on tuesday morning before the debate. unless she had totally flopped this was going to be the outcome. >> she was good. i have toll it you she was good. >> now, interestingly though, the focus groups like bernie sanders. the folks like bernie sanders but the media ...

Who watched the debate -- >> go ahead. >> i was just going to say focus groups are so small how many hundreds of people fewer than you would need to do a national poll that would be reputable or do you have sitting in that room. >> all right, lets go to the conclusive proof that bernie sanders really arrived in that debate. donald trump is now attacking him. lets listen to this. >> i watched hillary clinton last night with were going to give this, were going to give that. she has to give everyth...

>> 28 democrats, how many of you walked in here supporting hillary clinton, raise your hand. half of you. how many of you are still supporting hillary clinton? only a small percentage, so who do you think won the debate? >> bernie sanders. >> who do you think won the debate tonight? >> all right, so it looks like we have -- what is that, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven -- so is looks like the young millennial voters here said bernie sanders won the debate with a few votes out there for h...

Want her to say. >> donald trump was asked, do you do focus groups and he said yeah, i do focus groups. right up here in my head. i figure out the zeitgeist of -- the spirit of the country through the personal experiences. i think thats giving him this extra sort of -- its some people would say wackiness, but made him a more magnetic personality because hes out there doing it almost on his own. whereas hillary historically has run sort of a hillary inc. campaign. so she has a huge organization. ...

Elsewhere saying he could be doing a little better job, but people worrying about support. i do think the way in which she really won, though, is there were a lot of people in her campaign. a lot of people in the professional quad that certainly thought her campaign was off the rails and being able to get it back on is important. the one thing i have not seen from bernie sanders yet is the ability to build a nationwide campaign, to put together the kind of campaign staff to do that. the ability ...

Point, facebook like do not make votes like. just because you have thousands of facebook likes doesnt mean these people are actually going to show up for you. this is not american idol, you have to go out, get out in the cold and put your ballot out there and punch the ticket. and convincing the people to do that -- >> to be fair, the question was who won the debate, which is very different than who is going to win the election? which i think is important -- who watched the debate -- >> go ahead...

Campaigns. he has been at the top of the polls for 90 days. that compares to what we saw last time around, newt gingrich did three days at the top of the polls, rick perry, 33, herman cain, a glorious two -- >> you know who ended up winning and fighting with mitt romney to the end, rick santorum who was only at the top of the polls for 16 days. >> so how many more days -- >> how many more days that trump is at the their top? >> 37. >> all right, 37, 37 nights from now, all right, everybody stand...

They both indicated that. >> he didnt just not attack her. are you for hillary? >> are you for hillary? >> i call it like i see it. i am undecided. >> you think that that sent a signal to voters that im not really running to win but to make a point? >> i dont think that is how people saw it. that is not how the folks in the focus groups saw it. it is certainly for a democratic primary audience whether clinton voters or sanders voters saw it as refreshing. lets talk about the issues. >> it also w...