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Something with the tax code to intensify corporations to share their profits with employees. that is something people will attack her on and corporations she also needs if rfor example will come after her on that and that to me is more important than attacking her on the basis of her character. what are her policies going to do to the nation? >> "the new york times" reports that cross roads messaging wasnt flawless and another add called throw away opens with mrs. clinton saying she never throws...

Long -- he was saying hes got to do well and iowa and break out early. he cant hang around through a few primaries and hope to suddenly erupt. hes got to find someway to distinguish himself and break out of the pack. its a problem all these candidates have now. what are there, 500 republican candidates now? how do you distinguish yourself? >> how do you get a big applause out of photo id law, how do you get applause out of that? thank you ron ray, thank you lonnie. coming up, hillary clinton i...

And politically moderate women were shown as attacking clinton, scandal and rich and out of touch. as the republican conducted the focus group put it shes got an open wound and part of our job is to pour salt in it. im joined by perry bacon. we read this article now, it talks about her being somewhat add in saying she was dead broke and everyone knew clintons were worth tons of money, its a matter of going out there and giving the speech. so is that where they think they have got the gold here t...

Their overhead low. solar and energy efficiency are all core values of pg&e. theyve given us the tools that we need to become more efficient and bottom line save more money. together, were building a better california. theres a lot going on this morning. lets get caught up with other headlines making news. lets go to the "new york times." the times has the story today about the superpac american crossroads. it is holding focus groups in the key state of florida to test the backhands theyre dev...

Pop star ariana grande reportedly hates america, at least she said so. >> really? shes hating the country thats given her millions of dollars. well talk about what she did at the doughnut shop out in california because thursdays are better with news. ♪ ♪ that is justin. hell be on later. >> ladies and gentlemen, its not everyday we show you an empty room. the importance is it is actually going to be one of our focus groups. there in the front of of that room were going to do a focus group....

To whether or not they agreed. and we were doing focus groups three days after that todd aiken interview in 2012 in denver, colorado, you could not convince independent women who were undecided about the presidential race that mitt romney had a different view than -- of abortion than did todd aiken. there is a real danger here, yeah look, first thing is every republican had better be prepared to be asked about this because they will be asked by somebody in the media or provoked by a democrat or ...

Us no? >> its keeping people physically away. and its allowing her to kind of focus group her campaign. what ive noticed going from iowa to new hampshire to here is that shes using those focus groups as literally -- using those round tables as focus groups. and shes tweaking her message each time she goes building up on these things that shes partly getting from those voters. i think its very effective for what she wants to do. its certainly frustrating to the media that are following her. is it...

Juggernaut. >> there was an established frontrunner in dole. my point is he doesnt have to beats an establishment frontrunner. he is the establishment frontrunner. >> the other problem, if the guy cant finish in the top five at every one of these events at what point are all these people shoveling money into his coffer saying maybe this isnt the smart money? >> there is no one out there right now who is challenging jeb for their love and affection. a little bit rubio, a little bit walker, maybe ...

Clinton. >> now hes raised a lot of money, and you have a piece out today saying dont count bernie sanders out. what are the constituents there saying? >> well, i mean what you hear -- you hear two things. first of all, you can look at his literal message, income inequality, wealth concentration, climate change, a lot of the things that hes been talking about his entire career. to the extent the base is there on those issues and has a chance of getting all those voters but the other thing you he...

I went after his brother pretty hard, a comment here or there. nothing mean or whatever, but i could tell its kind of like pushing back. hey, stop talking about my brother. >> you cant do that with the bushes. theyre all in it together. >> and i respect them for that. >> i do too. were like that, too in the dean family in a much smaller scale. family loyalty matters. look, one of the problems that i think nicolle just brought up he is already running against hillary clinton. and thats a problem....