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They say theyre different. but the next debate will provide an interesting side-by-side of those candidates in that effort. what weve seen in iowa has been an interesting display of how two work together. you have joe biden and bernie sanders, feeling pressure from their first debate, using each other as a foil to gain momentum. you have joe biden to start the week, talking about his vision for building on the affordable care act. obamacare 2.0. to expand access to people. and criticizing bernie...

Caucus is trying to rally around them in this moment when president trump is attacking them. some of those tensions between them where the caucus should be, what should be reported in legislation is still simmering. >> drinks couldnt get it done, i guess. lanhee, they are e-mailing socialism approval poll. they are doing that today. they are asking about views on the subject. can you suggest a strategy going forward by the republican party? >> absolutely. i think the president views these four m...

Congresswoman omar said sent out a fundraising e-mail not long after the rally asking supporters to rush a donation of $3 to show donald trump how strong our campaign and movement are. eric. eric: allison, thank you. for more on the presidents showdown with the squad to bring in a white house reporter for real clear politics. we just heard the president say its not politics but clearly there will be a political impact on both sides and what do you think they will be? >> that is right. while demo...

Democratic party by defining people who are not running for president. >> the president works best when he has a foil. he is a counterpuncher. we dont know who the democratic candidate is going to be. this heir of inevitability around joe biden has been erased. i think until we do have a standard bearer for the party, i think hes going to continue these attacks on these progressive women. this has been the strategy of the gop more broadly to try to paint democrats as socialists and tie the entir...

When they call our country garbage i dont care about politics or if its good or bad about politics. many people say is good and i dont know if its good or bad but i can tell you this. you cant talk that way about our country, not when im the president. i think they said horrible things in their anti- semitic. reporter: the president is helping keep all this in the news cycle and early this morning he retreated the video of that controversial moment at his rally in north carolina. he said he did ...

Eric: is that appropriate and fair? for me they are american but you think that will be the view or be the attack by the administration and presence that there is i american? >> i think what the president will do as long as though there is a day 2020 front-runner he will zero in on these numbers of congress and not going to let up and provide him a foil for the ideas of the democratic party and right now like you said a moment ago he will present them as orthodoxy and say to voters in wisconsin,...

Speaking out against this publicly. >> president trump chose his foil. president trump decided that congresswoman alexandria occasio-cortez and ilhan omar and the squad, that is who his foil is going to be. last cycle hillary clinton, this cycle its the squad. that calculation, that calculation has lasting implications because for joe biden, for example, now the center force within the democratic party is for lack of a better term is the squad. thats the foil hell be campaigning against. everyth...

Together and become in many ways a stronger messaging arm within the democratic party. that is going to have lasting implications for house speaker nancy pelosi, its going to have lasting implications on 2020 democratic presidential field now and every candidate has been asked about this. and it also is going to have implications for how the president is going to be crafting his messaging into the 2020 cycle. >> does this actually weaken the case for 2020 candidates on the democratic side to hav...

Administration is that of everybody else. get them back on the table for a better deal. >> bret: i would be remiss if we do not wrap up this week with the wrap up of the squad back and forth. today was kind of another iteration of it. here is representative omar and the president. >> we are going to continue to be a nightmare to this president. because his policy, because his policies are a nightmare to us. >> i am unhappy with the fact that a congresswoman can hate our country. she is lucky to ...

Days after the president fired off the racist tweets is because the president still views these a political winner. there was a reuters poll that came out on tuesday i think it was that showed his standing with republicans actually ticking up a bit. now, with independents and democrats obviously its a different story. the other part of this too is that donald trump has never really shown a real interest in expanding his base of support and so what he does because he cant increase his own favorab...