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Their lives because thats a way they can get into this country. >> jesse: its about lines and line-cutting. all these lawyers from the aclu that filed the suit, if they are in starbucks, someone just cuts them in line. fine, order your frappuccino, they will say no, hey, i was here first. thats the deal here. everybody from the rest of the world has to wait in their home country and apply for asylum. its a process. but if you are from central america, because of the loophole, if you come here, e...

Attacks on the congresswoman tonight? >> reporter: yeah, they are. cen willy what theyre picturing is the president trying to test drive this new message -- socialists framing them as this left wing radical party, now hes got a new foil, which comes in the face of these four democratic congress women, that the president has spent the last four days attacking, and they expect him to try that here in north carolina tonight. the president himself alluded to it on twit ir, saying hes going to talk a...

Racist attack. >> you get the sense the president is always looking for foil to run against, to sharpen his stipulatidistinctions. if you have to run because someone is on the hill. >> our colleague on the hill has developing news in from house speaker pelosi. kelly, whats up? >> reporter: our team caught up with speaker pelosi. this is not on camera. but they asked her her reaction, does she support the resolution from congressman al green. and the answer was, no, i dont. and then, in a very sp...

Her point was you have four young women of, who who are outspoken and standing up for themselves and standing up for their constituents, frankly. so just to be clear, there are 16 times more people who live in queens that aoc represents -- or excuse me, there are 16 times many people in queens than in 16 states. im trying to get the right numbers occupant. the point have its a diverse population. so on the one hand i think we try to brand these folks as representing sort a fringe segment of the ...

>> they were slow to respond because they didnt know what to say. republicans, too, and now were a couple days into it and you can see where its going, that these four women are the foil of the president and they want to talk about their policies and call them socialists and communists. i think they figured out now what that message is going to be. there is a new reuters poll out tonight showing that donald trump has gone up with republicans five percentage points in the last couple days. maybe ...

Are not our values and its not similar from what were hearing from democrats on the campaign trail. >> we mentioned that the president is going out tonight for one of his reelect rallies. moni monica, what are trumps base saying about these attacks? >> weve actually talked to people who have been lined up here since the early morning hours and the resounding message is the same, these supporters are not phased or bothered at all by the presidents latest attacks on the four congress women of colo...

Can see where its going, that these four women are the foil of the president and they want to talk about their policies and call them socialists and communists. i think they figured out now what that message is going to be. there is a new reuters poll out tonight showing that donald trump has gone up with republicans five percentage points in the last couple days. maybe his instinct was right that it might appeal to people hes trying to appeal to. its certainly not going to appeal to independent...

Went after a couple of these congresswomen, suggested they were being inappropriate and unfair. he almost tested the line, if you will weve seen him do that before. hell say something, he likes it, he comes back to it. he did this on sunday with the tweets, which crossed all sorts of lines and racist in their content. and what weve seen now, of course, is, theres no backing down. so, yes, there was somewhat plan here but it was also instinct, it was reactionary. the tweets were borne sunday morn...

Do about that in america. i didnt get a single question about fund-raising. >> i get that. but you know you need money to be able to put out -- >> and im doing just fine. im proudly in this race. the point is this is not what matters to voters on the ground. and theyre the ones who are ultimately going to make the choice about who the best nominee is to take on trump u. and i wouldnt be in the race if i didnt think i was that person. no better foil for boeing if ulle against trump than a young c...

>> i think the talking point is will be what senator ted cruz just did. they are the foil, the democratic party, the four young women, congresswomen. they are the foil, and they will focus on that and not focus on what he did. >> to your point about democrats, though, for many democrats, particularly those on the left flank of the party, it does not go far enough. senator bernie sanders of vermont running for the presidential nomination said this to robert acosta, it doesnt go far enough. the de...