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But, again, his audience is not any of us here. his audience are the voters that voted for barack obama and then him in wisconsin, in michigan, in pennsylvania. downed what im saying. nothing has changed. >> we are not his audience but he was elected with the minority of the country. he needs the other 52% of the country to be an effective president. >> this is a key point, though. his party controls washington completely. democrats cannot be for him because they dont have any power. >> right. >...

Is hugely important and again, people have various opinions about joe biden. the thing i like about joe biden as someone who covers this stuff hes as close real person as youll ever find. he shows raw emotion. he doesnt say everything perfecting at all times but he cares deeply about public service and has a joy in public service that you rarely see now. >> and the funny thing is that the drawback politically for him in past campaigns was he would say something that was politically incorrect. >>...

Which im proud i did. >> reporter: now our viewers should know that when we try to talk to you in the hallway you pretend youre on the cell phone, which you know you do. that has changed a lot. >> in the early days, the press was a very good way to bring out problems that needed to be fixed. now i have other leaders of power, so im hardly inaccessible. im sitting here with you. and you can say a lot of bad things about chuck schumer, inaccessibility nevers going to be one of them. >> reporter: s...

Power, hardly inaccess bum. sitting here with you, and you can say a lot of bad things about chuck schumer and inaccessibility is never going to be one of them. >> same goes for authenticity. theres a balcony. >> no? >> try to find out so we can have barbecues. >> oh, that sounds fun. >> leader or not, refined, he will never be. >> put a fire escape down there. it will be like brooklyn. >> thats right. >> dana bash joins us from washington. >> sounds like this is not the role schumer wanted to p...

Theyll be fighting the affordable care act and also trying to shine a spotlight on the russian hacking situation and the intelligence issues and just really try to be a foil for trump at every turn and hold him accountable for things. its the same kind of posture we saw republicans take with president obama these last eight years. the democrats are out of power and theyre going to resort to political campaign tactics to try to win the day on these issues. >> phillip rutgers with the washington p...

Defining moment for me. boom had, like, this global ethnic/italian --. >> anthony: so you saw a window to start introducing african, west african flavors? >> pierre: yeah. >> anthony: and it, it worked. people were receptive to that. >> pierre: absolutely, yeah, yeah. ♪ oh, wow. >> anthony: tonight were having yassa made with the local fish called thiof. cooked simply, on the bone, wrapped in foil, and steamed over the fire, served with a mignonette-type sauce of onions. grilled mussels. sea u...

Intelligence operatives. julie, what that that president obama said he would have more flexibility an the election. >> theres one common we do nominator. george bush said he his listened to mutt put. and hillary clinton was secretary of state ask wanted the reset -- vladimir putin is an awer to tarean des -- authoritarian desperate who considers -- despite who considers the west to be a foil, that all their problems stem not from his policies but from the west. so the west will always be the red...

All right. we are back with the hardball roundtable. amy, tell me something i dont know. >> last week awrote a story about how the trump transition officials were reaping out to authorities on the texas border trying to figure out where to erect the wall. something you may not know is for the first time in 50 years more undocumented mex cannes are actually returning to mexico than coming over the other way. that is actually pew just released a study saying that asians will surpass mexicans as an...

Convenient foil. the press isnt particularly well-liked by the american people. its not a particularly strong industry in terms of the business of doing media, the business of doing news. particularly in local media. things are tough for reporters and editors and local reporters and local news anchors and stuff. when you take it to the further degree that youre describing, is there an additional political benefit that you get other than just picking a political foil? why is he doing this? >> wel...

Politicians at all levels who have attacked the press have done it because the press is a convenient foil. the press isnt particularly well-liked by the american people. its not a particularly strong industry in terms of the business of doing media, the business of doing news. particularly in local media. things are tough for reporters and editors and local reporters and local news anchors and stuff. when you take it to the further degree that youre describing, is there an additional political b...