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Qualified as opposed to whether its about race and gender is coming up. we know theres going to be a lot of push back from con -- conservatives about how much focus is on race and gender identities when a lot of argument has been made they should be focusing on the merits. she is currently on columbia. its major considering this is spring board court. we have someone being lobbied by clyburn who is the south carolina district court judge. we have these really great resumes backing them up. they ...

Employee union members. hi, hillary. >> reporter: hi, leland. well, all of the top tier candidates are headed here or have been here to make their pitch to union workers at the union for all summit here in los angeles. all the top tier candidates but senator bernie sanders who was hospitalized after suffering a heart attack. he was hospitalized in las vegas last night he did get discharged from the hospital after being forced to take a very rare break from the campaign trail to recover after doc...

Movement if i were harris or buttigieg, i would find a state, locate there, get my numbers up and drive it from there. >> brad, let me ask it this way. at this point in time as my pollsters reminded me, ben carson was in second place and in three months we know where that went. if you have had a moment and you lose it, in our politics today can you get a second moment? >> well, you can, but i think the bigger lesson here is dont make the ted cruz mistake. ted cruz coddled donald trump in the pri...

From an aboard the fetus. on the democratic side, hillary clintons hold on the front-runner spot is looking increasingly tenuous, our latest cnn/orc national poll shows her only ten points up on bernie sande sanders, with joe biden not far behind, though he has not declared his candidacy. though the timing look as better as ever to challenge clinton, joe biden admitted hes not sure hes emotionally up to it. he seems legitimately emotionally attorney up about whether or not he should run. >> he...

>> blaine harden gets tonights "last word." thanks very much for joining us tonight. >> thank you. chris hayes is up next. bullying the witnesses? lets play "hardball." >> good evening. im chris matthews down in washington. let me start tonight with this. at new years he was the top republican in the country, the favorite, actually, to take on hillary clinton for the next american presidency. well, last night we discussed reports that new york port authority police themselves told drivers back...

Let me start tonight with this. at new years he was the top republican in the country, the favorite, actually, to take on hillary clinton for the next american presidency. well, last night we discussed reports that new york port authority police themselves told drivers back in that september jam-up to blame the ft. lee mayor for the severe traffic problem. in the midst of these reports, governor christie pretends to probe the scandal himself that has bumped him from the front-runner spot. he pos...

polls and fund-raising. herman cain has been home with his wife now for at least 24 hours discussing the situation. i am joined today by my colleagues, senior correspondent joe johns and also with our shannon travis down covering atlanta -- what will be atlanta headquarters for herman cain of the problem is you and i have been talking to sources for the last couple of hours. well, hes leaning towards leaving. were pretty sure hes going to leave. you get the same thing and you cant trus...

where the park is cleared and now it is the protesters who are occupied with a critical question, what now? new york police moveded in overnight with a notice where occupy wall street had been encamped since november 17th. they tore down tents and arrested more than 100 people who refused to leave on their own. they planned to open zuccotti park as long as nobody try to live there. but the judge rule the city has no right to block tents or campsites so police are keeping everyone out. ...