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>> right now the president is in vatican city. this is him moments ago meeting pope francis for the first time shaking hands there. the two leaders dont always see eye to eye especially when it comes to obamacare. doug luzader is live for us with what we can expect from todays historic meeting. it is historic. they may find common ground here but it is a meeting that causes areas of tension between the white house and the vatican. the popes attention to the poor something the administration thin...

Element, what kind of position does it put them in? >> well, sadly, they have nowhere to go right now. its really unfortunate tor someone like my dad who you mentioned who has a lot of good ideas that i think he could provide to the republican party today in order to actually win a gem election. he understands the world. hes been governor of the most conservative state in the country. theyre not going to people like my dad. theyre not interested in the ideas. theyre interested in the rhetoric. y...

National political aspirations the governor of south carolina had. a lot of folks thought he was on a trajectory towards the white house. instead, he decides he wants to go back to congress and the question was whether, you know, republican voters there would take him back and, boy, they sure did. he made it into a runoff, and he cleared that, and here he is. and i think its made national republicans pretty worried because theyve dealt with this across the country where theyve had these pyrrhic ...

Pretty soon, but they need -- there are two republican parties, right? theres sort of the tea party dominated social conservative exclusionary party and then this sort of economic party that wants low taxes and low regulations and in some places those two groups overlap and in many places they dont. they dont even agree with each other and thats making that space in the middle smaller and smaller. >> is that why the republican convention was so unpleasant, because they had to meet each other, th...

In a gem election, jeb bush, governor chris christie of new jersey, they mate maybe this isnt the best year for me for a lot of reasons. if one of them was the nominee and two bring the two wings of the party together you might have a real race but they had such a weak field. >> that would be a choice election where reasonable people would try to decide between the two candidates. this one is not a hard choice. last month when missouri senate candidate todd akin made his comments about legitimat...

Pretty soon, but they need -- there are two republican parties, right? theres sort of the tea party dominated social conservative executie exclusionary party and then this sort of economic party that wants low taxes and low regulations and in some places those two groups overlap and in many places they dont. they dont even agree with each other and thats making that space in the middle smaller and smaller. >> is that why the republican convention was so unpleasant, because they had to meet each ...

you shortly. lets put up on the screen right now the exit poll information for maryland. here is why we could make this projection that mitt romney is the winner in maryland. take a look at this. based on the exit polls, what people were telling us as they left the polling booths throughout the day, 49% in maryland said they were voting -- they already had voted in fact for mitt romney, 28% for rick santorum, 11% for newt gingrich, 10% for ron paul. based on those exit poll numbers, we...

Republican opponent by 15 points. the same candidate that senator lincoln had run against two years prior to that. she beat him by 12 points. >> i mean, in all fairness, when youre running for lieutenant governor, youre riding the coattails of a very popular governor in mike bebe. >> i actually got more stroets in that election than the governor did. its a separate election. were separately on the ballot. i was paddling my own canoe at the time. let me say this, though, on electability. the fact...

Florida. one more thing to look at. the demographics of florida. if there is anything that absolutely gillum is going to have to do is hes going to have to make sure his appeal goes beyond just the cities and certainly it has to cross all racial lines. the population of the state 54 po.1% white. a large hispanic population. the democrats will have to find a way to knit the coalition together. the republicans showed, better or worse, theyre united in the pro trump camp. can the democrats unite in...

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