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Immigration in america. the percentage of immigrants is at its highest level in 100 years according to census bureau numbers at least 14% of everyone in america was born somewhere else. thats about 45 million people and that figure rises by about 1 million every single year. more than 2 million additional immigrants have been given green cards, more than half of this foreign-born population is hispanic and thats a political concern for republicans. they have heard over and over again they need t...

Agreements, arguing that they penalize employees who have legitimate workplace grievances. joining us, the former trump campaign official bringing a class action suit. jessica, its great to have you here. in august of 2018, you were hired by the trump campaign. >> 2016. >> thats right. sorry. as a phone bank administrator and were promoted to hispanic engagement director on the campaign. >> thats correct. >> then what happened? >> i was able to work for a brief time really with a beautiful engag...

Brought out voters that were frankly really annoyed and fed up with the corruption in our political system and they were, you know, voting for democracy reform up and down. weve got hr-1 now in congress seeking to end all of these lies and thats where the american public need to be. but the kriblths weve been hearing from that crowd that has been peddling those lies i think is fairly telling. >> jameel, what do you think? >> i think shes right. we see here evidence of what actual voter fraud loo...

Of president trump. now what happens after that is a turnout function. if those people who want to stop an agenda actually come out to vote. but in 2018 i think we saw with the candidacy of people like beto orourke, hispanic voters were a core part of that constituency. i believe that democrats are going to be courting him in the future. for black voters, actually i think sort of the hard core of black conservatives who traditionally vote raepublican, thats becoming smaller all the time. you see...

About the same as mitt romney. so are there some cross currents there that democrats need to be aware of? >> well, the first thing i think and we all know that hispanic voters arent really monolithic. they run the gamut, especially by age from conservative to really progressive. and polling kind of has a limitation inherently dealing with hispanic voters because of that. what the research and this poll tells us is that more and more latino voters are gravitating towards progressive issues. they ...

White, hispanic called themselves liberal. among white democrats its now a majority. a leap of 20 points. a majority of white democrats now call them selve liberals. among black and hispanic, not nearly as dramatic, but among whites, 54% who callthemselves liberal. other characteristics. folks with college degrees, with graduate degrees and you really start to see it. folks whoerant arent as religs weve seen in the past. people who identify as liberal democrats, 2/3 are white. 2/3 of self identi...

See a lot of criticism from the democratic opponents of bernie sanders. at least not yet. thats because there is a sense that this is something that happens in a lot of campaigns. if you start to probe into bernie sanders campaign, all campaigns will be subject to that as well. well see how it plays out. >> to add to ryans point, one other thing to remember about bernie sanders is hes a 77-year-old white male running in a party that in 2018 showed it is more diverse than ever. women both as cand...

Groups that have been supportive of him who are going to ask a lot of questions. they rallied around him big time. he was shown so much love. people were so angry at the thought people would actually doubt his story. he said during the interview with "good morning america," had he said the attackers were muslim, black or hispanic, the doubters would have believed him more. because he was saying it was someone who said something about maga and a trump supporter, that was causing people not to bel...

What are we doing here? whats the point of doing this trip? why are we giving him a second meeting? but the president is gung ho to do is. the president prepared to go to vietnam in a few days to see kim jong-un. >> stay tuned. matt? >> so far most of the candidates in 2020 have focused on iowa, south carolina and new hampshire. thats starting to change with nevada. today elizabeth warren is there. in two weeks, kamala harris is heading there. and that demonstrates the outsized presence of hispa...

For president of the united states, when you have already several women and younger candidates sort of already there. ploys to elevate to the top of this. so theres a question of, whats the road here? >> thats exactly right. there is a younger, more vibrant democratic field out there and almost all in the pretty hard, progressive lane. bernie sanders, looks older than he is. comes across like a 90-year-old professor of socialist poetry in a community college or something. >> dont knock that comm...