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Now and the yans arussians are that very much against us. >> your take on what daily beast is reporting this morning n addition to all of this, some of these russian groups actually stole the identity of an existing, real life muslim-american organization on facebook, and then used that to push fake narratives, narratives including one that hillary clinton funded al qaeda, that john mccain founded isis. what would be the end goal in doing that? >> yeah. again, poppy the end goal is identifying t...

Knew whom to target. is he right? >> well, i think theres some legitimacy to that. if you look at how the russians were targeting specific individuals or specific locations, it has a deep understanding around what we call a psychological operations. its a way of trying to change, you know, patterns of behaver to make it more towards, you know, a certain bias or hot button issues that are happening out there. so the russians have a very good understanding of what were doing and targeting individu...

And dccc in washington i have already had that discussion with them as well. >> the democratic party is trying to straddle a fine line with party elders often divided. >> you cant let hot button issues that work great in particular congressional districts one way or the other to be the guiding light for a national party. >> it is up to a woman to have her own right to choose the size and timing of her family. >> and that rift wydens after the call to welcome pro-life democrats into the democr...

Dont wish for their money. and dccc in washington i have already had that discussion with them as well. >> the democratic party is trying to straddle a fine line with party elders often divided. >> you cant let hot button issues that work great in particular congressional districts one way or the other to be the guiding light for a national party. >> it is up to a woman to have her own right to choose the size and timing of her family. >> and that rift wydens after the call to welcome pro-life d...

>> well first of all, i dont know who the democratic base is. its shifted. the democratic -- the segments of our party are highly differentiated. their environmentalists, they are gun owners, there are pro choice people, there are religious, fundamentalists, not many, but theyre there. even on the abortion issue, it wasnt very long ago that a number of catholic democrats were opposed to abortion. so the fact that somebody believes today what most people believed 50 years ago should not be the ba...

You cannot let hot button issues that work great one way or the other to be the guiding light for a national party that covers a very wide spectrum of belief. >> you dont believe there should be a litmus test, is there an issue or should be one for the democrats? >> it should be intelligence and has harry truman and roosevelt used to call it as a common man. running in san francisco is not like running in mobile, alabama. if you want to be of a diverse and i say ideologically, off party that ris...

Ideological. were not like a marksist party in 1910. we are big ten by the very definition. were not ideological in the european sense of what political parties used to be. even in europe now, they dont have that same ideological purity. america is not one place, you cant let hot button issues that work great in particular congressional districts one way or the other to be the guiding, the guiding light for a national party that covers a very wide spectrum of belief. >> so you dont believe there...

This politically, it was right then and there when all the television cameras, including cnn, were on him and in front of thousands. he could have done that. i honestly dont think this issue registers with most americans. good lord, i saw a poll during the campaign that said abortion didnt even register, and that used to be the hot button issue of all hot button issues. >> you dont believe this has anything to do with politics, that it just happens to come at a time when conservatives are critic...

Lender and put in at the g20 summit in germany on friday. several hot button issues could come up during those talks, including syria, and ukraine, north korea. as for russias election hacking, one senior white house official reportedly calls that a loser of a topic. some lawmakers urging the president to address whats likely to be the elephant in the room. >> a few years down the road, everything could be flipped. republican email accounts they get hacked into as americans across united on this...

>> shannon: hot button issues popping today on capitol hill. immigration and healthcare front and center. as lawmakers push to enact president trumps agenda, few road blocks in the way. we will see how they handle them. welcome to a brand new hour of americas newsroom. from new york im shannon bream. >> bill: hi shannon. we have switched cities. im bill hemmer live in washington today. the house voting on a pair of immigration bills today. one that puts fresh air on sanctuary cities. the other k...