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Its higher than boston, denver or detroit. its also about whos in those unions. get this. half of the 55,000 member las vegas culinary union are latinos. put that, plus the calendar makes nevada even more significant for democrats among the early nominating states, nevada has a higher union percentage than even iowa or new hampshire. which stand at about half -- about 12.5 and 11.5% respectively. among the crucial swing states, florida, ohio, colorado, virginia, nevada has the highest representa...

Across the state lines. expand health care saving accounts. we would let small business owners make a tax-free contribution in an attempt to restore private insurance and get away from the big government. despite this being top gop priority and more than 50 attempts to repeal it most of them dont have a plan but trump and rubio do. >> hillary clinton is front and center tonight. under fire for flip-flopping not just once but on a number of hot button issues. will that hurt her campaign? he will ...

Turned and if it set up their own private e-mail servers. >> this committee was set up as they have admitted for the purpose of making a partisan political issue out of the deaths of four americans. i would have never done that. if i were president and there were republicans or democrats who were thinking about that, i would have done everything to shut it down. >> clinton is scheduled to testify before the committee investigating benghazi later this month. a lot of hot button issues on tap fo...

Idea politically, especially because shes kept bill clinton far from the campaign trail. this week hes doing a fund-raiser for her in chicago. thats the first one hes done. the only appearance he made was at roosevelt island a couple of months back when she relaunched the campaign. all very curious. remember the context. it came in this very soft interview with "extra" where again these doing these kinds of interviews to deal with whats been a real slide in the polls. >> hillarys message to surv...

Because shes kept bill clinton far from the campaign trail. this week hes doing a fund-raiser for her in chicago. thats the first one hes done. the only appearance he made was at roosevelt island a couple of months back when she relaunched the campaign. all very curious. remember the context. it came in this very soft interview with "extra" where again these doing these kinds of interviews to deal with whats been a real slide in the polls. >> hillarys message to survivors of sexual assault not g...

Oppose him and democrats walk away, it would throw the chamber into chaos. his allies note his job is complicated by running a house with a democrat president and insist they have the speakers back. >> we shouldnt force our leaders to look, you know, behind their back every minute of the day and we need to let them do their job. hes doing as good of a job as he can. he has a tough job. >> reporter: and house democratic leaders are critical of boehner on budget issues saying there should be negot...

>> all right. casey hunt, stay with us here because we want to play an extended portion of donald trump with chuck todd. trump goes on the record with a variety of hot button issues, the mexican border, lgbt rights, and, yep, even the presidents birth certificate. lets listen. >> let me go through some grab bags. what launched our relationship, shall we say, was back four years ago. do you believe president obama is a citizen who was born in the united states? >> i dont like talking about it any...

On the republicans as they face-off in their first debate. there are ten of them on the big stage. then you have the earlier debate as well. how are they prepping? we have people joining us live to pick your that out. we have patty solis dolan here. fill us in, patty, on the kind of people the candidates gather around them and the mock debating that goes on and the policy prep. how does it work? >> well, you know, normally ive been involved in the prep with hillary clinton. normally, we have wee...

People. >> this morning on fox and friends trump defended what he said. take a listen. >> i would say if you watch the piece that nothing was said wrong, absolutely nothing. all you have to do is watch it. when little snippets are taken out, half sentences -- and ill tell you what ill say it again. i took a big firestorm on immigration and now everybody is saying i was right. thats where this all started. mccain put down the people that want to stop illegal immigration. >> with well the backlash...

Is unfair. >> we have to ask where we have gone wrong so we dont repeat mistakes. are you willing to concede that the president made mistakes? >> of course, i have a difference with him on a number of issues. but the attack from the conservative side has just been relentless ever since he took the oath of office. >> i want to turn to two other hot button issues right now. first is immigration. there are thousands of children coming across the border into your home state. largely because of civil...