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our challenge is coupled with our ability to overcome them and be anywhere else in the world. we begin tonight with the growing presidential primary fields. a former texas congressman and a former cia officer. congressman hurd represented a border district where reelection was always a tough fight. signing the so-called unity pledge and supporting the so-called nominee no matter he or she may be. what would he do if you were the president. lets find out. congressman, thank you so much ...

our challenge is coupled with our ability to overcome them and be anywhere else in the world. we begin tonight with the growing presidential primary fields. a former texas congressman and a former cia officer. congressman hurd represented a border district where reelection was always a tough fight. signing the so-called unity pledge and supporting the so-called nominee no matter he or she may be. what would he do if you were the president. lets find out. congressman, thank you so much ...

Its a privilege to work with this extraordinary team. I thank them for their constant work and love of craft. I thank you for the privilege of your time. That wraps up the hour. Andrea mitchell picks up with more news right now. Right now on Andrea Mitchell reports, Robert Menendez and his wife appeared for their arraign money and pleaded not guilty in manhattan on federal Bribery Charges. The senators grip on his seat slips with a growing majority of his democratic colleagues calling for his re...

Competitive race to have the republican nominee. is it the best issue for the other candidates to pursue? are they missing an opportunity? you all follow politics. you are experts on it. is it electability? is that the economy, china? what should the candidates be talking about that want to make this a race? >> i think electability does matter. i think when you care guys like ron desantis say, hey, weve got to stop losing. weve lost the last three elections. we need to turn that around. i think ...

Competitive race to have the republican nominee. is it the best issue for the other candidates to pursue? are they missing an opportunity? you all follow politics. you are experts on it. is it electability? is that the economy, china? what should the candidates be talking about that want to make this a race? >> i think electability does matter. i think when you care guys like ron desantis say, hey, weve got to stop losing. weve lost the last three elections. we need to turn that around. i think ...

Pragmatic decision. >> is it electability. >> i think theres electability at the top. its being met with we like what hes doing, we like what hes say, we like what we see. we like the humanity. were exhausted. i think theres that element. were just exhausted and we want somebody who we think can take him on. is he their favorite, favorite candidate? some of them say yes, but others say hes my guy. >> its interesting, too, noah, but joe bidens first presidential campaign, it was the question of p...

For a breeief moment this wk it looked like joe bidens lead over the rest of the democratic field had evaporated. remember this, there was a monmouth poll released last month, and boy did it make a splash. it showed joe biden trailing elizabeth warren and bernie sanders. a series of other polls showed him maintaining the lead. monmouth came out and conceded his polling was an outlier. biden does at least for now appear to be holding on to his front runner status despite a series of potential sel...

I believe we are going to have a candidate to fight this battle. im inspired by the people i met across the country. the climate strikers. these people give me confidence we can move ahead. im not going to be carrying the ball but well make sure somebody is. >> the democratic presidential field is a little less crowded today as jay inslee announced hes dropping out of the race. moments ago, inslee announcing hes running for a third term as governor of the state of washington. this as the party d...

When they have a lot of firsthand information about campaigns. and in florida, this is a state where people are saturated with politics, i can guarantee that you these florida republicans have been watching this whole race from iowa through south carolina but they know that they are going to play the tie-breaker role tonight and that is -- obviously on the debate tonight cab tiebreaker but the primary and that is going to make a difference to how they assess elect ability in these candidates. da...