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Scott walker will formally announce his bid for the white house. he officially becomes the 15th candidate to enter the crowded gop field early this morning, posting this video on line. >> in the republican field, there are some who are good fighters. they havent won those battles. there are others who won elections but havent officially taken on the big fight. ive shown i can do both. now im running for president to fight and win for the american people. not sacrificing our principles. >> a cr...

The "washington post" helpfully shows, sanders has nearly as much support as a republican candidate of all combined. does he have a chance to win? joining me from the sight of sanders kickoff speech in vermont is john nichols, correspondent for "the nation." give me a sense of the scene. there was a ton of people. what struck me was, bernie sanders is familiar to people who are progressives in the u.s. you see him on this network as a gadfly. here he is in a big crowd, the cheering, the signs, t...

Organizational and fund-raising advantage, and in the current polling. which shows clinton with the support of 64% of democratic voters, and sanders at just 7% behind two democrats who appear unlikely to enter the race. now, it doesnt mean sanders doesnt have a real constituency. when you measure in terms of actual voters as this chart from the "washington post" helpfully shows, sanders has nearly as much support as a republican candidate of all combined. does he have a chance to win? joining me...

Issue of false equivalence? the idea that both sides are somehow equally to blame for the dysfunction in washington? >> i think this was a huge deal what happened here. in a couple of respects. one is, this is a real challenge straight up to the media. and hes echoing what soar people have said, tom mann in his book, its even worse than it looks argued that look, the republican party now is different from the past. you cant just say democrats have moved left and republicans have moved right. no,...

If you have to say you are pursuing policies you are not actually pursuing. if you have to deny knowledge of the policies that you are pursuing, that you are signing into law, it probably means that you dont have a good argument for those policies. which means you can only hold on to those policies and justify them through muscle, right, through pure political force. and political ends that can only be sought and held on to by pure political force are weak and vulnerable. it is not an accident t...

The policies that you are pursuing, that you are signing into law, it probably means that you dont have a good argument for those policies. which means you can only hold on to those policies and justify them through muscle, right, through pure political force. and political ends that can only be sought and held on to by pure political force are weak and vulnerable. it is not an accident that when hillary rodham clinton chose to give her first speech on policy issues since she stepped down as sec...

Record or pretend like it didnt happen when you were challenged on what you were doing. if you have to say you are pursuing policies you are not actually pursuing. if you have to deny knowledge of the policies that you are pursuing, that you are signing into law, it probably means that you dont have a good argument for those policies. which means you can only hold on to those policies and justify them through muscle, right, through pure political force. and political ends that can only be sought...

chief of staff. implying she may somehow be working on behalf of the muslim brotherhood. now, you would think to make a charge like that for sitting members of congress to make a charge like that, that they would have some actual evidence, right? you would think that. but the truth is they dont have any direct evidence. what they have are allegations of past connections of relatives of hers that are tenuous best. has called for bachmann to produce credible evidence. so bachmann produce...

ors in letters to it is inspectors general for five different government security agencies. weve been digging into one of their most serious claims. they point finger, at this woman, huma abedin, secretary of state hillary clintons deputy chief of staff. implying she may somehow be working on behalf of the muslim brotherhood. and questioning how she got a security clearance. now, you would think to make a charge like that for sitting members of congress to make a charge like that, that...

inspectors general for five different government security agencies. the last 24 hours weve been digging into one of their most serious claims. they point fingers at this woman. secretary of state hillary clintons deputy chief of staff. implying that she may be somehow working on behalf of the muslim brotherhood and questioning how she got a security clearance. you would think to make a charge like that, for sitting members of congress to make a charge like that that they would have som...