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Stable people object to so much. >> bret: how much of this foreign policy and how he is dealing with it do you think will play in 2020 as we get ready to go through this democratic primary process? >> anna: it is clearly on the minds of voters. i think it is definitely on the minds of capitol hill and senators who are very, i think, about what the president is doing with iran, north korea. you will see that play out more and more on capitol hill and hearings in trying to get a handle what the pr...

And this is not surprising at all. those who are engaging in the day to remember, this is a president accused of being crazy, committed treason and by mainstream democratic voices day in and day out for over two years. so i dont think anyone would find this all that surprising what we have seen in the past. on the substance though, i think joe biden has a lot to answer for on obama administration policy for eight years. there is really not a win 2.2 and especially out of iran nuclear deal and di...

Secretary clinton kind of pulled back a little bit after that and maybe was a little bit more aware and hesitant of how she was coming across. is this good politics. i can say definitively to that, yes, i was at the rally when she made those comments and there was a group of democratic woman voters in front of me and they all looked at each other and nodded, uh-huh. theres not a woman out there, republican or democrat, who hasnt in the professional world experienced different standards for decor...

Progressives in the u.s. senate, he announced he was backing her. senator brown joins us now. thank you so much for joining us on this big news day. >> good to be with you, thank. >> what was in your thinking in making this decision between -- i dont know if youre in the middle of these two, but youre pretty close to probably senator sanders, but also, youre a pretty regular democrat, too. and hes not a democrat. hes a socialist. how did your thinking come to be today in this endorsement? >> wel...

To get republicans to back more spending, throw in a lot of defense spending. their hawkish impulses are aroused. and they say they dont like government spending, except on defense, on the pentagon. so, isnt this the same old smarmy deal. more spending for the right wing, more spending for the left wing, covered up by some gimmick that you say raises revenues through so-called reform gadgetry, and in the end, down the road, it never actually happens. youre shaking your head, liz, because youve b...

>> heidi, heres a question for bernie sanders in his 70s, he has to now adjust to a battle between the sexes, if you will, that becomes cartoonish, perhaps. he has to learn how to come out and say words hes always said in a way that doesnt carry that extra angle of jrnd. >> and i think we see this across issues, chris. i was at the dnc event in the morning, where clinton first made her remarks, and he spoke before her, and i was kind of struck by the fact that he didnt adjust his talking points,...

Is doing now in the obama administration, making sure supervisory people making 30,000, 40,000 a year should be eligible for overtime. all those issues are such a part of mainstream democratic politics, and frankly, mainstream america. and i dont see that much difference between the two of them. regardless of what bernie has called himself over the years, or what hillary has called herself. i think they both have -- speak to the great american tradition of democrat -- solid democratic policies o...

>> that may possibly be true. and when off package that you put together that hikes spending by $80 billion, that is one of the reasons why some democrats may get more comfortable with it than some republicans. at the end of the day, there are some republicans who like ryan will be going away and taking a very close look at this. because if you look at the comment that came from senator rob portman today, his point is that its not a great deal and looks like it doesnt deal with some of the funda...

Are talked to the fact theres going to be increased spending for defense but increased spending for programs that democrats care about on the domestic front, and another way to look at this, quite frankly is it shows that although they probably will not get a large majority of the republicans to vote for this, bipartisanship can happen on the hill. this is -- this democrats to the american public that if they really want to do something, they can put their heads to do it and get it done and get ...