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The hyde amendment is something that has had general support over the years. here is a poll from 2016. while a majority of democratic voters believe that medicaid funds should be allowed to pay for abortions, 55% of democrats said yes, 37% said no, among all voters, this has been a majority issue the other way, 58% against it, 36% said no. but boy, it allowed every other democrat to basically say look, im not joe biden. >> because this is a different context in which were having this conversatio...

Thats what democrats, some of them purposely are getting misinformed. >> if you add something like you can have medicare for all, it might effect private insurance or effect the medicare system, services may be slower, harder to come by, suddenly numbers plummet. looking at it as a majority issue is something that democrats should be more careful of the bernie sanders and elizabeth warrens of the world. >> i feel like the democratic party, as much as social media democrats are leading everybody ...

Mark: jim jordan, immigration is a big issue. but not to majority in the house. but still to the madge fee in mn senate, i assume nothing will come out of house of representatives of democrats to secure the border, they want to change the nature of of the electorate and vote or, turn some purple states blue and red states purple. is there anything that can be done in house or anything that senate can do. >> also a majority issue for majority of the nation it is a big issue. i think it is tough b...

Mark: jim jordan, immigration is a big issue. but not to majority in the house. but still to the madge fee in mn senate, i assume nothing will come out of house of representatives of democrats to secure the border, they want to change the nature of of the electorate and vote or, turn some purple states blue and red states purple. is there anything that can be done in house or anything that senate can do. >> also a majority issue for majority of the nation it is a big issue. i think it is tough b...

>> i dont know what the polling numbers show but its over 75% supported. >> common sense. >> ronald reagan, president reagan, the pillar of conservative republicism signed into law the assault rifle weapons ban. we can do this. >> background checks right now, the polls were 90% to 97%. assault style weapons bans anywhere from 67 -- theres one that had it around 50 but there was an outlier. 67% to 75%. its a majority issue for americans. >> the numbers are going to just grow as these events keep ...

Ethnicity or nationality or religion --. to do so is a damaging step for america to take. and it damage ours credibility around the world. >> would you include 80-year-old christian women in the potential terrorist ring. we have to be somewhat intelligence and narrow it down. there are 1.6 million -- >> -- i presume hes talk about the indonesia. which has had its own issue but that would give them cover to say oh its not just muslim majority issue. one of the issues ear is whether its slippery s...

Drinking age from 21 to 18 we saw the carnage on the roads thafr and in the middle 1980s raised the drinking age back up as a measure. marijuanas not as dangerous as drinking and driving, but this is social learning and putting of limits on that experiment in colorado and washington. >> i wonder too what you make of kentucky because the story of the gay marriage debate in this country you know over the last decade has been -- it went from being a fringe issue to something that if you take a poll...

Colleague wolf blitzer early last week. heres what she said when asked how many children will be sent home? >> we believe a majority are unlikely to qualify for humanitarian relief. >> how do you define majority and ultimately, in the sense of majority, is that half plus one or is it 50%, is it 60%? that would not satisfy the right and ultimately is it in the next weeks or months and years down the road. as a footnote the "l.a. times" did great research in fiscal year 2013, 20,805 unaccompanied ...

Tomorrow -- >> millions more in medicaid, millions more young people covered. >> this is true. >> i talked to an historian who said more people are being touched by this at this point in history than social security was this far after the rollout. i think the risk for republicans, you see this enormous -- i can picture that first debate. they may all be pressured into a position that may look out of an unrealistic by 2016. 2014 is something we see two general elections -- we saw 12 where healt...

Rural states. >> mccaskill. >> from missouri. jonathan has pointed out on other shows on this network the fact that for a young republicans that its now a majority issue. so this is not, as i say, the train that left the station. we will get to the point 20 years from now, gay marriage will be legal in 50 states and if the court does go in the moderate direction, as i said, it will be a triumph for marriage rights and i think the question is not when. not whether any more, but when this will sim...