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Mom. ♪ we are more than a year away from the first contest of the 2020 presidential and campaign former vice president joe biden is lead ago crowded field in a new poll. >> iowa is the first state in the nominating process and ryan

Jeff sessions. expanding beyond his recusal. it is the latest accusation of disloyalty even though the role is to leave the justice department not serve as the presidents personal lawyer. he wanted the attorney general but he came very strongly. he went through the nominating process. he was mixed up and confused. people that worked for him for a long time in the senate were not nice to him. it was a rough time for him. all of this as the president visited north and south carolina today. >> to a...

>> miss haspel, why did you think about withdrawing your nomination on friday? >> there is senator joe manchin and cia director nominee gina haspel. looks like their meeting went pretty well. we should also tell you that the president has just tweeted. he says he is going to make his announcement on the iran deal i believe tomorrow. i will be announcing my decision on the iran deal tomorrow from the white house at 2:00 p.m. be sure to tune in to our hour here at msnbc. we were expecting a decisi...

Democratization of the process that have led the grassroots campaigns of mcgovern and carter needed to be reined in it so wouldnt put up anymore losing candidates. they gave the party leaders a bigger voice by making them superdelegates, hundreds of them. they were a bulwark for hillary clinton. their job, the whole idea, you didnt want to get some candidates on the fringes stealing the nomination and leading to a landslide defeat. they did what they were supposed to do, protected hillary clinto...

Democratization of the process that have led the grassroots campaigns of mcgovern and carter needed to be reined in it so wouldnt put up anymore losing candidates. they gave the party leaders a bigger voice by making them superdelegates, hundreds of them. they were a bulwark for hillary clinton. their job, the whole idea, you didnt want to get some candidates on the fringes stealing the nomination and leading to a landslide defeat. they did what they were supposed to do, protected hillary clinto...

Barack obama did, they can run back in spite of the losses they suffered. i dont think it is a powerful case. i suspect that is what the thinking may be. >> martha: when you go back and dissected more, you pointed this out, the anger that was filed by bernie sanders supporters over this whole super delicate issue, hillary had locked up most superdelegates before people got a chance to vote. they thought they debbie wasserman schultz was helping her. as you point out, brit, that may be a dangerou...

Candidate of the left who stirs the kind of passion that barack obama did, they can run back in spite of the losses they suffered. i dont think it is a powerful case. i suspect that is what the thinking may be. >> martha: when you go back and dissected more, you pointed this out, the anger that was filed by bernie sanders supporters over this whole super delicate issue, hillary had locked up most superdelegates before people got a chance to vote. they thought they debbie wasserman schultz was he...

If he doesnt do that, the nominating process is set up in such a way that its entirely plausible you could have several candidates with significant numbers of delegates but not enough to win on the floor. that would set up this so-called contested convention. while it is in many ways unlikely, its more likely than its been in decades and from the rncs perspective, if you have a convention where you have a presumptive nominee, they take over. and if there were an event where you had multiple cand...

Than they do about this asymmetric threat to our way of life. than they do about this asemitic >> let me ask you about the state of the race. trump remains on top. i know hes been a thorn in the side of a lot of the other candidates, but theres been talk that maybe there will be a brokered convention or people wont support the winner of the nominating process. i dont see you in that camp. if you dont win, youll support the winner. how do you, but more importantly, how do you see a path to victor...

Than the asemitic threat of the way of life. >> let me ask you about the race. donald trump remains on top. he has been a thorn in the side of a lot of candidates. there has been talk maybe people wont support the winner of the nominating process. i dont see you in that camp. if you dont win you will support the winner. more importantly how do you see a path to victory to yourself 7 weeks out of iowa? >> first of all dont think donald trump is going to win the nomination. i dont think what he is...