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Taken, dating back -- leland: point, brought up by one of the smartest democrats, centrist democrat from the midwest, he said, look, this just proves that joe bidens front runner status can be held hostage, he said held hostage by planned parenthood and rallies, but all of a sudden held hostage by black moves matter, antipolice groups and antigun groups, he says biden will have a much harder time explaining those positions come the general. fair assessment? >> thats really sort of the story of 2...

Turning away asylum seekers, putting children in cages. >> joe bidens absence more problematic as its a more important primary state. the primary moved to march 3rd comes every tuesday. the hope is to make the goal is to more competitive shannon, in a nomination process. the debate is a few days away in miami. >> shannon: thank you so much. okay, progressives you saw there making the most of bidens absence taking and aim at his more moderate approach so lets bring in former bernie campaign staff...

In particular, the nomination process which he believes has gotten far too politicized so every single time there is an opening on the court have this knockout, drag out fight not helpful to accomplish the things the country needs to do. pete buttigieg supports a plan to expand the number of justices. youd have these five justices who would all be rotating from the federal appellate bench and would serve one year terms, not renewable. basically theyd be the swing vote. an idea thats actually dra...

Thats not joe bidens base and not where the energy is in the primary process. i want to go to ohio in a staged event where the media cant -- where something like this. there was a protester that ran on stage and grabbed the microphone from kamala harris during this event too. jedediah: it was a little scary. pete: he wants to move above it. how long can he do that? ed: in their story biden going it alone as a democratic 2020 frontrunner. here they say the trends though are clear. joe biden is ru...

Certainly not as a messenger which is a different tact that were seeing from barr here. he has become much more willing to sort of shade the lines now that he has jobs than he was nomination process, and, you know, what were seeing in this interview, again, is bob barr sort of sweeping view of executive power, expressing it in ways we just havent heard before, you know, is and hes also made it quite clear that hes reached the point in his career that he didnt really care what people like you and...

Because youre going state-by-state versus national. >> you summed it up well, alex. thats the key for biden. he has to do well in iowa and new hampshire, if he can. hes probably going to do well in south carolina which comes afterwards, but iowa and new hampshire, as we all know, are heavily white states, disproportionately rural, at least compared to the rest of the democratic country, and those are places where biden might not do as well as he would hope to do, and once you lose momentum, othe...

Buttigieg held a early morning press conference. four are holding events in iowa, where the nomination process begins next february. nbc road warriors ali vitali and derrick hate are out on the trail for us this holiday weekend. we will begin with you, ali, following the gillibrand campaign in mason city, iowa. talk about turnout and whether its been a good day for koccof and cupcakes. >> its a good day for coffee and cupcakes if youre in iowa falls where gillibrand was here. shes pressing this ...

Go, as high up as they lead. you only get justice and prevent future attacks on this democracy if you take that last important option and i think its time for us to do that. >> how do you push back against this notion that theres only room for either you or mayor pete buttigieg in this race? it would seem the democratic party is hungry enough for a win in 2020 for there to be room for both of you but, nonetheless, that is one of the media con strukts around your candidacy. what is your push back...

Quinnipiac poll. we dont have it up on screen, but i think the number was 68% of voters believed biden had the best chance of beating trump. and the next one down was way down in the low digits, bernie sanders. this is a consistent thing, is it not, among democratic voters in this cycle. the quality they want most from the democratic nominee is electability against trump. >> somebody that can defeat donald trump. thats the case that joe biden is making day in and day out. hes trying not to engag...

Achieved by those who have come before him. his place in the debates this summer, however, will break another barrier. pete buttigieg is gay. hes the first openly lgbtq person to make it this far in a major political partys nomination process for president. mayor pete buttigieg will add to the diversity when he joins the other candidates this summer on the democratic partys debate stage. heres what he said this morning on msnbc. >> i think whats most important right now is the kind of person who...