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To get any reasonable republicans to come to our side. there are a number of them who have occasionally sort of flurried with the truth and been on the right side of this climate change question but theres nowhere to hide now. if you are not a climate denier, then you cannot put someone who is a climate denier to head the epa. >> is this something for which you would shut down the government? >> its not coming to that because its a nomination. usually shutting down the government has to do with ...

Diversity. right now it seems weve got five white men being either nominated or considered. where is the diversity that we want and hope to see? >> thats a great question, martin. certainly weve seen presidents during their transitions in the past use the transition process and the nomination process to send signals about how inclusive their administrations will be. in 2000, george w. bush, his first pick for his cabinet was colin powell as secretary of state. part of the calculus for them was t...

For attorney general jeff sessions. typically, senators who face nomination, have a pretty easy roll into that position. do you expect there are opposition with jeff sessions on what we talked about before the break? >> i suspect. theres going to be a fight but the outcome of that fight is not seriously in doubt. if you go and look at the statements, include some democrats, joe manchin, from west virginia, for example it looks as if they have the vote if all of the republicans come together. and...

Budget and administrations initial proposals to find areas where there can be common ground. there are many. an infrastructure program and they say they wanted it. lets try to do it. returning and repatriating money from overseas and using that and both parties say they want to do it. lets give them the chance to do it. thirdly, do something in terms of a proposal about this horrific campaign spending problem that we have in our country. one of the reasons both mr. trump and senator sanders did ...

Special interests. does the republican party have a chance of finding a way to reconnect with those voters or is this a situation where they just have to cut the bait with those voters and move more towards the center, get rid of social issues and start talking about fiscal conservativism, being a little more moderate and trying to find a way to lure over democrats who havent been so excited about where their party has stood? >> look, 50% of democrats in the primary process, maybe more than 50%,...

Nomination and close to the presidency and an entire party was bullied by somebody thats not even a republican. i dont get it. >> also, he won the nomination. he won the nomination. the voters picked him. and problem for republicans, i would say, is that he has shown theres a constituency for his kind of politics in the party. its not going to go anywhere. thats the real obstacle and can there be a leader in the party. >> he starts to lose. does paul ryan say i dont endorse? how do you have any ...

Anti-immigration ad four times in an hour, totally different tone. this feels like what happens in 2008 something starts to return against her and you -- the attitude changes. i have to say, chuck, the other piece of this that being down here with republicans and in south carolina, there are a lot of people quietly starting to wonder out loud if the democratic nomination process might not suddenly last longer than the republican one. of course that is partially because the republicans here are m...

He sees as the front-runner and eventual nominee. hes beginning to the pitch as to why hes the person who is not only her worst nightmare to run against but also the person she leasts wants to run against because hes her biggest threat. well see both of these people actually have large leads among each of their bases, both of them sporting double-digit leads, trum of at 38% and hillary at 52 among democrats. obviously what hes saying there is a little hyperbole but its a shift in his strategy th...

Can get. i think whats interesting is youll hear from the clinton campaign that will say, look, we said this primary was going to be competitive. they certainly said that, but i also think it has become more competitive the iowa caucuses and the new hampshire primary than they expect ed that it woud be. it makes for an interesting final few week heres before the early contests. >> perhaps a little too close for comfort. the nbc poll did hypothetical matchups that showed how hillary clinton would...

Early contest state and maybe get momentum going into new hampshire where she really needs it. >> playing the hypothetical game, with you, my friend, what if she were to lose iowa? how does strategy shift? >> reporter: if she loses iowa with the polls in new hampshire looking as they look right now, then her uphill battle becomes even steeper. and it doesnt mean that hillary clinton couldnt still clinch the nomination, but you start seeing her needing to go through many more contests to do so ag...