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Of color as many of my sisters have been talking about. >> reporter: publicly democrats have rallied around the four women. days after the group sparred with house speaker nancy pelosi, tensions the members downplayed today. >> that does not mean there is a fundamental fracture or eye dehumanizing going on within our caucus. >> reporter: but congressional sources tell cnn some democratic moderates are not happy with being dragged into this weeks drama and forced to defend the so-called squad who...

People animated by attacks like this. >> i think youre absolutely right about that but that worked for him in narrow margins in 2016 a victory in the electoral college and in 2018 there is not a lot of evidence that worked out well for republicans. >> does he care about other republicans? >> but at least as an open question, is this a strategy that will work beyond just that one election. weve only had one case study of this strategy for president trump and will it work again. >> i think the pre...

Resulted in the actually consequences that bernie sanders said that it should result in. so i think there is an open question and i think this is going to be joe bidens central strategy going forward. hes staking out that middle lane and if he survives the democratic primary, we will see whether hes right about the general. >> and jamal, bernie sanders accusing biden of not only lying about medicare for all but using, quote, lies straight out of the playbook of donald trump, mitch mcconnell and ...

Respond to sanders claim hes lying about medicare for all. biden either refused to comment or just flatly did not answer the question. jake. >> thanks so much. appreciate it. so abby, let me start with you. is biden lying or is there an argument to be made that medicare for all would result in the consequences that he talks about? >> there is probably an argument to be made. i think the fact of the matter is we dont really know and i think joe bidens strategy is predicated on the idea that thi...

Does that offer the clarity that a lot of people have complained harris has struggled with? >> well i think it is trying to have it both ways in some respects. one of the challenges for the major democratic cob tenders behind medicare for all is staking out on the issue of private insurance. are they eliminating the role of private insurance providers altogether and moving entirely do -- toward government-run health care or supporting a supplemental coverage and that is where the contenders have...

Reckoning with some of the ways in which they are challenging business as usual or the long-standing policy positions the party held in washington, how do they not then have that exploited by trump and republicans as a conversation that really becomes much more about race and identity rather than the underlying issues where they are trying to act as agents of change. >> there is also another open question which is how do 2020 democrats trying to run against him deal with this kind of thing which...

People not ready to reject money from health care should explain to the american people believe their campaigns are a good investment. hes trying to up the ante here and so hes saying i want medicare for all and if youre taking money from pharmaceutical companies or health insurance companies, youre basically corrupted. >> this goes back to what bernie sanders has said even in 2016, one of his central points about hillary clinton had to do with corporate influence and politics and removing money...

Defended keynesian terms that donald trump has been defending. i think that molly is right, but the real spending strata that matters long term is entitlement, without that reform, that is going to continue to grow exponentially. >> there is another side to this, and that is the obamacare question, again, the senate majority leader saying today that there is not going to be an immediate effort for another repeal and replace, lindsey graham saying, you bet we are going back at it without the mand...

Yes. p prp. >> i thought you were going to ask me an obamacare question. >> reporter: [ inaudible ]. >> well, ive already answered the question about whether or not the rapp occurred. i think devin nunez and i. but after we heard about this, we did see a number of pressure reports that made this allegation and made this suggestion. so, yeah, those brett reports -- this is something i was unaware of until we did see a few pressure point on this.

>> reporter: mr. speaker, last night on fox news, president trump suggested that his assertion that president obama wiretapped him -- >> i thought you were going to ask me an obamacare question. >> reporter: this is something the white house has had to deal with. the president suggested this was based off of press reports, his accusation is based on press reports. are you comfortable with the president making an assertion like that based off press reports and frankly, do you believe that he was ...