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Side. he took a lot of incoming fire last night. starting with the question from cnbcs john harwood who asked if his campaign is a comic book version. that is a tough question. trump said that is not very nice, but he answered the question and pivoted to his message and he stayed on message instead of going on a tangent. he did not level personal attacks to other candidates. he did go after john kasich. it came after he was attacked and he went after him on policy grounds on the fact he was a le...

The deductibility of state and local taxes. those of us living in new york city and california and high tax states, thats not going to be a popular perhaps there. i guessat hes not going to win those electoralo states, kim? >> i dont think he was necessarily planning to anyway. but this is immensely important. you can see c when you lock at hillary clinton and bernie sanders, this was going to be their main theme. and what hes doing making the argument that, you know, republicans if they had any...

Local taxes off your federal taxes. those of us living in new york and california in high-tax states, thats not going to be popular perhaps there. i guess hes not going to win those electoral states, kim? >> i dont think he was ever necessarily planning to anyway. but this is immensely important because this has been -- you can see when you look at hillary clinton and bernie sanders, this was going to be their main theme, and what hes doing, making the argument that, you know, republicans, if th...

And we reject. we reject racism. we reject the sort of invidious personal attacks that youre talking about. and we stand on policy grounds. and if you -- if the reason youre supporting this position or you want to join with us is because you dont like the presidents color or you want to say nasty things about personalities on the right or whatever, then we dont want you. should make that clear. >> i think thats a fantastic point. make it about policy. got a problem with health care? talk about h...

Administration seems like it does a lot of things, not to say that other administrations dont have executive orders and havent done executive orders, but it seems like they have done a lot of things unilaterally without congress. >> often in the name of enforcement discretion, and it will be interesting when next theres a republican president, the capital gains tax is just not in the national interest and im not going to collect it, im just not going to enforce that provision of the law. this ar...

Interested, and she asked this in her journals. why was the governor so interested in this development project? the connection thats drawn through these documents, the chairman of the port authority, his law firm represents the developer, all of this stuff. the argument the christie administration could make, the unemployment rate is high -- >> on policy grounds, this is a policy decision, had nothing to do with david sampson or enriching some private developer. on policy grounds, we want to see...

Bothered by policy grounds on the mention of god and tried to transform their opposition to political objection. >> even if somebody can argue technically on legal grounds they can strip-away this money for this group the sheriff says this is helping kids potentially can get in trouble and give them something positive to do. the doj has been battered of late tracking reporters and doing all kinds of things. why this decision? do you think they think about the pr side of it? >> its a very strange...

You by nearly 3-1, that is an unsurvivable situation for a national party. that is a disaster. now one way to try to fix that is to try to change what you look like to latino voters on policy grounds. try to erase the republican i hate immigrants party image that you have earned through the careers of steve king and tom tancredo and pat buchanan and joe arpaio and jan brewer. the anti-immigrant image of the party. try to change that by trying to get at least some of your party to support centris...

Are on policy that latinos care about, but having that many millions of americans voting against you as a bloc, having the nations fastest growing minority group voting against you by nearly 3-1, that is an unsurvivable situation for a national party. that is a disaster. now one way to try to fix that is to try to change what you look like to latino voters on policy grounds. try to erase the republican i hate immigrants party image that you have earned through the careers of steve king and tom t...

Vicious attacks that we saw against susan rice. it was completely uncalled for. there were reasons to oppose her on policy grounds. the republicans pretty much stuck to that, and i agree with kirsten. if this hadnt been joined by the left, she wouldnt have had to withdraw. jon: judy miller and kirsten powers, our news watch panel, thank you. >> thank you. jenna: any moment now out of newtown, connecticut, we expect to hear from state and local officials about what transpired at sandy hook elemen...