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Our first look at hillary clinton. hiking in chappaqua, new york, when she came upon hillary and president clinton doing the exact same thing. secretary clinton looked wonderful. looking ahead at the democratic partys future, the key leader of the progressive wing senator elizabeth warren said there might be wiggle room from the trump administration on key policy issues. take a listen. >> donald trump has said he wants to raise the minimum wage, right? donald trump has talked about family leave....

But if you build a bubble, then as a campaign strategy, its not just riding the news, he basically went out and said this is what this thing means. take my word for it. and it turns out if you believe the fbi by sunday, thats not what it means. it was not a smoking gun. >> 650,000 e-mails, according to the reports. most of those e-mails were duplicates of e-mails theyve already reviewed. so this is something we knew within hours of that letter coming out. this is a mistake the trump campaign cou...

I like to bake cookies. i like to be out working in the political arena. think most women are not pigeon holed. we have responsibilities as mothers and wives and daughters. we also have responsibilities for most women to also provide a salary to support the family. so i think -- i hope that long gone are the days when people -- women are pigeonholed in that way. >> i want to ask you about kelly ayotte. really staked out a lot of policy issues. shes now in a neck and neck race against hasan, the ...

Their sub identities. >> i mean part of what has interested us is looking at donald trump not as a person who steps in and creates a new republican party, but actually looking at how the republican party got to this point where donald trump would be their nominee, and theres roots to this. theres different groups that have been coming into the party, different ideas that have been shaping the party for the last 20 years. in some ways you could predict donald trump. not totally, hes unique and di...

Year. thats why you should vote for me. >> thats also the rhythm of it campaign. you almost never know at the beginning what youre going to end up with at the end. one of the things hillary clinton did early on in this campaign was talk about what were considered womens issues. child care, families, equal pay. people accused her of playing the woman card. donald trump walked right into this, right? this is his own behavior. the lack of research on himself or whatever it is. this has been the thi...

Emphatically -- its possible -- its possible that -- fill in the blank. look at op-eds that youre talking about. people with no idea whats going on on both sides doing nothing but speculating. >> theres no doubt about it. i dont know many more facts than i did starting from friday. and theres three things going on here. we have the policy issues. the legal issues. and the political issues. and all three of them are pretty much different from one another and some of them are going to take a while...

First 100 days in office if he is elected as president of the united states. the republican nominee held a rally in gettysburg, pennsylvania on saturday. it was the site of a famous address for abraham lincoln. he urged voters to follow president lincolns example and heal visions within the united states. policy issues from immigration and reforming -- he also slammed democratic rival hillary clinton and threatened to sue every woman who has accused him of sexual misconduct. >> every woman when ...

Deal with it publicly because he has to try to put an end to it. in another respect though he has to deal with the fact that he needs to talk about other issues, he needs to talk about policy issues, he needs to try to move beyond it. so this is a very tough spot for donald trump to be in, and not only her but all of the other women who made allegations against him. >> bob, melania trump spoke out yesterday, tried to contain the damage from these allegation also of sexual assault and groping. he...

She engages in the debate and the way donald trump does that shes prepared and hes not. this is someone that wants to be leader of the free world, what they do, you brush up on the policy issues, you think them through, you talk them through with your key supporters and advisers, and you put the policy around in your head. what donald trump does, he just speaks, he doesnt have any real policy commitment, he doesnt really have a command of the issues and that comes out very clearly in the debates...

Party, he doesnt care. >> doesnt care. and what threat do you holdover his head? youre going to take the nomination away from him? no, youre not, because the rules only allow that to happen if he dies or resigns. is your running mate, youre going to convince your running mate -- his running mate to step down? no. mike pence has a political future and hes kind of stuck where he is. theres not a whole lot that the party can do at this point except to cajole, plead and hope that donald trump sort o...