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Health care to republican governors, for heaven sakes. i dont think thats a good deal for america. i think its a risky deal. and it could hurt more than help a lot of families. >> reporter: now the sanders campaign taking issue with that characterization. they say its an oversimplification of bernie sanders health care plan, that his plan wouldnt necessarily put medicare and medicaid in the hands of governors. still, kate, bottom line, we are seeing the lines of attack really sharpen between the...

About bill clinton maybe because we felt he took enough heat. he was impeached. as trump reminds he was disbarred and all of that stuff. he can claim that is all justification for him bringing him back. >> there are people and then democrats. the democrats are likely to be pretty defensive of and understanding of bill clinton at this point. that is not the reason why donald trump did what he did. it is great in republican primaries to bad mouth the clintons. you cannot do it enough. it saves don...

The issues that he cares most about or that he is most deeply connected to, which is economic instability to shows issues. its not impossible, but it has to be done with care and artfully. >> and this guy knows what the nuclear triad is. he hes worked a lot on foreign policy issues. but his cause has been economic insecurity and inequality.e he policy issues. but his cause has been economic insecurity and inequality. hes policy issues. but his cause has been economic insecurity and inequality.he...

Them. its the vender that screwed up and then the bernie sanders campaign that sat down and looked at the pachbti ipanties,. >> if hillary had done this, wed be talk about this for the next three weeks. >> lets talk about tonights debate. one of the issues here is that bernie sanders has been sort of knocked off his stride. hes going into this debate a lot of people thinking hes been off message, especially because terrorism and international issues have taken over the conversation as opposed to...

Keep the government funded and if so, what issues are worth risking a government shutdown? >> if question had leadership you wouldnt have to talk about a shutdown and one of the things im so disappointed with the republicans is that we have a budget and then they go to sleep for two years. they dont do anything. and they start talking about it just before the budget comes up. it doesnt work that way. >> are there policy issues that you would shut down the government over? >> i dont want to say a...

In terms of whether it was successful, he did not offer policy issues. it is unclear the public is wary of what is going on right now. he did not offer anything new. we will see if that calmed anyone down. >> the white house saying we have a strategy and it will work. republicans running for president saying this is nothing new and this president doesnt get it. lets listen to what marco rubio said last night about this. >> he announced nothing new other than we need gun control. it would have do...

Well. and he said this is now an fbi investigation. not being controlled by the locals and then it turned to the policy issues. you didnt hear there at the very end i did ask the president whether this, this issue of guns in america is the most frustrating thing that hes had to deal with in his tenure as president. and he chose not to answer that question, but while he was talking there, he said we cant just leave this up to the professionals. we need to search ourselves and make it harder for p...

Rubio and chris christie. is donald trump doing the right things to get you on policy issues? were not talking about policy issues with donald trump. were talking about a theater of show of events of, you know, this is how i deal with things and the exciting tmz part of the campaign trail. i think thats where he gets himself in trouble moving forward. he may have maxed out his base. he may not be able to add many more votes to the numbers. >> ben ferguson, jeffrey lord, we have to leave it there...

>> carl cameron, live for us in new hampshire, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> lets down now to "the wall street journal" and glen hall. the republicans think some people need to get out. is anybody getting out? >> were not seeing a lot of that yet. to be fair, its early in the cycle. typically in a presidential cycle, january is a cutoff point, then march after super tuesday and some hanging on until june. right now theyre trying to figure out which way is the party going to lean? >> im mor...

Convictions. there is a huge diversity of though in the republican party when it comes to a lot of policy issues. theres so, so many. i think that as voters were getting the ability to see the stark contrast and what theyre offering. >> a clash between rand paul and donald trump. things got heated. did they stick to the facts? a reality check ahead. . its a fact. kind of like ordering wine equals pretending to know wine. pinot noir, which means peanut of the night. plan well and enjoy life... �...