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A brand new national poll has senator joe biden and explore elizabeth warren in a tie for first place just one day before their first appearance together on the national stage. biden and warren both have 26% among registered voters. bernie sanders comes in third now at 16%. but that poll is an outlier. the real clear politics average has biden with an 11-point lead. garrett haake is in his home state of texas where the debate will take place in 36 hours. joe bidens advisers are pushing back on t...

Pompeo had a much better read on how to handle the president. bolton pushed, john, and i suspect on this one he pushed one bridge too far. >> to that point, pompeo has been able to disagree with the president without being disagreeable. john bolton definitely sees the president more often. maybe that prickly nature became too much. back to kaitlan collins at the white house. kaitlan, what do you know? >> the president just made brief statements on the firing of john bolton as well as john sanche...

Of the threats that we face, but the personal relationship between the president and the national security adviser is important. i think that the view that there is some public discussions about bolton being on the other side of the taliban probably was a bridge too far. but the bottom line is i appreciate what john bolton had done and now the president can pick a national security adviser he has more confidence in. >> more of a milquetoast answer from senator graham. he was asked if he wanted t...

Case because the presidents diverging from him on all of these policy issues specifically iran. and when it came to -- so youve seen him disagree and not only that, but somehow it is always out there what his views are and that they differ from what the president is moving toward. it was known he didnt agree with -- >> somehow it is out there. >> and yet you have a president saying that he wants to meet with the president of iran or he would with no pre-conditions. that is a far cry from where j...

Down prescription drug prices and also particularly for those of us with children and grandchildren who are more and more concerned everyday about the proliferation of gun violence in this statement across the country. people like my opponent ship roy who are voting against universal background checks and against assault weapon bans and red flag laws and against the renewal of womens act because the nra wanted to see that vote because it was closing the boyfriend loophole. these republican membe...

Important that they prepare him for that. >> let me turn to someone i think was on one of those trips, deanna hoskins in the front row, formerly incarcerated, now youve dedicated your life to policy issues. i asked about low-ranging fruit. what do you think can change in the near term? >> so when we actually look at what happens in germany, the fact that individuals are seen as humans. so when you start making policies for the individuals that youre talking about and you see them as humans, you ...

Trumps national team has reached an all-time low and is leading to all-out hostility. the deep rift centers on john bolton and the staffers he leads on the national security council and secretary of state mike pompeo. the friction apparently so strong that sources say the two men have had stretches of going weeks without even talking to one another. this internal squabble adding to a mounting sense of confusion about the trump administrations foreign policy priorities. gloria borger is cnns chie...

That map is the day the hurricane became a hurricane, eight days ago. it was four days old at the time he said alabama could be hit harder. then, it was fake news defined on a very serious subject. this morning, another statement. what i said is accurate. it wasnt and it isnt. president trump and senator joe manchin met to discuss the range of possible gun-related policy issues. they have long urged such legislation. their own bill failed to pass the senate back in 2016. confirming he and trum...

Steps that strengthen their love for israel. im not so sure it works with american jews though. chris: julie, karl talked in the first segment when we were talking about what the president needs to get reelected, one of the things he talked about was college-educated women and republican suburbs. when the president seems to stoke these divisions whether talking about the squad or about jews being disloyal or baltimore congressman elijiah cummings, how does that play in the republican suburbs amo...

Really what there, his support to me has always felt sort of a mile wide, but not very deep. as other candidates continue to define the candidacies hes going to come back to earth and if thats the case may be is the scott walker or jeb bush in 2020. >> bret: on policy issues, obviously elizabeth warren and bernie sanders track together. on the issue of trade, take a listen. >> you do not make trade policy by announcing today that youre going to raise tariffs by x percent and the next day by y pe...