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Viewed by most policy experts as the over-arching environmental threat of our time. climate change. and this president has, has sort of been extraordinary, viewed as an extraordinary figure around the world in rolling back u.s. policy on climate change and withdrawing the u.s. from the global climate change accord. so what did he talk about? he talked about kind of a grab bag of smaller policy issues. he talked about the epas work on cleaning up super fund sites. industrial hazardous waste sites...

Created an open public forum, then you cannot discriminate. you cant block people. >> it has become a social media star, certainly to her benefit to stir things up and draw attention to things she wants to highlight, policy issues and otherwise. the miami herald in an opinion piece ruled persuasively trump cant block critics into to come even if donald trump is classified as an official presidential platform the supreme court held government speech doesnt create a public forum. otherwise trumps ...

Pelosi has one job. as they see it, alexandria ocasio-cortez and her three colleagues have a totally different job that has nothing to do with what shes talking about. shes rights if your goal is to move legislation through, to get it through a very fractious process and across the finish line, you have to -- democrats have to be unified, they cant be sniping at each other and tweeting at each other and calling each other child abusers. but, on the other hand, these four women consider themselve...

Kamala is really good at winning the moment. she did it against brett kavanaugh, bill barr and joe biden but needs a way to sustain that motion. >> i think this time, shes dealing with opponents in the primaries and someone who can continue to go on the offense against policy issues. as i said, state rights against federal government. if she stays on the offensive which distinguishes herself from some of the others, she can turn that into a movement. when you do a stand alone announcement, thats...

Anyone -- had told me in a recent interview, you know, hes the reason why were talking about some of those policy issues, medicare for all, et cetera. how is the campaign, you know, trying to get their footing back underneath them? >> you hit that point, kasie. there are so many more options for voters in this election with so many candidates there. thats why you have senator sanders focused on contacting as many voters as he can. hes in the middle of a three-day swing through the state of iowa ...

Detention system has been placed on deterrence in the clinton administration. there was a document put out preference through detearence. theyve known from the bush administration into the obama administration and now with the trump administration worse than ever before was always forcing people to take more danger option and deadly routes into this country. and the conditions they were housed in, once in detention, were never meant for people to stay over 72 hours. we have seen stuff like this ...

>> betsy, how much of this has trickled down to what alex was saying that people show up and do what the nra asked them to do? are they starting to get nervous? >> look. its hard to see how far its trickled out. and theres a lot of skepticism with the mainstream media. they view the reporters who cover these issues as generally hostile to what they care about. as far as an audience, its more skeptical. at the same time, of course, its frustrating board members. alan west who is a conservative fa...

51% majority agenda in america? >> the biggest challenge for democrats right now is that there are so many candidates and not a lot of daylight between them on these policy issues. we have seen them try to be out crazy the other one in order to get noticed and attention in the crowded primary field, but hillary clinton pushing the party to the left, i think what puts a party to the left is the fact that they saw an establishment a candidate like hillary clinton lives, the dnc essentially backer ...

Hold if she can weather the storm of an intense background with her stance on all sorts of things as a prosecutor. ive talked to some democratic consultants who say theres going to be a number of front-runners going forward. right now, joe biden was seen as the person leading the pack. kamala harris i should also say are on the rise. i think what were going to look at, whether or not after people learn more about senator harris background including all of her criminal justice issues and her stan...

Agenda? >> i think the biggest challenge is there so many candidates and theres not a lot of daylight between them on this policy issues, so thats why weve seen them try to be -- out-crazy the other one essentially to try to get noted in attention in his crowded primary field but without hillary clinton pushing the price to the left, i think what pushed the party to the left was the fact they saw an establishment candidate like hillary clinton lose. he saw the dnc essentially backer over bernie ...