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Particularly in south carolina. if you look at some of the polls, the former vice president joe biden is by far the front runner. you can also see polls that show a majority of african-americans pla particularly saying theyre open to changing their mind. we havent had a debate yet. i think theres a lot of room for them to kind of introduce themselves how they want. youve seen in the last few days, a lot of them coming out with platforms, different policies that might appeal to those in south car...

Of other things we talked about, where people were civil and today you cant get anything done, and the question people have asked all week long is these are the good old days when things were civil. for whom? maybe the good old days for some people, certainly white people, but i dont know what african-american will look back on those days and say, thats when things were civil and things got done to my benefit, they were not. i think there are a number of problems that have to do with temperament...

Really introducing themselves to a major american audience, so they dont want it necessarily to be a contrast piece because they fundamentally need voters to understand who they are. i think it becomes a bigger issue and i think its why you see them focusing on issues, for example, the hyde amendment that will be specific to that primary oddsiance and theyre deciding who their candidate will be, but maybe less relevant come the general. >> jonathan, youve got obviously a lot of people. i believe...

Happening with people i think more than ever transcends policy issues, that weve got to get this guy out. and i think thats whats going to drive voters. so tell me why senator klobuchar is the best anti-trump. >> im from the heartland, hes not. >> are you making fun of my city? >> there you go, im someone that my mom was a teacher, my dad a newspaper man. the first woman elected in my state. i got into politics because of something bad that happened when our daughter was born. she was sick and t...

Impeachment is arguably the best track he has to winning re-election. you can paint yourself as the victim, but the president himself, though, is sort of growing sla growing very antsy about that. >> he has to hope that balances out -- >> you know this guy. by the way by calling the trump criminal investigations doesnt mean you get to impeachment if you dont want to, but this guy is the simple communicator. its a versus b. once you give him impeachment theres no longer discussion about all these...

Not know right from wrong. >> a i threw out a strategy. i said impeachment is the branding problem, its a word. i said call it the trump criminal investigations, everything tie it all together, donald trump beat, drum beat. but even the reaction to the new trump dirt thing, not like this is the next of impeachment. one more criminal thing to look at, are you kind of feeling that strategy out there? >> thats sort of the strategy the leadership wants to take, although i do think speaker pelosi wil...

And background and how they talk. and not just, like, in terms of buttigieg being a road scholar but because their message is so different trump is about re-claiming the past and they have different ways of looking at the issues and certainly the military service is part of it too. the white house is very intrigued by him. hes pretty dismissive of most of these opponents and possibly joe biden. hes got enlightening there. >> the donny deutsch story of not taking the presidents bait, they should ...

Also a failed strategy. if you dont mind me saying so and ill take you back to the 90s the republicans tried to landslide bill clinton on character issues and defects in his character and it didnt work. >> theres a difference between a moral issue and infidelity and lying about it versus an out-and-out criminal behavior, assaults on our basic democratic norms. >> what i think is so interesting is how the 2020 candidates are handling it, right? so you look at warren. part of the reason shes makin...

Right. when i look at you and see the package i say, wow, you can carry the midwest. centrist, progressive, not too progressive. some great kitchen table issues in terms of opioids, in terms of prescription drugs. you have a great anti-trump demeanor. have i got the klobuchar caucus right? >> pretty much so. but i would say i would call myself a proven progressive because youve got to make progress if you want to be a progressive. and so a lot of my work has been getting results. and ive passed ...

And when we violate that over and over, we create a problem for the coarseness of our culture. thats not good. >> lets talk some more issues then, okay? listen, i agree with you on that last statement. lets stick to some policy issues. the president talked about helping farmers by cutting regulations and he also talked about his renegotiated trade deals and how it impacted iowa. watch this. >> weve got the usmca, its going to be fantastic. we got to get it approved. you got to call those democra...