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Now, can he convert that to coalition building and to vote? thats the question he has to answer. but i would say this about beto. just in terms of the labels question and also, too, thinking about whether its his time, were beyond that. your time is today. chris christie tried to wait for his time, okay? barack obama did not try to wait for his time. weve learned that your time is the time when youre called upon by the voters. its betos time. >> one of the things about that that i think is inter...

Arguing for policy issues now, the battle is over money. that story when we return. plus joe biden making a public appearance, he says his family has given him the thumbs up. does that mean hes about to officially announce he will run for president? ♪ yeah, that too. i dont want any trade minimums. yeah, i totally agree, they dont have any of those. i want to know what im paying upfront. yes, absolutely. do you just say yes to everything? hm. well i say no to kale. mm. yeah, they say if you bl...

Not talk about how bad president trump is. they just need to talk about whats good for the country. everyone knows, even those people supporting those problems he has. >> do you agree? >> first of all he has nine lives. but yes. i long believed that its not just about resisting but also about rebuilding and representing something different. what is the alternative to donald trump and i think the party is going in that direction. if you watch a lot of candidates they not talking about him every d...

Grow? >> thats right. i think that what is happening right now is we could have up to 20 candidates in the race but we want to make sure were providing a level playing field so that every candidate and their supporters feel like they got a fair shot. you know, we believe that starting the process in june, having 12 debates, 6 in 2019 and 6 in 2020 will be ample time and discussion to talk about the issues. we want these debates to focus on policy issues. we dont want them to focus on hand size l...

It and died. that shouldnt happen in our country. thats why i dont think the prescriptions that donald trump has put forward have made a difference. thats why i want to have negotiation on medicare and bring in less-expensive drugs from other countries. or you look at infrastructure, we still dont have rural broadband in major parts of this country. and i pledged on sunday, we can do this, by 2022. >> i think on the insulin, i dont think a lot of people realize how much the price of insulin has ...

Undocumented immigrants, as this tweet suggests. its frustrating to those who work on policy issues, data suggests time and time again drug problems in the u.s. are not coming from drug problems related to drug cartels. >> thank you, eugene scott, for clarifying. coming up, rush limbaugh appears to give the president the okay to sign the border comprise. others like ann coulter not so much. will the president let the right talk him out of a new deal. >> the president likes and all of a sudden ...

Nauseam? >> yeah, i think the democrats face a difficult path heading into 2020, figuring out how to handle donald trump. youre right, they won the midterms and took back the house largely by not getting into the boxing match with trump and focusing on policy issues that distinguish them from the republicans, like health care. so i think that because the democratic field is so wide open at this point, and were just seeing candidates declare their campaign, it seems like almost every day, were se...

Shes mastered both twitter and the news service. with that one-two punch, she gets more attention from any democrat aside from speaker pelosi, who has gotten a bounce of attention because of the possible government shutdown. >> she gets all kinds of attention. she snarky and makes all kinds of comments. lets talk about the impact that she is having, is she moving the party in one direction or another? are other candidates trying to keep pace with her on some of these key issues? >> sure. shes ab...

Proven guilty. can we start talking about policy issues? remember the first time we were talking about this governor was ton policy of the abortion issue, the third trimes are abortion issue. we are going into his contempt or where people of color and then now we are gone into the lieutenant governor. this is just -- it is actually criminal accusations. so they really have got to just wipe everything clean and start all over so that we can govern. >> i just want to add to what the congresswoman ...

Governor thinking he even weighed in on whether or not lieutenant governor fairfax should go. all three of them need to go. and it is not a distraction to talk about racism in this country because it is in the dna of this country. its the first thing this country was founded on. racism and bigotry and weve just got to understand that. >> congresswoman -- >> the attorney general himself call for the governor to resign when the governors blackface pictures came out. >> knowing that he had his own....