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>> reporter: good morning, dara, yes, they do. a record turnout here today. this is the most important election in hong kong for decades and the first election since the protests began five months ago. it really is a referendum on the local government handling of those protests. pro-democracy candidates have adopted the five demands of the protesters as their policy platform and the pro-government or pro-beijing candidates blame the protesters for everything that has gone wrong over the last fiv...

With breaking news from overseas and early returns in hong kong local elections show pro democracy candidates taking a significant lead. record 2.8 million voters cast their ballots this morning making it the largest turnout for any election in the citys history. voting took place without incident in what has been the most peaceful weekend the city has seen. bill neely is in hong kong with the latest on todays record turnout. bill? >> a record turnout for the most important elections in hong kon...

With you when every day there the trip administration and the throwing some new reason to critics who say shes angling throw you out of office after for a new job. youve been elected? what is the one thing she wishes that she had seen through before >> harris: real quickly, i will ask my team to roll 2020 leaving the united nations? you dont want to miss it. all coming up on democratic senator kamala harris who went after the trump administration officials who are "the daily briefing." never ref...

In senior editor for "the atlantic" ron brownstein and cnn political commentator and senior columnist matt lewis. sanders was sidelined a while for his heart attack and the latest poll has him at 11%. his numbers are going down and not up and well behind warren and joe biden. why do you think aoc made this decision? ill go with sanders instead of maybe warren who has a similar policy platform? >> first, to echo warren. bernie sanders looks incredibly good and healthy for a 78-year-old who had a ...

To earn a livable wage, and i think its important that we focus on the infrastructure to make sewer that our cities are able to grow and the cities are getting the necessary funding and support thats needed and rural america has certainly been left belinehind. i dont know how a number of them are focused on them as much as the hot-button issues and for me, i think when we look at 2020 we want to make sure that we are inspiring voters and what i found in my campaign is it wasnt just enough to rol...

As a wife of a physician, what will happen with our system that is so competitive and so innovative if we are doing things like medicare for all? that is a real discussion we need to see play out. it is confusing to a lot of americans who havent hit that snag. >> this will be a democratic issue. >> sure. >> they will have to figure out the health care saga, whether its medicare for all or buy-in or some moderate change in health care or to build on obama. >> tie this up for us here. we started o...

Do you hold him to a higher standard because hes an elected official? how do you think about that stuff? >> i mean, thats a tough one in part because im not black and so him wearing blackface, i would actually refer to someone who has more direct experience with that form of racism. he also is an elected official. >> im tell you, people might get mad at me. to me if you did something 10 years ago, 15 years ago and it was stupid, if you apologize, then i dont care. in other words, if you care abo...

Start talking about this soon the brookings institution estimates 36 million american jobs could be compromised by automation by 2030. 11 years from now. its one of the ways you deal with it and its being used in south korea right now as one of their strategies to address this crisis. >> and i know, i know, increasing taxes and taxing more people, more entities is a big part of your policy platform and youre trying to get the message and your ideas out far and wide, but youre still mayor of new ...

Politics, she cant run on denouncing the president of the white supremacist because it does not get more supremely s white then to pass yourself off as harvard law schools first woman of color when you are not. imagine that actually with just boring, wonky politics. she -- as long as the policies are, shes actually the only person out there just saying, well, i o cant run on who i ami cant run on what i am, i cant run on what a racist to the president is so instead, ive got this policy platform ...

Horrible things that donald trump is doing. they dont need democrats to remind them of this. they want to focus on what are democrats going to do to improve my life, health care, jobs, the economy, those kitchen table issues, and democrats have got to focus on that. >> that is not what donald trump did back in 2016. he did not run on a policy platform. he ran on a platform that brought in a lot of rhetoric that people have said was racist, anti-immigrant, fear mongering in 2016. it worked for hi...