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you can see the piece on the bottom of it. that is the piece that gathers the intelligence for this what loan. weve known about this being in the skies over our country illegally for several days at least. some say going back months. so far, we have not done anything to impede this balloon from collecting surveillance over the country even though its of clear violation of u.s. airspace. no word from the president of the united states at 3:00 eastern time. weve known about this since la...

♪ ♪ howard: whos hunter bidens own voice played in a delaware courtroom that plumed the depths of his past addiction. the media are giving the trial heavy cover act as they should, but with no one coming out to talk to reporters, it feels very remoteful but its an undeniably tawdry tale with lurid testimony from the widow of beau biden who became romantically involved with hunter after her husbands death. the argument in this trial boils down to this seemingly semantic question, wh...

Chinese surveillance balloon that is crossing our country right now? >> no, im not surprised for two reasons. its pretty clear the white house doesnt have a good answer or a strategy on how to confront china about this. clearly theres questions that you were raising before about why it wasnt just shot down over montana. thats number 1. number 2, the poll evidence you cited which shows on every issue the president is getting negative ratings and discussing anything other than the good economic ne...

Jewish voters support democrats. look at numbers, ap nrc came out, 36 percentage for trump, he remains in this range ahead of the election. if youre sitting in the west wing looking at this, are you worried? >> the more recent polls have been a little lower than they have been generally speaking, lower 40s, mid-40s. if hes low, mid-40s, thats something an incumbent president can win re-election, especially if he drags his opponent down with him. like in 2016 will be the name of the game. he slip...

Is the governing wing and part of it is represented by john mccain. remember his work on the gang of eight congressional reform legislation, then you have bottom bombastic agg rirks eaggrieved wing. donald trump is speaking and once he gets on that debate stage, it remains to be seen the kind of impact he will have on the republican party. >> just quickly here on the "today" show, he said he was leading in a poll in nevada amongst hispanic voters. it was an obscure, very small poll, but thats hi...

Like the new mayor. >> all this comes -- washington aspect as the president and congressional democrats are going to make their own new push or renewed push on income inequality and it may be a vote tomorrow in the u.s. senate to extend those unemployment benefits which lapsed right after christmas for three months. theres also talk about raising the minimum wage. chuck, do you see this as good policy? good politics? or both? >> well, im pretty sure -- excuse me, at least as far as talking about...

Like the new mayor. >> all this comes -- washington aspect as the president and congressional democrats are going to make their own new push or renewed push on income inequality and it may be a vote tomorrow in the u.s. senate to extend those unemployment benefits which lapsed right after christmas for three months. theres also talk about raising the minimum wage. chuck, do you see this as good policy? good politics? or both? >> well, im pretty sure -- excuse me, at least as far as talking about...

>> well, i think the poll evidence is very clear that theyve hurt the party. the tea party has gotten less favorable. theyre perceived as intransient and the republican partys own negatives are going up and the democratic support and the generic vote is going up. so yes. the tea party has not really stood on principle. theyve been divided and their caucus is divided and the net result is that the democrats are benefitting. >> gregg: you know what, cal, maybe the real losers are the folks who hav...

Settlements for talks to begin. and i dont think there is any suggestion from netanyahu, the prime ministers office, or anybody serious here connected to power that the israelis are in the business of even considering that. >> and, john, very quickly, speaking of polls and popularity, president obama, his highest popularity ratings yet among israelis according to a new poll i thought i saw. >> thats right, you did. i think just over half of israelis judged his speech at the u.n. to be pro israel...

They -- president obama owns the trend. had it been a good trend he would get credit. i dont understand how in the world blaming bush, after you you do that, how he can do that >> heres the thing, you are right when you say it is very tough to turn the economy around in the next five or six months. very tough to get unemployment below 8%. unlikely to happen. looking at the poll evidence theres still a sense that bush rather than the democrats creating the mess we are in. blaming him for our econ...