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>> reporter: important and definitely political for the president, who today likened opponents of the deal on capitol hill to ranbble rousers in iran. >> its those hard liners chanting "death to america" most opposed to the deal. theyre making common cause with the republican caucus. >> reporter: that republican caucus in the senate is 54 votes st democrats and two independents in the minority needing 67 votes to override a presidential veto gop need to flip 12 senators by september. meanwhile t...

Been fighting with one another since teddy roosevelt split with william howard taft in 1912. on thursday night, its going to be like three dimensional chess. because you have ten candidates on stage, each with their own needs, and youre going to have at least two important audiences. one audience is the republican base whose mood at the moment i think can best be described as volcanic. this debate takes place in the shadow of the planned parenthood imbruglio in washington. the republican base si...

Candidates. hes at 26% which is very impressive. but that tells me theres 74% out there who havent decided on him yet. my attitude is why dont we let them debate a few times and then well make a decision about whether he or somebody else is viable. because thats what its going to take. >> all right. quickly, george any surprises or any things you look for before tomorrow? >> i think that two candidates who have to look at this as a moment to regain some ground. one is ted cruz whos lost a lot of...

Your thoughts heading into this debate kind of the state of the republican party, looking at all of these candidates and what theyre thinking about heading into the debate. >> i think the state of the republican party is not that great. i dont think the state of the democrat party is that great, either by the way. but that said we have 17 candidates. i guess we could have 717 candidates. people are now vying for control of the republican party. so this is very very important. for me a conservati...

Institute. and obviously expanded medicaid and in some quarters here thats popular and others in the republican party its not. >> right. i think that is true that the current budget that he wrote was one of the largest we have seen. he was able to balance it. of course, we have to balance our budget in ohio because its -- by law it has to be a balanced budget. >> christie? >> this is really the perfect debate for governor kasich because he can stand up and say here we are in ohio his message is ...

Angry. yes, they are. i hear from them a lot in my twitter feed >> yes you do. they dont like me. yes. >> i get a few. >> they dont like me. at this moment theyre not caring much for you, steve. they say youre not a conservative. >> but this brings up a key point. i think the framing of this discussion about donald trump has been wrong. i mean sometimes its accurate to say just for the purposes of generalization its the establishment versus the insurgents or the nonestablishment. that doesnt rea...

I heard that before with reagan against ford and reagan against bush. we had two massive landslides. i dont know how many more times we have to nominate the person whos most electable and gets slaughtered in these elections. i think the conservative message is a broad-based, strong message. and we need to try it now and then. nobody -- if youre 45 years old or younger, youve never had an opportunity to vote for an actual conservative for president. youve voted for republicans, youve voted for es...

P.m. chief political correspondent carl cameron is here in cleveland as well tonight and tells us about a new kinder, gentler trump? >> the gop debaters arriving in cleveland and holding campaign events ahead of tomorrows debate. >> i came in early today, trying to convince lebron james to come back to miami. just wanted you to know. >> having shot to the top of the polls after calling his rivals among other things weak incompetent losers gop front running billionaire donald trump now hopes they...

Does not mean that thats what all iranians believe. in fact, its those hard liners who are most comfortable with the status quo. its those hard liners chanting "death to america" who have been most opposed to the deal. theyre making common cause with the republican caucus. >> so "death to america" brit common cause with the republican caucus. >> the problem with that is among the people calling crying "death to america" are the leaders of the country. its not as if theres just some minority rabb...

Election day, of course, for everybody in the united states because ohio is a big cross section. but, the energy here is starting to get people to pay attention in an important state. >> yeah. last time around we did our first debate in may in south carolina. so this is a little later than that but you are right its early from election day next year. gabe a big story line for you guys was your governor and the fact that he managed to get into that tenth spot. >> yeah. i credit the republican par...