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Turned in for one republican senator today. it was a surprise because were still a month from the deadline, and they got all the signatures together and got them in a month early. if the wisconsin state senator republican recall efforts succeed, recall elections for state senators in wisconsin wont be held in november, they will be held sooner than that. recall elections start six tuesdays after the signatures on the recall petitions are verified, so they could be held in the next couple months....

The situation seems to be that the police and the army here have restored security to that area right now. >> nick, whatever security is restored there, its going to be tenuous. this is a country that has had tension for some time, different than that in egypt. a lot of it has been sectarian. you have the shiite population, influences of saudi arabia and iran that thought of bahrain as a state. an iranian state at one point. where are these tensions lying now? the government may have things unde...

A state. an iranian state at one point. where are these tensions lying now? the government may have things under control but does this feel like a sectarian proxy battle going on? >> it doesnt feel like a proxy battle just yet. the dynamic is still evolving here. i was talking to a government official who is not allowed to go on camera, go on the record either and speak his mind. what he was telling me was that the government is shocked by what has happened and meetings are going on late into th...

And in 20 years seeing a totally different form of government throughout the middle east? >> i think we are beginning to see the end of the monarchies as executive rulers and what you are going to probably see i will predict in bahrain and other places is monarchies that are reigning monarchs and stay out of the business of executive governance. the prime minister probably in bahrain not a member of the royal family down the road. and the government will not be appointed necessarily by the king ...

Arabia. >> much of the at least is a proxy battle between the saw-american side and the iranian-syrian-hezbollah side. the nationalists and the iran n iranians with them and lebanon, iraq, bahrain, almost all proxy bot battles and the united states has been losing so i think people have to wake up and come to grips with this new reality. democracy is good for americans. arabs, americans, iranians, israelis. everybody benefit ice what affect if any do these protest movements have on the power of ...

Supreme court. seems pretty straightforward but will her no, maam nax become a political proxy battle anyway? ♪

Elena kagans path seems pretty straightforward but will her political nomination become a proxy battle anyway.

Results in last nights primary contest will be viewed as the ultimate proxy battle for 2020 nationwide. as that clip indicates, this is going to be a knockdown, dragout fight between two candidates who essentially are the ultimate proxies for the national party bases, because they forged their campaigns with national trump focused messages. its all happening in a at a time that is the ultimate proxy for presidential politics, florida, florida, florida. republican voters picked the trump endorsed...

>> reporter: this is shaping up to be a true proxy battle between donald trump and senator sanders and happening in the nations largest blue state. this is going to be one of the biggest races nationwide. >> bill nelson and rick scott as well. thank you very much. a scandal erupting today 24 hours after the party nominees were locked in. there is intense back lash but the progressive candidates firing back, but he has serious questions of his own about an fbi corruption investigation. it henry h...

Im talking about the florida gubernatorial race that you have between republican ron desantis and democrat andrew gillum. already this fight is off to a nasty start just as youd expect from a proxy battle for 2020 in the trump era. on day one of this contest desantis made comments attacking gillum and gillum and his supporters are calling a racial dog whistle. >> the last thing we need to do is to monkey this up by trying to embrace a socialist agenda with huge tax increases and bankrupting the ...