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Celebrations or the birther, and he can find out this information from a phone call. its a distraction to the committees. >> it would take all about a few hours, quite frankly, for jason to find out if this happened at all. and donald trump could find out right away, and it would take one telephone acall, and everything we have heard from intelligence officials in high-ranking spots, they said it never happened. >> and jeff sessions refused himself into the ties between trumps campaign and russi...

Several provinces where al qaeda has been known to congregate and take advantage of the lawlessness and vacuum that has been created by the war in yemen. >> and this war has been going on and on there and there has been criticism from people inside saying where is the world. what is the view there on how the u.s. is stepping up this air campaign and how it might overall affect the war? >> reporter: interesting thing about this, when you look at yemen, there are several conflicts really taking pl...

Per ez. congratulations. >> thats outgoing chair, donna. the contest turned into proxy war. in times contentious dnc member was repeatedly threaten by supporters of ellison if he backed anyone else. former president barack obama called dnc members himself to push my former labor secretary. in sign of unity, perez named ellison his deputy. >> if you came here supporting me, if youre wearing a t-shirt orr

Congratulations. >> welcome back to "hardball." that was outgoing chair donna brazile announcing the new leader of the democratic national committee over the weekend. former labor secretary tom perez, first latino leader of the democratic national committee. the contest for party chair turned into a proxy war you might see between the obama/clinton wing represented by mr. perez and the bernie sanders wing which backed keith ellison. politico reported ed meeks was reportedly threatened by support...

Democratic national committee to mr. tom perez. congratulations. >> welcome back to "hardball." that was outgoing chair donna brazile announcing the new leader of the democratic national committee over the weekend. former labor secretary tom perez, first latino leader of the democratic national committee. the contest for party chair turned into a proxy war you might see between the obama/clinton ring represented by mr. perez and the bernie sanders wing which backed keith ellison. politico report...

Pass obamacare. and the question i have is do you see the same kind of grass roots activism here? do you think this is at all equivalent to what the tea party was doing back then? >> i think theres certainly a lot of anger, and the base is activated. thats something republicans should watch, absolutely. i think the tea party stood for something, there were principles. im not sure, this seems to be more of a movement thats standing against trump instead of standing for something specifically. but...

Pass obamacare. and the question i have is do you see the same kind of grass roots activism here? do you think this is at all equivalent to what the tea party was doing back then? >> i think theres certainly a lot of anger, and the base is activated. thats something republicans should watch, absolutely. i think the tea party stood for something, there were principles. im not sure, this seems to be more of a movement thats standing against trump instead of standing for something specifically. but...

President obama was trying to pass obamacare. and the question i have is do you see the same kind of grass roots activism here? do you think this is at all equivalent to what the tea party was doing back then? >> i think theres certainly a lot of anger, and the base is activated. thats something republicans should watch, absolutely. i think the tea party stood for something, there were principles. im not sure, this seems to be more of a movement thats standing against trump instead of standing f...

>> welcome back to atlanta where the dnc will pick their new chairman in a couple of hours. the pick will speak volumes of a party currently divided about so much, including how to take on president trump. one of the bright spots for the democrats colorado and their popular governor there john hickenlooper, former mayor, joining us from d.c. where hes there for the national governors association meeting. good to see you. >> how are you? how are you doing? >> im doing well. well get to your possi...

Happening this weekend where the dnc is going to have its election to see who runs the dnc, the top two candidates as of now, tom perez, former secretary of labor, keith ellison, current congressman from minnesota. its sort of viewed in some ways as a proxy war of the bernie sanders wing of the party and the obama/clinton wing because perez is more associated with them. do you any -- i guess the question is how does that intersect with what were seeing as this groundswell of activism? >> well, f...