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The party. this is a proxy war, if you will, for the future of the democratic party and the direction it is going to go, whether it becomes simply united against donald trump or whether, as other folks have proposed especially system of the younger of the dnc members and also those running for dnc chair, have said we need to be so much more than against donald trump. we need to be for things. we are going to know a lot more about how politics in 2016, 2017 and 2018 will go in a couple of hours h...

Theyve got -- its not being driven the other way. >> charlie, this is a great point. theres a -- the idea on the right is that this is a top-down, that, you know, people are being told what to do and it really is the opposite and i think it relates to whats 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 ...

Been fantastic. the mayor of indiana has been great, very impressive. i think that what we have here are people who understand that we do need to bring the party together who are going to do what they need to do to bring the party together. and frankly, i think that this proxy war that people have been trying to put this race into is not what the candidates themselves have been focused on. they have been focused on party unity. on understanding that we have the most progressive platform weve eve...

Multi-round battle, thomas. back to you. >> the consensus has it anywhere between one to three ballots so we will wait on that. thats coming up at 11:00 a.m. sarah, thanks so much. joining me now is nile stanich and melanie from "the washington examiner." an article from the hill gives some credence to this division. what are you talking about the division, who is the person that could, i guess, stem the bleed from any of that? >> well, i mean the division is enclosurely the idea that this is ...

Chair. >> we need chairman to inspire, make sure talk to entire big tent of our party to bring us together. >> outcome could send a huge signal on where the democratic party goes from here. >> win elections and get the majority back. >> two front runners a proxy war between the standards and clinton factions of the party. in one corner tom perez served in obama and clinton administrations with the backing of establishment democrats like biden. and rolling out heads of four caucuses. other corner...

>> weve got a fight ahead of us. weve got to come together and we will -- >> enter these eight candidates battling it out to be the next chair of the democrat national committee. >> we need a dnc chairman who can inspire, who can make sure we talk to the entire big tent of our party, who can bring us together. >> that outcome could send a huge signal on where the democrat party goes from here. >> we win elections and that is how we get the majority back. >> the two front runners represent a prox...

Of our party, who can bring us together, who can invest in all of you. >> reporter: the out come could offer a huge signal on where the democratic party goes from here. >> we win elections and that is how we get the majority back. >> reporter: just look at the two front runners, becoming something of a proxy war between the sanders and clinton factions of the party. in one corner tom perez who served both the clinton and obama administrations with the backing of the establishment of democrats li...

Flynn has had somewhat of a hawkish view on iran in particular. its -- he believes that iran is playing an active role with helping the rebels in yemen civil war. what role do you think that played in authorizing this operation in terms of the world view of this administration towards iran? >> well, theres no question. its a tragedy going on in yemen. 10,000 dead, three million refugees, a humanitarian disaster. its a proxy war. saudi arabian coalition versus iranian backing. having said that, l...

Specifically cited -- i want to find the line here. they specifically cited american support for groups that suppress and murder defenseless people in the region as to their reasons for continuing, for example, the ballistic missile testing. what groups specifically are the iranians talking about, though, that america is propping up to kill innocent people in the middle east? >> i think its coded language for saying saudi arabia. and specifically saudi arabia and iran are having a proxy war all ...

And what hes been saying, hes sbn obsessed with iran and sort of pushing back on iran in this proxy war youre referring to with saudi arabia in the region. and i think we can see that this administration is laying d the groundwork in particular to get more involved in yemen. we saw the recent strike by military accounts went horribly as bad as things could go. i think well see the u.s. step up -- the trump administration start to get more involved milli militarily in yemen but they should take c...