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Ideological purity that some bernie sanders supporters want to implement in the democratic party is really a manifestation of privilege. people of color who are running are for office cant abide by the purity test because the structural difficulties of running for officials. the bottom line here is you need money to win an election and if kamala harris needs to talk to some big money donors, im not opposed to that. i think that we need to give her an opportunity to shine or not shine. >> yeah. >...

Thanks for being here. the performance aspect of what donald trump is doing now has gone back to where it was in the campaign, very much directed at immigrants, the implication being immigrants of color coming in and getting on welfare. what do you make of him returning to that well? >> first of all its a year since he announced his presidency and hes back where he started in large part because he realizes he keeps losing in the white house. this fact that he has so much theatrics and chaos and ...

2016 you wrote a rather scathing op-ed for bfoxbusiness.com aime at donald trump saying unbridled demagoguery has driven the gop to an inflection point from which there is no turning back. a lot of people will read that op-ed and read the tweets you spent the weekend deleting that were pro gun control, pro action on climate change and theyll think, wow this guy is willing to suppress everything he believes in order to get close to power. what is your answer to that? >> see, thats a ridiculous wa...

Scathing op ed for fox business.com directed at donald trump saying, unbridled demagoguery has driven the gop to a point where there is no turning back. a lot of people will read that tweet and others you spent the weekend deleting, theyll think, this guy is willing to suppress everything he believes in order to get close to power. >> thats totally untrue. thats a ridiculous washington sort of narrative. thats -- number one its totally not true. number two, all im doing by deleting the tweets is...

As the concerns about what mueller has been up to, has escalated for some of the potential witnesses in these investigations. they have been approaching these committees more carefully. >> eli, theres reporting out tonight about how bob muellers team was targeted by the president and his surrogates. they immediately went after any history of political donations on behalf of any of the attorneys working on behalf of the mueller resignation which is interesting because jared and ivankas attorney i...

Committees as they tried to work it out. jared kushners testimony got delayed in the wake of reports about it. and theres been some frustration and back and forth. as the concerns about what mueller has been up to, has escalated for some of the potential witnesses in these investigations. they have been approaching these committees more carefully. >> eli, theres reporting out tonight about how bob muellers team was targeted by the president and his surrogates. they immediately went after any his...

Hunting and going to wrestling matches and so on. [applause] all that aggression they pretend they dont have they either project onto the right thing youve got it when its them and/or they acted out like alec baldwin. have you ever heard that tape of alec baldwin chewing out his ex-wife? now he gets to aim at the right. he is a very angry man. >> they want the purity test. im gay married. i not even gay. i just did it for social justice. >> it provides little cover. but thats the thing, mother j...

Hunting and going to wrestling matches and so on. [applause] all that aggression they pretend they dont have they either project onto the right thing youve got it when its them and/or they acted out like alec baldwin. have you ever heard that tape of alec baldwin chewing out his ex-wife? now he gets to aim at the right. he is a very angry man. >> they want the purity test. im gay married. i not even gay. i just did it for social justice. >> it provides little cover. but thats the thing, mother j...

Hunting and going to wrestling matches and so on. [applause] all that aggression they pretend they dont have they either project onto the right thing youve got it when its them and/or they acted out like alec baldwin. have you ever heard that tape of alec baldwin chewing out his ex-wife? now he gets to aim at the right. he is a very angry man. >> they want the purity test. im gay married. i not even gay. i just did it for social justice. >> it provides little cover. but thats the thing, mother j...

Particular, they have to work really hard to reach out and bring in young voters that were obama voters, not these necessarily direct voemocratic and bring them back in. tom perez spent his week having to backtrack on it. >> it is interesting, tom perez that is close to a purity test saying if youre a democrat you have to hold pro choice views. democrats have to work out these politics for themselves. theyre going through something the republicans have and are arguably still going through. the g...