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Congress to hold an impeachment inquiry. >> we heard there was no collusion, no obstruction. it was the same darn conclusion. that to me was the takeaway. >> were unveiling a new cnn poll right now. it shows 43% approve of the job the president is doing, no movement at all from a month ago and virtually no change since his very first week in office. a majority still do not trump impeached and removed from office. 41% say they do. thats up by four points since april but still within the polls sam...

Screening of likely voters. they say the error margin is 3% to 4%. thats nonsense. thats sampling error. that assumes everything else, including the screening, for likely voters is 100% right. nate silver is a clerk who compiles polls. those probabilities he comes up with are meaningless because theyre no better than the inaccurate polls on which theyre based. >> so you said you have a gut feeling about donald trumps presidency. you predicted he would win it. now you have another prediction, whi...

Could find for 608 state level senator and governor races between 1998 and 2014 comparing those poll results with actual electoral results find the historical margin of error plus or minus 6 to 7 points. thats an error range of 12 to 14, not typically reported 6 or 7. expand on that, please. >> polls can be wrong for two reasons. we say, sampling error and non-sampling error. its because you sample a finite number of people and like drawing bulls from the urn. you wont see the entire population....

>> so from that same summation of your work, i, too, want to quote. im going to put it up on the screen. i thought this was remarkable. we examined -- this is part of your research, 4,221 late-campaign polls, every public poll we could find, for 608 state level presidential senate and governors races between 1998 and 2014, comparing those poll results with actual electoral results, we find the historical margin of error is plus or minus six to seven percentage points, yes, thats a error range of...

Bolduan. >> im john berman. big political news this morning, or huge in donald trump language. so, what happens when a candidate who calls himself a winner is no longer winning? for the first time in a long time, it is happening. a brand-new poll from cbs news and the new york times shows ben carson surging ahead of donald trump. carson now has a four-point lead nationwide. >> yes, thats within the sampling error. yes, its also the first time in a major national poll that carson has topped trump...