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In, some american electoral politics ways, it is jarring to see the guy from the bernie sanders campaign caught up in the manafort case brought by the special counsel, right? but its not actually a huge surprise if you have been following the evidence in that case and if you know something about manaforts history. up through 2012, we have known that tad devine like paul manafort, he did do overseas political consulting work in ukraine. he worked alongside manafort. and tad devines name is all ov...

Strategist todd divine will be a witness for the prosecution in the federal criminal case against trump campaign chairman paul manafort. or if hes not going to actually appear at trial as a witness, he now says he is they know prosecutors in rob muellers office in their case against paul manafort. his consulting firm putting out this statement. the special counsel has asked tad devine to assist in the prosecution of the case against paul manafort regarding his firms media consulting on past poli...

Trump campaign digital media director on "60 minutes" a couple weeks ago. so they beat hillary clinton on facebook? wow. >> first of all, they spent a lot more money on advertising in wis was, in michigan and pennsylvania than the clinton campaign did. they targeted a lot of ads there. this digital debate if youre going to run ads online. i make an ad for television. i have to put who paid for it. and the federal race, the candidate has to say that they approve the ad. that takes a precious four...

Endorsing a single payer health care plan. there are 155 million americans get health care from employers and theyre happy with it. so i think thats a nonstarter. >> final word. >> well, i would say listen, i think the audience out there for that message is much larger than the audience thats going to listen to trickle down economics from the republicans. you know, and we need someone credible to deliver it. i think bernie would have beat trump like a drum in the general election if he had the o...

Really cant go to the well because hes dried up the well during the time hes there. thats the danger that if something bad happens, we could have civil unrest and turmoil in america. hes the cause of it. >> george will, do you recognize the republican party today? >> there are two of them. again, one is shrinking and the other is growing so it appears. that is the bannon wing seems to be growing a bit. the traditional republicans are trying to figure out how or if to try and live with had other ...

The star-studded lineup included a performance by pop star lady gaga. i love this picture. she posed with the presidents backstage and she apparently also gained a new fan in president george h.w. bush who tweeted that he would gladly have joined her on stage for a duet. i would pay good money to see that or any one of the other former presidents he mentions in that tweet. joining me are tad devine, democratic strategist and george will, columnist and msnbc contributor. gentlemen, thank you so m...

Demonstration of that. they understand that we need a serious and impartial investigation of this. that this threatens democracy itself in america. i think thats an issue. and i think health care is about to be an issue as well where the democrats are going to win the war in terms of message. you know, look at whats happened in terms of perception of obamacare. the affordable care act. its gone from heavily negative to now net positive. i think people understand whats at stake now. so i think th...

Point, the benefit. youve now introduced 20 million people to insurance that theyve never had before. and this is particularly important for the 134 million or so children in a that are in the system. the question for parents, what does this now look like for my child if youre planning to replace it? so the replace argument, while it is a good sound byte and people ra ra around it, now comes home with roost for a lot of republicans because you have the senate, you have the house, and you have th...

The line on my legacy, well, the problem is, mr. president, the people dont support that legacy on health care as you just showed in the polling. and that enough of this has been the undermining and the underpinning of obamacare. >> and tad devine, i wonder, looking back at the last six and a half years and we played president obama from just after this was passed. and wasnt just president obama who was saying this. every major democrat was saying look, the politics of this were rough in terms o...

Implementi am implemented of whats getting done. >> last night, tad devine, a top strategist, he defended the new chairman of the dnc, saying that donna brazil did not give a question to cnn. it was the controversial yesterday. bernie sanders is saying time to look forward and unite together and defeat donald trump. >> they see a consolidation - consolidation -- his policy positions that were adopted by her really being pushed through with this type of release. it gives him kind of what he needs...