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I dont even know. sometimes making visuals for tv is hard. on a normal day in normal politics. therefore, pity the poor television producers who are going to have -- presidential campaign this year who are going to have to show pictures look like this, all of the viable presidential candidates and potential presidential candidates on the republican side, all the folks who have real support or real name recognition or real experi necessary are the serious republican contenders, 22 in all, enough ...

General election campaign that mitt romney ran. but the party believes they had a flawed process in 2012 that led to choosing their nominee and that hurt the republican partys chances overall of beating president obama no matter who they chose. specifically, they think they had too many debates in 2012. the republican primary in 2012 involved almost two dozen debates. 23 debates by most counts.. and they started really early. the first major republican primary debate for the 2012 election was fo...

Candidate, one metric the party is considering using for who gets in the debate and who doesnt is money, fund-raising. which maybe is practical politics in terms of who might have a chance of getting into the white house, but it seems somehow fundamentally wrong that the literal size of your campaign bank account will determine whether or not people are allowed to consider you as a candidate for public office. running for president is a process that has always been very democratic and a little

And if that process is under way right now, what are they considering for whittling the process. jim miller is reporting on this subject. its knight nice to have you on the program tonight. thanks for having me. thank you for having me. >> am i wrong that kanye west is running? >> its news to me. were at 22 running, so 23? why not? >> how about what factors theyre considering for this short-term, difficult problem theyve got about who gets to be in the debates? >> the obviously one is polling fo...

So its important, right, that anyone with any perceived viability gets to be seen in the process. right? gets into the debate. sometimes that results in very large debates, right? you dont want ole savior and princess kadija in there. thats like you couldnt get lar daly. if you have to stretch to nine, 10, 11 12 candidates so you can get ron paul and dennis kucinich and jim gilmore and all these guys in there, basically, the tendency has been to do it right? thats how our system works. err on th...

>> the president of the united states from the roosevelt room releasing those comments about the situation in baltimore just moments ago, saying that these officers, all six who have been charged, at least one seriously charged, with second-degree murder, they also deserve their due process, that they also are entitled to the rule of law. also saying that the new department of justice head, the attorney general loretta lynch involved speaking regularly with officials in baltimore to help with th...

Caution everybody this is the beginning of a process. we did witness history in one respect and that is so often these things happen and nothing happens. and i think its sending -- and we witnessed history, our children, they went out there and protests for the most part peacefully. but they had to protest in order to get here. and they -- and this creates a faith in them. i mean, i had a young man that said to me last night, a 16-year-old, 16 years old, he said, congressman, i love you, but i f...

Since this incident. >> so cedric alexander, you know, just bouncing off what lisa says, the police union has already written an open letter to the states attorney here, marilyn mosby, saying they want an independent prosecutor to take over. they want a special independent investigation and prosecutor to helm this process from here on in because clearly there is a disconnect and divide between the narrative of the police and prosecutor? >> thats pretty much expected from any police union across ...

Did they see this man who was a mothers child? did they see this man who was was just trying to get through life? did they see him as a human being. i have come here today to thank god. >> thank god. >> that marilyn mosby and her team saw him, saw him. the process has started. thats the main thing, the process has started. so many people in the neighborhoods that you have been filming over the last few days, i think somebody said it earlier, mr. thomas i think said it, theyve never seen a victor...

Over yet, ashleigh. well kind of let a photo journalist jordan show you whats going on here. and ill toss it back to you. >> brian, i dont know if you can still hear me but i wanted to ask you a question, the police union representing those officers, has sent an open letter to the states attorney, to marilyn mosby, effectively asking her to instead appoint an independent prosecutor to take over this process. im going to read a short portion of this letter. it said, not one of the officers involv...