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When we ran the presidential campaign in 1999, he wanted to talk about immigration and embracing our southern neighbors in a very compassionate way. and even though our pollsters said thats trouble, thats kind of a third rail, he said, i dont care, i care about this issue, and i want to do something about it. i thought about this just before the show came on, i realized that was 1999. so this is 20 years later. thats a third of my life that weve been talking about this issue as a policy and have...

Was his forward-leaning embrace on the immigration issue. when we ran the presidential campaign in 1999, he wanted to talk about immigration and embracing our southern neighbors in a very compassionate way. and even though our pollsters said thats trouble, thats kind of a third rail, he said, i dont care, i care about this issue, and i want to do something about it. i thought about this just before the show came on, i realized that was 1999. so this is 20 years later. thats a third of my life th...

Think his age works for him. >> yeah, i mean one of the interesting things is that young versus old divide and the social attack coming from the republicans. but i want to pick back up on the question about whether or not democratic voters are demanding a woman president. one thing that im picking up and it is almost a third rail that is hard to talk about. but there are some people who, when you talk to them privately, they think that hillary clinton moved that a woman could not beat donald tru...

Trumps campaign. havent passed a single piece of priority legislation. >> do they need to pass anything new or just protect their turf. >> they want to do both. they thought with a republican president in congress they would be able to pass legislation to line the pockets of gun manufacturers. i can tell you when we show up at statehouses, its dozens and hundreds of mom volunteers and one nra lobbyist. >> gun safety was front and center in the midterms. we didnt see it in the last presidential e...

The court hasnt yet said whether it will take that case or not and its been debating it for weeks now. much more modest provision in los angelo louisiana is stit -- still waiting for a decision. the supreme court said it was never attacked as an undue burdens on a womans right to choose. the court seemed to be seeing were not getting into that fundamental question about roe. the undo burden test is the key to whether roe v wade will stand or not some of these really harsh restrictions in the sta...

These records could end up in the hands of lawmakers within seven days. >> and the judge went so far as to cite watergate as far as congresss duty to investigate which is a huge precedent and a huge third rail of politicians. >> reporter: it is. the judge goes through history citing not just watergate but the whitewater and the tea pot dome scandal as saying that congress does have this authority as a co-equal branch of government. im going to read a line from his opinion where he says that hist...

>> reporter: thats right. so there was an agreement that they would not turn over the records until seven days after the judges initial opinion. the judge is saying that because he does not believe that this case would win on the merits, that he would not grant this stay pending appeal. now it is possible that an appeals court could step in in the meantime and say that they will stay it, but at this point these records could end up in the hands of lawmakers within seven days. >> and the judge we...

He has evolved over the years. whos still edge a e, not quite as controversial as he used to be. the thing is was black face ever acceptable or are we looking at 1994, things in the 90s through a 2019 lens? >> i mean he knew by using black face he was being ogfenceival. that was lot of what he did and maybe does to a lesser extent now but he was putting his hand on the third rail. i dont think -- to even try to get hum to apologize it for it, thats what he does. you look at somebody pg offensive...

Nowhere near the one point five the germany said its going to achieve and of course we are nowhere near the two point two percent that germany set by twenty twenty four and this isnt a terrible signal and quite honestly no i dont think that the berlin establishment really realizes how badly that reflects. the dynamic ive been seeing is is intriguing to me if i want to test it on you i believe that for the last few years since then president gallup gave a speech at the munich security conference ...

Juliette, quick final word. it depends also on the motive, right? he could have not asked for a subpoena because he knew he wasnt going to get one. >> i think thats right. so why wouldnt mueller have done that? it is because the ultimate question about what happens to the president, lets just put it very bluntly, is not muellers to decide. and he never wanted to decide it. hes not going to get -- you know, the third rail is going to be owned by congress, not by mueller. and that, you know, depen...