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Run as a basic constitutional threshold and then the voters get to decide and part of what they decide on is based on our judgment. its so precarious for the people in the united states. >> still ahead, new details about michael bloomberg. and senator elizabeth warrens 2020 campaign is sounding the alarm over fund-raising dollars. those story and much more 2020 news is coming up next. y and mu0 news is coming up next - when youre volunteering, you never hear

Tom perez, the head of the dnc calling for four new polls here before january the 10th. perhaps to increase the eligibility. make it possible for more candidates to join that next debate at drake in iowa in the next month. did he talk about that today? is that something he addressed with yall? >> he did. you know, look. i mean, the fact is other campaigns have complained about this. tom steyer, cory booker. there hasnt been a real polln days. this is obviously where a lot of campaigns are focusi...

Of senators asking questions. maria: yeah. >> the senate impeachment rules prohibit any senator seeking in open session, in other words when tv cameras are on. you will not see elizabeth warren and me going 15 rounds on the senate floor. that is not allowed. were both sitting quietly at our desk. we submit questions. the questions have to be in writing. we write out the questions, hand them down. the chief justice asks questions from the senators. i think at that point were likely to recess, hav...

Articles. the first article is amorphous abuse of power. maria: yeah. >> which by the way is maladministration. literally term rejected in the constitutional convention. that is what theyre alleging. maria: right. >> that plainly doesnt meet the constitutional threshold. the second article though, is orders of magnitude weaker. so the second article is obstruction of congress. interestingly enough, people are used to obstruction of justice. maria: i never heard of obstruction of congress. ive he...

Warren, not by name but opposition to medicare for all plans that eliminate private insurance. he went after a little bit vice president biden on that iraq war vote. >> anybody thats qualified to rub, if they meet the basic constitutional threshold, then the voters get to decide. part of on what theyll decide on is based on our judgment. insurance for sure, but also judgment. and i think its certainly a question that reflects on foreign policy judgment at a time like this that is so precarious f...

Threshold. its been that way, so what has changed since the debate last week? >> well, those thresholds have increased modestly. it is now 5% in four qualifying polls, up from 4%, or 7% in two qualifying polls from the early states. thats up from 6%. also, the donor threshold has increased from $200,000 to $225,000. thats a small increase and doesnt seem likely to exclude anyone, but those polling thresholds 5% is a number that only a handful of candidates have achieved. >> right. >> you mention...

That you were the only nonwhite candidate on the stage. obviously we havent had an historic field of candidates. what do you make of where we are right now? >> well, i said it on the debate stage, our politics reflects the disposable income of our citizens. and if you have disposable income, you are in the less than 5% that donate to a campaign. so that influences the kind of people that make to the debate stage in the later months. but we expect to be the lone candidate of color unless cory joi...

Looking to make sure their records are clean and accurate, but its much more insidious. it tends to focus on areas that are democratic, that are minority, and it puts restrictions on voting that frankly we havent seen since the 1960s. >> some of this, especially when we talk about gerrymandering and talk about voter i.d.s, theres an argument that goes back and forth. felons voting, not so easy an argument. we saw at one of the town halls bernie sanders said on the spot, yeah, i think even if you...

And not one campaign objected 37 they say that they are trying to make it as fair as possible. >> and ive had absolutely no issue with the dncs thresholds throughout. they have actually been very fair and transparent like they said. i was still surprised that they elevated it for january because i thought that they wanted to give cory a path back to the stage to have more representation on the stage and the only concern i have is that they havent been running many polls in part because of the ho...

Primaries, it is not winner take all with delegates. so on it does become a math game in terms of collecting delegates. >> of course. >> you do have to hit a certain percentage though. and that next debate in iowa is in january. why not is going to host it along with the "des moines register." and now at this point you have not qualified under the dncs tougher criteria. if you dont make it in, this will be the first time you wont have been on the debate stage, what will that mean for your campai...