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That road -- and by the way, i have been in a wine cave. its pretty cool. gong down that road is not useful for voters. voters dont care. do they care how youre raising your money? i think that weighs on some voters, but the purity test that people are trying to place on pete buttigieg is not only not fair but impractical. we cant beat donald trump with small donors alone. i know my twitter is going to blow up, but simply believing we can raise $27,000 at a time and beat the war chest of preside...

Says know more about why president trump withheld this aid to ukraine, he wants that agreement up front. so what we dont know yet is whether any witnesses will be called. any witnesses will cross that threshold, on their way to the senate floor. thats the big question. and of course, that determines how long the senate trial will last. >> youre talking about witnesses and you talk about leverage, there is new polling out overnight that shows a majority of americans, a slim majority, but a majori...

Often than not for the senate impeachment trials and that comes right before the critical weeks leading up to the iowa caucuses, where many people here will be making that final decision of who theyre going to support, and come out and caucus for in early february. >> impeachment touching everything here. you mentioned buttigieg. after the debate, vox wrote they thought the winners from the debate were senator klobuchar and biden and they thought buttigieg came out as a loser as they say he fail...

Playing the debate. close to happy hour, 5:30, 6:00, having dinner, not paying attention to whats going on. that changed and the mood changed with it once the votes started to come up and people did start to look at the tvs. >> were the tvs -- what channels were on? two on espn in the lobby bar, but one on fox news and other on cnn. it was interesting to watch. once these votes came in and they reached the threshold on the two articles of impeachment there was a kind of mood change, mood shift i...

Were a trial in a court of law you would be dismissed from the jury because you come into it with a prior bias. >> i hear you. im a daughter of a litigator. ive been in many courtrooms, but its not a courtroom. its an apparent political process. >> it is a trial. >> i hear you. trust me. all senators take the oath to be in impartial. i wonder what its going to take. if you were speaker pelosi, what would be your threshold for feeling like its fair enough to send over the articles? mcconnell is n...

Questioning and really can they meet the threshold that they set for themselves when they get to the senate floor. i would not be surprised to see the senate adjourned as soon as they do present the articles if they wait too long and the senate when it comes to impeachment, that could actually be a dismissal unlike a legal proceeding in a state level. >> neil: one way or the other if it goes beyond the time when invasion and come i dont know and im not here to debate whetr democrats or republica...

You need donors, if you can pay for facebook ads and ask people to give a dollar, become a unique new contributor to the campaign. its also not very hard to pump tens of millions of dollars into the des moines tv market in cedar rapids and manchester, new hampshire, and really artificially lift up your polling numbers right around when you need to to hit the threshold for those debates. if you have those resources. and then you have the other part of it which is that, yeah, too oftentimes, big m...

Evaluate these thresholds that were put in place because one thing you see is that folks can basically buy their way onto the debate stage. its not that hard to rack up contributions up to 200,000. you need donors, if you can pay for facebook ads and ask people to give a dollar, become a unique new contributor to the campaign. its also not very hard to pump tens of millions of dollars into the des moines tv market in cedar rapids and manchester, new hampshire, and really artificially lift up you...

Stage, going to corybooker.com at record levels. i feel more confidence than ever that thats our pathway. >> they just announced, the dnc, the threshold for the january debate. and thats going to be in des moines. and the threshold now is at least 5% in at least four polls and 7% support in two single state polls or 225 -- and 225,000 unique donors. thats a real stretch for you, youve been polling at about 2%. how do you catch up? >> weve started clocking at 4% in polls the last couple of weeks,...

Delegates and return power to the people, to the work we did in creating the democratic primary process that was more inclusive than ever before with a grass roots fund-raising threshold to the debate stage, giving people with the hem of folks like you allowing for town hall meetings people have gotten unprecedented opportunities to make their views heard and their case to the american people. now were 45 days away from the first voting and i feel proud of the work were doing. and were going to ...