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Workings of a shrewd politician. it seems to be the workings of a one trick pony who can only do one thing and that one thing has made him the only president to never cross the 50% threshold in approval ratings. what do you think? >> yeah. its sort of -- remember the last scene of "scar face." hes up there, by himself and -- im making light of it a little bit, but you know, i dont mean to. because what hes doing to go to your point and to go to something gene said is what hes doing is absolutely...

I dont think we need to back up and pretend what were offering is not popular. i do think we need to tell the american people how were going to pay for that. during this campaign ive been very clear im going out to release my plan of what we would ask in order to pay for that. well ask wealthy corporations and individuals to pay more. were going to close loopholes and look at how we can garner revenue. in an effective way so we can provide a 21st century boost to prosperity for all americans. i ...

The ground among democratic voters that something has to be done and another threshold has been passed. >> steve, you led the campaign committee for the house democrats at one point. is she at risk losing her majority if this goes too far? >> she is the best at managing the control. i think this is more about donald trumps presidential strategy than nancy pelosis speaker strategy. what puzzles me is that the president seems to think he can get re-elected by doubling down on a 35% base. what he m...

President trumps racist tweets providing a test for twitters new stance to label and down rank tweets that break their rules on hateful conduct. the social network says the presidents latest remarks do not meet that threshold. but how is that possible? joining us now is cnn politics and technology reporter, heres what their written policy is. we prohibit targeting individuals with repeated slurs, content that tends to dehumanize, degrade or reinforce negative or harmful stereotypes about a prote...

Im skeptical about a bunch of spending this early especially on tv and other things. you have to look at some of the spending. emily had it right earlier. you care more about what you have in the bank than you do what youve already spent. and the new calendar of the democrats enacted, moving california and texas up early to right after the first four states makes money even more important than its ever been in a democratic primary. youre going to need 100 to $150 million to compete in california...

Candidate. where a lot of kpabs are spending tons of money, up to $40 a person to acquire new low-dollar donors just to be able to hit that threshold. someone like beto who has a huge massive list to call from and fund raise from, he can put money into field. but most candidates have to spend their money acquiring small-dollar donors at this point. >> it will be very interesting to see if we have, for example, say -- well, who we have on stage together in the next debate. but in september we may...

United and stay focused on the prize here because if our party doesnt stay focused on the prize, we could make mistakes and could end up throwing this presidency in his lap for what would be a disastrous second term. >> so jonathan lemire, you have been covering the president for quite some time. is claire right? is it all about the rallies? would he rather have cheering at the rallies and move beyond the 42, 43% and is that why he keeps making the inflammatory remarks, these racist remarks that...

>> iran is a year away from developing a nuclear weapon, that according to british foreign minister jeremy hunt, who gathered with european union ministers today in brussels. the goal of the meeting, find a way to keep the iran nuclear deal from crumbling. >> we think there are still some closing but small window to keep the deal alive and thats what im going to talk about. >> hunts comments, as tensions remained between britain and iran after the british seized an iranian oil tanker near the st...

Ships will be released and the back and forth statements came after iran had to seize a british tanker in the gulf last week and it led britt in to raise the security threat level for uk vessels traveling iranian waters and as britain and the united states continue to increase their military presence in the gulf, to ensure the state s passage of vessels tensions continue to rise across the room on. iran broke two key commit ams in the iran nuclear deal earlier this month after passing the irania...

Get that on the air as soon as we can. natasha chen, thank you so much. meteorologist chad myers is back with us now. so lets take a look at this. now, its still tracking about the same, even though its just lost its intensity in terms of wind power. >> its lost 5 miles per hour. so to be honest, hurricane, tropical storm, at that threshold, it really doesnt mean anything when it comes to a lack of rainfall power. the lack of rainfall, which was always the problem, is exactly the same. and we ...