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Today, we are standing on the shoulders of people who have come before us who have fought for us, who have suffered for us. >> david, there cant be much these candidates havent said or something similar like what we just heard before. how do they stand out? 19 are there this weekend. >> yeah, its such a good question. i actually think this brand-new poll of ours indicates the challenge here. its tough to break out. the great majority of these candidates dont even crack 5% in this poll. only five...

Democrats out there across the country who do make up the bulk of the primary electorate. i think a speech like this probably accentuates the division over him within the primary electorate. i would agree with you that i think he probably has a ceiling. i think his drop of 9 points from last month to this month in this iowa poll probably reminds us of that, that his ceiling is somewhere -- in most states, not all states by my means but in many states somewhere in the 15 to 20% range. i should no...

From not only democrats from -- but also republicans. but i think this is a matter of the president trying to remove the possibility of a massive unforced error in terms of damaging the economy, damaging the stock market, that is why he got so much pushback on it. >> and mike, it does appear to be an unforced error welcome back -- error within the party and how much does this expose a rift between trump and the republican party. >> reporter: the republican party now is the trump party. and it is...

Unique donors. i want to bring in my panel. emily tish sussman and from the center for american progress and evan mcmullin a former cia operative and 2016 independent presidential candidate. welcome to both of you. emily i ill start with you, the deadline to qualify for the first debate is on wednesday and only a handful of candidates will miss out. the dnc, as you know, has doubled the threshold for the third and fourth debate. are these thresholds fair? >> its good and its bad. it is good beca...

Threshold to so many donors may not be good is because campaigns need to very quickly rejigger their budgets. they need to put a lot of money very quick lie into making sure they are hitting that x number of donors to bring them in which is significantly more than they had before which means that -- that is taking money out of the budgets, they may have put into field. speaking to people directly, increasing press operations. so by putting so much money into digital trying to acquire, ive heard ...

Monday. mexico says they have agreed to deploy thousands of troops throughout their country including its border to deal with migrants coming through mexico to get to the u.s. theyve agreed to take decisive actions to disrupt smuggling organizations and have said migrants caught crossing the border illegally could be sent back to mexico where they would be permitted to wait while their asylum claims could be adjudicated. for its part, the u.s. agreed to accelerate the asylum process. president t...

Launching a process of democratization in china. for all attempts at reform would be suppressed for a very long time. to think. after a decade of economic liberalization chinese students were assumptive to foreign ideas and they were galvanized by the democratic reforms underway in the communist countries of eastern europe and asia as had been the call gorbachev when the soviet leader arrived in beijing for a state visit he saw made of 15000 if you know in the world was on the threshold of a new...

Donors and polling support to make the debate. so lets talk about this threshold. does it strike you as a fair one? >> well, i mean if youre steve bullock it doesnt, but its not just bullock, if a poll comes out in the next week and bullock is at 1% he can be in the debate. if that happens, if he qualifies through this fundraising criteria, that would make it 21 cap dat candidates. the dnc said 20 is the cap. if there is more than 20, that will tastart a series of tie breakers. they get into pol...

Building a war, tariffs on mexico, even though republicans who traditionally have been free traders are saying dont do tariffs, dont punish a trading partner and a neighbor, but thats falling on deaf ears. >> this is not the irs time weve seen republican lawmakers at least some of them say this is a step too far. that said weve often seen them back away or not meet the threshold to override a presidential veto as they did on the national emergency declaration. is this an issue where the gop join...

You believe there is, that the president may have committed a crime, wouldnt the appropriate venue at least right now be for examining that evidence as part of a formal impeachment inquiry? >> i think, certainly, examining the evidence is what were doing and thats appropriate. it doesnt have to be in the context of an impeachment inquiry yet. there are those who have argued that we should have an impeachment inquiry because it evaluate ours status in various district courts. i oppose that logic,...