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See there. the others meet one threshold. whats the most important thing for them to do right now on the campaign trail as they head into the debates? >> well, i think that for a lot of these candidates who arent in that upper tier, what they need to focus on is making the case to these voters that they deserve a spot on the debate stage. thats going to be their best opportunity to breakthrough this log jam of, you know, 20, 21, 23 candidates who are running. they need to be on that stage becaus...

Democratic president, barack obama, and its bernie sanders, who just ran in the election before this. so there are people who already have high name recognition among voters. so as people are tuning in, youre watching them start to pull their support away from people like bernie sanders and joe biden to people who are polling a little lower in the field like kamala harris, elizabeth warren, amy klobuchar. thats the shifting sands were working on as we go into the debate. >> all right. thank you....

The last time we spoke you cautioned against impeachment. the threshold for impeachment and the politics of the matter havent changed. >> what has changed is the facts. we now know things that we only suspected before. we know despite the lies of the attorney general whos acting as a fixer for the president, that the mueller inquiry found at least 10 or 11 instances of obstruction of justice. 950 former federal prosecutors, republicans as well as democrats, have concluded that anybody else other...

The mirurder of "the washington post" journalist, president trump tends to ignore that. >> that point were you just making, the president ignores this loophole. telling "the wall street journal" here, that it sets a dangerous precedent that future presidents can use to sell weapons without a check from congress. it seem like you agree with that. is that right? >> i do agree with that. with a system of checks and balances it is a system of checks and balances. not an existence of one authority fo...

To live in the next 100 years. thats a winner and i think its moving well right now. >> governor, ive heard the claim about these great new jobs that are going to be created with the green economy and i dont think the public feels that or touches it or sees it yet. i have no doubt that possibility is there. but youve got to -- it seems like we havent crossed that threshold yet. how do you cross that initial threshold that gets -- that gets whether its corporate america and gets the public more c...

Margin of error. buttigieg is the only one whos kind of moved up, who wasnt even asked in our october poll and up to 6%. but what we really see, people got in, the media got interested and they fell back. its been a fairly stable race despite all the news weve been hearing. >> joe biden will be thrilled to be in the mid-30s and bernie sanders will have problems if he cant get beyond 15%. keep in mind, democratic primaries, you have proportional allocation of the delegates, but have to meet a 15%...

Choke off that supply it threatens everyone not only the united states and allies. chinese as well. they are very depend denting on that oil coming from the middle east. we have to keep it open. ainsley: is iran acting just under the threshold so we dont react. >> they have been. we have tolerated it for years. get a president line in the stand and say no. brian: how is it when senator dianne feinstein walks around and has dinner with zarif their foreign minister. john kerry is giving words behi...

Should launch an impeachment inquiries." other house members not on the judiciary committee are now publicly breaking with the democrat leadership on impeachment. >> i believe we have come to the time of impeachment. think that at a certain point, this sfo no longer about politics but upholding the rule of law. >> its become all the more difficult for the democratic leadership to contain the momentum for impeachment after republican congressman justin amash in a dramatic series of tweets over th...

Less offensive but i think it meets the plain understanding of that term. >> youre saying its a crime. doesnt that fall under the category of high crimes and misdemeanors? >> it could. a lot of the contact that bob mueller out lines could meet the threshold of high crimes and misdemeanors as well as other actions that the administratimi may be contemplating. when the president talks about working with his attorney general to perhaps investigate, prosecute his political rivals, thats another high...

>> its become all the more difficult for the democratic leadership to contain the momentum for impeachment after republican congressman justin amash in a dramatic series of tweets over the weekend came out in favor of impeachment. saying in one of those tweets, "muellers report reveals that president trump engaged in specific actions and a pattern of behavior that meet the threshold for impeachment." leading off our discussion tonight is democratic congressman eric swalwell of california. he is ...