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hello and welcome to "inside politics." im john king in washington. thank you for sharing another very busy news day with us. on notice, six more lenders get put on a watch list following the bank intervengs. new inflation numbers today make the challenge even more complicated. the inflation playbook says raise them again. plus the anterior of reagan no more. gop presidential hopeful ron desantis says russias assault on ukraine and its democracy is not a vital u.s. interest. its a flip...

>> i think the answer from a lot of the republican candidates would be so what? this is a party that doesnt care about that stuff in the same way. or at least thats what it looks like on the surface right now. one of the big questions about this race, for years now, the lewdest voices in the republican party have been say whag we hear from donald trump. thats not our rob. its a territorial dispute. i am old enough to remember when this was a solidly hawkish party and an underdog candidate, john ...

Officer in too many instances. and in too many instances its unsafe to be black. >> reverend, the mayor of new york city and also a presidential candidate if an underdog candidate, bill de blasio didnt really take a stand whether or not this police officer shouldve lost his job or not. >> i think that by city charter he could not interview. >> but you can voice your opinion. >> my opinion is that had he interfered, they would then be able to say this was all politics what, theyre saying anyway. ...

Our democracy. so these times require bold leadership, activist leaderships, leaderships that will cause movements. because a vote in congress cannot defeat the hate coming out of the white house, only a movement can. thats how ive governed -- >> let me just ask you, were running out of time and i want to get one more question in. i know the former massachusetts governor, as well as the congressional black caucus. they endorsed your opponent in a district thats nearly 60% minority. why do you th...

And forth. who is ahead by how much but tough to predict who turns out in an off year election. >> bill: peter doocy, arlington, virginia there. >> sandra: all right. thank you, bill. joining us for more on this is james freeman assistant editor of you heard us talking over bill, these polls just out. what do you make of them? >> you are seeing a tightening race. what we saw from gillespie a few years ago when he was running for senate. underdog candidate, a great closer. thats what you are seei...

Under the scenario you laid out where hillary clinton has an advantage in the states like south carolina, the sec primary states that have many more minorities, its a much more diverse population, she is much stronger and probably will end up beating bernie sanders. that means the democratic race goes into march, april, maybe into may. thats not somewhere where democrats want to be. >> nick, if these numbers continue and there is, you know, iowa and new hampshire does give the advantage to senat...

Up, because jack ryan took his wife gerry ryan to a sex club, she didnt lake it, divorced him, he had to drop out, next up, state senator obama is facing alan keys, who i would give myself a good shot against, so then hes running unopposed, becomes the golden senator and ultimately becomes president. in this case, could you see weiner kind of falling to the wayside, thompson and quinn, and then you end up with bill thompson. weird things have happened. >> this is the irony of, you brush aside al...

Several elections with the rise of ted cruz for senate who was the underdog candidate who came to beat the incumbent lieutenant governor through a grassroots movement. texas is interesting and i say that julian and joaquin are rising stars regardless of their party. they are excellent examples of the true politicians in kind of public leaders you get out of texas. the reason we are different is we are one of the last batches of conservative democrats. you have pro-trade, not open word but strong...

All right, folks. the wait is over. finally -- it only took eight months and 22 days and 59 guest co-hosts. crazy. well find out who will officially permanently replace regis philbin on "live with kelly" later today. she will be on "good morning america" today. tune in for that. probably not going to reveal it until -- >> looks look you. >> yeah. yeah. right. yes, regis left the show in november. today well find out who it is. she will walk out on that stage and, boom, finally all the speculatio...

Is there any clear indication as to who came out on top this morning? >> as we have been discussing before. a lot of candidates battling it out for second place, but this morning they did not reserve any right not to attack mitt romney. what was particularly interesting was the underdog candidate, jon huntsman has had a lot of trouble getting his message out, and today he got a little piece of time and capitalized on it, i think he came out as somebody who took most advantage of todays debate. h...