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"the new york times" had a story last month about why those issues might make bernie sanders unelectable? why? the majority of americans are in sync with him on this issue. on monday "the nation" has a piece about bernie sanders stand on gun control. hillary clinton is teeing that up. there are tough questions. i would submit the corporate media has been unfair to the people of this country for too long by not giving them the full range of views that this country deserves to hear. thats what i m...

Bitter -- >> i never do but i thought it interesting. >> we agree on something. i think that bernie sanders is going to be heard from throughout the election -- >> do you think wow were just a little early dennis? he is saying what you said. >> bernie dedefers a lot of credit for stepping up at a moment when people were waiting for someone to resonate with the economic concerns of the american people. >> i think what the times he is saying moderate democrats whatever you want to call them, its v...

Race and origin of country and immigration is never going to be able to unite in a general election the independent, the broad middle. and hes unelectable. thats just my opinion. he can proof me wrong. but this kind of rhetoric may get him a base within a 12 candidate primary. he only has 11% in the cnn poll. its 11% of the republican sample. k4 is a small sample. but im saying that a general election candidate has to appeal to middle to independent voters and i dont think the positions that hes...

For israel. of course it is a tragedy for the palestinians and for stability in that part of the world. now weve got so much instability there, it almost dwarfs the arab -- the israel/palestinian conflict. theres so much else going on that is so -- that creates such instability -- isis the problems in yemen, the problems in syria, the problems in iraq the problems in libya, some of these things weve done these adventures weve embarked upon have in the onot turned out very well for us. >> i have ...

I think this is something that for us in the media particularly is funny. >> mark fisher writes in "the washington post" it is cruzs devotion to principle or its flip side an unyielding insistence on getting his way that could render him contender or unelectable. which one is it? >> i think it is both. his willingness to stand firm oftentimes that are not popular within his party makes him very popular with conserveative base voters. they see that as a marked contrast with a lot of

Or scott walker. there was more enthusiasm. in the world of journalism that used to be called news. >> reporter: students here at liberty university are required to attend todays convocation so he should be seeing a pretty large crowd. the student newspaper reported that he actually bumped virginiacall live out of this slot when he wanted to come here and make this announcement. mika? >> kasie, here we go. thank you very much. >> here we go. >> i have a question for the table here. is he the her...

>> jake, thats the key point here. the question is not whether steve scalise is racist. the question is whether staeve scalise knowingly tried to get racist votes. when youre a republican in louisiana in 2002 after a decade before david duke won the republican nomination and even in 1999, scalise was quoted as saying, while david duke was unelectable, they shared some consecutive values. once you make a commitment to the group, youre pandering to a racist element in the state. thats heavy, heavy...

The republican candidates are going to be saying and that the gop base kind of expects out of them. do that on enough issues and then you reach the general election and youre not really electable. so what youre saying is true. its had a major impact on policy and the effectiveness of institutions in washington, but i think that its over time just making the republican party more and more unelectable in presidential years. >> brian, someone we havent talked about a ton but who is likely to have a...

Which the republican party, when you look at its base as opposed to its figureheads, is an increasingly old white party. and they sort of value conservative celebrities that are female or ethnic minorities because they sort of break that impression that the public has. but i think that if you -- if ben carson is on stage in the debates in 2016, hes going to -- its not going to be that hes going to disavow his claims about obamacare being worse than slavery, hes just going to pull other candidate...

To where theres a tea party challenger who has gained the nomination of the party and has therefore weakened the partys chance to win the race. but it seems like they have avoided the worst possible traps they could have fallen into it and that they have fallen into in the last three successive cycles. >> you know, thats absolutely right, john. and joe, once again, were not actually disagreeing. were perhaps looking at different sides of the coin. in fact, yes, the root of the republican party h...