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Comes to combatting isis, military strategy, donald trumps campaign has been very short on specifics and a lot of dealing with questions how he would handle the office. and leon panetta in the interview with andrea mitchell endorses hillary clinton. but he does raise a really good question in the months ahead, what matters more, the personality or should policy end up mattering. and i think, in a way as we get very close to iowa and new hampshire, now 3 1/2 weeks away from the iowa caucuses, 10 ...

>> for the first time, the people feel like they have a voice. >> if i remember four years ago, that primary did end up mattering in the race. jeffrey, whabt you? on the one hand, you wampbts as much you will port as you can get. on the other hand, you want to say im not going to hit anything there. sdwl iny whats interesting about this is the endors chl urk ole? o are are snow oo sdwool soo sko. >> is bolt tochl up. >> everybody want today know where he stood on donald trump. he was truly ama...

That it was significant? >> well, again, the attention to detail thing. you had a sergeant with the state police. theyre going down this forest road and any other day that would be a bag youd probably past by and cast it it off as litter. in this particular circumstance they stopped, picked it up and the contents of that bag was significant in terms of -- and i cant go into it with too much detail -- but the evidence it presents in terms of what was already in plan back in california, what was i...

Study about whether the race of these jurors wound up mattering. >> do you think it will in the end, john? >> the prosecution tried to eliminate two women and mark omara filed a protest that says he was systematically excluding women and those women were brought back on the jury. so he had a chance not to have more women but he chose to do that. at the end of the day i think its a question of background, what are your experiences. if you no or limited experience with african-americans, i think y...

A poll last year that said one out of three americans believe most hispanics are illegal immigrants. that is wildly wrong. >> and that perception ends up mattering. all immigrants are latino. and all latinos are illegal immigrants. >> and the latino community has felt this crisis acutely and in a terrible, terrible way because our public policies are enforcement policies are targeting latinos. so equating latino with immigrant is very intentional. this week a lawsuit was settled brought by 22 la...

Reforms that hes taken on in new jersey and that weve seen republicans take on elsewhere. >> talk to me a little bit about on the hill, you know, theres a political piece out today about republican strategists anxious about the paul ryan pick. strategists have a way of being anxious about a lot of things. whats your feeling about the talk on the hill among republicans about paul ryan. >> i chatted with a couple of republicans today. in one they remind me that its important to note the veep pick ...

Businessmen have gone into the cabinet. remember don regan. >> he was a sharpie. >> disgrace. he had been head of merrill lynch. and then unsuccessful business people like harry truman whose haberdashery went bankrupt and he turned out to be a pretty damn good president. so i think there is a connection in the minds of some people between these two skills. and that might help romney in this campaign. by the way, when 130 million americans are voting in november, most of them wont have paid any a...

Again with very successful businessmen have gone into the cabinet. remember don regan. >> he was a sharpie. >> disgrace. he had been head of merrill lynch. and then unsuccessful business people like harry truman whose haberdashery went bankrupt and he turned out to be a pretty damn good president. so i think there is a connection in the minds of some people between these two skills. and that might help romney in this campaign. by the way, when 130 million americans are voting in november, most o...

Still be rich. a politician cant do that very long. >> yeah, there is really not much of a connection between success in business and success in politics. weve seen that over and over again with very successful businessmen have gone into the cabinet. remember don regan. >> he was a sharpie. >> disgrace. he had been head of merrill lynch. and then unsuccessful business people like harry truman whose haberdashery went bankrupt and he turned out to be a pretty damn good president. so i think there ...

Doesnt matter. hell be as relevant as pat buchanan was to the 1996 convention. >> lets assume pauls delegates end up mattering. hes not a man of compromise, not a guy who just wants a little piece of the action. hes got these crazy ideas. so how do you give him a little something? >> its awkward bed fellows but it is a shred move by the romney camp to make friends so early on with ron paul. >> it does because he brings in some segments of the vote especially with young people that they will need...