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Correspondent sharyl gates stillburg and joyce fan. sharyl, doug jones is in a tough spot. hes from a deep red state. he barely won that election. and he has voters in that state who are very, very pro trump. how do the democrats convince him to vote in line with them or is someone like chuck schumer looking at him and saying, it is okay, you do what you got to do in order to try and maintain your seat for 2020? >> you know, i thought a lot about doug jones and i wonder if the democrats really w...

100% of our time on. we are there to work for the american people. and not to have constant political bickering. to come up with weak impeachment. most importantly, we must understand what impeachment is. it almost never happens for a reason. other than declaring war, it is the most serious issue that america and action that america could ever, ever take. and it harms our country. it fractions us apart. literally creates more civil unrest. it creates more hurt. bring people together. bring ameri...

I think that raises the question. biden, clearly he entered as the front runner. this was his strongest performance. i have thought all year, we had all these conversations, joe bidens voting record in the 70s, these are the things that are going to threaten him. i never thought those were the biggest threats to winning the democratic nomination, would he inspire confidence in democrats that hey, this is something you can trust to go toe-to-toe with trump in the fall, stand up to the attacks, fi...

To it. and the environmental things are very important to me. i have 100% voting record on environmental matters. and i like to keep it that way. >> fair enough. eliot engel, democrat from new york city. thanks for coming on sharing your views. appreciate it. >> always a pleasure. thank you, chuck. >> let me turn now to a future juror in the senate trial. its senator michael bennet. democrat for colorado. member of the senate intelligence committee. presidential candidate. so this trial has got ...

Very mixed voting record, and he opposed thipgss like off shore drilling. i think it is not as much a question of his moral character, it is more about what they say about swing districts, and they swung to the democratic side in 2018 and what this is going to be in the coming election. i think it shows quite frankly it shows real fear among democrats that they may have overreached and that impeachment as a political matter i support it, but as a political matter that impeachment might really no...

It works again women in the republican party? >> i think so. >> and i think we need to change the conversation about who we are as republicans. >> who is messaging this from the top? who is saying get women elect? >> if someone was an objective, theyre going to make it happen because their lively hood depends on it. >> joining me to discuss the republican strategist and msnbc political analyst. all of those women, who there were three who served in the state senate in illinois, say they were con...

Its not necessary now. what is crucial is those that could be persuaded otherwise. in either camp. thats why i dont see the needle moving. >> i agree, i dont see the needle moving in either direction in areas where there might be some willingness to consider otherwise. i think the republicans are steadfastly against the spirit of the interesting thing is that if you look back to the nature of the resolution that was passed by the democrats to authorize these open hearings, that did not lock them...

For mayor pete to the point you mentioned is how does he get a more diverse coalition? how does he attract african-american voters? that doesnt really matter so much in iowa, but it does matter if youre going to be successful during the duration of this primary. i think on wednesday night for the debate, joe, im looking forward to seeing who goes after mayor pete. hes now the front runner iowa. theres got to be somebody on that debate stage who attacks him. i dont know what they attack him on be...

Republicans were actually in some of the suburban areas trying to talk a little bit like democrats and saying they were, you know, one of their priorities was gun violence prevention. and of course, democrats were hammering republicans on their voting record, saying it doesnt match your rhetoric here on guns. so, the gun issue was very important. one key thing, though, down in virginia beach, where the mass shooting happened at the municipal center, a republican senator was re-elected with a pro...

Environmental voting record. he was told as a child he lacked the smarts to become the lawyer that he aspired to be. he struggled and defied many of those predictions that he received that he heard as a child. defied those predictions in order to become just what his critics said he would never be in life. back to you. >> sandra: well be watching for all that. we expect the clintons and obamas to arrive a short time from now and well be bringing that to everyone live when it is underway. thank y...