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In the white house where they have got all the things that he promised during the campaign and they check them off one at a time. >> its a really good point. whatever he is, he is genuine authentic. you dont see him going to regional places and altering his dialect or feigning a southern accent or putting on camouflage. brian: he did a southern accent jeff sessions. >> that was by intent. he dresses the same. he has ha queens accent whether at indianapolis state fair or down in mobile, alabama. ...

President in 2020. put that puppy to bed. there are, though, about a dozen democrats by our count who are it. that does not include oregon senator jeff merkley who announced hes not going to get into the race. theres in reporting that old grievances between the clinton and sanders worlds are bubbling up. politico reporting the former clinton camp is stewing over bernie sanderss 2020 campaign and is pointing to sanders flaws and vulnerabilities. im joined by a political analyst. its great to see ...

W does waver have a point? >> i know there were 4 million votes separating bernie sanders and hillary clinton, and the delegate math in march basically made it completely impossible for him to win, and yet the primary extended until june. what i think is happening right now, obviously youre going to have the david brocks and the jeff weavers going back and forth and standing up for their folks, but bernie sanders and his campaign needs to measure vulnerabilities so they can have defenses. the sa...

And vulnerabilities. nbc national political reporter steve kornacki joins me now. steve, what do you got? >> yeah. thats an interesting sort of a context to this democratic race as its merging. you see the polling right now. this is a new one from morning consult. they have been dog weekly poll. biden and sanders one and two here. sanders support may be up a bit. maybe a bit of a bounce right there. running in the high 20s. you seen earlier kamela harris got in the race. she is running about thi...

Is that there are a lot of vulnerabilities that we can identify because we did all the op on bernie sanders. a lot of that was not reported or at least thoroughly examined in the primary. there was 80 % of the coverage about bernie sanders was positive. and so i think that there is potentially a risk in not fully examining every single aspect of his record, every single vulnerability and being honest about that. because i think that just like any of the other democrats running in 2020, bernie sa...

Recruited or be compromised in some way, shape or form that isnt worth giving him access to our nations top secrets. were talking about a top-secret clearance and then compartments within top secret. there have been reports that the cia still refuses to give him the proper compartmented clearance to see cia human information. theres vulnerabilities, compromised and concerns that have been identified. the system is broken whereby the white house can overrule the recommendations. we have no proces...

Opposed to continue to go lie about it. kellyanne conway did the same thing and abby lowell whos a very good lawyer, who is ivanka and jareds lawyer is also saying the same thing. the gig is up on this. theyll have to produce those memos to the house and if cummins doesnt get them pretty soon, theres going to be an eruption. >> frank, for a layperson as myself, when you hear somebody doesnt pass a security clearance at very high level, what is it about that person? does it basically say at the c...

President of primary some of what was experienced in the republican primary in 2016 is going to be a strong movement to the left to win the nomination. can you make the transition the general election? will be decided a lot of states in the midwest the care mostly about bread-and-butter issues, the economy and other issues associated with it, arent interested in social policy issues being discussed. >> democrats getting out on a dangerously left-wing limit, democratic presidential candidates iso...

Leverage jared to get that information. >> isnt one of the vulnerabilities that youre referring to the fact that jared kushner was seeking financing from saudi arabia, seeking financing from the very people that he was meeting with in saudi arabia? >> exactly. and so the scenario youd be worried about, right? is that they can blackmail him, that they know they have leverage over him. they know that perhaps hes seeking deals with them or maybe they know that theyve agreed to do something to make ...

To know precisely because other countries might be able to leverage jared to get that information. >> isnt one of the vulnerabilities that youre referring to the fact that jared kushner was seeking financing from saudi arabia, seeking financing from the very people that he was meeting with in saudi arabia? >> exactly. and so the scenario youd be worried about, right? is that they can blackmail him, that they know they have leverage over him. they know that perhaps hes seeking deals with them or ...