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We turn to our next guest, neera tanden, the former senior adviser to president obama and hillary clinton. she's the president and ceo of the center for american progress. neera, let's take a look, another look at that cnn poll, the latest poll of the democratic primary field because it's kind of fascinating. joe biden at 29%. a jump of 7 points in that poll. bernie sanders holding steady at 15. elizabeth warren holding steady at 14. kamala harris down to 5%. a drop of 12 points. pete buttigieg holding steady at 5. beto o'rourke holding steady at 3. none of the other candidates gets more than ...

Round of polling? >> you know, i think one way to look at what is happening is that essentially this is the contours of the race. then we have these debates which create a flash point, but this might be the equilibrium until we really get to iowa. polls in iowa are different than these polls, than the national polls, and iowa can change the calculus pretty dramatically for the national polls. we saw that in 2007. we definitely saw that in 2007/2008. we saw that in 2015/2016. candidates who can surge in iowa can really change the trajectory of how they do nationally. so, you know, my take here ...

Democrats that were against the impeachment road, right? i wonder if there's anything they might hear that might sway them in the other way? that's what nancy pl or other democrats are hoping. republican, i wonder if that will sway minds. if you're senator lindsey graham the answer is no. i want to replay that. >> it won't reshape my dynamic. i have heard all i need to hear from mueller. i heard his report. i accept the findings. i don't think it's going to change public opinion. having been involved in the clinton impeachment, if the public is not with you, you'll pay a price. i don't think t...

Because -- >> in theory it's a great idea, but you have to remember the hubris required to even run for president in the first place. so i think it would have to be -- you would have to feel you were in dire straits to admit, okay, i will be on your slate, you know -- >> i'll be your secretary of commerce. >> right. >> we saw in 2015/2016, we saw some of them announce running mates earlier an usual in order to try to get a boost, you know, so even if it's not a whole slate, a whole government later on we could see, hey, let's join forces and try to make this happen. >> so are you with mr. pres...

2015/2016 and took a lot of incoming. you ought to have a agreement like this or risk a war and he said no, there's no other way to do this. right now we're living with the end of the argument which is you have a diplomatic agreement with these guys orrer there's something that can escalate this into a war. >> i want everybody to watch tomorrow "meet the press." chuck todd has an interview with the president. thanks for being here. coming up making his blue collar pitch. >> here i am an old quarterback from outside youngstown, ohio, blue collar kid, blue collar family. >> it's baker may fiel...