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We're going all the way back to the '90s, the '80s. democrats had been winning. in pennsylvania, you had to go back to '88 to find the last republican victory, bush sr., but then trump pulled it off by a fraction of a point in 2016. you know it, pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin. can trump do in 2020 what he did in 2016? big question that hovers over this entire election. where does he stand right now? in pennsylvania, here's the most recent head to head polling. from a couple weeks ago, quinnipiac. joe biden, 11 points ahead of trump. biden always playing up scranton, his pennsylvania roots. ...

Received challenges in their own party primaries, where were they? when the challengers emerged. bush sr., 73%, carter at 40%. gerald ford at 60%. trump's number from presidents who faced trouble. nixon at 82%. that was not a challenge from pete mcclosky. that is one heck of a hurdle for weld to overcome. trump's 72%, weld 12%. republicans in new hampshire, a lot of them have heard of weld through his massachusetts days. that's the kind of hurdle he faces there, a president who has a uniquely strong support with his own party, outside the republican party obviously a different story but trump ...

Socialist alliance and gave the receipt to the press. it didn't get any more ethical from there. in 1980, stone began a lobbying firm with paul manafort that unapologetically catered to human rights abusers. stone once boechted they, quote, lined up most of the dictators in the world we could find. pro-western dictators of course, the good ones. nevertheless, the questionable consultant's resume is filled with work for republican stars. nixon, reagan, bush sr. and of course -- >> i'm a political adviser to donald trump. >> reporter: while working for bob dole, stone's personal life caused add ...

>> neil: all right. i want to stress here, if the markets are worried about a shut down, they had a funny way of showing its. they gained today. this is low on the priority list. look at this under various presidents from gerald r. ford, jimmy carter, ronald reagan had eight shut downs, bush sr. had one. this would be the third independence this president. the one with bill clinton during the gingrich era was a different one. went on for a while and caused a political tunn political problem. we just talked to senator van holland and he said this is available. let's get the read from his republ...

Second act? >> so interestingly i worked for him and mueller at the same time so robert mueller was the head of the criminal division when bill barr was the attorney general. >> do they know each other well? >> they had to be working together on a daily basis. so this -- they definitely have had a working relationship together. and my impression of bill barr is that, yes, he absolutely has very conservative credentials. he actually went to law school at night when he was at cia. >> wow. >> and got his law school degree while he was working at the cia. where he met bush sr. and in the departmen...