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>> there is no question about it. donald trump and all of this criminal activity has sucked all the air out of the room. i don't think there's any doubt about that. and democrats will continue to pass legislation that is significant for the american people. we'll continue to do that. but, you know, this scintillating impeachment talk is doing what donald trump wants it to do, get the focus off the economy, 75% of americans are still living paycheck to paycheck. taxes have gone up in the last year because of the trump tax cut. he doesn't want to have that conversation. >> you are having it. i k...

I called it a race in arkansas. i know it's kansas. i have relatives in kansas. sorry about that. >> it's all good, jon. >> we love you, jon. >> something is happening in kansas. >> jon: something like that. >> dorothy is there. >> jon: my apologies kansas and arkansas. does this mean that the trump effect is still, you know, living on among the electorate? >> we won the race. yes. donald trump, candidate at the time won by 27 points in kansas. ron estes, two-term treasurer dialed it in. he was particularly lazy by missing candidate forums. he didn't take it too seriously. he said people would...

Gap last month, and we are seeing both of the candidates stepping up the attacks against each other, and is there a time, and you are the chair of the dnc, to approve more debates between the two candidates? >> our candidates with our debate schedule, and the schedule of the other candidate forums have had a large variety of opportunities to be seen by the voters. you see that from the whether it is secretary clinton or senator sa sanders, to some degree martin o'malley, and their expose sure are through a variety of the opportunities has given them the ability to be successful, and to the att...

Have had this year compared to 58 of 61 debates in 2008 and 2012. in fact, our candidate with the least amount of time on our debate stage has actually had as much time as the frontrunner on the republican side has had. so i am con fident, and satisfid with the amount of time that our candidates have had on the debate stage, and candidate forums, and impersonally -- importa importantly, to be heard. >> and are you going schedule more debates? >> we have six scheduled, and the forums. >> thank you. >> thank you, wolf. and now, we will talk to president obama and his legacy and more. and a new...

Hold republicans feet to the fire in a similar way because, geez not coincidentally their broadcast network debates are also on a saturday and that is simply because broadcast networks have less flexible programming. i did not say to abc, hey, let's schedule this on a saturday night. i didn't say to any of those networks that they should do that. that is how the programming worked out. we have six debates. three are during the week. three are on the weekends. there are other candidate forums and multiple opportunities for voters to see our candidates in a variety of ways. any accusation like t...