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Thought to set him free. It was a cruel and unusual sentence. From Rockerfeller Center in new york this is a special july 4th edition of politics nation with al sharpton. Good morning. Im al sharpton. Today a special july 4th Weekend Edition of politics nation. Well be previewing the summer ahead and tackling the biggest questions of 2016 looking at the politics, the polling, and the policies. We start with donald trump. Two weeks before the Republican Convention, is he finally ready to pivot to the general election . Change his tone and scale back his rhetoric . In the past he has vowed to be...

Was just telling you, may be a very tall order, as it appears a rift is breaking open inside the Democratic Party. The chair of the dnc out as the person to preside over the convention, replaced a short time ago. And clintons main primary rival, Bernie Sanders, has been champing at the bit for this to happen. We have fox team coverage. Elizabeth fran is live for us in washington, d. C. Lets begin with mike emanuel, whos on the ground here with me in philadelphia. Mike, one big challenge for the new Clinton Kaine ticket is going to be dealing with attacks from donald trump. Well start there. An...

The right direction. bad jobs number like this one, it does, sort of undermines his argument and throw as wet blanket over his convention coming out of the convention heading into the general election, no question. jon: "real clear politics" keeps tabs on all the polls nationwide and especially in the battleground states and average them out and give us and indication how these two candidates are doing. right now you have mr. obama ahead in florida, ohio, iowa, nevada, colorado and virginia. it is my understanding that the only one of the battleground states which mitt romney leads is north ca...

Traveling with the president. >> president obama and vice president biden immediately hit the campaign trail with their wives, as senior white house advisor david plouffe declared they now have momentum if not a bounce. >> i have just come from charlotte where we had a great convention. [ applause ] >> any momentum, though, could be throttled. thed 96,000 jobs created in august was below expectations and the unemployment rate dipped slightly only because 368,000 more people simply left the workforce. >> it's sort of undermines his argument, and throws a wet blanket over his convention coming o...

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