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Structure structures in our political system, as envisioned by the founders, that sometimes theyre going to disadvantage democrats, but the truth of the matter is, is that if we have a strong message, if were speaking to what the American People care about, typically you know, the popular vote and the Electoral College vote will align, and i guess part of my overall message here as i leave for the holidays is that if we looked for one explanation or one silver bullet, or one easy fix for our politics, then were probably initiative and School Nutrition program is a greater threat to democracy t...

We also just learned just now from a republican lawmaker who came out from this deposition. i asked him if mike pompeo, the role of mike pompeo was discussed behind those closed doors. he said yes, it was. he wouldn't go into a lot of details, but we know that's a big question, especially for democrats and these geshl investigators on what role mike pompeo had. what did he know about the shadow state department operating in ukraine, and what did he do about it? but richard, we are also told that we could have at least two more hours left of this deposition, so the day is not over yet. >> which...

Does something about it. pulls this thing out of the fire and everybody moving on with their lives. we'll see. >> trace: i don't want you to put your chief congressional correspondent hat on here. can you gauge it for us? it doesn't appear there's an easy pathway for legislation on this any time soon. is that a fair assessment? >> yeah, i don't think there's an easy pathway to much legislation on capitol hill, particularly in an election year. we don't know if this will path muster with house republicans let an lone the senate. that's we kirstjen nielsen is also urging the president to say, yo...

What's going to be done in terms of retaliation. it struck me it illustrates some of the ways in which it is so difficult to respond to the unique set of threats that russia and president putin present to the u.s. jake? >> clarissclarissa, let me ask h your senior international correspondent hat, somebody who has covered what's going on in syria, from the front lines, president obama said he feels responsible every time he sees images from syria, whether it's children being killed by sniper fire or anyone being slaughtered but that ultimately, he said i understand the impulse to try to do some...

Venues or gymnasiums and has a better way of connecting in some places small places where she can talk to people personally and not do the big, big speech. >> kelly with her capitol hill correspondent hat on, what about this opening to cuba? you've got two presidential candidates, ted cruz and marco rubio with cuban-american background. how controversial is it as the president takes cuba off the terror list, that does have to go to congress. my head count is they don't have the votes to overturn that. >> particularly marco rubio in his role as subcommittee chairman has power in this when it co...