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Hinged on health care. that is one of the issues she said she is not going to compromise on. listen to what she said. >> let me put it this way. i believe in working across the aisle when that lets us get things done. we are talking about things like health care coverage. i'm not going to compromise when people say i want to take away health care coverage from 30 million people. we will just take it away from 15 million and that's going to be okay. health care is basic human right. we fight for basic human rights. >> reporter: we have talked about the electability question that elizabeth warre...

And donald trump. they were getting at the same dien kinds of issues. they were talking about problems. i think that this is not strained too far from that sort of same set of voters who are interested in blowing up the way things are in washington. elizabeth warren is trying to make end roads into that block of voters and going back to indiana, donald trump made a lot of noise around carriers staying in indianapolis and not shipping jobs over to mexico. she is there trying to make the point that she is not able to with hold those promises. and the big question i think we heard was whether or ...

Candidates have flocked to atlanta where the dnc is holding a summit before a fund-raising gala this weekend. mayor pete buttigieg just wrapped up his remarks at the podium and earlier the crowd heard from new jersey senator cory booker. >> this has got to be a movement election, because what i see, and particularly for african-american communities is unacceptable. this assault on women's reproductive rights is an assault on women, but particularly an assault on african-american women! >> joining me now, msnbc correspondent trymaine lee. trymaine, what have you been picking up as you covered t...

The candidate who is most likely strongest positioned to beat donald trump, and the poll shows right now the answer to that question is biden. how do the other candidates compete on that question? >> well, a couple things. i do want to throw some caution in the conversation. a couple things. one is, the electability question if you go back to 2008, look at democrats just suffering loss after loss to george bush. he electability question was one of the leading questions, one of the leading top issues for democrat back in 2008. and again hillary clinton at that point had an even larger gap over ...

Electability question, i've got to say, cornell's point of barack obama was way behind hillary clinton in 2008. he changed that balance. and did he do it primarily through debate performance? what changed in voters' minds about barack obama's electability? >> iowa. the reality is that cornell's right. the democratic party. >> didn't he have to convince those iowa vote ares. >> he did. >> that he could beat the republican in the general election in order to get their votes in the first place which then had an effect on other vote. >> the iowa electorate, it's reprogressive, liberal. they need p...