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Congressional democrats are happy. >> rebeccrebecca, it shows with biden in the race hillary clinton's numbers go up more significantly than bernie sanders but if biden is speaking as he does and suggesting there are problems with hillary clinton, that would be a problem for her. >> i would be surprised to see joe biden go out there on the campaign trail and attack hillary clinton directly. he's basically been trying to nudge her in a certain direction. joe biden has worked his entire career as someone who loves finding consensus and loves working with republicans. he really made a name for hi...

>> good morning, jose. what's interesting to note a couple of things that came out of this meeting. this huge end of year eu summit. eu leaders all gathered together. one thing, they could hardly keep smirks from their keep their smirk from the face. they see the sanctions are working. the sanctions were worth it. they decided to ban investment in crimea. that takes place tomorrow on saturday. and, of course, you have to remember we're talking about the e.u. here. we have 28 separate countries, 28 separate competing agendas. finding consensus on anything is different for the guys at the best o...

An urgent video conference with european leaders was focused on finding consensus on a tougher line with russia. at a news conference in seoul, the president said the u.s. is going ahead and teeing up broader sanctions against moscow. >> what's also important is laying the ground work so that if and when we see even greater escalation, perhaps even military incursion by russia into ukraine, that we're prepared for the sort of sanctions that would have even larger consequences. >> the warning comes as u.s. officials say russian forces are pulsing the boarder with ukraine. they are charging the ...

Turnnow the primaries which means you are leaving it to the very most partisan people to vote. and they tend to be the ones that are excited by the red meat issues and those are the issues not most important to people's everyday lives. they are the social issues. we're not talking about the economy the way we need to. we don't have an energy policy. you can go down the list of things we need to solve. and compromise has become a really dirty word. but if you go back to our founding fathers, finding consensus is what it was all about and why we have the separation of powers and the constitution...

Are playing to the base. but the problem is the base is a small percentage in each of the parties. the issue that we have, the american people started turning off because they are so disgusted about what is going on. that's why independents are passing republicans or democrats. you're leaving it to the very most partisan people to vote. they tend to be the ones that are excited by the red meat issues. those are the issues that are not the things that are most important to peoples' everyday lives. they are the social issues. we're not talking about the economy the way we need to. we don't have ...