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And dropped to the bottom. or rudy giuliani. in the last two gop primaries, all the candidates you see on the screen led the polls at one point in time. for democrats hillary clinton was leading at this point in 2007. so was joe leeberman in 2003. ask president giuliani or president liebermann. say polling shifts rapidly or even gets it wrong. another way to think about it is these were pre-debate polls. the polls after the debates tend to be shaped by how the candidates perform in these debates. >> joining me now is the man of the hour, tom perez, chairman of the democratic national committee...

We don't have priorities. we have money being spent all over the place. we're grateful one of the recommendations -- again, i'm proud to co-chair it with senator liebermann. one of the recommendations was let's have a strategy. let's figure out where all this money is coming from. let's set priorities. it is a serious national defense issue. we had ebola, zika. we also know that a lot of nation states out there that still have the capability of turning a biological -- creating biological weapons and we know the terrorists play around with that as well. bipartisan group, bipartisan strategy and...

Experience for him because he put so much on it. he was really the champion of the surge. he had criticized his party's president for not taking action in iraq prior to the surge. he was the biggest supporter against liebermann and graham of the three amigos. he famously said he would rather lose an election than a war, perhaps a bit of his support for the surge, he did lose that election. and ironically, the victor, senator obama when he became president was helped enormously by the resort of the surge. it gave him an opportunity to do what he had wanted to do which was to draw down in an ord...

>> do you agree with that description of john mccain? >> very much so. he spent a lot of time with us as you know of every recess, he and senator graham and senator liebermann. the three amigos were out there with us. they experienced a lot of memorial ceremonies and they participated in a number of events. there was one, for example, of six months into the surge, it has been tough. we had a ceremony that featured a citizenship swearing in. about 600 soldiers reenlisted the ceremony and the moving piece was followed by empty chairs. now we are going to get citizenships in the country for which...

The israel anti-dome missile system shooting down a number of them. israel retaliated going after sites inside syria. no casualties on the israeli side. we are waiting to hear if there were any in syria. some targets, we are hearing, are eiranian intelligence sites and military base north of damascus and weapons depots. we heard from israel's defense minister liebermann this morning. he said most of iran's infrastructure in syria was hit. we also heard a warning given the iranians and syrians. if it rains in israel, there will be a biblical flood in syria. we heard from russia and they