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Of color as many of my sisters have been talking about. >> reporter: publicly democrats have rallied around the four women. days after the group sparred with house speaker nancy pelosi, tensions the members downplayed today. >> that does not mean there is a fundamental fracture or eye dehumanizing going on within our caucus. >> reporter: but congressional sources tell cnn some democratic moderates are not happy with being dragged into this week's drama and forced to defend the so-called squad who themselves have been accused of controversial actions and statements including anti-semitism now, ...

People animated by attacks like this. >> i think you're absolutely right about that but that worked for him in narrow margins in 2016 a victory in the electoral college and in 2018 there is not a lot of evidence that worked out well for republicans. >> does he care about other republicans? >> but at least as an open question, is this a strategy that will work beyond just that one election. we've only had one case study of this strategy for president trump and will it work again. >> i think the president has shown he's willing to exploit race or identity for political gain. that was very much a...

Resulted in the actually consequences that bernie sanders said that it should result in. so i think there is an open question and i think this is going to be joe biden's central strategy going forward. he's staking out that middle lane and if he survives the democratic primary, we will see whether he's right about the general. >> and jamal, bernie sanders accusing biden of not only lying about medicare for all but using, quote, lies straight out of the playbook of donald trump, mitch mcconnell and the health care industry. what do you think of that strategy? >> there is that quiz that he put u...

Respond to sanders' claim he's lying about medicare for all. biden either refused to comment or just flatly did not answer the question. jake. >> thanks so much. appreciate it. so abby, let me start with you. is biden lying or is there an argument to be made that medicare for all would result in the consequences that he talks about? >> there is probably an argument to be made. i think the fact of the matter is we don't really know and i think joe biden's strategy is predicated on the idea that this is not a policy that come the general election will be advantageous to democrats because when ...

Does that offer the clarity that a lot of people have complained harris has struggled with? >> well i think it is trying to have it both ways in some respects. one of the challenges for the major democratic cob tenders behind medicare for all is staking out on the issue of private insurance. are they eliminating the role of private insurance providers altogether and moving entirely do -- toward government-run health care or supporting a supplemental coverage and that is where the contenders have trying to grapple to stake out ground and it doesn't seem that perhaps going too far and at same ti...