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For more on the president's renewed attacks on the late senator, i want to bring in cnn politics executive editor mark preston and cnn analyst julie pace and patrick healey. what does the president stand to gain by attacking a republican senator who's widely regarded and very well respected by both parties? >> sadly, i think this is largely about the president's own ego. it's not like he has a ton to gain with independent voters who were shown in 2000 and 2008 to rally strongly by senator mccain's side when he was running for president. there's certainly parts of the republican base that very ...

Take a listen. >> through the testimony i've listened to over the past three days, i believe a new election should be called. it's become clear to me that the public's confidence in the 9th district seat general election has been undermined to an extent that a new election is warranted. >> now, look, erin, he was hoping that initially, at the beginning of this, that the board was going to go ahead and let him take this seat that he initially had said he won. so at this point, where we are is that the board is going to have to set a new election. that includes a primary and potentially even a s...

>> at least one democrat giving pause when pressed on the matter, possible 2020 candidate, senator sherrod brown would not commit to supporting ocasio-cortez's version of the green new kedeal. >> i haven't heard you take an actual position on this? >> i haven't and you won't. >> and ocasio-cortez defending her green new deal tonight, tweeting the following, saying, "trust me, i like ice cream way too much to do that," "i also like visiting my family in puerto rico too much to ban airplanes." "maybe if the gop did their job for once and read a piece of legislation, they would see that communiti...

Tiny little line. >> is that not a new emoteicon? patrick healey, co-founder and chairman for trump and karen finney, senior spokesperson for hillary clinton's presidential campaign. patrick, okay, this is risky for beto, not only because the president will compare his lines. is this a stunt or a mart move on your view? >> i think beto need, this is his hometown, an issue he knows well. he is also coming off a senate race and a career in congress where he was seen as, you know, a moderate on a lot of issues, where he is relatively undefined politically, appearances, standing up to trump on the...

You know, with barack obama was a way to try to divide people and there is a way to try to say, is he black enough to try to question what blackness is, the thing that i would tell you that i find personally offensive when we have these conversations, is she woman enough or is she tough enough as a woman? >> right. >> men, women, black people, latinos, we don't just vote for people because we share the same gender or skin color. don't think that just because she's a black woman she will automatic ally get the black vote. black voters are going to hold all of the candidates accountable for thei...