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Potential job for general david petraeus. all of this coming after trump famously claimed to know more than the generals on isis and later said this during a town hall. >> i think under the leadership of barack obama and hillary clinton, the generals have been reduced to rubble. they have been reduced to a point where it's embarrassing for our country. >> whoa. let's talk about this. with me, again, ron brownstein, senior editor for the atlantic and jason johnson, politics editor for the root.com and political science professor at morgan state university, barbara starr also joins me, cnn penta...

Happy about the prospects of our country. so in that spirit, i'm wishing donald trump luck and i'm going to give him a chance, and we, the historically disenfranchised, demand that he give us one, too. thank you very much. >> all right. joining me to talk about this is dino badalla show, and jason johnson politics editor at the root.com and professor at morgan state university. welcome to both of you. i found dave chappelle's monologue really interesting. i also found that most people left off that last line, right? donald trump has to give us a chance, too. >> absolutely. this was not like so...

Started talking about it. martin o'malley from maryland, obviously. howard dean. there are a lot of people thinking those are the names -- elizabeth warren -- who might bring the party together to take us through the next election. the executive director of the new york state democratic party and former senate aide to hillary clinton. thank you for being here. >> thanks. the 2016 election left pollsters scratching their heads and political strategists reexamining their game. will this election cycle change how campaigns are covered and predicted? joining me now with answers, university of ...

Performance where miss britney delighted fans. it came nowhere close to being the most talked about performance of the night. she had to follow this. 16-straight minutes of beyoncè's lemonade-flavored performance. hillary clinton doesn't fully control her timing on the historical program. the reality is, it should be no surprise that after president obama got african-american voters into formation with record turn out in 2008 and 2012 as the first black president, hillary clinton is more like, look at you. look at you singing all "hit me baby you one more time." so special. joining me now is ...

The three men had been participating in the 1964 freedom summer when nearly 1,000 students, mostly white and college educated, came to rural mississippi to help register black voters and educate youth for the summer. part of the strategy of the freedom summer was to open up mississippi, to show the world what was happening there. and local organizers real liesed they could do that by bringing in white young people. in a recent piece for the root.com blair kelly writes freedom summer then was a calculated effort to get the nation to pay attention to what was happening in mississippi when more t...