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Their case, but time is, well, of the essence. cory booker made it clear that he needs a million dollars in the next ten days to kontt on as the presidential nomination. cnn political commentator, and charlie dent, good afternoon to the two of you. >> good afternoon. >> let me ask you, his urgent appeal to voters, $1.7 million in ten days, that seems like a lot to ask for or is it not? what do you make of the strat y strategy? >> it is different to raise money for a political campaign, even maore so when you're runnig

And we have to talk to them. but we have to be honest with them. we can't just promise that we're going to deliver all these goodies to them. we have to have a sensible program for growing the economy and for making sure that everybody has a chance to take advantage of those opportunities. and so -- the reason that -- i mean, the truth is we've never elected a populist president until donald trump. and it wasn't exactly the kind of populism i like. >> let many ask you about donald trump if i can quickly, what should the democrat strategy be? should they work with trump or should they pick up m...

Strategy, go after a vulnerable republican senator? >> democrats are going to try to resist. fascinating thing about that commercial, you remember the last major commercial that the trump people put out before the election, which went on about goldman sachs bankers and so on. little bit of similarity here. i mean, this is just getting mind-boggling. >> last word, how do you see this playing out tonight? >> i think we need to stop focusing on d.c. i think the resistance is actually going to happen outside of d.c. naacp did an amazing job yesterday in alabama when -- you know, with their fight a...

>> does that really give a free pass to rex tillerson or these -- ben, to you, to rex tillerson, jeff sessions here? they're still going to face tough questioning, whether or not it's a split screen. >> sure, but this is donald trump rallying the troops to support them as the spotlight is focused on those cabinet appointees. and they're all articulate people who will do actually much better than the picture the democrats are trying to paint of them. >> let me ask you right now, there's a liberal group right now trying to sink the treasury secretary nominee, steve mnuchin right now. they put an...

Election. but many are saying this is a double standard, sir. what can you tell us about that? >> that's what some former officials have said. but fbi officials say that they're mistaken. it's true that the fbi director thought that it was too soon to atrinity these attacks to russia. but his concern was based on investigating issues. possibly compromising investigating methods. he never mentioned effect on the u.s. election. >> thanks so much, pete. >> there's one more story that dropped overnight. the "new york times" saying donald trump avoided paying potentially hundreds of millions of dol...