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Jon: democrats are switching up how they will pick their next presidential nominee. dnc member voting this weekend to limit the power of the controversial super delegates. molly henneberg is live in washington. give us the explanation. who are the superdelegates and how do the new rules affect them? >> democratic superdelegates are hundreds of party insiders including members of congress, governors and mayors who make up about 15% of the vote at the party's national convention every four years. but starting in 2020, these superdelegates may have to sit out for the first vote. under the new rul...

Trump voters to be extremely interested in the 2018 races. >> we are calling the democrats soft favorites which means that if you have a blue wave, we don't think at the current time it is going to be one of these tsunamis that wins you 40, 50, 60 seats, it looks to us with democrats needing 23, more like they are just over that number right now. maybe it will grow before november or maybe it will pop back. but right now they are soft favorites to take over the house by some modest margin. >> the senate is another matter. even though the g.o.p. margin of control is much narrower there, democra...

>> the president is peaking support unfairness, he hasn't directed anything to do anything, a lot of americans believe -- >> do you think if he thought he could make that order to jeff sessions and jeff sessions would carry that, do you think he would order that? >> look, if the president would want to order it he would order it, he has not. mike: i would lake you take the fight to the green firm, thanks so much. >> thank you. >> democratic national committee making changes to nominating process today vote to go limit influence on super delegates who have the party east high-profile members an...

The outcome. >> the hillary people can't get in their minds that hillary can't beat trump. the super delegates [inaudible]. it's corrupt. >> now sanders and the party's leadership are behind a proposal to limit the influence of super delegates in 2020. it will keep them off the first ballot. only delegates linked to a vote will be counted. making sure at the end of the day when the process is done, to select the democratic nominee, they feel like their candidate got a fair shake. >> only if a candidate fails to win a majority will the super delegates be brought in to for the second ballot to t...

Democratic party won't elect a president in 2020. >> they're attempting to keep bernie sanders supporters under the tent. they're considering proposals to defang super delegates whose sanders says help delegates rig the primaries for clinton. president trump is trying to nudge democrats to the left. he thinks a moderate is easiest to beat. one of president obama's former advisors say it could steer the body away from biden's brand of politics. >> harris is popular. a midwestern pro growth democrat tim ryan. there will be a lot of people on stage and vice president biden and elizabeth warren wi...