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australia's most important export may be neither its animals nor its beer nor its films. it could in fact be one rupert murdoch. 55-year-old rupert murdoch is building the most extensive media empire in history. >> the hegemony of the three broadcast businesses and having disrupted the television business in britain, he arrives

in america and says i don't see why there should only be three broadcast networks. i'm going to make another one. >> meantime, he will have to become an american citizen if he is to own tv stations here. something he says he is willing to do. >> some people are saying it will take you 20 years to get your fox network on a par with the big three. are you prepared to wait that long? >> sure, i intend to live that long, but i don't believe in the 20 years. >> the reaction to murdoch's idea for a fourth network was similar to the reaction to ted turner starting cnn. it's ridiculous. you know, what does he know about television? >> we don't have to reach everyone. there's no question we have an inferior lineup of stations to our counterparts. it means we have to work harder to get our message across and get shows sampled. >> they had an idea that in order to succeed, we have to differentiate ourselves from the networks. we have to do things they would not do. >> fox started throwing anything

against the wall, not knowing what was going to go. first shows were things like "21 jumpstreet." joan rivers in terms of late night. >> we have been banned in boston, which i think is wonderful. wxne, so pick a finger, wxne. >> and "the tracey ullman show"" it was a sketch show. and they needed something to go between the sketches. again they were looking for something different. >> i've got to have those candy bars. >> you better not be thinking of stealing those candy bars. >> that's it! >> "the simpsons" would never have come along had it not been for "the tracey ullman show." >> ultimately crime hurts the criminal. >> that's not true, mom. i got a free ride home, didn't i? >> bart! >> fox was thrilled that it was different. they said, sure, be experimental. do whatever you want. we're just happy to have a show on the air. >> i'm home!

>> "married with children" was their first big, big hit in that way that said if all the rest of television is going this way, we're going that way. >> bud, kelly, you want to come down and help me in the kitchen? there, that should buy us about ten minutes. seven more than we'll need. >> the title of "married with children" on the script was not "the cosby show." how great. you have to love that. they were taking the piss out of american families. fun. great fun. >> never wanted to get married, i'm married. never wanted kids, i got two of them. how did this happen? >> the bundys were like a reaction to the perfection of the huxtables. it was funny because you had this wonderful, perfect black family and these horrible, miserable white people. and each show works on its own terms because you could find things to relate to in both. >> howdy, neighbor. >> yeah, yeah, yeah.

>> why don't we sit down? >> there was a lot of fun to be had, you know, with al and peg bundy. >> after fox introduces "married with children," it does very well. then back on abc, they came up with another major hit, "roseanne." >> you think this is a magic kingdom and sit up here on your throne. >> oh, yeah? >> yeah, and you think everything gets done by some wonderful wizard. poof, the laundry's folded. poof, dinner's on the table. >> you want me to fix dinner? >> honey. i'm fixing dinner. >> oh, but honey, you just fixed dinner three years ago. >> typical american families weren't on television for the longest time. the donna reed days, the "father knows best." hardly anybody lived like that. that was the way advertisers wanted you to live. >> i know what just might make you feel better. >> me too but i bet it's different list than what you've got. >> if you can subvert whatever common stuff is said about families and about parenting. >> what's in this?

lead? >> oh, i got you kids new leg irons. >> her loudness and her unfilteredness were key to why we liked her. she was saying stuff about working class people. she was saying stuff about men and women. so it was about marriage and about raising kids and about how hard it is. >> oh, great. i'm just going to look like a freak. that's all. >> what else is new? >> shut up. >> this is why some animals eat their young. >> tv in the '80s was a big decade for the evolution of comedy, for the evolution of drama. it just pushed everything forward. >> you think perhaps this generation are paying more attention to the dialogue to the relationships they see on television than in years previous? >> clearly the people watching our shows are and "thirtysomething" and "cheers," and "st. elsewhere." these are shows smartly written. it's their words that define

them, and i think that's what people like. >> what we're supposed to be here is the one thing people can trust. if you go out like a bunch of night riders, what the hell are you but just another vicious street gang? >> that decade spawned an extraordinary number of shows that really carved out a unique niche for themselves. we began to turn television into an art form. and for the first time, people were proud to say, i write for television. >> up until that point, television was second class. in the '80s, it was something else entirely. and it was new, and it was kind of interesting. >> it's like everyone in the '80s starts to want to tell their stories. that's what really changes things. >> the unexpected was more welcome in the '80s. predictability lost its cachet. >> television has an impact on every era, every decade. >> television still shapes the thinking of america like no other element in our country. sometimes for the better,

sometimes for the worse. >> it gave rise to people pursuing artistic content in a way that i think has raised the bar in television production exponentially. >> i love you guys. >> there's a shift in the '80s from just wanting to placate the audience to wanting to please and challenge the audience, and that's the decade when it happened. >> we had one hell of a run, didn't we partner? >> yeah, we sure did, sonny. >> i'm going to miss you, man. >> i'm going to miss you too, sonny. >> can i give you a ride to the airport? >> why not? ♪

we want to welcome our viewers joining us from the united states for this edition of "cnn newsroom." i'm rosemary church. in the coming hours, all eyes will be on washington as another public hearing in the impeachment inquiry into president donald trump gets under way. this hearing is imperative as it will set the stage for the rest of the impeachment process. democrats are expected to present evidence against mr. trump. house judiciary chairman jerry nadler says he's confident the case for impeachment is solid. cnn's lauren fox is on capitol hill with a look at what to expect. >> reporter: while house democrats on the judiciary committee have been prepping all weekend for what is expected to be a high-profile hearing on

monday in the house judiciary committee. essentially this is going to be an opportunity that will look very similar to a trial. you're going to see lawyers laying out the evidence that they believe exists to impeach president donald trump, and it's a big moment for the house judiciary committee because they could unveil articles of impeachment as soon as this week. they could even vote on them out of committee. that would set up a full house of representatives vote on whether or not to impeach donald trump before the christmas holiday. that's a very quick time line when you think about the fact that the house intelligence committee's investigation took more than two months. but it's putting it'sdemocrats what could be a difficult position as the caucus has to deliberate just how broad to make those articles of impeachment. they're trying to consider whether or not to include anything from the mueller investigation in their articles. some moderates believe that would be too expansive. they want to keep it more narrow on that ukraine issue. for cnn, lauren fox, capitol hill. >> meanwhile, the white house

says it will not be taking part in the house proceedings. jeremy diamond has more on that. >> reporter: today the house judiciary committee is indeed convening to hear the evidence formally for the first time against president trump in this impeachment inquiry. but neither the president nor any of his attorneys will be attending that hearing. that is despite an invitation from the house judiciary committee democrats for the president or his attorneys to attend and participate in that hearing, even giving them the ability to cross-examine witnesses. and that's also despite the criticism over these last several months of this impeachment inquiry from the president, from the white house, that they have not been able to participate in the process thus far. nonetheless, the white house making very clear in a letter on friday from the white house counsel, pat cipollone, to the house judiciary committee that this white house will not be participating in any of these impeachment hearings carried out by the house judiciary committee. in that letter, cipollone calls

the impeachment inquiry completely baseless and he also warns that impeaching trump, introducing those articles of impeachment, something that this house judiciary committee may very well do this week, cipollone calls that a reckless abuse of power if indeed house democrats move forward as we expect them to. the messaging from the white house, though, in that letter and in tweets from the president, remarks from the president, is essentially "get on with it." this white house is saying, look, if house democrats are going to impeach the president, which indeed house speaker nancy pelosi indicated last week is likely where this is headed, the white house really wants that process to be done with. that is because they are looking forward to the senate, which is controlled by the republicans, where the president believes that he will get a more fair shake. either way, though, even if the president will not be attending these hearings, of course house republicans will have an opportunity to cross-examine the counsel from the house intelligence committee and of course provide the president's

point of view, provide his defense. the president, for his part, well, he'll be using his own stage on tuesday at a campaign rally to get his message out. >> well, a lot to get to. thomas gift, a political science lecturer at university college london joins me now. good to have you with us. >> good morning, rosemary. >> so the public hearing that gets under way in just a matter of hours will, of course, shape the whole impeachment process. and as far as the chairman of the house judiciary committee is concerned, jerry nadler, he thinks the democrats have a solid case for impeachment. do you agree, and do you think they will vote on articles of impeachment this week? >> well, i do think that the evidence at this point seems overwhelming. i think the big issue this week won't be about the disclosure of any new information but really how broadly or narrowly jerry nadler and the democrats will define the articles of impeachment. the house judiciary committee will review this key testimony from the house intelligence

committee, which will establish the contours of the impeachment. but then you really have the key question, the political question of scope of the articles of impeachment. so the risk, i think, of drafting a broad set of articles of impeachment is that democrats could be seen as overreaching. but a narrow set of charges could be seen as overlooking certain acts of wrongdoing. my sense is that democrats will err on the side of keeping it simple and focusing on ukraine so it's clear to the public. i think one place where there will be some intraparty disagreement is whether to include obstruction as one of the impeachment articles to reflect all this white house stonewalling. but it does seem by all accounts that the democrats want to get this done before christmas. and if that's the case, they're going to have to draft articles quickly. so it does seem to indicate that they will try to get something out this week, you're right. >> and opinion polls seem to show a slim majority of the public consistently want to see president trump impeached and removed. but overall, who will be most

politically damaged by this whole impeachment process, do you think? the democrats or the president and his party? >> well, i certainly think that reasonable minds can disagree on that, rosemary. if you look at polling data, you're correct that americans remain very split with support for impeachment dividing sharply along party lines. certainly both sides see potential pitfalls with impeachment going forward. for democrats, i think they're concerned there may be some impeachment fatigue in the swing states and that voters would have preferred that they had kept the focus more on policy, health care, education, the environment, all the things that nancy pelosi has been talking about. it's one of the reasons why i think she was so reluctant to pursue the impeachment inquiry from the outset. but republicans also, i think, are concerned that impeachment is exposing some vulnerabilities in support for trump despite his very loyal base. so if impeachment does get to the senate, my sense is that mitch mcconnell will prefer to expedite the process, to get it over as quickly as possible rather than let it drag further

and further into 2020. >> right. and as we know, the white house and the president have decided not to take part in these proceedings. is that a wise move? >> well, i think it's basically the option that they have because since the very outset, they've been saying that this is a witch hunt, this is a hoax, this is presidential harassment. so i think for them to participate in this process would in some sense legitimize it. so they've essentially taken the strategy that they're going to stand on the sidelines, that they're going to hurl insults on the democrats. they're going to impugn this process as politically motivated and baseless. and so, you know, whether that's a good strategy or not really depends on how you define success. donald trump isn't changing the minds of many voters, but at the same time, he doesn't have to. so we're basically in this place of kind of post-persuasion politics where the only goal is to mobilize your side. and so trump's entire focus is just on keeping his electoral

base in line, ensure republicans don't turn on him. and polling data do suggest that he's doing relatively well at least by that metric. >> thomas gift, thank you so much for sharing your analysis and perspective on this. appreciate it. >> thank you, rosemary. stay with us for special coverage of the trump impeachment hearings by the house judiciary committee. that starts at 8:00 a.m. in washington, 1:00 p.m. in london, 9:00 p.m. in hong kong right here on cnn. washington is anxiously waiting for the release of a report from the u.s. justice department's inspector general. it will weigh in on a number of conspiracy theories including whether political bias influenced the fbi's decision to start the russia investigation. cnn's marshall cohen has more on that. >> reporter: the highly anticipated report from the justice department inspector general comes out today, and we're expecting that it will

debunk some major claims and conspiracy theories that president trump has been peddling for years. first, we're told that the i.g. will conclude that the russia investigation was properly launched in 2016 and that senior fbi officials were not acting out of bias against candidate trump. now, those findings undercut trump's claim that the investigation was an illegitimate hoax designed to take him down. also the report is expected to say that the fbi did not implant spies in the trump campaign. but we are expecting a mixed verdict of sorts when it comes to the court-approved surveillance of carter page, a former trump campaign adviser. the report will say that the fbi had good reason to ask for those wiretaps, but there were serious problems and mistakes with how the warrants were prepared. cnn previously reported that one fbi lawyer was caught altering a document, and that is now part

of a criminal investigation which is being led by u.s. attorney john durham. long story short, the report will give us some much-needed answers and debunk some conspiracies. but the fight will continue. cnn already reported that attorney general has told allies that this report won't be the final word. marshall cohen, cnn, washington. we are learning more details about friday a deadly naval base shooting in florida. the fbi says the shooter, a saudi air force officer, bought his handgun legally before killing three u.s. sailors. now florida's governor is demanding more stringent vetting for foreign military personnel who are given access to u.s. bases. >> i think there's a frustration with this. i mean, you know, you have foreign military personnel coming to our base. they should not be doing that if they hate our country, and i

know that i talked with secretary esper on friday. they're doing a big review about how all this stuff is done in terms of the vetting. but my sense is, is that more needs to be done. >> cnn's brynn gingras has been following all the developments, and she has more now from florida. >> reporter: the fbi says their main goal right now is to figure out if this gunman acted as sort of a lone wolf or was part of a larger network. and answering the question was he tied to any sort of ideology. of course this is going to help prove a motive in their eyes, which is still unclear according to the fbi at this point. and how they're doing that, one, is classifying this and carrying out this investigation as sort of presuming it's an act of terrorism, and that helps them open up some more investigative tools. they're also reviewing evidence including videos. they're also talking to people. we've been talking about those saudi nationals that were detained. well, authorities now saying

that those saudi nationals, they are restricted to only stay on the base. they can't leave the base, and that they are cooperating with this investigation. cnn has a source that says some of these friends of this gunman have said that they noticed a difference in this gunman after he returned from a trip home and that he was more observant, and he wasn't drinking. so the authorities are trying to really try to answer that question, what triggered the change in his demeanor and hopefully get to that main question again about motive. now, at the same time, this community is still in shock, and they're still trying to just comfort each other. we saw a lot of that as the procession of the three hearses carrying the bodies of the three victims in this attack went back to the naval base. and those three victims are going to be reunited with their family, but it was an emotional time as people stood along the streets carrying flags, saluting, taking off their hats to these three victims.

certainly pensacola still trying to recover from what happened on friday morning. back to you guys. >> and after that funeral procession that brynn mentioned, the u.s. military held a solemn transfer ceremony for the three slain sailors, just a few hours ago, their remains were carried out of a military plane and received at dover air force base earlier, analyst mark hertling spoke about the life and work of the fallen servicemen. >> you are first of all ensign caleb watson. this is a young man who was trying to decide what kind of officer he was going to be. was he going to be a marine or a navy s.e.a.l. or a pilot? he finally determined that he wanted to be a pilot. that's a tough call when you're a senior at the naval academy to determine where you're going to go. from all accounts, this young man was quite the hero and in

fact reports from the scene said that he was shot five times as he attempted to wrestle the gun away from the shooter before he crawled outside the folks what s going on inside. then you had airman mohammed hatham, who was from st. petersburg florida, right down the road from pensacola. would have turned 20, 20 years old a week from tomorrow. that's how young this young fro and from all indicators, he was just a superstar. then finally you had airman cam walters from georgia. just out of boot camp in great lakes, illinois. 19 years old, i believe, and just had his entire life in front of him. of course all three of them have left families and loved ones in a great deal of despair tonight. but these are the kind of young people that are in the military, selfless servants, ready to serve their country, and it's just tragic that something like this would occur. but i think we ought to all

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police say at least one person has died after a volcano erupted on white island in new zealand with the death toll expected to climb. dozens of people were on the island at the time of the eruption. around 30 of them were tourists from cruise liner ovation of the seas. and a short time ago we received this image from john arietta. he told cnn he left white island one hour before the eruption. president donald trump is warning north korean leader kim jong-un he could lose their, quote, special relationship. this comes a day after north korea claimed it successfully conducted an important test at a missile site. mr. trump also tweeted kim jong-un is, quote, too smart and has far too much to lose if he acts in a hostile way. our paula hancocks joins us

now live from seoul in south korea with more on this. paula, good to see you. of course the big question that everyone wants answered is what exactly was this very important test that north korea says it launched? >> reporter: well, rosemary, we haven't had official confirmation from north korea at this point. that usually comes about 24 hours after the initial reports, potentially photos of what was tested. the speculation among -- the educated speculation among many experts is it was probably something like an engine test. satellite images seen by cnn just last week, last thursday, did show that at this area, there were preparations under way, it appeared, according to those satellite images, of such a test. so this is what it is assumed to be. we don't have confirmation at this point. we do need to wait for pyongyang to announce it itself. what we did hear from pyongyang on sunday local time was that it was a success.

it was a significant test, saying that it will change the strategic position of north korea in the near future. and this will play into as well north korea's threat of this end of year deadline for the united states, and the united states has to change its attitude, has to deal with north korea in a different way or north korea will take a different path. just recently as well saying there could be some kind of christmas gift for the u.s., but it's up to them what kind of gift it is. so we've certainly been hearing these fairly clear threats that there was going to be something tested. now, whether or not this engine test, if that is what it is, is the gift that they were referring to, we simply don't know or whether that is a prelude to something more serious. this would be used for a satellite launcher, or an icbm with the potential to hit mainland united states. that sort of test would be something that president trump and washington would be far more

concerned about than what we've seen in recent months. rosemary? >> and, paula, north korea now says that denuclearization is off the table. what does that signal, and how might kim jong-un respond to president trump's warning that this and the test could end the special relationship between the two leaders? >> reporter: well, it is starting to sound a little familiar at this point, rosemary. i mean certainly we had some ferr fair rhetoric between these two leaders in the past. it was the ambassador from north korea to the united nations who said that denuclearization is off the table and who also said north korea is not interested in having talks with the united states. there had been efforts, we understand, for more working-level talks, the likes of which we saw back in october between the u.s. and north korea in sweden. the u.s. said they went fairly well. north korea said they didn't go well. so they certainly weren't on the same page at that point. but this is making it clear from

north korea's point of view that they don't necessarily want those kind of talks, and many experts and observers say that kim jong-un is used to talking to the man at the top. he's used to talking to president trump himself, so may not necessarily be interested in these lower-level talks. >> we shall watch to see what happens next. paula hancocks bringing us the very latest from seoul in south korea. many thanks. well, hong kong's pro-democracy movement has called for new strikes in a bid to keep pressure on the city's government. this comes after activists held a massive rally on sunday to mark six months since the unrest began. thousands of people marched, bringing parts of the city to a standstill. it was the first time in months police approved an event by the civil human rights front, one of the main protest groups. in lebanon, a man poured gasoline on his body and set himself on fire during a protest on saturday.

state news reports that protesters helped put out the fire, but the man suffered moderate burns. demonstrations erupted in october over a plunging economy and have since triggered demands for a new government. the economic crisis in lebanon has become so severe, people are struggling to get enough work and food. cnn's ben wedeman takes us to the northern city of tripoli to show us how people are banding together to help each other survive. >> reporter: the kitchen of the revolution, as they call it, is open, feeding up to 2,000 people every evening in tripoli, lebanon's second largest city. linda runs the kitchen with an iron fist. the people of tripoli have stepped in to fill the vacuum left by a government widely accused of corruption and incompetence. the revolution happened because everyone's lives have been destroyed, says linda.

the government robbed us. people have become poor. nearby, another group of volunteers hands out used clothing. the poverty rate in tripoli has more than doubled in the last ten years and is twice the national average. there are many reasons behind this protest movement. some people call it a revolution, and one of them is that many people simply can't make ends meet. no more so than in tripoli's old city, where we met the kashif family. usura feeds a 16-year-old, mentally and physically disabled since birth. prior to the outbreak of nationwide mass protests, mohammed was a daily worker in a furniture factory. i was able to earn every day just enough for food and drink, he says. but now nothing. i begged the boss, give me two

days' work a week. the boss said no. the family, already among the poorest of lebanon's poor, has reached rock bottom. nawal's daughters have stayed at home while their father is out searching for work. for this mother of four, the protests have made their already difficult life even harder. the crisis has gotten worse, says nawal. everything is more expensive. how can a family live, she asks. a question many here are asking and for which no one has an answer. ben wedeman, cnn, tripoli, northern lebanon. intense winds and heavy rain, madagascar is bracing for impact as a tropical cyclone nears the island. when it's expected to make landfall. we'll take a look at that. that's next. i'm your 70lb st. bernard puppy,

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well, madagascar is bracing for impact as a tropical cyclone nears the country. the storm has been intensifying as it moves through the indian ocean, bringing with it strong winds and heavy rain. so let's turn to our meteorologist pedram javaheri who joins us from the international weather center with all the details. and of course the big worry is just how bad will this likely be? >> you know, it's a pretty strong storm system. as you noted, it has been getting stronger in recent days. the concern is these coastal communities. they've dealt with plenty of tropical cyclones over the past decades but this one coming ashore potentially gets up to a category 3 equivalent system. belna sitting there across the commora islands, just off the coast of mozambique. we think within the next 24 or so hours, the storm system approaches and makes landfall. potentially again, a category 2

to category 3 strength. beyond that, it works its way over a mountainous area of elevated terrain which will kind of shred this system apart. in recent years we have had some strong systems that have caused some strong damage. kamisy caused significant damage, so when you watch a system of this magnitude, you know heavy rainfall and potential for significant damage is in place. you don't have to go too far away here. toward the reunion island region and this particular island is just east of madagascar has the world record. very unique distinction here. has not only the most rainfall observed over a seven day period, which is 5,400 millimeters of rainfall. so when you kind of talk about elevated terrain in these very mountainous islands and of course madagascar is the second largest island nation in the

world behind areas across the indian ocean. so when you kind of put this in place, this is an area very susceptible to all of this, rosemary. >> thank you so much, pedram, for keeping a close eye on all of that. appreciate it. well, the u.n. climate change conference in madrid is now in its second week, and u.s. businesses and leaders attending the event are trying to let the world know that they are still committed to sustainability despite the u.s. government beginning the process to withdraw from the paris agreement. so let's turn to cnn's arwa damon. she joins us live from madrid. good to see you, arwa. how much has been achieved so far at this summit, and what might the expectations be overall? >> reporter: well, there's still a lot of back-door negotiating that is going on although ministers are arriving at this stage. and even though this c.o.p. is not necessarily being billed as one of the so-called

decision-making c.o.p.s, what happens here is critical, especially in light of the science that has emerged over the last year or so. now, to help us understand all of this, i'm joined by an individual with the global climate group 350.org. we're seeing this sort of disconnect, it would seem, between the science and what's happening on the ground and the speed of the negotiations that are happening behind closed doors at the government level. why is that the case, and what is actually at stake? >> first of all, the stakes are huge. what we get to see nowadays is the fact that the climate change is already happening, is already real and something that we're seeing unfold everywhere, all over the world. people are impacted. we've just seen, for example, a report come out from oxfam describing how we know for a fact that approximately 20 million people every year are forced from their homes because of climate-induced impacts. there's a huge disconnect

between what the political process is aabout and what the reality on the ground is. you've seen millions of people take to the ground. just this past september, mobilizations saw 7.6 people take to the streets demanding real climate action. this process isn't really speaking to or addressing the real causes of emissions, right? if we want to explain why we are at this point of the climate crisis, we need to be looking at things like emissions from our dependency on fossil fuels. but then you look at what the process is delivering on and what kind of commitments the governments are putting on the table, there is nothing that puts us on a quick and fair and just transition away from fossil fuels. we're still in a situation where the industry is very much present in the process, very much having access to the governments and very much able to protect its interests so that we do not have the quick transition away from fossil fuels that is very urgently required. >> reporter: so what can we do to help move this process along

because if the status quo continues, if these committee issues get kicked down the road to next year, we're talking about being in an even more critical situation than we're in today despite the efforts on the levels of the consumers and despite the efforts at some of the corporate levels as well. we can't do this on our own without federal government buy-in. >> absolutely. what we need to see are real commitments by governments to both phase out fossil fuels and to also cut the finance that still flows to fossil fuels. you'll see for example government subsidies in the billions every year supporting this industry where now we're in a situation where need to see a drastic shift away from supporting this industry financially, from investing in this industry, and really be able to open up the opportunities that we know exist already and being able to set up renewables as a viable alternative that will both address the climate issues but also safeguard the communities that are being impacted and the opportunities that need to be

created around it, whether it's new jobs or whether it's actually being able to provide currently parts of the developing world that need access to energy. all of these things can be addressed holistically if we open up these opportunities. >> thank you very much. and a lot of other issues we've been talking to with other participants in this c.o.p. are also centering around this notion that we need a revolution when it comes to how we're consuming fossil fuels, when it comes to be looing looking at r energy. these kinds of changes might seem drastic, but they're actually not. they're very doable, and not doing them is going to impact all of us. >> all right. many thanks to you, joining us there from madrid, arwa damon. we'll take a short break here. still to come, britain's labor party leader, jeremy corbyn, is not giving up. he's hoping to rally enough supporters to beat the conservative party on election day. we're back with that in just a moment. esses like this,

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election. phil black has our report. >> reporter: round two for jeremy corbyn, the labor leader who in 2017 defied his unelectable reputation by losing. just by a smaller margin than most predicted. his hugely passionate supporters hope he can do better this time. but he's shedding fans too in places like this. the so-called red wall, labor's traditional working-class heartland. parts of the country that overwhelmingly voted for brexit. here the verdict from lifelong labor voters can be scathing. >> it's not so much labor is -- what's the bloke's name? c corbyn, is it? he's an idiot. >> don't like him? >> i don't like him at all. >> labor don't have a chance

unless they get rid of that corbyn. >> >> reporter: it's not just the man. it's his brexit policy. the party and its voters are divided. so corbyn has decided not to take sides. he's offering a second referendum where he, as prime minister, would stay neutral. >> we don't need a coward. there's too many cowards, and jeremy corbyn's a coward. >> reporter: that strength of feeling means other parties now sense opportunity. the conservatives are fighting to win places they've been locked out of for decades. >> we're going to go on fighting until we get it. >> reporter: and the brexit party is feeling cocky about taking labor seats too. this represents your push into essentially labor territory, a labor fortress. what can you realistically expect to achieve? >> in seats around here where 70% of the people voted leave in the referendum 3 1/2 years ago, they're now represented by labor

m.p.s who are standing on a ticket saying you must have a second referendum because you got it wrong the first time. >> reporter: jeremy corbyn likes to say his brexit policy is sensible, the adult thing to do. >> let's take this out of the hands of the politicians and give the british people the final say. it's time to bring our divided country together. >> reporter: but he knows bench sitting on brexit won't be enough to win power, so he's taken all the popular ideas from his 2017 campaign and turned them up to 11. >> this manifesto is -- and i'm proud of it -- the most radical and ambitious plan to transform our country for decades. >> reporter: labor's plan, tax businesses and high incomes. borrow, spend, and invest on an extraordinary scale. >> we'll rebuild our schools, our hospitals, care homes, and the housing so desperately

needed. >> reporter: corbyn's other key tactic is designed to scare. >> his toxic deal with donald trump -- >> reporter: weaponizing donald trump. >> we will never let donald trump get his hands on our nhs. >> reporter: corbyn likes to remind voters trump is tight with conservative leader boris johnson, and he claims they're plotting to give u.s. companies greater access to britain's most beloved institution, the national health service. both trump and johnson have denied this repeatedly. why are you doing that? why do you believe it's politically advantageous? >> i think we're absolutely right to analyze this and point it out in this election campaign. you vote for boris johnson, you get a trade deal with the usa and all the implications that go with it. >> reporter: since taking over labor more than four years ago, corbyn has successfully worked to remake the party in his image, to realign it with his acutely left-wing world view. >> it's time for real change.

>> reporter: this election is almost certainly his last chance to convince voters he should be allowed to do the same to the whole country. phil black, cnn, london. >> thanks for joining us. i'm rosemary church. i'll be back with more news in just a moment. you're watching cnn. do stay with us.

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