about. i have to tell you. and winter wallop. millions across the south are about to get hammered by ice, snow, and sleet. >> if anyone is definitely guaranteed to get hit, it's the north carolina area up through norfolk and richmond and in the southern portions of maryland and delaware. about 25 million people are impacted by this latest winter storm. and good day. i'm andrea mitchell in washington. right now more than 200,000 federal workers within homeland security are hoping congressional leaders can come to their senses get a bill to fund the department, and get it to the president's desk before a shutdown that could start as early as friday midnight. nbc's luke russert and kelly o'donnell join me live from capitol hill. we've been through this dance before kelly, but every time it

happens, americans, voters viewers are watching and reading and saying what is going on in washington? the latest now is the senate and the house in this complicated tangle that's both bipartisan and bicameral. >> and it is a sort of who will blink first sort of game at this point. and part of it is the strategy. neither side wants to be left on the, you know, proverbial holding the bag. what we expect now is that senate democrats will meet this hour and talk about their options. in some way, the choice ought to be easy. mitch mcconnell is giving them what they wanted an opportunity to vote on a clean funding bill so that the department of homeland security would be fully funded through the year and then friday a second vote which would be for conservatives who want to be able to register their concern about the president's immigration executive orders. and there's some democrats who have been outspoken about that as well. so a two-step process. harry reid has been very reluctant to say yes and to give

mitch mcconnell sort of the hurry-up ability to do that because he doesn't know what house speaker john boehner can actually deliver. so you've got a real game of mistrust and of strategy and typically what we've seen is they usually use all the time available. and that is in part a lever to get people to go along and to do what seems so obvious to the public, fund the department and move on. but there are many conservatives who believe that this path of trying to challenge the president on immigration is something they should not give up easily. so this is about leadership in terms of both parties and how they can come through for their members, and by extension their voters. i can tell you a senior republican senator said to me today, he campaigned all over the country to try to help get a majority in the senate, and he wasn't doing that to see this sort of standoff. so there's frustration in both parties about how to get this done in time. andrea? >> and you've got senate democrats, as you say, who are

ready to peel off from the president and vote against his executive order on immigration with the second vote they've been promised at least by harry reid. luke, what about the speaker? this is what he had to say today. >> i'm waiting for the senate to act. so when the senate does something, we're in a wait-and-see mode. i'm waiting for the senate to pass a bill. i'm waiting for the senate to act. the house has passed a bill to fund the department. it's time for the senate to do their job. >> and some of the senators are saying that the reason for their reluctance is they're not sure if it goes over to the house that the speaker could pass it. >> yeah, it's almost like speaker boehner is doing his marshawn lynch imitation there, andrea saying the same thing a variety of 50 times. that the senate has acted. a few things we should point out. number one, we learned today that mitch mcconnell and john boehner have not spoken to each other formally in two weeks. they're on the same team here in

this debate. they have not spoken to each other. so that just shows you how far apart the house and senate are right now. if the two republican leaders in the respective chambers are not talking. now, as far as what's going to happen, obviously as kelly mentioned, the senate democrats have their meeting today. they're going to see if they want to go forward on the mcconnell plan. i think john boehner has three options. number one he can go forward with the mcconnell plan butt a clean department of homeland security bill on the house floor. i was told by two house members who are good at counting the votes they would get about 65 to 75 republican votes. all the democratic votes. it goes forward, they're fine. if he does that it angers the conservatives. that's his other option. hold the line fight right here go against president obama on his immigration executive actions, and on this stage right now conservative media will love it. the house conservative fractions within the conference will love it. and they will totally be behind him. but at the risk of doing that aside from a shutdown is it makes president obama look

better, and that's what the polling has indicated. number three and i think this is where we're going to end up do some sort of stop-gap measure, which weather it be weeks or months that allows the department of homeland security to be funded and perhaps tie that funding to what happens to the court process regarding those immigration executive actions or perhaps they join a lawsuit to the existing ones that are already going to the courts, a formal one by the house. those seem to be john boehner's three options. none of them look particularly good, but you're really seeing the different tier in the chamber. mitch mcconnell is trying to give them cover on this. this looks bad two months into the republicans' takeover of congress. john boehner has a very aggressive conservative faction within his house conference. he wants to allow them the opportunity to scream and yell because those are the people that could prohibit him holding on to his speakership. there's been talk about that,

talk of a coup. i don't think that's going to happen, but it shows you the pressure john boehner is dealing with. >> what i can't figure out, kelly, why aren't mitch mcconnell and boehner talking? are they working through deputies or colleagues? who's negotiating among the republican leaders? >> it's so striking. normally there's no daylight between mitch mcconnell and john boehner on issues like that. they both can usually see the end game and usually have three legislative maneuvers in their pocket ahead of the curve. so that is unusual. i think there has long been and it has nothing to do with the current players, but there's an entrenched mistrust between the house and the senate that goes back to the beginning of our founding fathers, where the house is always frustrated with the senate and vice versa. so staff-level conversations going on but part of this is trying to pressure the senate to act. with democrats who were in control last year and now are in the minority position but still

wield power because they have to deliver some votes to get just about anything done in the senate. so you've got to have cooperation from senate democrats for mitch mcconnell to be able to act on most things. and so that adds a different dynamic. in the house the republicans have much bigger numbers. they can move things. but it's all about the math. it's all about people's home turf. as luke pointed out, so many of the outside forces, conservative groups and conservative radio and those sorts of voices in the conservative movement, don't want to see caving by republicans and are very frustrated with elected officials in the republican party. democrats have been able to watch this ride out a bit, seeing most of the pressure on republicans. democrats have a limited window now when they're going to have to act and presumably agree to vote on this clean bill and see what happens. we don't yet know which way it's going to go but there will be pressure on democrats now too. >> kelly and luke i hope you

don't have weekend plans. this is going to go until the end. >> we're all looking ahead to that, yes. >> i know. thanks so much. and we'll be talking. today we are hearing, though, from the families of chris kyle and chad littlefield about the emotional struggle they've endured over two years since both men were shot to death. on tuesday night, of course a texas jury took less than three hours to deliberate and find ex-marine eddie ray routh guilty of murdering kyle and littlefield in 2013. the trial grabbed headlines as chris kyle had become nationally known with the success of "american sniper." based on kyle's experiences over four tours it of duty in iraq and his adjustment to life back home when he first returned to texas years before his death. and for the first time now, we're hearing from the witnesses in the trial including this emotional testimony from taya kyle, chris kyle's widow. >> when did you last see chris

that day? >> we were at the house, and we were both trying to hurry and get to where we were supposed to go. so he had gone around the house one way to try to find me. like comedy eventually we found each other in the hallway. we just said we loved each other and gave each other a kis and hug like we always did. >> the verdict was an emotional victory for chad littlefield's family. this morning in an exclusive interview with savannah guthrie, they described the joy they felt last night and how they will remember their son and brother. >> he wanted to help the vets as they came back home. he was he wasn't a veteran himself, but he would always talk to us about, i want to help these men that are coming home in any way i can. >> chris served overseas and chad served when they came back. he had a passion for veterans.

but then chad was always a helping hand, you know. he was a rock. >> former congressman patrick murphy is an iraq war veteran and host of "taking the hill" here on msnbc. congressman, thank you very much for being with us. i know i saw you immediately after the verdict last night. i was very struck by how compassionate you were about eddie routh and the man who had just been convicted here and what he may have gone through as a former marine just how sad this is for everyone. everyone involved. >> yeah andrea. it's a tragedy. i'm happy that justice was served. but that verdict yesterday doesn't bring back chris and chad. it doesn't. they're gone. and, you know, now another marine, his life is ruined. he's going to be in jail for the rest of his life.

and that's part of the justice system. but at the end of the day, you know, it just breaks your heart because these two marines were helping another marine get back and try and reintegrate back into society. a marine that was clearly struggling. and this verdict, although just just, you know, the whole situation is just an absolute tragedy. >> and of course tragic for the littlefield family. they had to be silent. they didn't want to speak at all in these two years because they didn't want to jeopardize the trial and the jury's decision. so in this interview with savannah guthrie, his brother, gary richardson also spoke and revealed for the first time the fact that he had been a high school teacher of eddie routh. let's watch. >> do you think he was mentally ill, or do you think this was all an act? >> it was all an act.

i taught him in high school and that's new out there. everybody that knows me remembers that i worked with him. that's just the way he was. he never grew up. he was still just defiant. he had nothing wrong in the mind except for the drug use. >> that's jerry richardson littlefield's brother. so they clearly -- i mean, understandably, they don't buy the insanity defense and neither did the jury. >> yeah and listen, there was a lot of factors andrea. eddie routh, the fact he stole the car and was driving away. it shows he knew right and wrong. and other things. that's really the standard. at that time did he know whether it was right or wrong. let's be clear. he was being seen by the va for -- they thought he was

schizophrenic. he was in there, you know, at least a half dozen times. he saw things. that morning, you know, he was grabbing a japanese sword. he was going through issues. and lost in all of this andrea is that we're in the middle of the longest war in american history, and we've asked less than 1% of america to bear an incredible burden. 2.6 million americans have served either in iraq or afghanistan. eddie routh, he served in iraq then went to haiti, where 200,000 civilians were killed during the earthquake. you know when you see war, when you see combat it changes people. frankly, about 80% of the people are fine. in fact i'm a believer of post-traumatic growth. it makes them do great and wonderful things. i'm the first to admit, you know, i was a blue-collar kid from northeastern philadelphia. there's no way i would have been a u.s. congressman at age 33 if

it wasn't for my time my two deployments and what west point did for me. but there's 20% of veterans who are falling through the cracks. and we have an ethic in the military that we leave no one behind. that has to be expanded across our country, that we can't leave any of these veterans behind. far too many are. 22 suicides every day. every night, andrea there's 49,000 veterans who are homeless in the streets of america. i mean we have a lot of work to do. >> that is for sure. thank you so much for bringing it back to that. thank you. always good to see you, patrick. >> you too. >> and president obama is about to leave washington for miami today. he'll be holding a town hall meeting there hosted by msnbc's jose diaz bye lart. jose will have a preview coming up. but first -- >> looblgk, if you don't tell anybody, i am obviously talking to a lot of people thinking

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and as women, let's do more to help all women lead on and succeed. what you do does not have to be big and dramatic. you don't have to run for office. although, if you do, more power to you. >> at a women's conference in silicon valley tuesday night, what had been obamater territory is

where hillary clinton woke. she's been shadowed by another prominent woman, elizabeth warren. joining me now is robert gibbs, former white house press secretary and msnbc contributor. robert of course an original obama staff person all the way. so back then silicon valley was your stomping grounds. i mean they loved obama. now they even have many of them, more reasons, libertarians, those concerned about her more hawkish foreign policies, nsa oversight. the tech industry has some real reason to be lukewarm to her, let's say. >> well i think lukewarm to the obama administration as well. obviously the encryption in the nsa debates that were had as a result of the edward snowden leaks have changed a lot about what silicon valley is from their perspective rightly concerned about.

it's not going to be, i think, as easy a place as it might have been for democrats eight years ago. >> what do you think about the themes that she's road testing? here she is and it was a really, you know, strong performance just looking at it as political drama, no notes, no teleprompter. she's walking around the stage, does a q&a with kara swisher. >> great reporter. >> she's talking to women in technology about both working-class women and their needs and the high end, the elites for whom she says it still could be career ending or career detouring to take time out. >> no i think, look yesterday's performance was impressive. clearly she talked about herself, talked about the issues she's been involved with for decades. she wove in great personal anecdotes about her parents and grandparents in a way that i think give you a sense of who

hillary clinton is more than just as a senator and first lady and secretary of state, but who she is as a person. we've seen the references to being a mother and grandmother grow on the trail. i think she's really honing in on this message of opportunity and middle class economics in a way that i think is really going to be the battleground message obviously in 2016. >> and in 2007 2008 it was the 3:00 a.m. phone call and trying to prove she could be commander in chief and she was tough and could be as tough as a man because she had to show that a woman could be credible in the oval office. this time she's talking about gender. and these are legitimate issues as she points out, as you point out. for her, these are issues that have been her issues all her life. but this time she's really playing to them as change. >> it was interesting. i look back on some of the quotes the hillary campaign had said about not emphasizing her gender. i was even struck this many

years later at how much they walked away from the person that she was and the issues that she had fought for, for so many years, long before she ever got to washington as the first lady. i think what clearly this project now in the campaign or the beginning stages of this campaign is to weave that biography much more into who she is as a candidate. it's not just about, you know, not just the elected or first-lady type and secretary of state offices she's held. it's really about who she is as a person. i think that's the type of authenticity that voters are really looking for. >> i mean, you're not making it up when you talk about telling your law partner, the managing law partner, first of all being pregnant, unacknowledged. she talked about how people were averting their eyes when she was pregnant with chelsea as she got bigger and bigger. finally she had the baby. the next day she gets a call from the managing partner. congratulations, when are you

going to be back at work? she said she was taking four months off. she was privileged enough to do that with unpaid leave. weaving all of that in, interestingly, but then there's elizabeth warren. at the same time hillary clinton is speaking she was on with reverend al. this is what she had to say when he asked her, is he progressive enough clinton. >> i think that's what we got to see. i'm going to hear what she wants to run on and what she says she wants to do. that's what campaigns are supposed to be about. >> there she was on the hill with elijah cummings talking about homeland security and the rest. she had this sort of mini summit with hillary clinton at the white haven house here where presumably they talked about all this, and she's still willing to go there and question hillary clinton's legitimacy to a broad wing of the political base. >> i take elizabeth warren at her word. i think most people do that she's not going to run. i think she's decided the role she can best play in this election, not as a candidate, is

to pull hillary clinton in the direction of the issues that she cares about. so i think this is a comment that if i were on the hillary campaign i'd get used to hearing a lot. what it does is every day it sort of sets that bar back up again of are you with us on a certain number of issues. i will say this. i think, you know, hillary clinton has never been -- and we've seen very few nonincumbent presidents that have been in a position that they're in that she's in this year to be the nominee. there's not a divisive intraparty issue like iraq. there isn't a field that's going to be like it was in 2008 with with a whole host of candidates not just then-senator obama. i think she's got a much much clearer path but clearly elizabeth warren has decide the the role she's going to play in this race is somebody to push her on a series of agenda items. >> and very briefly, rahm emanuel having to face a runoff. >> it's an interesting thing in the first year of 20 years of

nonpartisan elections in chicago. i'd say there's two things. great coverage in the chicago papers on this today. i was struck by a couple things mark brown of "the sun times" had to said. every one of these votes yet was about rahm either for or against. that is less so in a runoff. that means chewy garcia rahm's opponent, is going to have to put a plan forward. the real battle now will be unaffiliated african-american voters that went with the third-place candidate that are now going to be up for grabs. rahm's certainly the favorite, but you never want to end up in a runoff. >> really interesting politics in chicago. >> always. >> thank you so much robert. very good to see you. and there have been three arrests in new york, men accused of planning to go overseas to join isis. nbc news justice correspondent pete williams joins us with this breaking story. pete? >> andrea good day. federal authorities arrested one of them at jfk airport this morning, who they say was going to fly to turkey and then try to get to syria. all three are charged with providing material support to a

terror group or conspiracy to do it namely isis. this appears, andrea from our first look at the court documents that we've just obtained here is that the feds became aware of this in august of last year when one of the men, who's a 24-year-old resident of brooklyn a lawful permanent resident from uzbekistan, wrote on a website about his willingness to carry out terror attacks, including even shooting the president if he was ordered to do so. the fbi apparently interviewed him in august of last year and he said yes, if isil ordered him to shoot the president of the united states, he would do it. and he said apparently to the fbi, according to the court document, it wouldn't matter whether the order came from al baghdadi the head of ayeisis or anybody else in the organization. that apparently led to the other two. they're all charged with trying to either go to syria to join

isis or supporting others in the group who wanted to go to isis or plotting attacks here if they couldn't get there, andrea. >> pete williams who i know you're going to be following up on that. and there's also breaking news from amman, jordan where the u.s. embassy has issued an alert after what it calls credible threats against high-end malls. the exact type of threat is unknown. u.s. embassy employees and family members have been told to avoid those locations in jordan's capital as a precaution. the immigration fight in washington is topic one for the presidential town hall in miami today. president obama is on his way there right now, where our jose diaz diaz-balart is standing by at the ready. you're watching msnbc. you owned your car for four years. you named it brad. you loved brad. and then you totaled him. you two had been through everything together. two boyfriends. three jobs. you're like "nothing can replace brad!"

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democrats like joe manchin, are ready to abandon the president if they can get that separate vote. and a federal court in texas has already ruled against the executive order. as all these politics play out and as we watch the president going from marine one to air force one to fly to miami, the future is hanging in the balance for as many as 5 million undocumented immigrants. and now the president's going to have to answer some tough questions on all of this. our own jose diaz-balart will be hosting an exclusive town hall today on immigration from the campus of florida international university. the president's making his way there right now to you, jose. you're all ready. you're going to be hosting this. what we're going to see here is a real chance on the rundown and on msnbc and telemundo to see him fielding questions on perhaps the most important issue facing the question right now as the demographics change and as we have these legal battles. >> yeah, andrea indeed.

it's going to be one hour tonight at 8:00 p.m. on msnbc, 7:00 p.m. on telemu in,ndo. kind of unusual, a never before done thing. a town hall meeting in two different languages at two different times on separate networks. but it's the opportunity to sit down with the president and go in depth, to understand where he sees the situation of immigration. as we know he took some executive actions late last year. that would benefit, as you said up to 5.5 million undocumented folks living in the united states of america. that has temporarily been frozen by a judge in texas. everything seems up in the air. we also see, as you mentioned, the funding issue of dhs that runs out on friday. and it has again to do with the president's executive actions. all of these issues we're going to be discussing. but the other important thing that we're going to be able to do is have people that are affected, directly affected by what's going on ask questions to the president directly.

it's an opportunity for them to be able to speak to the president and the president to speak -- to hear from them directly. that's going to be tonight at 8:00 p.m. here on msnbc. >> so who's going to be in the audience? >> well, there's going to be a whole lot of folks that have in one way or another been affected by immigration reform. dreamers folks -- military veterans folks that have been fighting for immigration reform for many many years. and a lot of folks that simply some students here at fiu, florida international university, this is a campus that has more than 60% minority attendance. it graduates folks from all over the world and of course latinos in the united states in law, in medicine, in all kinds of different expertise areas. they're all going to be at this town hall meeting tonight. and many of them are going to be asking questions to the president directly and also a lot of the folks that have been

watching us on msnbc and telemundo that have used our hashtag to send us questions they would like the president to be asked. they will also be able to participate tonight. it's going to be a very interesting group and i hope a conversation that leads us to an in-depth conversation about something that really is important to a lot of people. >> and you are such an analyst. what is the risk for the republicans to be perceived as going against the executive order? they're making it a case, they say, of legality of presidential authority, overstepping the bounds. is there a risk to republicans to be taking this very strong stance against the executive order? >> well that's a very good question andrea. you have to remember in the last presidential election president obama got 71% of the latino vote. if 12 million or 13 million latinos vote and a candidate gets 71% of that voting block,

that's pretty significant. if there are tight races, you know, 71% of 12 million people could have a pretty important impact on races. i think going forward in these next two years until the presidential election a lot of people will be watching not only what they do but how people talk about it. words matter andrea. and we're going to meet them tonight. we have people who are here and under the deferred action of the president granted some years ago, allowed to stay and their mothers or fathers are facing deportations as we speak. words matter and how people focus on it certainly makes a difference. >> those are the human stories. we're really looking forward to this. congratulations, jose. this is going to be a great opportunity. i'm so glad you're at the helm. we'll all be watching. the town hall with president obama moderated exclusive byly jose diaz-balart is airing tonight at 8:00 eastern on msnbc, 7:00 on telemundo.

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pile here. the state of georgia has about 40,000 tons of the stuff. they plan to use it to treat some of the roads today to try and prevent some of those icy conditions. they don't use just gravel. they also use brine as well as salt and sand. some of that mixture is over there. now, this is all because local officials are very careful to avoid the issues that happened after last year's ice storm, last january, you might remember, where drivers were stuck in their cars for hours. kids were forced to sleep in their schools overnight. the snowplows, they're out and ready to go here in the atlanta area. the mayor just had a news conference a short time ago where he discussed his plan. he wants people to reunite with their families before 2:00 p.m. at 2:00 p.m., he wants businesses to let go of their employees for the afternoon. everyone basically to hunker down at 4:00. this might not sound like a whole lot of snow. north of atlanta, only 2 to 4 inches are forecast.

but here in the south, this is a big deal. as the mayor put it they'd rather be safe than sorry. >> it's a wise precaution. thank you very much gabe. and the driver of the truck abandoned on the train tracks in oxnard, california which led to yesterday's fiery collision with a commuter train, has been charged with a felony hit and run. jose sanchez ramirez drove the truck for several yards on to the tracks before it became stuck. he then walked away from the truck as the train approached. 28 people were injured in that collision. sanchez ramirez has been cited for multiple driving violations. he was convicted back in 1998 for driving under the influence. and there are about 2,000 railroad crossing accidents in the u.s. each year. 239 people were killed last year alone. nbc's miguel almaguer joins me now from san diego with the latest on the crash. >> andrea the national transportation safety board is on scene today. they have recovered the audio and video recordings aboard the

train in the wreckage. those are being sent to washington, d.c., to be analyzed. investigators say it appears the truck driver who's being held on $150,000 bail and has been charged with felony hit and run, they say it appears he simply drove on to the tracks and then fled the scene. he was taken into custody 1.6 miles away from where this incident took place. investigators will remain on scene here probably through the week combing through the wreckage trying to re-create what happened here. later on this afternoon, they say they hope to re-create the line of sight the truck driver had and the train operator had. this investigation could take several months. andrea, back to you. >> and thanks to miguel almaguer. and now to that mystery in the skies over paris, causing serious security concerns in a city already on edge. for the second straight night, drones were spotted flying over those famous landmarks from the eiffel tower to the american embassy. an investigation is under way. nbc news chief global

correspondent bill nealy has the latest from paris. >> good morning from a city that was until recently so famously relaxed. well not anymore. paris is a city on edge and uneasy. it began, of course with last month's terror attacks. but last night police and people spotted more mystery drones above the city. and they're now asking is there a new threat from above? for the last two nights police have spotted mystery drones it over five landmark locations. first over the american embassy, the eiffel tower, the military museum and finally over the bastille. police couldn't tell if it was one or multiple drones or who the controller was, and they couldn't bring one down. there have never been so many sightings two nights running. >> it can be used for surveillance. they can be used in propaganda films.

i think that's a real concern. >> but in recent weeks, mystery drones have also buzzed the presidential palace nuclear plants, and military bases. in a country fearful of terrorism after last month's attacks in paris that left 17 people dead. and it's not just paris that's worried. last month in washington a drone flew above the white house and crashed into the lawn. >> the biggest risk in a drone is that you would pack it with explosives, with a detonateing device and ride it into a large group of people. >> paris is still on the highest security alert after more threats by islamists to target the city. the unexplained flight of drones is raising tensions further. police here are still guarding key sites on the ground seen here in footage previously posted online but they fail to capture any of the drones. paris is looking to the skies

anxiously to see who might be watching flying and why. now, you might think there must be an innocent explanation for all of this. this can't be serious. and that may well be the case. but the police here are taking this very seriously, and they've set up a new aviation unit to deal with drones. paris is in no mood to trust anyone or leave anything to chance. back to you. >> understandably. of course the situation in washington with the drone at the white house was an accident. in fact, an intelligence agency employee just flying a drone out his window who lost control. but of course it has raised serious concerns about the possibility of risks. and here at home, the republican shakeout in iowa. a new poll coming up next. you're watching "andrea mitchell reports" only on msnbc. over the next 40 years the united states population is going to grow by over 90 million people and almost all the growth is going to be in cities. what's the healthiest and best way for them to grow so that they really become cauldrons of prosperity

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a new quinnipiac poll of iowa caucus goers shows that wisconsin governor scott walker from neighboring wisconsin has a big lead over his nearest republican rivals in iowa. is that the result of his recent tilt toward conservative and evangelical iowa voters? joining me now for our daily fix, chris cillizza and susan page, washington bureau chief of "usa today." welcome, both. chris, the quinn pee -- quinnipiac, this is such an early poll. as susan and i were saying hitting a sweet spot between the wings of the party. >> i think he had a lot of the establishment for lack of a better word. so the business conservative side with the stuff he did with public employee unions in wisconsin. there was a recall effort he beat back and won re-election. i think what people in iowa are starting to learn about him, and

this has been true this is not a 2016 conversion he is quite good on issues that matter to social conservatives. he's talked very regularly about god and god's role in deciding whether he ultimately runs or not. so he is there right now. i would also say i think people are still looking around. he's the it guy right now. i think there's a lot of fluidity in the field. look, you're better to be at 25 than at 5, but -- >> right. and the other election which is a lot sooner, is the israeli election. while americans may not care that much about what happens in israel, boy are the politics heating up between bibi netanyahu and the democrats. the democrats feinstein and durbin offered him a private meeting to try to make peace, get his views on the iran nuclear negotiations, but not be in public at the speech, which they think is a big mistake. he said thanks but no thanks.

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