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with everything trumpaysr does,ut i do now at we now have a choice, a choice between two ve unpopul candidaesery unpopular. do i agree with a lot of things trump says? no. >> you sound -- i know you're voting for him. if the weren't a supreme court vacancy, would you be? >> absolutely. i think eight years of barack obama's administration is enough. and one thing we know for sure is that hillary clinton will be four more years just like the last eight. all the slow growth, america is clearly underperforming. and i think we need to go in a different directi, and whatever you think aboutonald trump, he's certainly a different direction. i think that's what the country needs. >> you know, y -- in your book, you spend a lot of time talkingbout your mentor in th senate and how hetood up against barry goldwater. you voted for lbj. he went head and suppoed the civil rights act. you worry that barry goldwater would leave a stain on the party. are you worried donald trump is going to leave a stain on the party the way goldwater did? >> i am concerned about the hispanic vote. america is changing. when r

soou haerbly unectable candidesants to go full against a candida who has flaws on recor and honesty issue. keep going to '72. >> i have to s everybody is going to get bralized. the two nomees aoing tbe prty batted andbruised. >>he young woman yesterdayn concord met hillary worked forou in 2008 but troubled by nghazi and the server, she's getting blowba from the very ople she eds. >> all right. take a qui pause here. i want to swou somethi jeb buole thi - you set rule around the hse, right? set rules for your ds when they go online: n'be a cyberbully. no racy selfies. and remember everyone can see everything you post, even grandma. mo y k >>>t' >>> what' y me oenat rubio last night? >> it'sscpted, you know, message discipline is imrtant. and i envy cdidates who can repeat the same thing ove and over again. my brother was good a that t to b so siptehat you cat have the agity show, you know, the leadership slls that you need to be president of th united stat thi i -- became clear last night. >> yes, jebush comring marco rubio h brother, guess. reflecting on la night's debate littl earlr. i'm

it was a real live fire scenario for the candida he was tough. and he gave a very accurate and precise preview what was coming at john mccain. there's no question that john mccain's performances were better because of the preparation he went through with rob portman. >> stephanie, i know you used john kerry as the stand-in for mitt romney. i guess we know it's felipe ryans. a personal spokesperson for the idea was to find somebody that could be snarky enough and feel comfortable going after hillary clinton in a small room. >> well, that's certainly felipe. he will know how to push her buttons. i think it was a brilliant choice. what you want to do in these prep sessions is do -- roll play every potential scenario so that you have a good understanding of how your candidate is going to react. whether they can keep their cool when they have the right judgement to go on attack or th larger vision that they need to communicate to the american people. i think felipe testing secretary clinton's limits is very important. because we don't know -- no one h

issue one for consertive and evangelicals and there is fear that if kavanaugh goes down republics candida could play a steeper price in november than they're already facing whichs brings u to our nbc news/wall street journal poll this morning. our poll found among registered voters they prefer democrats byg a whop2 points, 52-40 and of ou're a close follower the nbc news/wall streetou the significant margin and last month th margin was eight points and by the way, a month before that it was sixs. poi as for president trump, his numbers are remarkably steady. 52% of registered voters disapprove of his performance and 44% approve. it's exactly whe he was last month, 52-44. as one of our pollsters put it, rsthese num are, quote, beyond weak for republicans and americans are trying to sen a signal that they're not satisfied with the way things are going in washington and all of which helps explain how they're watch kg thevanaugh story with one eye on his prospects and the other on their own in november. >> brettan kavanaugh,stic man. he was born for the u.s. supreme court. he was born for it,

candidate for president and if you're a candidate for president, is this the main argument against her candida candidacy? >> i think the bar you have to cross is will you defend the country and provide adequate security? to me, it's not the talking points, that's never been the most important part of benghazi, it's the six months leading up to benghazi where there were multiple requests for more security and it never came. this was under hillary clinton's watch. she will have to overcome that and we will make her answer for benghazi. >> let me turn to some domestic matters. on the issue of immigration, big issue in the republican party right now, eric cantor losing in part because of that. a tea party grass roots activism, which is part of the base that you excite in the republican party really opposing any move toward amnesty. here's rupert murdoch, chairman of news corp. and he writes this this week, we need to give those individuals who are already here after they've passed checks to ensure they're not dangerous criminals a path to citizenship to pay taxes and be productive members of our c

people who do you favor, trump versus clinton, they're narrowly for trump. 36% say neither or a third candidaw you match up trump and sanders. it's 59% of the people are for sanders. these are sanders voters. >> they are, and part of what you're seeing is that so many of the sanders voters are younger people who are very passionate about bernie sanders. hillary voters are people who want a democratic president one y or another. they're not sitting around thinking we want -- >> not pro clinton, they're pro democrat. >> you're seeing that come through. i want to put some love in for hillary's newslogan. i don't think it's that bad. i think stronger together implies that sort of goes back to kind of whate saw in 2008 when president obama was talking about, yes we can. >> a little more optimism to it. breaking down barriers. >> breaking down barriers was the other one, and that just sunk. >> what it doesn't do, this is a country with a 70% wrong track rating. if we keep going in that direction, we may go so far we may not be able to get back. it does not address change. this is a candidacy of con

trump is not the only candida stretching the truth. ben carson said this on syria. >> welso must recognize it's very complex place. the chinese are there. later, carson's campaign tried to clarify saying he meant chinese weapons and equipment were in syria, not the chinese military. then there's hillary clinton and her evolving explanations about her e-mail server. >> it was fully above board. the people in the government knew at i was using a personal account. >> but many of those people, including the president, have said they did not know she used it exclusively for government business. just 27% ofll voters andnd 52% of democratic primary voters give clinton a good rating on straightforward. despite their problems with the truth, trump and clinton remain their party's front-runners. >> if diogenes were looking for that honest man, once they got past bernie sanders in the presidential election they'd be looking for a long time. the voters can't find that honest person in 2016. >> i'm joined on the phone b the republican presidential

if a delegate is bound to a candidae, even if that delegate decides later i don't care, i'm not vtingor that person, the secretary at the convention will read the roll as if that delegate voted for the person that they're bound to, period. >> you know, one of the things i think has been a misconception is that somehow the rules of 2012 will apply to the 2016 election. and thereason this comes up is because there was a rule in 2012 that said if you didn't win a majority of delegates in eight states, you couldn't get your name put into nomination. what is the likelihood that that rule stays for 2016? or are all the rules for how this election conducted going to get rewritten come july? >> i'm of course guessing here. i don't have any power to change any rules, chuck. but i think it's probably unlikely that you see major changes. but again, as you say, the 2012 rules were written by the 2012 delegates who were bound to mitt romney. and so mitt romney's rules of 2012 will not be the rules that apply to the 2016 convention, which will be made largely of trump and cruz delegates. and why wo

>>whothene candida who can stop them? hillary clinton. >> jeff? that's an electability ad. who's the one candidate who can stop them. not bernie sanders, hillary clinton. that means that's a concession they've lost the passion. >> right. when you hire an announcer that talks like this, it means you really want to scare people. they want to scare people about is if you don't pick hillary clinton, one of these can win. those poll numbers, even though we know the primary poll numbers can be tenuous in a place like iowa. >> they enjoy changing their minds. >> but here's the question -- if hampshire, and the assumption is, well -- what's plan "b"? the democrats i have thought for a while may have been building a trap for themselves where there's no alternative if this obvious front-runner presumptive nominee looks weak. what's plan "b." >> and robert just this week another e-mail surfaces that then suddenly wonders where there's question of what she was talking about. did she order a staff member make classified information on a declassified system but they have an explanation,

and there's only one candida that can get to 1237 and beat donald trump, and that's me. >> you've said some tough things on trump. why are you comfortable supporting him as the nominee if he ends up the nominee? >> listen, i pledged at the outset i will support the republican nominee whoever it is. >> why are you making a pledge to a party and not to the voters? >> because hillary clinton or rnie sanders would be a manifest disaster. if hillary is the president, we will lose the supreme court for a generation, the second amendment will be written out of the bill of rights, we'll lose our religious liberty, we'll be buried in debt and kids will remain coming out of school without jobs, without opportunity. hillary would be disastrous for so the answer is not simply to resign yourself to donald trump, who would be a disaster as well. the answer is to beat donald. >> given everything you've just said about him in this interview you still will support him i i that's what the republican party does? >> you know, chuck, i'm a veryry simple man. when i give my word for something, i follow thro

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grimes of course the likely candida candidate. in georgia, republican candidate david perdue is clinging to a four-point lead over democrat michelle nunn. 48-44. if neither candidate gets 50%, we are headed for a january runoff in georgia. in louisiana, mary landrieu has an eight-point edge in the so-called jungle primary. she leads bill cassidy 44 to 36, rob maness sits at 15. if no one gets the majority, that does trigger a runoff in december. right there, cassidy has the edge over landrieu, 50-45. so this morning, things looking good for republican hopes of winning the senate. they couldn't lose -- afford to lose either kentucky or georgia. the voters i met made it very clear, they are not happy with either party right now. >> one of the biggest problems in washington is that there are career politicians. from the day they get elected, the next day their job is to get re-elected. >> i would clean on both sides. >> stop the bickering. >> i would love for there to be an independent president that would do a really great job and t

alabama, which became known adds bloodyds for church services and the annual reenactment of thential candidaeum just wrapped up. tremaine, of course, we know that biden's very sizable victory in south carolina was powered by african-american voters, a critical constituency if not the critical constituency in this democratic party. we saw in alabama today a rather awkward scene play out for michael bloomberg in church today as joe biden seemed to be embraced as one of their own. >> that's right, kasie. we think about the juxtaposition of what we saw in south carolina and james clyburn introducing joe biden as someone who knows this community and he is a good man. you come to brown chapel in selma that played a pivotal role in the efforts for civil rights and voting rights and have michael bloomberg who many see as not a good man, the opposite of that, because of his policy of stop and frisk which disenfranchised and really violated the constitutional rights of so many people in new york city. that juxtaposition of, you know, the eyes of the country turning to south carolina as they made a deci