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. >> joining me to react as actor antonio sabato junior and make an alexander.correspondent at inside edition. megan, i want to start with you. what is the game. when i read this i thought mayb the academy award they are kind of conspiring with her to rehabilitate kevin hart because they're out of options. they don't have a host. >> in zero, regardless, the words like second chances, forgiveness, words we don't often hear and our culture sounded a lot like the gospel o grace to me . no matter what, i think it's cool that ellen decided to give him a platform, a full hour. i encourage everyone to watch this interview in a twitter and soundbite culture it was refreshing. it reminded me of the press interviews of the pass rate of that long conversation with somebody. i think there may be too much heated conversation here and if that is the case an opportunity in a fresh direction. if it doesn't end up being kevi hart, ellen is making a big push , i think connect with middle america, connect with th average person. i would make the case that you actually have some pe

. >> this is the magic editor of sabato's crystal ball, and joining us to talk about campaign 2020. good morning. guest: good morning. host: what is it like looking at these situations coming into the 2020 campaign, especially with elizabeth warren's announcement this week? guest: it feels like 2016 on the republican side where you had candidates getting in. in that race there was not necessarily a big fish that dissuaded other candidates from entering the race. the only major candidate who dip -- who did run on the republican side of 2016 was mitt romney. he just got elected to the u.s. senate. jeb bush was able to push out mitt romney but was not able to push out anyone else. you saw what happened with bush and in that big field, you had that outsider candidate donald trump, who some party leaders did not like, getting the nomination. you could go back to 1976 and the democrats, that was a big field and jimmy carter came out of that, and he is not an establishment person. so one wonders in the very big democratic field, if this race may throw us something up a curve ball and someo