backs new taxes for those with more than $50 million in assets. 65% said they want a candidate who backs the green new deal in full. 56% would be satisfied with a candidate who wants to make the u.s. more socialist. trailing medicare for all, which is backed by 49%, 44% legalizing marijuana on a federal level, just 36% want a candidate who fully backs free college tuition. joining me, adrian al rod, former advisor to hillary clinton s campaign. evan sigfried and senior politics editor beth fuey. so, i want to put the candidate poll back up there if we can. it s interesting to me that in this des moines register poll, the top two have a combined age of 153. if you put it that way. adrian, does that tell us anything? no, look what it tells us is, first of all, these early state polls are largely based on
he then went on to claim that if he could run for prime minister of israel, he would be at 98% in the polls. and then the president reportedly slammed several potential democratic challengers. axios says trump referred to joe biden as the dummy. bernie sanders as the nutty professor. and commented on elizabeth warren s low poll numbers saying he, quote, took her out really early. back with me former senior hillary clinton advisor adrian el rod and evan sigfried. evan, the headline about this is about the jewish comments. i ll get back to that. overall, i m reading this, looking at him nicknaming his opponents. is all of this just setting up his 2020 messaging? he s with the donors and he s testing all this out? first of all, shouldn t elizabeth warren be the nutty professor because she was a professor, unlike bernie sanders? yes, he does love to play the nicknames and the slogans he s base will eat up and say this is
everyone. i m jay inslee and i m running for president and i m the only candidate who will make defeating climate change the number one priority. joining me now is ben white and evan sigfried. what do you think his role is in this campaign? i think he s making a wise decision here and attaching his campaign to the single issue of climate change. it s an issue he comes to authentically. this issue is having a moment. the green new deal and the activism surrounding that proposal has propelled this issue to the top of the list and a lot of democratic polls, 72% of americans say global warming is personally important to them.
estimates start at 22 million. it doesn t include labor. and as you mentioned earlier, you need some land that s not actually federal land on which to make this. eminent domain. let s talk about it. we want to get into it. joining us is republican strategist evan sigfried who followed this closely. evan, we love reading your stuff on this. like us, you like the numbers. you wrote about it two years ago. you ve been writing about it a long time. you wrote about one of the big costs for the border wall ambitions. let me read from there. imminent domain as stephanie said, what are the issues tied up in imminent domain? bottom line, the public has to own the land the wall is going to be built in. there is a problem with the border. 1954 mile u.s. border, you have 70 miles secured for the secure fence. that s publicly owned. on the texas/mexico border, only 100 miles is publicly owned. that leaves 1154 miles of the border that the united states
litigation at least, and i think the president is fooling himself as well as his base by saying, we can get it done so quickly. this will not solve a crisis if there is one in the first place. the government would actually be better served by having strategic barriers, because there are some t.s.a. agents and i.c.e. agents saying, yeah, we need to have some barrier at specific areas to address specific problems. but we need to have a technological wall, more of training for i.c.e. agents as well and customs and border protection. they can actually go out and fix the border themselves. but if they got the proper funding. the president is focused on the wall because it was an easy knew monday i can device for him to talk about immigration. thank you, sam nunberg. he s the one whoa came up with it. evan, good to be with you. he understands this wall well. he does. coming up next, president trump is blowing a path to citizenship for immigrants in the skilled workers categories, those w