clinton really didn t have a strong presence here. donald trump visited the area many times, built up a lot of enthusiasm. i think hillary took it for granted that this was her home ground and didn t spend a lot of time here. i think you need to do that. reporter: one of the things he stressed to us, it s not just about a ground presence, also about an online presence. that s something he s improved, creating these various pages, especially a facebook page. the choice of a candidate for the democratic party is something will tell you here is key. if you pick somebody that s a little too progressive, elderly voters in this state and they re the ones that come out every time might have an issue with it. democrats here are hoping joe biden steps up and becomes the guy. we ll soon find out. cal, we ll be tuning in tonight. you can see more of cal s interviews this evening. that will be the deciders right here on msnbc. that wraps us up this hour. i m stephanie ruhle. i m see you
doesn t want to look weak and doesn t want his economy to start cratering. if you look in the last three months it s all been state, state, state because they ve got to keep their numbers relatively robust. so i do believe that the chinese are taking very seriously that they want to get to a deal. and get to a deal before the g20 meeting in osaka next month. if that happens, trump will look pretty good on u.s./china. but yesterday the trump administration also put really tough policies in place on huawei and 5g, trying to hit the chinese really hard, trying to get allies in europe not to use chinese companies for 5g, use american companies. but huawei signed a letter that said we will behave. they did. trust and verify. they re not going to do that. ian bremer, thank you so much. i told you, the global expert on
in as she signed it. just had a photographer take a picture signing this bill. under the way things will be set up in alabama, the law will not take effect in six months but it effectively won t be enforced once it gets to that point because it s expected and we know the aclu and planned parenthood will challenge the law in court. one of the things the critics in the statehouse here were upset about, the new abortion law, most restricted now in the nation, had no exceptions, even for incest and rape. the only exception would be if the woman s life were in jeopardy. the sponsor of the bill, terry collins, said what this new law does, and the reason she s sponsored this bill is simply extend, she says, laws that exist already in the state. and she used the example of a pregnant woman driving a car, getting into a car accident and dyeing and a person who hit her being held criminally
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that s exactly right. in the case of gun control, there actually were a lot of bills at the state level that were enacted, including in states with republican legislatures. at the federal level, it s virtually impossible. as we know getting anything passed in congress, particularly something that demands bipartisan cooperation, is virtually impossible at this moment. on climate change, there are there s the green new deal floated. it will not pass as conceived right now but it has reframed the debate and also returned climate to front and center issue, which it had not been for a long time. the spirit of the green new deal is getting a lot of support. but the details. you have an initiative in baton rouge focused on this. tell us about it. yes, we have an issue i shared with you cradle to k because we believe early childhood development puts people on a trajectory of success. we also have our mayor s summer youth program where we re