conditions on film, which right now members of congress aren t being allowed to bring cameras in, bring their phones into these centers. lawyers aren t being allowed to film these things. there s a reason. i think that will really jell and solidify the horror and the support of what s actually going on here and get people really really motivated to fix it. the president saying fairly soon that there will be wide roundups across the country related to those who are in the united states illegally. we are also seeing the detention centers. and, of course, the humanitarian crisis happen right now. thank you so much. i appreciate your views and expertise. charlie, jay, enjoy the rest of your weekend. thank you. the census and the citizenship question, what can congress do to limit the president s pursuit of an executive order? with an ingredient originally discovered. in jellyfish. in clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve short-term memory.
have been each other, and so is that kind of taking the eye off the ball? is that potentially damaging as they try to, you know, sort the order among 23 democratic candidates? i think, look, you ve got to somehow narrow this field and you ve got to really begin to focus on a handful of candidates so we can really get to know those candidates. we ve had four hours of debates but with 23 candidates we ve hardly had more than 10 or 15 minutes of hearing each individual overall. getting to know these candidates is going to be a challenge with a large field. what some of the candidates are trying to do is narrow that field by knocking out the weaker candidates or weakening the front-runner in order to bolster their own case. i think what the democratic party worries about is are you weakening the front-runner, a front-runner for a general election contest against donald trump. i think that remains to be seen. we ll leave it there for now. jay newton-small, julian zelzer,
thing. we will see what happens. but something pretty dramatic could happen. we told mexico, the tariff goes on. and i mean, it, too. let s dig into this michael shear and jay newton small. thanks for joining us. jay, to you, i just read those fierce words from speaker nancy pelosi. temper tantrums, is that how you see the deal has been struck. serge, this is donald trump s art of the deal, right? his negotiating tactics have been playing hardball and making threats and saying look, like i m not, i m very serious, trust me, it is going to happen, and it did come as a surprise to most mexican authorities who thought they had successfully renegotiated the nafta deal and pending before the legislative bodies of all three governments and so they were thinking this hurdle was going to be congress, and then all of a sudden, donald trump takes it to something, look, this is a huge problem and
they could have appealed to more if president trump had focused on the economy more, not focussed so much on in that case immigration and the caravans that were coming towards the border, and if they had stayed focused on the economy, they might have done better. the same thing is true for 2020. if the republicans get diverted to abortion and don t talk about the ways in which a very good economy in their argument would be the result of the republican control of the white house, then they re missing an opportunity, and i think a lot of republicans are going to be upset with that, if the conversation gets diverted to a sort of hot button social issue like that. okay, michael sheer, jay newton-small, thank you both. i want to take you live to the campaign trail. these are pictures offers bernie sanders speaking in birmingham, alabama at this hour. he is one of 23 democrats vying for the democratic nomination. with so many in the running, it s hard to stand out.
ideally i think the economy is what most republicans want to talk about at the ballot boxes this next year i would say. and michael, when i think about this abortion issue, i think about the power of the female vote and whether this issue, you know, with the states by state by state who are now passing these restrictive abortion laws, if it could backfire. look, i totally agree with jay. this is sort of baffling for two reasons. one, the abortion issue, if anything, is driven by the people who are passionate about something happening. and if these laws give a sense to people that actually roe v. wade is actually threatened in a way that it hasn t really been threatened for four or five decades, that would seem to give the democrats a more energy that they haven t had in the past. and i think also to jay s point about the economy, women voters in particular were the ones who republican candidates in the 2018 midterms really felt like