that s not unusual. the presidential primaries really are moments where parties pick direction. if you look at 2016 there are countertheories in the republican party. one was we had to expand the base talk to more of the growing diverse populations of america kind of the autopsy from 2013, jeb bush or marko rubio reflected that. and they lost to donald trump who consolidated blue collar abbe evangel and voters around a theme. democrats face this kmois in 2020. principlely joe biden whose main calling card would be look he is someone who could be acceptable to a lot of ordinarily republican voters who are loosening attachment to the party and maybe available because of trump. he is probably at his age with his record in the 90s during the clinton era he would be less effective than someone like camilla harris or corey booker or elizabeth warren at mobilizing the new marketic constituents, millennials primarily and minority voters if i had to bet today both
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and that s a sign of difficulty. joining us from the rnc by phone is sean spicer. we want to ask you also about the immigration issue and boehner s refusal. doesn t that hurt republicans going forward to be steen at least as blocking any progress on immigration? it s been a year since the senate passied the bill. i think it s a false kmois to assume just because the senate passed something we have to deal with it. the house has made it clear we fleed to do this right. that means doing it in a way that secures that we secure the border first and ensure we reform the immigration process and don t find ourselves back here as the same problem we did when we tried to reform in the 80s. at this stage also when we look at immigration though, time is running out. if they don t do something in
does internally, what he does against israel, against jordan and turkey. if there is a direct attack on a nato al lie, nato may be more involved than they have been to date. i think you re right to point out that iran has a lot surrogates and probsys in the region, their own internal intelligence services, the mois could be in force, as well as hezbollah, which said they will fight to defend syria to the death. spider, i want to ask you a common sense question a lot of people have about asking me. the u.s. has been talking about the strike for days. syria has to be listening. assad has to be listening to this. every day that the united states waits here, doesn t that give assad a chance to prepare? oh, it does. what it really tells you is the limits of american influence in that part of the world, very much degraded over the course of years. what we say is not as significant in terms of what we do and the preparations we take
tsunami, no. emergency, yes. a massive earthquake rattled the coast of indonesia today not far from where the killer quake and tsunami hit back in 2004. the ground has not stopped shaking yet. we re hearing about aftershocks several hours since the initial quake. disaster officials are fearing a repeat of 2004. they sent out a tsunami warning to the entire indian ocean. so far no reports of serious damage or injuries. syrian government says it will end fighting by tomorrow s deadline. that s according to special envoy kofi annan who says he received a letter agreeing to the cease-fire from the syrian foreign ministry. but the government says it is reserving the right to respond to attacks from, quote, what they re calling armed terrorist groups. opposition members say at least 30 people have been killed today. for mitt romney it s all but certain now. rick santorum s exit clears the path for romney to win the republican nomination. we re going to talk about the road ahead