today on inside politics, together again. barack obama and joe biden are teaming up to promote one of their biggest accomplishments. we have details on their rare white house reunion and whether the former president can help the current one get reelected. plus a growing divide. the u.s. and israel are no longer in lock step on how to prosecute the war against hamas terrorists. as a top biden official meets with the leader of the palestinian authority in the west bank. republican candidates have one month left to make their case to iowa voters. nikki haley just agreed that the cnn debate stage will be one of her final stops. i m dana bash. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. we start with obama and biden joining forces again. the former president taped a new ad with his former vp on the importance of obamacare. cnn s kevin liptack is at the white house. you broke this story. tell us about this. reporter: it s always interesting to see how this white ho
Howard weve all seen this movie before way too many times, its washington Melodrama Beloved by the media, suspenseful story, a ticking clock. Its a selfinflicted crises with a Government Shutdown hanging in the balance, and journalists start issuing dire warnings of all the people whod be hurt if the feds cant pay their bills. Talk about a waste of time, an endless parade of dysfunction. Its real americans who will be paying the price while the elect representatives who are suppose to be working for you, they arent doing that. A Government Shutdown that will leave roughly 7 million women and children without s. M. A. P. Benefits which means they could go hungry. Active duty Military Members will go without pay. Howard the warnings come true and the focus shifts to how long the politicians will keep squabbling before coming to their senses, or theres a last minute if deal. Thats what happened last night. And usually that means a stopgap funding measure, in this case about six weeks, tha
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. America and everywhere around the world, the one that keeps people home from voting is as serious if not more serious. Yeah, i think thats exactly right. This is much broader than just about elections, as i mentioned earlier. Its broader than changing votes or anything like that. A lot of the activity that we see that is ongoing did not stop after 2016 and in some ways has actually grown. What we are seeing is a concerted effort to Pit Americans against one another, to make polarization more extreme. We are a pretty polarized country. But russia and others are taking advantage of that trying to turn us against each other in order to weaken us. One of the examples i cited this morning was actually of a fake page created by the Russian Internet Research Agency that used an issue like the Flint Water Crisis and Police Brutality as a way to try to influence americans views on an issue like syria. So theyre basically t
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