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i m really old. it is a wonderful song. takes me back. and cnn this morning continues now. the third republican presidential debate is in the books. how did their words square request with the facts? nikki haley, a master class on policy, abortion. she is a force. trump has such a large lead nationally, it may be meaningless. the pentagon carried out airstrikes fence a weapons storage facility in eastern syria. a facility used by iran s islamic revolutionary guard core. secretary austin describing this as a limited self-defense strike. after 118 days, hollywood actors struck a teal with major film and television studios. we know this deal is going to stress artificial intelligence. it sets the stage for roughly 160,000 actors to return to work. the iowa caucus is 67 days away. last night five candidates faced off in miami. the frontrunner of the party, donald trump, didn t show up again. the third time in a row. during the debate he held ....
as a huge winter storm sweeps in, bringing heavy snow. and reliving every parent s nightmare professor robert kelly tells us what life s been like since his interview, and his family, went viral. it s been pretty unreal. we didn t expect any attention like this at all. we certainly never had anything like this in our life. that hello i am katty kay in washington, christian fraser is in london. next month turkey will hold a referendum on changes to its constitution that would grant recep tayyip erdogan vast new powers. if he wins the vote, the position of prime minister will be abolished in favour of a new executive presidency that would be mr erdogan himself. polls suggest turks are evenly divided on the issue. to win, mr erdogan might need the support of the millions of turks who live in countries across europe and can vote in the referendum. on sunday the dutch government, stopped turkish ministers from campaigning in rotterdam. german states have taken similar action ....
when trump calls in on the phone or this interview, there s a lot less news that comes out of the interviews than when he goes on 60 minutes or speaks with the new york times. he is being challenged in all ways that a president needs to be challenged. the fox interviews are interesting because they can give a base thinking. you can hear trump rambling. look how many headlines came out of 60 minutes. we learned a lot about the president because of that interview. i think he enjoys the adversarial interviews. i wish he would do more of it. eric, you should know this because fox is arguably one of the biggest forces in conservative media. you don t disagree with that, i m sure. how important is it for the president that he has the support of fox and other outlets on the right? of course, it s important. and it s also not unique to president trump. i mean, i was at fox for 11 years, all eight years of the ....
Essentially, that s what i said. now because of what s happened since then, with antida, antifa, look at what happens in charlottesville. in fact, a lot of people have written that, gee, he might have a point. good to see you, katie. hi, sandra. i recall eight-week, i think you sent out yesterday, you said republicans won t work with democrats, so president trump will sit down with democrats. trying to get something done. i mean, it sounds reasonable, but what is his base thinking of this? the president actually said that yesterday. he said, look, if we can t work with republicans, i m going to have to work with democrat get things done. sarah sanders, the press secretary, has also been saying that all week. but in terms of the base, the president s move this week on daca has gotten a lot of people up in arms and very upset. ....
The president, are they going after their base, to energize their base, or are they going after swing voters? i honestly think the most important thing is to fire up your base, because the most devastating thing for the president, last time, wasn t even his performance. it was the judgment of his base that he performed poorly, and the depression among the base thinking, oh my goodness, we could lose, all that hang-wri hand-wringing. if the base sis fired up, sees the president getting positive reviews. swing voters, what should they go after? i think it s a specific suck set of voters. that s women. that s where obama has had an outsized advantage among women. that started to erode in the last two weeks after that first debate. that s why i think it s important for obama, if he can, to move the discussion away from the narrow framework set for the first debate and talk about some ....