. >> i can't trust obama. he's an arab. >> the first african-american president of the united states. >> failure to act now will turn crisis io a catastrophe. >> it's not health reform. this is control. >> how is that hopy changy stuff working out for you? ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> american people have sent a resounding and unmistakable message of change and new direction for america. >> it's been just five days since democrats took control of both houses of congress, but already the focus is shifting to the next political prize, the white house. >> when the election season begins in 2007, the climate is not very good if you are a republican. the war in iraq is very unpopular. and many democrats think they can win the presidency. >> senator biden joining a growing list of democratic candidates announcing their intentions for '08. >> you had a lot of candidates like chris dodd and joe biden, bill richardson and in the end you thought, well, this is going to be hillary clinton's time. >> for some time it's been no secret

they were obama's people. and hillary's people missed that. >> at 6:30 on caucus night and in the next couple of hours, obama's ten-month iowa amp would either be won or lost. >> i had no idea what a caucus was before i got there. no clue what it was. >> i think the most important thing to remember about the democratic caucuses is they're not an election. they are a caucus. they're more like a meeting. and people stand up and be counted. >> the best way to describe it is 90 minutes of organized chaos. >> one person for obama. >> you're counting for obama? >> yes, i counted for obama. >> it was so loud in there you could not think. and i'm trying to hold it together, but i felt confident because i know that i had done the work. and i knew every single person walking in that door. i knew their families. i've had "lurclunch in their li rooms. in that moment, they're not thinking about necessarily the speech obama gave. they're thinking about, okay, you're the person asking me. you're representing obama. i believe

obama. here is president obama saying he is responsible for the economy. president trump didn't hold back. he didn't mince words. the president firing back. did you hear the latest con job and more. my next guest, heritage foundation gerald griffith. your reaction to all this? we did not see democrats including hillary clinton run on the strength of the obama recovery. your reaction? >> i think it is a little ironic, may be slightly awkward for democrats gathered tonight, that president obama seems to acknowledge we are the midst of a record-long economic boom. that will be extremely awkward for a few of the candidates tomorrow night running on a platform of class envy and trying to convince us not to believe our eyes. the bottom line under barack obama we experienced the slowest, most lethargic economic recovery post-world war ii. the tide is now beginning to turn under president trump. liz: it usually takes 27 months on average since world war ii to get jobs back to postrecession levels. u

obama obviously knew biden from the senate. he served on the foreign relations committee, foreign affairs committee. and he had known him as a candidate on the campaign. joe biden ran against barack obama in 2007 and 2008. they were on the debate stage together. he was impressed by the way biden handled himself there. but he really felt it was an advantage, and obviously biden had other advantages. he had 36 years of experience in washington. obama didn't have that experience, experience with world leaders, a relationship with the voters of states like pennsylvania that were going to be important in the election. but at the bottom line, obama also wanted someone who had experienced the national campaign. because he said, you know, the mailstrom of a presidential campaign is that you can't be prepared for it. ooh owhen mccain picked palin, obama's reaction was, look, she may be the greatest politician since ronald reagan and she can handle this, but i give this in a month, and in a month we'll know whether this pays off. >> on t

it does obama have a point about claiming credit? >> jesse: i would say this, you know when you day a girl and you guys break up and she goes on to marry some other guy? you can't take credit for that! you can't take credit for that when you break up with her and she gets married. that is not the point. the point is this, the stimulus was a punch line during the obama administration. he said so himself. he was actually joking, those shovel-ready jobs aren't so shovel ready. think about it this way, they first had the economy was going to tank under trump, then they said it was barack obama's economy, then they said there was going to be a recession and then they said it was only benefiting the rich and now they are back to saying it is barack obama's economy, it doesn't make any sense because they can't talk about the economy because they haven't done anything to help the economy. if there had been a democrat who had taken the reins in 2016 you would've had strangling obamacare regulations, a green new deal, paris climate deal, war o

no drama obama. former president barack obama is considering what role he will play in a possibly contested convention. remember this? >> are you fired up? ready to go? fired up? ready to go? >> and full-court press. in an extraordinary move, federal judges call an emergency meeting to deal with the president's unprecedented attacks on judges and jurors and attorney general william barr's interference with the prosecutors over sentencing. >> they feel like there's a crisis here. the president of the united states is tweeting and criticizing federal judges. that has not happened before in modern history. >>> and good day, everyone. i'm andrea mitchell in washington. a big day in politics. michael bloomberg, his bet seems to be paying off. tomorrow night's debate could be a big showdown. he'll be on the stage for the first time, a showdown between bloomberg and bernie sanders. against a self-declared socialist who campaigns against billionaires and has enormous crowds. a new npr/pbs poll has bloomberg

we had at the end of obama. it's not different. that's despite the fact that we have had massive fiscal stimulus in the form of tax cuts and additional spending and the fed has been accommodative. trump blamed the fed for holding back growth. if you look at what his own economic team forecast, the fed would keep rates at. they thought monetary policy would be tighter than it is. the fed has been helping him. he doesn't give them credit. >> we'll be right back. (janine) i used to be a little cranky. dealing with our finances really haunted me. thankfully, i got quickbooks, and a live bookkeeper's helping customize it for our business. (live bookkeeper) you're all set up! (janine) great! (vo) get set up right with a live bookkeeper with intuit quickbooks. and my side super soft? yes. with the sleep number 360 smart bed, on sale now, you can both adjust your comfort with your sleep number setting. can it help me fall asleep faster? yes, by gently warming your feet. but can it help keep me asleep? absolutely, it intelligently senses yo

it was up 32% under obama. it's up 60% -- >> at this point in obama's presidency the s&p 500 was up 59%. at this point in trump's presidency it's up 49%. >> okay. >> so it was actually better under obama. >> i've got to bring in daniel dale for a fact check. what do you have? >> i'll give you another yardstick, gdp growth. we've had growth of 2.9% and then 2.3%. that's an average of 2.5%. under obama we had 2.5, 2.6, 2.3%. this isn't the economy traik taking off like a rocket ship as trump says. if you're a trump supporter you'll also point to the 1.6% at the end of the obama era and say look he was going in a bad direction. that's a fair argument. but these two economies just isn't borne out in key metrics like that. >> the president promised huge growth. is he delivering on that? >> no, once again he promised us 4%, 5%, 6% growth. anybody who knew anything about the economy, who looked at the structural challenges this economy faces including the aging of the population said that was nonsense. trump promised

what are obama whisperers telling you about that? >> yeah, well, bloomberg is one of the other people in this race that has a really long complicated history with obama, too. lots of people around president obama like michael bloomberg, but there are also a lot of people in that inner circle who sort of find this a little bit annoying, the degree to which obama is being used in these ads, the two strategists behind president obama's '08 campaign have gone on record and said people keep asking them why obama has endorsed bloomberg, which of course is not the case. it's just that the ads make it seem that way. there are people in that orbit who sort of remember and often bring up, well, you know, bloomberg didn't endorse obama in 2008. he only doorsed obaendorsed oba very end in 2012. he's been very critical of his key positions, whether it's obamacare or, well, a wide range of different issues. joe biden today released a video hitting bloomberg on that fact. effectively saying stop pretending that obama supports you. obama is being ne

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has president obama perpetrated con job. >> president obama has not perpetrated a con job by any sense. think about what trump said, greatest economy ever. he took us out of decades of economic decay. that is categorically false. you could argument the economic recovery since president obama took office was slow and steady, which it was, but there is no turn around. we're in the 11th year of an economic expansion so when the president said the gdp numbers are the greatest ever, that is not true. he is rating six out of 11 preceding presidents for economic progress and for gdp he's doing slightly better than obama did but the president promised 4%, 5% gdp and we haven't hit that once and president obama did. and he's done it it through corporate tax cuts and de regulation and if you remember he argues against that when with obama was in office. >> and facts are funny things. president obama did sign the recovery act. that is where it began. >> absolutely. now, fortune 500 ceos would tell you that president trump is more pro-business. when you get record-breaking tax cuts that is a huge

barack obama. barack obama had been a united states senator of a really large sta state. >> what do you think of that take? >> no one in this race is barack obama. joe biden is no barack obama, bernie sanders is no barack obama and i don't think that mayor pete buttigieg is saying that he is barack obama, but what i do think is that an outsider who has experience working on local issues connecting with people on an individual level, that was the experience i think that made barack obama barack obama. he didn't get his experience in washington. he brought his experiences to washington and i think that's what mayor pete will be able to do. >> once the dust settles and the democrats have their nominee, what do you see as your former boss's role come november? >> the most important this evening -- thing is this, if you look at 2008 compared to 2016, the voting eligible population increased 15 million people, we only had four million more voters between 2008 and 2016. i think the most important thing pe

obama said, where is the 23rd? and this person said, listen, he's just too controversial, there's too much out there about him, we cannot include mike bloomberg. and it was a lot to do with these allegations of sexual harassment at bloomberg lp, but also some things he said he's acknowledged were insensitive. it just wouldn't worth having him on that long list at the time of vp running mates. >> and mike bloomberg now in his ads really playing up the relationship that he had with president obama and many people close to president obama saying he's overplaying that, certainly joe biden saying that. but kate, in your op-ed on cnn.com, you make this point, if the billionaire businessman does become the democratic party's nominee, though, then voters will be forced to choose between a sitting president who has been accused of sexual assault and harassment, accusations which he denies, and a democratic candidate who not long ago was considered too controversial to be a running mate in part because of accusations that he

when he's writing the obama wave -- riding the obama wave. barack obama creating far more jobs over his last three years in office than donald trump's created in his first three years. the lies were preposterous, and for some reason the press keeps feeding into this hype that somehow his economy is so much better than former economies. it's a lie. >> well, the lie he's been telling from the beginning is he inherited a mess from president obama which is objectively untrue. steve rattner is here in a couple minutes with charts. mike barnicle bowed his head when you mentioned mookie bets' name. the state of the union was like a tv show, like an up soed of ellen. you had a military reunion, a fourth grader receiving a scholarship. he gave out the medal of freedom to rush limb b. held the ceremony in the middle of the state of the union. it was theatrical. for my money, the -- all the no handshake, the not saying the distinct honor and high privilege and then ripping up the script at the end is not what the country needs. i know those will be view

thanks, obama. when you hear all this talk about economic miracles right now, remember who started it. >> laura: of course, obama's media acolytes, they just echo his empty claim. >> trump's greatest accomplishment is not spring up barack obama's economy. >> 10% less in job creation. >> did he do any of those things for the economy? no, he is benefiting from barack obama's economy. >> by just about any measure, barack obama's economy was much stronger. >> laura: [laughs] every measure? really, joe? what a novel idea tonight, let's introduce a concept called "facts" into this equation. first of all, obama benefited from the natural recovery associated with a terrible recession. but even then, economic growth ground to a halt by the end of his presidency. it shrunk to a measly 1.6% during his last year in office. in 2016, the unemployment rate stood at 4.7%. and real middle-class wage growth was flat. business sentiment was relatively low, probably as a consequence of the $900 billion worth of regulat

she was an obama appointee. it kind of speaks to the continued popularity of president obama. the bloomberg relationship with obama was professional. they were allies on some important issues, like climate change. they weren't particularly personally close but it's a smart move to run that ad because you sure get the sense that they were. >> without obama speaking out in the president, now you have these candidates who can spin what he has said in the past and apply it to today. does obama risk his words and his perspective being manipulated, even his intentions by staying quiet being manipulated by president trump, for example? >> well, president trump, it's incredible that with all the responsibilities that he has that he still has time to be a political commentator. you have to admire the multitasking there. i don't think he much cares about that. i think he is mindful of the appropriate role of a former president and he's mindful of the role that he can play once the race is over. and if you start taking sides in a family fight, it becomes much harder later when a voice to

he was one of president obama's longest advisers. he's the author of "untrumping america a plan to make america a democracy again". you have been busy. do you know what time it is? >> i don't know what day it is. i know i'm on cnn. >> this is going to be a great conversation and maybe your last on cnn. let's start with the debate and where things are going to be. bloomberg on the stage. as i said at the top, it's almost like a new race we're looking at. sanders, the clear front runner. bloomberg on the stage. and the attacks that are -- he's got to be prepared for tonight, we've seen forshadow of it. trng apologi apologies. they don't seem adequate enough for the democratic candidates. what can he do about that tonight? >> this is going to be interesting. bloomberg has a lot of questions he has to answer and owes the democratic voters answers around stop and frisk and some of the other issues. and to tell people what kind of president he's going to be. other candidates have been doing this for a year. every time others attack bloombe

so where's president obama? penning's memoirs, spitball and projects for netflix, basking in martha vineyards moonglow, organizing a community of oligarchs too post his post presidential nest? president obama's been a master politician for one person only, himself. he was bad at pulling down ballot dems into the in zone, and blew his two terms by picking wrong declaring i am with her. so what happened? obama will wait too long to make a difference in this race, bernie will further triumph in the primaries joe will have to bow out with no dignity, and his legacy in tatters. the only obama to keep their branded tech will be michelle. and maybe sasha. everyone loves sasha. there is no band-aid big enough to close the chasm that swallowing the democrat party hole, and that is a wonderful thing is damaged establishment gets sucked into the unkind void of what once was totally unable to preserve whatever will be the fading party. and that's the memo. ♪ ♪. kennedy: former president obama is like a haunting ghost to

, speaking of president obama. it's not -- that's not a popular position in the primary. he did well contrasting on foreign policy with the way that he would stand up to xi and to the socialist latin american leaders in contrast with what sanders had said. the guy that's not doing what he needs to do is mike bloomberg. i wrote in that piece that mike bloomberg needs to start immediately going after bernie sanders. i think jeff just reported heap spent $38 million touting his nonendorsement with obama. he spent zero million attacking bernie sanders. a poll came out this morning that showed texas on super tuesday, biden would be winning by seven points if bloomberg wasn't in the race, but instead sanders is tied for the lead. right now it looks like to me michael bloomberg is spending half a billion dollars to make bernie sanders the nominee of the democratic party, so i don't think the message has gotten through to them quite yet. >> that's an interesting point, interesting effect. circular firing squad is the descr

back in the obama biden years, it was horrible. we had this new normal of a growth under 2%. >> these are numbers from the bureau of economic analysis over 4% economic growth, four quarters under president obama. we have not seen growth above 4% on a quarterly basis under president trump. it's a good economy now, it's a great economy now, all i'm asking you is wasn't it a good economy then? >> no, it was not. it was a horrible economy during the obama years. >> okay. you guys heard that exchange, austin douglas, austin first to you. going into this conversation, can we just all agree that the economy was good under president obama or he got it there, it was great, and then also now currently under president trump? austin and douglas, yes? yes? >> yes. >> yes. >> austin, i'm looking at you. >> looking at me, i have said yes, and i've tried to be -- i have problems with the tax cut. i think it was a mistake that president trump passed, but i have always tried to be balanced and say it's the longest expansion on record, two-thirds of

. >> looks like obama is' running again. >> all of them have these commercials now with them and obama saying stuff about them. >> it's just the candidate with, like, african-americans. >> your stance cannot be what obama did eight years ago. we want someone who's going to be authentic. >> you want a candidate above all things who cares about you. >> yes. >> and has a good picture with, like, barack obama. >> no. >> you think black people like the white people that have got a white picture with obama. >> i never said that. >> that's what you said. >> you can't ride on obama's coat tail. that's not how we vote. >> which candidate has the best o.p.v.? >> break that down. >> obama proximity value. >> the closer you are to obama, the more black people like you. >> that's a funny question because i personally never considered that. >> who has the best ovp. >> black people don't care about white people in ads with obama. >> i don't know because everybody is running an ad with obama in it. >> that's what black people want to see. >> how do you know? >> i spend a lot of time around my people.

obama, i 40 years and mr. obama, the government took over our pension. my obama wanted to take from pension to boost the economy. i don't think that is right one bit. mr. trump is doing a pretty good job. everybody is getting a little bit more money. he took the penalty away from people that cannot afford health insurance. i tell you what i would like to see every american do, i would like to see every american call their representative and demand that cap be taken off social security because social security i don't believe is tax deductible like all the other taxes the millionaires and billionaires pay. i think it is time for millionaires and billionaires to help us with social security, take the cap off pay. i pay social security on every dollar and i don't think it is fair millionaires and billionaires do not pay on every dollar. every american, call your representative. worthto follow up on the of the real estate holdings of the top presidential candidates, the democratic presidential candidates, this is the wall street journal story, michael bloombe

what obama did right and romney did wrong. he was obsessed with obama. it was a referendum. we shouldn't make the mistake with trump. we're playing his game. people know what is wrong with trump. they know why he's bad. it's up to the democratic nominee to make the case for themselves. they get a choice between competing visions. second mistake. he was stuck in the right wing propaganda fox news bubble. he was running against an un-american obama. born in kenya. not against want obama that most voters saw. who even they disagree with he was a good man, honest man and family man. doing the best he can. not every voter sees trump the way we do. >> the voters see this current president they're getting it -- i don't know. seeing it -- he makes himself a characterture. >> they are have a nuance view of him. they decide from the election. from obama to trump. and voted for romney and clinton. now deciding what they'll do. they know he's dishonest. they know he's can be rude and racist. but they think he's trying to change the system. i think they're wrong. we have to recognize --

are you angry at barack obama? >> i am disappointed in barack obama, i am not angry. jesse: do you know things about barack obama that you have not spoken anybody about? >> let me say this generally, i know a lot of things about him and a lot of different people in politics that i haven't spoken about and i would not exclude him from that list. jesse: are you planning on speaking about what you know about barack obama and how we came up in the chicago system. obviously it's a very corrupt city. >> i'm interested in telling him the truth and doing it without any malice but to be truthful and talking about things that might be adventurous and might serve the public good. jesse: is there anything that you want to get off your chest about the former president with regards that you haven't told anybody before? >> also the former president -- let me say this, the current president has trumped the former president when it comes to do the right thing and undo injustice. i went to prison and spent nearly eight years in prison for saying things that are routine politics, a lot

>> absolutely right, barack obama would love to take credit for this great success but barack obama was a big government liberal who thought if we take more of your taxpayer dollars to put more government programs that will fix it and the opposite is the philosophy of donald trump and i would cautioned that if we saw big government liberal politics under barack obama imagine what we will see with any of the 2020 democrat presidential candidates, big government on steroids and they cannot wait to get their hands on our taxpayer dollars to create more government programs to have more control of our lives and undo all the great success, a great american worker powered success, great blue-collar come back because donald trump believes in the american people. we would not get that if any of these democrats was able to take office. >> thank you for joining us, we appreciate you joining us this morning, thank you. the time is 20 minutes until the top of the hour, nascar nation praying for ryan newman who got into a nasty wreck at the daytona 500 and a bittersweet moment for the winner of the b

now, he has a legitimate claim to the obama mantle. eight years in the white house will do it for you. he was a loyal vicedent to president obama, and nobody would doubt that. but president obama hasn't a weighed chose ton stay out himself and -- he's not putting his foot on the scale. and i think there's some conceriramong obama'se about whether biden really can go the distance or not. experience -- dint of experience experience suspect age and generation will he appeal to the obama electorate in a way that would move the partyat generionally? all the democrats who have won since -- in the last 50 years who won the presidencyere generational change agents. john f. kennedy. jimmy carter. bill clinton. barack obama. they we all generational change agents. and joe biden has a marched timeraaking genonal chage argument right now. >> two quick things as i listen, peter. the first i joe biden is someone who was trying to attach himself to barack obama being his vice president and michael bloomberg's ads i talked to some voters who obama end

maybe they'll go from obama to trump. but also there is a different type of swing happening in that voting bloc. that is the entrance and exit of those voters, say independents that voted in 2012 and then didn't vote in 2016. that has a massive impact on that vote margin. >> if you're a democratic campaign, what should they glean from your research? >> number one and probably most importantly is that they are incorrectly approaching electioneering for the age of polarization. there is a time that persuasion was a more appropriate approach. but we've moved past that time and really need to piece of evidence better than the fact that donald trump is sitting in the white house. every rule of electability and standards for what it should take to be elected to the presidency, donald trump breaks them and yet he's still sitting in the white house. why? because we're in this age of mass voter polarization. that has changed how people behave at the voting box. partisanship is now all mighty. all that matters is that r and that d.

that's not love. >> there's no love lost in the obama camp for bloomberg. they remember all of those moments and remember bloomberg'ses he tans to endorse obama. so, yeah, none of this is going down particularly well. i think we will hear more about it. >> to be continued this time tomorrow. a big debate to talk about. don't go anywhere. brianna keilar starts after the break. home instead offer persos for your loved ones. home instead senior care. to us, it's personal. for adults with moderately to severely active crohn's disease, stelara® works differently. studies showed relief and remission, with dosing every 8 weeks. stelara® may lower your ability to fight infections and may increase your risk of infections and cancer. some serious infections require hospitalization. before treatment, get tested for tb. tell your doctor if you have an infection or flu-like symptoms or sores, have had cancer, or develop new skin growths, or if anyone in your house needs or recently had a vaccine. alert your doctor of new or worsening problems, including headaches, sei

barack obama. maybe he wants to stay in the back burner, sit it out for a while but maybe it is because of that old friend of his lousy track record. >> a leader that we are going to send back to the united states senate, my friend bill nelson, the next governor of the great state of florida. >> you know who will fight for the little guy? stacy abrams! f >> laura: [laughs] and he couldn't get the olympics for chicago. he's good at campaigning but not so good, clearly. mikeng huckabee, former 2016 presidential candidate, fox news contributor. a very cheeky on twitter tonight.20 governor, is obama staying out of the primary just because it's not appropriate or does he just want to avoid embarrassment and chalk up all the money over there with netflix. >> it's pretty typical that a former president doesn't get involved in his party's primaries for president. he may use his political capital for some of the down ballot races but there is no upside for him to go and get involved in the presidential prim

so i believe that president obama's policies were popular in florida, i have no doubt if obama was on the ballot he would win florida in 2,020 and i think you can build a platform that condemns fidel castro is a dictator but, says we need a different approach to cuba. >> president obama was the one that went to cuba and talked about the great progress that the castro regime was advocating for in terms of education. so it really is more of a democrat problem and it does go beyond bernie sanders. >> dana: i know you follow the democratic and senate races and i mentioned that to congresswoman down in florida saying, we completely disagree and disavow what bernie sanders said. what are the consequences of these comments from bernie sanders? >> i think they are huge but i think one thing bernie sanders will quickly learn, and congressmen before hand said he's been scrutinized for 40 years, he's never been a front runner for the presidency of the united states. there's two things that come with that. one is huge attention from arguably the most dogged press corps out there, the white house

when we listen to politicians, this is true with president obama. this was true of president obama. president trump. talking about high level officials. really dangerous people, getting rid of them, locking them up make us safer and rapists, drug traffickers, and they give us really big number how many people with criminal histories are getting locked up and getting deported. when you actually look at the data, the largest category, this is almost true every year going back to the beginning of the obama administration, the largest category of crimes which people are getting locked up and deported is convicted of an immigration crime. just a crime of coming to the united states -- underlying activity of coming to the united states without the government's permission, then you get criminally prosecuted for that, you get convicted. now you're a criminal. you're a felon. now, department of homeland security can report, we have some, whatever number of people who this year were locked up were criminals, that's true, right, if by criminal all we mean is, we are convicted of a crime but wh

obama promised, bush promised. james madison probably promised. [laughter] proposing a budget that increases suspending, the deficit $9 trillion. the only way to cut this waste is mandated, budget that comes down. you're not going to go to each department. what department will head will say i want to make my sphere of influence lower. you can't do it. they all promised of bureaucrats find a way around it. find a way to justify. unless you cut the fence, which is not going to happen when either front, is not going to happen. >> 23.2 trillion deficit over $1 trillion so i echo that and appreciate the sentiments but the truth is, both parties have racked up spending as of late and i think i applaud the efforts but with the democratic lighthouse, they want to ramp up with right now. some of the wasteful cut that need to happen, wasteful spending, inflatable gains, not quite sure what that is. model market $34000. 1.6 million. >> the president sort of approached spending the way he did as a real estate developer. he likes to spend. you've been up budge

joe biden mentioned the obama-biden economy. even in the midst of a pretty booming economy. >> well, democrats, as you can see, are sort of conflicted on how to talk about the economy, so they talk about either it beginning in the obama administration recovery. then, they talk about how people don't feel like they are in recovery and most people are still suffering. their wages haven't improved enough. tax cuts did not help them. some of them are not in the market and they are lacking in health care coverage that is affordable, et cetera. they also paint a picture of how the trump economy has only helped the wealthy and the comfortable and not other people that need it the most. it's interesting that they don't seem to be able, because they are so conflicted on trade, to be able to talk about the trump trade war. they also never talk about how trump has exposed us to long-term risk by giving a sugar high to an already growing economy. the tools and the arsenal for the next president will need in the downturn won't be there. tax

he says he will have obama's backing despite reports obama does not side with bernie because he would wipe out obamacare. and then we have this, liberal, nest of the new york times says medicare for all will not happen. aoc said that now we have senator harry reid saying that. a whole bunch of that in just a second. thus get your reaction. >> medicare for all is a sale policy, we talked about it before. bernie sanders is pushing it forward but it's not medicare for all, it's healthcare for none. it's a government takeover of healthcare and elimination of private insurance, it's a horrible idea, it will never work in the fact the democrats think they can run on this, it shows they have 0 agenda, 0 policy, they will lose the boat to the american people. >> let's listen to what harry reid, an official, we have an interview involved about this. let's listen to what harry reid says about bernie sanders. >> senator reid has not shied away from his opinion and he didn't yesterday either. he was very strong on a big issue medicare for all that is dividing the democrats and he says he does not

you don't see the obama camp doing that. do you think that is an admission that biden is faltering, right now, they have bernie sanders leading the pack, and they think mike bloomberg might actually be someone who could throw enough money at the problem to gain enough delegates, and that he could ultimately be successful. what do you think? >> that's exactly right. there's love and loyalty in politics but there's one rule that reigns above all the rest, which is that nobody has the right to ask you to back somebody who is going to lose. if it is the assessment of the obama team and president himself joe biden is not going anywhere or maybe they want to see what happens after a few more contests, perhaps after super tuesday, it would make sense to maybe spread one's bets a little bit, so to speak, and encourage some of the other stronger candidates. reality is you have an anti-establishment candidate in the form of bernie sanders. i'd be very surprised if the obama folks and president himself ended up endorsing bernie sanders

you have politicizization, under obama. and you seen it with justice department and another bits of bureaucracy pursuing trump, and attorney general barr is trying to undo that politicalization. >> and you know in our opening monologue, i agree work you said two very important words that is impartial justice, our justice system has to be impartial, everyone has to recognize a prosecutor sole obligation to do what justice requires, you can't politicize, you cannot look are they a ally or opposition of president trump, you cannot look to see if there is an ro oracle. >> behind their name. and they are still recognizing they are ones who are over politicizing, they are ones that complicit in this they do the very thing that then they suggest that president trump is doing, by calling them out. you see that hypocrisy, because they go forward with the ridiculous sentence recommendation like 7 to 9 years, for a nonviolent crime, then mccabe, who he lied, there was purg perjury, he is nt prosecuted, what about comey, hillary clinto

agenda, the obama legacy? >> no chance i'm going to answer that question. >> come on, jim. >> look, i think everyone's going to attempt to claim this and voters are going to have it decide what the truth is. and, you know this is obviously an issue, bernie got asked about it last night at his town hall, will get asked about it again today again. but voters have to figure this out. i think people should look at the record and see who is with the president when it really mattered, who wants to continue his legacy and who is attempting to take down his legacy. >> on that point, some of our reporters here uncovered some audio of mike bloomberg talking about his 2012 endorsement of barack obama and using the word backhanded and essentially saying, yeah, i gave him my endorsement but i thought romney was better at things previously and didn't stick to his values as governor of massachusetts. the way the bloomberg campaign is responding is they're saying, he wanted to push people who were on the fence to support obam

he said, look, he's no barack obama. pete buttigieg is no barack obama. not that he ever said he has. this getting interesting here as joe biden is clearly trying to step up his divisions as he sharpens his contrast with the other candidates. he's doing it for one reason. he knows he needs to do better here to stay alive in this. he's sending a signal to donor, supporters that he has some fight in him. that was a very interesting session of joe biden unplugged. >> i was curious what was happen ng the room around him. what was the energy fliek there? how were they receiving that message? >> reporter: it was just a drop by for some of his organizers and volunteers at a union hall in new hampshire. it's not a big rally crowd. it's not a big town hall meeting. it's his supporters. sending them on their way to knock doors and work neighborhoods. he came back and had a formal news conference. reporters, a few donz were sitting around in chairs and taking more questions. trying to shuts it down a few different times. he kept talking and kept taking questions. wa

> harris: wouldn't he need obama? it wasn't the biden era. >> dagen: has no intention of getting involved in this race until the convention. he will support whoever is the nominee, but i think that has been clear from moment one. it just looks like, he's running on to be at the soul of the nation, that's part of the rhetoric, also the most delectable. >> harris: what does that mean? >> dagen: exactly. what does that mean? it is not resonating with voters even in south carolina. politico did that larger power it a few days ago. it's not connecting, he is not connecting. he might connect on a personal level. this is my judgment, i watch this man, he doesn't appear as if he has that passion to run the nation, and even the ego it takes to have that kind of passion, i'm hearing that mike bloomberg wants to win, not just the nomination, he is in it to win this. >> harris: when you look at the numbers, the money, and who is bringing it in, bernie sanders generated 25 million in such small increments that he can go back over

barack obama. they were all generational agents. and joe biden has a marched time making generational change argument right now.wo >> quick things as i listen, peter. the first is joe biden is someone who was trying to attach himself to barack obama being his vice president and michael bloomberg's ads i talked to some voters who think obama endorsed michael bloomberg. because he's had so much of the second thing is that joe biden as he struggles -- at least wasooking like he was struggling in south carolina, the day after jim clyburn endorsed him he said well, if he doesn't win big here he will be in big trouble. so as he's endorsing himso and aying look, if you don't do well here, you don't really have a pathway forward and that mes telling that even jim clyburn is saying that on the record in front of cameras. robert: jeff, quickly, you covered mayo buttigieg's campaign. what's his next move? >> well, he needs to show that he can win in a place othera than i. he needed to expand his coalition. earlier at the citadel. n the crowd w

that was barack obama. excuse me. >> by the way, i called to make sure that i was prepared -- i never say -- my private conversations but -- >> and the last thing before we go tonight, former president barack obama is officially neutral in the 2020 democratic race. if you have the impression that he weighed in you're not alone. three in five potential democratic primary voters believe that the obama has endorsed a candidate to take on donald trump and maybe it's because of all of these. >> i'm mike bloomberg. >> i'm elizabeth warren. >> i'm tom steyer. >> this is an extraordinary man with an extraordinary career. she's a janitor's daughter who has become one of the fiercest advocates for the middle class. >> mayor bloomberg and president trump worked together. >> fired up, ready to go. >> we need something different to beat trump. tom steyer can bring. >> it he's been a leader throughout the country for the past 12 hours. mr. michael bloomberg. joe's candid honest counsel made me a better president. elizabe

biden also getting candid about his old boss, president barack obama. he's even giving us a window into his thinking about what a potential vice president for joe biden would look like. we're also keeping a very close eye on the coronavirus crossing the globe, biden not holding back when it comes to how that could play out under president trump's administration. i have assembled a great group of experts, who are going to stick with me all hour to talk about the state of the race here in god's country. but first, first, though, my interview with former vice president joe biden, getting candid about the primary race, what's at stake, not shying away at taking jabs at one target in particular, bernie sanders. >> you've also said on the trail a number of times i've heard you are say this that this is a battle for the soul of this nation. >> it really is. >> it is also starting to seem as if this is perhaps a battle for the soul of your party. >> i think that's true. >> if you are not the nominee, what does that then say about the democratic party? >> it say

so just how close were bloomberg and obama? the mayor and the president found common ground on guns and climate change, but they had many policy differences like on the affordable care act. the obama administration's signature achievement. in a 2010 speech months after the passage of obamacare, bloomberg then an independent called the law a disgrace. he described it as just another program that's going to cost a lot of o'monmoney. a decade later bloomberg has fully embraced it and now supports a medicare like public option that builds on the law. the ads have drawn the ire of several former obama staffers. in an op-ed in his company's news service bloomberg praised mitt romney but said he would grudgingly vote for obama. he wrote rather than uniting the country around a message of shared sacrifice, he engaged in partisan attacks and has embrace add add, divisive populous agenda. in a 2016 speech discovered by cnn's k file bloomberg acknowledged the slight. >> the second obama election i wrote a very back handed endorsement of o

, this un-american, barack obama hussein of obama, not against the obama that most voters saw who even if they disagreed with him thought he was a good man, an honest man, a family man doing his best for the country. we have to recognize not every voter sees trump the way we do on -- >> the voters see this current president, they're getting -- i guess they're seeing he's -- well, he makes himself a character. >> they have have a nuanced view of him. these are the ones going to decide the election. they know he can be rude and racist and misogynistic but they think he's trying to change the system. i think they're wrong, but it's a start from that starting point to know where they are. >> if you watch fox news, they don't make him into a character, and that's how they see him. so you said don't make it all about trump no matter how egregious and your second point, the economy. and you say democrats need to find ways to frame the economy in their own terms. so talk to me about how that worked for the former president. >> slight. and write in a cap char in the book an entire memo to the n