. >> people call me alabamer, they call me yomamer, but the name's obama. >> barack obama really wasn't on our radar as a candidate in early 2006. i think the general feeling was he just got to the senate, there is no way he's going to run for president. that would be pretty, you know, audacious. >> i got a call from senator obama in the spring of 2006, and he said i just had the most peculiar meeting. senators harry reid and chuck schumer called me. >> top democratic dogs on the hill. >> and harry said you ought to think about running for president. ♪ like every overnight success, obama's didn't actually happen overnight. >> we waged a quiet campaign to get him the keynote slot at the 2004 democratic convention. >> do we participate in the politics of cynicism? or do we participate in the politics of hope? >> he wants to think that he's ready for the nation. >> the hope of a skinny kid with a funny name who believes that america has a place for him too. [ cheers and applause ] >> that he is coming from a very distinct background that represents the american story. >> there is not a b

. >> barack obama was the insurgent candidate back in 2008. he was the insurgent candidate. >> barack obama and bernie sanders have not much in common. >> they don't have anything in common. >> and i do think you have to look at the full context, the full picture. i mean, bernie sanders is someone who literally thought about and considered one of our former colleagues, bill press, was bernie sanders' confidant and talked about how barack obama failed progressives. so what is happening here is that black vote, my mama and her friends, yo mama, we always talk about this. black women of a certain age to be politically correct, are pointing out and choosing who the president of the united states should be, and they ain't voting for bernie sanders. so what bernie sanders is trying to do is nestle up to barack obama. i mean, we'll see -- >> see if it works. >> it ain't gonna work. >> you will not -- my mom is from louisiana. so when you see the g-e-a-u-x. >> go biden. >> joe for show comes from my mom. listen, president obama has stayed out, he stay

people were so bad barack obama for raising their taxes in 2010. that seems to be a fundamental problem that we will have to work on. >> thanks for being with us tonight. you think that reinstatement of the fcc fairness rule would be feasible? if so, what it do any good to alter the media landscape in which we find ourselves? mark i was writing the book, i wanted to explore this topic and i think one of the problems for progressivism is the media and balance, despite a lot of liberals in turn of media outlets, the conversation is toward conservative. in my research on this, i eventually was so confused, no one seemed to know the real answer to it. i couldn't find a way to draw a conclusion from it. it's too far and trying to get them there as well. does this to get around the media, so i just don't know the answer yet but i will explore that. >> thank you for being here. i'm a captain for our county democrats and november -- [applause] last election, we came with 4% of flipping our township blue except for three precincts. we have tried to figure o

now there are not enough and that is because of barack obama. this administration is engaging in a massive misinformation campaign, which is ultimately going to cost american lives. you know, when you compare that to the leadership being displayed by nancy pelosi in terms of the legislation she is putting on the floor today, you look at the speeches put forward by bernie sanders and joe biden, it is a pretty stark difference between handling the crisis. >> i know that we all think of this as a public health crisis and we are thinking about the people who are sick. it is also a political issue. i'm sure you watched president trump deliver his oval office address this week and i wonder what you thought about that? >> i think the primary purpose of an oval office address is twofold. at this time, it is to calm fear and it is to provide information. i think in both of those counts, the president failed. within five minutes of the conclusion of that speech, the administration was forced to put out multiple corrections based on the information he was

and bernie sanders using barack obama in a campaign ad but president obama hasn't endorsed anyone. >>> a man sentenced to death row but he didn't pull the trigger. >>> and super tuesday, changing the race for the democratic nomination. >> we are the campaign to defeat donald trump. i know every democrat out there and most independents and some republicans understand the moral imperative to defeat donald trump. and i believe that the nature of our campaign, which is grass roots, is the campaign to defeat trump. >> and this is a movement we're building and it is a movement and we need that movement to defeat donald trump and to build a future we all know is possible. i'm especially proud of our campaign generating so much enthusiasm and driving up voter turnout all across the nation. >> and joining me is a formerrg senior editor at "the atlantic" mike brownsteen. and ron, what are you going to run this weekend? nothing to run, right? nothing going on. mark, not ron. what a difference day makes, huh? >> this is the most dramatic 48 hours in politics. let's go back to clyburn. is there a

particularly since barack obama was elected. all the forces that allowed him to become president will still be present. we have to take a very aggressive effort to fix the problems in our politics and allow someone like donald trump to be president of the united states. >> a difference between voters that focus on ideology and policy. why did you make that distinction? >> i've been watching the 700 democratic debates we have had. [laughter] every one of them has been incredibly endearing subsidy of about whether we will have medicare for all, medicare for some or green new deal or whether we need to get 50% by this date or that date. that is great. substance is important. it is progress for our political conversation we are having. wednesday night's debate was a little different. [laughter] i think that that conversation is a little bit past the graveyard. i think our politics, both the institutions of politics that have been around for a long time, plus a very ruthless strategy put in place by republicans have politics rigged a

if barack obama had eight years to address this, he had -- he did nothing. the president started the first step act and you are watching inmates come out of prison and no longer be considered prize. people who have served their time. many of them are teenagers who made mistakes and served many years for crimes that are not that big of a deal. possession of a controlled substance and things like this. as long as it was not a crime against somebody like a murder or rape or what have you, he is looking at those cases. that's number one. the second one is education and school choice. on the criminal justice reform side, you're seeing the young lachman take notice and saying we are switching on the education side where the president has helped historically black colleges and universities, giving them more money than barack obama did and taking an interest in those schools and their historic benefit to blacks, as well as the education reform in general. he is winning over black women. there is not a statistical area the president has not improved. i am not just ta

briefly, and then i will open this up, ron walters and barack obama. walters writes about obama. ron walters passed away of cancer in 2010. he is around for the 2008 election and he writes his weekly column on black politics. he is both impressed by barack obama, but also disappointed that obama refuses to listen and understand that his job as president is to be open to a black agenda along with white agendas and other agendas. that is what he is disappointed by. he realizes barack obama is president of the united states, but in his criticism of obama and also black leadership is that, as president of the united states you have to listen to multiple agendas and decide the importance of those agendas, what order you are going to tackle the agendas. so presidents of the united states listen to our meeting americans, turkish americans, multiple constituencies. walters argues obama was being disingenuous when he argues that he couldn't advocate for a black agenda. he could only follow the law. walters said, in a pluralistic society, the president is listening to multiple agendas. so

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obama did it twice, and barack obama did it while overcoming racism. so when you have got a person of that accomplishment, i think they would do fine. in our current media environment, i think we ought to remember some of the things president reagan said in his farewell address in addition to the empowering disruption of the city on a hill, he talked about the idea -- he did not phrase it quite like this, but that we needed to reinvigorate the public square. that we needed to have greater public knowledge, and that we needed to reinvigorate public ritual. and it should be a ritual that respects the values of this nation. if president obama were here, i think he would say we have often not lived up to the framers. but that provides us a direction to aim, and so, we can -- i guess we should try believing in facts again. that's a great idea. john adams said facts are stubborn things indeed and perhaps they could be stubborn again, and maybe we should believe in living up to -- the framers did not live up to them, but if president obama were here, he would

we see that in fdr in the new deal and we see that in barack obama. let me give you an example of this if i can of the pragmatic liberalism and pragmatic conservatism about government views. let me give you a quotation -- a couple quotations and you tell me who they are from. our government should work for us, not against us. it should help us, not hurt us. got to be reagan. that is obama in his 2008 convention speech accepting the democratic nomination. nor is the question before us whether the market is a force for good or ill, it's power to generate wealth and expand freedom is unmatched. defense of the market, obviously reagan. that is obama again. here is another quotation. the role of the government to work with us, not over us. to stand by our side, not ride on our back. government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it. foster productivity, not stifle it. obviously obama. that is reagan's first inaugural. just a few paragraphs after the statement where he says in this present crisis, government is the problem, not the solution. did r

obama who i think was a greatnominee, forme barack obama, who i think was a great president. have you noticed in their ads, everybody all of a sudden is loving barack obama, when they were critical of him, like bernie saying he should be primaried in 2016 and mike is a good guy, bloomberg, but saying that health was a disaster. anyway, i just think that it's a matter of me being able to go out and win it on the merits. i do say, and i'm not joking. i think we need a democrat as the nominee, and i mean it literally. a democrat. and i am a democrat. you ask what kind of democrat? i'm an obama/biden democrat. we've been very progressive. we are just getting started. we saved this economy. we grew it in a way that is larger than this president, than trump has grown it in three years, and we were working on building up the middle class when things fell apart. we lost. and so it's about building on, not going back to. it's about building on and moving that next step to bring everybody along. and so that's -- that's what i mean. we need a democrat who is able to put together the coa

the tea party blew up when barack obama became president. so when you see this we saw what happened in the sixties, the march in washington, and then a little bit of a law. and the browning of america why would we not be surprise donald trump is present right after the first black president. >>host: after presidents bush and clinton and obama do you thank you had personal relationships with private interviews with each of those three and have you had that with president trump? >> i have had interviews with all of them. i see president clinton quite a bit. i haven't seen president obama.ge and george w. bush sends me messages through people every now and then. but this president i'm looking for an interview i would love to interview him he should interview me because i am a white house correspondent and number two because he is the president of all america and there are certain questions of all america wants. and i sat down with george w. bush and with bill clinton and all of them have said i am not an anybody's corner i don't have a personal

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and he's using barack obama's tools of organizing. so this is saying, i, too, can and will carry on the legacy. it's in no way implying the vice president isn't close to president obama. >> ro khanna, we appreciate you being here. we know you've been thinking a lot about coronavirus and all the implications out there. we do appreciate your time out there. >> thanks for having me on. >>> now to this story that's getting so much attention. alabama's governor has just hours left to step in and stop the execution of a man convicted of murders that he did not commit. we explain in that story next. dana-farber cancer institute discovered the pd-l1 pathway. pd-l1. they changed how the world fights cancer. blocking the pd-l1 protein, lets the immune system attack, attack, attack cancer. pd-l1 transformed, revolutionized, immunotherapy. pd-l1 saved my life. saved my life. saved my life. what we do here at dana-faber, changes lives everywhere. everywhere. everywhere. everywhere. everywhere. >>> an alabama man convicted of killing three police o

there's an ad of him and barack obama walking around the white house. i think he's not going to be able to break that tie. >> what is the strategy if joe biden is successful, does rack up enough delegates to be the party's nomination to bring bernie sanders's veoters into te fold so he faces donald trump with the strongest and most diverse coalition of democratic voteards behind him? >> this is a hard fight and we know senator sanders and the supporters are in it to win it now. when you heard the vice president say last night is he didn't attack senator sanders and his supporters. he was talking about bringing everyone together. being a uniter as well as a fighter of all the democrats and independents and yes, republicans too to get this country back from donald trump and to move this country forward and that's been his message all along in this campaign. they said this is a party that doesn't want a uniter. it is a feisty moment. but i think people want decency and they want a big tent and that's what joe biden's bringing to this. >> you know, i think

barack obama. >> host: how concerned should mitch mcconnell be about the majority? >> guest: is very much in the mix. there are a handful of seats where the democrats have a real shot of taking the route house and the rolling and senators, susan collins of maine is facing the race of her life for her approval ratings have gone from 78-42 since trump showed up on the scene in 2015 and that's a stark decline. martha make sally in arizona lost her last race and she's on the ballot again. >> we break away from this back to detroit, michigan where joe biden, get out the vote rally, is about to get underway. heading to the stage right now, governor of michigan, gretchen which were -- gretchen witmer. >> thank you. i will try not to start dancing but i'm happy, how are you feeling? [cheering and applause] detroit, i am thrilled to be here with you because i've got to tell you i felt better in the last ten days than i have in the last ten months. do you feel me? [cheering and applause] here is why, i decid

it's a full-blown recession of barack obama. unemployment numbers are very hi, black unemployment was cut in half thehi time. he created a situation, a good situation for this president y go into. now, i don't know about the money that was offshore. but whatever he did work to help stimulate the economy. he helped the auto industry, he plugged the money in here and there. but i will tell you is, this president, he owns this economy now. but, he did not have what barack obama walked into. barack obama walked into a full-blown recession. people were saying we are walking into a depression. thego bottom line is this president owns this economy now, but there is a problem. we see the stock market look unfavorable for a while. this president has the coronavirus, and that is going to makee. an impact with us, with the economy and particularly globally as many countries have been unstable financially. so we've got to wait and see the impacted now. but as it relates to the economy, this is a wait-and-see now. we have an added strain wit

before barack obama when he was president elect. susan and i have known each other for over 20 years she is a former national security adviser, and former ambassador part i will never forget a conversation on the phone i had with her when she was president elect. we still have people here in this nation who don't want to see him become president. i said really? because i thought the kumbaya moment had happened. i was there the night he was elected president at the white house. when everybody was in grant park i saw the spontaneous crowds come to the white house and just explode with the young people from all the colleges around. they were singing and chanting in the bushes were still because it's all the lights on they were singing non- non- non- non- hey hey hey bush goodbye. people felt they turned a corner this had their post- racial. no, we are now post- obama what is that look like? it looks like this. the problem is you had people on capitol hill, mitch mcconnell, he's gonna do every thing he can to get him out of there. you h

rock hussein obama. the next michelle obama. - - barack obama. the next bill clinton. the next donald trump. the next martin luther king. could be the next mohammed ali. who knows? could be the next charles drew. if you don't know who that is, look them up. google him. could be the next. >> with the writing process like for you? >> it's hell on wheels. the first book took me 17 years. i'm glad it took 17 years. the subsequent books were only six months each. and it almost killed me. i pulled myself away from everything. when you write, you lose yourself in your book. and i've got children. so being mommy, taking them to school and writing. you can be on the plane, train or automobile as you are typing. you think about something. write a sentence. i'm concerned by it. i needed a break. [laughter] three books in five years is a lot. >> betsy, michigan. good afternoon. >> how are you today? i have seen you on many c-span programs with your books and i've always admired your strength and perseverance. and today you said something that made me call. use the phrase dis-ease

politician, barack obama. so it is not just the base and the votes, but how you go beyond the young voters and latino voters and to be fair, a lot of them are conservative black voters and they are not as mo monolith as other communities, but clyburn did give him the push, and he said that bernie sanders never reached out to me and tried to get my vote and it is a mistake. but i get it, because bernie sanders was an insurgent and for the weeks he was the frontrunner and he was not behaving that way and now he is going to have to behey that way. and if elizabeth warren pulls out and does not endorse him, that is a huge blow. >> and alice, in most cases, the votes exceeded 2016 levels and 700,000 more in texas and more than 500,000 in virginia. something of a warning sign for the trump campaign. this is a tough fight? >> yes, certainly, a lot of enthusiasm amongst the democratic party and they are engaged. a lot of it is because there are two diametrically opposed lanes. certainly the progressive lane and the mo

. >> david plouffe was barack obama's campaign manager in 2008. how is it shaping up for biden, sanders, thank you for joining us. give us a sense of what's happening behind the scenes in this moderate -- >> moderate palooza. >> joe biden on saturday before we saw south carolina was down to his last political life. now he's having an absolute dream night. he's going to walk out of the south and the eastern part of tonight with a lot of delegates. the question is can bernie sanders catch up in california? last week we thought sanders might have a delegate lead of 150, 200. dramatic change. joe biden hasn't spent and if he struggled in debates, a lot of it is to support him. it went undecided. when he had one good night and started to perform better, that all came back. african-american vote driving his delegate share and doing really well with suburban voters. >> does it provide him to have a successful night, there had to be somewhat of a bloomberg collapse. bloomberg not reaching viability. bloomberg was nipping at his heels in some states that w

you could feel a much more dramatic step in american progress when barack obama won the iowa caucuses in 2008 in the overwhelmingly white state of iowa. and then as tears of joy fell

>> we're running against somebody that touted his relationship with barack obama for 8 years. barack obama is enormously popular in this country in general and the african-american community. >> so sanders says it is all about obama. >> look, there's no question, stephanie, voters of all races, democrats like barack obama, like the fact that joe biden was his vice president, they like the fact that in michigan as ron knows very well, barack obama and joe biden saved the state's economy with the auto bailout. but this goes deeper than that with joe biden. he has a 40 year history working with the african-american community in his state, in the senate, fighting for the voting rights act, extension of labor laws and other protections, rights protections. but i think it goes to the kind of campaign he's running. he is out there talking about the people that are left behind, left out. he is talking about compassion, empathy, he is talking with his heart on his sleeve. i think that's connecting with voters. as ron mentioned, it is a coalition of african-americans and suburban voters

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and i want to say something about barack obama. i'm not going to tell you he's my best friend, but i talk to him every now and then, and i have a lot of respect for him. do we have disagreements? of course we had. just the other day he said -- i think biden had reached out to him and wanted his support and he said no. i think i will be more effective in supporting the eventual winner. >> everybody is embracing barack. he's a wonderful guy. the idea that bernie sanders was a great supporter of the president of the united states and shares his views, i mean, come on. >> what is the impact of bernie sanders now coming up with his own barack obama is my best friend kind of ad? >> i'd be very surprised if it has much impact at all. i understand the play. i understand that he looked at those numbers from south carolina, he looked at the numbers across the south. from, you know, virginia all the way around to texas, and the numbers -- biden just dominated -- >> i should just point out -- let me just point out, we should have made clear, i

you are psyched about barack obama. man, michele obama is beautiful. their children, those children are great. right? that's the prize. that's what walters argued. black people can't just say that because you elect the first black president there is no black agenda. the quote that walters said is that they are so enenthralled, they will give this brother a pass. that's what he said. so he is speaking just black vernacular and giving a brother a pass, wow, just because you are black, we are letting this -- this is fine. it's an in-house deal. right? when we think about barack obama and black politics, walters pushed back, not because obama wasn't trying to run as a black power president. he realized obama couldn't have won. if obama raised the black power sign at the democratic national convention, if obama came out on the white house lawn with a malcolm x t-shirt, these things would be politically injurious. it didn't mean obama, because he was the black president or president who happened to be black, had to ige undernore a b agenda. that's fair criti

biden: i told you all that you could launch a candidacy -- you launched bill clinton, barack obama, and now you've launched our campaign on the path of defeating donald trump. this campaign has taken off, so join us. go to joebiden.com, sign up, contribute. we need you, we want you, and there is a place for you in this campaign. [applause] mr. biden: folks, as we celebrate tonight in columbia, let me talk directly to democrats across america, especially those who will be voting on super tuesday. this is the moment to choose the path forward for our party. this is the moment and it has arrived. maybe sooner than anyone guessed it would, but it is here, and the decisions democrats make all across america the next few days will determine what this party stands for, what we believe, and what will get done. the democrats nominate me, i believe we can beat donald trump. [cheers] mr. biden: keep nancy pelosi in the house of representatives as speaker, and take back the united states senate. [cheers] mr. biden: join us. my fellow democrats across america, join us. democrats want to nominate som

all of the ads, everybody is loving barack obama. bernie sanders should be primaried in 2016. mike is a good guy, mroom berg. but saying that health care was a disaster. it's a matter of me winning it on the merits. i think we need a democrat as the nominee. literally. i'm an obama/biden democrat. we've been progressive. we saved this economy. we grew it in a way that's larger than trump has grown it in three years. and we were working on building up the middle class and things fell apart. we lost. it's about building on -- not going back to. building on and moving the next step to bring everybody along. so, that's what i mean. we need a democrat. who is able to put together the coalitions that we put together. suburban women. across the board. i think that we got that off the ground. for example, we talk about how, you know, bernie's turning out all of the vote. bernie's a great guy. if you look at south carolina, there were, i think, 158,000, or something like that. 100,000 more votes than when barack ran in 2008. they turned out. and they turned out. i got those votes, the

barack obama. we are going to do it by bringing it back together, bringing america back together in every ethnicity, race, gender, economic station. folks, look we are going to unite democrats, republicans but that is what the nation needs is to bring the country together. [applause] this is a state we have to win in november. i spent a lot of time when i was vice president here. he is a hell of a guy and knows what he's doing and i can tell you we work side-by-side to support the city. the president asked me i've always believed in detroit like i've always believed in michigan. durinduring beat obama by an administration, we lost the restoration project and invested $2.5 billion to help mitigate pollution. protecting endangered species, habitats, the biggest investment of the great lakes in decades and it's delivered an incredible result. revitalization for the waterfront all across the great lakes and ladies and gentlemen, we are drawin drawing into new businesses anin the newbusinessm activity l

the iphone's first decade nearly parallel's barack obama's years in the white house. elected in 2008 he left office in january of 2017, ten years after jobs presentation. barack obama was the first president to have a twitter account and the first to use instagram. the founders of both airbnb n in uber were in washington, dc for barack obama's inaguration. and independently they've talk but the experiences as a eureka moment. the spark that kris alize into an idea for a company. the corporation timeline of the obama and be iphone are -- let's not forget that meanwhile there was a great recession, a lot of breck people carried fabulous magic phones, too. in 2010 or 2011, it seemed like all the ads on the subway for authorize app. then 0 haul the strange hangers had iphones and some an detroit phones. mack the other way around. there's an app for that was an iphone slogan and there was. the iphone was common in every day like eye guardrailses but felt new for a long while, past the point of actually being enough. apples crowning i achievement, ten careers after the phon

but hillary clinton and barack obama were not the norm. you have to be an sproerdry once in a generation, or two, three generations like barack obama to break through. >> nancy pelosi was just asked about this. let me play for what you she had to say moments ago. >> every time i get irnts duced as the most powerful woman, i almost cry, because i think i wish that were not true. i think the american people are ready. >> i wish it wasn't true, beth. suburban women, so important. african-american voters, so important. what should the eventual democratic nominee who is almost certainly going to be a white man in his 70s do to not just talk to those people, but show those people things can be different? >> so i think what happened here, chris, there will be a lot of monday morning quart baeking about how we got to the point we are. here's my back of the envelope assessment. this democratic electorate is obsessed with beating donald trump. the overwhelming issue for them was electability, not gender or race. everyone was so nervous about choosin

obama -- four years after barack obama, having this guy as president was an aberration, a historical aberration. but if we give him eight years, he will fundamentally alter the nature of who we are and that's a fact. he'll change the nature of who we are. and winning means uniting america. i know a lot of my colleagues think we have to look at the other side as the enemy. if we do that, we can never get anything done. not sewing more distinguish than anger. [applause] not only -- the words of presidents matter. not only means fighting, but healing. healing this country. we have to beat donald trump and the republican party. but we can't become like them. we can't become like them. we have to heal our division, re pair our democracy. and above all, it's time for america to get back up on its feet and once again fight for the proposition that we hold these truths to be self-evident. sounds corny. not a joke. hink about it. all men and women created by -- you know the thing. you know how we talk about it. we the people. folks, indo youed by our creator with certain indiana alienable rig

i worked for barack obama as well. i'm a democrat. the other piece of it, too, is i want more men to do what you just did which is say i would like to see women in positions of leadership and not just when they get daughters and discover that women are people. >> mr. steele, it worth a reminder here that elizabeth warren did endorse hillary clinton back in 2016. any reason to think that she'll endorse joe biden? any reason to think she'll endorse bernie sanders this time? >> i think she'll endorse the eventual nominee. i agree with the early analysis that she will probably play this a little close to the vest. you know, maybe her relationship with sanders is, you know, closer and stronger that she may feel the need to come out today, particularly given the momentum of joe biden, but that raises the question, does she think her endorsement now can stop that momentum for joe biden and actually help bernie sanders? so i think these are calculations that she and her team are going to be making if they haven't already in concert with the s

that was barack obama's extraordinary campaign. but, new hampshire had a record-breaking turnout last night, a large turnout in iowa where we won the popular vote, we saw a significant increase in young people's participation, and we'll see what happens on tuesday. but my guess is that we have an excellent chance to win some of the largest states in this country and states all across the state because of the coalition that we're putting together, because of the issues we're talking about, you know in america, people understand that there's something fundamentally wrong. we're the only major country on earth to not guarantee health care for all. so i think the ideas that we have, the focus on climate change, the existential threat to this planet, is what the people of this country want to hear discussed. >> you also called your an existential threat to the democratic establishment. i guess that includes house speaker pelosi and democrats in the house and the senate. don't you need their support to win in november, one of the big pic

obama last night, especially given barack obama has been really out of the spotlight when it comes to this 2020 race? >> i think that we are going to have a very rough and tumble road to figuring out who the nominee's going to be. and barack obama's number one job in this entire primary cycle is to bring this party together. he still is the most popular figure. and i know that no one who supports bernie sanders and no one who supports joe biden wants necessarily for that path to be altered. i think that his job is to bring the party together, and i think that's what he's focused on. in regards to pete getting out the race tonight, and i was just looking at an article by jeff zeleny in another lifetime, about john edwards who was actually in a stronger position at the time than even pete was now, even though he was running third. and john edwards, with all his faults and failures, i'm not dare comparing the two, but he was running stronger at that time, and he too got out the race, similar to pete because he acknowledged that that race wasn't his, that history would be made. and so i t

. >> and regular rank and file democrats who favor barack obama by 95%. that's why they're up with this new ad which shows him walking with president barack obama and him saying nice things about him. >> the problem with that a ad is the same day it went up -- let me say this about every former president ppt -- they are inestablishment. his message was oh, the democratic establishment is trying to get me. >> that's not the message we've heard up until he got his clock cleaned on super tuesday. and there are a lot of reasons for that i was at a trump rally in north charleston, south carolina. he says you can vote in the primary if you're a republican. vote for who isedesier. you see trump on twitter trying to drive that wedge. bernie's getting screwed over by the establishment. why does he want that? democrats see that too. i think as much as this coalescing around joe biden has to do with the comfort level black voters have with him, it has to do with donald trump wanting to beat him in november and bernie sanders having won in new hampshire and nevada an

we'll see if barack obama is a presence in the ads. >> all right. vice president joe biden, you know, he will be taking on bernie sanders nearly one on one on the debate stage. how much will that be a measuring stick of success? >> i think that's a great question. here's the thing. even though biden had a very historic success in super tuesday, he is still joe biden. he finds a way to lose focus in public appearances, still kind of meanders. >> some of the things people used to find endariearing and ld about him. now folks are saying that part makes them nervous. >> that's right. i think democrats are nervous about that aspect of him. he is going to go up in a debate against bernie sanders one on one march 15th when sanders is a fierce debater. he can be an angry debater. biden will have to find a way to come back at him using his own tone but trying to be successful. >> what about elizabeth warren, this week she suspended her campaign, thinking things are over in terms of answering the question will you endorse anybody. yesterday, she told "boston

i argued for jesse jackson as a forerunner to barack obama. he first set the idea that that was possible. a lot of people wanted to run for president also a great origin are in somebody who inspired many generations to have hope and faith. there was a lot of debate. people were getting knocked down and it was very spirited. >> you are the co-author of the book on justice clarence thomas, was he considered for this "the fierce 44"? >> yes, he was raised too, as supreme court justice he was someone who was raised. there were a lot of people who were raised that i think we were mindful also of not trying to make these choices based on ideology were based on factors that cover this person was isolated from the race who tried to look at achievement and what was done and obviously with 44, you're missing a lot of people. tiger woods is not on here. louis armstrong is another that was debated. >> but duke ellington is in here. >> duke ellington is in here. part of it the process was we thought about we don't want to have it overly weighted with civil

explain the decision now to embrace barack obama. >> look. i think all our ads do two things. they show who bernie sanders is and they contrast bernie sanders with other candidates. pundits can talk about timing and all sorts of things. we made a decision to put this ad on the air today because we think it's a way we can highlight bernie sanders best in the states coming up. michigan, missouri and washington state now. >> when you look at what you have -- what the candidate has said is going to happen, what it takes to beat trump, what your movement is doing and see the reality of what we saw last night, places where turnout was up, didn't help your coalition but biden's coalition, what is your explanation? what have you seen in the data looking that the wondering, boy, we want to get a higher turnout among young voters but not turning up? what is your diagnosis? >> look. places the media isn't looking. look at the latino vote in california for bernie sanders, young latino vote which overwhelmingly i believe 80% in california went to bernie sanders. there are -- which is by th

but i will tell you something which impresses me very much about barack obama. i talked to him many, many months ago. we talk about the campaign, and i had called him up and i think all of the candidates basically had, and i dropped in to see him. he said you know what, bernie, i'm not going to get involved. and he kept his word. you may have seen him just the other day. he said -- i think biden had reached out to him and wanted his support. and he said no, i think i will be more effective in supporting the eventual winner and not getting involved early on. i know that there's an enormous pressure on him to support biden, and the fact that he's not doing that makes me respect him even more. >> if at the end of the day it turns out that vice president biden is going to have more delegates than you do heading into the convention, will you drop out? >> of course i'm going to -- he will win. we'll run through -- i suspect we will run through the process letting people have a right to vote, but if biden walks into the convention or at the end of the process has more

i think that barack obama had his concerns. but now that we're facing a choice between bernie sanders and one other candidate, you could sort of see, as you put it, as carol lee and her colleagues wrote, the subtle hand of obama kind of coming into play here in which they're clearing the field to some extent of the other moderate alternatives so that it is a biden versus sanders kind of contest. >> everybody strap in. super tuesday starts in hours. our great thanks to peter baker, to carolyn ryan, to donna edwards for starting us off on manic monday, i guess. >>> coming up, we'll have more on the coronavirus, the administration's response to it thus far. an expert on pandemics and the person who led the obama response to ebola among our guests. >>> and later, a retired u.s. four-star army general weighs in on trump's peace deal with the taliban. "the 11th hour" just getting started on a busy consequential monday night. which of your devices are protected by daily security updates? daily security updates... daily? i don't know.