party and will never want to do anything as a democrat ever again the democratic party is going to lose a big chunk of support and that's going to make it very very difficult for them to win in the. and i got somebody who has a huge support base donald trump that's very committed that will come out and vote for him so i think this is definitely going to hurt them in the election in the long term it's going to hurt them as a party i don't think they care i think they're willing to blow up their party if it means keeping things the way that they are where you have a bunch of elites controlling everything and making a ton of money off of it yet because they have no moral compass ok it's been demonstrated over and over again here let's go to lionel you know i know how you feel about donald trump but the interesting thing for me in looking at this rivalry inside of the democratic party it took trump to take to do to basically destroy the legacy of obama took down hillary clinton and because the democrats can't get themselves in order and actually present a platform to run on because they're

of the democratic national convention michelle gayle democratic party activist in chicago and lynn a erickson a democratic strategist here in washington d.c. so what's the bottom line alexandria ocasio cortez some nowhere is a oh see is right in any other nation she and joe biden would be in totally different parties and bernie sanders and joe biden would be in different parties to there are huge differences of perspective between these 2 candidates on how radical to be on environmental policy or on immigration on their. cation health care this is a rough tug of war between different camps all driven by different passions and grievances inside the same party in america what is clear is that when a democratic candidate is named whether it's joe biden or bernie sanders what's going to unify them will not be what it is for but rather what it is against and that unifying call will be moving president doll jade from out of the white house and that's the bottom line. the consequence of war. ventures into russia shows he served in the marine corps for 1995 that just doesn't go away. for a l

party they are the force of the democratic party bernie sanders gets a portion of the african-american vote particularly when we're talking about younger african-americans but when we saw the winds change in south carolina we knew that people like pete booted gedge who had you know an early bump in iowa and you know amy cold which are probably over performed in some of those early states was not going to survive going through the south particularly on super tuesday and on some of the states following that she might have some weight in the midwest but this election is going to be about turnout and if you can't turn out african-americans as a democrat you will not win and so that's where it comes down to these 2 particular candidates bernie sanders who as young african-americans excited about him and joe biden who has older african-americans who will come out and vote for him instead the numbers that's what you need and close which are and booted and all the other people were way behind in that area and there's no way you can win a democratic state and secondly as we saw with hillary cli

speaks what the the democratic party. does speak on a wide range of issues in their platform but in terms of the specific ideology of bernie sanders it's not. i'm not sure if it's so much the socialist label but we do have to keep in mind that he has never registered as a report as a democrat he has name he has insisted on remaining as an independent and that signifies something to the party more than that he has actually sometimes voted against democratic policies or legislation while in the senate because of his ideological purity because he felt as though this legislation did not go far enough to wards where he wanted to go immigration reform is one such example we we have to understand that. his ideological purity is what his supporters love about him as moron said he is is as clear and he's passionate when he speaks and a lot of democrats like what he has to say but he hasn't always played nicely with the democratic party and the democratic party definitely sees that and they are showing that they care more about pra

party is a home for for strong female candidates i really think that we the democratic party doesn't necessarily think that biden is the perfect candidate but they felt compelled to give an early signal of whom to consolidate around precisely because the republican party did not do that in 2016 and it led to the fragmentation of the party that we still see today and and the ability for trump to get the nomination and go on to win the presidency the democratic party went with biden his poll numbers were better in certain key constituencies we have to take seriously the minority vote to take you really the black vote for biden and also the demographics we are looking at electoral college alex and in some ways i do see that more in terms of baseball you pick up where you can and pennsylvania with wisconsin and michigan those are biden countries writes not speaking of the demographics there is a generational divide in these primaries i mean the young voters bernie sanders of course the older voters seem to love joe joe biden the older generation are with him. does this bode ill for the d

i think it is a very honest vapor the democratic party -- debate for the democratic party. host: by all accounts one of the the pivotal moments was endorsement by congressman jim clyburn. this is what the associated press is riding -- clyburn a bust as moment changing the landscape in 2020. political endorsements are often ought of as having political half, but the backing of jim clyburn seems to of been the endorsement that brought biden's candidacy back from the brink following lackluster .erformances in a early states it was a way to signal for black voters in south carolina that biden would be the candidate to stand up to those interests. he scored a blowout margin of victory of nearly 30 points. guest: i have been around politics a long time. been a candidate, state chair, run campaigns. i have always had a jaundiced view about endorsements. yeah, you try to get as many as you can, but in the end they do not amount to a hill of beans. what, a big, huge exception is the endorsement of jim clyburn for joe biden for the south american primary. 50% of african-american vote

for the democratic party once stood for. i was surprised this last year, i never thought i would serve the united states congress, when people were elected, as openly socialist. just that quickly, we are now really at the precipice of the possibility the nominee for the democratic party, is an avowed socialist. i will tell you that the moderate democrat, in the house of representatives are terrified the prospect of that, because that is a bridge too far for most americans. i'm going back to the impeachment, what you have seen, and charlie is right, nancy pelosi has become hostage to that progressive mob, within the party. it is why she went from oh no, impeachment has three overwhelming, and bipartisan, to doing exactly the opposite. so for crowd like this, you know as much as it troubles us, to hear folks in the democratic party, advocating socialist values, that are opposite of what has made america the greatest country in the world. at least it's an opportunity for us, not only for president trump to be reelected against

democratic party for 2020 presidential candidate joe biden who mounted a major super tuesday comeback we'll tell you all about. also making headlines tonight days after heralded peace deal with washington the taliban today killed 20 soldiers and police in afghanistan while the u.s. respond with air strikes it's all unraveled. greek called the police clash with asylum seekers at the turkish border. with ankara over refugees deepens president night at the front here is thousands of people scramble to reach the e.u. . from the home. as we were trying to film we were stopped this my cameraman being schooled. by looks like a military person out. there live from new center in moscow this wednesday evening is kevin owen here for the next 30 minutes so he can stick around as well and take you through the headlines as reported from russia tonight starting with the race for the white house over the state's latest on the michael bloomberg has announced he's ending his run for democratic 2020 presidential nominee after suffering a wipeout in super tuesday voting the billionaire and former new yor

but the democratic party has its own racial problems, because the democratic party starts to fear its connection black votes is making it less hospitable to white votes. the democratic party under carter and clinton tries to triangulate, tries to do things like affirmative-action, mend it don't end it. welfare reform is aimed at a policy that is criminalizing the democratic party's most loyal consistent -- most loyal constituency. these are things ron walters pushes back against. he says, how can you have allegiance to this party who is criminalizing black mothers who are single, criminalizing teenagers, throwing all these people in jail? and that is where walters'notion of lack power as an independent political party that could potentially be the balance of power comes into play. that has a hard time coming into existence. why? because so many black electorate -- so many black elected leaders depend on the democratic party's patronage. our two-party system precludes walters'strategy of creating an independent black party, even though historically black people have tried to do this, t

where is the strength of the democratic party at this time? how do they win elections? >> it'd be like remnants of roosevelt's coalition from the 1930s and something else, the first advertisement especially pointed out is look back to 1931. they're like look 20 years ago when republicans did bad things. i mean i feel like in the modern era 20 years ago is a completely different environment than now, so it's really trying to harken back to arguments they've been making for the last two decades. >> excellent. kayla. >> i was going to say you can see the contrast between the democratic party and they're continually asking people to look back at what we've done, not even what stevenson has done necessarily but what other democrats have done and linking the party together, that's the only thing they share because he's a democrat, he will be as successful as past democrats whereas with ike's campaign it was very much looking towards the future and not -- well, because they didn't really have a great past in recent years to look back to that they would want to advertise. so th

by what we could call moderates in the democratic party to try to find a candidate behind whom they can unite and that was the i would be vice president biden's so i would be very surprised if pressure had not been brought to bear on on both the jazz club char and bloomberg to get out of the race i think most democratic party officials so quickly those elected officials their biggest concern is not actually defeating donald trump it's making sure that they stay reelected this is why i think so many people in the democratic party were really concerned about senator sanders being the nominee it's it's not just that he would not be able to defeat donald trump but that he might cause severe reaction among voters 'd with many of the down ticket democratic candidates while joe biden was propelled into pole position on super tuesday senator elizabeth warren's campaign was dealt a crippling blow she failed to place in the top 2 in any of the 14 voting states and is under pressure from bernie sanders supporters to drop out of the competition to avoid splitting the progressive vote president

party is quite clear that the democratic establishment or they have a plan in their plan is to. is to advance a so-called centrist and that's exactly what they did coming out of south carolina the use of biden's win to south carolina to to create momentum and to encourage that and i think colin and amy too from minnesota to drop out so that all of the far it can be directed toward bernie sanders and a little bit want to play the role in that by state in the race completely devastated michael bloomberg but she also undermined very sad news for the focus really should just be on elizabeth warren the focus should be on the kind of machinations coming from the democratic party to try to to to undermine bernie sanders because we all know is anybody but bernie. now i think we've all at one time or another looked up at the stars and more felt well enjoy it while it lasts a snuff because it thinks we're about to lose not celestial beauty to a swarm of satellites. after. today's launch of 60 star like. mark falcon a successful flight. there are so many of them it means astronomers get ma

it certainly made those are core democratic ideas right that's sort of what the democratic party has stood for since the in franklin roosevelt put together the new deal coalition to try to advance the interests of working people of women and minorities try to have good jobs for people who are in the manufacturing sector. interest of labor unions so bernie sanders is certainly talking about those are sort of a new spin on them ins are emphasizing income inequality. is the verbiage but i think a lot of those you know health care social services the generous social safety net those have remained the things that unite the democratic party across its various demographic constituencies for multiple generations in american politics so continuing to emphasize those things i think is sort of a very sensible thing for any democratic nominee to do bernie sanders maybe is the most aggressive and the most stimulating on those proposing sort of along with those with war in the most aggressive changes in public policy but in many ways the his ideas are at least not any different direction than the

there was a freedom now party in 1963. there's a mississippi freedom democratic party in 1964. there's the lounz county freedom organization, nicknamed the black panther and that black panther party is what inspired the oakland black panther party and the black panthers that we think of in a contemporary context, so walters was all for that, but that does not happen in a way that he had anticipated. i'll take questions. i'm going to open it up. >> i have a question, just a simple question. do you think that black power was a logical extension to like the integration of civil rights movement, or was it a break? >> you know, i think it's both. i think it's separate and distinct, but it's -- i think when you think about civil rights and black oh, you think about these black freedom struggles as a huge redwood in california, a redwood tree, and they are -- there are many, many branches, and at times those branches intertwine, and at times those branches are separate, so i think black power is rooted in the same tree but it's definitely a different branch, but one of the things that

democratic party. you looking for a revolution for somebody who has not gotten a lot done, he's a good guy but didn't get a lot done in the united states congress. look, you got -- the next president of the united states, he or she is going to inherit a world of disarray and a country that is divided. they have to beat trump and win back the senate and keep the house of representatives. there's been a plethora of plet endorsements i haven't even asked for. scores and scores of national endorsements are coming forward. congresspersons. all the people that are coming forward most rapidly are people who in states and districts that are purple and are worried they're going to lose if bernie's the torp of the ticket. that's not me. that's them. so the question is who is best positioned, number one, to win -- help win back the senate and keep the house of representatives. because -- that's number one. number two, hospital going to be in the best position once elected to be able to actually get things done in

a great political party, the democratic party, feels that it is making some fateful decisions here. between are we going to acknowledge we're interested in a socialist or social democrat future or are we going to stay kind of where we have been for the past 20 or 30 years? it's a big decision. it does have to do with left and right and with interesting coalitions. it is interesting to look at bernie, however, i saw his speech last night after biden won. bernie does not do happy warrior. he doesn't come forward and say we're going to fight and do all that stuff. i mentioned this to a young journalist. i said he doesn't do happy warrior. he said, you know, boomers like happy warriors. he's not going for boomers. >> i was just going to say, this is the barack obama issue with sanders. he doesn't like the tone, even though he's impressed with the movement. is that fair? >> that's a good question. and you always see bernie describe it as a movement. one of the things that was written there, though, when we peel back some of the results in south carolina, there's a big suburban vote yeste

were actually just democrats it's going to take the democratic party a long time to figure out that the trump working class are just republicans well and also the focus on workers who is what i'm really glad that john brought up the working people though it is to define do over time because of technology but families creating families keeping families together the opiate crisis real problems that affect real people ok and you know and i'll get in trouble for saying this not just transgender toilets ok maybe that's there but it's not the high end and i think this is what trump and bernie sanders are doing and i hope to see them face off in november us all the time we have many thanks to my guest in atlanta washington and in stroudsburg and thanks to our viewers for watching us here in our d.c. you next time and remember. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. your government and our government and all the other major governments of the world know what's going to and when

biting that is really what's going to bring the democratic party together and the final test is who can trump right well if you look at if you again paul sorry but if you look at the polls we've you talk to voters democrats say their number one priority is beating trump. where they're split is on their number 2 priority which is health care and for international audience who may be actually has work in health care this is the difference in this country bernie sanders says get rid of it everyone goes into the government program and we get rid of private insurance biden is for more moderate and moderate candidates more moderate just open up the government program but people get to keep their private insurance the problem for the democrats is democrats want universal health care republicans and independents universally across the board do not favor that so that could that's what these stablish want to say they're concerned about sanders is just go ahead. well i think one of the issues that we haven't talked about yet is the fact that with global jar and with people to judge out of the race

charlie: work less, get free stuff of the democrat party. and make no mistake, the socialist movement in this country is not going away if we defeat at the ballot box in november. we have to defeated no matter who the nominee, they are going to have 40 - 50% of the party that are socialist. the question that i ask people, do you think america will be more or less socialist in ten years. the only correct answer to the question is what is happening and culture, what are students reading, are they reading the founding fathers, do they understand american history, are they appreciated of the gifts we've given from god, the answer is more time often the no. that's why we operate with a sense of urgency that we do a turning point usa because we have been waiting politically as conservatives over the last ten or 15 years but we've been losing tragically culturally. mark: you look at this progressive movement which is really the child of marxism -- pushed over 100 years ago by the likes ofpu woodward wilson and john dewey, theodore roosevelt and oth

you've never had it so good is a democratic party slogan. he's refuting them, but not in a lot of detail. he's saying what about the cost of living and tries to point to very specific things to refute the slogan. so it's not very specific in terms of all the details that he gives, but it's a little bit more specific than the slogan. so that, again, 20 seconds he can try to refute some of the democratic slogans that they're running on. excellent. kayla? >> yeah, i think we can laugh at these because you can clearly see him reading the cue cards and that very awkward pan to the front was kind of comical. but i think for the time, this is brilliant because it's a person and eisenhower together and they're talking to each other. it goes one step further than the fireside chats. it's not just personable over the air waves. it's personable in person with the candidate and the american people have a chance to directly talk to him about their concerns. >> uh-huh. excellent. and again, it does personalize this conversation that ordinary americans are

party. >> if the freedom democratic party is not seated now, i question america. >> lyndon johnson is watching this from the white house on television and is panicked. >> we want to live as decent human beings in america. thank you. >> the issue of civil rights is tearing his convention apart. and threatening to shatter johnson's dreams of running for president. >> if the delegations decided that lyndon johnson couldn't control his own convention, maybe he couldn't control the country. maybe, just maybe, in the dark recesses of lyndon johnson's paranoid mind, they would throw their votes to another candidate. >> johnson proposes a compromise. favoring the all-white delegation. assu assuring the freedom democratic party, their time will come at the 1968 election. >> the irony is he is saying to get the civil rights you want, you have to capitulate to the forces of white supremacy. >> it all weighs heavy on lbj. >> this chaos activates all of the deepest wellsprings of lyndon jon shnson's neurosis ane tells his wife he doesn't even want to run. he wants to quit. >> my mother wrote him a

the desire to unseat trump is so powerful among democrats that most of the democratic party will swallow hard and vote for bernie and hope he will be contained by congress whereas many republicans waving republicans the did vote for hillary clinton in the last election. one thing in respect to bloomberg i don't think he has much of a chance but in the event he does become the nominee his slogan should be vote for me, i'm a real billionaire. [laughter] >> he was asked in texas the other night, do you think the american people would accept a presidential race between two texas billionaires and he replied, who is the other one. [laughter] >> i don't think it's wise to easily dismiss joe biden. i think those who dismissed her more prone to dismiss him dismissed him by now. and he is still there and still leading in most of the country. recent polling does suggest that democrats, i think this is led to elizabeth warren sinking in the polls because they do value beating donald trump more than they value having somebody that they agree with on almost every issue. so i recognize my own predictiv

i wish that democrats or others would bring up the idea that as bad as the democratic party may be treating bernie sanders, have you put it that way yarks that's find, but you can't compare that to the way the gop treated mccain in the 2000 primary in south carolina. nobody has ever accused bernie sanders of having a black child out of wedlock like they did mccain in 2000. you can't compare that. john mccain was a maverick back then. further more, he was a war hero. i admire bernie sanders. he's not a war hero. he's a great guy, but mccain was a war hero. and one more comment. please, president trump will not reveal his tax returns. in my book, any candidate for the white house who refuses to reveal their tax returns, if they don't have the courage to do that, they're a chicken and they belong to the man who has kfc, and mitch mcconnell should be the first customer to walk in there. >> mike, thank you for the call. >> i identify with so much of what mike says. i've supported a lot of same people. i walked precincts for mcgovern in 1972. as an aside, i am rereading, steve, i'm sure one of yo

that what we're seeing is the general chaos in the in the democratic party is quite clear that the democratic establishment are they have a plan in their plan and it is too close to those to be advanced a so-called centrist and that's exactly what they did coming out of south carolina to use. biden's winner south carolina to to create momentum and to encourage new jersey and we call it amy. 2 from minnesota to drop out so that all of the fire can be directed toward bernie sanders and a little bit want to play the role in that by staying in the race. and that is the tracking tonight fear the surge posed to be a path towards peace between the u.s. and the taliban right now but that appears to big time unraveled wednesday washington has conducted an airstrike against the islamist group in afghanistan's helmand province after a series of deadly taliban attacks overnight which killed more than 20 afghan soldiers and police offices will all but of course so barely dry on that peace accords. just a few days ago reflections across those developments them. a historic peace deal we heard that will pave

primary should you be the nominee of democratic party when 60% of the rest of the democratic party say we want someone other than you. >> that will be the argument that plays out over the next several months. it appears, chris, like president trump wants to play a role in that process. every chance he gets -- >> he wants to play a role in everything. that's the president. he wants to play a role in everything. he wants to be the center of attention all the time. that's no surprise. as i watched last night, what i'm thinking is, it might be too little, too late for joe biden, in this respect that, you know a lot of people have already voted. >> especially california. >> right, but in a lot of other places, too. early voting is pretty much the norm across the country in terms of being available. you know, a lot of people will have voted well before they saw that big win last night. and the $5 million overnight is great but it doesn't mean anything for tuesday. it means something for beyond tuesday, so i think bernie sanders will have a big night on tuesday night. it won't be determinativ

well i think they're going to be careful it's not for me to give advice to the democratic party but it is fractured it is he is far i agree with the other guest he has far far to the left there is more than a theory polling data shows that the house of representatives would likely flip to the republican control if he were the nominee and certainly the even the senate republican majority could be expanded so they're well founded fear is based on data that's out there that's what the fear is is the motivation the question though is how deep the fracture is and no party whether republican or democrat wants to be in a situation where you have a contested convention you know i'm old enough that i was young and involved in the 1st reagan campaign in 1976 and that was fractured and we lost to jimmy carter in 1980 jimmy carter lost the presidency after a very very tough and again fractured. campaign and convention with ted kennedy same thing for george bush sr you go on and on about these examples so the fracture is the big is the big problem the commitment that the sanders people have are so

you're a senior voice in the democratic party. would you accept that in this battle for the nomination, and ultimately it's come down tojoe biden against bernie sanders, what your party is doing is settling, you are settling for the candidate who is not bernie sanders? that's what you've done. what we're trying to do is, i mean, some may characterise it as settling. i think, i characterise it as uniting. we need to unite around a candidate who not only can defeat donald trump in november, but can also protect, if you will, our down—ballot candidates. i serve in the united states congress, where in november of 2018, we took the majority, and we took the majority with democrats who align more closely with joe biden and his politics. they're moderate democrats who believe in progress. they believe in bold ideas. but they understand we have to take an incremental approach... yeah, but... to getting those things done, practical solutions. right. but, congressman, you know, you're kind of spinning it as uniting, as a positive thing. i

in the establishment now in the democratic party is in panic. they are hysterical because they don't know which way to go and they are now fallen behind a joe biden, who is so weak and energy and vision and courage, nothing but a hangover from the earlier and theal elites democratic party. in that sense, it is a complement to brother bernie, complement to all of us because we are unstoppable. so dr. cornell west, why do you support bernie sanders? you did in 2016. you are now. >> i think he provides the only hope, the only vision, energy, excitement, bringing different people together -- not just new voters, but most importantly, those who are concerned about poor and working-class vote. we are right now in a moment of ecological catastrophe, a moment of unbelievable political dysfunctionality, and neoliberal elites and the democratic party do not have what it takes to push out the neofascist gangster in the white house. i'm going to say this about brbrother bloomberg. neoliberal gangster. gangster as a police. 5 million precioious black and bro

the democratic party is a very diverse party. that is something we perhaps didn't really appreciate in those early days looking at the results in iowa and new hampshire, which are overwhelmingly white states. now it's a super tuesday and we are seeing what the bulk of the democratic party, what the real tomography of the democratic party looks like and how they are voting. what it means is these divisions within the party idea logically, as far as progressives who want the big, bold government agenda, versus the moderates who want a more pragmatic approach, they are playing themselves out in the shop divides between the young and the old, between certain races within the party. at least right now it seems fairly evenly balanced in states like texas. in a state like california, however, which has a lot of delegates, think you will see bernie sanders do very well because that state has a lot of young hispanic voters and they are trending very heavily to bernie sanders. how do you expect, with all your experience, how do you expect

california you needed to win the nomination of the democratic party because it's almost a quarter of it but you don't need it as much in terms of winning the presidency because it's guaranteed state for the democrats what you need is more of the battleground states are called like a virgin you know like wisconsin like michigan sold so forth so there are concert states that are very important to win the nomination and there are other states may be smaller but they are more important to win the presidency or to just just pick up a lot more when saying this and also the results from virginia very interesting these are excellent points by by marwan and joe that absolutely if we go to a contested convention the argument for biden may be hey i did the best in the states that will matter for the presidency for the presidential election that to move back to to virginia which as joe had mentioned used to be a republican state or even more of a swing state and now has become more and more solidly democratic over the last presidential elections biden is over performing his polls now of course b