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Onmessage, zack, since you got up early in the morning you get to go first from the west coast. lets start with this. on message, elizabeth warrens message is not the hope, change, positivity that we heard from obama 08, obama 12. >> i think thats a correct assessment. i think in some respects part of the calculus, the blue states are still going to vote for their candidate, quite frankly, how do you flip back the states the industrial states in the midwest. hers would be tailored to winning, wi...

On a private two-week trip to attend a wedding, but it is thought unlikely he could have been a spy after a dishonorable discharge from the marines in 08. whelans family are continuing to campaign for his release, but the concern is, if he is a political pawn, that this case could take some time to resolve. laura? laura: kitty logan for us, thank you. eric: for more on this, lets bring in john jordan, economist and overseer and an attorney. john, does paul whelan in your view really fit the prof...

Would play in the u.s. presidential elections. >> candidates are gaining political supporters the way social networkers find friends. the potential voting audience is immense. myspace.com sees up to 56 million unique visitors a month and about 80% are voting age. >> while both campaigns hope their supporters spread the word, obama is friended almost seven times more than mccain. >> the obama campaign happened around the time when social media was experiencing a coming of age. >> barack obama cre...

Santa ana resounding unmistakable message of change for america. new direction for america. >> its been just five days since democrats took control of both houses of congress. already, focus is shifting to the next big 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. >> many democrats think they can win the presidency. >> senator biden joining the growing list of democrats announ...

07 and 08 when they said everything was fine and thats something that needs to be watched out for as well as the deficits not only here and around the globe that nobody wants to do anything about especially here in either party and thats a worry going forward. >> you know, you mentioned international players, how much of the trade war with china plays into all of this, do you feel american consumers are feeling the effects and if we havent, how soon could we? >> certain industries have, in most ...

Theyve been told that we have trillions of dollars of credit card debt, student loan debt, all these things where whats the shoe thats going to drop here if its not the housing thing that it was in 08. >> corporate debt. >> and this is starting to feel like 07 right now, and it really -- >> let me put on my macroeconomic head for a second and just say, theres reasons to think were not on the precipice similar to 2007, lots of worrying things happening particularly with corporate debt. and the en...

Things are now within the power of the democratic party to actually just put things on the table. which they couldnt do before. >> yes. and that is what the people are expecting the democrats to do. >> yes. >> not to compromise, not to find the middle of the road, not to be moderate, but to fight for the people. fight for the things they want. you know, like tonight, people are watching us right now, theyre really quite scared about whats going to happen with the economy. theres no -- >> yes, i ...

Card debt, student loan debt, all these things where whats the shoe thats going to drop here if its not the housing thing that it was in 08. >> corporate debt. >> and this is starting to feel like 07 right now, and it really -- >> let me put on my macroeconomic head for a second and just say, theres reasons to think were not on the precipice similar to 2007, lots of worrying things happening particularly with corporate debt. and the end of -- >> one thats not the same is that if youre booted out...

And people feel it. they feel it. theyve been told that we have trillions of dollars of credit card debt, student loan debt, all these things where whats the shoe thats going to drop here if its not the housing thing that it was in 08. >> corporate debt. >> this is feeling like 07 right now. and its really -- >> let me put on my macroeconomic head, theres reasons to think were not on the precipice similar to 2007, lots of worrying things happening particularly with corporate debt. >> one thats n...

Table. which they couldnt do before. >> yes. and that is what the people are expecting the democrats to do. >> yes. >> not to compromise, not to find the middle of the road, not to be moderate, but to fight for the people. fight for the things they want. you know, like tonight, people are watching us right now, theyre really quite scared about whats going to happen with the economy. theres no -- >> yes, i dont disagree. >> civilians dont understand, and were not -- i dont own a share of stock so...