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Someone should challenge me on my political views. thats fair, but not because i make a living. listen, lets just, as we close, talk politics a little bit. youve always been very open about maybe your more—left—than—most democratic views. you are very, quote, unquote, "progressive". youve just seen barack 0bama in powerfor what, a term and a half? yes. there are many liberals in america who are disappointed with what 0bama has actually delivered. are you one of them? no. look, would i like...

I, early on, decided that my politics would always be pure, that ive never stopped being a liberal, ive never stopped being progressive. but i never... but i always decided i would not make a living at politics. so myjob is being an entertainer. my passion is political, and im just as active. i worked tirelessly for barack 0bama, campaigning all around the country for him, contributing a ton of money for him. and ill do the same for hillary, god bless her. but, yeah. so dont... you cant assume b...

Rank and file democratic voters picked the tougher on crime candidate when given the choice. what should national democrats take away from that pattern that you see? like i said, whether were talking seattle, minneapolis, or new york city. >> one thing for sure is that we must move away from the title "identity politics." people say eric is a moderate or eric is this, thats not true. being progressive is being practical. and i think that is what we are losing. and were losing really the tone. wh...

Of being progressive. >> right. no, this is not a publication that is, you know, left wing by any stretch of the imagination. at most, its more center-left or moderate within the broader corpus of evangelicalism. cosmopolitan or elite evangelicals. these have more of a tie to older institutions like wheaten college and "christianity today." the difference about this publication and this editorial, though, is that that group actually became pretty quiet after the 2016 election. and while there wa...

To this point that we knew what was coming, on top of that, there is no off-ramp. were all going off this bridge together. there is no way after what pelosi announced today that in three months or four months or five months by the time we are halfway through super tuesday that she could not have had some sort of floor vote and its going to be very critical for her to do something before people get frustrated. >> you talk about frustration. youre hitting it. thats the key question. thats what wev...

Going to effectively make the case that theyre the candidate to lead the democratic party into the future? again, president trump, former vice president joe biden will be looming very large tonight over all of the this. >> and mark murray, you and chuck todd in first read have outlined some of these strains as well. elizabeth warren strikes me, shes been pursuing her individual path, you know, being progressive, yes. being substant ative. not engaging in the fray, not likely to get involved in a...

Elizabeth warren. will try to prove the president wrong. >> this is our chance to get organized, to build a grassroots movement, to persist and to build the america of our best values. >> over the next two nights, there are 13 democrats who desperately need to make a splash. if the 13 who havent yet qualified for the fall batch of debates, and many of those 13 are moderates, which means buy f by the end of tomorrow night a new moderate proposal does not break through, the most primary choices wi...

>> public university. paul: how many students? >> 3,000 to 3,500 a year. they are known for being progressive. to the left of berkeley. motto is in latin, let et owl hand out. as liberal as you can possibly get. paul: part of the traction, people go there knowing. >> yeah, absolutely. it draws progressives. paul: what happened here that created the controversy? >> we have two things, first is they were going through equity plan that rests on the assumption that white people are racists. paul: eq...

>> public university. paul: how many students? >> 3,000 to 3,500 a year. they are known for being progressive. to the left of berkeley. motto is in latin, let et owl hand out. as liberal as you can possibly get. paul: part of the traction, people go there knowing. >> yeah, absolutely. it draws progressives. paul: what happened here that created the controversy? >> we have two things, first is they were going through equity plan that rests on the assumption that white people are racists. paul: eq...

Trump? >> no, and when were finished with trump we have to go and get putin. >> putin or pence? >> i mean pence. >> well get there. two for one. >> i am not running for anything except the impeachment of trump. [cheers and applause] >> anyone with the name p, even the real crazies havent accused pence of committing any crime. forget that. weve got witches to hunt. battles being waged for the soul of the left, far from washington, theres an actual debate going on in the democratic party about abo...