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It seems every election cycle they talk about getting young people out to vote. it does raise up some years are better than others. but is that what the democrats should be focused on? because you hear that a lot from bernie sanders about mobilizing young people. >> oh, absolutely. the millennial generation is the biggest generation in american history. and so far its moved mostly to the left. the republicans are losing these people. if you can get the young people out to vote along with the two...

On a debate stage and take the president on? as you know, and all republicans ran against him know, he presents a lot of unique challenges. >> well, anderson, first of all, lets let this campaign kind of develop. you know, i felt that joe biden, because hes more of the centrist -- because i think the countrys fundamentally either center-right or center-left, i think could be on the stage and could handle himself well. but for anybody that ultimately will face him, you know, you dont want to take...

Obama, and heres the deal. he changed the dialogue. he changed the whole question. he changed what was going on. and the idea that somehow its comparable to what this guy is doing is absolutely bizarre. >> well, this guy hes referring to, of course, is president trump. one democrats circular firing squad is a crucible from which the candidate will emerge. joining us is new york senator kirsten gillibrand. thank you for joining us. cnn has new reporting says president obama is privately questioni...

Trump. one democrats circular firing squad is a crucible from which the candidate will emergement joining us is new york senator kirsten gillibrand. thank you for joining us. news reporting says president obama is privately questioning the wisdom of the presidential candidates attacking his record. probably doesnt surprise anybody that he would be concerned about that. but he does have this 95% approval rating among democrats. is there a danger in going down this road? >> well, president obama w...

President trump is not -- i mean, this is the most obvious statement in the world, he is not your typical poll tiliticiat he has mastered a way to level personal attacks and stay away from really any policy details, like certainly nobody ive ever seen before. is that the biggest challenge ahead for anyone facing him? because i mean, youre arguing against somebody who isnt arguing a set of facts that are agreed upon, and who is even not even arguing policy that much. >> just remember, anderson, h...

Dont want to take the bait. hes going to try to get you to go to his level. hes going to say things that are going to be outrageous toward you. he may name call. if you try to get into that and you try to get down at that level, youre making a very big mistake. i think you have to constantly correct the record because hell try to distort your record. you have to constantly correct it. but then obviously have something positive to say about what you want to do. but if you go down in the rabbit ho...

>> just remember, anderson, he said he was going to balance the budget by eliminating waste, fraud and abuse. and the deficit is going through the roof. but hes very effective at doing it. what hes able to do is to take pieces of something that people can relate to and then, and then go from there. its not like everything he says, you know, youre going to kind of agree with. theres pieces of it that you might agree with, but thats why you dont want to get hung up on that. and when he makes a sta...

But the democrats that year, gore and others, ran away from the clinton record and economics. they abandoned that argument and they lost the white house. and now here comes obama. the democrats have a chance to make a very powerful argument. they should not completely cede economic growth and give all the credit to trump. the argument could be, listen, when president obama got -- inherited the white house from the republicans, we were in a near catastrophe, we were near depression, one-third cha...

>> talking about obama the way he was talked about last night, does that hurt, does that send a message to the obama coalition? >> i think its a mistake. i think its a serious mistake. listen, when bill clinton left office, he had a very substantial economic record. positive record. but the democrats that year, gore and others, ran away from the clinton record and economics. they just abandoned that argument and they lost the white house. and now here comes obama. the democrats have a chance to ...

The economy is not money. it is people. and right now weve told a lot of people in america that theyre marginal unheard and the results you see from that are incidents like this one. that boil up with young men who feel like their country doesnt care about them, doesnt want to look at them their country wishes they would go away wishes they cant go away would get instead locked up and thats not the sort of country we should be building for our kids. >> hillary clinton, who you will likely run ag...