manager, he said that there is only four advocacandidates that resources and everybody else might run out of gas before we even get to the voting next year. so that if democrats out there want to have more options, if they want to see more of these candidates sticking around, they can t wait, they need to start supporting them now. yeah, by the wallet is often it does happen. and josh, tell us what you are hearing about the event the other day, the people s presidential forum. yeah, this has been a display of how so much of the energy an mating the democratic party right now is on the far left among those who are really attracted to the progressive populist issues. we ve been hearing candidates talk about the green new deal, about free college, about medicare for all. elizabeth warren talking about busting up the big agricultural companies here in iowa. we also saw a standing ovation
breaking news, south bend mayor pete buttigieg talking about candidates running for the presidency being repeatedly interrupted by shouting and heckling at an extremely tense town hall after the deadly shooting of a black man by a white police officer. josh lieberman is in south bend. the mayor hasn t had an easy pathway after this incident. just from this weekend, in terms of how he is answering questions from those that are critical of him. how is he doing now? reporter: that s right, he has been struggling for a week since the shooting last sunday to figure out how to respond, what to say to a community that s extremely emotional now. the tensions here in this room in south bend at this high school are very high. pete buttigieg is trying to explain to the public what is the process after the police shoot a resident and how do they
much better. have they felt he has done much better today and what are they telling you, the folks sitting in this gathering here behind you? reporter: well, it has been a mixed reaction, and it is unfolding literally as we speak in the room. but a lot of people are not satisfied. pete buttigieg is someone usually unflappable in the public eye, in the last week have seen him a few occasions respond in a way that s shaky, such as when he was asked whether black lives matter, and a few minutes ago when he was heckled, had a terse response to the crowd of are you going to let me finish. do you want me to actually speak, showing frustration in the fact what he is trying to say to convey how much he cares about the african-american community in south bend and around the nation is not satisfying the critics. josh lieberman, covering the town hall meeting there with
here he is running for president in a democratic primary where race relations and the african-american vote are really essential to the conversation that all of the candidates are having, and he for a week has been immersed in this in increasingly angsty debate in the town he leads, over his leadership, over leadership of the police force, and the way it treats african americans, not where he wants to be particularly as he is heading into the first debate in a few days. we re still in the middle of the town hall. really quickly, josh, has the mayor in this conversation or town hall, have things improved in the discussion or have things degraded? reporter: it s difficult to say. he s tried to be honest about some areas where he thinks he is falling short, such as in trying to diversify the police force and getting police officers to wear body cameras, have them on at all times. he tried to point out things that improved, subsidies taken
last night in an oppressed society? so what you can do today, and i m not playing, and i got two minutes, what you can do today, there are ways to assess the way people think. do you understand? gi get the people that are racist off the streets. reorganize your department. you can do that by friday! that happening today at this town hall in south bend, indiana. these are live pictures we re taking in. may be touch and go. this as pete buttigieg who is running for president of the united states as a democrat is facing one of his very first crises if you will on an issue of, again, racial tensions in his own city, where a quarter of the population is african-american. you saw some of the energy there. josh is in south bend at the