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And youll also get this free beneficiary planner, and its yours just for calling. so call now. close the hour today with david axelrod who was chief strategist for the barack obama presidential campaign back in 2008. your candidate was proof you can have a bad debate or three and still be president. lets have a flashback as we go back, january 2008 and the likeable enough moment. >> what can you say to the voters of new hampshire on this stage tonight who see your resume and like it but are he...

Conditions. one way we can improve conditions is not waste $30 billion or $40 billion on a border wall but to invest right here in america. so we thought that his attack on elijah cummings was scandalous and outrageous. even if predictable at this point. >> congressman jamie raskin, i really appreciate your time tonight. thank you for joining us. >> thanks so much for having me. coming up, new reporting about the dynamic we can expect between elizabeth warren and bernie sanders on the debate s...

Will tell you he worked with both hillary clinton and barack obama in 2008. bob, good to have you with us. im curious, who were you representing the night of january 5, 2008. do you remember? >> january 5, 2008, i think we were in the middle of prep for the primary debates. >> so it was between clinton and obama that debate. >> that night i was with hillary. i was with hillary all through those primaries and then after hillary dropped out i helped president -- then senator, soon president obama ...

Hillary. with hillary all through the primaries and then after hillary dropped out i helped president obama -- then senator soon president obama with his general election debates. >> here is why i ask on that date specifically. because we saw one of the most famous or infamous skirmishes of the 2008 presidential campaign that night. lets listen. >> what can you say to the voters of new hampshire on this stage tonight who see a resume and like it but hesitating on the likability issue. where they...

Its play aid lot in the years since. take a look. >> what can you say to the voters of new hampshire on this stage tonight who see your resume and like it, but are hesitating on the likability issue where they seem to like barack obama more? >> well, that hurts my feelings. hes very likable. i agree with that. i dont think im that bad. >> youre likable enough, hillary. >> thank you. i appreciate that. >> and again the context of that moment, hillary clintons numbers were heading south. there was...

Really came to this country through no fault of their own. lets do better at the southwest border. lets fight the drug and human trafficking we all know takes place there. lets be honest about it in the process. i think thats the job -- as a member of congress thats what i tried to the over the course of four years. i hope those serving in the 116th congress will take the same approach. i think thats what this country needs at this precarious juncture were at. >> thank you for your time. thank y...

Clinton race, i think its being applied to women candidates probably more. what i really liked about elizabeth warren the last past week, she came out with a very strong and powerful message and a vision that is pretty simple and coherent and clear. you can say what you want about whether you like her or not, but ultimately the message and the vision is going to be what carries you across the finish line. she had that this week. i think it was a good week for her. >> its obviously a lazy way to ...

Everybody tastes the benefits, sales taxes or higher cost, the believable long-term path of sustainability, the simpler problem in the economic message, there is a likability issue in candidates. i hate to say this the way it is today but if your candidate -- a reality show, no one watches that it is not going to win a national election, you got to focus on people are not likable, that simple, with president obama, likable, hillary, mitt romney, they dont, george bush did, he won. dagen: is demo...

Bleak. there were a lot of options put on the table. one of those options was dropping out. and she was just like, no, im not a quitter. >> hillary clinton was a fighter, like during this debate on abc. >> what can you say to the voters of new hampshire who see your resumé and like it but are hesitating on the likability issue, where they seem to like barack obama more? >> well, that hurts my feelings. >> im sorry, senator. im sorry. >> i dont think im that bad. >> youre likable enough, hillary...

There were a lot of options put on the table. one of those options was dropping out. and she was just like, no, im not a quitter. >> hillary clinton was a fighter, like during this debate on abc. >> what can you say to the voters of new hampshire who see your resumé and like it but are hesitating on the likability issue, where they seem to like barack obama more? >> well, that hurts my feelings. >> im sorry, senator. im sorry. >> i dont think im that bad. >> youre likable enough, hillary. >> th...