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Totally change the landscape of the race and it would make a lot of folks in massachusetts politics and in national democratic politics choose sides. >> its interesting the question, and you remember it was ted kennedy running for president in 1980 who was tripped up by that roger mud question, why do you want to be president. the question is going to be asked to joe kennedy. hes been in washington for four decades on every sort of critical key litmus test, hes probably in alignment with where t...

Economic team. so how dangerous is that for the economy? >> the economy is not like all other policy issues. confidence does matter, retail spending matters if folks on main street dont believe they have money coming into the door, it turns into a spiral where the economy can turn quickly. the president cannot have that happen. his polling numbers depend on the economy right now. >> i want to put a button on this. this is ho she characterized the team. trumps brain trust plays an economist on tv...

Congressman, what impact would the fear of a recession have? how would it undermine his re-election chances, or would it? >> well, i think it would. look, you know, its largely assumed that the economy is the presidents greatest strength. i think that oversells it a little bit. i mean, it is not an economic miracle, as donald trump wants us to believe. we are seeing a steady continued growth that began under the great we recession under barack obama. but were not seeing the enthusiasm in the mar...

Comments to the charge. one thing that is important is immigrants are the economic engine of this country in many ways and have been producing economically for generations. and so it is -- its lopsided to say that immigrants are not contributing to the economy.rtr final rule suggests, immigrants are not using public benefits. oftentimes they are not eligible for those benefits, and so, again, this come pain and this final rule is really about stoking fear and really creating this otherness and f...

Learned person said they will never do that. literally, i said they are attacking obama. >> and we saw it in the debate last night. they were going after everything about his legacy including his signature policy achievement, obamacare. i think the issue is his real legacy was the election of donald trump. it makes them extremely angry, they are unable to talk about that so instead they talk about their disappointment with policy issues. thats why joe biden the only candidate defending the obama...

Person said they will never do that. literally, i said they are attacking obama. >> they were going after everything about his legacy including his signature policy achievement. i think the issue is his real legacy was the election of donald trump, it makes him extremely angry, they are unable to talk about that so instead they talk about their disappointment with policy issues. thats why joe biden the only candidate defending the obama administration, a striking turn from a few years ago. >> la...

Have shown that they will be able to withstand attacks like this but will also be able to, you know, prosecute the case against donald trump but also beyond that and talk about policy issues as well? >> i think theres a number of candidates that can do that. and very quickly on eugenes last point. this conversation of race is actually an issue that can break us as a nation and we cant get to all these other policy issues if we dont heal. thats why a candidate has to address that. look, the candi...

Things down right now is in tiers. you have ideological and polling tiers and you have candidates that are just trying to survive. all eyes will be on the center of the stage. where the top two progressives in the polling field, senators bernie sanders and elizabeth warren will be standing. theyre very aligned on policy issues but also competing for a similar pool of voters. how that plays out over the course of two hours will be very interesting to see. what will also be interesting to see is a...

But turn the country into turmoil, make you wake up and wonder whats going to happen, if we can just tap into those issues i think its a one-two punch. name racism for what it is and say he is a racist. but i also think that we can take care of the emotional responses he inspires. the country is all on the highest level of fear and anxiety, and if a candidate does not figure out how to speak to that emotional life, people dont vote just on policy issues. they never do. they vote on the candidate...

Welcome to all of you. mara, lets start with you. the washington post reports that trump camp hopes that race can actually serve as a big thing for him come 2020. >> well -- >> next years deplorables 2.0, perhaps. >> donald trump knows how to talk about race and how to talk about racism to his base. he is racist, clearly. he knows how to motivate people by dividing him. thats not the only way to win an election. its just the laziest, lowest way. i would say the democrats would make a huge mistak...