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That joe biden published yesterday. i think it may have been coincidental to the election yesterday. but it is notable it happened the same day that andy beshear won in kentuckyorisleading in kentucky. joe biden wrote this essay i think in response to what he sees as some of what he calls a purity test. biden wrote, some call it the my way or the highway approach to politics but its worse than that. its con descending to the millions of democrats who have a different view. its representative of...

Saying, brian. >> they have 20 people that couldve been popular. they dont like any of them. almost a third of democratic voters want someone else to jump in the race. please. you have people who are supposed to be leading candidates for years in the race and in what i think the rank-and-file democratic voters saying as they are looking at these candidates thinking i dont know if im going to get the candidate that can win. im going to get the candidate who can pass a progressive purity test. you...

And only he could say it. only a democrat could give that speech. >> i think its important he said it because a lot of it is that many of us that are involved wonder where we get these activists from that weve never seen active. and i think that hes right. they become the judges of fights that never end. and i -- progressive on what? what makes you progressive? self-appointed progressive. i think people want to see people that are sincere and that can understand if you gonna win politically, you...

Did the research and read what he has said, what he has edited, what gets written, and that is the record he has to defend. so spare me the crocodile tears. >> shannon: quickly come i want you both to weigh in on the formestatement by former president obama, saying you have to get over being politically woke and these purity test, not advancing anything by doing things that we had to manning certain allegiances by everybody out there, if they are not on the same page as you. even if their progre...

Research read what he said, has edited. spare me the crocodile tears. daymac i want you to weigh in on a statement by former president obama that we have to get over being so politically broken on the purity test, you will not advance anything by doing things that way, demanding certain allegiances. what they are progressive for left, you cancel them. >> i applaud president obama. glad he said it. he is right. some of the stuff he has said in the past on this, he is saying something important an...

That leaves the center open and accessible, but not to a party, as you are reporting, isnt for reparations, open borders, taxing the middle class out of existence, medicare for all, that lurch to the left, as you describe it, could cause the democrats the 2020 election. >> laura: even president obama in chicago today seems to acknowledge that there is some kind of purity test going on among democrats that may not be helpful. watch. >> this idea of purity and you are never compromised, you are al...

As you are reporting, isnt for reparations, open borders taxing the middle class out of existence, medicare for all that lurch to the left, as you describe it, could cost the democrats the 2020 election. >> laura: even president obama in chicago today seems to acknowledge that there is some kind of purity test going on among democrats that may not be helpful. watch. >> this idea of purity and you are never compromised, you are always politically woke and all that stuff, you should get overu that...

How can you not be fired up about something like that. this is a season for us to lay out what we care about, passionate about and what is different among each of the candidates. i want to make sure theres no question in any voters mind how their life would be different if any others were elected. >> one of the distinctions, you said 2021 the democrats elected president in the country can make hicks torque gains on healthcare, immigration and guns but not if they push too far and promised to muc...

What we are passionate about it i want to make sure theres no question in any voters mind how their life would be different under my presidency. >> one of those distinctions is that 2021 they could make historic gains on immigration and guns but not if they push too far or promise too much do you think some of those solutions on climate change and medicare for all our two drastic quick. >> we have a chance but we can do that through purity test i am proposing medicare for all who want it that me...

How can you not be fired up about something like that. this is a season for us to lay out what we care about, passionate about and what is different among each of the candidates. i want to make sure theres no question in any voters mind how their life would be different if any others were elected. >> one of the distinctions, you said 2021 the democrats elected president in the country can make hicks torque gains on healthcare, immigration and guns but not if they push too far and promised to muc...