i don t think she s playing games. i think she s already continued on with the campaign. i think she s been campaigning s since the say she said i m going to bow down and let senator obama go forward. i don t think she wants any other woman to claim the man tell of being the first female president. i think that continues to drive her and it should drive her. she s one of most well-qualified candidates for president that we have. she s trying to clear the field. if she doesn t run, that does democrats a huge disservice, they poured all of the money, resources, time, oxygen into hillary clinton and that doesn t helpen a somebody like elizabeth warren or joe biden. what hillary has to figure out, among other things, is where she fits in with the party today. her party has moved significantly. since last chichi ran for
crazyland, which is a phrase in the book that speaks to how she s a normal person, perhaps with the idealism we associate with young girls, and she s sucked down into the rabbit hole of politics, into the bizarro land called d.c., and she learns to make it through as things grow cure i don t say and cure i don t sayer. and she doesn t run. she says no, no, no. this can work. her conviction and resolve remain undimmed. so yes, there s an enemy. big banks have responded to deregulation by becoming predators, chewing on the bones of the weakest consumers and manipulating the system of the banking industry she said it was like fighting a mythical creature. cut off one head and two come back. she has to fight.
as one factor. they talk about her family background. they talk about her health. if she doesn t run, elizabeth warren is going to explode as the number one alternative. i think joe biden is a substantial candidate. people like him a lot. again, if you go a little bit younger, i think she is in her early 60 s. what you see is elizabeth warren as someone who really has the sense of conviction that she can talk in the way that president obama did back in the 2008 campaign about what is right and what s right and yes we can all of that comes back with a flourish with elizabeth warren. when she was asked in this interview should anyone have gone to jail are to the wall street time sn she hesitated and said well, i don t know then she said yes. let me ask you this, do you think that she is too far left, not for the general election but even for democrats? she opposes keystone pipeline. ing that something that s really tough for a lot of moderates and red state democrats up this time aro
prevent the compassionate parents. then you legalize the 11 million who are here. getting in does he get in? i think there will be a reaction in this particular issue. i think he will, but yopg he s going to be as well received as he hopes. quickly, i want to go down the row, as you take a look at the latest polls, about the democratic party race and hillary clinton where she stands over potential rivals. obviously, elizabeth warren says she s not going to run. the sitting vice president sits at about 12%. there s a number of places where the democratic side is on hold waiting for that decision. the longer she waits, she hurts her party if she doesn t run. this time in the cycle, people out there to raise money, it s hard. i think her rivals are make up your mind either get in and get
right now. so hard. if you re an up and coming politician who thinks i m going to run, how could you think about running? how could you raise a dollar? as long as she s there, omaily or cuomo or anyone will not be able to get out of the gates where republicans have ten different options. to bob s point, if she starts to raise money for a possible presidential run but decides not to run, under the campaign finance laws which we ll talk about in the next block, she could give the money to somebody else. actually, it s not that hard to be a democrat today. they re sitting like fat ducks. if you were governor omaily, could you winceconvince a govero support you? if you were governor o malley, you could not convince anybody. you would not win. and that is that. if she doesn t run, she ll be a very good power broker in who does get the nomination. good she decides to tilt one way or another, that s a huge get if