hey, go for it. my understanding is that he likes that stuff, but that he hates raising money. and you know, and that he hates that part of the process and he s got to know that that s what s in front of him. charlie, the clinton campaign put out a memo that i thought was pretty good and persuasive about, look, it s august, and people are trying to make mountains out of mole hills, as far as where the state of this race is. we have a plan, we re sticking to it. i, so far, from a just sort of tactical standpoint, have been impressed with the campaign with the fact it really does seem to have a plan, it does seem to be quite well-run. do you think what do you make of the sort of sanders momentum that there is and we ll probably be hearing a little bit from bernie later in the evening? yeah, well, i think i think, obviously, there s a great and powerful and not to be ignored progressive wing to the democratic party, for the first time in a very long time. and it s represented no
maybe we ve been aware of, right? why else would they do it unless they spotted an opening, which suggests that there is some that elites are thinking that we need a plan b. and to be to be perfectly fair, though, if there s one politician in america, who you could see jumping into a race late with no money and virtually no staff, just because it s fun to be in politics, it s joe biden. that s true. that is true. and i think this is also someone i mean, he really he really enjoys stuff like this tonight. yes, exactly! i think he i absolutely agree that joe biden is looking at the wing dings dinner, probably sitting, watching us right now hello, mr. vice president and thinking to himself, this is that looks fun! it looks fun to be out in clear lakes, iowa. it looks fun to be talking to people. i think he genuinely loves doing that. he s been doing it for four years. the guy has been a politician for the duration of his life, you know, for his adult life. he s n
on a lighter note, boston mayor marty walsh has challenged you to take the ice bucket challenge. he s a clown, marty walsh. i don t even know who he is. he spends all this time and effort and money on an olympic bid and then goes out and is talking about an ice bucket challenge. get a real mayor. dave, i love the fact he s like, i don t know who this guy is, and proceeds to show, of course he knows who he is and exactly what he s doing. also, trump has done the ice bucket challenge. i know this because i watched the video in which for some reason trump bottles of water are added to the ice bucket, even though that is water in a different form than ice. you know, keying off what he was just saying, when i saw trump in michigan, there was not much of an organization on the ground there. that s a fairly early primary state. trump has been fairly reactive of the criticism he gets in the press. and i wonder if the wall street journal piece talking about the
we re going up against some pretty powerful forces that will say, do, and spend whatever it takes to stop me and stop you. we have to end the flood of secret, unaccountable money that is distorting our election, corrupting our political process, drowning out the voices hillary clinton hitting a note right there, about unaccountable money, echoed earlier by drump druonald trump. the two of them apparently agree on that. also doing a riff about paid leave, sick leave, family leave. talking about mitch mcconnell accusing her of playing a gender card. a very interesting snippet of an evolving stump speech from candidate clinton, in which she is centering issues around family leave and paid leave and women s leave in this campaign. michelle goldberg, charlie pierce, thank you both for joining me. i really appreciate it. thank you, chris, and i apologize, i m sweating like nixon. still ahead, we ll have more coverage of the wing ding dinner. and later, a little fast check on ben cars
don t go anywhere. before trump s campaign event tonight in new hampshire, where he holds a significant lead in the polls. the candidate talked to the press for the second time this week, sounding off on jeb bush and campaign finance. remember this. bush and hillary and all these people, they have a lot of money. they raised a lot of money from my friends. i used to be one of them. i contribute to everybody. and they re always there for me. but that s not good for the country. that s not good as a system. but jeb has raised $114 million, approximately. everybody that puts money up for jeb bush, it s like he s a puppet. he s totally controlled by these. at the rally moments ago, he told supporters a story about the impressive infrastructure he once encountered eed on a trip qatar. i went into an airline terminal that was the most beautiful terminal i have ever seen, ever. the most magnificent. they had lounges, they had spas.