Its not one big superpac billionaires, its us not doing what were supposed to do. Cnns dan america is in that event in orange county, california. We heard cheering. Obviously people are there because they want to see the former president. What is the reaction to the words . Reporter this is a firedup audience. This is 750 democratic activist, invite only, largely volunteers to each campaign. I have to say i was struck by this event as someone who was in illinois with the president yesterday. This was a dramatically different event. Yesterdays speech, 65minute pointbypoint takedown of the Trump Administration in a really historic way. Todays speech was more muted i thought. President obama looked a little more comfortable up there, more relaxed. He didnt look as though he was coming out swinging much like he did yesterday. Of course, he doesnt have to say President Trumps name to take a shot at President Trump. There are multiple times throughout the speech where he clearly mentioned the administration, as you played. He urged the democrats to get out and vote because this isnt rock bottom, he argued. He argued all the activism doesnt mean anything if theyre not turning out voters because then its just activism. Of course he was taking on President Trump through this speech, but it was a different kind of event. All the candidates who were here, six candidates here, he endorsed seven in total. One was unable to make it. Theyll use this event either in an ad or digital spots. It was a different kind of event where the president really was more muted and not as direct in his attacks on donald trump. Dan merica, thank you. Joining me cnn political commentator jason miller, a Senior Adviser for the 2016 trump campaign. And Patti Solis Doyle who served on Hillary Clintons 2008 president ial campaign. As we look at this, dan makes a great point, you should always know your audience, a safe place for president obama here. At the same time he knows all too well, his audience is much broader than those people who were in the room there, that this is going to get a lot more play. Was it a missed opportunity for the president to maybe hammer home a little bit of the fire he showed on friday . I think yesterdays speech he really did lay down the predicate for the argument which is although politicians say it every election, this truly is the most important election of our lifetime. He gave a pointbypoint rebuke to the president. More importantly it was an indictment of the Republicans Party at large. Here we have a president who sides with putin over america, who lies to the American People, who defends nazis. Yet we have a congress who is neglecting their job by providing a check on that behavior. I think yesterday he really did lay down the predicate. Today was much more fired up and ready to go and getting people out there to knock on doors. He pulled out his clipboard, and take your clipboards and really get the vote out. I thought the onetwo punch was quite effective. Jason, im guessing you dont find it effective, but thats just a guess. Actually i love seeing former president obama on the campaign trail. I hope he keeps it up all the way through november. Just when i thought most hope was lost for republicans to hang on to the house, now were seeing republicans and President Trump really have a foil to go up against in former president obama. Let me explain what i mean. So to many of my friends on the political left or even some in the media, when they see former president obama, he in many ways is the second coming. Hes the most brilliant, gifted, democratic politician we have seen in our life times. Hes someone who brought a lot of people into the political space to begin with. But to an entire Different Group of americans, he represents obamacare, represents the stimulus, he represents caving to the global elites. You have to keep in mind to the earlier part of the decade when we saw this renaissance on the conservative end of the Republican Party where we fought back and took back the house in 2010 and took back the senate in 2014, and so i love seeing former president obama out on the campaign trail. Id say theres one bit of caution that i throw to my democratic friends with seeing former president obama out on the campaign trail. The more that hes out there and the more he reminds democrats and even independents how gifted and brilliant of a politician he is, it casts really really puts into perspective how weak the field is going into 2020. A little bit of caution for my democratic friends there. Ill pick up on that point in a minute. But one thing i want to touch on that you pointed out there, jason, what was interesting, what we were discussing in the last hour about the speeches, this president was not limiting it to his audience there in the room in the respect that he was saying, listen, im talking to independents, im talking to republicans. Jason, were not hearing that from the president , from a lot of Top Republican candidates. Is that a missed message for republicans . Actually i think thats a really good point that you bring up. I think taking on the swamp, trying to change washington, i thought that was one of the great points that President Trump ran on in 2016. But it hasnt really panned out that way. Thats where im agreeing with you. I think thats been a big missed opportunity for the administration. Remember the speech he gave in gettysburg prior to the election in 2016 where he talked about pushing for term limits on capitol hill, a whole host of other reforms to do thing with the administration on capitol hill. I think when hes fighting the swamp and when hes trying to change washington, i think thats a winning space for him. I think thats something previous administrations, both democrats and republicans, have completely struck out on. I would like to see President Trump and Congressional Republicans hit that much harder, and i think that is the way that hes going to have a chance, President Trump, of winning independents again going into 2020 and making sure these trump voters keep in mind in 2016 the reason why they called these folks trump voters is because they showed up to vote for President Trump. The key for republicans is how do you get them to show back up in 2018 for people not named donald trump. Thats going to be the key. Youve got to take on washington, leading the fight in term limits and things like that, and i think you make a great point. Patti, when we look at this, what jason has brought up, and hes not the first person to bring this up, is barack obama the best messenger for this party as were moving into the midterms . Should it be barack obama . Look, first i just have to respond to jason who i respect very much, but the idea that President Trump would be talking about draining the swamp going into the midterm elections because that will appeal to independents to me is just ridiculous since the last two years of his presidency his cabinet, he and his family sort of personified the swamp. Let me just say that. On the best messenger, look, the democrats are the Opposition Party right now. We dont have a leader of our party. We are going to nominate one starting november 7th, 2018 when the 2020 democratic primary goes into high gear. Until then i think its wonderful we have our last great leader, our standardbearer basically coming out saying im with you in this fight. Im going to rise up with you. Im part of this resistance, im part of this fight. I think he will really energize a Democratic Party thats already wildly energized. I think they were waiting for him and hes arrived. Theyre very welcoming to having him join the fight. Theres an issue of the midterm elections in general and whether or not theres sort of a ceiling as to how Many Americans are going to come out to vote. Jason, you do it first and then patti, i want you to wrap it up. Do we think theres going to be a difference in terms of turnout this time around . We hear the messaging from both sides. We hear there is fire in bellies. Yet we have a whole lot of history that tells us it may not turn out that way, jason. Well, we wont know until the first week in november. But what i can tell you in chatting with republican pollsters and folks on my side of the aisle is right now democrats are at maximum firedup capacity. Theyre ready to go. Theyre going to be turning their people out. Right now republicans are not matching that with the same intensity. The reason why is because Republican Voters feel like theyre winning. They see whats happening with wage growth. See whats happening with tax cuts, they see whats happening with the economy. They feel like were winning on the world stage. A lot of Republican Voters, to be blunt with you, are feeling actually lazy. Thats why im glad to see former president obama on the campaign trail. I hope hes out every single day reminding Republican Voters and even the Republican Voters who might be too lazy, reminding them about obamacare and the stimulus and what democrats will do if they get back in control. If we can get close to the same intensity level, republicans have a chance to hold on to the house. I think in the senate i think republicans even today are still probably in good shape, probably necessary plus one or net plus two. Patti, a quick last word. I think weve already seen incredible turnout in all these special elections and in these primaries. Democrats have outperformed in ruby red districts. I think youll continue to see that trend in november on november 6th, and i think barack obama only helps with the energy on the democratic side. Patti, jason, appreciate it. Thank you both. Just ahead, from fear to fist pumping. As the president hunts for the writer of the scathing oped theres new reporting about the mood inside the white house and also at the justice department. Just after those words were published. Thats next. Timeit should be measuredsured byby how long steak lobster is back at outback. Back by popular demand, steak lobster starting at 15. 99 and time. Is limited, so hurry in today. 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Even folks who might agree with some of what was said in the oped have a legitimate concern that the president and folks close to him sort of overreact to this opinion ed and see it as em mat tick of a deep state cabal that is inherently an tas nis tick to his agenda and decide to use the president s pretty wide latitude to make personnel decisions in the federal government to engage in essentially a purge of the bureaucracy, to get a lot of these perceived enemies within the government itself to push them out. Thats really the concern here, is an overreaction. Certainly President Trump is demonstrating hes willing to use things like the revoking of security clearances to root out perceived political enemies. We should point out that my colleague Christiane Amanpour spoke with kellyanne can conway w who expressed other concerns. Im not interested in the investigation. I hope they find the person. I believe the person will suss himself or herself out. Thats usually what happens, people brag to the wrong person. They brag that they did this or did that because they i assume part of this isnt the goal here not what the oped portends it is, its to sew chaos and get us suspicious of each other. Is that whats happening, are you getting suspicious of each other . No, thats not happening. Thats not whats happening, she says. You know being there at the white house this is how donald trump in many ways does business. He lets people be pitted against one another and fight it out for their spot to still be there. Is the effort being made to root this person out, is it any different in that respect . Look, the president is like him or hate him, the president is a very Disruptive Force in american politics. He was sort of swept in on this populist wave of a determination to upend the status quo in washington. When you do that, naturally youre going to be forced to take on some entrenched interest in washington. Say what you will about the merits or the points made against him in this oped, but youre inevitably going to have that tension in a bureaucracy as large as the federal government when you come in and try to shake things up for better or worse. Its fanciful to dismiss this as there is no tension. I think Trump Supporters would be the first to say there is tension and there should be. We also have reporting that Kellyanne Conway and others are trying to get the president to just back away from this, to put his efforts elsewhere. Any sense that thats actually working . No. I think the more attention thats given to this oped, the more the news media pays attention to it, tries to figure out who is behind it and pays attention to complaints from inside the administration, the more upset hell get and the more likely he will be to try to rid himself of perceived enemies around him. Lachlan markay, thank you. Thank you. 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