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Presidential election. and that's the response you're now hearing from those 2020 candidates is to say, well, it's on the congress to do that other thing, like i'm going to focus on wiping the election. >> is there a strategy here for any of the democrats running in 2020 to possibly take trump on and use this? kristen gillibrand, for example, her name has not been a name that comes up on people's mind when asked, and her names did not come up as one of the first names. the is there a strategy for someone to break out of the pack and announce i'm going to take trump on. is that a smart strategy...

And that's the campaign phase. the government phase is they also want someone who represents big deal democratic ideal. they need to be more explicit as to what we stand for because we have multiple factions in the party. so we have to sort of see not every democrat wants the green deal. not every democrat is against the wall. >> to pivot to joe biden, he's been progressive democrat for so many years. what do you make of his little slip-up there and how long can he keep this waiting game going? >> i mean, i think that sooner rather than later might be good for him. i think that -- i know that ...

But that's not the only qualification. someone is going to have to put forward some ideas. you can't just be i'm the candidate against trump. what are we doing about flint? what are we doing about puerto rico and the border and the caravan crisis? we want a candidate who has a substantive policy agenda and not just -- >> do we want ideas? >> i mean, hopefully so. >> have we not become a culture that is obsessed with personality? >> there are sort of two things and a lot of democratic voters want this attention, right? the candidate in the campaign phase and there's a candidate in governance ph...

America. >> that's something everybody should be able to agree on. you should be putting families first. appreciate you being on new day. thank you, sir for you cnn newsroom is coming up now. for our u.s. viewers it's a lot of news. let's get after it. >> the time for small thinking is over. the time for trivia fights is behind us. >> we saw a transition from the campaign phase to the governing phase. >> obamacare is collapsing and we must act decisively to protect all americans. >> this isn't a game. it's life and death. >> i am asking all members of congress to join me in dreaming big. >> do...

Administration scoffed at the criticism, but it's obvious they were under pressure. he hit it right in the beginning of the speech. >> absolutely, don. i think what we saw here tonight is a transition from the campaign phase of president trump to the governing phase of president trump. you hear this so often with every new administration and they shed the mind set where they feel they have to go back with the adversaries and continue to go after the news media and hillary clinton. he brought up president obama just today in a fox news interview. i think through a process of trial and error, th...