it seems every election cycle they talk about getting young people out to vote. it does raise up some years are better than others. but is that what the democrats should be focused on? because you hear that a lot from bernie sanders about mobilizing young people. oh, absolutely. the millennial generation is the biggest generation in american history. and so far it s moved mostly to the left. the republicans are losing these people. if you can get the young people out to vote along with the two other groups in the democrat cracks coalition, the obama coalition, you get women out to vote, people of color out to vote, of course there s overlap in those groups, you win the owe alexis. talking about obama the way he was talked about last night, does that hurt, does that send a message to the obama coalition? i think it s a mistake, a serious mistake. listen, when bill clinton left office, he had a very substantial economic record. it was a positive record.
on a debate stage and take the president on? as you know, and all republicans ran against him know, he presents a lot of unique challenges. well, anderson, first of all, let s let this campaign kind of develop. you know, i felt that joe biden, because he s more of the centrist because i think the country s fundamentally either center-right or center-left, i think could be on the stage and could handle himself well. but for anybody that ultimately will face him, you know, you don t want to take the bait. he s going to try to get you to go to his level. he s going to say things that are going to be outrageous toward you. he may name call. if you try to get into that and you try to get down at that level, you re making a very big mistake. i think you have to constantly correct the record because he ll try to distort your record. you have to constantly correct it. but then obviously have something positive to say about what you want to do. but if you go down in the rabbit hole, you re
obama, and here s the deal. he changed the dialogue. he changed the whole question. he changed what was going on. and the idea that somehow it s comparable to what this guy is doing is absolutely bizarre. well, this guy he s referring to, of course, is president trump. one democrat s circular firing squad is a crucible from which the candidate will emerge. joining us is new york senator kirsten gillibrand. thank you for joining us. cnn has new reporting says president obama is privately questioning the wisdom of the presidential candidates attacking his record. probably doesn t surprise anybody that he would be concerned about that. but he does have this 95% approval rating among democrats. is there a danger in going down this road? well, president obama was a great president. and i think for a lot of us we re looking to figure out how to build on his accomplishments and build on his records. so what we re trying to do with obamacare specifically is how do
trump. one democrat s circular firing squad is a crucible from which the candidate will emergement joining us is new york senator kirsten gillibrand. thank you for joining us. news reporting says president obama is privately questioning the wisdom of the presidential candidates attacking his record. probably doesn t surprise anybody that he would be concerned about that. but he does have this 95% approval rating among democrats. is there a danger in going down this road? well, president obama was a great president and i think for a lot of us we re looking to figure out how to build on his accomplishments and build on his records. so what we re trying to do with obamacare specifically is how do we get to universal coverage that s affordable, and that s why a lot of people like medicare for all. i like the buy-in. i think it s exciting. i think it s an opportunity. but i think for all of us, the purpose of a presidential
president trump is not i mean, this is the most obvious statement in the world, he is not your typical poll tiliticiat he has mastered a way to level personal attacks and stay away from really any policy details, like certainly nobody i ve ever seen before. is that the biggest challenge ahead for anyone facing him? because i mean, you re arguing against somebody who isn t arguing a set of facts that are agreed upon, and who is even not even arguing policy that much. just remember, anderson, he said he was going to balance the budget by eliminating waste, fraud and abuse. and the deficit is going through the roof. but he s very effective at doing it. look, what he s able to do is take pieces of something that people can relate to and then and then go from there. it s not like everything he says, you know, you re going to kind of agree with. there s pieces of it that you might agree with, but that s why you don t want to get hung up on that. and when he makes a statement that s fal