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Democratic candidate. so it is a major question with joe biden in particular, can he bridge that divide and come across as a consensus builder in such an angry political environment. >> just yes or no, do you think he is running? >> you know, right now i do believe he is. he made some comments this week saying that his family is behind him and urging him to run. and that was one of the big questions, would his family support a bid for president. and we know that joe biden does want to be president. he has run in the past and considered running in the past. so he hasn't made a final decision, b...

Brouhaha some are upset about former vice president joe biden calling current vice president mike pence decent? >> those wouldn't be the words i would use to describe current vice president mike pence. what folks need to understand about vice president joe biden is he has built himself as a consensus builder. he has worked across the aisle. he speaks highly of mike pence because he served with him. i don't know if that would play well with this new young crop of potential voters who are looking for a democratic nominee that is not necessarily willing to hug the current folks that occupy the wh...

Michigan. those are key battleground states that are going to have to win this go-round. i think her midwest background is going to have wide-ranging appeal from a pragmatist perspective. she is going to try to build hers as a consensus builder. that's something the democratic party needs. i think part of the conversation needs to be where are we going to go as a party, as we move forward towards 2020? i think you've got the progressive wing, the democratic socialist wing, but this is more the pragmatist common sense wing. i think it's definitely a healthy part of the conversation as we move f...

Problem is a president to get things done in this constitutional republic needs to be a consensus builder, ceos aren't wired that way. they make poor presidents. we haven't had one, we had one and he is not good. i don't think we're ready to try another. >> i want to mention schultz's policies. he wants to reduce the national deficit, something he comes back to over and over again, reduce expensive government programs, health care, he supports the aca, is focused on affordable health care for all americans. he thinks that government financed health care is not realistic. on education, says the...

Clinton was really empathizing with the questioner. >> yes, i remember during his presidency i was anchoring at cnn back then. we didn't see him that much on the domestic front but then again he rose to the occasion international internationally. we certainly know his achievements there with the reunification of germany and taking back kuwait from saddam hussein. he personally pulled together the coalition for the gulf war. >> he certainly did. he was a great collaborator, consensus builder. he lived in an era where there was morrisseyville lit at this in government. he saw government as servi...