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Easier to run against an opponent than to run against yourself. what we don't know is beyond the mueller report what kinds of things might happen between now and november of 2020. listening to the michael cohen testimony, and some of the stories that emanated from it, you wonder what's going to happen in the southern district of new york that might complicate the president's re-election. so you know, i don't think democrats should take for granted that donald trump's going to lose, even though he lost the popular vote by millions of votes last time. >> the governor of washington state, jay ins...

He did a huge transportation funding bill. those are important things to democrats and voters nationwide. so if he is going to focus solely on climate change, it will be interesting to see how that resonates beyond the progressive base and as a reporter said, this is a crowded field. there are other candidates with records on supporting tough climate change measures. >> and you point out as you are talking about him being governor and the executive experience, it's long forever the governor's mansion was seen as the stepping stone, training ground, jumping off for many presidential candidates....

Pitch. thank you so much. joining me now for perspective on this is cnn political analyst. what do you think? is it a gamble to run on a single issue in the democratic primary? >> certainly it is particularly on something like climate change. while it is important to democratic voters no doubt about that, it still ranks behind things like the economy, health care, for example. >> he is going to try to link -- take issues like economy and health care and link it all back to climate change. >> but on the other hand, he is the first governor to throw his hat in the ring. with that comes the execu...

Usually governors are the ones who step up and say i have led this state, now let me lead the country. but as we have seen, senators, most of the senate it feels like has raised their hands. >> and if you look what the pedigree or the resume of a president has been changed. it's completely blown up in the last cycle. i am hearing more and more people talk about the need for executive experience on the democratic side. >> could that end up being a running mate rather than the top of the ticket? we'll have to see. >> that's interesting. >> someone who is not a governor, joe biden is in an traes ...

Gubernatorial candidates as chair of the dga this year. where i fit in is i would say that i have a unique position of having a vision and willingness to say that climate change and our mission to defeat it has to be the number one priority for the next administration. this has to be the organizing principle of the united states so we can make clean energy and build the millions of jobs and i would have the person with the executive experience that has actually got that job done. america's ready for this. i've traveled to three states and they're being hammered by climate change. iowa, when i ...