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The spin room. it is an opportunity for kamla harris. earlier in the evening, kamla harris, for instance, there was a question posed of who in the room supported or would replace their own insurance, their own private insurance, for a government-run program. and kamla harris, along with bernie sanders rose their hand, which caught people offguard because she had offered different positions on that specific question in the past. and so, i was able to ask her a clarifying question afterwards, in which she told me, she goes, she still believed to note that people should be able to buy private sup...

Judge people on the totality of who they are, what their ideas are, what their experience is, what their record is. >> joining us now, with more from inside the spin room is nbc correspondent vaughn hillyard and brewster. what was it like in that room last night, vaughn? >> to give you an idea of what the spin room looks like, as soon as the debate is over, the candidates start rolling in. you have press corps from all over the country, all over the world, that have descended on there. you have the cameras on and the microphones opened up. and the conversations are going towards the candidates...

Does i h >> i do think that the generational question is a fascinating one, because all you had to do was go to a bernie sanders rally. i covered him for five or six months. the demographics of that were very different than most of the other campaigns, certainly different than donald trump's. having said that, take a look at the ages that some of the democratic candidates would be when they took office if they won. biden 78, sanders 79, elizabeth warren, 71. michael bloomberg, 78. you're looking at an electorate that the democrats will tell you they have to hold onto those new, young voters. w...

Okay? he is running. >> that's a good point. >> the three questions for democrats are going to be ideological, generational, and how to handle trump investigations. are they a big ten party or do they reject republican -- as a lot of progressives say. the generational question is one of generational leadership. donna and i were having the conversation last night about nancy pelosi becoming speaker. are democrats going to embrace leaders of the past, if you will, or are they going to look towards a beto? i say that as somebody who loves joe biden as a former republican. also, how do you handle ...

An app -- annapolis. >> it is. and listing to brian talk about the generational question. senator mccain is so interesting because he is a veteran of the vietnam war. but to so many americans he feels as if he's almost an honorary member of the greatest generation. he seems -- a more of a world war ii type character than one from the decades past. i remember talking to him about -- it sounds as though we had a book club which we did not. but there was -- we used to talk about hemingway which he did. but we also talked about her man woke. the great novelist who -- two marvelous books, winds of ...