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That this was not a landslide election for donald trump, that hillary clinton won the popular vote by 3 million, so there's a lot of support out there. you're seeing it on the streets. this is not a re-litigation of the 2016 election. we have to focus on that energy and we have to bring everybody together, including the berniecrats. you have tom perez that has some bernie supporters supporting him. you have -- you have keith ellisson with supporters from -- that used to support clinton. >> he disagrees with that. >> first of all, let me quickly say and i said this to maria off campaign. tom pe...

And potentially nationally purpose. you talk about this desire for unity, take a look at what keith ellisson just stated a short time ago. he said that he is going to join the democrats who are not attending. i will not celebrate a man who preaches politics of division and hate. i will not be attending donald trump's inauguration. you remember eight years ago, mitch mcconnell said we to want make him a one term president. rush limbaugh says he hopes he fails here. we have reached a new low in terms of the divisions that we even begin with. >> i think that's the challenge. i understand why peop...

This is news from the vice president. >> okay. no, no, it's fine. biden is 74, right? in 2020, he'll be 78. we have never had a president elected at that age. he would be easily the oldest. there is a big push in democratic circles to get a new generation at least into the upper ranks. the house leadership already is fairly old. i'm not ageist. that's a fact. those are the numbers. it is not a unique observation that the bench is thin. the way to get a thicker bench is to develop some of the younger talent. that comes with risk. biden has a national fund raising base, he's a name. he can appea...

Recently at that rally, there was a protester there, i guess he was getting some flak from people in the audience and president obama stood up for that protester and said "he has the right to be here, he's not hurting anybody." that's leadership. >> but president obama hasn't done enough. he hasn't done enough in calling out black lives matter when they included an argument about genocide, calling israel genocidal country. he hasn't done enough on keith ellisson who for years was associated with farrakhan and now says "i didn't know he was an anti-semite." if keith ellison worked for years wit...

He's trying to cast doubt on her and it's always trying to reenforce this theme onning intivety. but the truth is, you got to look through the campaign nonsense and what the core positions of the candidates are. you can't let donald trump get away with saying bad thing about hillary clinton. you got to ask yourself, okay. what is your program? what will you do for me and my program? within that question gets asked, i think the question becomes clear what the right answer is for democrats, young people, even republicans are fought enthusiastic about this particular candidate. >> all right. cong...