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Struggle with that kind of legacy you know at one point during the obama presidency was almost considered an embarrassment because of his wonders it is gas as any of that stuff is is that of worry as he runs for president do you think. well i think the media cycle moves very fast and we tend to forget a lot especially now that we're used to trump and the kind of me just practically which makes us forget even what happened two weeks ago so i know that you mention it i remember but i mean forget i must admit this is not something that stuck i remember that the last time he ran for president hims...

She has not let that define her campaign. >> i'm not sure a lot of people would be agreeing with you about the way she handled -- >> i do think she mishandled. i think she could have handled addressing the situation better, of pocahontas. i think she has gone forward and charted her own path in terms of introducing policies and literally leading the way in terms of economic policies and economic agenda on the democratic party side. but, look, this is the problem that democrats are going to have, is donald trump knows how to manipulate the media cycle to his advantage. and if democrats do play ...

Entirely new sort of media cycle begins where you have an enormous amount of attention. and that's how you win. so beto o'rourke and the rest of these folks and the consultants they're paying to get this advice, i'd be very cautious about this idea of jumping in. >> david gregory, everyone should read nia-malika's piece on beto and his road trip. it is great. david gregory, what do you think? >> i will do that. beto is a little different. i have a slightly different view. we're so unsettled on the democratic side as we look at the democratic side. so unsettled as to what direction they're goin...

>> if you look at the history joseph and mary were traveling back to bethlehem because census: when i was in tijuana with the caravan she was comparing the caravan migrants to jews fleeing nazi germany. and, you know, it's one of these things where you can get away, perhaps, with get elected. a moment to drive a media cycle. she got elected. now it's time to govern. now it's time to put on your adult pants and do factually accurate things and we actually went back and looked at some of the things that now congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez has said to that very point playing loose with the...

>> hillary clinton was a new yorker and she didn't act like that. they started criticizing her. >> she's a transplant though. >> donald trump knows how to manipulate the media cycle to his favor. he knows that if something's going wrong, there's an investigation that he doesn't want to get covered, all he has to do is attack an african-american powerful woman who he considers to be a threat. he knows exactly what he's doing. takes everybody off their game and that's what they focus on. we saw this in the campaign and we're seeing it in the white house. >> but the media is culpable in this. the...