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Official that he is in the race. >> thank you, ali. and stephanie, give me your perspective on this, and we heard money, money, money, the concerns of the democratic candidates. do you think that the candidates are more opposed to mike bloomberg, his policy, his ideas, what he would implement or the fact that he can bury them with his money as he has proceeds in the campaign? >> well, at this point, the one thing that of all of the candidates that mike has that is different from everyone else is his money. so looking at president trump, and whether he has the money or not, and we know that he ...

Near from the special interest groups or any big donor waiting in the wings asking when are you paying me back, and he is doing for it american people, and the count ser that he has sat in office for three term, and it is my way or the highway and so he is out on the campaign trail tomorrow. >> and what about the research they have done, because they are seeing daylight and opening for him? >> they do. and as far as the research goes, bloomberg is a data and analytic person, but there is nobody who has taken a path like this. who knows. they clearly think they have a path, but only time will t...

Who is joining me on set and ali vatali from new hampshire. and stephanie, so glad you are here to break us the news and bring it to us. you spoke exclusively with bloomberg's communications director and what did he tell you about the timing and why now and the goal? >> i know. i know the team well. before i joined the team, i worked with bloomberg news. i spoke with the communications manager and as far as why now, it is easy for us to say and traditionalists to say way too late, but in their mind they say look at the 18 early voting states and only one-third of the voters according to a rece...

But he never was. and mike is not taking a single contribution, and he didn't when he was mayor and running a national campaign straight out of the gate. >> and so you were told that mike bloomberg is deeply troubled by this presidency and also by the democratic field. why is that? >> he believes any of the democrats running would be a better president than donald trump, and he said that to me in an interview in august and his team said it to me last night, the issue for him is in watching this primary, he is not seeing a single candidate who he thinks at this point can beat trump. he does not...

Because they don't work for the environment or business. >> is he anti-trump or warren? because the business establishment, and wall street has not necessarily been a big fan of elizabeth warren, and so elizabeth warren, and is he getting that from his colleagues there on wall street, and those who say that she who is doing very well right now can't be president, can't be at least the democratic nominee? >> again, this is not me opining, but this is from team bloomberg and mike versus elizabeth warren, and mike bloomberg believes that our country cannot handle another four years of donald trum...