Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20180908:12:18:00
Heard obama say the stakes are too high to sit on the sidelines. up until this point we've seen obama and his aides embrace the sort of cautious logic trying to stay removed from all of this for a couple reasons. one, they didn't want it to turn into a republican foil and have the unintended consequence of driving republicans out in the midterm elections as a proxy vote against him, but he wanted to give some space for new democratic voices to come on the scene. there is still this void on-in the party, and you see president obama is now the one to fill it. >> david, you worked with president ...