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Helpful to get him back on track because it's almost like he didn't get the memo about the d&c platform change from 2016. quickly jump in here because they'll have about a minute left. i want to get to the plagiarism story which i thought joe biden got a bum rap your staffers in the campaign look for language from advocacy groups drawing up the policy platforms. this not the awful embarrassing joe biden plagiarism scandal of 1987 when he stolen from other politicians could he didn't even know about this and let's start with you. yet it was like you know, joe biden committed this awful episode ...

Hey, hey. >> hi, hi. >> with me paul butler, alexi mccammond, a political reporter, kevin cirilli, and josh lederman. josh, let me start with you and help us understand the import of this event. a lot of people say this event draws a more progressive brand of democrats. but they're all there to speak to give their policy platforms. why is it so important and how given the change to the primary system is it taken on new importance. >> first of all, just the fact that california plays such a pivotal role for the democratic base. so many democrats that are located in california, but also the shif...

For senators warren and harris, are increasing, as sanders is losing some favorability. if you look at warren's favorability, that was done up 14 points in the last month. harris is up 9 points. why do you think that is? >> well, a big part of this is just we're still so early into this race, that some of these candidates, people who are known entities, to folks like us, who spend our time talking about politics all the time, people like elizabeth warren or kamala harris who aren't as well known to the entirety of the democratic electorate who are getting more headlines and rolling out more po...

When the crowd gave him a standing ovation. what did you make of that? >> i thought it was remarkable. there was obviously a big crowd, i believe the host chris wallace remarked at how big of a crowd it was, one of the biggest. i think he said in fox news town hall history. it was a very remarkable moment. it's important that buttigieg was talking about fox news opinion hosts. however these opinion hosts very much have the president's ear and very much have a say in what kind of policy platforms he's really pushing because we know about the revolving door between the white house and fobs nex n...

Bring those numbers up. and i think the big question has always been what joe biden enters the race, if he does, is the 30% mark going to be the beginning point for him or is that going to be sort of the roof, right? and when he is looking at the field, as arlet was saying, there are these other candidates who are getting a strong start, whether it is through the fundraising like beto o'rourke, like bernie sanders, whether it is like releasing very comprehensive policy platforms, biden is sitting this one out for now. and i think he has to be watching the rest of the field very, very closely. ...