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To a recession. the last one was prior to the great recession in 2007, so my question now, alex is in political terms as we face a re-election campaign for the president, have they taken into account that the economy which is his strongest calling for re-election may not be as strong as he thought it would be? >> i think they're bracing for that possibility. i don't know they feel there's a whole lot they can do politically on the messaging side as opposed to the policy side to mute the impact of a recession if that happens. that would obviously be very, very politically bad for the president ...

The american idea, the american experiment, the idea of the presidency, and you know, i also want to point out, vice president biden is not the only one doing this, we talked about senator cory booker and his speech at mother emanuel and charleston and beto o'rourke, any democratic candidate who stands far taller than the president of the united states in this moment. >> they were both powerful yesterday. we will hear from both of them in just a moment. john meachum, it does strike me in this presidential campaign that we find ourselves in the middle of right now, there is sort of the intellec...

Where does senator sanders see that play tonight in this debate? >> it's both and. we do have to deal beyond the bigotry and racism of president trump. i think the distraction becomes if that is the only focus. we've got to focus on the institutional and structural racism in this country that creates this environment and that donald trump is a manifestation of unfinished business. so the senator thinks you must call this president out but also from the policy side and the compassion side of this and the correct side of this, you have to have plans and a vision that takes us beyond just beyond ...

Park elsewhere. they will coming back to the safe zone because they want nothing more. >> and the safe zone also seems to be the top five candidates, right? they are not really going outside to the bottom sort of 15 folks, those folks are having a really hard time breaking into the top five. buttigieg is at 6%. if only all of that money would buy him some better poll numbers, haven't seen that at all. sanders also slipping. that's another trend line that we see. he's losing altitude and looks like warren has been able to leap over him. so we'll see. we'll see what that means for tomorrow with ...

We see. he's losing altitude and looks like warren has been able to leap over him. so we'll see. we'll see what that means for tomorrow with folks attacking on stage. >> really quickly, one of the things i'll be super interested in is on the policy side, we're in michigan. this issue of trade was such a huge deal in that election in 2016. >> good point. >> trump won because of that and elizabeth warren came out with a trade plan today. i want to -- this is going to be the issue for the industrial midwest is the lose of these good paying manufacturing jobs and what is the plan for these people ...