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Party, old versus young, liberal versus more conservative or more moderates members of the democratic party, joel. and age obviously playing a big role when it comes to joe biden and his history of service of over 40 years, a record and now that's being scrutinized obviously. you know, ron mentioned earlier because the party has evolved so much, what joe biden said in the past, the things that may have been popular then, which is now repulsive to a lot of people in the democratic party today, is that going to haunt him? and are democrats going to i guess accept somebody like biden who has said...

Hillary clinton's 2016 campaign and cnn political analyst ron brownstein e senior editor for the atlantic. joe booker just spoke. he needs a breakthrough for his campaign. he's been struggling in the polls and he stood out this week because of his criticism of joe biden and the comments that joe biden made over working with segregationists back when he was a senator a few decades ago and he called on biden to apologize. the two had a back and forth. do you think this week was a bit of a breakthrough? will he have momentum? >> so this is really what i like to call the time when the race really ...

Get left behind. there is a real tension within the party and we're seeing it on display here. >> ron, a piece in the the "new york times" today called "the black vote is non-monolithic." that was the title. it points out the democratic primary vote is going to fracture perhaps along racial, generational and gender divides. how do you see it playing out? >> so far generational is eclipsing everything out. the gender gap has been relatively modest and biden, as we have talked about, in all polls leads the african-american candidates among african-american voters. we saw in 2016 where bernie san...

You allow donald trump another four years that's more than an aberration and that is an irreversible mark on the country and biden is standing on the one side of history saying i'm focused on getting rid of donald trump and the other democrats are saying donald trump's a problem and there were a lot of problems that existed and that's a fascinating construction in terms of how some democrats are looking at the problems versus others. >> what did you think, ron? >> well, it was kind of the stump speech sped up two times to fit -- two times speed. i agree with joel. it is interesting. for joe bi...