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It's beta o'rourke, not beto. >> he's called him that before on the campaign trail. why wouldn't he. that's his name. >> moving parts in this busy hour ahead including the president heading up to capitol hill for the st. patrick's day lunch. we begin with that but we begin today with the beto watch. >> this is going to be the positive campaign. it seeks to bring out the best in every one of us. >> it launched beto o'rourke into the crowded democratic field. it offered instant proof of the youth and impact to make him an

That just wouldn't happen, right? >> most working women get asked who's with your kids. >> there are candidates like gillibrand who has kids fairly the age of mr. o'rourke's kids. you know, they just don't the need to talk about their role raising them. and i think that is his way clumsily of dealing with these dynamics in the party, that there are people who would like to see a female candidate particularly after hillary clinton's defeat and that is something that we said before he'll have to navigate around. >> one of those female candidates said, by the way, camela harris said, the more the...

People you actually know that have been on empire that you have worked out with and you don't recognize them? >> yes. guess what, i don't know. he refused to sign the complaint because he could not believe it. if he thought they were in on it, wouldn't he have signed the complaint? he didn't believe it. if you're asking me what their motivation is, i suppose i could speculate but motivation of jussie is not an element of the crime. their motivation, i have my theories on it but i haven't seen one piece of evidence. what they do have is a whale of a case. they have a great case against the two ...

If it's true, why would the president wait until now to bring this up? why wouldn't he put that out there sooner to try to undermine michael cohen's credibility? >> right. it's a terrific question, and there are other questions that the president, i think, perhaps inadvertently has opened here, which is that if he is willing to talk about alleged conversations with michael cohen about pardons, what would be -- what would prevent him from discussing other conversations with other former officials, people in his orbit about pardons. why could he not be asked about michael flynn or paul manafort....

Was after he made a decision and i think i was part of that when he decided to express his shame for his prior lies when he was certainly looking at the option of pardon when they were dangling that as a way of i think luring people to stay within the tent. and then when he decided on july 2nd, 2018, i will not lie anymore and he asked me to help him tell the truth. so that sentence, which i helped write was about the time period after he decided as we decided to call it his turn to the truth and at that point, he said to me i want you to publicly say i wouldn't accept a pardon if he begged me...