maybe not as, how should i say it, aware of the assault that was going to be made on them and perhaps they spoke in a way that could be misinterpreted. >> you have said in the past that hillary clinton will be the democratic party nominee. and there's no question about it. do you still feel that strongly? >> well, yeah, i do. i myself, i have my own political responsibility, which is to elect as many democrats as possible to the congress so we don't have a congress of obstruction -- >> she just said that she doesn't think that democrats are going to take the house back, hillary clinton. maybe the senate, but not the house. >> who knows a year before. when we took it back in '06, nobody thought we were going to take it back in '05. we have many good candidates. that's why i think it would be good to have more debate so that people can see in a much more civil setting the debate among democrats about how we go