we all have enough stuff. i think if you want to raise money and get some buzz going for your campaign, it s probably a good idea. jesse: get some buzz. i like that. juan: the strategy is that you want lots of people to contribute. it s not the money. it s not the $5. it s that you want several donors. you want thousands of people. guess what. this is a strategy, jesse, that was engineered by president obama. he did it. president trump. president trump offered dinner at mar-a-lago. he also offered dinner in d.c. and in new york at trump tower. his kids would come, his wife would come. dana: would kim kardashian be there? juan: if you showed up today. jesse: she looks awkward with the beer. katie: this recent spate of democrats doing things like this, they were doing it because beto was doing it first. beto was getting his teeth done at the dentist and doing all the weird stuff with the haircut and
then these other democrats were like, or, my gosh. beto is getting all this tension, raised all that money. we have to do the same thing. kirsten gillibrand was lifting weights. elizabeth warren grabbing a beer. generally speaking, this has been done before but this one section of time was chasing bet beto. jesse: up next, joe biden conveniently forgets some of the time in the white house when he was obama s vp. watch. you know what i was most proud of? for eight years, there wasn t one single hint of a scandal. jesse: will the media fact-check it? i doubt it. tom: i doubt it. fast and furious, irs, benghazi, spying on trump. did they include spying on trum trump? that s at the top of my list. there s others.
heap and you mentioned the focus on the top five at the moment and so you are there in des moines. ahead of this huge town hall tonight for a man who wishes he were in the top five who had crazy buzz back in time. bet beto beto o rourke, is this make or break for him. it is not make or break and we have plenty of time and i have little doubt that beto o rourke will be able to sort of get a hearing from democratic caucus-goers in this state in iowa as he continues to campaign but i do think it is a really important moment for him because he was in that top tier and he has slipped. and so he is since sort of professionalized his operation, hired some key staffers and he himself is boning up more on policy and trying to do sort of less jumping on counters and more trying to present himself as a potential president and being on the national stage in front of a big cnn national audience tonight taking voters