fights over the obama years. i think it s just a great political move as well as a pretty decent thoughtful policy move. and beth fuey bernie sanders is digging in on his medicare for all plan. do we expect him to go after biden? and does it appear to you that this health care issue is set up to be the dividing issue on the democratic field? bernie sanders is going all in. he gave a similar speech to this one about a month ago on democratic socialism. he s owning and occupying his positioning in this field, very much far to the left. he s trying to reclaim some of the momentum that elizabeth warren has picked up, kind of in that space and the progressive space. so yeah he s going to go all in. he s never been shy about going after biden on things where they disagree. here s a chance for him to grab back this issue and say this belongs to me and draw the contrast. to answer your second question it s the defining issue of this democratic field.
negotiate with drug companies for better prices. and allow people to buy medicine from other countries. in a new campaign video biden takes direct aim at his colleagues who back medicare for all. starting over makes no sense to me at all. i knew the republicans would do everything in their power to appeal obamacare and they still are. i m surprised so many democrats are running on getting rid of it. let s bring in don callaway, and beth fuey. don, this strikes me as joe biden staking his claim at the center of the race, drawing a stark contrast with competitors that he seems to think have drifted too far to the left but will this work with democratic primary voters? absolutely. i think joe biden is hitting the right notes here. it s about him establishing this is a good idea for the majority of mainstream democrats.
pitch himself as. he s trying to weave in a more personal narrative. he s been turning to talking about his roots in activism. you ll notice yesterday in brooklyn as our beth fuey pointed out, he had several people come on stage and speak about his activist roots. this is all part of bernie s attempt to not just weave that personal narrative but to broaden out and diversify, key word, diversify his coalition of support. ali vitali, thank you very much. i want to turn to l. joy williams. bernie sanders kicked off his campaign yesterday in brooklyn. i know you had a chance to talk to him before that took place. yes. what was your sense of how much he is looking back? how is bernie 2.0 regarding what happened in 2006. i attended before with a number of different activists and organizers in the room. i asked that very question, what had he learned from the 2016
[ indiscernible ]. it all will work out. what we need is, we need a strong border. we have criminals coming up. human traffickers coming in. we have drugs pouring in. things happening you don t even want to know about and it s been that way for decades and we can t have it anymore, and because of the strength of our economy, the strongest it is, it s probably the greatest economy we ve ever had, and because of that it s happening even more so. we have to stop it. thank you, everybody. have a good day. thank you. thank you. listening to president trump there returning from camp david on the south lawn at the white house. obviously talking about border security. how we re going to work on getting some steel instead of concre concrete. he says democrats don t necessarily like concrete and, of course, calling what s happening at the border an emergency, a national emergency. i want to bring in my panel here to discuss. noah rothman, along with beth fuey, member of nbc news and
those serious about immigration skepticism don t regard the wall as being highest of priorities. a variety of other provisions and certainly not a deal for daca. that would result in some sort of insurrection. so nobody has incentive to really move, and democrats can simply sit back and wait for the pain to start before this president starts to move even further. already showing he s interested in giving a little bit. interesting, beth, because he is going with the same, exact line that we saw on the campaign trail, and as mnoah pointed outside, doesn t seem he s giving in at all and going further, sort of rehighlighting what he did on the campaign trail. talking about, this is a crisis of drugs, of human beinging at the border, really wanting to drive home seems as if to his base that there is a crisis at the border. that s been his line forever. since the campaign. you remember from the campaign, of course, the big line,