with the iranians pulling the envelope and not willing to do the diplomacy, it s an incoherent position and we are isolated in europe and this is not where we want or need it to be. ben rhoades, thank you very much for joining us. thanks, lawrence. when we come back, the campaign battle for the united states senate. winning back the senate is almost as important as winning back the white house for the democrats and they know it. that s next. democrats and they know it that s next. beep goes off ]
could get you into, but you also don t want a nuclear weapon. with the iranians pulling the envelope and not willing to do the diplomacy, it s an incoherent position and we are isolated in europe and this is not where we want or need it to be. ben rhoades, thank you very much for joining us. thanks, lawrence. when we come back, the campaign battle for the united states senate. winning back the senate is almost as important as winning back the white house for the democrats and they know it. that s next. that a speaker is just a speaker. or - that the journey can t be the destination. most people haven t driven a lincoln.
the president speaking for well over two hours, at one point saying that he wished it was 2020. he is clearly eager for that campaign battle that lies ahead. now, the president talked about the crowd size at his inauguration. and he talked about democrats and a radical agenda, saying that the united states would never allow for socialism to take root in the country, something that we heard during his state of the union address. and the president also attacked the president, and even current and former members of his administration, as you heard, in that sound bite, and notably, though, the president also talked about the reasons he believed that democrats on capitol hill are investigating him and his administration. listen to some of what the president said. so they don t have anything with russia. there s no collusion. so now, they go and morph into let s inspect every deal he s ever done. we re going to go into his finances. we re going to check his deals. we re going to check th
the republican party, the extreme right, the center and we see that with the trump phenomenon. but you have something of a battle on the democratic party, right? folks pulling to the left with warren and vice president biden might be seen as a more moderate candidate. who is better in your view for the democrats to win out in a campaign battle like that, in the primary battle rather? well that remains to be seen. we re going to see this battle go on and you re right, we do have many progressive wing of the party that really provides a lot of energy and enthusiasm for the democratic party. we saw that in the midterm elections. but we also are facing and again, i hate to relitigate 2016, but we lost three states that cost us the election. michigan and pennsylvania and wisconsin. and those are white working class voters that we lost. and there is a sense within the democratic party that we need to
the first campaign battle, the iowa caucus, biden finds himself under the microscope like a pinned buck. i was the chief political writer for the des moines register, the largest newspaper in iowa. a very respected democratic operative. i got something i want to show you off the record. i said okay. so we went out to his car, and he got in the trunk and handed me a copy of this video tape. i said just take a look at that. well, i went back to my office. popped it in the cart. why is it that joe biden is the first oh, wow, was the kind of story that sucks all the oxygen out of you. my digestive system used to make me feel sluggish