european american has 0.18% native american dna which might be higher than warren s. as for her reference to the president s million dollar bet if dna showed she did have native ancestry, the president said this. you mean if she gets the nomination and the debate where i was going to have her tested? i ll only do it if i can test her personally. okay? that will not be something i enjoy doing either. that even democrats upset wh warren s dna debacle. obama s campaign manager was mad she made the announcement right before midterms, asking why can t dems ever stay focused? rob: she tried to brag about this and it has blown up in her face. the test results have caused more harm than good for the massachusetts democrat. carley: brit houme said its her
is that it proves nothing of relevance to whether a person is a citizen of an indian nation or member of an indian nation. dna at best can give you some indicators of some markers that indicate that you are related to somebody who lived long ago who may have lived in north and south america. just wholly unhelpful for any national leader to cling to dna to determine or establish that they are native american in this country. harris: senator warren is also taking fire from fellow democrats, former obama campaign manager jim messing up and frustration on twitter by sayin saying, argued the substance all you want but, why 22 days before a crucial election where we must win house and senate to save america? why did senator warren have to o do her announcement now? why can t dems ever stay focused? you know, drop of blood to politics as a person of brown
looking back to 2012. having people pouring through her background say diagnose she actually use this status to get her professorship or a job or an advantage over other people? ainsley: well, she had this twitter rant. it was pretty bizarre yesterday. more than 20 tweets at arrest count. this is one of the ones that she sent out yesterday. donald trump will keep insulting me. let him be busy registering voters, knocking on doors and making sure our neighbors know the facts and telling them about what we re ready to go to build pride, hope and opportunity all across our country. tick tock, november 6th is coming. steve: jim messina one of barack obama s gurus and experts and knows how politics work. argue the substance all you want but why 22 days before a crucial election where we must win the house and election, democrats, to save america, why did senator warren have to do her announcement now? why can t dems ever stay
days before an election where we must win the seats to save america. why now? why can t dems ever stay focused. fair question. dems in disarray! she obviously wants to get out in front of this and i think everyone believes that 2020 begins the day after election. why not in 2012. maybe she couldn t handle it when she was a senate candidate for the first time. these questions linger and instead of that campaign, she ran away from it. should you address all these questions sooner? she said i was a first time candidate. we are in a moment where you see a lot of 2020 prospects talk about who is someone who can take the fight to trump. who is aggressive enough? should they talk about that november 7th? this gives her an idea to show she is not backing down. she is taking the fight to trump in the same sort of
announcement now. why can t dems ever stay focused? absolutely right. in terms of the elizabeth warren the attack on warren, i believe that was actually about white anxieties among donald trump s base about who is write in america but that s not what democrats should be focused on. two issues they should be focused on this those key districts. only two, health care and the gop tax bill. those are the issues you hear again and again from these swing state democrats that have been extremely influential with independent voters, democrats in those suburban districts as you said are extremely upset with the republican agenda and what trump has done on health care and on taxes. those are the winning issues in those districts. you know what, we have two more years to talk about what s helpful for the democratic base, there s certainly issues beyond those but you think she misfired. i think that she not only misfired but i think that, you know, it s easy for elizabeth warren to go ou