to bring us together rather than pull apart? representative himes, i want to ask a question about the politics. democratic party. there s a sense in which you staked out a moderate position, a centrist position, but how do you say to those folks, hundreds of thousands of folks who march for climate change, those folks in the street to convince them that the moderate position isn t just simply business as usual? folks who in some way reject the centristism of the democratic party? the way you win in washington, whether you talk about the white house, the house or senate, you win by adding to your coalition. we have to get away from words like reject. i ve done a couple of marches and been in rallies and i ve been as harsh a critic of this president as anybody else. by the way, i will stand with elizabeth warren and bernie sanders on an awful lot of things they care about. whether it s standing up for people who have been disenfranchised or women s
republicans have to erode that. i think the narrative that he has personally is running counter to what he believes policy wise. he used to have a centrist position. marco rubio is floating out there because he can t decide what his policy is. which is hillary clinton would by doing this is going after the hispanic block of voters. she s deciding very emphatically the hispanic block is more important than centrist voters which is very interesting. at sh point she will have to describe like criminal justice with the 1994 clinton crime bill her husband s 1996 immigration bill that basically pushed more arrests of immigrants. at some point that come up if he has somebody to debate with that will bring it up. the difference between where the democrats were in the 90s and where they are now we ll
everybody else will do. take a look at the polls, take a look at how many people are giving him financial support dip his toe in the water and figure out what he wants to do. we ll see. but if he jumps in, welcome. there are a lot of folks in the pool already. there are indeed. i want to bring in a reporter for bloomberg politics dave wiegle. i think a lot of folks were surprised to hear jeb bush say it s time for republicans to let loretta lynch go and by go i mean confirm the woman. the country s black, african-american female attorney general. how much do you think his talking abouts on these issues taking more centrist position shifts the landscape of the presidential field? i actually think if you re talking about this field, jeb bush does the least to move it in any direction. i don t see any voters or candidates really responding to what he does. certainly today, no one else decides to jump in the water. rand paul, who is very
what he s trying to do and raise his profile in the state at that point of time. perhaps he saw it was a risk worth taking. perhaps he saw the state rep repealing affirmative action programs. stricter public housing guidelines. but those all become particularly the 1990s when the affirmative action wars really heat up. those become mainstream planks of republican party politics. you know, some of what he said, although a less extreme version of it, when you watch him, he s fighting over welfare and what is happening with welfare recipients. and that evolved into a centrist position. and so he s leading the edge of the kind of political discourse that takes the whole country in a certain direction. exactly. but not single handedly. no. absolutely. but he is s an opportunist. he was an ecologist at that point because he blamed edwards for ruining the environment of louisiana. he was saying government got too big. he was cobbling together these
democrats have done a pretty good job of keeping their intra-party fighting out of the headlines until recently, and i think if you look at the latest polling, democrats are really frustrated particularly young people with the president. and this has been brewing for a long time. they re upset that president obama never closed gitmo, never got the public option, they re upset about the nsa spying. but the key element of president obama s base, young people, are starting to break. so you re starting to see this rift between democrats, and it s also being fueled, i think, by the clinton people who are telling the far left elements, behave. get in line and don t cause us any problems because we already have enough headaches with obamacare and trying to hold on to the senate, don t create more. and that s what you saw with that smackdown editorial in the wall street journal. jon: the third way group is arguing for a more centrist position, you know, among democrats in washington. rig