Break watergate break in. We will talk about the 1968 president ial election. The Democratic National convention. Lets start with chicago. This last summer was the 50th anniversary of the Democratic National convention in chicago. I do not know if any of you saw any of the specials. We have some footage that is pretty shocking for people to see nowadays. Before 1972, there were very few primaries. Most of the delegates to both conventions were elected through back channels and small party conventions. Back when meetings across various politicians. In 1968 73 of democratic delegates to the convention had been elected this way so less than 25 were elected in a way that we normally do it now. President Lyndon Johnson had taken himself out of the race. He was not up for reelection in 1968 which initiated a freeforall in the Democratic Party between a number of candidates. One of which was popular was unfortunately a dead by august 68 who was robert kennedy. He was a unifying candidate for
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Understanding it will be a traditional republican platform not all that different from the woman had four years ago. George it will not be mr. Charles platform . I dontconnell expected to differ that much from the platform we had four years ago. Are you ready to declare victory, embrace the platform and endorse Hillary Clinton is the nominee . Senator sanders i think you captured it. What happened in st. Louis the other day. We won some important victories in our effort did make it clear to the megan people that the Democratic Party stands with the middle class, stands with working families, and is prepared to take on wall street and the big money interests. But we lost some important fights. We will take the fight orlando with the entire Committee Meeting in two weeks. We willnt succeed, take it to the floor of the democratic convention. And that is what this discussion in st. Louis did not include, as you indicated. The need to deal and a strong way with the crisis of climate change.
That senator clinton made behind president obama after he defeated her in the 2008 primary. This is what doing everything to defeat trump looks like, guerin rote host again for the question this morning in our first 45 minutes, went to get from you about the role that senator sanders should play in the remainder of campaign 2016. Still formally in the race expressed he probably will not become a candidate and he will probably vote for former secretary of state clinton. But we want to get from you, senator sanders what his role should be. Call us at 2027488000. For those of you who still support senator sanders. And 2027488001 for all others. Senator sanders did talk about a wide range of issues concerning campaign 2016. You can see that interview two times tonight at 6 35 this evening and at 9 35 this evening. It was in the course of the interview that senator sanders spoke about the campaign and went he first expressed doubts about him becoming president. Bernie sanders im not going t
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