mueller question that s out there. do you have any idea why barack obama and himself team seem to be supporting beto, were with his come pam ran i think the meeting with mr. o roarke is not that unusual. i think barack obama is probably meeting with. who is asking and i would imagine, i would hope everyone is asking. he is has been someone who went through it. and in a little bit more cynical man a man, i know there are folks like dan phifer and john levitt who are all in the white house who are supportive of beto o rourke. i don t know that they re with him and i don t know that it s any kind of official seal of
people, not to the american people just in places like iowa, south carolina, nevada but in appalachia and nebraska and you have to be able to talk to everyone. they may not like what you have to say but if they believe you re authentic in your message, they may decide to vote for you. dan, simone, let s do this again for the next two years. sounds like a plan. i m down, i m down. thanks guys. the vice president led a meeting on the shutdown today but did he make any progress? i ll have the latest next. coming up, should speaker pelosi try to rein in some of the freshmen lawmakers in her party?
spectacularly. no way native american. candidates who can beat donald trump, she has proven she cannot. for that reason alone, democrats can do better. disagree? okay, let s discuss. here to tell me why elizabeth warren should be the 2020 democratic nomnominee, just kidding, former senior adviser to president obama dan phifer and simone sanders. i would not put you in that position. i am kidding, of course, way too early. but dan, to me, even this early, it seems like warren s candidacy is doa. do you honestly think she s the democrat s best bet to beat donald trump? i have no idea if she s the best bet to beat donald trump and neither does anyone else. that s what the whole process is about. she has challenges but so does every other person running and it s not like the person running
the best most popular finely honed economic message of anyone who s thinking of running and that will be very valuable. there s other challenges. the dna test is something she ll have to navigate. i don t think it will be a hugely damaging problem and she has to answer questions about it. simone, to dan s point, having the most popular economic message. i mean, it s bernie sanders message and to me, from where i stand, bernie is everything warren is but better. he s more energizing, more unifying and certainly more authentic. do you think she can capture his coalition and his appeal if in fact he decides not to runl? we don t know. and i know it sounds like hedging,est seer ess.e., but wet know. frankly, i like elizabeth warren but i like a lot of potential 2020 contenders and yes, she is going to have to continue to answer questions about the dna test, why did you do it, what does this mean but you know
against donald trump is some sort of like perfect political candidate designed in a lab. he has flaws as well i m told so we re going to have to see this play out and she ll make her case and she has real political strengths and challenges and so i cannot tell you. of course, and dan, dan, i get you hedging. i understand. it s early. why would anyone come out this early to back anyone? but coming in, and i said this same thing of hillary clinton, coming into the 2016 election, hillary clinton had known challenges. we couldn t know some of the stuff that was going to fall in her path but she had known challenges. elizabeth warren has some known challenges that i think make her a very unattractive candidate. i mean, i think that is the, the voters will have to decide that and you really just don t know. there are things i really like about elizabeth warren s candidacy because probably has