so the old regional distribution system is back in play, for now. a brewing battle over the best way to save lives. dr. john tores, nbc news. turning now to the 2020 race for the white house, nbc s frances rivera joins us with a unique look of the growing field of growing democratic fields. good morning. reporter: good morning. when president trump entered the white house, he broke with one tradition. having a presidential the pet by his side. presidents dating back nearly 130 years have brought canine companions and executive felines into the west wing. now, many of the 2020 contenders are hoping to bring that custom back. so instead of analyzing the horse race, we thought we would take a look at the puppy primary. i m john hickenlooper, this is my faithful dog sky and i m running for president. this is his first campaign. he is eight months old. and i hope this goes well. bailey has just been just as busy as elizabeth warren on the
another junior senator some 12 years ago about this same time. barack obama, the junior senator from illinois, was saying people were saying it s not his time. it s too early. of course, there will be comparisons and parallels drawn between these two senators. this is a difference time, a different field. it s going to be one of the largest democratic fields and most diverse democratic fields the party has seen in recent memory here. so this is the beginning of really one of the most unwieldy and wide-open races that democrats can recall certainly in a generation. and it will begin here in a new phase tonight in des moines. poppy? jeff, do we add one more name to that list, not a new name, but you re reporting on former candidate and secretary of state hillary clinton not closing the door on a third try? poppy, we were hearing that over the weekend. i was talking to some confidantes and friends of the
putin. everyone who s out of power has a lot of unrealistic ideas about what they might do and that are also vague. she s comfortable with it. democrats are not punishing her in any way to the extent they disagree with that hawkishness. i wonder as well for all of the impulse clearly on the republican side to put in a novice, right, everybody who s currently leading is somebody who s not part of the political system now. if that goes away, if we have a sense of that exteistential thrt of war. do you want trump or carson as commander and chief? i don t think any of the democratic fields, i don t think anybody in the pentagon, sees afghanistan as the central issue. look, let me tell you something, talking to folks at the pentagon, here s the order of things they care about. russia, isis, sort of co-number one. maybe al qaeda. 17 other things. china and then afghanistan s
she can, and so, you know, to the extent that all of these attack hillary movements are burgeoning action if anything, that will energize her more. hillary rosin is a prominent supporter. this woman, if she decide toss run, is the most battle-tested candidate we will have ever seen, so, you know, i just don t think those a unlike 2008, the democratic fields for 2016 appears to be frozen, as vice president joe biden and governors martin o malley and andrew cuomo wait to see what hillary clinton decides to do. thank you so much. now, one of my republican sources point out to me today that both of the stop hillary organizations are run and staffed almost entirely by men. they might need to be careful what they re do, because they re attacking a woman who hasn t announced what they re up to yet the to that end, i have a