today his notes. the rest appeared to be conversational. but it seems he was alluded to president trump. he read from his notes there, but to pick up on cal s point, when obama speaks like this, he seems to be renewing his own faith in the brand of politics that shot him to power. not necessarily the politics that we re dealing with in the current moment. but the politics he wishes this we were dealing with and the wrap on president obama had always been that at times when democrats certainly wanted thoim fight harder, he oftentimes went, would vow for restraint. thinking that would help turn down the temperature and make things better. it oftentimes didn t, but today, you heard him say it s time to take off our slippers and put on our marching shoes and fight for health care, immigrant s rights. a government for everybody. so the president as we ve seen now, former president obama, is stepping into the fray, really
20 years standing up to the powerful special interests and instead, working on behalf of california families. directly helped thousands of families who had been wronged by big banks, by predatory lenders and now, fighting for every orange county family to hold those powerful interests accountable. that s the kind of advocate you need in congress. just like you need harley successful entrepreneur, philanthropist, helping all sort of companies start up and grow and create opportunity. he s not running for congress just to be in congress. he s already been successful. he knows when you go to congress, you better be less concerned about being there and more concerned about what you re going to do on behalf of the people who sent you. and he s going to use that seat to advance the interest of all
casting off his previously self-imposed political exile, david. barely see them there, cal. in all of these arms extended with cell phone cameras trying to take photos of the 44th president. let s talk about the stakes. as he outlined them there. we have a chance to flip the house. he said to democrats who were gather there had in anaheim, to restore checks and balances that have been absent. this has been a criticism of politics in washington over the last two years. that you ve had republicans controlling both houses of congress really in lock step with the president of the united states, not providing that traditional check and balance they re supposed to here to the executive branch. you see the frustration in these hearings of kavanagh, where you saw democrats come on on the first day. and revolt against the hearing itself. you know, this is is the message that you re hearing across the country, which is that republicans basically rubbing it in democrats faces. look, if you wa
california. it is good to be back, i love you, too. i do. i i just had time to spend with some amazing democratic candidates for congress. you re going to hear more about each of them in a minute. from some of the people that they re running to represent. they re going to testify to how wonderful these candidates are. but i m going to but i m going talk about them any way. but before i do so, i just want to mention, i was telling them that i went to disney land twice