way. it s a mishegas, no matter what. there is not a lot of time, and there is a bunch of folks on that stage who this may be the last time they re on that stage, and they want to stay. definitely if you re one of the people who aren t in the top tier, you re going to want to go after somebody in the top tier to try to get into some sort of viral moment with them. but i do think what you just brought up is what i m thinking about is this idea of biden going after warren and jeff zeleny reported earlier that he has been studying her plans. and i was thinking i don t know if that s a good idea to go after elizabeth warren on her plans. so it will be interesting to see especially because he does have kind of a history of messing up when it comes to facts. if he comes after her on a plan, misstates it, misrepresents it or does something like that, i think he could be putting himself in a kind of perilous position. maryland dryor landrieu? elizabeth has been surge. all these other c
thanks for having me. what did you learn about your city and the city that your dad was mayor of when people you thought would be allies in this weren t so vocal and people would get death threats and have to wear bulletproof vests in order to do this job. what did that tell you about your city. i was proud of my city. most of the people in the city of new orleans wanted the monuments to come down and the people of new orleans after suffering from katrina were resilient and strong and clear about what we wanted to do. and the overwhelming majority. people in new orleans wanted to do that. we did have people from outside of the city, some within and most from outside of the state that really thought that for some reason they still controlled the property in and around new orleans. what it told me about the country and what it told me about the south is that we still have not reconciled the reason why the civil war was fought. i thought it was really important in the environment th
investment in mental health and substance abuse. you have to put your money where your mouth is. you can t say you are dealing with mental health and then cut the mental health institutions or treatment. that doesn t make any sense and the mayors of america have been speaking forcefully and the federal government cannot cut funds for first responds which is what they ve done by 88% since 1996 so we have to put our money and purpose and our ideas where our mouth is. mayor, unfortunately i m out of time. i have 17,000 more questions to ask you. including when you are going to iowa. i ll come back. we ll save that. we ll save that. i promise. mr. mayor, thanks for coming on. tell everybody in madison i said hi. you got it. we may have snow but you know what we don t have? e-mail. i ll explain in a minute. reality. we re helping to give cars
welcome back. america is divided all over the place across so many different lines and one is in full view as city and states debate whether to keep or remove confederate statues. in new orleans, the mayor mitch landrieu was praised on the national level when the city removed a number of monuments from public spaces last year but locally he faced protest and deep opposition. he pointed out the monuments were a civil of the racial strife that plague his home and in his new book. so joining me is the mayor of normal, maryland ryor landrieu who is the president of the conference of mayors.