okay. we do have breaking political news. democratic senator elizabeth warren is taking a big step toward challenging president trump in 2020. mj lee is live in boston with all the details. what s happening this morning? alisyn, i did not think i would be saying this on the very last day of 2019 but welcome to 2020, massachusetts senator elizabeth warren is announcing this morning she s going to form a presidential exploratory committee. this all but confirms what has been widely speculated for a while now, that senator warren is going to run for president in 2020 and is now the first major democratic candidate to take official action and taking a step closer to a presidential campaign. she made the announcement a minute ago in an e-mail, in a video message that went out to
elizabeth warren brings to the table much of what red state america dislikes, this war with industrial and agricultural america that too many democrats are engaged w she doesn t like the pharmaceutical industry, the insurance industry. she doesn t like any of these industries where frankly my former constituents worked and this is a big problem for democrats if they nominate someone like her. there will be a lot of trump leery republicans and independents looking for an alternative and say but i can t do that. this is a gift to donald trump. is that her biggest baggage, or is it something bigger? not only the dna video, which i think we can say did not land the way she wanted it to, but also the way she gets scrappy with donald trump, it doesn t always work for her. yeah. listen, i agree with charlie in the idea that i think democrats are looking for a fresh face. when you re out of office, i think people are less interested
and what could be the midterms and erosion of the republican base. people emphasize that 86% of republicans still support donald trump. what people don t emphasize is this number this universe is shrinking. there have been a lot of republican defections who are now independents. the vast majority of independents are quite hostile to the republican party. that is i think an underplayed story. i think this is the price. if there are a number of republicans who are saying the republican party has gone too far, i simply can t vote, isn t the answer for democrats to find a place in the middle, to scoop up this support? instead of pushing to the left? because those republicans who are defecting, they re not going to bernie sanders and elizabeth warren country. that is the challenge right now, fight right now in democratic parties trying to figure out what is their true north. absent policy, you get what you get in virginia. the reason the governor won by nine points, wasn t because he wa
are hurt and the gunman dead after an attack on a zurich mosque. so a lot to talk about this morning. the interesting thing about officially they haven t said any of them are terror yet, although one of the guys did yell, particularly the guy who executed the ambassador on television, a la akbar. yes. the christmas market attack, the driver, apparently, identified as that veed bee 23 years old, he s a pakistani asylum seeker. he was oebl in germany for a couple of months, on new year s eve a year ago. he went through the balkans then went into the country of germany. we look at live images of downtown berlin with thousands of other refugees. he entered the country under a false name. found with several i.d.s. he s got a criminal record and
and if you can compete at the pump you can drive the price of gasoline down and drive the price of oil down. it will be his worst day a. they care more about that than they do about us chasing individual terrorists. thank you. they have a unique situation because angela merkel said if you need a place to stay come on in. many are just flooding that country and a lot peechl have had it up to here saying we are not safe anymore. right. they are not and they are not going to be as long as that s the principal thing they are trying to do which is just let people in. you can just let people in with a better screening process and you won t have as many terrorists but you re still playing goalie.