potential seismic shock to the 2020 democratic race. billionaire and former three-term new york city mayor michael bloomberg positioning himself perhaps to jump into this primary race. he said back in march, as you likely remember, he d be sitting this one out. according to a spokesman now, he has some concerns with the current crop of candidates. a number of those 2020 democrats have their own take on a possible bloomberg candidacy. we strengthen our democracy when we get out and build a grassroots movement. it s not enough just to have somebody come in, anybody, and say they re going to buy this election. you can t replicate the experience of dozens or even hundreds of town halls. i think we have a strong fie field. i m not sure we need someone else in it. got some great team
christine romans was very kind and never critical. christine romans joins us now with the details. there are no secrets with alisyn camerota. the streaming wars are officially here. at&t introducing its new streaming service, hbo max. we have to retaliate. responding militarily makes us a combatant. when they attack your people, they pretty much made that choi choice. hbo bringing the west wing, friends and the library of subscribers to be revealed today. the price set to launch next spring. the cornerstone of at&t s purchase of time warner and their entree into a growing fie field. apple is breaking in, launching apple tv plus on friday with a slate of new original programming like its new series morning show starring jennifer aniston, reese witherspoon. disney is tapping into its collection of jedi, princesses
i look at this debate. you had a few candidates trying to be anti-establishment. rubio tried. i think it s tough being a senator. cruz is trying, walker is trying. but look at carly, carson and trump, carly had the best night of those three. and carly could end up being suddenly the anti-establishment flavor for a while. what about john kasich moving into the jeb position, the former jeb position in this fie field. look, i get the whole general election aspect of casey, and i buy it, but in a year where the republican voters are saying we don t want an establishment. he s bragging about his time in washington. it s a really good message for new hampshire but i don t buy it for the rest of the election. he s saying stuff that used to work. we still like that. we are going to focus group your father.
people s heads about what they should be expecting from other candidates so i like it. i feel he s an advocator and i would love to see him go far. let me talk about the republicans now. you have dozens, a couple dozen, three dozen, four dozen. barb, what do you make of the fie field? i think it s great. we get to talk about a lot of different issues and at the end of the day it will come down to a person who is a strong leader for me and a strong person in a lot of different areas. what i want to add to that is what i think is exciting. we have a large number of republican candidates of diversity. we haven t had that diversity. absolutely. from detroit. so i think they will be able what s exciting about that, they will be able to have conversations about things like race, violence, immigration that are important to people of color, and i m interested in having those conversations. when i ve been in elections in my life where no one ever
about his advice for perry and the state of the race right now. also, we re learning the back story behind ron paul s drama. he s getting flak for an answer to a health care question. turns out the scenario is similar to a real life death in his political family. and president obama s attempt to promote green jobs turns into a bigger embarrassment. first, the company he visited went bankrupt, now, it s been raided by the fbi and u.s. taxpayers may be on the hook for hundreds of millions of dollars. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com right now, republican, rick perry, is trying to cover a lot of bases and burr niche his status as the front-runner. he s been reaching out to voters in a battleground state. a sign of confidence that his rivals are trying hard to tear down. jim acosta is covering perry s campaign in depth. he s joining us from richmond, virginia with the latest. wolf, the texas governor is not just running as