. topping off political radar today, cnn has learned that the white house moving ahead in preparation for the state of the union address. the white house has sent an e-mail to the house sergeant in arms to schedule a walk-through at the capitol. this comes, of course, after nancy pelosi s request last week to postpone or cancel the state of the union in light of the government shutdown. she actually suggested holding a rally instead. for now the white house wants to go ahead with the state of the union as scheduled at the capitol. we ll see. the government wants to overhaul the fundraising apparatus so small donations are collected on a website known as a payment apparatus. two films featuring prominent political figures among the nominees for this
of democrats were annoyed that it took the vice president so long to make up his mind. how long do you think joe biden has to decide? i think that she s surprised by getting in so soon. you will make biden make a decision publicly before the end of the month. before the end of the month? yeah. there is a race going on that people don t see in terms of putting together the organization, hiring staff and building the fund-raising apparatus that you need to be credible and run for president and all of that maneuvering is happening and people will sit on the sidelines as long as other candidates come into the fray and biden will come into the decision, and they ll say either get in or we re moving on to somebody else. the money piece is key. there are a lot of big d, democratic donors to wait and see to start writing checks and you want to make sure that you re not out of that conversation. do you think the vice president s time has passed? i think that there s some real conc
the night of the convention and he was beloved from then on. we need to run somebody, it s got to be like a michelle obama or sully sullenberger. juan: democrats to take control of the house, former speaker newt gingrich warning about what can happen if they only focus on investigating president trump. if all you do is end up in investigations which unfortunately we did it 9898, t hurts too, because the country wants to see things work. the country doesn t want house democrats spending all day every day in the investigations and in open warfare against the president. juan: jesse, i think what michael morrison, you you need someone with a large celebrity quotient. what do you think? jesse: i agree with nickel more. i can t believe i m saying that. he does have good political instincts. he predicted the rise of trump. i would not nominate left-wing senators from the coast. they have no charisma nationally. they have no fund-raising apparatus, no policy traps. they are not likabl
enthusiasm? oh, sure, i mean the democrats are killing it fund-raising wise, and i do think the energy there is as much anti-trump as anything. picking up on something my friend eddie said a minute ago. i do think the timing of senator warren pushing out her blood test is really not something that s helpful to democrats. it probably is helpful to republicans because it allows republicans to remind ourselves what we re against. but going into election day, i do think the democratic fund-raising apparatus is something we ve never seen in american political history, and for republicans to narrow that gap and to win in a lot of these competitive races, it s going to be about getting the base out, and it s going to be someone like dan donovan reminding everyone that he s the subcommittee chair on homeland security and he just modernized a fema bill and he was born and raised in staten island. we re going to start seeing the localization of these races in
of that committee not to go over to the white house, not to go over to the white house to tell the white house all the information that they had just gotten from that investigation. why can t both of you have a point by the way? hold on a second. why can t both of you have a point that you don t like that schiff goes out and talk to the media. nobody should be talking. you should keep it quiet to yourselves although he would argue i have to because these guys are lying to you, and that nina has a point, mike, that the chairman shouldn t be playing favorites with the white house when they re trying to oversee the white house, which he did overtly and now made clear that that s been his mission. and what i would say is you re right. the house intelligence committee has turned into a partisan circus. i don t deny that. i believe democrats play two games here. on one hand they say the president colluded with russia. we have to take this investigation seriously. there was clearly russia