most important question, i asked you if you believed you were ready to be president right then, right now if it came to that. you looked me right in the eye and said one-word answer, you said yes, without equivocation. it made me wonder, thinking back on that today, if you ve been planning on running yourself ever since, or if you knew then that you could have run in 2016, that maybe you were ready for this all along. it s not a question of are you ready, it s a question of what the country needs. at that moment, we were already down to the wire, we knew who our candidates were. and we were in the fight. and now, we re in a very different place. we ve lived through two years of donald trump as president. and we re to the point, we have lived through two years of one scammer and grifter after another, running federal agencies, running our federal government. and we have lived through two more years of giant tax
different place. we ve lived through two years of donald trump as president. and we re to the point, we have lived through two years of one scammer and grifter after another, running federal agencies, running our federal government. and we have lived through two more years of giant tax giveaways to the billionaires, to big corporations. and a harder and harder squeeze on working families. student loan debt is up another $100 billion since over just the last year. you know, it s like the thing is tilted badly in favor of the rich and the powerful, and against everyone else. and the tilt is getting steeper and steeper, and that s why we have to be in this fight. i highlighted when i brought you on before the break, i highlighted the consistency of your message and how you were an academic expert before you were efficient a political figure. you were a policy person in washington before you were ever