want to make arguments against each other and part of the primary process is having it out? i think so. we should have it out on policy. i have a lot of differences with my fellow primary folks from everything like gun licensing all the way to having a bold plan on criminal justice reform. but we have to do it in a way that learns from the lessons of last time. this is not going to be an election any of us can win alone. we need to unify this party and the way we talk about people we have to be careful because it says more about what kind of leader we re going to be than they re going to be. what were the lessons of last time? there were a lot of lessons of last time. mitt romney excuse me, donald trump got about the same number of votes as mitt romney. and we shellacked mitt romney. fewer than mitt romney. there was something wrong with us having all democrats all hands on deck all activated to stop this dumpster fire that is the presidency of donald trump. if we re going to b
going to do what i want to do. and syria, erdogan came out and said that as pompeo was on his way over there. so what s the point of this? and i thought that was mayor pete s strongest defense tonight. and you know, you re right, eugene, that he is kind of smooth in the way he communicates. he s not rough around the edges. but there s an eloquence to it. he s got the eloquence. and i do think that there is some that his eloquence actually is authentic. i think he is it s a little bit like barack obama. that barack obama had an ability when he was speaking, especially in speeches, to kind of soar and inspire people. and i think mayor pete may do that. and listen no, look nobody had a really bad night tonight. i want to say that. nobody had a really bad night tonight. elizabeth, while she was you know, was getting atacked, it was tough for her, but she does really well at making her point.
you have to have relationships across the aisle ultimately. and i m good at that. it s what s made me an effective senator. it s what s going to make me an effective president. senator cory booker of new jersey. good to have you. thank you very much. good to see you. good to see you too. senator, did you bring a plus one to ohio or are you just rolling the way you normally roll? shameless. shameless. we ve got a couple of us here from new jersey tonight. hey, listen, we have a competition on corybooker.com to have dinner with the two of us. so you could actually win that competition if you donate five bucks. touche. you got me back. senator, thank you very much. i just figured alicia s from new jersey, i m from new jersey. kind of evens up can i get your dig on since i got fired from the view you thought you had to tell me who that was? i was just helping i knew. thanks. steve kornacki has prepared a segment for us that rides on
i think polling on this will be an interesting thing to watch because i think when you see american allies getting slaughtered in the middle east the wisdom card becomes a more important one to be able to play and no one gets to play it the way joe biden gets to play it. and i think his answer tonight, i was just looking at the transcript, vice president biden, if you re elected you ll turn 80 during your first term. last month jimmy carter said he could not have undertaken the duties of the presidency at 800 years old. why are you sure you re can? and biden says because i watched, it i know what the job-s i ve been engaged. look, one of the reasons i m running is because of my age and my experience. with it comes wisdom. and if there s one thing that whomever the democrats settle on can take to the entire electora electorate, it s wisdom. i just put a 6 in front of my age. i m big on wisdom suddenly. but eugene, this is in the eye of the beholder. no, it is. and that s why those n
back out to the spin room in ohio we go. senator harris of california with chris hayes. thank you, brian. senator harris, there are a number of times tonight where you brought up reproductive rights. yes. reproductive choice. you said something that i heard a number of other folks say about codifying roe into law. yeah. what do you mean by that? it means not only would it be supreme court precedent, not only would it be something that should be enforceable in our court, but it would be enforceable in terms of the law of the land. like a federal statute? as a federal statute. and in that way we could obviously attach then all of the federal conditions that go on to what we do around state funding and what we do in terms of public health funding to make sure that no state legislature can just basically undo the important aspects of roe v. wade, because be clear about something. the concern that i have is not necessarily that we have to wait for the united states supreme c