opportunity and dignity. so let s talk about this. hillary roczen is a democratic strategist and amanda carpenter is a former communications director for ted cruz. nice to have you both with me this morning. hillary, is this a devastating ad put out by donald trump? will it matter? well there is two audiences here. trump is doing this not for the general election. he s doing this to try and increase his bona fide. he s among sort of clinton haters in the republican party. it probably helps him with a lot of those folks. but every time he does this he alienates general election voters. and the thing that persuades me the most of that is that the republican women some in the house and some other republican strategists are saying please
welcome both of you. david, it is mr. obama s final year in office. his state of the union is next week. why did he bother with this town hall? was a i think this is a forum that fits so well the kind of arguments he s trying to make. bring on more of these town halls. we have calm, reasoned conversation. different points of view. you may like him, you may not like him. but i think he teed it up that you could at least think it threw for yourself. best of for yourself. he is also now injected this issue of guns high into the presidential election conversation. it is going to be one of the pivotal issues. and now we re going to finally have a chance. let s put it to a vote. this is something that divides
interest that come up from the bottom and suddenly and when the president gives focus to it they get injected much higher up. and i think on this one we re going to have in the general election a clear set of differences and the person who wins that election can go for a amanda on this issue. mandate on this issue. unway or the other we have to get this settled. we need leadership here and the election gives a chance for a leader to step forward and say follow me this is the way we want to go. so andy do you agree with any of that? i absolutely agree with them. that for a general election issue this is going to be something that clearly defines democrats in republican positions. i find it curious that this was put forth during the primary season. and before the iowa caucuses and the new hampshire primary where it seems just to energize the bases of both parties, not really create that kind of