does it? historians say, not so much. lots to cover. this is saturday night politics. all right, we have a fantastic group of brilliant minds here tonight. but before i introduce them as a tip of the hat to my former buddy, keyword former buddy, trump, it s time to go to wall. think of it as our fourth guest. i love this threesome tonight and first the great 32 years in congress, head of the house financial services committee. we need your plain talk now more than ever, and we re going to get it tonight and thank you for being with us. a real privilege to have you here. thank you. one of the great communication minds. ran hillary s 2016 communication
i saw somebody on twitter go i m a bernie guy and liked the town halls but after i heard elizabeth warren say why it was a bad idea i m for her. i think it s interesting. i think we all kind of thought the democrats are going to elect their trump, somehow the democrats were going to repeat the sort of behavior, the dynamic the republicans had on their side four years ago. that s never what happens. we saw bernie as that person but he seems to be slipping. you ve obviously worked with bernie over the years. i think he s going to slip dramatically. is he going to stick around, though? i think he will. she s a very stubborn guy. i was very critical of him last time. look, he was not an effective senator. part of his problem is elizabeth warren got more done in public policy for the left as a citizen than bernie s done as a senator. he s an advocate out there by himself. and in 2016 the anger that produced trump, the unfair criticism for hillary, that gave him a base. but i think he wa
committee. we need your plain talk now more than ever, and we re going to get it tonight and thank you for being with us. a real privilege to have you here. thank you. one of the great communication minds. ran hillary s 2016 communication campaign. it was not your fault. it was comey s fault. the numbers were going through the roof up until ten days before and then fell off. and my good friend, the great ari melber. obviously host of the beat. nbc legal analyst, chief legal analyst for msnbc. and i want to start with a tupac quote for you because of those of you who don t follow ari, it is the 6:00 record, and tupac said do everything you can to make it over the system or out of the system. post mueller depression. mueller has finally spoken but does it change anything strategically for democrats? i think not. if we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime we would have said so. we did not, however, make a determination as to whether the
number, and i think he is losing people to elizabeth warren. i saw smkd on twitter go i m a bernie guy and liked the town halls but after i heard elizabeth warren say why it was a bad idea i m for her. i think it s interesting. i think we all kind of thought the democrats are going to elect their trump, somehow the democrats were going to repeat the sort of behavior, the dynamic the republicans had on their side four years ago. that s never what happens. we saw bernie as that person but he seems to be slipping. you ve obviously worked with bernie over the years. i think he s going to slip dramatically. is he going to stick around, though? i think he will. i was very critical of him last time. look, he was not an effective senator. part of his problem is elizabeth warren got more done in public policy for the left as a citizen than bernie s done as a senator. he s an advocate out there by himself. and in 2016 the anger that produced trump, the unfair criticism for hillary, that gave
i m on the board of the hospital where beau was treated, and they are finding miracles. the way that he bolstered meghan mccain in that clip, that s what he does, he does that to strangers all the time because he s been so touched by tragedy and now by cancer. the cancer community and many others, certain ly military families are drawn to him. and i ve seen that in him over and over. i think the book is a terrific book. if i can plug that for a holiday gift, promise me dad. anybody who s had to deal with loss, and we all have, anybody who s had to deal with cancer, i ve spent too much time in cancer wards, it s really a powerful testimony. it is pure joe biden. what this showed about joe biden was something i think democrats missed with hillary, which was his relatability. he s very relatable. that s why they called him uncle joe, even in his gaffes. we all know as republicans we would make fun of joe biden as a gaffe machine, get a chuckle out of it, but it made him human.