moment. he has to piggy back on the crowds. one thing are there any martin o malley placards here? all three candidates agree on the same policies. he is hoping he can make his pitch to them. he is a young guy and say i have executive experience to deliver. he spotted early on, spotted the opening existence to the left of hillary clinton. it was on economic populism and relationship between establishment. if that is the opening bernie sanders who has done this stuff for 40 years you are not going to outbernie sanders bernie sanders. i want you to agree on something. it seems if you have a political
at the risk of getting a hostile crowd going behind us one of the challenges that bernie sanders is going to have is that the case that has been made on his behalf by his supporter has included not exactly friendly confrontations with african-americans over whether or not black people ought to be feeling the burn. the interactions particularly on black lives matter between bernie sanders supporters and african-americans have not helped him because there has been a certain aspect of african-americans i have talked to a lot who feel lectured by sanders supporters who say he marched with king and therefore that is not a sufficient argument for african-americans. african-americans asked two questions, are you on our side policy wise, can you win? those are the two questions that he has to answer. again speaking for an
desperate or just getting a level he ought to be at in the campaign? i think bernie sanders has an imperative after the two states which he has a natural advantage, iowa and new hampshire he runs into a very big problem which is that south carolina is a state in which more than half of the electerate is african-american and he doesn t have much support there. hillary clinton can claim a firewall here because she can claim a massive victory and roll that. let me ask you a question. is it true a lot of communities, minority communities, jewish people for example have to know you. it helps to be the second and third generation. a little suspicious of the newcomer is that a problem with bernie? if you are a newcomer it helps to be a newcomer in the way bill clinton was in 92.
he has missed huge opportunities to raise his idea. the baltimore moment martin o malley vanished. reporters couldn t get him to talk. he should have done an interview and gone on the streets of his city that he was the mayor of and defended the policies that people were telling me on the street were to blame for what was happening. he wouldn t defend himself at the moment when he had the maximum opportunity. would he have them strike. he would have had to defend himself or repudiate. he should have defended himself. there are two ways to get name i.d. you is to take your opportunities. i think bernie sanders is much the same position. you take your opportunities. that would have been if he can turn that situation to a plus. tonight thunderstorm kind of
that is not the best. william westmoreland disappeared from the story. i think he brought him up again tonight. in that byte he said i don t remember his name whereas the book says westmoreland. i think it is fading. thank you steve kornacki for your vigorous defense of a range of possible interpretations. am i right? possible interpretations. thank you. thanks myself for this. in about 45 minutes the first in the south democratic candidates forum will begin right here. my colleague rachel maddow will interview each of the candidates in the race. bernie sanders, martin o malley, hillary clinton. at the end of the forum i will be here with all of the reaction