jessica karloff, democratic strategist and fox news contributor. jessica let me start with you. what took so long for the obama s in the clintons and the democratic machine, as represented in some way by donna brazile there? i m not sure what took them so long. this is an easy one, it was a give me for many people to come out or majority of people to come out when we heard the access hollywood tape. hillary clinton has been a champion for women s rights, tim kane came up this morning is said there s no excuse for this. i m not completely sure what was going through her head right now. she s not running for reelection or election at this point. you can only be praised for making a statement like that unless night she was giving a speech and i wish it had come from her own mouth at that time. martha: interesting. it s interesting that she was speaking last night and that she didn t mention it at that point. dana, harvey weinstein back in 2009 says hollywood has the best moral compass
if you cannot in a moment like this you cannot put shoulders on any woman. you are a fool and a liar if you think these people aren t aware of it. you think meryl streep was okay i went in getting raped by harvey weinstein? people were quiet about it at the betterment of their own careers. as a woman i find it sickening that women were victimized must be what i ve got to go, ladies. what about donald trump and? s on camera and there was audio, you just grab her by the the all the women who accused him? martha: with article, ladies. thank you very much, good to have both of you here. obviously this is a very emotional subject for all of us. i would say that there are in the situations sometimes people who don t know what is going on and we really cannot cast aspersions on them if we don t know for a fact that they were hiding the fact that they know. thanks to dana and thanks to jessica, good to see you both tonight.
the conversations between obama and the lawmakers and party leaders are said to vary. i want to go to david first on this. what do you think about president obama assuming this messaging role behind the scenes. is that a good place for him to be at. he did a pretty job of messages for his own campaign. it is a good spot for republicans. no president can match president obama s record of endorsing candidates who ultimately go on to lose. as the ones helping to lead the efforts to help stop president obama, i say we welcome his involvement, it is going to make it harder for jessica and her team. i think there is a pretty broad consensus among the american people, president obama s campaign messaging was a lot better than the governing.
it was too moderate for you at the last block. for all of this outrage by the media, it s a complete misunderstanding and in idiocy that the media and of the president have not gotten along since day one. thomas jefferson owned newspapers to attack his political opponents. somehow this is all new that the media and the president have never been involved, it is a complete misunderstanding. during the 1930s, the flip side. jessica, go for it. he s the president of the united states of america, i remember the good old days when president obama used to be criticized because he wore a tan suit when he thought he should be in navy. or that he used selfies. there was outrage over these things? the selfie stick for the interview, that he was embarrassing the country for
there is something missing from the whole announcement that he is going to be doing this, what is the message he is going to be brought into cell? democrats haven t figured that out, have they? jessica? what if you had a chance to craft a message, what would the focus be? with the top issue? i certainly think the economy and it is absolutely not we are not donald trump, i think that is a nonstarter. not because people will turn out for donald trump. that economy is turning around under drum. there are a lot of gains that were made under the obama administration. unemployment is 4.3%, he took over at 4.8%. there are a lot of things you can talk about, people don t want to be lectured. that s what has gone wrong for people on the local level, state and national level even. i think democrats really have to compose a hopeful, positive