joe kottison. let s talk a little bit about this democratic scandal. joe, i ll start with you. it is unusual to see such an intermessy fight. we know that these happen between campaigns. to spill out into the open this way, is that the fault of the democratic national committee? i can t really tell if it s their fault or not. at some point people start issuing press releases, they start responding. they feel they have to get their response in the press was something else has come on. but had this been reveal some other way, had it leaked out instead of having the campaigns and the dnc discuss it openly, we would now be talking about how they tried to cover it up. right? the obsession with these process issues always cuts in two ways. either they are talking too much and they ve screwed up, or they re covering up. i think it worked out fine
give it to her. but ultimately it is going to be hers. it has been hers all the time and people will be brought together. to that point, the contrast with republicans, almost no matter which republican is nominated. right? because they are taking such similar positions. has hillary clinton s positioning to the left, to joe s point, that she s being moved to the left on domestic issues, does that complicate in any way a potential fight with republicans? no. if you look at the fact that trump was the only thing that was discussed did shall. about eight times. exactly. in raising the specter of a donald trump, no matter where hillary clinton is on the democratic side, the specter of a donald trump nominee is what is going to drive and in part, what s going to drive people to the polls. but i do think that the combinations of policies, whether mass incarceration, whether talking about black lives matter which barely came up last night. it barely came up last night but i kno