question out of the way at first. i want to go back to what you mentioned about elizabeth warren and to some of michael s comments about, you know, these voters who are republican but they might be open to voting for a democrat. listen, if you are even considering voting for donald trump, you are emphatically not who democrats need to be targeting. i think democrats need to focus on dancing with the people who brung them and that s the democratic base. the people who overwhelmingly support democratic candidates. i think appealing to the mythical swing voters is a mistake, they don t exist and we have to get out of that. i think this is what happens when you have moderators who e are, you know, long standing members of the beltway chatter class asking questions. a lot of the questions asked last night don t really speak to a lot of what i think the american people are talking about. very little questions or zero questions on and there are no swing voters. tiffany, i don t know wha
a great game. the whole town is alive. it s going to be even better when we win a world series here. don t jinx it. thank you. we will celebrate. good day, i m andrea mitchell in washington, which is celebrating. but we re awaiting the president s press conference with italy s president on a day when mr. trump is already refusing to accept blame for turkey s incursion into syria despite the call with turkey s president, saying it s not our problem, we are not a policing agent, his words. i wish them a lot of luck. if russia wants to get involved with syria, that s really up to them. they have a problem with turkey, they have a problem at the border, it s not our border. we shouldn t be losing lives over it. the president will meet later today with speaker pelosi and other bipartisan leaders at the white house about the crisis in syria which now has russia taking the upper hand and
defend himself stronger. even going after the fellow democrats at times. look at this particular exchange with beto o rourke. i don t need lessons from you on courage, political or personal. everyone on this stage is determined to get something done. everyone on this stage recognizes or at least i thought we did that the problem is not other democrats who don t agree with your particular idea of how to handle this. the problem is the national rifle association and their enablers in congress and we should be united in taking the fight to them. what do you make of that new mayor pete buttigieg that we saw last night, the new side of mayor pete? i think candidates are going to have to get a bit scrappy and come out and distinguish themselves from each other. this is the democratic primary, they re not running against donald trump but against each other. so i think it s totally fine. we can t stand on the stage and sing kumbaya. it s challenging when you have the audience because the
when you whittle out the lower tier and a lot of them aren t on the same stage at the same time, i think you ll see a much different dynamic. but the conversation the next few days is about his stumble. i think beto is the biggest winner. nobody is talking about him messing up the first debate. joe biden overtook the headlines. we are all winners because we got to see eric swalwell and mary ann embarrass themselves on stage last night don t you say it. it is about love and compassion. what happens to those we re not talking about? whether tim ryan or john delaney. john delaney was good. the only other one in the biden lane. the lane of actually trying to win a general election and not trying to compete to see who is a true progressive. do you think john delaney was quietly building things brick by
the question is, what is the requirement for both u.s. and iran. iran is trying to defend their territory. the u.s. is pushing the envelope in the straits trying to keep it open for the 30% of the world s oil. there s no real easy solution to what kind of proportional response between doing nothing to all-out war that you can have in this particular situation. okay. well, that s worrisome. the president says last night don t worry about a thing. nothing to worry about here. yeah. i think if he had the chance, he d take that back. but i think it feels to me from a political, geopolitical point of view that iran is testing this president. the president has never had a test like this. we ve we ve had a two and a half year period without an incident where the president had to use judgment on what a response would be. what a proportional response would be opposed to what the rhetoric is. so this will be a big test. you know, and unfortunately if