trump in the general elections, is it a strength psychologically among democratic voters right now a candidate would get into a controversy regardless what the controversy is about and not back down. do democrats see an ingredient there that would match up well with trump maybe wouldn t have looked at in the past? i don t know if we want to deal with too broad a brush there. the president demonstrated you don t apologize. and biden saying i would be admitting an error. he can be summed up as familiarity. a long resume and around a long time. somebody asked him earlier in the campaign, what kind of democrat are you? i m an obama-biden democrat, man. that s the association he wants.
very very bad for him, given there are so many other options who have said made exactly this argument, that his time has passed in terms of policies he stood for and stands for and more subtly, he s moving up there in years. if i could say briefly, one of the things we should not underestimate is the value joe biden has to the democratic party as an organization. some of the other top tier candidates, sanders ran against the party. elizabeth warren is not seen as a product of the party. joe biden can, through some eyes, help the party infrastructure. there are others of color who have gained political economic power through the party apparatus and he is seen as a guy obama didn t necessarily support the party infrastructure and that carries a lot of weight for voters. biden has been around so
outside the circle of civilized attitude towards the children. it sounds like the speaker thinks she has the votes she needs from her caucus to pass this. she s running into democrats in some cases don t trust this administration. they think if they cut a check here and put emergency money forward, who s to say how the administration will spend it. they want certain asked of hygienic and some on deportation and how it will be ironed out with the senate. do you agree with what nancy pelosi said. if house democrats don t vote on this, it is a vote for donald trump? i do. i absolutely agree with her. i also agree with the theme echoed here among everyone, which is what will actually change even if democrats vote for this and with the resignation we ve just seen.
there is nothing that keeps this president accountable, not just bureaucracy but bad behavior and speaking from the oval office about a lot of these allegations. that s really the concern i have, issue of accountability and that work isn t getting done. that s a problem democrats are going to have to tackle, assuming we take back the office in 2020, to undo all of what he hasn t done. is that a message democrats will try to run to voters, talking about the way the administration is run, interim versus permanent? is that too insider? i hope not for their sake. it s remarkable speaking about messaging from the white house and outside of it. remarkable the ways democrats and members of congress have failed to capitalize on this president s missteps and mistakes, horrific behavior, the mueller report. they really need a narrative to be pushed. they need to be on point.
that. here s the key take away. even if this all works out and democrats get some language putting conditions in there, it s not going to fundamentally change what is essentially a pipeline from the border into these facilities of young children versus a pipeline into the homes of friends and family. i think we have to keep explaining to people why this is happening for it to truly be addressed. why this is happening is because it is not a bug, it is a feature that these children are being separated. i take you back to a year ago, when then attorney general jeff sessions said this was going to be a good deterrent. since then we ve seen conditions continue but situations in these facilities deteriorate. we re seeing no oversight. we re seeing the president saying he s not happy about it but it is a direct result of the