so, we know that the upcoming republican primary is going to be complete chaos. i mean, we ve already seen it. it already is chaos. by the time the voting starts, the republican front runner, donald trump, maybe facing four indictments. with at least some of those trials scheduled to start smack in the middle of the primaries. but now, the ex president is trying to distract voters from his mounting legal troubles and tarnish the person who would be his democratic rival, by using his on again, off again friend, speaker of the house kevin mccarthy, to float an impeachment inquiry into joe biden. so, what kind of political impact could this actually have? david plouffe served as the campaign manager for obama 2008 presidential run, he also served as a senior adviser to president obama. he was my boss many times over and he joins me now. hi, david. so, i just wanted to start, i mean, it s good to see you. i wanted to start just with discussing, i mean, sometimes even things that are for
deputy director of african-american outreach for the obama 2008 campaign. good to see you both. congressman, let me start with you. what s your sense of whether or not this could actually happen, particularly if senator manchin s hopes for republican support hold out and there are possibly ten republicans who would prevent this from being blocked? how does it look to you right now? well, joshua, this is a big task for joe manchin. for months he s been telling people he can get republicans, that the senate should work on consensus, trying to build consensus with republicans, at least moderate republicans. now he really has to deliver because it does seem that senator schumer and other democratic leaders have given him an opportunity to shape this legislation. so the pressure is now on for senator manchin to come up with these ten republicans that allegedly are going to vote for this legislation. by the way, the test is also for a lot of those swing state
i heard constantly that joe biden s time has passed. i can t tell you how many times i had women voters especially saying we don t want to vote for another old white man. that applied, by the way, to bernie sanders as well and not just the former vice president. yeah. what, i think, we re going to see from joe biden in the coming weeks and months is a real effort to build the largest ground operation in iowa. they re taking a page from the obama 2008 playbook, from the john kerry 2004 playbook and they re trying to identify voters who are unlikely to show up to the caucuses and get them out and convert a vote, if you will. they ve got a special team in chicago of volunteers texting the unlikely voters in iowa trying to get them to commit and then they ll send field organizers to follow up. biden s team, he s only been in the race for two and a half months now, his team is already at 50 people in iowa, which is among the larger sort of teams on the ground right now. they say they re
humane, illegal set of policies to carry out. the results are going to be horrible. emiyl: i wanted to ask if up until now at least fs has been reminiscent of obama 2008 which is the media skimming over the comments he has been making in favor of this persona? dana: it s the argument that a lot of the democratic candidates were making, who is this guy? you are not asking him any specific questions. you love his life story and he does have an amazing life story. i m surprised he made this money on heuristic errors in this town hall. the question about frank income i think what he was trying to do, i think he believes what he believes, but i also think he was trying to take a shot at kirsten gillibrand to the center from the work because there are democrats who say they will not give to her campaign because he forced resignation. he is pulling way lower than he