inauguration. here to help me understand, michelle goldberg, op-ed columnist from the new york times and adrian elrod, a spokesperson for the clinton campaign. so there are two parts of this. there is like the kind of activist core to find these campaigns and then the candidates. i want to start with the activist core, the people knocking on doors, signing up for volunteer shifts. you have been reporting on them. it s such an interesting phenomenon, and i think relatively undercovered compared to the tea party because it s big and it s happening everywhere. it s happening far from the coasts where you have these middle aged women who were maybe, you know, politically aware before they voted. maybe they voted in most primaries. didn t necessarily know what congressional district they lived in, and who were so horrified and scare and traumatized and humiliated by the victory of donald trump that they became political obsessives. i met these women in arizona who all of the sudden can
a binary choice, if they proceed with the election as state law requires, it wihe ll be the nex senator. what is your reaction to republicans, some of them in alabama, saying that roy moore as a republican is preferable to anyone with the word democrat beside their name. well, alabama has its fair share of extremists and obsessives, those being quoted, but the last acceptable bigotry if th in this country is contempt for the south. i think the contempt being shown for alabama, people accepting as sort of documentary evidence the hostile caricatures of southerners, it just wrong. it s a big complicated state with a big complicated history, and that s one reason why it will be healthy for this to go forward and let alabama choose and show what the majority of
republicans, some of them in alabama, saying that roy moore as a republican is preferable to anyone with the word democrat beside their name. well, alabama has its fair share of extremists and obsessives, those being quoted, but the last acceptable bigotry in this country is contempt for the south. i think the contempt being shown for alabama, people accepting as sort of documentary evidence the hostile caricatures of southerners, it just wrong. it s a big complicated state with a big complicated history, and that s one reason why it will be healthy for this to go forward and let alabama choose and show what the majority of alabamians look like. i have a feeling that alabama will pleasantly surprise a lot of people.
was trusted with this franchise and he did not disappoint, both for the star wars obsessives, the big fans and for the more casual fans. i am not even a casual fan. i will begin watching this weeked on my vacation, brian, thank you. have a great holiday. good to see you. from star wars to a war of words. rhetoric heating up between republican presidential candidates donald trump and jeb bush just moments ago. mr. trump wrapped up a rally in cedar rapids, iowa. you re looking at live pictures of all of those trump supporters. much more after this.
2007 you saw john mccain rise in december. you saw barack obama do well in iowa in december and january. i think we have a while to go before we can look at these polls and say this means so and so can win. i m kind of i sort of view i m still skeptical, bernie sanders, donald trump, ben carson are unlikely nominees for these parties, i think later on, people who may be down in the polls like jeb bush or rubio can still come back. it s still early, i mean, four years ago, it was rick perry in september, herman cane in october. newt gingrich in december and then mitt romney wins, we re still early in this process, we have another debate to go. the iowa caucus doesn t start until february. we have a long way to go with all the debates and infighting we re going to have. michelle, what do you think? absolutely agree, it may feel like we ve been doing this forever for political obsessives, most of america just