david had mentioned tip and the gipper before. i got home from a trip overseas to find that book by a young up and coming political named matthews. it reminded me that in the old days, you know, as david was mentioning, you got things done even if you disagreed. tip o neill and my father were about as different as any two people could be. ideologically, personally, all of that. yet they understood that america can t stand still. the elections have consequences and the winners get to kind of enact their program and so, you know, you fight and all that sort of stuff, but things have to get done. thank you, ron reagan. you re looking good. coming up hillary or joe. the new book says the obama campaign seriously considered dumping joe biden for the ticket and putting on hillary.
i think we re going to be successful in stopping this court packing experiment and the country will be better for it. i think they ought to let their senators know that courts should not be partisan play things for any administration and ask president obama and the democratic majority leader to stop their court-packing effort. ron, john cornyn is an example of the tail wagging the dog. normal circumstances he would be a normal conservative. not a bad guy. normal person trying to do his job in washington leading his party to as many victories as they can get. all well and good. yet he begins to act more like that character sitting with him down there from texas. he begins to imitate like they all do. they all start talking like mike lee and rand paul because they re scared to death one of these will look over and see them and won t have averted
of this book that there was a set of focus groups taken, there was money spent to try to decide whether to dump the vice president who was close to bill daly personally and close to the president. they were that worried that they conducted all this research to dump him. and then they decided after getting the research, not deciding ahead of time we love this guy. but after the research saying it s not worth it. and take a lot of heat. that s what we know now as a fact. here s what i ll say first, chris. mark halperin and john heilemann have written this book in which they ve written a lot of explosive stuff and not any of it has been denied. daly didn t deny it. no. absolutely. he said it was true. so why did they do it and decide not to. i do actually buy some element of the daly argument which is, look, president obama wasn t in
can you get them excited as right wingers were in 2010 to destroy obama? after going through the shutdown, a near miss of a financial collapse in this country, a default. all this engineered not by crazy movements in the market but by deliberate decision making by the party that basically screwed this economy. they were sitting here planning to do that until they finally lost heart in what they were doing. do you think that will drive enough democrats to the polls next year to offset what happened in 2010? yes. right now we have the wind at our back. the wind is being propelled by voters who have rejected this reckless republican behavior that was willing to put our economy at risk. and hurt the middle class financially in order to achieve a partisan objective. so independent voters, senior voters who know that the position going into our budget conference will be cut medicare but don t cut oil company subsidies. so seniors are with us. people have seen these republicans, these reckl
republicans at their worst. it is searing. they feel it and i believe that we re going to see a significant momentum going into the midterm elections. thank you so much. steve israel of new york chairman of the democratic congressional campaign committee. right now to a former special assistant of president obama. danielle, i was struck as i often am i numbers. what i noticed the other day obviously it doesn t predict class or anything. but african-american bs as a large part of the population are very strong for the president s health care plan. this isn t just ethnic loyalty to the president. tell me why you think there s that strong measure of support for people s own interests or i think that s what s driving it for the health care plan as a group. right. well, i think they understand they cut through the noise they hear and realize the affordable care act will be a great benefit to them and their families. so i think that s what s driving