unlike you i expect you would go ahead and say whatever was said privately with him. that s not what i do. okay. obviously there are times he was willing to talk about what he talked about. but look he fought wak, slammed de blasio. keith what do you make of that though? did joe biden handle this effectively? i think it was an okay answer. basically it s okay to criticize president obama or to push for more progressive record than what president obama was able to achieve. it s not a smart political tactic in the middle of a campaign when president obama is the most popular democratic figure. 83% popularity when he left office among democrats. i think it s higher now. that s who is relevant in a democratic primary. exactly. if i were bill de blasio i would spend my time attacking donald trump, attacking joe biden. kamala harris, attacking anybody except barack obama. bus that doesn t help you at all
added we women of color have faced this for such a long time. we re in a body of mainly old white men. you don t get to be here without having dealt with that most people. and nadeam, you mentioned this before. maybe you can elaborate on this. pelosi seems to feel she is channeling a broader sentiment in the caucus. within specifically the congressional progressive caucus, does pelosi feel she is actually speaking for a majority of members of the congressional progressive caucus here? well, i think she is speaking for the majority of her members, if not a large majority of her members. nobody has a more progressive record than nancy pelosi when it comes to actually enacting legislation. there is a difference between being an advocate and a legislator, you know. what nancy pelosi is, she is a legislator and an advocate both. i think what she is trying to communicate to these members, these progressive members who have been elected from great districts with a lot of support is this. us
and come out of no fwhr a presidential election why can t i, and that s what we re seeing even from bill de blasio. he does have a strong progressive record of getting results in new york, everything from $15 minimum wage to health care for everyone and pre-k for free for a lot of young families but at the same time as trump said in his tweet there are a number of reasons why new yorkers and other americans don t think that he s done a great job because there s a big homelessness challenge in new york city, even though the crime rate is low, it s still a challenge for him to be able toe defend his record on everything from the subway to making sure that inequality is not out of control in that city so he does face long odds in part because of his record but trump faced long odds because he didn t have a background in politics and he won. trying to sell himself i
new name. robert francis of work. it s a good name! chris: so they mostly with one notable exception. take a look. and most progressive record of anybody running. anybody that would run. chris: that was last night. he then tried to correct himself. how certain are you that joe biden is going to run and how do you assess his strengths and his potential weaknesses if he does? first will how certain, 95 percent. but is joe biden. five percent is still not zero percent. i things very likely it was a very telling clip that you showed. this field which we ve been discussing is not fully formed until joe biden is in or out. and most likely is going to be in. he will test the proposition of how much change democrats really want this time? do they want someone who is transformational? mayor pete would certainly be a completely different kind of candidate. or do they want some
in, 90% assurity. 27% on biden, bernie moving along quite nicely and closing the gap, much wider gap than a month ago, let s take a look at joe biden s history here, he does have a very bipartisan history as he calls himself very progressive but these are some more conservative bills that he has supported in the past, bankruptcy reform, drug bill, defense of marriage act back in 1986. i mean, when he calls himself a progressive, do you buy it? a lot of those, look at it, most of those things president trump is more progressive than he is. that s the irony, president trump has more progressive record. look at the crime bill, he was the chief sponsor, joe biden, president trump did criminal justice reform which overturned most what are seen as racist laws, look at the iraq vote, joe