candidate to energize the full spectrum of the democratic base. i know i m the person to do that. jen ford has a new study out that shows young african-americans overwhelmingly identify with the democratic party and believe the democratic party is the party that cares for them so that is going for the democrats but as you said it s got to be a turnout game at the end of the day. part of the argument that i think a lot of political scientists are making and jason johnson was making this point last night, the way to turn out young voters is to make the case against trump. are you concerned that right now the democratic party is making a lot of cases against each other and not as many not really articulating clearly what threat trump poses to the united states? i said that two or three times last night. during the health care debate that s my point. we re seeming to forget, i think i used the words eyes on the prize. we have to keep focusing on who we re really fighting against. tha
be wary of attacking the obama record. build on it. expand on it. but there is little to be gained for you or the party by attacking a very successful and still popular democratic president. joining us now is karine jean-pierre and adrienne elrod. i m going come to you first, karine, because that was your boss they were talking about last night. indeed. did you have the same reaction that eric holder had to the way things went down? exactly, i had the same exact reaction. we were even talking about it yesterday while we were watching the debate. it was kind of shocking to see. look, no one s record is above scrutiny or debate. no one is saying that, right? i think that it s fair to ask questions about deportation. it s fair to try and change the health care system. all of that is fair. i m giving political advice, right? the political advice is it is not a smart strategy to go after the democrat who s the most
never mind that when california needed help, trump threatened to stop sending them money. but with putin, it s an altogether different carton of kittens. vlad expressed his sincere gratitude for what, at least according to the kremlin, was a call that happened, quote, at the american side s initiative. moscow called the chummy phoner a sign that full-scale bilateral relations will be restored in the future and promised that the tlum trump/putin bromance could continue with telephone conversations as well as personal meetings. but timing is everything. that announcement from the kremlin about trump s chitchat with putin came shortly before the democratic candidates took the stage in detroit for the debate. it took the white house four hours to acknowledge that the phone call took place. when they did, the readout was a scant two sentences, nothing to see here. but they did not discuss
the debate last night in detroit, it was pretty clear that vice president joe biden was sure to have an enormous kick me sign on him. that was expected. surprisingly, it was president barack obama s legacy that also took a few blows. you saw it when julian castro went after the veep over the high number of deportations during the obama years. first of all, mr. vice president, it looks like one of us has learned the lessons of the past and one of us hasn t. let me begin by telling you let me just start out by answering that question. my immigration plan would also fix the broken legal immigration system because we do have a problem with that. secondly, the only way that we re going to guarantee that these kinds of family separations don t happen in the future is that we need to repeal this law. what we need are politicians that actually have some guts on this issue. new york mayor bill de blasio also hammered biden under deportations under obama. did you say those
debate really is over whether to replace the affordable care act with something else, something better, something different, and not focused really on donald trump? no, i think we ve got to realize where we are. we are so far away from this game. in football parlance, we haven t even started preseason games yet. this is the august two-a-days. i m sure that we have a lot of time to winnow down this field. there s only seven of us that have made the september debate stage. i think this will get more on a fine point. especially when you start coming out of those two early primary states and get ready to head towards nevada and south carolina, you ll see a very small group of us still there. so a lot of the hand wringing right now over what s happening in the summer over these debates, that doesn t speak to our party. i think the themes by the way, the policy plans are really important, but remember, we have not always seen the person with the best policy plans become the president of