i don t think the ease of winning the nomination is necessarily the best path to the white house, but there is no real front-runner right now. joe biden is the closest thing you have to it. this will be a chaotic race and i think voters will be heard. i think there will be a lot of surprises. we ve said it before, eugene, the idea because i m sure i haven t looked at twitter. i m sure i m getting smoked, why are you talking about 2020. this is when people are staffing up, that s legitimately true. i talked to one person who said, listen, this is when they re hiring, campaigns are looking at who they want involved, which strategist. this is a key time when people go home over the holidays to think about it and talk about it with their families. we will see some movement next year. indeed. we see a lot of people in the base among the voters talking about 2020. they are looking at these three individuals but also looking at how they will choose for running with the office with the
joining me now for hillary clinton s 2016 presidential campaign and also with my is gabby and allen. so brian, let me start with you. sure. 2020 is a ways off but peopl got to make some decisions. they got to start staffing up, right? there s reporting that o rourke is set to meet with elizabeth warren s close adviser mindy myers. what do you make of that? mindy myers is somebody that will be a huge benefit to anybody that s able to sign her. i think she would be on the short list. there s only so many people capable of running a truly national campaign. mydy myers is one of those people. i don t think she s ever lost a race. won several statewide races successfully. it will be interesting if she ends up departing the warren camp. warren has a very seasoned team. that s one of the strong big assets she has. people like roger lau in massachusetts, she has a top
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strikes me that during in the last few days because of the funeral of president george h. w. bush people were talking about the need to return to civility and the need to return to bipartisanship and here we are, a few days later, and the first thing democrats do is start throwing up more roadblocks. dagen: mark real quick how many people has the white house are they hiring additional people for the counsel office there additional attorneys to handle what will be a tsunami of document requests coming from the likes of congressman jerry nadler? i can t speak to specific hiring plans. i can tell you that the new white house counsel has just recently taken over and come into office there were some vacancies in that transition so i m sure they are going to be staffing up in anticipation of an endless flurry of investigations and subpoenas because really, the democrats have not run on anything else. dagen: the new white house counsel will be a very very busy man. thank you very much mark l
legal team? what does it tell us? it tells us that they are going to the mattresses, preparing for a real battle. giuliani came in. emmet flood, i talked to several prominent lawyers say he is the guy to fend off impeachment or have an impeachment fight, going to the mattresses with the special council. i think that s where the head space of the trump administration is now, getting to the final rounds. we saw this, i think it may be the case, rob rosenstein and the mueller investigation, the comments we saw this week, sounded like a guy thinking that he had every reason to do what he has done so far, which i think would put fear in the white house. seems like they are taking it seriously and staffing up, if