she connected her personal story and it worked, it was very effective. let s talk about your biggest losers. pete buttigieg. what about joe biden? he is one of your biggest losers of the night and use it bernie sanders. the facts artifacts, joe biden, so many people had high expectations for him. doesn t mean it is over. it wasn t a complete disaster but people expected him to perform better. same with bernie sanders repeating the same millionaires and billionaires line over and over repeatedly just won t work. he repeated the same thing from 2016. he can no longer just blame this on the system being rigged. you have some tough aggressive young, polished professionals who are going for the top seat so he has to do better, he can t take anything for granted. i put him in the losing category.
tone for infighting? i call it competition, we saw the same thing when 17 republicans went after each other. you have to compete for this. we are just getting along, all harmony, the top seat, that s how it should be. that the only reason i signed up to work with bernie sanders last time because it wasn t any competition. it was just hillary clinton. this is exactly what it should be. it should be multiple candidates duking it out willing to throw a punch and also willing to take a hit and bounce back. they asked who the top priority, what their top priority would be as soon as they win the presidency. what do you think of the responses to that? the moderators asking give your top priority as president of the united states, i think a lot of candidates tried to make things right that were important to them but asking one thing
for the top seat could be accused of just one of these things is just not heard of. there s been a lot of criticism of the media from some people, some write, viewers that this has been underplayed. we have been reporting on it, and jean carroll did her first interview with lawrence o donnell, and joy ann reid but the new york times was criticized internally and externally for not reporting on this. the new york times executive editor, the top editor says that the times was overly kaurcaution their reporting on carroll s allegations, the fact that a well known person was making a public allegation against a sitting president should have compelled us to play it bigger, so this is an acknowledgment by the new york times that they underplayed the story. good on him first of all, for apologizing. but isn t this whole scene also an example of how we have really reached the pinnacle moment of
degrading their lives. defeating the climate crisis. that s jay inslee s big idea. harry smith, nbc news, iowa. lucky us, joining us now, nbc news correspondent harry smith, himself harry, welcome. a new nbc news poll found that the third most important issue for democratic voters in 2020 is climate change. governor inslee wants to make it number 1 and then when you get yourself down to republicans, it s a much lesser priority. right. can he use this to get himself to the top seat? he sure has devoted a good portion of his life to this. and you hear him talk. he speaks about these issues in a very informed way. in a very passionate way. personal way. from a personal way. especially, when you think about how serious it actually is, lots of other issues swimming around out there. he is the one with the clarion call like no more than the green if you deal, we ve got to act
doesn t get the answer he wants on the first proposal. there were absolutely five, but the boys had lost their mother and their sister and i had to be 100% sure that it was going to last till death to us part. biden marries jill, who has launched a teaching career, and they have a daughter, ashley. as joe s political star rises in washington, he sets his sights on the top seat. coming up you were on the verge of dying, weren t you? yeah. [cell phone rings] where are you? well the squirrels are back in the attic. mom? your dad won t call an exterminator. can i call you back, mom? he says it s personal this time. if you re a mom, you call at the worst time. it s what you do.