precisely such a person. her name is elizabeth warren. they make the comparison to bill de blasio, kind of indicating maybe a liberal s time has come. what do you think about that? i think the big question as that article raises is if not hillary, who? is it warren? can she actually excite that passion among that obama coalition? latinos, african-americans, young people, women. it s not clear to me whether or not she s just a boutique candidate right now. and if she s just a boutique candidate, can she essentially become a super store type candidate in the way that you already see that hillary clinton is, in the way that obama was able to do with that grassroots organization. it s you know, i think the big question for democrats right now is that they do seem to have all of their eggs in the hillary basket and on the right you have somebody like chris christie, who is very much a breath of fresh air. i think warren is more of a breath of fresh air, but she is i think she s 15 yea
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say yes, just say yes but she didn t give a direct answer. let s look at some of what s behind the talk of inevitability. of course the fund-raising prowess, the organization, the early endorsements. but that s what everybody thought in 2008. and a new republic piece asks the provocative question is hillary s nightmare a democratic party that realizes its soul lies with elizabeth warren. let me bring in jonathan allen, and a politics reporter for the washington post. good morning. good morning. so let s start with hillary because she s touring the country doing speaking engagements. she s racking up political chips. let me read this piece. anyone who lived through 2008 knows that inevitable candidates have a way of becoming distinctly evitable.
trial. and she almost stunned the room into silence at that point. jonathan, that video has been viewed online a million times. he s almost like this media sensation in that for somebody who speaks as quietly as she does, there s a number of videos about her that have gotten multimillion hits. what is it about her? well, she s certainly got a following. you know, the progressives are putting out bumper stickers that say i come from the elizabeth warren wing of the democratic party. look, i think she s speaking to a core value of the democratic base, of the liberal base that wealth has been concentrated in the hands of too few and that it should be it should be shared more evenly across the country. and i think that as a result of that, she s definitely connected with a lot of americans, and particularly with the liberal wing of the democratic party. that said, it s not clear yet that that s enough. barack obama had very strong rhetoric when it came to wall street but as president