massachusetts senator elizabeth warren changing her twitter handle, it s now ewarren, some speculate she s shifting focus away from massachusetts. warren has said she will think about running for the white house after the midterms. time now for the good, the bad and the ugly, up first is always the good, korean war veteran surprised with 4 medals after service. you keep putting medals, i won t be able to stand on. [laughter] this is great recognition. i didn t expect this at all. heather: don, a u.s. army veteran from wisconsin received the new medals in front of dozens of family members. and now the bad, sleep texting now consuming americans, villanova university study finding nearly 25% of students text in their sleep, 75% of them don t even remember doing it. i ve actually done that before
strong enough to be the commander in chief. most of her divorces believe people know she s strong enough. it s what would she do for you? this is just the first of many things like this. we ll see. take a look at this poll coming to us from bloom better politics. democrats and independence voters overwhelmingly say it would be good if she faces serious competition, a serious contender in the primary. do you agree? is that better for her in the long run? sure. in the long run, i think it would be better for her. it would probably make her a better presidential candidate in her own right, but it would also be easier to run against some specific person with a specific record rather than the idea of someone else the idea of a pop you list a liberal. elizabeth warren is much harder to run against than some concrete person. warren has said again and again she s not running, but a lot of advisers wince they were running
might challenge hillary clinton, anyway, and i think they re going to speak about the same kind of issues warren is. i think warren can really lead the party and affect the primary and affect what hillary clinton is saying even if she s not in the race, herself. and aisha, just quickly, couple names from perry bacon. do you want hillary clinton to face some kind of a challenge in 2016? i mean, we know the competition is healthy, right? i would say, you know, what i want is not necessarily what the democratic party strong hold would want. at the end of day, there are a lot of people out there throwing money into a potential hillary clinton race at this point. i think that the thing to remember is that the coffers are already being staffed for a hillary clinton at this time. it would be interesting to see what would happen if the fund-raising apparatus if other people jumped into. thank you, perry bacon, aisha moodie-mills. when i return, let me finish with the one thing that cou
hearts are decidedly with elizabeth warren. warren has said she s not running, but the enthusiasm for a warren candidacy is driven in part for a candidate to carry the populist mantle. the washington post reported over the weekend that even as hillary clinton looms as the overwhelming favorite for the 2016 democratic nomination, the party s base is stirring for a primary fight. there s a pining for someone else and a medley of ambitious democrats are making moves. perry bacon, senior political reporter with nbc news, aisha moodie-mills with the center for american progress. perry, as best you can, if you can put the size of this movement on the left, the size of this movement in the democratic party that thinks hillary clinton is an unacceptable nominee in 2016, that wants elizabeth warren, that wants somebody else, anybody else, how big is that now compared to what that movement was in 2006, 2007, and the last time she ran? much, much smaller. i mean, i think we re talking about
warren has said she s not running but she does have a new book out next week about her vision for the nation s future. bill clinton s former strategist says there s little appetite for a liberal challenge to clinton outside the far left blogosphere. not anything to mount a real serious challenge right now. reporter: that s a reference to the likes of vermont senator bernie sanders who visited the first primary state of new hampshire last weekend and says he s not afraid to challenge clinton. martin o malley just signed a law decriminalizing small amounts of marijuana possession has been quietly campaign forge months. some liberals have encouraged howard dean and jerry brown to run, but not a single poll shows a democrat even remotely competitive with clinton. not even the vice president. thank you. chelsea clinton is pregnant. the former first daughter made