scrape away the top i laer i think everything wants peace. reporter: is it needed on the campaign trail. it is needed on the cane. we are the people for the people. that s what we need. not no rich man, poor man, but for the people. they promised to take on corruption. instead, they have racked up enough indictments to field a football team. reporter: while obama is breaking press didn t by criticizing a sitting president so soon after leaving office himself, some here want even more of it. challenge them, call them out. if something is lie, call it a lie. i think that obama has been doing that, which is great to see. reporter: for one voter here, this is really personal. will barack obama s presence in this race and here today influence your vote? i believe that it will. reporter: we picked her randomly out of the crowd. at the end of our interview when i finally asked her name it sounded strangely familiar. what sor name? my name is francis gillum.
same thing an anti-semitic man shouted as he killed 1 is people in a synagogue a week ago. the pittsburgh gazette reads magnified and sankified be your name. pittsburgh s marry joins us shortly to talk about that. first we want to take a closer look at what is essentially the president s closing argument before the mid terms. an ad from his own campaign that the president promoted on twitter. earlier today in west virginia, the president defended the ad. then they gave me a hard time because i put it up on twitter. and they gave me a hard time. they said you shouldn t be doing that. that s not nice. and i say all i am doing is just telling the truth. what can i tell you. just telling the truth. keeping him honest, the ad which focuses on a true lee deranged mexican man a convicted cop
addressed to dhs and i.c.e. on the obamacare care question, one of the criticisms on this is that there is still a de facto individual mandate because it allows insurance companies to increase premiums up to 30% if there is a gap in coverage. and i have one more. that s not i mean that s not i mean, the difference is under the current bill that s here, if you don t buy insurance, you pay a fine. under the current bill, you don t have there is nothing that mandates you to buy insurance. that s up to an individual. so i mean, by its very division it is not can t be considered that. what sor second one? i mean, you don t think it is a defacto mandate in the sense there is a penalty in place as there is now? not by the government but by insurance companies. no. i think you answered your own question on that one. i have one more.
is going smoothly and then lashing out at the new york times for the or thing. otherwise he would not have to do that. what sor take on this? i think it is a mistake by donald trump to try to intimidate the press. that s what he is trying to do with the new york times. he is trying to intimidate the new york times. and having said, i m not sure it is a really big story what is happening with this transition. he has every right to use social media. but the vibrations you are getting out of president-elect trump and those around him is hostility toward the press. i think what i said on the program last name i was here, the history of great presidents, theodore roosevelt, franklin roosevelt, ron reagan, jack kennedy, go down the list, they have been they get along with the press. they challenge the press. they don t give the press everything they want. but the record of presidents who begin with hostility toward the press, the richard nixon years come to mind, indicates it lesse
is throwing a wrench into trump s foot hold there. what sor take on utah potentially being in play? well, i think it is in play, because evan mcmullon, who is a mormon, and attended big ham young university has close ties to the state. the mormon population, custom is a major part of that state s politics, has been very cold to donald trump. mitt romney, the most prominent political leader from that community has been very hard on donald trump. and evan mcmullen is a good safety valve for republicans who are looking for a way out of supporting donald trump and aren t comfortable with hillary clinton. this could be really a significant story if this race continues to tighten because donald trump could win he could win florida, win ohio, he