having the money to pay for it. not a joke. think about it. you thi think about what you thinkout. about you re going to have to make that all cement. you re going to use that as basis to build because you need security. you need stability for whatmaket you have and you re goinhaguse h to build up stories beyond i mean, this is incredible. atld on beurity. this is the united states ofa america, for god s sake. mr. president , here s how would you say your mental focus is which focused? nt, than i , i think it s i haverouble a look. i have trouble even mentioning even saying to myself, my own head, the number of years i knowing o
and of course now he s being tarred and feathered as some kind of traitor to the country, you know. i m happy to be seated here amongst fellow human scum, just wa wanted to say that. wow, yes, and the language. gosh, the language. i told this story a few times. it s zblu btrue. but mika hasn t heard it in at least a week. i remember in 2005 a friend of mine was hearing me go after george w. bush every night on the debt, the deficit, and military adventurism. he called me up and started yelling at me and was taking the white house line. and i said to him, i said, you know, we ve been friends for a while, you don t know this right now because you re in the middle you re in the you re on the spis ship. you thi
that you thi thank you, mr. president. you plan it go to moscow next spring as president putin invited you. yes. and do you degree with him that western style liberalism is obsolete? i haven t heard him say that, but he did invite me to russia for the defeat of nazis. russia lost he said 25 million people. i have heard 50 million people. but he said yesterday that russia fighting the nazis, they lost 25 million people. you would know better than anybody, peter. but it was a tremendous you know, they suffered greatly. and they are having a 75th you could really say celebration of the defeat of the nazis. and he invited me and i said i would give it very serious consideration. russia went through a lot.
stage for next week s democratic debates, based on who s leading the polls, on the first night elizabeth warren and beto o rourke, bill de blasio, and john delaney on the outskirts. tell me what you re looking at, what you re looking for. i think amy will definitely i think do well in this environment. i think she s going to she s a good debater. she s experienced and she s funny. she can breakthrough in terms of personal warmth. cory is going to be inspirational. he can t help himself. so i think the action will be the four in the middle. i think the rest of them are going to try to have a breakthrough moment, and that s what s going to be interesting about these debates. you thi if you think about it, you look at what donald trump did, he was different than the legions on the stage, bizarre, but different. will one of the outside candidates have such a breakthrough moment that it s embarrassing, that it s so
trump and achieve big, progressive goals, socialism is not the answer. i was re-elected [ crowd reaction ] and the next day, the crowd responded similarly when former maryland congressman john delaney was critical of medicare for all. we need, as democrats, to build an economy that works, but it s got to be with smart policies. medicare for all may sound good, but it s actually not good policy, nor is it good politics. [ crowd reaction ] i m telling you. i m telling you. that boo ing went on for two minutes. joining me now the target of that reaction, former congressman john delaney. thank you for joining us. let me start yby asking you thi. we played john hickenlooper. we re talking about you.