mainstream, as measured by opinion polling.ls are they the topics, are they the issues that democrats are going to run on during the midterm elections? joining us tonight is someone who has spent a long time in the democratic party, jennifer palmieri. she spent years of the heart of it.n she was communications director for both the obama white house and the hillary clinton presidential campaign.n. she's got a brand-new book out which is doing very well on amazon. it's called "dear madam president." and she joins us tonight. jennifer palmieri, thanks for coming on. >> i'm happy to be here. >> tucker: so a lot has been written about the changes in the republican party under trump. it's changed a lot. there's no doubt about that. >> right. >> tucker: the democratic party has changed, i would say, as much or more and it's gotten very little attention. do you acknowledge that president obama going out and saying, i'm going to crackdown on illegal immigration, couldn't say that today? >> no, because what's happened is the problem got a lot worse. and congress didn't do anything about it.>> president obama gave that speech many years ago, that was when we were trying to pass comprehensive immigration reform.am