affair. there was a baseball-cap-shaped cake. also a really beautiful portrait of him that a local artist was donating to mr. bach, i believe. there was also his typical stump, attacking jeb bush and toting some of his more well-known ideas. but what was president more typical was the fact that he was hitting one of the top clinton aides. you have sound of that. let s take a look. i will tell you, you know, when you look at what she s done and how she s done it and huma, how about huma? okay. here is the story. so huma now is one of the people that it all sort of came through huma. who is huma married to? one of the great sleazebags of our time, anthony weiner. did you know that? she s married to anthony weiner.
obvious heir apparent. if it starts to look like sanders will be the nominee, democrats will panic. those are the reasons she s the overall favorite. this is also clearly an intimidation tactic, trying to scare everyone out of the race. that s what she s essentially doing. i would argue it s going to work. people don t want to go up against the juggernaut. the juggernaut is hillary clinton right now. the beginning of your answer, jeanne, you said the message to joe biden is don t get in the race. i m thinking can anybody intimidate vice president biden to not get in the race? joe biden has run for president twice before. if he ran this time, he would have a better chance this time either of the previous two times he ran for president. joe biden got 1% of the vote in the iowa caucuses in 2008, polling at 18 now in the latest quinnipiac poll.
from. until you break the connection between money and politics, we re not going to get any headway in the senator in congress. and i think the best bet at this point is to do what s been happening. certainly i think mike bloomberg deserves a lot of credit for helping fund this at the state level. republicans want to return power to the states. go ahead. you ll see passage in washington. we saw in new york, con it in cut and elsewhere. eventually, same thing with gay marriage. i couldn t agree more. it will find its way. to your point, josh, i think it s going to be a long haul still. you focused a lot on republicans. i think we showed a clip. hillary clinton made her comments about gun reform. what do you make of that? i ll start with you, jonathan. it s what i would expect a presidential candidate to say. if hillary clinton becomes president, she ll be a president facing a republican house and senate. i don t think there will be a change in gun policy if hillary
it s hard to be word than it was before. one of the things we re doing, a consent decree for the police department president and sheriff s department, working with the president department of justice to create a fair system. we have a mass incarceration problem that mirrors what the rest of the country has which is something we have to get out of. we have been working hard for the past five years with a plan i put together that s designed to change the city from a city of violence to a city of peace and get to these kids really early and make sure the criminal justice system is working well for them by, number one, trying to keep them out, number two, trying to make sure we have mental health, we have jobs for them. we have to make sure the streets are safe. it s a very complicated metric for us. bottom line is we want to lead the way and kind of move away from mass incarceration into being smart and tough on crime. you can actually do both. i think it s essential that
clinton is president. we have a democratic president now and we haven t had significant change. the things we talk about in the united states are so at the margins that i wonder how they would impact gun violence. if you did something like australia, where you take away massive amounts of guns people have, redugs the rate of gun ownership in society, you can have a big impact on violent crime. changes with background checks will help at the margin, but i wouldn t expect that to have big impacts on the rate of violent crime in the country which i think is part of the reason you haven t had the knock down drag out fight. while the changes would be positive changes, they wouldn t be sea changes. eric, final thoughts from you. we have to ask ourselves as a country two simple questions. is the current situation unacceptable. if your answer to that is, no, i think things are just fine. that s one position. there s no point in talking to an individual like that.