difficult to initiative a counternarrative so they are waiting for that message that they can articulate to the base and then also pivot after that to the other issues that voters care about like health care or the economy. democratic congressman henry cuellar told me the same thing. he s also looking for a message that he can articulate to his constituents, john. grateful for the fresh reporting. find more of that on cnnpolitics.com. coming up, saturday night, patriots versus bills. switch means it s king versus blitzer. blitzer in the chair. he ll be with us next. lactaid is 100% real milk, just without the lactose. so you can enjoy it even if you re sensitive to dairy. so anyone who says lactaid isn t real milk is also saying mabel here isn t a real cow.
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actually more than four. i think six total because several two-night debates. but biden has been, for me, you know, i do a winners and losers column after each of these debates and biden has been the hardest one to figure out. i thought he was the best he s been. at the same time, he wasn t as good as buttigieg. i didn t think he was as good as klobuchar. didn t think he was as good as bernie sanders. he was about as good as elizabeth warren but elizabeth warren had a lot more incoming. so what s tough here is he s no longer a 20-point favorite in this race. he doesn t have a lot of ground to give up. it needs to be not just good for biden by biden s standards but good, period, and i didn t think it was good enough. so david, cillizza wrote about and grades them on cnn politics.com, but andrew yang. the math pin was everything.
energy. and completely destroy america s economy through their new $100 trillion green new deal. the speech, though, wasn t just about the democrats. the president also had this for republicans who disagree with his decision to declare a national emergency so that he can redirect other federal money to a border wall. we re very concerned about setting precedent. i m very concerned with having murderers and drug traffickers and drugs and drug cartels pouring into our country. that s what i m concerned about. he busted a few fact check machines during the speech. a great article in the new york times about that. on cnn politics.com you can see another one. but we did get a sense of what the president wants to do. this is warming up. no matter who the democrats nominate, they ll be socialists. what else did we learn? this is not new, right? president obama was tagged as
trump was, does anybody know him, does anyone know anyone who knows him and we re really keen to try to figure out who this president was and how you would be able to work with him or figure out what he was going to do or who you needed access to to some sort of sway over him, potentially. this doesn t surprise me this was going on. what is surprising is the amounts people were willing, apparently, to offer to a person who had absolutely no experience and no real claim to be able to say, okay, this is what president trump is going to do and here s when he s going to do it. that s the question, right? right. and that is it. this could be just corporations wasting a lot of money on michael cohen, or the question that special counsel and others want to look into, because of the amounts involved this just can t be real. i want to read this from cnnpolitics.com. post-election, corporate america was on the hunt for anyone who could help them make inroads to