president s day edition. let us talk about 2020 and some of the folks who want to be the next president. the big focus today new hampshire where hkamala harris, cory booker and amy klobuchar are hitting the trail. cnn s senior political analyst is in the debate hall. mark, what do you think is the most important thing that amy klobuchar is trying to accomplish tonight? i think pragmatism. she wants to introduce herself to america. most of america has no idea who she is. people in the midwest know who she is. she is not vying for the same liberal voters that many of these other candidates are. she is trying to take a more center road of it and in some ways has a clear path now.
don t sit back, sit up like this, one leg on the rung and one foot on the floor and as soon as you can, spring out of the chair. spring out and go engage that audience member. we said, there will come a time, when you can walk up to somebody and really relate to them. that s exactly what you want to show the american people. we were so obsessed story admit this now, we stole those stools. that s right. they stole the stools. when we got to the debate hall, we took the one this is a were going to use and we put our stools out there, so that even his rear end would be comfortable in the same stool that he had practiced in. let s get it on. and i think the first question is over here. yes, i d like to direct my question to mr. perot. there s a tv wheeled in on a stand. we re all like coiled springs. carville is pacing. he can t sit still.
p.c., representing several women suing bill cosby for defamation. annie, talk about this first. the briefing with sarah huckabee sanders was pretty contentious today on this topic. refusing to take followingup yeses. one of those were about what played out at one of the debates where the trump campaign brought many of the accusers of bill clinton to the debate hall in something of a dramatic confrontation. they clearly are approaching these accusers completely differently, attempting to discredit them. saying they are making completely false allegations. what is going on behind the scenes at the white house as they try grapple with these stories coming back into the public view? they re in a really awkward position that this #metoo movement is sweeping every industry and the white house and donald trump are at the center of this. i think a big part of this is a reaction is the fact there were 16 women accusers in 2016 and
disgusting moment, and we spent the 48 hours, her immediate reaction was i m not shaking that guy s hand. just as a woman, as a person, it was just it was disgusting. and it put her off. i remember when we were driving from the hotel to the debate site, in st. louis, on that sunday night, and got the word that the trump campaign had lined up this press conference before the debate where trump sat there with the four women who made various allegations that have been debunked over the years and it just put a real again, just a disgusting pale over the whole thing. and then, yeah, they were in the debate site, i believe they wanted to have them shake hands with president clinton, because if you were in the debate hall and you had a pin, you can go wherever you want.
democratic party down. and also she believed america down. and president obama. also get the sense from one of those excerpts this is something that s going to eat away at her for literally the rest of her life. that clip, where, again, one of the many clips where you see president trump now president trump looming in the shadows, is that at all, you think, emblematic of the role that gender played in that race? yes. and i think that in the context of that particular moment, remember, two days before this debate is when the access hollywood tape came out. donald trump staged a facebook live where he lined up a number of different women who have accused bill clinton, her husband, of inappropriate behavior, and he sat them in the debate hall, essentially to publicly shame hillary clinton for what her husband did. so there was an underlying dynamic happening, even without the stalking her around the