Joe biden as perspective candidate. we re all americans here, we want a good and healthy campaign. it doesn t do any of us harris: i know people say they want civility and recently in iowa, i had a big group of people that talked about civility in politics, and they want unity. do people go to the polls because you make them feel good or your wallet feels good? sometimes both. harris: alex. it is interesting, joe biden has been put out there as every man who could win back rust belt voters lost to president trump in 2016, i don t think the evidence is all the way there that he actually can go get voters. harris: what do they want, alex? you are from pennsylvania, you can tell me. those voters i think bought into trump in 2016 and they are sticking with him. i think a good example where joe biden is falling flat with them, in his failure to criticize china, he s writing it off, that is not a big deal, they will not
Including michael avenatti, the trial attorney for stormy daniels. should he be taken seriously by democrats in your party as a perspective candidate? and do you think he s on to something when he says democrats need to fight trump harder and be tougher and don t bring nail clippers to a gun fight. i don t think it s the role of party leaders and officials to tell the activist base of especially in iowa who should talk to them or who has a right to be there, that will be decided in the future. i do think not just with mr. avenatti but other people have said the same thing, i need to go hard and fast on donald trump and his allied supporters, paul ryan and mitch mcconnell. we need to hit them hard everyday until election day and all the way until 2020. congressman, just to put a finer point on phil s excellent question, do you think democrats should take michael avenatti seriously as a potential presidential candidate?
Now, you know, there were charitable purposes that went along with the clinton foundation, but, of course, it came with a conflict of interest. i would say it wasn t the clinton campaign that did the polling about obama and cocaine use and muslim faith. it was a group called progressive media usa. now, progressive media usa was an outside government outfit, democratic allied outfit, in 2008 that was tasked about essentially looking up the vulnerabilities of each perspective candidate. so john podesta it was paul bogala. a group called progressive media usa. i know. it was the poll that was done by progressive media usa. a guy named tom matsey. he is in clean energy now. this was not a clinton campaign come on, sam. no, it really wasn t. it was in the heat of an ugly campaign.
he belittled them for asking questions first and then about six weeks later he took questions about it. i do think this has been linked to him because it s been linked to his office. no matter what else comes out of this, even if no other documents come out that link chris christie to this, i ve said it is completely plausible that chris christie did not have any knowledge of this beforehand. didn t know in immediate aftermath. my guess is he put two and two together in his head but didn t ask questions. that s plausible he didn t know back in september and october what was going on there. from a standpoint of a perspective candidate for national office when this comes into your office when your deputy chief of staff and when your campaign manager we talk about something very close to chris christie politically. this is somebody who previous to being his campaign manager was the director of intergovernmental operation for the chris christie administration. his job was to go around
Economy will go. are they going to have the time. a lot of this money is designed to suppress voter turnout. one of the thing that money buys is negative advertising. i think that depresses voter turnout. with citizens united, reveal donation to the romney super pac. you have to still reveal what you re doing. the programs are not transparent, and what used to be sort of a bedrock principle conservatism is that you could have limitless donations so long as your name is attached to it has now been abandoned. and there was a thing called the disclosure act. it essentially said that anyone who don ts to one of these groups and turns around and the money is used for political advertisements, their names have to be public. that seemed like a very low hanging piece of fruit. what ended up happening in the political culture is if you re a perspective candidate, if you re