electability, how concerned are you that there is this poll out today which doesn t show you winning, which is supposed to be his thing? listen, this is not a good poll for biden and i do think that it speaks you have to look at the other polls, that stuff. listen, first of all, look at the strength of the progressive block. you know, when you put sanders and warren together, that s almost half the party going for candidates that are extremely, extremely progressive. this kind of cuts against the idea that the only thing that matters is electability. people may be recalculating what makes someone electable. the traditional wisdom is you re electable if you re more appealing to moderates and get independents. that narrative was carrying biden along. now you re starting to see people make the case it s going to be somebody who will be el t electable if you can electrify. you have to rally up the base and got to be able to bring new people in, young people in and give a reason to come
polls and under that rational, elizabeth warren looks attractive and certainly bernie is able to hang on. fy we if i were in the biden camp, i would be concerned about the fact he s holding his own in the top three against a whole bunch of other people but look at that progressive block. let s talk about elizabeth warren for a second. there is a focus on the crowds, crowd size is often controversial when you re covering elections because it doesn t always mean that the person is generating tons and tons of support but she had 12,000 at a rally, some 15,000 at a rally in seattle. a lot of people are showing up to elizabeth warren events and you combine that with the strong showing and this poll and other polls have shown her consistently inching up. what does that tell you? she s the most impressive person on the scene right now because you got to remember, she was written off for dead. she slipped on the pocahontas
incredible. very talented. reporter: and tonight we re learning the president is likely to name the head of immigration and customs enforcement marg margon to take over as the acting head of the customs and border protection agency but as all of this turmoil is unfolding at home, president trump tomorrow is leaving for the g-20 in osaka, japan with important meetings with the president of china, xi jinping and vlt over issues like trade and tensions in iran. tensions with iran. we ll have more on that as well. abby, thank you very much. up on capitol hill, house democrats are divided over a bill to provide additional money for the border crisis. let s go to our senior congressional correspondent manu raju. has speaker pelosi gotten her people on board. reporter: it appears that way. after a roller coaster 24 hors in which speaker pelosi negotiated with the hispanic caucus and the progressive block within the larger house democratic caucus, she appears to have locked down enough
all we want is medicare for everybody. $15 minimum wage. do you think that s a message that will work? the way that christine said it will work. the way bernie sanders said it is not. she was not out there saying i am a democratic socialist. she was talking about rights and that s the crux of this argument. we americans in persuit of life and liberty should have access to healthcare and education should be affordab ablable and only have a minimum wage but a living wage. it was not about the progressive block against the mainstream. if you drop the dirty socialist word you have a platform that can win and will win in november. martha: chris, 37 republican
again for local mayors, and we re moving in the opposite direction. too many of our cities have become the hole in the doughnut, and now we re going to punish the guy in charge. what is disturbing is that in some of these cases, the mayor is newly elected, almost immediately swept of his powers. in pontiac and flint, you have new mayors in detroit you have a relatively new mayor. if you re going to give autocratic power, why not use the existing mayor, come in and give those powers to the mayor elected by the people, instead of bringing someone in from the outside. we haven t even given democracy a chance to work. and make no mistake, as you know, al, our cities are struggling. reverend jackson, detroit is on the verge of a takeover. we are told, look at this screen, progressive block of chris savage crunched the