or ahead begin to explain and answer for themselves. right now the vice president has been taking all of the hits because he is the front runner. but i do think it is time that others begin to explain how they ll pay for some of these policies that that i are proposing. at the end of the day, i think it s most important joe biden be joe biden. the joe biden we know and love. i am sure he will do quite well in the deba it this week. you are the mayor of one of america s largest city and certain will i the dominant city in the south in terms of international reputation. does it concern you that the democrats in a primary fight may give the perception is that there are things in a general election could be held against the party and in many ways make people feel na the democratic party is much more extreme in some of its policies than really
see, how much energy he has on the stage. does he have the endurance for the deba it? i m not talking bernie, i m talking will age be an issue? it should be, joe biden and joe wide reason all in their late 70s. i think it should be an obvious issue of health reasons and health concerns, more importantly, do you understand what younger people think about and automation and andrew yang and 20 and 30-year-olds are concerned about. can you capture young women? they can ask young candidates do you understand what seniors care about and senior are the bed rock voters they don t go away. those over 65ers. i don t care about the age of the candidate. i care about their health condition and the stamina and the ability to do the job. let s face it. if one of the candidates was old like yoda, we d love it. if they re old and not understand where they are, not
boy, that sounds like there is a calculation there. everybody we talked to kind of said the same exact thing, gave us the same information. it didn t play any role in her employment. i never got any benefit from my native american heritage. the people who hired me have been absolutely clear on this point, that they didn t know and didn t care. her responses don t satisfy everyone. but warren wins the party s endorsement at the june convention. but her republican opponent scott brown raises the native american issue to attack her character during their first deba debate. i think that elizabeth warren claimed he was a native american, a person of color. as you can see, she s not. that may have backfired because a lot of people then did see it as racially charged because he was talking about her appearance. i believed my mother and my father and my aunts and my uncles. i never asked anybody for any
party is unified. he also spoke out in favor of more conversations around climate change. laura: but there s no debate. there s no debate. i have to ask you, there s no debate focused on climate change and people in san francisco, especially, are really unhappy about that. are you unhappy about this, yes or no? i m a i m look, i realize when you set up a schedule before you know what candidates are in the race, every candidate knew from the beginning there would be 12 deba debates. we didn t say they would focus on various issues. we said 12 debates. i don t want to second guess the leadership of tom perez and the party who made this decision. i had my opportunity to shape this conversation in the party. we have to move forward because the american people want to know what s the alternative to donald trump. that s what we re going to provide. laura: you have fun there in san francisco. we appreciate it. next, new numbers showing how the illegal immigration crisis
like this all night, we d be having a different conversation today. we re not having a bad conversation about joe biden today but we d be having a different, perhaps even more favorable if he had shown this passion and vigor throughout the deba debate. now, it s a different environment. there are ten different candidates onstage. you heard him air his understandsable frustration. all of the candidates are saying why one minute, why 30 seconds. we have no choice because you have ten people on the stage. but he likes this. he s always liked this. he likes the give and take with reporters. he likes being fiesty and mixing it up. when he s on his game, it helps him. john king, you are never uneven on air. thank you so much. that s so not true. thanks for breaking all that down with us. i want to go to arlette saenz. she is at the biden gaggle. what did you take away from this, arlette? reporter: well, i think joe biden s defense of president obama was particularly interesting. last