without comparing themselves to the president right now. wes, beto o rourke is in texas right now, south by southwest festival, and he s apparently going to be taking questions after his documentary which talks about his race for the u.s. senate. he s reportedly already made his decision on 2020 but that announcement could come at any moment now. is this going to be a great potential opportunity for him if he says i m in? certainly. beto is one of the few young relative unknown candidates who, if he jumps into the race, will almost immediately see a deep saturation in terms of name recognition, in part because he was one of the people helped forward in the 2018 cycle and as mobilized democrats were concerned about the midterms, he was someone people glomed a lot of home onto. he s in a package of relative young unknowns. you might group him with tulsi gabbard but again, she announced she was running for president
in the race because none of them want to appear, i think, to have any chip on their shoulder about the competition they face, and of course i think for these younger candidates who have nothing to lose by jumping in the race, they re going to say that competition is a good thing. it s very clear why barack obama would have said that. the competition against hillary clinton behooved him. it knocked out the big fish in the race which at that time was clinton and it made this time knock out a joe biden or a bernie sanders, the people who have the advantage in this race which is name recognition and experience of having run before. so absolutely for these young candidates they have an enormous element to gain and they think that the competition running against fellow democrats is a tremendously good thing. the one thing i would add to what wes was saying is these candidates do not want to get in a spitting match with donald trump. they saw what happened to the republicans. lying ted cruz,
i think it s actually going to be essential. often this is put aside as a secondary issue, but i think given where the country is right now and the way in which race has moved front and center, both with the reemergence of white nationalism at many levels of american society and also with the ongoing issues of how race plays out in our institutions like the criminal justice ma system, this is part of what 2020 is about and i think the democrats have an advantage, not just their electoral, but the actual field speaks to the person answering the question. at this point, the democratic party is offering an answer through the candidates in terms of how we move to a different place, so i don t think it s something they can shy away from and i don t think they will in the end. wes, do you see that burden or responsibility, however you want to put it, will be on the shoulders of all the democratic candidates or particularly is it
good to see you both. wes, let me begin with you. the question from the woman asking about how, if you were elected president, will you heal the racial divide that trump has embolden emboldened. kamala harris essentially saying that it begins with talking about the hard and ugly truths of a variety of injustices. how dominant will this question be on the campaign trail that every candidate has to be prepared to be able to answer. certainly i would expect every democrat seeking the presidency to have to answer questions like this. in part, they would have had to answer some of these questions anyway. the democratic party divided. there s always going to be divides and questions about how you want to be the leader or the face of that party, how you re going to manage those divides. in this moment where you re running against an incumbent president who was elected on a platform of white racial grievance, who has a white
the decision of the egyptian armed forces to egyptian constitution. if i now call on the egyptian military to move quickly and responsibly to return full authority back to a democratically elected civilian government as soon as possible. k.t. macfarland joins us now. each of those words very closely scripted. because it makes a difference how the u.s. respond to this. what wes. whether we call it a coup or some are calling it a correction. called for by the citizens of egypt. this is all about the money at this point. if the administration says this is a coup that triggers let sanctions. that means we can t give them $1.6 billion. also money talks because you want to see what the saudis do. the point you made earlier where you said the interim president