what we ever heard before bernie and that's where republicans seem entry point everything i'm hearing now from republicans that i work with i have a couple clients who are in the southern part of the united states and they love to rail against socialism and they're railing against all of these candidates you see here because they think all of these folks want to take us toward socialism and so that is going to be the game plan for republicans as these folks try to show that they want the oval next year if it's going to be socialism kills we don't want that vote for trump again i honestly think at this point when people are looking to this election it may come down more to personalities than alyse because the voters i've been talking to a lot we just want somebody that can take this guy all you know and not takes character that takes a good one line is at stake having thick skin in a one democratic voters said to me the other day i just want these people to say what they think right from there because that did nothing other than good for don't they don't want to hear prepackaged one line is all or things about policy they

want to hear what these characters have to say about immigration about climate change about justice reform all sorts of things but they don't want to be spoken out they want to be spoken to because they saw what trump did not covered a lot of trump rallies whether you like this president or you don't he connects with his audience that's what these candidates need to do i agree with that and i disagree on the brains taking over the party because i think you're seeing one the leading candidate is joe biden who's a very moderate democrat and you're also seeing candidates like america who by all estimation is not a huge lefty this is someone who is a mayor he's from the middle of the country he runs as a moderate and you're seeing him resonate in a compelling why so i actually i do agree i do agree here that it's going to be a little bit different when it comes to who's the most woke and who's the candidate who can really take donald trump on because those 2 things. they're very different

in a lot of people that's how it all pete had this mayor pete had this past week i think revealed everything and he clearly had some tension with the crowd so let's stay that way let's set this up really nicely because if you're watching internationally you're not going to be following this so we have matt pate is let's say he's playing cards and i'm really you tell us about mike 8 ok ok well mayor pete is young he's gay and he may or this city in indiana and the town hall he put on last week was tense because there were you know he's clearly caucasian and there were african-americans there talking about homelessness and sort of bringing up a failure of his in how he's led as a mayor and he didn't seem to connect with the crowd he didn't have that like they'll have a dinner and look at that moment and is that even more serious in the way that you're setting it up because we're also talking about racism within the police department and he's the mass so people were bringing up that issue to have have a listen to somebody in the town hall talking to pete. after

story is disrespectful then i wake up every day skin is disrespectful. to. the state's any racist. put them at the desk make them do paperwork but the people that care about the fact that you different here make the ones out there on the streets. if anyone. is on patrol is shown to be racist. we're to do something racist. in a way that is substantiated. that is their last day on the street. so what i'm wondering does that help elevate a candidate the fact that there's a moment then everybody is paying attention to how it deals with yeah i mean i do

want to credit the mayor one he suspended his campaign after the tragedy in the shooting there's a police shooting in south bend and he suspend his campaign went back his number one job is to be mayor to his constituents and i think that has been very easy for him to hide very easy for him to go to iowa and to be prepping for the miami debates but he went back home and so i think that that shows his resolve and his seriousness look that is not a situation that any public servant wants to be in where there aren't easy answers that's the thing about public service that's the thing about being a legislator things get messy and things get hard i see this as an opportunity i mean i agree it was not the greatest that stop it and i think it was not the greatest performance of opportunity but i do think that there is an opportunity for mayor p. as he said that now that there's a spotlight on this for him to have real solutions not just for south bend or for

the country this is a situation that affects every community and so we'll see i mean the spotlight will be home pete in these debates and he will and i imagine the 1st question he will get be about this so be very interesting to see if he has this resolve and then go out and buy the indiana police unions out in response to that town hall meeting but these are the kind of complex challenges always come that it's going to have to face are going to have to juggle with police forces who want support from officials but the public and this situation is being going on for decades so there will know you know that's going to be a difficult thing. for him to face but i think perhaps a more difficult thing for him to face is is america ready for an openly gay candidate that's a serious question it's not flippant in any way in these very important debates coming up but i think that's a question for the american public certainly lots of democratic voters i've i've talked to say i really like him i really like this guy from in the ana but i'm not

sure the country is ready for someone. who is homosexuals so i think that's something that will that he certainly will face but then when you think about the ages of bernie sanders and joe biden of course is in the lead in the polls right now those both those candidates are in their late seventy's so you know it's difficult but then in the last few days you've got both warren and bernie counting this idea to clear off old student debt really kind of you know appealing to those millennial who are way down by all the student debt but again that's an easy target for the republicans to say ok so you want the bus drivers of today to pay for the boys of tomorrow that would really backfire on both of these candidates so it's very complex it's very early as we all know the democratic ticket counter till next summer's we have a long long way to go and i'm far from making any predictions at this point because we all know what happened in 26 thing so sandy making it even more complex is

perhaps a generational divide now brad you alluded to this earlier so i want to bring our international audience in on what we're talking about this from fortune this headline joe biden cory booker should apologize not me this is the former vice president who speaking about senator cory booker from new jersey sum up what happened for a reason i do want you want that job some of why joe biden the saying that this young senator should apologize to him oh what was it that you don't think joe biden ended up saying i don't have a racist bone in my body right and i think that that's all you really need to know here is that there were accusations lobbed at one another about the past and i think joe biden feels that for a book or should sort of get in line and respect somebody who's been. vice president united states essentially without getting too deep i think this little you know skirmish reveals that maybe some of these candidates are not happy letting joe biden be the front runner and i think that really gets to the very root of the problem here is that democrats are going to continue fighting this infighting will not let somebody come out and be ready to be that clear front runner who has the

ability to. really create a campaign that is aspirational and one that can really use the media to its damage the way that trump did that's why i see how we need to take this back to i would say that america's achilles heel which is race so joe biden was saying i can bring the country together he actually talks about segregationists senate until about an era of civility and says i was never a boy and if you know what that means the way to that then said you need to apologize and i'm not going to apologize. it just i just want to jump in here because i brought that up because our community has so much to say about it so before i pivot this around i want to share what some of those thoughts sound like this is jim who i'm going to read 3 tweets remember because i don't want to misquote him he says i worry i will dig a hole for myself here but here goes biden's comments on being able to get things

done with eastland who has to stop segregationist he never called me boy he always called me son that's what biden said i found that shocking clearly that was because eastland was a racist and biden is white biden's ability to reach across the aisle had nothing to do with not being called boy why was this not clear and biden's mine it's a mystery to me i don't believe that biden is anything close to a racist himself he has a strong track record in favor of civil rights but it's remark was ill considered and betrayed a thoughtless ignorance of those terms so i could hear you trying to get in there can you see where this is something that's ripe for people to jump on and say you're out of touch. i muchly not sure because i think one of the things the democratic party has to deal with is political correctness i think a large majority of voters have simply had enough with being told that this although that it can't use this kind of language and while joe biden's language may have been in correct and perhaps he was right that he was called out i think

there's a sense among the voting public that enough with all this political correctness let's just get on with talking about policies let's talk about how we don't trump a not start accusing each other of various different things of course joe biden has a long record and the big thing for these these debates is whether the other candidates perhaps the ones with less to lose attack bite because you know way ahead in the polls but that's a double edged sword if they decide to attack the former vice president that could be seen as negative the voters may not react very well but at the same time some of them have nothing to lose they want to bring this guy down but he's very popular yet look i say this with all deference and respect for vice president biden as i said work in the obama white house used to work the vice president i think that in my opinion something like this makes biden a better candidate in the long run because i think that while i do agree the political correctness run amuck this was just off on a number of different ways i think one this is these remarks were at

a big hot wall street fundraiser so you say mr hall much of rich people and he's really trying to. pine for the days of mr avila where republicans and democrats can come together and work together and when reality we were dealing with obstructionists and republicans when joe biden was in office 2 years ago we couldn't get marriage garland confirmed to be the supreme court justice 2 years ago so it's a little bit of an alternate reality here where we're pining for the days of working with segregationists when at the same time we have to confront the reality that we need to we need to not look to the past but looked. the future and i do agree that you know. what was the gentleman mame who said we need someone who's inspirational i don't know that when he yeah i see that every single presidential he's for a president since 94 i think he's 100 percent correct one because. pining for the days of working with segregationist is not going to fire anyone under the age of 45

years old and so i believe that you know senator booker with respects corrected senator biden and i think hopefully we won't make these types of mistakes in the future and i think hopefully biden will do a little bit of what mayor pete and center warren is doing which is they are evoking emotion and they are clearly delineating the vision that they're trying to create not hearkening back to the past well all of this may not matter if the economy keeps doing as well as it is a little bit sure that's an undeniable obstacle of democrats may have to overcome you know if in 18 months time unemployment numbers are down the market is sky high if the president is just about any kind of deal with china you could see the market going up 2000 points in one day that may be the biggest obstacle because you know it was bill clinton famously said it's about the economy stupid and it essentially always says it's about what people have been purses and wallets about how they feel

about the economy about this spending power and right now if that could be the biggest democrat challenge in my mind so i hear you on economy i'm going to raise you on foreign policy because that's what the a few members of our international audience of course that's what's on their minds i want to play a video comment from mike brand a conflict prevention specialist and here's what he told the stream. in the 2020 vision this is what issues foreign policy be seen so much in the road of the current president and we need a president who's going to do or see her vision in both his foreign policy and those who addressed the root causes and drivers of confluence of environments it's a recurrence of change and many other factors we need a vision of those foreign policy that will address these issues so we can be sure that we're consistently trying to put out the fires. prevention focused foreign policy that's what he wants arena i'll give this one to you because right now as we speak are in the mitts a very heated rhetoric around iran so we're clearly not in a prevention focus foreign policy or would you make of his comment. yeah that's not

going to happen i don't think in our lifetime right now you have neo cons in the white house people like john bolton and mike pompei oh sure that doesn't happen i mean these people want war let's not make any mistake about it and these are the people who are advising the current president and state say he gets another 4 years i still don't think it changes anything. we will you know in addition to the economy i think voters especially female voters will go to the polls we think about security how safe do we feel and i think right now. when i talk to republicans in all parts of country in the west in the mid atlantic in the south they feel that trump is keeping them safe these are republicans who are both male and female and people who didn't support trump and who now do and those who are lukewarm about him now despite having voted for him and i think it all boils down to this is that we haven't had a large scale terror of it and that is kind of the thing that's helping trump if

you ask me the most along with the economy so those 2 things intend to present a really unique challenge to these people behind us because how do you make the case for the oval office when things are seemingly fine to the vast majority of americans we are generally a very uninformed citizenry we're a lazy citizenry and it's true i mean it's like we don't know what we have until it's taken from us and that's where my movement were when i was part of the never trump movement sees the biggest challenge with why we're so small i guess we have about a minute left in this show i am really curious is the beginning of these democratic presidential debates start how are they going to do once you start seeing them talking to each other to brace each other brad you've got 30 seconds. look i'm a nerd so i can't wait this is like the super bowl for me. i mean i have all kinds of beer guacamole and it's going to be great people know i'm looking for

a breakout stars and that 1st night there's a lot of people that will be introduced to the american public i don't get a lot of it was that here mr jenkins your time is i think out here you have 30 seconds pressing well i don't even need 30 seconds i'm just trying to work out how to say that. because gosh i'm going to get it i've seen also different pronunciations but i think these these debates are very important as as a previous panelists said it gets the american public the 1st chance to meet these people because somebody said to me just the other day in the street yes well this point it's the media that is decided who they like. and. get to have you oh john from arizona says i think if the dems put up a strong candidate like bernie they have a good chance of winning otherwise they deserve to lose and they will and the people will suffer as a result thanks for that oh down and arizona can't miss me it's going to be a year before we know who's going to be the presidential candidate for the

democrats in july if they hear thanks for watching everybody.

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