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welcome to "inside politics." i'm john king. thank you for sharing your day with us. president trump delivers his state of the union address tonight and the white house is promising a message of unity and bipartis bipartisanship. but let's be real. there is anything but unity and bipartisanship in the nation's capitol when we're just days away from a possible government shutdown and the president's promise of a border wall. even if there are bipartisan moments tonight, it would be wise to question their shelf life. let's take a closer look at the moment. the biggest change tonight you will see. right away this was the house of
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representatives when the president spoke last year, a republican majority. this is the house of representatives tonight, a democratic majority. which means behind the president will not be paul ryan. it will be the new democratic speaker of the house, nancy pelosi. that is the biggest optic change you will see tonight and it changes the dynamic of the speech, it changes the dynamic of the moment. the president will speak tonight for a position you cannot describe as strength. he has weakened as a president. 42% his approval rating among registered voters. it's been pretty static, right at the 40 line, right around 4 in 10 americans. but the president does have a good story to tell when it comes to the economy. that's what he wants to play up. that's his inauguration. here's the dow, up. back when he took office, unemployment down. jobs in the last few months, the president can make a case of the economy. because of tax cuts and deregulation, he can make a strong case. the economy right now is
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booming. but where are we in terms of the trump agenda? he's trying to negotiate a trade deal with china, congress on the sidelines for that. he needs congress to pass his new replacement for nafta. can he get that done this year? forget about this. this was a priority in the first two years of the trump administration. we're not going to replace obamacare with nancy pelosi as speaker of the house. infrastructure. one applause line tonight most likely. build the wall. that is the big divide here in washington right now, and the president sometimes talks about paid family leave. republicans get nervous about that. here we are in the big divide. he'll say let's be bipartisan, let's be unified. listen to the top two leaders in the senate. america is divided. >> the state of the trump economy failing america's middle class. the state of trump health care, failing american families. the state of the trump administration, chaos. >> the story of the last two years has been one of immense policy progress for our country.
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the american people are less interested in beltway melodrama and more interested in that classic question, am i better off now than i was two years ago? >> let's talk over the big moment. with me to share their reporting, democratic strategist maria cardona, abby phillip with cnn. it would be a big moment to talk bipartisan. is there anybody at the table who thinks the legacy of this speech will be the president found the circuit breaker and washington got back to being a happy place? >> absolutely not. >> so what is the moment? what is the moment? we have been wall or nothing for the past six weeks in washington, even had a shutdown over it. the president is gearing up for reelection. he has to be cognizant of that, any president would be.
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nancy pelosi will be behind him. what will define this night? >> i don't know that this is going to be one of those state of the union moments where we see some kind of grand vision or some kind of breakthrough moment. in fact, this could be one of those state of the union addresses that is unremarkable because it does not have anything that really moves us substantially forward on some of the big issues of the day. one of the problems and the reasons for that is because the president, and democrats as well, neither side have been willing to step off of their starting marks. you cannot have a breakthrough bipartisan moment if you insist on this one thing. and i think the president really has insisted on this one thing, which is his border wall. it's made it very difficult for there to be progress forward. i think republicans would say nancy pelosi insisted on her one thing, which is no wall. but because of that, we can't get through this. we can't talk about infrastructure because literally nothing is going to happen in washington until someone is able to say, i won, let's move
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forward from that particular fight on the wall. >> so from that point, the speech will be given during the backdrop of continuing negotiations hopefully to avoid another government shutdown. if you're the president of the united states, you know you're not going to get your wall money. it's just not going to happen. you make a modest amount of money it's possible to compromise a deal. even that is a question mark. you're not going to get what you want so you're preparing for a national emergency. if you know you're going to declare a national emergency sometime today, maybe in the next two weeks, do you do it from that platform or do you hold it? >> i think you have to hold it. to abby's point, bipartisanship is not achieved in any one moment, so that's why i think this speech tonight is probably not as important as the next three weeks after this speech. that's what his real charge is tonight, is to lay out and provide some of the specifics on the areas where they are going to agree. because they're not going to agree on the declaration of an emergency. but there is broad bipartisan agreement and appetite for work
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together on infrastructure. you know, a lot of other things that are out there, can he offer specifics about that? infrastructure, opioid epidemic -- >> he's been president for two years. has he ever focused on anything for more than a couple of days in a sustained way? i raise it as a question. he has not. especially since on which he needs the other party's help. >> i think that really highlights the big challenge that he has, is all the credibility he has skwaquandere no matter what he says tonight, it's difficult for the politicians on capitol hill or the american public to believe that's something he's committed to and is going to stick to. he could give all the specifics in the world, he could sing kum-ba-ya and say, nancy, i love you, i know i'm not going to get my wall, let's talk. that would be the best scenario to come through tomorrow and do what he says he's going to do.
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>> as he heads into 2020, he has to know he has his base with him. if there is one group, according to all the recent pollings, that do not want a bipartisan approach and are not looking for deals with nancy pelosi, it is president trump's base. so as we proceeded over the last several weeks and through the shutdown about what kind of a deal could he make on immigration if there was going to be a grand bargain, the president up till now is not willing to look at -- forget about citizenship, provide residency for some of these daca residents, something that could give you a grand bargain with the democrats. >> define what a grand bargain would be. we can't answer some questions tonight, but one of the ideas, if somebody came to him and said, they'll give you your wall money if you give them this, if it's a temporary extension of daca, democrats are not going to accept that, right? >> nothing on temporary, john. i think the other thing is, let's remember that there have been moments in the past not
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very long ago where this president was given a grand bargain because he asked for it. and it was a bipartisan grand bargain. and then what happened? the stephen millers and the ann coulters and everybody else from his base who told him don't you dare make this deal that really would allow any additional -- whether it's protections for the daca students or any additional even legal immigration, that is something that, to your point, margaret, is anathema to his base. but even further, what the president is going to face tonight is something he has not faced before. he's going to look out into the audience to a new democratically controlled audience that has more women, a lot more latinos, a lot more americans and a lot more muslims. this we cannot score more because these are the people that have felt besieged and attacked by this president, and
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let's not forget the midterms were a greet repudiation of trump's agenda. when you look at the polls and you have maybe two-thirds, maybe three-fourths of the american people who believe this country is going in the wrong direction, that is not a good place for this president to be. >> you make a good point that this is always a signature event in the theater. nancy pelosi, it will be fascinating to watch her face. it will be fascinating to see if the president writes a different speech or will it be traditional? what did he say, we're not off to a good start, i commit to you that i'll fix it, and then the faces in the audience, your point about the new diverse democrats, this is going to be fascinating theater. >> it's going to be a fun night for cameramen and producers to pick who they're going to focus on with each line because reactions will be enig marksmat.
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the president has the ability to read from a script he could mostly stick to. again, this kind of goes to maria's and kevin's point, but tomorrow the show is on the house democrats. they are picking up their probe starting this week, they are going to run with everything. basically whatever the president says, that's fine for one day, but house democrats are going to start going after him hard this week, the president will act impulsively the way he always does, and we'll see how that compares to what he says. but this has a chance for him to say something that has a broader appeal. >> he'll be looking out at an audience of a few senators on the republican side where there has been a fragmentation of support after the shutdown. oftentimes in state of the unions we're trying to look at
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the audience beyond the room. but the senators will be looking for reassurances, that the white house has a plan and a plan they can get behind in unison. >> you see the cracks in foreign policy, democrats and republicans breaking there on the senate leader making crystal clear, number one, don't shut down the government again, mr. president. number two, republicans saying, we don't like your national emergency idea. some don't like it as a matter of principle because a democratic president could do the same thing. some don't like it, look at the letter from the texans, because they think he's using money for hurricane relief, texas and puerto rico. the president will talk about a lot of things tonight. to everybody's point, the people in congress, democrats and republicans, trying to see, are we going to be in another cycle of shutdown or does the president give us some way out of immigration? here's his press secretary. >> i can tell you he will discuss when it comes to the wall and immigration is that the president is committed today as
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he's ever been to border security. he knows that we have to stop the cartels, the coyotes, the human trafficking coming across our border. he's serious about it and he's not going to stop until we fix this problem. the crime and the drugs and those things drastically stops if you have real border security, and that includes a wall. >> now, she's not going to steal the president's thunder, but the staff sets the tone for the day. it does not sound like the president is moving anywhere here. he may not go and say, all right, fine, since you're not giving me the money, i'm going to announce tonight my national emergency, but it also doesn't sound like he has any overture to try to build a wall. >> i don't think he does. until he uses real facts, real evidence, talks to people on the border, he is against a wall. he has got to use facts and not
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use movies to make the argument about why he needs the wall. if we talk about border security, absolutely, we are all in to have real smart investments on border security. but the other reason why i don't think tonight will actually lead to something that both sides can agree on is look at the symbolism of the people who are invited to the speech. the trump folks have angel mothers, and absolutely our hearts go out to them, because anybody who has to go through that whose kid or family member has been murdered by anybody, but their focus is to continue to demonize immigrants. on the democratic side, they're going to have a woman who was separated from her child, and they will be in the audience. so when you have that kind of symbolism, i think that underscores how democrats are from venus, republicans and this president not even from mars but probably from pluto. >> it has been interesting that the white house has not changed their strategy even after the
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last shutdown. when you talk to sources about what is going to happen tonight or what's going to happen tomorrow or at the end of this -- at the cr on february 15th, nothing has changed in the way that they talk about the wall, in the way that they talk about the politics around the wall and the border issue and the shutdown, and so you can draw no conclusion other than you're going to hear much of the same from president trump tonight and that behind the scenes, the white house is just waiting out february 15th, waiting until they get to the end of this line, because as the president has said, he doesn't think anything is going to come out of the congressional negotiators who are working on this, and they're working behind the scenes to figure out how he can do some kind of national emergency, which is not compromised, it's not really a way forward, it's a way out of dealing with congress. >> to that point, nobody on capitol hill who talks to the staff believes what the staff is saying, and they're not critical of the staff, they just have lived through this too many times. they don't trust until the
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president says it, says it twice, says it three times or tweets it. they don't believe it. it's a fascinating moment. you can watch our special coverage of the state of the union address tonight. special coverage starts at 8:00 p.m. right here on cnn. next a new reason for the president to be, oh, more than a little mad at his long-time lawyer michael cohen. our big idaho potato truck is out there somewhere
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today a major new legal headache for a president whose entire life is under investigation, a lot of it courtesy of his long-time fixer and lawyer turned witness, michael cohen. federal prosecutors hit the inaugural committee with a subpoena yesterday. they said they would hand over documents to every donor and donation. ticket packages and photo opportunities with the president included, during that time the president a president-elect. they have a demand for documents including conspiracy against the united states, lying, mail fraud, wire fraud, money laundering, election violations, including those nations
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borrowing and straw donors. of note, the time says cohen recorded a conversation with a top inaugural official whose company was paid $26,000 by the inaugural committee. you look at the list of crimes alleged here, and, a, it's very weighty, and b, it also reminds us as people talk about the mueller investigation winding down, there are other investigations that seem to be ramping up. >> that's right. the list of potential crimes here also goes in a way to the heart of this investigation as well. i mean, were there foreign donors funneling money into the campaign ostensibly to try to gain some influence? that's one of the violations that's in this subpoena they're looking into whether people were having the donors pay money directly to vendors to bypass disclosure laws, or whether they were making donations in another's name, kind of this notion of a straw donor to avoid
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disclosing that, too. it's also very interesting that this investigation has some overlap of the mueller investigation. sam patton was one of these guys involved in the uinauguration ad fundraising and he apologized. we know they had oligarchs questioning them. this time last year the concept of straw donors, and now we're seeing it coming to a head as mueller appears to be winding down. >> if you look at the top of the inaugural committee, tom barrack is a long-time friend of the president, a big player at the chairman convention, then chairman of the inaugural committee. a cooperative witness now was the deputy campaign chairman, rick gates, and deputy chairman of the inaugural. we'll hear in a minute the white house response saying this has
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nothing to do with the president, but this, again, has nothing to do with just the trump presidential campaign. nick barrack was a close friend before any of this happened. >> this inaugural committee investigation is one of those things that is part of the pandora's box of that michael cohen raid when investigators went in there and grabbed all these documents. it opened the door to a lot of potentially serious problems, perhaps even more serious problems for some of these people than even the mueller probe. and the white house seems to kind of acknowledge that in some way. they are calling this -- they're implying this is sort of a witch hunt, in the same way that the mueller probe is a witch hunt, but unlike the mueller probe, the southern district of new york is being led by someone who is appointed by president trump. so they're going to have a really hard time making that political argument, but this is really serious stuff, and it makes me think back to the inauguration when you saw all of
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these $100 million coming into this committee and the cake that was put out there was a replica of the obama cake and it was made partly of styrofoam. a lot of people wondered then, where was all this money coming from and where was it going? we may get answers to all of that. >> we know president trump likes things big, and we know president trump likes to say he set records. $170 million brought in for the trump inauguration. twice as much for president obama, 33 million for president bush. president trump had three inaugural balls. those things cost money. president obama had one. the question is where did the money come from, where did it go? >> when you think about this transition period, that is a really crucial time for a lot of these investigations. obviously there's been a lot of focus on the campaign and the
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potential russian involvement during the campaign period, then the white house has often spoken about, well, none of this extends into the presidency or they consider that to be off limits. but there's this period in between that's really crucial because that's when everybody realized, gosh, this guy is actually going to become president. this is our chance to get in on whatever he's going to do. that's when i think the potential for corruption was the highest, that's when michael flynn was having his contacts with the russians, that's when a lot of this stuff was going on. and this, i think, really throws that into vision. >> some of this is done, there's gambling in the casino done by people trying to buy influence or at least curry favor with the new administration. maybe you didn't support him during the campaign, now you realize he's going to win, so you give money to the inaugural committee. you're a donor, whether an individual or someone else, you get your money to the inauguration committee and then it gets sent to the vendor. you're renting a hotel space, you need security for something.
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but the allegation is they knew some of this money was dirty, and it couldn't come in for the legal purposes, either the contributions are too big or they're from foreign sources, so you do an end around so you don't have to report it somewhere. if you talk to the people, it was then president-elect trump. he's the ceo of the operation. his chairman is about to be sentenced. michael flynn pleaded guilty. his deputy campaign chairman pleaded guilty. there are others. the list goes on. his lawyer, michael cohen, pled guilty. talked to somebody at the white house. this is the president-elect under scrutiny. has nothing to do with us. >> i'm sure we'll comply with the requests here. >> i'm reading the same thing you're reading this morning and gathering that information. what i do know at this point is this has nothing to do with the white house. in i think the common thread is hysteria over the fact this
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president became president. the common thread is there is so much hatred out there that they will look for anything to try to create and tie problems to this president. >> the hatred part you alluded to earlier, there are people out there just digging this up. but how can you say this has nothing to do with the white house? number one, michael flynn worked in the white house in one of the most sensitive jobs in the white house. manafort and gates continued to have contacts with people in the white house, especially in the very early days of this. he's the ceo of the organizatioorganizatio organization. whether it's a widget factory or the united states of america, how can people say he had nothing to do with it. isn't he at least responsible for the culture? >> it's a hair splitting they're doing because it becomes closer and closer to him every step this investigation proceeds. if you're the president and you're in the white house, there is a certain way that shields you with executive privilege, but it doesn't apply to the organization, it doesn't apply to the transition period. we've seen the president do this every time.
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when it gets too close to implicate him, he cuts that person loose, although it's difficult to do that when it's the same cast of characters rotating through these environments. it's not the oval office specifically itself, but it's getting close. >> the president's state of the union address tonight. he's just passed the halfway mark in his first term, trying to gear up for reelection, and this is with us today, tomorrow and yet to come. as we go to break, let's take a live look. we call that a duck boat parade. boston hasn't had one in a couple months since the red sox, so they're in desperate need for a new one. you see tom brady there with some of his children, the lombardi trophy. i could watch this forever. i suspect they're going to tell me take a break. we'll be right back.
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lieutenant justin fairfax calls the allegation a politically motivated fear and that his comments with the woman was consensual. they hired the same law firm that was in the christine blasey hearing. >> this is a mess. i think northam is really on his last rope here. it does not seem that he has much support anywhere. but the problems with justin fairfax are really complicated for democrats. i think many of them don't know what to make of it because of the reports we have so far are fairly limited in nature. i suspect now that this accuser has hired some attorneys, we might hear more from her. this could go from bad to worth not just for northam but also for fairfax in a short period of time. the politics for dems continue
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to be complicated because you're already hearing from republicans where was the hesitance to give the accused the benefit of the doubt when brett kavanaugh was in the hot seat? it's messy for them. but even still, many more democrats want northam to step aside so that fairfax can step forward, or someone else can step forward, because northam's explanations are really terrible. i mean, two instances of blackface is two too many. >> northam has made the situation worse. does he now see his lieutenant governor in trouble and think that somehow gives him an opportunity to run the clock or something to hold on? you said if. if we had a governor resign, a lieutenant governor unable to step up, it would be the democratic attorney general next in line in the state of virginia. as we play that out, let's be fair to the lieutenant governor justin fairfax. the accuser has not spoken publicly. she has hired this law firm but we'll see if we get a statement from them or anything down the road. the lieutenant governor said yesterday it's not true, but he
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also complicated things a little. >> does anybody think it's any coincidence that on the eve of my potentially being elevated that's when this uncorroborated smear comes out? does anybody think that's a coincidence? >> do you think governor northam is behind this allegation coming out now? >> i have no indication of that. >> you seemed to suggest that earlier. >> i did not suggest that. you're great reporters. and you'll get to digging and you'll make some connections, and as i said earlier, facts matter. >> there was some grumbling in the state of virginia that he was trying to assign blame elsewhere as he raises questions about the timing, probably understandable, but should the standard be the accuser has her say, period? that was the democratic position during the kavanaugh hearings. >> that's what the standard was, that at the very least, the accuser needs to have a moment to make her claims known. i think it would be very difficult for democrats to say otherwise in this situation. corroboration or no, if she
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wants to be heard, i think they have no choice but to let her be heard. >> and the progress of this is not all that different of the kavanaugh accusation, was you didn't have the person out there in the beginning, then she came out and the allegations became known and it was a step-by-step process. it's also a concern that fairfax was pushing back so hard. there is also the statement of the "washington post" speaking to the accuser, which was more than a year ago saying they found inconsistencies and problems. it didn't actually go that far as we go with the back and forth of this now. i think democrats in virginia wanted to have an unsullied person to put out there. there is a picture of northam and he's told us about another instance. there is a dispute about what the facts are in fairfax's case. but fairfax's pushback is not
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helping him. >> then you have the question of what happens in the commonwealth of virginia? but then to the point, this was tim kaine, he's the former governor of virginia, united states senator. he said first he tried to talk to northam. they were trying to get northam to go on his own. when northam wouldn't go on his phone, he joined other senators saying the governor must resign. much more caution here with the lieutenant governor. >> the situation with the lieutenant governor, i just don't have enough information. every person who has a claim they have been sexually assaulted or whatever deserves to tell their own story in their own time, and that's not yet happened. so to venture a thought or opinion about it, until she makes a decision whether or not she's going to do that, i think that would be premature. >> it's interesting, because when you look at kind of what's happening with these two political officials, with the governor and the lieutenant governor, these are very personal stories for them.
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it is what actually happened and what is going to happen to their political futures now. but if you take a step back away from these two individuals, this is really a proxy for so many of the issues that male politicians in america are going through, the way the democrats have tried to position, they're dealing with these issues differently than the republican party deals with these issues. virginia itself, the voter base that used to represent the virginia voter, that transformation from red to blue, and when donald trump became president, the issues of how we treat race and the history of racism then versus now, and now these two issues. they're all coming to the fore in this completely unlikely setting. i think ralph northam is looking at how vicious news cycles can be like with al franken, and maybe he's thinking if i hold on for a while, the cycle will break and i can defend myself. but if you're a politician,
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unless you have a safety net and a group of loyalists, in this case there would need to be people of color as well as white politicians standing by your side saying, hang on, don't rush to judgment. unless you have that, it's very, very difficult to buy yourself the time and space to get that reconsideration that you're looking for. >> you're dead right in the sense that it's an election year in virginia when it comes to the legislature we're starting in 2020. to have these dynamics is a big challenge. a 2020 rendition of our political radar, coming up. - a potentially serious bacterial lung disease that can disrupt your life for weeks. in severe cases, pneumococcal pneumonia can put you in the hospital. it may take weeks to recover making you miss out on the things you enjoy most. just one dose of the prevnar 13® vaccine can help protect you from pneumococcal pneumonia. it's not a yearly shot.
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on our political radar today, perhaps some clarity of howard schultz considering running for president as an independent. schultz slated to deliver a policy speech on thursday. he wants to lay out some of his ideas and policy prescriptions for problems he sees for the country. most hope he stays out of the congress race, but the hope that he will get in is about on
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reemerge with oprah winfrey. o'rourke will appear at her podcast. it will be taped and air later this month. aides telling the "new york times" it's unlikely he will announce if he is running in today's conversation. candidate cory booker revealing today he's in a relationship. he was asked to weigh in on their future. >> before i declare presidency, i must reveal i'm dating someone very special. >> you must not read the blog. she's on the blog. >> will she make a nice first lady, whoever she is? >> yes. >> yes, she would. >> thank you for saying that. thank you for saying that. beto o'rourke stiits down wh
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oprah. is this just a long dance? or is he doing anything behind the scenes? if you're going to run in iowa, new hampshire, et cetera, you better at least have the legos ready. >> it seems there are people around beto trying to lay the groundwork in the event he does run. the oprah interview, when you take a high profile stage like that, you know that the speculation is going to be there, and oprah really is actually an important king maker, and she is a constituency, and her constituency is quite broad. beto is doing what he needs to be doing to keep the speculation going, and maybe he's holding back because the field is quite
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crowded right now. the announcements are coming fast and furious. getting a little space from the kamala harrises and cory bookers may not be a bad idea. >> you may think you're god's gift to the democratic party, but nobody is going to save you a lane this year. everybody and their brother is going to be getting in, so the reason we've seen such a rush to get into the pool is because at some point it does become too late to build an organization in iowa, to get the right endorsements in new hampshire if this is a conventional presidential cycle, and we don't know that. it could be ever since 2016 we live in upside down world and all bets are off. it's always been the case that a charismatic candidate can come along and sweep voters off their feet without any kind of structure, but you do close some opportunities when you wait and wait and wait. >> iowa still gets the first caucus in an upside down world, right? >> we'll see.
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it's a high-profile spotlight tonight for georgia's stacey abrams delivering the response to the president's state of the union address. abrams narrowly lost in last year's governor's race and many are hoping she'll run for senate in 2020. she promises not to stand on the sidelines too long but she isn't ready to be specific. >> i intend to go back into politics, but i'm going to take the time necessary that no matter who runs, they can believe their votes will count and that their campaigns will count. so my private citizen future is what looms ahead of me, but i will certainly reenter politics, i just haven't decided how. >> tonight she will be the first black woman to give the democratic response as the party counters president trump with a message of diversity.
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xavier becerra is giving the response in spanish and bernie sanders is giving his own response. for stacey abrams, this is a golden opportunity for any politician every year, but it also comes with a little quicksand. >> historically it's almost been more of a jinx than an opportunity, and you have to think if you're offered this time slot, on the one hand, how can you say no. on the other hand, what's it going to do to your future if all anyone remembers is the moment with the water bottle or whatever it happens to be. stacey abrams, i spent a little bit of time with her for a profile last year. she is the rising star in the party despite having lost that election. she's a very charismatic politici politician, and i think the democrats, particularly since 2016, realize they need a message that's just about policy. it's not about a checklist, it's
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