gillum himself even admitted they are targeting "1.4 million returning citizens." words, former felons in line to have their voting rights restored after a vote last year. >> next time, florida is going to be a different ball game because they passed thega amendment. ex-felons can vote. >> that's right. >> that will make a big difference. >> laura: don't ex-felons want a good economy?mm aside from where these new vote should come from, should democrats entrust gillum with this effort? two months ago the florida commission on ethics found unanimously that as mayor of tallahassee, gillum violated ethics laws with trips to costa rica and new york and of course take us to the broadway musical hamilton. did florida democrats really want someone who doesn't respect the will of the state's voters to be the catalyst for this? >> we have been able to legally count every one of those votes, not just in florida but also in georgia. i wonder what the outcome might be. >> laura: exactly what they are staying in georgia by the way. florida will be of vitally important state for

campaign, andrew gillum in florida. doug jones won a senate race in alabama not too long ago, and they say that democrats could be coming back even in the south. and if you had biden/abrams, that would be a strategic, real challenge for republicans in both the midwest and the south. >> david, there is enthusiasm for president trump in a lot of these areas, but it's enthusiasm for who president trump is, but he hasn't delivered in many ways, especially if you think about specifically jobs for white working class voters. remember he was telling people in ohio, don't sell your house, and now you know some of those plants, specifically in lordstown, are closing. is this a good strategy for democrats to go in, or does the president have these voters on lock? >> look, you never want to take any voters for granted, meaning you don't want to write them off and say we don't need them, especially in competitive states. wisconsin, pennsylvania, michigan, these are competitive states. it's a competitive part of the country. and if

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but i think it's going to really stir up the race if he does it. >> mayor gillum, should it be a biden-gillumsten, i'm not sure what's happening here with regard to this vice presidential conversation at this point. first of all, to the governor's point if we want to make sure that our nominees reflect the diversity of the party, then stacey abrams deserves to be in the conversation as a potential contender for president of the united states. not vice president but as a contender for the democratic nomination for president. but the truth is we are a long way off here. we're going to have a vigorous primary. i don't think anybody needs to short circuit that process. i think you get in there, you get measured on your merit, put forth your agenda, what you believe. and i don't think the vice president necessarily needs the cover of anyone. i think he can stand on his own, and i believe he deserves to be evaluated off otherwise beliefs and his position. >> okay, mayor, before i let you go because i want to talk to you about launching this voter registration drive in florida that you launched, whi

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. >> dana: yes, andrew gillum who lost to desantis in florida will have a new effort.ew york times" saying florida is tired of being a cheap date. you can't just come in when it's a presidential election. republicans have been disciplined in that state for 24 years. now it's time for democrats to do the same. rick scott, who is florida's senator, he said this on "fox and friends." >> andrew gillum, get people to vote. it's our job to tell people what you believe in and they'll vote for you. >> dana: i want your thoughts, neil, in addition to what you're working on, the voter registration and these efforts, a higher priority for both parties? >> gosh, i sure hope voter registration is a higher priority for both parties across the country. as somebody that lost the ability to vote and was granted that ability by the voters and lives with real gratitude to that decision, there's no one that believes stronger than i do or desmond or the people part of our ability to vote. when you talk about next steps for us and this movement, we will continue to advocate and outline our

gillum and his companion were moved to the store's basement along with other customers < in all honestyd a little bit i wasn't sure what the situation .. literally sprinting >( marty ) the mall was opened five hours later. police say they are investigating the incident as arson. ( marty ) a couple crashed their car into someone's yard in los angeles thursday night... and the uninvited guests decided to hold an impromptu party there.a security camera captured a car crashing into a wall outside a home. the driver hit the gas and backed up -- and seemed to be taking off. but she returned a short time later. she goes back and forth until she hit the stairs and then ended up getting stuck in the yard. moments later, the couple get out the car, crank up the tunes, and sit down for a chat. two hours later -- the couple was back in the car when police arrived. s

andrew gillum did. can the democrats win the south?e been in louisiana -- >> i was lieutenant governor elected twice. the state went bright red and abrams is a spectacular talent as is andrew gillum. both of those folks got unbelievably close and they ran wonderful elections so i think florida is in play. i think georgia could be in play. i think mississippi and alabama are a little bit tough and louisiana. however, it depends on who the candidate is, who the running mate is. i happen to think america is going to be really tired of president trump by the time this thing rolls around. we kind of thought we knew who he was. now we know we know who he is. so this election isn't about him but what we are, what we want. almost everybody on our side is better than him. and the country needs to kind of get ready to start preparing itself for the future. he's not the future, he's the past. he said so himself because he wants to make america quote calmer again. if you're in the south you know what that calmer again. our friends are saying i'm n

>> democrat andrew gillum thinks he can do that by registering 1 million new voters in florida. >> i'mgh to know that everybody registered doesn't necessarily vote, but i'm smart enough to know you want many marbles on the table so if a few of them fall off it doesn't cost you the election. >> flipping florida will be tough, because republican governor ron desantis beating gilliam for the job is one of america's most popular trump allies. >> i'd like to thank our president for standing by me when -- for standing by me when it wasn't necessarily the smart thing to do. >> next year, governor desantis might be able to return the favor for the president because he is 59% approval rating is tallahassee's highest in ten years. governor desantis is even approved by 42% of democrats compared to just 28% who disapprove. so the trump campaign is unfazed by gail lum. >> interesting candidates choose a failed candidate to lead this operation. can't beat trump in florida either. the >> the reelection effort will revolve around the president's record. >> he's delivered for underserved communities in

his race, along with andrew gillum and stacy abrams set the country on fire. i just think that i'm born to do this is a pretty weird tag line and slogan. i know that he has more depth than that. one of the things that he's going to have to do as he runs, this isn't a city council rate, this isn't even running against a senator, he has to prove he can be presidential. he can't be someone else. this whole ploy to make the next barack obama is going to fall flat on its face and so people need to be able to learn who beto is. the next messiah or the next barack obama is not going to be the case. he'll have to demonstrate some depth. he's a robust challenger and i'm excited he's in the field. i look forward to the excitement he brings to the race but i also hope that excitement has policy depth. >> before we get to that, i want to follow-up how he was saying i was born do this and when you talk to critics that aren't quite sure what they think of him so far, to say that just drips of white male privilege and to think if a kamala harris, for example, were to say, i

andrew gillum, stacey abrams, beto o'rourke because they exceeded expectations. they showed that democrats can compete in republican areas. so i think he's got that going for him. i would expect the next time you see an iowa poll sewell you'll see h see his numbers go up. the question is will the celebrity help or hurt? there's a lot of examples of people who have gone in with a lot of fanfare and, you know, walked out with their tail between their legs. so i think, you know, the second -- the last point i'll make is i think this is a really interesting dynamic now with joe biden who also has a different kind of celebrity because they are -- they do represent the middle. and from a generational point of view, it's very -- it's a very powerful thing for beto o'rourke to say, you know, i agree with joe biden, but i'm 30 years younger and, you know, more -- could do all of these things. so i think it's going to be really interesting shaking out over the next couple of months. and i would suspect by the summer if we look at the iowa numbers we're going to have a much

let's discuss with the former florida governor nominee andrew gillum and the former presidential candidateresumes and titles here. gentlemen, good evening. so good to have you on. mayor, i'm going to start with you. joe biden has yet to announce that he will run. cnn's reporting that he may not announce until late april. what's he waiting for? why is he taking so long? >> i mean, the truth is the vice president, probably any person in the united states, maybe not even in the world who doesn't know who he is. he gets the luxury of a long record, a long resume, and friends all across the country that he has the opportunity to call on. and my guess is the ability to pretty quickly assemble a team should he decide to run for president. so i think the vice president probably assumes he's got time on his hands. i would say i do think people are pretty eager to know one way or another. it's my hope that he'll make a decision and if it is to run this race for president that he get in because he may need some time to make sure he can work through all of the issues that may be raised over the course

. >> you and an ddrew gillum came closer to winning your races than beto o'rourke did.icity, the campaign that beto o'rourke has gained by the listening tour, cooking at home, going to the dentist, his online presence, his fund-raising? why beto o'rourke and not andrew gillum and not stacey abrams as the darling of the media? >> i don't think that success is zero sum, so i don't want to disparage or take away from the reaction and the legitimate response people had to his campaign. but i do want to call the question. there is no difference -- there is no distinction with a difference between what he accomplished and what andrew and i accomplished. i would challenge people to consider why we were not lifted up in the same way. i think race plays a part. i think region plays a part. i also think phenotype plays a part. my responsibility is to investigate running for president because i want people to understand i may not look like the typical candidate but that does not diminish my responsibility to run for the job. that would be true for andrew if he was interested. >> w

confucius institutes like transparency suggest chinese teachers should register as foreign agents gillum up and has been following developments. u.s. leaders have been very upset over alleged foreign influence and meddling of late and they've discovered a new source of terror. a new report issued by the u.s. congress says that the dance workshops and traditional cooking classes here are no laughing matter in fact they're part of a communist plot to get inside of your brain through confucius institutes the chinese government is attempting to change the impression in the united states and around the world that china is an economic and security threat so let's go over there alleged crimes shall we the centers classes apparently described china as a compassionate and friendly country the centers are funded by gifts from the chinese mainland and apparently there is not total transparency when it comes to the cultural centers operations so we decided to stop by the offices of the confucian institute where classes are being held here in lower manhattan and see if the people realize that they're

andrew gillum get people registered to vote.un for office to go tell people what you believe in and they will vote for you. brian: senator, if the republicans plan on running in 2020 without any attack on healthcare i. that aren't blue or red, they will be unsuccessful. what's the attack -- pharmaceutical privacies where is it on coverage. >> i have been holding meetings with the pharmaceutical companies and can bees like cvs with the pbms that buy the drugs. how do we drive down prescription drug prices? i have got some ideas. we are trying to vet through the industry and make sure they would work working with lamar alexander and john cornyn we have to do something with drug prices. brian: clock is ticking what are you working on two years in the president doesn't have a full roster. >> working on reducing the hours of cloture two hours. brian: two hours instead of 30. >> what we are doing now is confirming judges. every 30 hours you can't do anything else. so that's what we are doing all the time because the democrats have dec

don't forget, andrew gillum, stacey abrams, beto o'rourke, they came close.ey all lost. and where did democrats do pretty well? they did pretty well in ohio, where they held a senate seat, wisconsin, where they held a senate seat, pennsylvania where they held a senate seat, also did well in governors' races and i'm leaving out michigan, another important state. what democrats need to do is sort of decide, and this is what the primary's about, is sort out what they're all about and what exactly they believe. i think one thing that the candidates would be smart to do that are running for president, it's not so much that you don't try and satisfy your progressive base if you're a democrat, but you don't want to look like you're a follower. and so, alexandria ocasio-cortez, for instance, has a lot of ambition and a lot of ambitious policies. they shouldn't all jump on the bandwagon to agree with everything she says. they need to be proactive and say actually, i don't agree with that, but this is what i agree with. here's how i'm going lead. ultimately it attracts

reaction coming out well we had a statement this afternoon from the presidential spokesperson kima gillum that the government here very much sees what happened in a noise actually as i've been productive it allowed to two sides to iterate to each other the precise positions that they're all couponing of course you could argue that this is been by for south korea what really matters about this whole thing is not perhaps the minute denuclearization although that is certainly important what is important for people on the peninsula as a whole is peace whether you like it or not things have become much better here in south korea since two thousand and seventeen when mr kim jong un to mr don't trump or engaging in this war veteran and people actually fear there might be military conflict and nobody will tell you that things are right now war stand what it used to be and they want this process to move forward the government wants to process to keep going and that means to say that yes there is hope for the future there's hope for more dialogue and in fact mr trump today at the press conference d

that was called for a couple of days ago was also also the continued today in several cities that gillum are confronting and we had all. seen trends in the streets they're known friday and it's likely that the last words by it which is he talks on it's not spoken yet so what does postponing the election actually meant mean what could we when could we see a possible vote in algeria. this all seems completely unclear because there will be a way of staying within the media framework of the constitution but with the nonsense of yesterday this is the a breach of the constitution in place so heidi i'm clear what will happen and also in case of the book the future plan will react young going on record what the result will be one good well you'll find was that also yesterday because of the t.v. on. for the bias in the top two cents there's no information out about what they discussed but i can detect that state media published. is a bit worrying when it comes to interventions of yarn jobs played a role even if came to the announcements that were made yesterday. to the students who are protesting

are now demanding to see the entire thing perhaps in the hope of still fun in the president guilty gillum open as details. for two and a half years u.s. media has given lots of airtime to the infamous russia gate allegations an online media no less than t.v. one study showed over five hundred thirty thousand articles on trunk russia collusion allegations or the mole or probe have gone online since the probe was launched in two thousand and seventeen but now according to the report from special counsel robert muller it was all for nothing no collusion took place so why did the us media run so long with something that turned out to be a total red herring well some voices blame trump for it they say that it's his fault the media went with the story for so long why did donald trump and why did his administration and why did everybody close to him lie about contacts they had with russia throughout the course of the campaign why did he say that he believes putin over the intelligence community why did he talk about leaving nato things that put our national security at jeopardy why doesn't he re

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there are a lot of people that lost, like andrew gillum and stacey abrams. would like to see their names being bandied about as well. isin new york state aoc calling for the return of 400,000 dollars from real estate developers to the democratic campaign committee. they are threatening to primary then. picksill happen when beto up any fire and aoc comes out against him? sean maloney and congresswoman beto.ave endorsed they are not going near gillibrand. some agree that nancy pelosi is doing one heckuva job. we have steve van in congratulating her. >> has the president met his match in nancy pelosi? how would you grade nancy pelosi? >> a 10 out of 10. she is a warhorse. she has done from what she is trying to accomplish, i think she has done a great job. david: is she a 10? has she beaten the president? not say she has beaten him. he is president and she is still speaker of the house. he has the power of the white house. she is a great politician. i sat in the studio and had this conversation when she was running for speaker. she took impeachment off the tabl

like beto o'rourke, i didn't think he did anything that was outstanding that was disqualifying for gillumy stacey abrams. biden is the sort of person that has some staffing decisions down, folks were waiting for him to come into the racism well, he still got to win this thing. it is not lot for him and you don't want to put someone like stacey and has risen to some extent. you don't want to put her in a box either. >> what about the decision and you never know. you never know what could come about that in the future. why would you hamstring yourself this early on. >> that's true. >> you know way out of and waves away. >> it is march 2019. >> from anybody going antonio t antonio -- into the polls. they cannot keep the momentum of that decision going for the rest of this year. > probably not. there is no need to box yourself in, it is still about money quite frankly and it is still about trying to at least win the day and the media cycles. he has time and they all have time. basil smikle. >> thank you. >> why can the president leave john mccain alone? unbelievable is next. - [woman] with my

i'm sure he's a nice man, but stacy abrams and andrew gillum performed better.y fair" and getting all this fanfare. i think a bernie sanders and donald trump campaign would be a nightmare for the democratic party because trump would rightfully paint sanders as a socialist and that will be all anybody hears. joe biden is still the guy to watch, reverend, but i don't know if he's getting in or not. and amy klobuchar has been a disappointment because i thought she would do a lot better given she's from the midwest. i thought she acquitted herself well during the kavanaugh hearings, but she's not doing well in the polls. she's still at 2%. right now my money is on kamala harris. >> what do you say, david, about the host of candidates? >> well, i think what's impressed me so far is they have all had strengths. they've been strong out of the gate each in their own way. and so we have a few we don't know mainly joe biden we don't know whether he's getting into this race. but so far one thing we know about the democrats, they have health care plans that donald trump doe

first up, tallahassee mayor andrew gillum. remember? he lost his bid to governor of florida. he couldn't beat ron desantis but now he fancies himself as the great trump slayer of florida. >> we are going to commit ourselves to registering and engaging 1 million voters between now and 2020s presidential presidential election. we can deny donald trump a second term. i've got to admit.m i'm sure it's more fun for some of those out there running for president. i this is the hard work of democracy. >> laura: remember, he could be running for president, you know, but he's decided to do the really hard stuff. i have a question, why do the democrats listen to him on anything? he's a loser. why should anyone listen to him. he is a self-appointed spokesman for the losers grievance culture that we've developed here. with a compliant media working hand in glob, elevating their message, the statute, the losers wouldn't feel so emboldened. but, boy, do they? consider arrogant loser number two. stacy abrams, who lost her race for governor to brian kemp in georgia. remember, she didn't lose.

had ron disantis defeating gillum. florida is one of the states trump sort of won in 2016. to have to spend a large amount of time there. florida is one of the ones i would be less concerned about if i was president trump. >> dana: i'm sure that's welcome news to them. your firm, you talked to voters. 2020 prospects, what place represent the rest of america the best? tell me who you saw at number one. >> sure. so we took a look at every county in the united states and how demographically representative it is of america. does it look like america? and then we looked at where all of the democratic presidential contenders are from. number one was the mayor of south bend, indiana. found that where he comes from in south bend, that is the place that looks the most like your average american town, which i think considering most democrats, most voters have never heard of him, gives him an interesting advantage in that race. he can say, i get the average american. statistically that's the place that looks the most. >> dana: the places that look the least like the rest of america, h

also with me is jeff bergen, former contractor for andrew gillum. >> i'm exhausted. >> laura: generation e. how did we get here? speak of the variety of things you showed there really have a common linkage, which is, you are right. there is an education, if you will, by people who know better. we know that there is no free money, it doesn't grow on trees. if there is a redescription of wealth, that means is coming from businesses and other dynamics that are supposed to be creating jobs, creating income, right? allowing people to live lives that best suit them. there is an interesting disconnect here. and, look, who doesn't really wants -- if you can go and live on a paradise island and have everything you wanted at the snap of a finger, you would be elizabeth from "bewitched." who wouldn't want that quite like these kids have been abandoned by adults who know that's not possible, we know thd work is something very, very different. and they are using these young people. but at the same time, the democrats really don't have anything else to offer. the economy is good, we see what president

. >>> we'll leave it there for now, andrew gillum, charlie dent and douglas brinkley, thank you. >>>ll ahead in the newsroom, it's an all-out battle of very serious stuff with isis happening right now, and cnn is the only use network on the front lines. we're live from the battlefield, next. >>> plus a flight carrying more than 150 people crashes, killing everyone on the plane and now we're learning new details about the americans on board. oh oh o♪ ♪ it's taking over ♪ there's no escape ♪ you better get moving ♪ ready or not ♪ it's about to go down here it comes now ♪ ♪ get ready ♪ oh oh oh oh ♪ oh oh oh oh ♪ get ready ♪ moving ♪ ready or not ♪ get ready ♪ oh oh oh oh oh ♪ hey but prevagen helps your brain with an ingredient originally discovered... in jellyfish. in clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve short-term memory. prevagen. healthier brain. better life. yeah, i thought doing some hibachi grilling would help take my mind off it all. maybe you could relieve some stress by calling geico for help with our homeowners insurance. geico helps with homeowners insurance?

today former tallahassee mayor democrat andrew gillum made a major announcement but did not declare himselflaunch a voter registration drive in florida. that's the nation's largest swing state. trump narrowly won florida in the 2016 election. >>> senator bernie sanders made the first west coast appearance for his 2020 presidential bid, california workers at ucla today. sanders stood in solidarity with the workers mostly in the health care field who are asking the uc system to halt contracts with private companies and create a path to full-time career positions. he says strong unions are the key to closing the gap of income inequality. >> i am proud to be here with two great unions. we are going to rebuild the american middle class. we need to grow the trade union movement. >> senator sanders will hold a campaign rally in san francisco this sunday at fort mason. >>> tonight california senator and presidential hopeful kamala harris will enjoy a star-studded fund-raiser in hollywood held at the home of director j.j. abrams and co-chaired by shonda rhimes. tickets cost almost $3,000 per guest.

this is by former tallahassee mayor and andrew gillum.r registration drive call it, bring it home to register a million people to vote for the 2020 election and this is the message he had for legislators in florida. >> because we turned out and we voted like our lives depended on, 1.4 million people now have the ability to register to vote here in the state of florida. that's a big deal. that is a big deal. and since we're on that topic, i want us to be able to send an unapologetic message to the legislator to get their hands off of amendment four. it is the law of the land. we believe that people should not be judged forever by their worse day. we decided that and we decide it had overwhelmly. the only thing the florida legislator needs do is to get out of the way and let amendment four take shape and let us get to the process of registering voters. that is our job. that is our work. >> so just what happens now? hopefully the legislator puts an end to this and doesn't pass the bill. it's not there yet. i think we all need to keep in mind

reporter: other shoppers sheltering in place including former florida gubernatorial candidate andrew gillumall honesty, my heart dropped a little bit. they moved everybody very quickly to one side of the store and eventually down into this basement area. >> reporter: the lapd rushing into the westfield century city mall guns drawn evacuating everyone as officers searched store by store. >> never encountered an individual with a gun but a package was left behind by an individual. >> reporter: police say the man reportedly set that package on fire sending smoke billowing out of the mall. nearby beverly hills high school locked down as a precaution. this automated call going out to parents. >> the lapd is currently responding to a possible man with a gun reported at westfield century city mall. >> after several hours the mall was re-opened. police say no shots were fired. no one was injured, and the bomb squad determined that package found in the amazon store was not an explosive. dan. >> good news but scary nonetheless. marci, thank you very much. really appreciate it. >>> time now for the we

andrew gillum. thank you so much. i appreciate you both joining us. i should say mayor. doesn't shy away from his ambitions, telling "vanity fair," i want to be -- i want to be in it. man, i'm just born to be in it and want to do everything i humanly can for this country at this moment. so, he's ramping up to something, it looks like. >> yeah. i mean, it's clear. i think the congressman may be ready to make a decision. i will tell you, though, that a race for president clearly has to be about the people of the country. you got to feel it in your heart and in your nerve and in your sinew, that you're restless at night because you're so moved by the conditions in the country that it causes you to do something. and so i think that's what people are going to be looking for in candidates in this democratic primary, the people who are in this race and are in it for them and will do the best job at demonstrating what they're going to do to improve their everyday live condition. and i think that's what we're going to be looking forward to. >> let me ask you this because you've r

politics into the mix which she did in another interview today when talking about how she and andrew gillumhe florida gubernatorial election, compared to beto o'rourke, democratic darling. >> there is a distinction with the difference between what he accomplished and what andrew and i accomplished. i would challenge people to consider why we were not lifted up in the same way. i think race plays a part. i think region plays a part. >> abrams has been mentioned as a running mate for former vice president joe biden who is expected to announce a 2020 run soon. biden was in new york last night were he to touch on identity politics and expressed regret in his behavior during the anita hill hearing in 1991. >> there were a bunch of white guys. i mean this sincerely. a bunch of white guys hearing this testimony from the senate judiciary committee. wooden anita hill came to testify, she faced a committee that didn't fully understand wht was all about. >> republican meghan mccain came to biden's defense arguing standards in 2019 are different than 1991. >> joe biden is one of the truly great, decent

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. >> if they did, andrew gillum would be the governor of florida and stacey abrams would be the governort. >> no, i'm not -- >> some other issues at play in georgia, as well. >> the candidates who won in the midterms in 2018 were more likely to have run on medicare for all and tax -- like that's -- this is the core of the country. >> joyce has this plan in birmingham. >> so it's really interesting, right? i think sometimes when we're in new york or washington, we forget that there's this entire rest of the country. sometimes fondly referred to as fly over country or the deep south. and things play very differently. and what i'll say is, although i can it's true that there is still bastians of conservatism in the south, the emergence of women candidates, the emergence of people openly calling themselves progressives. are they a majority? they're no place close. but the fact that they can speak up in public again is a very interesting development. and i think sally's right when she talk bes the center of the country and how far right the republicans pulled. democrats aren't polling far lef

>> to that point, is stacey abrams made a good point she and han drew gillum did far better than baito. the fall-back position is donald trump cannot be beaten by anyone other than a white male and i'm inclined maybe to kind of agree with that in this election. because of the way he conducts himself. because of how divided this country is right now. it's going to be hard on a woman or a woman of color to beat him. garrett will be squinting to see if any leibowitz is on stage with the candidate this time around. help us understand ways in which the candidate has been pushing back on this argument. when you look at the democratic field, he hasn't advanced as many policy proposals as others have. >> i'm in el paso for the first time. >> forgive me. >> that's all right. we'll be -- >> putting on the miles today. austin tonight. we're logging miles in texas. on the policy question i think there are two points, on the broad strokes here, i think all these democratic candidates agree on a lot of these issues. if you say we want to improve gun control or want to expand health care. the democra

he has, you know, made comments about stacey abrams and andrew gillum, he punctuates the point that black are not a had a mothus group of voters, so he still has work to do. >> pointing out that he's a guy from brooklyn like everybody else. here's another clip from his rally. >> my experience as a child living in a family that struggled economically, powerfully influenced my life and my values. i know where i came from! and that is something i will never forget. >> he's 77 years old. he's been in political life for some four decades. what exactly will he need to do to propel him to the support for the nomination and possibly even beat trump? >> i think one of the biggest challenge that bernie sanders face is not the voters themselves, it's actually the democratic party. a lot of things going on behind the scenes to make the caucus states less important or less relevant early on, so it's all direct primary which really helps the more elite and establishment kinds of candidates within the party. he's going to continue to butt up against that and that's going to be a real challenge for him a

next day, we go to -- it felt very strange, the next day i go to tesla and we meet this guy jerome gillumget so lucky to get this guy in charge of manufacturing? this guy is amazing. he was describing how he comes from a farm in france and i was asking him, how do you hire people and his father lived on the same farm. he said, well, the first question i ask them is, have you blown up your house? why do you ask them that i want to know if they've blown up their house instead of my factory. everything he does is simplified. i knew this wasn't going to work, cars flying over head. when you start manufacturing, you're actually going up an incline and as opposed to using gravity, you want to go down an incline. then he says, oh, and by the way, i was just with -- i'm allowed to speak -- i gave them permission to speak to three people a year. i'll speak to three people a year. you're the second i've spoken to in two days. yesterday i met with "60 minutes." i said i just met with her, if i had known she was here i would have offered her a ride back to new york. the people that -- you know, that

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