so i think there's a path for the michael bloombes and landrieu. think what the path is politics is different now because of president trump. it could be 40 people running for the democratic n pination. thh may be through california. hemaybe that's path now. robert: and real quick, beto o'rourke, a year fromo now, we think there's buzz around this texas congressman? i know we don't like to predict too much. >> i think so. because there's a world where we're talking about beto o'rourke for a vice presidential spot. i thire w talking about him a year from now. robert: shuthdown is dominating this holiday week. but what else should with have in our calendar in terms of showdowns? >> i think we will expect inner shutdown showdowns. we've seen three this year. shutdowns seem to come clumps. ronald reagan had eight of them. ne in otable that this particular is the first time that we've seen worker sent home from the federal government when one party is in control. i get the senate and 60 votes, but it's significant. i think we need to watch spending. rig

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democrat party which is currently going down to thirteen thousand person in the same area as mary landrieu is a current governor it made us very much because they are fearing ze'evi because the f.t. is taking voters from the s.p.d. from the social democrats from the christian democrats and also from other side your buddies afraid of you other yes certainly their own freight because because the point is we have actually under we have for now an old we want you retiring already have really no no we have really no party which is a conservative party germany all the other parties moved during the last years constantly to the left side and there was a vacuum right on the right side besides a christian democrat and your failing and your feeling that spain's exactly we are filling that space lots of and propaganda against the not going to tell you no no it's not it's not a power about propaganda it's about telling the troops yeah we be need to say people that what is going on and we have same people what is going on because we had a situation in germany set for years and years people were not tol

do you think if mitch landrieu winds up the nominee -- >> whom i love. >> tucker: okay.asn't made the city better but he's a nice guy. if he's the nominee, people will say, you know what? we don't care he's a white guy. i don't believe that. i hope you're right. >> i hope we're at the point where voters, democratic voters and candidates are looking at are they speaking to the major problems, the china problem -- >> tucker: you're going to need to switch parties. >> are they talking about -- >> tucker: i agree with you. i don't see the evidence that you're right. >> the bases in both political parties. the base in the republican parties, 15% of voters. base in the democrats, 15%. there's 70% that are practical looking for solutions. >> tucker: if we go beyond the bean counting, it would be a great service to the country. thank you. >> thank you. >> tucker: rahm emanuel is betting the city's fortunes on getting more of his own people addicted to gambling and drugs. that's the answer to fiscal crisis. more on that after the break. liberty mutual customizes your car insuranc

one that speaks to the constituent in ways they feel they are connected to and that is why mish landrieu the former mayor of new orleans is my sleeper because he is somebody who has the southern drawl and can speak to white working class voters but he also feels just as comfortable in a black church so you need somebody who can speak across constituency and be authentic and that is why beto is rising to the top because he is speaking in a way that doesn't sound like a politician and i think democrats need to look at some of the things he's saying and perhaps adopt some of that methodology. i think that it is really going to be a campaign about who resonates with the base and who excites the base and can speak across constituency to a broad coalition of people that make up the democratic party and we just saw this in 2018, chris. the democrat coalition is diverse and we elected a diverse array of candidates and i would like to see that in 2020. >> do you think it will be a close one in 2020? looking at it now. tough for the democrats. >> not if they nominate someone who doesn't drive peop

because there is elected as a mayor of new york as a republican but there might be room for a mitch landrieu joe biden will pick that lane to running rather than trying to sort of out-bernie sanders bernie sanders or elizabeth warren or kamala harris. he may say i'm going to run as a unifier, somebody who will work with republicans and democrats. i'm going to serve one term and i'm going to put the country in the right direction and then retire to delaware. that could be an appealing message because of her buddy else is slicing up the left wing of the democratic party. >> ed: there's one other person, i've got 30 seconds, who seems to already be running an donald trump. what's your advice to him tonight about the government shutdown and what's ahead with the wall? >> i wrote about it in my column tomorrow. you've got to have an end strategy and the president, by having that highly visible session in the oval office, highly unusual, made it hard for democrats to sort of wiggle out of those positions and we saw nancy pelosi basically taunt him over the issue if you can't get republican votes w