by the way, pete buddigieg is also a millenial.e energy from the millenials, a well spring if you will throughout our country, and harness that to reinvigorate the democratic party. >> are you painting him as the antithesis to donald trump? other than being a millenial, he kind of has a lot of the same pros trump has as being an outsider. being able to organize in red states. >> yeah, but here's the difference. he's actually governed. donald trump has never governed. this is an administration whose malice is tempered only by their incompetence. pete buddigieg has balanced budgets year in and year out. he's a mayor. he meets people where they're at. he can speak to the hopes that people have around their own family's dinner tables and what they want to their kids and their kids future. howard dean said if our party doesn't pick pete to be our dnc chair we're going to be regretting it for years to come. this isn't about the past, not about old relationships, it's about forging a bigger and more inclusive democratic party. you hear us

pete buddigieg has suggested that if there is a deadlock he could come through as a compromise candidate. but i think it will be fascinating to see how the ellison/perez fight pans out because of what it says about where the democratic party is right now. >> and also, the young upstart, pete buttigieg, but the two men the likely front-runners. we'll see what happens becau there's a lot of work for the democrats to do. gabby, cpac in its fourth and final day but he was there yesterday and this was a big deal for the crowd. what was the reaction from the conservative activists in the room? >> well, you know, this is the first appearance that he's made since he really launched his political platform at cpac. i think a lot of grassroots activists who have been constantly paying attention were seeking reassurance from the president himself and that's what he aimed to deliver to them yesterday in that speech. it was about halfway through that he tried to switch gears away from his attacks on the media and focus on assuaging concerns about his administration and saying i'm here to be a champion