pete buttigieg. he would also be the first veteran of the war in afghanistan to serve as commander-in-chief. he will take questions from voters. in our audience are democrats and independents who plan to vote in the caucuses. please welcome mayor pete buttigieg. >> good to see you again. thank you. >> have a seat. all right. before we get to the important questions. you really have to settle this. because you and your husband seem to have a disagreement on how to pronounce where are last name. according to your twitter biographies, your husband says it's boot-edge-edge. how do you pronounce your last name? >> either way gets you there. >> back home they just call me mayor pete. >> very diplomatic. i feel like you said your way was right but then did not throw your husband under the bus. which that is the right apath. but let's get to the serious questions. we have a lot of questions about your experience. our first question comes from a junior at the university of texas. >> thank you for taking my qu

mayor pete buttigieg/-d- presidential candidate: "people are a little too polite to ask the question of why a 37-year-old mayor thinks he has any business being in a discussion about the highest office in the land?" that's precisely the question facing pete buttigieg - the youngest candidate in the presidential race.he's the mayor of south bend, indiana now turning heads as he audaciously eyes the white house.-nats reporter question-mayor pete buttigieg/-d- presidential candidate: "i know you don't expect to hear this from the youngest person in the conversation, but my simplest answer is experience // i know there's a more conventional path that involves marinating in washington for 10 or 20 or 40 years, but i actually think we want washington to begin looking more like our best run cities and towns, not the other way around."he's touting his youth as a virtue ... and his biography filled with a list of firsts.mayor pete buttigieg/-d- presidential candidate: "the fa that i'm a veteran, that i'm young, that i'm in a same sex marriage, those are important parts of who i am. but that p

mayor pete buttigieg/-d- presidential candidate: "people are a little too polite to ask the questionof why a 37-year-old mayor thinks he has any business being in a discussion about the highest office in the land?" that's precisely the question facing pete buttigieg - the youngest candidate in the presidential race.he's the mayor of south bend, indiana now turning heads as he audaciously eyes the white house.-nats reporter question-mayor pete buttigieg/-d- presidential candidate: "i know you don't expect to hear this from the youngest person in the conversation, but my simplest answer is experience // i know there's a more conventional path that involves marinating in washington for 10 or 20 or 40 years, but i actually think we want washington to begin looking more like our best run cities and towns, not the other way around."he's touting his youth as a virtue ... and his biography filled with a list of firsts.mayor pete buttigieg/-d- presidential candidate: "the fact that i'm a veteran, that i'm young, that i'm in a same sex marriage, those are important parts of who i am. but that

>> pete buttigieg rising in the polls, telling democrats to keep the faith. let's go out front. good evening. i'm erin burnett. out front tonight, trump fumble, a republican congressman telling cnn trump is blowing it at a time he should be celebrating what's come out of the maturity investigation so far. trump spiked the football in the end zone when he got news in the end zone but the damn ball came and hit us in the nose. that's a quote. they are stunned by his decision to ribatle obamacare instead of racing to the end and celebrating bob mueller's investigation. >> though obamacare has been an absolute disaster we will have a plan far better than obamacare including very importantly, pre-existing conditions which i've always been in favor of. >> if trump kills obamacare, obviously, you have tens of millions of people who don't know what they will get for coverage and you have to replace it. pre-existing conditions easier to talk about than do something about it. hundreds of millions of americans have benefitted from pre-existing conditions required to be covered by obamacare

we'll see if mayor pete buttigieg can sort of fill that lane. he's running as a generational candidate. not necessarily as a candidate who's, you know, from, you know, going to talk to a lot of these voters in the midwest. >> right. can't get over he's only 37 years old. david, go ahead. >> i was going it to ato ask jet what he felt about joe biden's popularity in the midwest, can he fill that lane with sherrod brown now out, is biden, who does well in pennsylvania, for example? >> reporter: i think there's no question at all to that, david, and we know that president trump talks about joe biden, i'm told with one word, "pennsylvania." they believe joe biden can carry pennsylvania. i think in a general election, joe biden without question is the strongest candidate, as we see right now, but campaigns allow candidates to grow. we will see who grows at the end of this. no doubt, joe biden has that lane. his challenge, of course, is navigating this obstacle course of a left-leaning primary. we don't know how he'll do in that but the only way to fin

mayor pete buttigieg/-d- presidential candidate: "people are a little too polite to ask the questiona 37-year-old mayor thinks he has any business being in a discussion about the highest office in the land?" that's precisely the question facing pete buttigieg - the youngest candidate in the presidential race.he's the mayor of south bend, indiana now turning heads as he audaciously eyes the white house.-nats reporter question-mayor pete buttigieg/-d- presidential candidate: "i know you don't expect to hear this from the youngest person in the conversation, but my simplest answer is experience // i know there's a more conventional path that involves marinating in washington for 10 or 20 or 40 years, but i actually think we want washington to begin looking more like our best run cities and towns, not the other way around."he's touting his youth as a virtue ... and his biography filled with a list of firsts.mayor pete buttigieg/-d- presidential candidate: "the fact that i'm a veteran, that i'm young, that i'm in a same sex marriage, those are important parts of who i am. but that profile

pete buttigieg served in afghanistan, tulsi gabbard in iraq. the constitution settled that. the age is 35 to be president. of course, at the end of the day that will be voters making that decision in this case. ana? >> i still think i'm almost 37 and i can't imagine being in a position to run for president. that alone is ambitious and impressive. jeff zeleny, thank you for bringing us that reporting. >>> live at south by southwest, cnn presidential town halls back to b.a. back. john delaney at 7:00, tulsi gap ard at 8:00 and mayor pete buttigieg at 9:00. that starts 7:00 eastern tonight right here on cnn. if you feel like you spend too much time in the bathroom with recurring constipation and belly pain talk to your doctor and say yesss! to linzess. ♪ ♪ yesss! linzess treats adults with ibs with constipation or chronic constipation. linzess can help relieve your belly pain and lets you have more frequent and complete bowel movements. linzess is not a laxative. it works differently to help you get ahead of your recurring constipation and belly p

. >> a big boost for democratic presidential hopeful pete buttigieg.ayor of south bend, indiana, has soared to third place in a new poll of the iowa caucus. he picked up support from 11% of likely democratic voters in iowa, behind only joe biden and bernie sanders. >> emerging from the massive democratic presidential pack, he is beginning to catch nationwide attention. >> his polling numbers since last week have more than doubled. >> he is the hot thing in the race right now. >> trevor: yes, that's right. the mayor of south bend, indiana, is now in third place in the iowa democratic polls, which is insane. i mean, he's so popular, that i've seen people across america wearing his signature outfit of a dress shirt, blue tie, and sensible shoes. i mean, maybe that's just how white people dress. i don't know. i don't know. ( laughter ) the point is who is this guy who is killing it in the polls? well, let's find out in our brand-new segment "getting to know dem." ( cheers and applause ) all right, first things first-- a lot of people are asking, "how do yo

one of those candidates is pete buttigieg. he had to say yesterday at a town hall here in austin. >> more executive [ inaudible ] as president of the united states and more experience. as cheesy as it is, a 37-year-old, the youngest in the nomination, my simple question is why somebody has a voice in this conversation, it is experien experience. >> reporter: you hear he is leaning into the fact he is a young candidate, 37 years old, mayor of south bend. you talked about the audacity of the idea he i think, he to be preside could be president of the united states. others will be on the stage and for the three candidates they are relatively unknown and this is arguably the largest stage they will have to far in the 2020 primary process. you have candidates like elizabeth warren and amy klobuchar discussing tech policies to break up tech companies like amazon and facebook and a number of other companies coming here and discussing that in front of an audience and people who hope to or possible work for tech companies that could be

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pete buttigieg is gay.t openly lgbtq person to make it this far in a major political party's nomination process for president. mayor pete buttigieg will add to the diversity when he joins the other candidates this summer on the democratic party's debate stage. here's what he said this morning on msnbc. >> i think what's most important right now is the kind of person who's walking in there. are they the kind of person who understands how to take advice? are they the kind of person who understands when you need to move from the listening phase where you acknowledge that you might be wrong to the phase when you've made a decision and you need to implement that? this is the kind of thing that a mayor of a city of any size needs to do. i understand it's more conventional. people have an easier time swallowing the idea of somebody who's maybe marinated in washington for a long time, been in congress or the senate. you could be a very senior u.s. senator and have never in your life managed more than 100 people. i

please welcome mayor pete buttigieg! now, mr. mayor, when did you declare your candidacy for president? >> so, we announced our exploratory committee three weeks ago yesterday. >> stephen: okay, and what does that mean? that means you're exploring to see whether you will run? what is exploratory? people start with that, but-- >> yeah, you get known, you raise the money, you put the organization in place and as the signs continue pointing to yes, then, one big day, you have your launch. >> stephen: now, your appearance on my show, is this part of the exploratory committee? >> we're exploring, yeah. >> stephen: okay. i'm sorry i didn't have a pith helmet for us. >> nice place you got here. >> stephen: thank you very much. now, for anybody who don't know, tell the people who you are. >> sure, so, 37 years old, born and raised in south bend, which is a great city in the industrial midwest. i'm a veteran of the war in afghanistan, i'm in my eighth year as mayor, and i just opened an exploratory committee to run for president.

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and then we have mayor pete buttigieg. he is from south bend.crosses a lot of boxes that democrats are looking for, somebody who can reach across not only lines because he himself is gay, but he's also served in the military. very, very bright fellow. so tonight you're going to hear from these three individuals who are all trying to convince democrats that they are the ones that should at least be looked at right now in this very crowded field, fred. >> yeah, very crowded, but if you look at the most recent polling on iowa, i mean, there is a zeroing in on really the top two, and look at what a huge dip, you know, after sanders, you know, coming in at number 2 with 25%, the rest of the pack with just single digits. >> reporter: just single digits, and if you look at that poll you see joe biden and bernie sanders, as you said, at the top. a steep drop after that. but we shouldn't be too surprised right now. you have a lot of candidates that are all getting into the race, talking about getting in the race. a lot of these candidates share very simi

former representative john delaney, representative tulsi gabbard, senator amy klobuchar, and mayor pete buttigieg, all there as well as the democrat who has yet to announce his 2020 ambitions, former congressman beto o'rourke. he took to the stage last hour to introduce his documentary, "running with beto." and while many festival-goers are there to watch his film, they're also there to see if he officially launches his presidential campaign. cnn correspondent leyla santi o assistant yag go there. >> reporter: a lot of folks excited about the documentary that will be on the screen called "running with beto" in which they will take a look back at his run for the senate. while people are here excited about seeing this documentary, about talking to the former congressman outside of this theatre and even in the theatre, the focus is on that big question, will he run to become the next u.s. president. we know he's been pretty quiet on social media over the last week, but he has been pretty active in terms of e-mailing his supporters. he had sent out a plan for what he believed the immigration system -

the person, of course, is pete buttigieg. people say buttigieg.'t care what you call him. here is what he cares about, though, buttigieg is rising in the polls. they said he's the hottest candidate out there now. and buttigieg has been making the tv rounds. you might have seen him on "real time" or "the view," or "colbert." how did someone virtually unknown a few months ago get to this point? let's talk media strategy. liz smith is with me. you've been working with mayor pete, as he likes to be called, for a couple of years now. >> yeah. two years right before he announced for dnc chair. >> he's exploring a presidential run. what have you done to raise his profile? >> we started this race and he started this race as a virtual unknown. you know, he's a 37-year-old mayor from the industrial midwest, and those aren't the people that will be on the front page of the "new york times" or featured wall to wall on cnn. but throughout his career, he was open and assessable, transparent leader and it was important for us to be soap, assessable, and transpar

from former congressman john delaney, hawaii congresswom congresswoman tulsi gabbard and mayor pete buttigieg. he's live at the south by southwest conference where the town halls will also be taking place tonight. what are you hearing tonight about these polls, first off? >> reporter: good morning, fredricka. the democratic polls are ascending on south texas for the south by southwest conference. all eyes on those early voting states, iowa, wisconsin, south dakota as well, and a poll in iowa taking a look at where things stand at this time in the race. no surprise joe biden is at the top of the list followed by bernie sanders. joe biden has 27% support, bernie sanders 25% support. from there is falls off rather dramatically with elizabeth warren at 9%, kamala harris at 7%, beto o'rourke not yet in the race at 5%, cory booker at 3%, and amy klobuchar at 3%. this is the race as the democrats start to introduce themselves. joe biden not in the race yet. we do believe he is going to get in. all signs are that he will likely announce his candidacy in april. the question is can he hold this lead? m

so to help you out, it's time for a segment -- "getting to know pete buttigieg." ♪ [ cheers and applausehe served two terms as of south bend, indiana. he's openly gay. he's 37 years old, but still gets carded. [ laughter ] he's white, but he's othe good ones. [ laughter ] he spent seven months in afghanistan and three months es ng that shirt. he got into harvard without felicity huffman's help. [ cheers and applae ] he'srom indiana, so he's excited to move to warshington. [ laughter ] he's hoping the debates enec before 9:30,se that's his bedtime. speaks eight languages, which beats ou eight.t president by [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] his best friend is the bowl he cuts his hair with. [ light laughter ] and finally, he's definitely what that kid from the movie in "room" is goto grow up to look like. [ laughter ] this has been "getting to know pete buttigieg." [ cheers and applause ] 89 years ago today, colonel sanders founded fast food chain kfc. and boy, was trump pissed when he found out he still had to come to work today. "it's a holiday!" [ laughter ] that's right. 89 years a

. >> pete buttigieg is running for president. he wrote an open letter.s city is absolutely committed to your safety and well-being. this entire city has its arms around you in love and peace and we support you as you practice your faith here in this community, our community. this home we share. you are our teachers and doctors, neighbors and friends. we all live here as one. >> that's a pretty straightforward statement. it's hard to find a contrast that would be more stark than what he said versus how the president handled this. >> democrats want to seize on this moment to show there's a different way, that there's a way that could be more unifying. i think when the president is making these statements, he is thinking about his base. it's not that his base is white supremacist. it's that his base -- there is a significant portion of his base that are worried about the changing demographics of the country, that are deeply worried about immigration. and so they -- there is some connection there with his political support. >> the word is leadership. >>> nex

so, look, i think that pete buttigieg is an exciting candidate.our side we have substantive candidates who are charismatic, who people are excited about. what i want to caution everyone, though, is to hold all of the candidates to the same standard. in some instances, and i'm not saying as a generalization, but in some instances, we tend to get very, very excited, particularly as a political media class, about young, white men, because they are seen as having extremely exciting potential, and women generally are not looked at as, you know, exciting candidates for any leadership position based on their potential. they have to have all of the qualifications, they have to put out detailed policy plans like elizabeth warren. and yet, she's not talked about in the same way with the same enthusiasm. and i would caution everyone also to think that she's not necessarily a front-runner or potentially could be in that top tier, because she's very good in the room, hallie. she's going to be very strong in the debates, and now she has the substance to back th

maybe you have now, south bend, indiana pete buttigieg. with senator elizabeth warren, ahead of senators cory booker and amy klobuchar. we have correspondent jeff zeleny joining us now, horschel davis who is a senior analyst. how much does the name factor resonate in the polls. >> i think the name recognition factors a lot into the first three names that we saw. obviously former vice president biden is not in the race yet, so the fact he's at the top not having even declared a candidacy, a lot of that has to be chalked up to the fact people know his name, he's a known quantity. people feel like he could go up against president trump potentially and win. that's also the case against bernie sanders. he won last time. he's been around politics for a long time and of course beto o'rourke had that very attention-grabbing campaign, and he's been getting a lot of attention on the campaign trail. i think i would attribute buttigieg's bump to the opposite. people don't know who he is so much. he's sofrt of an unknown quantity, an unknown freshness

pete buttigieg .. mayor of south bend, indiana .. openly gay, presidential candidate he's also a newlywed .. marrying husband chasten buttigieg just last year mayor pete buttigieg:"i married a teacher, so i married up. you know, that intimate thing in our lives exists by the grace of a single vote on the u.s. supreme court."chasten, who at 29 is the youngest of the potential first spouses, is a constant and vocal supporter of his husband's candidacy chasten buttigieg:"i'm really excited for the country to get to know him on a much larger scale "also in the honeymoon phase - hawaii congresswoman tulsi gabbard,who married husband abraham williams in 2015abraham is a cinematograph er - the two met when he volunteered to shoot gabbard's political ads.. he proposed while they were riding the waves, surfing in hawaii. minnesota senator amy klobuchar's husband john bessler already has experience as a political spousesen. amy klobuchar:"he said, well the senate spouses are having a baby shower for jim webb's wife and i'm going. the world has

mayor pete which i go by because buttigieg is too hard for me, mayor pete is still back in the pack.all about momentum at the moment. there he is, by the way. okay. look, still, if you're joe biden you still feel good about this. 29%. joe biden is the spent 30 years in the senate and was the vice president for eight years. right here mayor pete, mayor pete buttigieg, mayor pete is tied with elizabeth warren which is sort of remarkable. if you told me that the mayor of south bend, indiana and elizabeth warren would ever have the same amount of support in a 2020 hypothetical poll, brooke, i would be surprised. progress matters. the other number i'll look to is beto o'rourke. got to be happy with where he is. he's above kamala harris now. these are -- these two are the two to watch right now. they're the two risers. everybody else is sort of in a similar place that they've been. >> well, mayor pete kind of crushed it in a cnn town hall. >> he did. that was the start of some momentum for him. >> who else is in today? >> let's go through this field -- we'll have to get a bigger screen. ma

tonight you're going to hear from mayor pete buttigieg. but first let's talk. we got more proof this week that our justice system doesn't work

john delay nee at 7:00, tulsi gabbard at 8:00 and pete buttigieg at 9:00. all await joe biden and some potential announcement in the next week or two. it will suck all the oxygen out of the entire field. >> everybody is just waiting until he makes his decision. 95% there. michael cohen is suing the trump organization. the former lawyer says after he started cooperating with the federal investigators, his former employer stopped paying legal bills as required under his contract. cohen says he's owed $4 million. the trump organization call it is a desperate money grab and says it doesn't owe michael cohen one penny. an initial says the justice department may have to take a hard lock at whether cohen perjuriered himself. he testified he never asked the white house about a pardon. a claim his own attorney seemed to contradict late wednesday. >>> cameras in the supreme court, not any time soon. according to justices the two appeared before house lawmakers thursday. video inside the court is something interest groups have advocated, but both say the topic hasn't

like mayor pete buttigieg.pronounce his name. >> well done. >> buttigieg. i'm sticking with it. when biden gets in, that will be another monkey wrench in the plans. we'll see. i just want to challenge some of the main stream media outlets to give folks equal coverage. again, so many people get news from the 24-hour echo chamber. when you focus on one person that's dis pproportionate it's disservice to the viewers. >> one needs to be a marketer when you run for president. you are marketing to the media. one of the things beto is getting a lot of ink on is his views on race. there are african-american candidates, julian castro. one of the things he said is he spoke to an almost entirely white crowd in iowa and made the point that the people hurt most by marijuana prohibition do not look like the people in this room. he has an appeal to a white voter who otherwise may like joe biden or bernie sanders but he's talking race, unity and doing a thing that's obamaesque. does that matter more than some of the substance

tonight you're going to hear from mayor pete buttigieg. but first let's talk. we got more proof this week that our justice system doesn't work the same for everybody. first, you got president trump who claims total vindication in the russia investigation. well, hold on. turns out bob mueller's actual report is almost 400 pages, and all we've seen is a four-page summary put together by one of the president's political appointees, and even trump's attorney general bill barr acknowledged that mueller stopped short of exonerating the president on the question of obstruction. so let's see the full report, please. but the mere fact that trump trash talked a prosecutor the whole time and didn't get charged with anything, let me tell you something, don't try that in the hood. if an ordinary citizen repeatedly, publicly insulted their district attorney, they would get like 20 additional charges and have to plead to something. so if you got power, our system treats you very differently, and speaking of power and celebrity. i don't even know what to say about jussie smoll

high-dollar fundraising events trying to match the enthusiasm sanders, o'rourke, harris and now pete buttigieg are seeing in the opening round of the race.mayor pete buttigeig/d- presidential candidate: "obviously it's a lot of fundraising that goes on, but it's not about getting the most dollars, don't get me wrong, the more you can help the better."the recent buttigieg boomlet has him racing to capture the enthusiasm including a stop in a high-rise apartment at trump international hotel and tower in new york.the first-quarter fundraising period will offer the first true measure of how the candidates are catching on - among big donors and those inspired to send in small contributions.this year, nearly all democrats are limiting the kind of money they accept...sen. cory booker/d- presidential candidate: "i will not take money from corporate pacs, i will not take money from federal lobbyists, i will not take money from pharma executives áapplauseá" fundraising is also a metric to qualify for the democratic debates candidates must have 65,000 unique donors from at least 20 states to reach the de

pete buttigieg, tulsa gabbard and tom delaney. all three barely registering with voters, polling at or below 1%, both now and back in january. comparing their numbers to the top four candidates in this poll, joe biden, bernie sanders, kamala harris and elizabeth warren, yes, quite a difference there. what were your takeaways as a keen observer of this 2020 process so far? >> reporter: phil, i think there is no question that mayor buttigieg made a point that he has in bars and restaurants. he does admit he's 77 years old. we've seen other candidates try to fudge their age or act a little older, and last night he said, look, i have military experience, i have executive experien experience. i think he was also trying to show he's strong enough to go after this administration, the president and also the vice president who is from indiana. by and large, you mentioned the polls right there. the national polls at this point, as you know, are essentially meaningless because they are a barometer of name i.d. only. but the iowa poll is cert

for 2020, i mentioned mayor pete, pete buttigieg, supposedly had a good week, he got up to 4% from 1%ised a lot of money. we'll see what happens with the older candidates, the bernies and the bidens. madison, what's the worst match-up for president trump? is there one that you maybe worry a little bit about? be fair. >> honestly, at this point -- connell: oh, no one? not even one? [inaudible conversations] [laughter] >> of course she would say that. >> right, right, right. to me, no one stood out as a star, i think time will tell. i do think a moderate candidate would be a harder match-up than some of these very far left people, so someone like biden, maybe buttigieg out of indiana would be more concerning because i don't think the nation as a whole really aligns with someone -- connell: here's the thing, i'm sure a lot of people don't know a lot about him yet, but mayor pete, the guy's 37 years old. everyone, whereas with bind, hey, are you too old, this guy are learning about him, he's too young. who -- what stands out to you early on about, you know, your side, the democratic field

pete buttigieg, pete buttigieg. kamala harris. kamala harris. kirsten gillibrand. gillibrand.. amy klobuchar. klo-bu-char. bernie sanders. >> tune in next week when we tackle confusing city american city names. i'm looking at you quonakinog. in the meantime, "the beat with ari melber" starts right now. quonakinog. >> great to see you. >>> we're coming on the air during a surge of activity of democrats running for president. that's not based solely on candidates hitting msnbc tonight. kirsten gillibrand with our own chris hayes and cory booker appearing in iowa to take questions from chris matthews. nose are certainly high profile appearances in our neighborhood, yes. but there is also senator elizabeth warren campaigning at a mississippi town hall that will be televised by another network, and a new candidate on the scene taking the lead in the fundraising primary. beto o'rourke raising $6 million in his first day on the trail, as you may have heard by now, that's more than everyone, which is reshuffling early ideas about who the frone

pete buttigieg and other democratic candidates also dismiss talk of impeachment, saying the president should be defeated at the ballot box -- and candidates should talk about issues.buttigieg sot 17:31:50: "if all we can talk about is him, then voters are saying, 'you're not talking about me. // at the end of the day, it's not about him, it's about us." (ken) (ken) that was jeff zeleny reporting. most democratic candidates say they're trying to keep talk of the mueller report limited to washington...while using the campaign trail to focus on issues like health care, the economy, and whether president trump has lived up to the promises he made to voters. (pam) the father of a six-year-old girl who was killed in the sandy hook elementary school massacre .... has died by apparent suicide. police say, jeremy richman's body was found in his connecticut office building... he was the father of avielle richman ... who was among the 20- children killed in the 20-12 shooting at a newtown school. police say, they will not disclose any additional details on the death... only that it did not appea

friends on facebook, twitter, instagram, give me a shout on social media. >> pete buttigieg talk aboutt makes him stand out in the crowded field of democratic candidates. >> i am the only left-handed game multis american episcopalian veteran. >> he senses background as a military veteran, married gay men, and mayor of gives him plenty of experience today. >> we are going to make america great again, what does that mean? we are going to stop the changes so you don't have to change anything. can have honest potus that revolves around the word again. >> he was reelected mayor in a landslide and a new poll shows joe biden holding a double- digit lead over the rest of the democratic hopefuls with 29% support, bernie sanders in second place, beto o'rourke in third, harris follows that pete buttigieg, and the time now is 8:43. a nice victory for the athletics, the giants should out, hopefully they will bounce back tonight with a victory. >> it is only game one, i know this. but we need to get that offense going. we will take a look at the biggest traffic issue that we have on 580 westbound, a

you are giving mayor pete buttigieg an "a" for this mid-week grade. why?aving a moment, "new york times" profile, vanity fair profile. raised 500,000 in a day last week, as rebecca mentioned with his town hall with name. he is the hot thing in the race right now. now, it's march 2019, not march went 20. you'd rather be the hot thing in march 2020. buts a the mayor of south indiana. i guarantee that cory booker would like to have the last ten days that buttigieg haas. >> but you give beto o'rourke a "b." >> yeah, i think compared to pete buttigieg, he's a lil behind that. weird statements he made about his wife, never want that. but he spent the whole week going to iowa, new hampshire, south carolina, and states in the midwest, he ends in el paso to sort of formally kick things off. raised a ton of money. i think that he's proven he's going to be an energy guy, he's got charisma and he'll be in the mix. >> because buttigieg get to e got an "a," you're giving -- >> that's right. i'm not going to give out 10 "a"s, it's more work. >> on the other side, preside

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last night's cnn town hall, pete buttigieg is the youngest candidate in the race and he had harsh words for mike pence. >> vice president pence would be a better or worse president than president trump? >> oh. does it have to be -- >> politics is about choices, man. you know that. >> i don't know. it is really strange. i used to at least believe -- i disagreed with him on these things, but i thought at least he believes in our institutions and he is not personally corrupt. how could he become the cheerleader of the porn star presidency? is it that he stopped believing in scripture when he started believing in donald trump? >> also in her town hall last night, congresswoman tulsi gabbard of hawaii focused on foreign policy, but the iraq war veteran would not say whether she believed syrian dictator bashar al assad is a war criminal. >> i think that the evidence needs to be gathered and as i have said before, there is evidence that he has committed war crimes, he should be prosecuted as such. >> but you're not sure now? >> everything that i have said requires that we take action based on

. >>> presidential candidate pete buttigieg told a sold out fran audience what makes him stand out. > i'm definitely the only left handed gay maltese american episcopalian veteran in the race. >> that is a mouthful. >> he also is the youngest candidate. he is just 37. he says his background as a military veteran who sinked time in afghanistan, may married gay man and a mayor of south bend, indiana, a midwest city that had been in decline gives him relevant experience for the united states today. >> we're going to make america great again. what does that moan in it means we'll stop the chains so you don't have to change anything. and it is not honest. you canment have an honest politics that revolves around the world again. >> buttigieg says sexual orientation did not keep south bend voter from re-electing him mayor in the landslide vote and he does not believe it should stand in the way of a white house run either. >>> another u.s. mayor throwing his hat into the ring. wayne mes. um is the mayor of miramar, florida and is also running for the democratic nomination. he is the son of ja

it's mayor pete buttigieg at 4%. this is the highest he's been in a national poll so far. his previous high was 1%. you might say okay that's not a lot of movement necessarily but when you're right at the edge, right at 0% a three-point move from 1 to 4 is significant. this of course follows we spoke about it last time i was here that a lot of people have been searching his name on twitter, i'm sorry google. we've seen in the early primary states some polls showing him moving up. if you're looking for one candidate moving up in the polls and has momentum it's mayor pete. >> do you have a scene of what is allowing him to leap frog others? >> on cnn town hall started this entire thing and when people saw him and heard what he was saying a lot of people started searching him on google. there's been a lot of natural movement. he hasn't gotten a lot of national pre. there's a lot of or beganic interest in him. >> statistically significant. for someone like you to say that this movement matters. one other thing i want to point out. the numbers for beto o'rourke are good also. he

last night, pete buttigieg spoke to a sold-out crowd in san francisco telling them he believes, quoteing yourself useful whenever you can. buttigieg explained that's why he rushed to a hospital in south bend, indiana to help translate for a sudanese family and he also says it's his motivation for being a public servant. >> you can really in a lifetime or a political lifetime bring about profound changes. i wanted to play a longer game but i'm not patient enough to be an intellectual. being in politics seemed like a happy medium. >> there's a lot of questions people wonder. how do you pronounce his last name. his husband, who is a school teacher, gave us a lesson. buddha judge. boot edge edge. >> now you can't forget it. >> there are two ways to say it. the 37-year-old is a road sko lar and veteran of the war in afghanistan. polls put him in third place and fifth place in a crowded democratic primary field. the first democratic debates have been announced. they will be june 26th and june 27th in florida. >>> here's a look at live doppler 7. cloverdale, geyserville, 101, light shower ri

your colleague in the "new york times" had a piece on pete buttigieg, and in that he talked to votersoters in rallies, people. he heard beto o'rourke the day before saying, quote, i think buttigieg is more down to brass tacks. i think bets oe has a dance track going on in his head when he's speaking. >> they do have a similar look about them, a certain appeal in the way they talk and come across. i won't make the comparison to barack obama, but some people have, obviously, for both of them. but, you know, there has been a bit of a common thread in some of beto's campaign appearances, both when he was running for senate and since he has been running for president, that he likes to talk in grand terms about big principles and inspirational ideals. we have actually heard pete buttigieg at some of his events get real technical and in detail about his policies and how they would work and how they're a viable alternative to what republicans are posing. those are things that as we get down the line in this race voters will want to hear. i think there is some differentiation still to take pla

and still ahead, south bend mayor and presidential mayor pete buttigieg joins the table. >>> mike pompeoighth part of his trip focused on the anti-iran policy. joining us live from kuwait city, nbc news chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell. andrea great to have you with us. >> reporter: thank you. >> let's talk about mike pompeos remarks and the purpose of the trip. i want to get your remarks on this incident how it happened and the state department media briefing that targeted some media organizations of religiously affiliated horses and all the developments surrounding those two developments. >> reporter: well, that occurred yesterday, actually, as we were starting out on this trip. as we were waiting in kansas to pick up the secretary of state to fly to the middle east, he had a briefing, a meeting and a conference calm with stalled faith-based media. and that was, first of all, not distributed widely, not involving the traveling press or other members of the state department press and there was no explanation as to what the criteria were for faith based criteria. a tra

. >> harris: even one of the 2020 democrat hopefuls, pete buttigieg, says democrats cannot focus solelyn investigations. let's watch this and i want to a response. >> i think this is further evidence that it would be a mistake for democrats to think of the way of the presidency to end is by way of investigation. that could of course happen, believe got to be paying attention to the cons of conditions that made it possible for somebody like him to get here in the first place. >> harris: i had on ken starr a little earlier. we talked about the impeachment of bill clinton and some of the crimes are possible grounds that he found in the starr report. i would ask you, what would have to be present in order for democrats to do what pete buttigieg and other people are saying they probably shouldn't focus too much on? that is impeachment. doesn't there have to be there they are coming a bar that turn? >> i think they're having problems with the realities of the american public chose donald trump to be our president. they put our nation through two years of this process now with unverified claim

please welcome mayor pete buttigieg. >> good to see you again. thank you. >> have a seat.important questions. you really have to settle this. because you and your husband seem to have a disagreement on how to pronounce where are last name. according to your twitter biographies, your husband