>> my name is pete buttigieg. people get tripped up on that, they just call me mayor pete.e poll and on president trump's radar. >> buttigieg believes he has what it takes. >> i have more years of experience in government than the president and more years of the executive than the vice president. >> it is time to fill in the

history. >> i recognize the oddocity at age 37. >> pete buttigieg commonly known as mayor pete, has quiteaul montgomery buttigieg was born in south bend, indiana in 1982, he caught attention of caroline kennedy when a senior in high school winning an essay congress writing about then congressman bernie sanders. he within to harvard, then oxnard, he is read or speak 8 different languages. he returned home to south bend and was elected mayor when he was 29. he took a leave are av sense in 2014 deploying to afghanistan for over 6 months with the reserve, he returned and reelected with 80 percent of the vote, mayor pete felt washington's pull early, he worked on john kerry 2004 presidential campaign, knocked on doors in iowa for barack obama 4 years later. now, mayor pete has a poll all his own. >> a church going episcopalian has been making late night talk show rounds he and husband live in the same neighborhood where we grew up, he would be the country youngest president and first openly gay commander in chief. chris: he was properly mortified at pictures of himself as a baby. principal her

hall with president at candidate pete buttigieg live from new hampshire. see you next week. >> i'm chris wallace, can a millennial mayor from the midwest make the case to be the democratic nominee to take on president trump? >> my name is pete buttigieg. people get tripped up on that, they just call me mayor pete. pete. >> 37 years old, rising in the poll and on president trump's radar. >> buttigieg believes he has what it takes. >> i have more years of experience in government than the president and more years of the executive than the vice president. >> it is time to fill in the blanks about where he stands. >> i believe a single pair environment is probably the right answer in longer term. >> climate change is a security

hall with president at candidate pete buttigieg live from new hampshire. see you next week. >> i'm chris wallace, can a millennial mayor from the midwest make the case to be the democratic nominee to take on president trump? >> my name is pete buttigieg. people get tripped up on that, they just call me mayor pete. pete. >> 37 years old, rising in the poll and on president trump's radar. >> buttigieg believes he has what it takes. >> i have more years of experience in government than the president and more years of the executive than the vice president. >> it is time to fill in the

history. >> i recognize the oddocity at age 37. >> pete buttigieg commonly known as mayor pete, has quite the resume. peter paul montgomery buttigieg was born in south bend, indiana in 1982, he caught attention of caroline kennedy when a senior in high school winning an essay congress writing about then congressman bernie sanders. he within to harvard, then oxnard, he is read or speak 8 different languages. he returned home to south bend and was elected mayor when he was 29. he took a leave are av sense in 2014 deploying to afghanistan for over 6 months with the reserve, he returned and reelected with 80 percent of the vote, mayor pete felt washington's pull early, he worked on john kerry 2004 presidential campaign, knocked on doors in iowa for barack obama 4 years later. now, mayor pete has a poll all his own. >> a church going episcopalian has been making late night talk show rounds he and husband live in the same neighborhood where we grew up, he would be the country youngest president and first openly gay commander in chief. chris: he was properly mortified at pictures of himself as a

pete buttigieg tried to do both at once. do it, talk to voters and stick it to them at the same time. >> he did thread the needle. for democrats in the center lane efforts to pull to the left or to say you're with us or with the republicans. this was an effort to criticize tucker carlson and laura ingram. millions of fox viewers, i don't know how many of them would be interested in crossing the aisle to vote for a democrat. but if you were such a democrat you would want to praise them and ask for them to remain open minded. his approach allowed him to do that while addressing the idea he was trying to curry favor with opinion leaders who are so much of the base of the democratic party. interesting to watch what the other democrats do now in terms of whether he's created space for them to appeal across the aisle also. >> go ahead, michael. >> i want to say the president essentially said let's dispense with the pretense. this is my network. why are you bringing these interlopers on. >> yes. >> elizabeth warren put pete buttigi

but you know, in terms of pete buttigieg, the town hall is in some ways why we know who pete buttigiegn a good forum for him. he was on our air, i think, twice now with town halls. so it's been really good for him. but he has some work to do. he's about 8 or 9% in the polls. he's very good with a certain segment of the democratic party, really well-educated white voters. that's, you know, that's not a huge part of the democratic coalition. so he's got some work to do. and i think his broad argument that he could appeal in red states, not really sure, right? he's the mayor of a town that's had a democratic mayor, i think, since 1972. it's about 100,000 people. i don't think he could win a statewide race in indiana. so he's got ways to do. but i guess it's a start with fox news and trying to appeal to those rust belt voters. >> but he is going to have to build out his policy. it's not like he's running against president trump on the front end, right? he's running against all these people like elizabeth warren and pamela harris, who are putting out these like very steeped in policy propos

i'm mayor pete buttigieg, and i too would like to slow jam this news >> jimmy: hit me five times. ♪ >onth i officially launched my campaign for president of the united states i believe it's time for a new generation of leaders. i'm the 37-year-old mayor of south bend indiana i'm a road scholar and a a veteran of the war in afghanistan. and though i'm running this race to beat president trump, i'm not going to spend all my time talking about president trump. i want to talk about you and the needs of every day americans. >> jimmy: oh, yeah [ laughter ] pete buttigieg wants to satisfy all your needs [ light laughter ] ever since he declared his candidacy, america's been all hot and bothered for him and now mayor pete's going all in [ light laughter ] >> tariq: going all in >> jimmy: all in [ light laughter ] ♪ he's ready and prepared for a primary battle his name is wort 800 points in scrabble ♪ [ laughter and applause >> jimmy: now, i've got a question for you, marvelous mr. mayor. you may run the city, what makes you think you can measure up to the presidency aren't you worried about p

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obviously pete buttigieg talking about his sexual orientation. going to be a factor and is a factor in the race now. i do think there is something to be said for a candidate wanting to go out and say, look, i don't really want to be judged or i don't want to earn somebody's vote purely based on my identity. i want to work for that, right? i think that's a legitimate thing for a candidate to say at this point in the race >> what's interesting is pete buttigieg, his electoral weakness has been seen as outreach to minorities, african-american and latino voters. pete buttigieg is one of the first gay candidates so is that something he would use? he's saying, no, being gay doesn't help me understand what it is to be black. the word he used was exclusion. that was deft handling of it. >> if you are looking at the field seeing joe biden or somebody, kamala harris and cory booker are running against you, you have to know that the path is going to be that much harder for you to win over black support and minority support because other candidates have a le

i o talk about you and the needs of every day americans. >> jimmy: oh, yeah [ laughter ] pete buttigiego satisfy all eeds [ light laughter ] ever since he declared his candidacy, america's been all hot and bothered for him and now mayor pete's going all in [ light laughter ] >> tariq: going all in >> jimmy: all in [ light laughter ] ♪ he's ready and prepared for a primary battle his name is wort 80points in scrabble ♪ [ laughter and applause >> jimmy: now, i've got a question for you, marvelous mr. mayor. you may run the city, what makes you think you can measure up to the presidency aren't you worried about performance anxiety? >> actually, i'm not as mayor of south bend i reenergized the economy and invested in the industries of tomorrow and as president, i'll continue to tear down the barriers that keep americans from having a a fair shot. i'll get big money out of politics, and i support getting rid of the electoral college g even if it means fightinese issues out in court. [ light laughter ] >> jimmy: court is in session. [ light laughter ] and the honorable booty judge is presidin

should someone like pete buttigieg who we just saw be a threat?e's a military veteran. is that the kind of person they should be looking at? >> i think the president's been very clear that the last guy he wants to see on his turf on fox news is pete buttigieg and there's a real reason for that. joe biden has middle class, working class potential. he's not playing just to the 40% of the democratic party but says it's liberal or ultra liberal. another 52% of the democratic party says it's moderate to conservative. that's biden's lane. he's about the only guy in there, except for crossover pete buttigieg. the south bend mayor who talks about working people and their pain and how the elites have let them down. so yes, right now iowa, the latest survey, the starting line survey, has biden and bernie at 24, buttigieg in third place at 14. i could easily see old biden shrinking. when democrats start looking for an alternative to crazy bernie, it may well be buttigieg. i think he's one to watch. >> i think pete buttigieg -- you watch him, he's probably on

even affecting pete buttigieg.of people, a lot of gay men who don't see him as progressive enough, too traditional. not the game and left wants him to represent, too mainstream. what he is doing is a reaction against trump derangement and syndrome in a neutral way. and these letters, it is representing the silent majority in this country. that is in his favor. >> the most diverse we ever had, on other sides of the aisle. thank you for weighing in. good to have you with us. tiger woods named in a wrongful death lawsuit. the death of a man who worked at his restaurant and then died in a drunken crash. so again, using "para", you're talking about something that is for someone. ♪ pretty good. could listening to audible inspire you to start something new? download audible and listen for a change. not this john smith. or this john smith. or any of the other hundreds of john smiths that are humana medicare advantage members. no, it's this john smith. who we paired with a humana team member to help address his own specific

in pete buttigieg's world fairer taxes means higher taxes. hall last night. does he have the right stuff? let's ask david nelson. it's a common theme, tax the wealthy, tax everything to do with wall street, that will help us pay down the budget and everything else. how feasible and how successful would that be? >> it is certainly feasible but successful? i don't think so. that's been the rhetoric from the democratic side of the aisle for a long time. more important than what your neighbor is paying in terms of a marginal rate is the job and prospects for a better job. that's what the administration has been about. we've seen that play out in wages of. if you want to do something about taxes, go to the heart of the tax code. the tax code is a mess. it's 77,000 pages long. most of those pages are dedicated to how to avoid paying taxes in the first place. ashley: i want to talk about the markets, it's a very volatile time right now, headline driven. the earnings season seems to go on and on. we have the retailers. what's the psyche of the consum

hello. [ cheers and applause ] i'm pete buttigieg. ete, p-e-t-e, buttigieg, b-u-t-t-i-g-i-g-i-t-t-y -- well, just google it. now, about me. by age 14 i ew i wanted to be president of the united states. and boy, the two years sin have just flown by. [ laughter ] i'm a rhodes scholar, a a lieutenant in the united states navy, and the two smartest kids in the world stacked on top of each other. [ cheers ] i was so qualified to get into college, harvard bribed me to go. [ laughter ] that's how i got the nickname, the reverse au becky. [ laughter ] nowadays, most of you recognize me from the rallying cries of hope and unity i have stirred across this nation. but the rest of you know me from my hit series, "the boy who became mayor," only on disney channel. [ laughter ] [ applause ] and now i'm proud to announce my run for president. in the past few months, i have risen in the polls more than any other democrat.ke and i would lio thank each and every one of you for that. but most of all, i'd like to thank my husband chasten -- [ cheers and a

so is pete buttigieg.ical company is reporting this morning on what they call his black voter problem. and the fact that his audiences are overwhelmingly white. here is how craig phrased it and how the mayor responded. watch. >> he is putting in the work. trying to connect with voters across the country including south carolina, home to a critical primary and critical voting bloc. i've seen a number of your rally, they are fairly that montha homogenous racially speaking. how do you plan to speak to african-american voters? >> part of it is laying out the agenda. it is also about a relationship. it takes a lot of work to make sure people get to know you. >> so what does he need to do to make sure people get to know him? >> he has to do what he's doing. if you don't have a pre-existing relationship with a community, you have to go build one. nd that is true for i would say 90% of the candidates in this race. there is always this pre-sumpt shon that the black vote will track very quickly one way or the other.

especially given how little time pete buttigieg seems to spend in south bend these days. according to a new report in the south bend tribune, mayor pete buttigieg out of town and the recent month half of the days. and question for his calendar, they asked him to produce his calendar and this is what the south bend tribune said, his administration responded by providing a calendar in which 45 of the 120 days were redacted. other days didn't indicate whether he was in town and some were blank. that is very transparent of th them. if you can't show up for the city you were pledged to serve, what confidence can the american people have that you will show up for them? in good faith, that is the angle. angle. all right joining me now to react, dan bongino, author of the upcoming book exonerated, the failed takedown of donald trump by the swamp. crisp on radio talk show host and former aide to chuck schum chuck schumer, buddha pete buttigieg one of many of the 2020 radicals and they are trying to take the moral question for their own. he in particular has been pretty deaf at doi

fox hosted a pete buttigieg town hall sunday night.he south bend mayor and democratic contender took on fox and also reached out to their viewers. >> i mean, when you got tucker carlson saying that immigrants make america dirty, when you've got laura ingramham comparing detention centers with children in cages to summer camps. sump camps, then there is a reason that anybody has to swallow hard and think twice before participating in this media ecosystem, but i also believe that even though some of those hosts are not always there in good faith, i think a lot of people tune into this net work who do it in good faith. >> one fox news host brit hume tweeting at the president, saying this for buttigieg, he's willing to be questioned by chris wallace, something you have barely done since you have been president, and covering candidates of both parties is part of the job of a news channel. meantime, another presidential candidate, kamala harris will role o roll out her plan for closing the gender pay gap. >> i'm going to announce the first e

large is this evolution of what the american electorate looks like and intimate a complexity, pete buttigieg trying to figure that out. >> i got to tell you good luck to mayor pete in this their five he's trying to drive because he's speaking to a party and to progressive movement that has identity politics so deeply ingrained into it and quite frankly a party dominated by the left that doesn't want to leave it behind and good luck to mayor pete and i'll be interested to see how long the rhetoric lasts. sam time i would say kudos to him for broaching the subject and offering up the fact maybe we shouldn't see the people through that lens but understand the fact most americans regardless of race or creed usually have a certain list of priorities which include do i have a job? are we wages going up? can i pay a mortgage? can i put food on my table? are my children's futures secure? that's a thing that i think is very obvious to a lot of people outside of the beltway and the corridor and i remind people for me donald trump is not a great mystery. when people want to see wages, jobs, a secure ec

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you interviews pete buttigieg, who is the it guy right now.. >> 80% of the views of the various candidates on the democratic party are pretty well aligned. you are going to see differences from the left most and center most candidates. you are going to see differences on what we choose to emphasize. at the end of the day, while there will be some disagreements over substance, the alignment is strong. what's really going to matter is what kind of message do we put forward. >> they are doing a risk assessment. we put a split screen up of you and that young man. a young guy like that -- >> are you calling me old? >> no. >> all right. >> the split screen of trump and him. will the american people will risk verse enough even though donald trump is not qualified, he is there already. >> comes down to what happened on camera. the three best anti-trumps are pete, biden and harris because of that. what you get with pete is everything that every democratic winning candidate, going back to roosevelt had, the fresh, new face. the challenge is, does he hav

candidate pete buttigieg, more on that and of his interview right now. it must have been fun down back in your home state before. >> it was especially since summer is already there. it is like 80 degrees in columbia. good morning. craig melvin here, we're following some breaking news on capitol hill. case closed, that is the word from mitch mcconnell. speaking out on the senate floor just moments ago, talking about the mueller report. but as congress gets closer to holding the attorney general in contempt, democrats say it is far from a done deal. >>> and multiple 2020 candidates making their pitches to wochbtd count one of the biggest labor unions. why its endorsement, why that labor endorsement still matters even in a year dominated by grass roots donors. and we're also keeping a very close eye on the white house. that is the rose garden where at any moment we'll see the first lady melania trump, she will be talking about her "be best" program. keeping a close eye on that. but first though, my one-on-one interview with mayor pete buttigieg. and how he

is wasting air time on pete buttigieg. dems. from a conservative perspective, though, there are those, even on the democratic side make the poirch point, could be a threat to donald trump in some ways if buttigieg is able to get tens of thousands of voters to change their minds? >> quick aside. this is our daily reality the president sends wildly inappropriate tweets, that we just ignore them now. they're not even news anymore. would say the quiet part loud and say a news outlet should be doing his bidding is absolutely insane and outside of the norms of what has been acceptable. >> sidenote, it's not the first time he said that. he has also talked about fox being on the wrong side in recent weeks taking aim at certain fox news hosts et cetera. >> it's completely inappropriate. my republican brethren with the president know better. it is worth pointing out this is wildly inappropriate. as far as pete is concerned, the president has about 80% of the republican party that is with him. that's a lot of voters. 20% of republican

dogs like pete buttigieg. they just -- voters are interested in this guy. is smart as the dickens, he's got a fascinating background, rhodes scholar, veteran of the afghanistan war, and he has a lot of interesting things to say. and i, you know, you could argue -- i'm not saying he's going to end up where they did, but it's a little bit like donald trump, like barack obama. he's different. he breaks the mold. and voters seem to be really intrigued by that at this point. howard: right. and you had him on "fox news sunday" when he was still an asterisk. what i find is the way in which he speaks very candidly, particularly about personal things, being gay and a small town mayor and all that seems to attract so much media attention with 23 democratic candidates. but on the other hand, isn't he to some degree the beneficiary of a media swoon? >> yeah. but, you know, again, i would say obama and trump were. trump's was a little more complicated because some of it was the negative, not a supportive swoon, but it was attention. and he played to and the fact that in

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as pete buttigieg would like to have. but president trump won the electoral college.is campaign manager was talking that very thing. >> electoral college, the president is in the right position. new mexico, nevada, new hampshire. >> do you believe those states are in play? >> 100%. >> dana: i have friends who are skeptical in play. if they are, does that mean president trump son his way to a land slide? >> every four years we look at 13 states. new hampshire, nevada, wisconsin, michigan. they're part of the battleground. in 2016, we didn't knock the wall down. president trump was able to pick the lock. he filed 79,000 votes that gave him the the edge in the electoral college. i believe michigan, pennsylvania, will pick up those electoral votes and be a play once again down in florida for the 29d electoral votes. i don't believe nevada will be in play for donald trump nor new mexico. >> dana: what about arizona? >> i think arizona will be a tossup. in 20167 it looked really good. after the midterm, i think democrats have an opportunity. also because as you well know th

she said mayor pete buttigieg. there's two reasons why you struck me.ame isn't harris, smith or jones, she has trouble pronouncing your last anytime. she knew him. she knew his last name. that's why i say mayor pete might be struggling to appeal to african-american voters, it's not that they're not open to him. if any born again christian mother can pronounce his name, there's hope for him. >> whatever challenges mayor pete has as being an openly gay candidate are not as seriously as the challenges he faces with african-american voters. the biggest strength hillary clinton has is bernie sanders didn't have a history to black voters and wasn't appealing to black voters. it was african-american voters and especially women who guaranteed that hillary clinton would be the nominee. now mayor pete comes into be situation not having a history with african-american voters and facing contender who have a deep history. joe biden, for one. you have two african-american candidates. this is a big challenge for him. >> bernie sanders defeated -- was defeated by hilla

.>> pete buttigieg brings his campaign to san francisco and is winning financial support from big-time california donors. rs >>> pete buttigieg the democratic candidate who is openly gay and the mayor of south bend indiana.>> he spoke to an enthusiastic crowd at the regency ballroom in san francisco tonight where he drummed up support for his campaign. we are live in a city with what the candidate had to say. >> let me tell you this was a very loud and enthusiastic crowd here tonight. ce. were talking about mayor tickets sold out 1300 people paid anywhere from $25-$1000 per person. introduced by his husband, the openly gay military veteran and mayor of south bend indiana got a big welcome in san francisco. he told the crowd this was an historic moment.>> the life experience of somebody from a new generation could be exactly what a generation needs. >> reporter: is life experience serving as a navy reserve intelligence officer in afghanistan, a former scholar and openly gay married man is what appeals to many who lined up before the events down the block and around the corner.>> he just

do you think biden should be nervous about pete buttigieg? >> well, buttigieg has been great.f is very good. they're running annin sur insur outside campaign. that's his challenge is to get known. joe biden is already known. he needs to shake the rust off and not say things like "china is not our competitor." who needs to look like he's present and understands the current climate, which means using all the newest tactics, including everything from podcasts to twitter to everything else. that's his job. >> mark and kevin, thanks so much for joining me. kevin, congratulations again on the new baby. >> thank you. >> historically large field of democrat being hopefuls means there are lots of storylines within storylines. and a little later we'll have the latest out of venezuela and the worrisome influence of president trump's favorite phone a friend, vladimir putin. some things are out of your control. like bedhead. hmmmm. ♪ rub-a-dub ducky... and then...there's national car rental. at national, i'm in total control. i can just skip the counter and choose any car in the aisle i li

. >> we have got the town hall with pete buttigieg. one thing on him. putting aside policy disagreements don't you think it's great to see the fact that you've got a guy on the stage with his husband and it's normal? >> i think it's absolutely fine. i do. >> isn't it a sign of great progress in the country? >> yeah. i think it's great. i think it's something that perhaps some people will have a problem with. i have no problem with it whatsoever.

back to stephen's high school in claremont, new hampshire for our fox news town hall with mayor pete buttigieg we got a little bit of time, a lightning round. i find the questions are quicker than answers. >> i'll do my best. chris: biggest mistake as mayor of south bend? >> well, first time that i fired somebody who reported directly to me, i didn't do it in person, i write in my book why that was a mistake, i never did that again. chris: why didn't you do it in person. >> i think at the time it -- i don't know to be honest. i just know that if his things would have gone a little bit differently, and better. you have to be ready to look

search one and done. . >>> presidential candidate pete buttigieg admits he needs help had.outh bend, indiana mayor is having trouble attracting african-american vote remembers, and it's an issue that he confronted during a rally in south carolina with this question from a local college student. >> mayor pete, are you for us? if so, what exactly does that entail when speaking in regards to black and brown lives? >> thank you. first of all, the answer to that question is yes. my deeper answer is i need help, so the black voters who know me best, the people of south bend, helped return me to office by an overwhelming margin, but out here people are just getting to know me and trust in part is a function of quantity time, and we are racing against time. there are folks who will find their way to me anywhere i go, and there are folks who i will never connect with unless we reach out to them. >> charles c. patton is the 21-year-old physics major at south carolina state university who asked buttigieg that question. charles, thanks for being with us. >> thank you for having me. >>

that was mayor of south bend, indiana, pete buttigieg and presidential candidate pete buttigieg slow ing the news on the "tonight show" with jimmy fallon last night. at one point mayor pete was asked about trump referring to him as alfred e. neuman as the cartoon character from "mad" magazine. >> he called you alfred e. neuman. what do you think? [ laughter ] >> the president of the united states called you that. wow. what goes through your mine when that happens? >> we talk a lot about elevating the dialogue, the fact that i inspired him to make a literary reference -- >> certainly has a good sense of humor. >>> montana governor steve bullock has been teasing an imminent campaign announcement tweeting this last night see you tomorrow. new york city mayor de blasio said he'll announce his final decision about a potential run for president this week. >> are you considering a presidential run? nearly two dozen people running. a lot of them white male. fitting your profile. why consider it? >> i don't think it makes sense to speak to that until i've come to a decision. . i've been talkin

leland: we are hours away from the fox news town hall with mayor pete buttigieg.etting he set, chris wallace getting his questions ready, as is the audience that is about to be there. this is what wallace had to say l earlier today about the growing popularity. >> we have more people that have said they you will show up than for any of the town halls, including bernie sanders and howard schultz. he has interesting things to say. you could argue -- i'm not saying he's going to end up where they did, but it's a little bit donald trump. -- bit like donald trump, like barack obama. he is different and breaks the mold and voters seem intrigued by that at this point. leland: with that we bring in our panel, from pennsylvania. arnie, first to you. are you ready to put mayor pete in that same group of barack obama and donald trump? >> no, it's way too early. but mayor pete is incredibly intriguing. he's articulate. he has a different sexual orientation which also makes him a phenomenon. but more importantly, he's embraced his faith, he talks about being the mayor of south

. >> plus, south bend mayor and 200 candidate pete buttigieg takes on president trump and a couple of prominent fox news hosts at a fox news town hall. >> and the president sends a warning to tehran tweeting if it wants to fine the united states it will be, quote, the official end of iran. good morning, everybody. it is monday, may 20th, i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside with geoff bennett. congressman justin amash posted his principal conclusions to social media writing, one, attorney general bill barr has deliberately misrepresented mueller's report, president trump has engaged in impeachable conduct, flee partisanship has eroded our system of checks and balances, 4, few members of congress have read the report. in comparing barr's principal conclusions, congressional testimony and other statements to mueller's report, it is clear that barr intended to confuse the public. >> quote, never a fan of justin amash, a total lightweight who opposes me and some of our great republican ideas and policies just for the sake of getting his name out there through verse at this -- controversy, the

i don't think people know who pete buttigieg is right now.don't know any of the candidates right now, 22 candidates right now or something like that, and people are just now getting introduced to them. joe biden right now is leading in the black vote. he has a history because he has a long record of working in african-american communities, but also because he was associated with the most popular african-american president. the only african-american president, barack obama. so that actually helps him and works in his favor. >> i'm curious, he has said that once african-americans get to know him, as they did in south bend, indiana, where of course, he's mayor, that they end up supporting him. so is the key in your view as you were saying really whether they know him as opposed to what they know about him? >> it's both. even if they do like him, remember, there are other candidates in the race, three african-american candidates in the race. and joe biden has the support being associated with barack obama. so there's no guarantee they're going to

pete buttigieg starting to drop off a little. going to see over the next few months, how do you sustain that, how do you make the most of what you've got. it's doing five or six events on a workday in with a wash when his competitors are back in washington for elizabeth warren or kamala harris. they've got to find a way to stay in that conversation, i think the top 6 or 7. after that, i think there is a really big drop off, where it's so hard to get purchase if you're 1%. the same not quite super fans are not going to those events for candidates that can't get off the ground. they still want someone who can beat trump. >> we'll try to make it every day here. the voters who will be the only people making this decision, not any of us, are shopping, it's like, you're buying a car, and you don't even know if you want it to have two seats, four seats or six. they don't even know how many people they want to ride in the car. it's so early for the voters. >> that is not always fun for us reporters who are covering the 2020 election. yep

howard, pete buttigieg taking a risk perhaps calling out fellow democrats. what do you think is the strategy behind this? >> i wouldn't call it a risk considering where he's come from, a small town major who's been able to vault to the national stage. i think he's going to test a couple different approaches to get this right. i think the strategy makes sense. he's starting with a friendly room and friendly audience testing out this messaging. i expect he will do a lot more of this until he starts to figure out whether or not this is gaining traction for him. >> it is gaining some traction. we're talking about it and it is getting traction within the democratic base there. i've got to say this. the president runs a risk of showing his age, comparing mayor pete to a character from the 1950s. who is alfred e. newman. i thought the president was referring to newman from "seinfeld." why would the president expose this generational gap with this 37-year-old candidate? >> well, there's really nothing better to say about that except he knows he can't attack pete's s

according to our late cnn poll, pete buttigieg is in the top five candidates right now. about 7%, but when you look at where he's polling with non-white voters, he's polling at about 3%, and that is something that mayor pete buttigieg has admitted he needs to work on. he says he needs to better connect with a more diverse audience. now, just last week we saw the merrymeeting wi mayor meeting with al sharpton in west harlem, a traditional stop for many democratic candidates and he asked reverend sharpton for advice before coming here to south carolina. the reverend told him to just be himself, so it will be interesting to see, fredericka, whether tonight he's going to stick with his traditional script or he's going to switch up his message a little bit and try to cater to a more diverse audience. also, we're just learning that mayor pete this morning made an unannounced stop in plains, georgia. he met with the former president carter at his home. they went to church together. they grabbed lunch afterwards, and so all of this in a busy morning for him because -- before he

we know that pete buttigieg made an unannounced stop in plains, georgia. church with the former president president carter, and we know they had lunch together. we asked them after this get together what they talked about. they bonded over being candidates that came out of nowhere. they also talked about foreign policy. they talked about the economy, and they talked about life on the campaign trail. but this is sort of the end of a really big week for pete buttigieg where he met with a lot of heavy hitters. we know he met with oprah. he met with reverend al sharpton, and he met with hillary clinton. we know in the next couple of weeks, ana, he is going to be heading to hollywood. he is hoping to raise some money there from some more big hollywood hitters. ana? >> and the significance of being in south carolina. why is that state so important for a candidate like mayor pete? >> well, it's a big state for any candidate running right now. this is an early voting state, and this state has a large population of african american voters. we know that mayor pete b

you've been monitoring mayor pete buttigieg. he's gone farther than he has before against president trump on this, right? >> that's right, hallie. he's trying to create a night and day contrast between himself and the president, particularly when it comes to military service. pete buttigieg, someone who served in afghanistan. as far as being a commander-in-chief, he would be the polar opposite of president trump. he also said it was disgusting that president trump is reportedly considering pardons for u.s. service members who are accused of war crimes. he also leaned in on the issue of race -- relations with african-americans which is a key issues for the buttigieg campaign right now, to increase their appeal to minorities. hallie, i want you to hear what pete buttigieg had to say when he was asked whether president trump was a racist. let's listen. >> is president trump a racist? >> i think so. if you do racist things and say racist things, the question of whether that makes you a racist is almost academic. the problem with the

president trump took a jab at the 2020 field especially mayor pete buttigieg. the president was dismissive telling the paper, quote, alfred e. new mman cannot become president of the united states. buttigieg responded to trump's comments friday night. >> so i'll be honest, i had to google that. i guess it's a generational thing. i didn't get the reference. it's kind of funny, i guess, but he's also the president of the united states and i'm surprised he's not spending more time trying to salvage this china deal. >> so mayor pete buttigieg called out his federal democrats for playing identity politics during his speech to the human rights campaign over the weekend. watch this. >> the more you know about exclusion, the more you think about belonging, and we have a crisis of belonging in this country. these divisive lines of thinking have even entered into the consciousness of my own party like when we're told we need to choose between supporting an auto worker and supporting trans woman of color without thinking about the fact that sometimes the auto worker is a t

mayor pete buttigieg hosted a fund raiser in san francisco and we sat down with kamala harris for an exclusive one-on-one interview. both are neck and neck in the latest polls. last night tickets for mayor pete's fund raiser were $25 and they sold out. cornell bernard was there as he spoke to the packed crowd. >> please help me and welcome the next president of the united states, pete buttigieg. >> justin brought his husband pete buttigieg to the stage of this grassroots fund-raiser in san francisco. pete buttigieg told the sold-out crowd they needed a campaign slogan. >> lock her up, build a wall. fine. we've got freedom, security and democracy, and i think that's a pretty good bumper sticker. >> what's your message to voters mere in the bay area. it's time for a new generation of leadership to step forward. buttigieg supports reproductive rights for women and believes climate change is real. it is time to treat climate like the security issue that it is. >> buttigieg is a rising star in the democratic party. the mayor of south bend indiana, veteran and harvard grad. so far he's bee

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take it from mayor pete buttigieg who was very well received by the audience. rtainly, it got the attention of president trump who tweeted that fox was wasting air time on mayor pete. i want to get the inside scoop from msnbc contributor. monica alba, nbc news political reporter in pennsylvania. nbc news national political reporter. jeremy, mayor pete got a standing o last night on fox news. then he was taking heat from some progressives for even appearing on the network. as you know elizabeth warren put out a whole series of reasons why she refused to go on the network. i wonder is this a lost opportunity for democrats? what's their strategy here? >> i don't think that it ever helps a political party to pick fights with individual television networks or journalists. maybe in some isolated cases it really revs up the base. remember, the republican national committee tried to do this with msnbc and nbc four years ago. they ended up having a debate on cnbc. it faded into the wind. so i think -- >> what might stay is some of the things that he said and how he handl

but you seem to be saying that pete buttigieg, mayor buttigieg is telling the story.on't want to put words in your mouth, for political reasons. >> like i said, in a crowded field, you need to get your story out there. what better story to have thisfi rags to riches to make it look like he came from a mayor of a midwestern town going for the presidency. his husband, according to "the washington post," had been shunned from the family, kicked out by the family who supposedly was homeless, which we have no memory of that ever happened. >> laura: you are saying he was never homeless? >> no recollection of him being homeless, no shunning -- absolutely none. >> laura: is anything he said true?ng anything he said true about your family dynamic from your opinion? >> for my opinion? absolutely not. everything in that article was spun to make a rags-to-riches story. >> laura: we got to go, ryan but who are you voting. would you vote for mayor pete. >> trump in 2020. >> maybe we'll say your comments are political. i could spin that story. either side will say it's political. we

jedediah: tonight fox news hosts a town hall with 2020 democrat pete buttigieg live in new hampshire.t with friends at dusty's in claremont. todd? todd: good morning, guys new hampshire such an important state you'll be seeing a lot of candidates up here, a lot of debates all that good stuff, obviously we are here for the mayor pete, town hall we're talk to the folks about that right now. we begin with gary. gary, life long democrat until 2016. when it comes to mayor, pete you say you don't know a ton about him but you do know a lot about the democratic field and you know it's kind of ridiculous, why do you say that? >> they try and divide us, there's so many candidates, i just don't like it any more. todd: what's fascinating about you, you were a bernie supporter until something happened in 201r president trump, why? >> well i went to a rally, my brother had me go to a rally and i got pretty excited about it but i was still a bernie fan, but when he decided he was going to quit he said he wasn't going to quit, i switched over to mr. trump. todd: thank you very much. gary? yes. todd:

. >> reporter: pete buttigieg wants to be president. mayor of south bend, indiana, and veteran of afghanistan, likes a tough project. >> needed a ton of repair. >> reporter: in the right market. >> the house was vacant. and the price was dropping a few thousand bucks every few weeks. it might dip to where i could afford it. >> reporter: mayor buttigieg lives in this 1905 home with his husband, chaston. >> mayor pete buttigieg. >> reporter: now, he has his eyes on a different white house. >> i'm a proud son of south bend, indiana, and i'm running for president of the united states. >> reporter: once a long shot. the mayor of indianindiana's fourth-largest city has been rising in the polls, attracting contributions and attention. >> you're amazing. thank you so much. >> reporter: if elected, he says his top priority would be fixing the democratic system the electoral college, to gerrymandering. >> let's talk about what might be the great security issue of our time, climbate change. >> reporter: otherwise, he believes progress on climate c