i have the esteemed honor of introducing our 2020 king lecture speaker, leader stacy abrams. [applause] stacy abrams is a new york times best-selling author, serial entrepreneur all, nonprofit ceo and political reader. after serving for it 11 years in the georgia house of representatives, serving as 2018 sheleader in became the democratic nominee for governor of georgia, when she won more votes than any other democrat in the state's history. to join herte gubernatorial campaign as an intern. i saw firsthand the strength and power of collective voices. leader abrams was the first black woman to become the gubernatorial company -- nominee for a major party in the u.s. after witnessing the gross mismanagement by the secretary of state's office, leader abrams everyd every -- ensured voter had a voice. i was inspired to join the fight for fair election as a campus manager for the morehouse that theap, to ensure voices of college students are heard in every election, by way of their most sacred and fundamental right as a citizen, their boat. leader abrams has found it multiple orga

i have the esteemed honor of introducing our 2020 king lecture speaker, leader stacy abrams. [applause]

jillian: stacy abrams looking at the crystal ball of her future and sees this. >> people want to seeet. >> i would be honored to run for vice president. >> you are still running as president too. >> a lot of politicians are quiet about their ambitions, not stacy abrams who says she wants to be vice president and one day president. mixed reaction on social media, brenda says high ambition for summit who cannot when a gubernatorial race but on twitter, she needs to be our president. a lot of conversation going on about vice presidential spot including discussion in the news about hillary clinton. rob: don't believe everything you see on the internet. carley: this social media influencer is proving that. natalia taylor told her instagram feelers she was on vacation in bali when these pictures were taken at her local ikea. she said this was to prove it is very easy to pretend you're somebody you are not on social media. so many followers on youtube on its again respond, one person said i feel so did the trade. i thought you were in ballet. the pictures are beautiful and these comments, t

stacy abrams, et cetera. bloomberg had a really bad weekend.me out about the toxic culture at work. he needed to go on the defensive. you get talking about hillary clinton and then their heads explode. he went directly after bernie sanders. >> lawrence: i don't think heads were exploding, i think they were cheering. >> elizabeth: do know what's interesting? you are talking about hillary? she won the popular vote. here's the issue i think with the interesting story line, should bloomberg make this a strategy move. pick the candidate to get more name recognition nationwide. i've read stories out of the "l.a. times," people don't even know who michael bloomberg is. with that help them with his prominence issue? >> jessica: what it? >> lawrence: i don't think so. i think is best strategy is going on with the people and talking. he needs the grassroot, progressive, stacy abrams of the world to satisfy the progressive base. >> jessica: i want to give you a plug here. be sure to catch lawrence jones on "keeping up with jones." he will host a panel dis

i have the esteemed honor of introducing our 2020 king lecture speaker, leader stacy abrams. [applause] stacey abrams is a "new york times" best-selling author, serial entrepreneur all, nonprofit ceo and political reader. -- and political leader. after serving for it 11 years in the georgia house of representatives, serving as

i have the esteemed honor of introducing our 2020 king lecture speaker, leader stacy abrams. [applause] stacy abrams is a new york times best-selling author, serial entrepreneur all, nonprofit ceo and political reader.

i have the esteemed honor of introducing our 2020 king lecture speaker, leader stacy abrams.y abrams is a new york times best-selling author, serial entrepreneur all, nonprofit ceo and political reader. after serving for it 11 years in the georgia house of representatives, serving as 2018 sheleader in became the democratic nominee for governor of georgia, when she won more votes than any other democrat in the state's history. to join herte gubernatorial campaign as an intern. i saw firsthand the strength and power of collective voices. leader abrams was the first black woman to become the gubernatorial company -- nominee for a major party in the u.s. after witnessing the gross mismanagement by the secretary of state's office, leader abrams everyd every -- ensured voter had a voice. i was inspired to join the fight for fair election as a campus manager for the morehouse that theap, to ensure voices of college students are heard in every election, by way of their most sacred and fundamental right as a citizen, their boat. leader abrams has found it multiple organizations devote

and in 2018 he well frankly them but it bluntly he stole the election from a black woman named stacy abrams 'd and i needed to find out exactly how he did that he removed are you ready for this half a 1000000 voters from the voter rolls most of them black people young people and. remove them from the voter rolls is a very american thing is called the perch and that made him governor of georgia now the federal courts have said he's got to open up his files and tell me exactly how he did this because it's a federal court this will mean that all over america while i'm doing my investigations right now for the guardian newspapers of britain. that they're going to have to open their files and say how they removed voters in the past 2 years 17000000 people have been removed from the voter rolls and there are all kinds of crazy kaka mainly reasons and i'm going into that this is one way that america maintains kind of the white majority control without removing millions of voters of color young people. pretty hard for donald trump to get reelected this is one way that the g.o.p. hopes to keep the t

you can go back to the 2019 response from stacy abram. i don't think she capitalized off.ocrats hope would she would run in 2020. she said she would not. she wants to be president by 2040. >> tucker: a question about tonight. do you think it's possible, you probably don't have a copy of her speech but that governor gretchen wilmer will say that putin will get alaska. is that something we will bring up? >> i don't think so. look, the challenge democrats face with president trump which things are going so well, you mentioned nancy pelosi's response. you can any back to joe kennedy response in 2018. he set social media ablaze. people didn't know if he was drooling or it was chap stick. or 2013. >> tucker: that's happened to me. >> or rubio needed a sip of water. . >> tucker: it's not a path to the presidency? >> certainly not. nikki haley comes to mind. when she was governor of south carolina and ended up being the u.n. ambassador. there are people that have capitalized but it's just not demonstrated that is the pathway to stardom within your party. >> tucker: if anyone is go

stacy abrams is back and once again saying she sees herself running for president one day but wants toith vp. listen. >> people want to see you on that ticket. >> i would be honored to run for vice president. >> to see yourself running as president too. >> absolutely. >> a lot of politicians are court about what they want in their political future, not her, she said she wants to be vp and could see herself running for president one day, social media divided. what high ambitions for someone who could not even when a gubernatorial race, she needs to be our president and angie on twitter chiming in saying the state of georgia voted her down, hopefully the country would do the same, she said she could see herself running for president in the next 20 years. >> you can tell when someone is starting this publicity onslaught. a wonder what is next for her because she was on the hbo documentary a couple weeks ago saying the same thing. >> popping up in places you normally don't. >> faking people out. internet vacation didn't really happen. >> this popular youtubeer proving you cannot everything

. >> failed gubernatorial candidate stacy abrams has changed her mind it is now open to be someone's running mate. if for the first time, nevada democrats can vote early in their caucus, there has been long lines and turn out is already half what it was in 2016 when locals only had one day to vote. >> the reason i came to early vote because of what's happening to iowa come i didn't want to be in a caucus. we thought early voting would be faster. >> it was daunting but we always vote and we always try to vote the first day. >> as amy klobuchar tries to stand out in another debate, she is stressing size matters. >> i loved when the president went after michael bloomberg and the president said michael bloomberg was 5'4" and michael bloomberg said i'm taller than that -- i'm the only one who has a claim to be 5'4", i want to be very clear. >> michael bloomberg is the only democrat who has been personally attacked by other top-tier democrats, referred to his record as racist, they called him an egomaniac, the even called him a republican. it does seem like tonight is going to be all about

last year, independent senator bernie sanders gave a state of the union response in addition to stacy abrams that was the official democratic response. i have a feeling that we'll hear from bernie sanders after the state of the union this year as well. he'd be crazy not to as well. >> thanks for your expertise. >> it will be a fun night. it will. i thought what he might do and this probably worked out but i thought what he might do is seek to postpone it. there was probably a different route that he could have taken. the cause of the helicopter crash that took nine lives including kobe bryant and his daughter. i want to hear the opinion of the veteran l.a. helicopter pilot that famously was first to cover o.j.'s bronco chase. and it's seemingly a victory for michael bloomberg that the dnc eased the fund-raising requirements to make the debate stage. is his strategy working? i'll talk to his campaign manager. the move has angered rifles that played by the old rules. i'll talk to one of them. his fellow billionaire here's what he said last night about the situation in a bernie sanders rally. >

and to get them off the books to move voting sites like they did in georgia which i think cost stacy abramsgovernor. we need to deal with those fundamentals. the people movement from the ground isls needed but the peop must have their right to vote protected so they can vote in november. >> and i in your interview with michael i bloomberg, did he indicate that that's something he's willing to spend money or that he is spending money on? >> he says he's going to spend money regardless of whether he's a nominee and a lot of it will have to be for voter protection. he's talked about that. we'll see what happens when we see what the nominee is. that's what he said. i think we ought to raise the same thing to steyer who is a billionaire and to every other one that is running. at the end of the day, everythingf that we have fough for in the civil rights movement even before i was involved -- and i've been involved since i was a teenager -- is at stake in november. and we've got to really play this hand that has been dealt with us particularly by the u.s. senate now like we know that blacks and la

i see a tough thing for him to get the nomination unless he picks stacy abrams for i don't know. i don't know how you would get the nomination but how do you see this playing out? would you work for him? he is throwing money, has a lot of money and is throwing money. would you work for him? have you worked for him if that is not too indiscreet of a question? and that is it. >> here's my regret about michael bloomberg. for the five or six republican senate races mitch mcconnell needs to defend he needs planning to raise $200 million. mike bloomberg would burn that on a bonfire between now and supertuesday easy, probably close to $300 million. taking the senate is an insurance policy. i would love to see michael bloomberg put $200 million in a voter registration in 15 key swing states and a data project to target those obama trump voters. he may be at this point, he may be at this point but that takes massive resources, real commitment and something i have a long hesitation about vanity campaigns and bloomberg has a ceiling. he is approaching that stealing right now at 15% or so. t

stacy abrams! >> laura: [laughs] and he couldn't get the olympics for chicago.s good at campaigning but not so good, clearly. mike huckabee, former 2016 presidential candidate, fox news contributor. a very cheeky on twitter tonight. governor, is obama staying out of the primary just because it's not appropriate or does he just want to avoid embarrassment and chalk up all the money over there with netflix. >> it's pretty typical that a former president doesn't get involved in his party's primaries for president. he may use his political capital for some of the down ballot races but there is no upside for him to go and get involved in the presidential primary. bush didn't do it, clinton didn't do it, reagan didn't do it. it's just not something that is typical. but i also think there is another reason. obama really wants to see where this thing is headed. he doesn't want to get out there and pick a person, and it's very interesting, he certainly didn't pick his former vice president joe biden and i think he's really glad he didn't do that because joe is beginning

. >>> topping our political radar, former georgia gub tourial candidate stacy abrams is not hiding herse hopes telling the view today she absolutely sees a presidential run in her future and would be honored to be a vice presidential candidate this year if asked by the democratic nominee. >> it would be doing a disservice to every woman of color, every women of ambition for me to say no or pretend i don't want it. of course i want it. of course want to be a patriot. so i would say yes. >> refreshing. >> putting it out there. >> she is not pulling any punches. >> not at all. of course they have miles to go before they sleep on this one. a long way before -- >> it is interesting that this seems like a recurring cycle where stacey abrams says something like this. it does make you want to look at the ticket and see diversity on there. i think it is important to many of the candidates. >> it also is a non-endorsement to anyone. her voting rights group raised $20 million to date. they met in early january. i think it is interesting. she could have come out and said there are more people for

. >> stacy abrams? >> competent.'m one of -- i may be herbigest supporter or funder and one of for the niche theive to get out the vote, register people. >> so i think it's noteworthy that right out of the gate asking yf you thought about this? i think everybody does an i'm not sure that's actually the case and candidates think about what might i do if i'm the winner but this is a campaign unorthodox from the beginning. never seen anybody skip the first four states the way he has. we have certainly never seen anybody spend this amount of money over $400 million so far. really a drop in the bucket for somebody worth a reported $60 billion or so, katy. this is somebody with the money to go the distance if he wants to. >> thank you very much. good do see you. see the full interview with michael bloomberg tomorrow on "morning joe" starting 6:00 a.m. eastern. we have proof that gossip and curiosity can equal a ton of campaign cash. one more thing next. tendercrisp technology, you can cook foods that are crispy on the outs

stacy abrams, right? she said nice things because $5 million went into her campaign.t is interesting to me is why everybody in the media is okay with him buying the election. it's the same way they bought michael avenatti because the overreaching aim is to beat trump so they will adjust their principles and say, they used to tell us, you can't buy an election. well, unless you can beat trump. they are adjusting their principles, the same way you can say evangelicals adjusted their principles with trump, which is fine. you want to win if you think he is going to win, but if bloomberg gets the nomination, what happens to the sanders people because they are supporting bernie not to beat trump, they're supporting bernie to support bernie. they're not buying into this, we need to beat trump. they are into, we like this guy. meanwhile everyone else is, we need trump out and it could be anyone. you can see the passion is on bernie's side but with bernie it is like choosing the way you are going to be executed. if he is nominated you got a socialist. if he's not, you got chao

my friend stacy abram, was the governor of georgia right now if it was not for the voting violations. there is no doubt about that. she once said this, just because you have not gone to church for a while, or synagogue or mosque, you don't lose your right to worship under the constitution. it just you don't go to meetings like this and maybe not everybody is here, you don't lose your right to assemble credit and just because you haven't gone and voted in every single election, should not have to show up at the voting booth and find out you lose your rights to vote. that is exactly what voting are in this one is present will stop the voting purges. that is my bill right now to get rid of that. to get rid of of jury mentoring and automatically register every can in this country when they turn 18 to vote. >> my background is not donald trump's background, is not one of privilege like so many in this community, is one of resilience. my grandpa, is a minor. he worked 1500 feet underground. his parents died when he was really young and he was the oldest son pretty had to raise nine brothers

i'm not telling you, good out there and vote for andrew gillum or stacy abrams.i'm telling you, as a human being, vote. exercise your freedom and privilege. vote, i don't care who you vote for forks vote. you go into that poll, use a critical thinking, and research the candidates. politics is personal. politics is so personal. but it's all played out in public now. what i would say is, for times such as this go vote. what i do is i let you hear the naacp and the congressional black caucus talking about hate, vote against hate. but i also let you hear people from other walks of life to talk about how critical -- i try to give you all sided of the spectrum:... >> dogs biting through their skin. a vote. please. thank you. [applause] >> you see things so much more up close than the rest of us. my question is, are you still surprised by things? [laughter] >> umm--some days i'm like, they can't topless. - - top this. how are they going to explain that at the podium today. it is so funny to watch the president say something and then the next day, what the president mean

purging voting roles where we had not had that kind of conduct as well as other voting restrictions, stacy abramsould be governor of georgia right now. [ applause ] it is things like gerrymandering, it is things like making it hard for people to register to vote. i lead a number of those bills, in fact, all of the bills i just mentioned and so as president, i could actually get them done. secondly, it's an agenda of economic opportunity and that means everything from working with representative clyburn on his major plan to invest in areas that have been perpetually impoverished to making sure that we are investing in k through 12 education. i'm the daughter of a second grade teacher and my mom's looking down at me somewhere, so if i didn't say big time investment in education i don't think that i'd be here today because she cared so much about that. it's investment in pre-school. it's taking those trump tax cuts where so much of the money went to the wealthy and putting it into things like making college more affordable and hbcus and making sure that we have retirement because that hits people of

somebody like stacy abrams who almost basically did win her governor seat in georgia where we have two open senate seats in november would be a particularly strong candidate. i think a candidate of color on the ticket and a woman on the ticket. so, i think these are, you know, decisions that we have to make once we have a nominee. >> michael, let's talk about nevada coming up. i want to tell our viewers. if you look at the balm right-hand corner of your screen, you're looking at videos of yokohama, japan, they're looking to evacuate a few hundred americans off of the cruise ship. we have janis standing by in yokohama. i'll keep that in the bottom of the screen. a lot of people coming off that cruise ship, it could take a long time. we'll keep a very close eye on that this morning, including questions about where those americans go once they get off that ship. they still will be held in quarantine. let me get back to you, michael. nevada is on saturday. i want to remind people. it is not a big catch of delegates. you need 1,991 delegates to win on the first ballot. you're still only goi

what i heard, kamala harris number would not, stacy abrams number two. >> okay. that is good intel. love it. thank you so much both of you. >>> let's go now to garrett haake who is following the buttigieg campaign in las vegas for us. good morning your time. so what are do you think is the former mayor's biggest challenge as he heads into these primaries in nevada and south carolina? >> reporter: if you were to watch the last 15 minutes, you'd think that michael bloomberg is the run away winner. but in fact pete buttigieg has the most momentum. but if he gets squashed on media, if he gets blown out by focus on michael bloomberg who is waiting in the wings on super tuesday, it makes it more difficult to turn good performances into momentum. the other problem that is also waiting in the wings for buttigieg and his campaign is the possibility that his sexuality could become an issue with more conservative voters in southern states. you heard rush limbaugh raise this question earlier this week in what was not a good faith manner. but buttigieg pushing back very hard on it this morning.

me what you think is the best way to combat these initiatives like in georgia what happened to stacy abramsthey first violated the rights of those people attempting to register to vote, and then they could not get the court fast enough to stop the purging. what are your recommendations on what we should do to combat this behavior? >> one the things we need to be mindful of, is the connection between the economic consequences of any changes in voting laws that have the effect of making it more expensive, costly, or impossible for people to meet those new requirements. it is important for us to connect business requirements for photos, and all of these businesses that require transportation to remote places. all have racial consequences. and it needs to be sophisticated in our opposition to those things. in one of those things i think is critical is to have in our educational system, the whole business of civics again. so people are aware of the connection between voting in their right. it is alarming to note, that in many, many, many states, the whole subsidy in education has been eliminated

. >> stacy abrams?very competent. >> may be her biggest supporter, funder, one of her initiative to get out the vote. register people. >> you dismissed your first debate performance saying this is something that, these guys had a lot of practice doing. aren't democratic voters looking for someone who can stand up to donald trump on the debate stage? >> no. they're looking for somebody who can run the country and somebody that can beat donald trump. and the debate is just one thing. we're not looking for a debater in chief. you know? just because you're a good college debater doesn't mean you can run the country. this is insanity. what i found so difficult in the first debate was, i got out there and they're all yelling at each other and nobody's listening to each other and they're talking over each other and then the second debate, sanders and warren gave the same answer to every single question no matter what the question was. said the same thing. why does that help the public make a decision as to who

we saw that in 2018 in georgia so i think people like stacy abe ra abrams that are calling for systematic reform we need to think through how that will look for the next four years especially for our upcoming midterm elections. >> let me ask you, judith about what you think about a way that the democratic party can start to fix this immediately. to cause african americans in particular and a lot of youth who think the system is not engaging thenyl in the way that it should and there's an expectation among democrats that republicans don't suffer from as much. an expectation around democrats that these are natural constituencies for them. >> iowa and new hampshire is the first two step states that are archaic. it's out of steps with the times and the shifts in our democracy and we can't use them as predictors of what's going to happen because these first two primaries start to discourage people. if they see southern outcomes then they start to think that they're actually is a candidate who is at the top of the list but then the rest of us know that the voters in those states are not represe