warren hated nixon, just hated him. he couldn't believe that richard nixon was going to name his successor so that is of course what happened. >> the line on round one in your research in the book did you come across anything that gives you insight into whether or not the chief justice expectation by using that phrase. if you could share a discussion about that decision versus maybe the lack of unanimous decisions in the koran supreme court i would appreciate that and i was wondering -- >> it was all in the deliberate speed which he lifted from an early opinion of oliver wendell holmes. frankfurter agreed on it that it would give the states leeway, but they were both terribly disappointed and one in particular became more and more disappointed that the state didn't submit desegregation and she was very disappointed in that. the unanimous decision that was one of his great contributions i think the supreme court and certainly to brown v. board because it was argued earlier and the court was split with the chief justice p

tweeting shortly after elizabeth warren. >> i'm still here!the skirmishes between the outside supporters of beto and bernie sanders as well. what do you make of this? >> this is what's going to happen each candidate is going to try to outdo each other. we are talking about the space that is trying to get to the left of the other. when i talk to republicans who are close to the white house about this, this is what they are excited about. while they are worried about the investigations, this is a little bit of light for them. they are expecting that the democrats are going to be fighting each other and eating each other up. they see it as an opportunity to shift the scrutiny and the headlines. they see it as an opportunity for them to make some some progress and paint the left to be even more out there than they are. >> some of the issues are you talking about. some of the issues that democrats are divided on. you look at the policy and never seemed to breakthrough. democrats have made a clear play on this. you pull up the major issues and the h

. >>> warren is in. the senator becomes the first democrat to make a presidential bid, and she's not the only one making noise. >>> plus, 2019 coming around. it's now midnight in moscow as vladimir putin celebrates the new year by detaining an american citizen. is this putin's pay bacback for u.s. nabbing one of his agents? >>> and welcome to this special holiday edition of "the lead," i'm pamela brown in for jake tapper. and we begin this new year's eve with our politics lead. let the countdown begin. no, not until andy cohen and anderson cooper pop that bottle of bubbly, but rather until nearly 1 million federal workers can start getting paid again. day ten of the government shutdown, and there is no deal in sight. president trump spending this holiday alone at the white house and telling aides he will not budge on funding for a border wall and border security. this as the president is publicly rebuking his outgoing chief of staff who claims the trump administration gave up on building a concrete wall

play more from elizabeth warren's warren's roll out film and get your thoughts on it? cracks that families are falling into. thee are traps. america's middle class is under attack. how do we get here? billionaires and big corporations decided they wanted more of the pie. and they enlisted politicians to cut them a fatter slice. >> leland: boy, that does not have the hope and change, uplifting message that brought barack obama to the white house and then re-election. >> yeah. that's true. i think that one of the challenges that all of these candidates are going to face and i think you are exactly right that we could be seeing maybe 2 dozen announcements within the next month or so is going to be really how do you broaden your message. senator warren has done a good job playing to the progressive space she doesn't own that space anymore. a couple colleagues in the congress and o'rourke playing into that space. how do you transition to a general election message? how do you do something that's more broad is going to be the challenge that she is going to be facing. >> lela

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elizabeth warren has an interesting profile, background. in terms of her policy positions, her ideology, the appeals to the critical base of voters that democrats need. democrats need to win back those union voters, those middle class working class voters that we lost some in those key midwest states. i think she helps attract that. other candidates are going to do that as well. i think the challenge, i think, for elizabeth warren and any of the candidates is how do you stand out in such a massive field. it was easy last cycle when you had basically bernie sanders versus hillary clinton. media focussed on both. here you're going to have essentially multiple candidates, and the ability to attract media attention to get your base energi energized, to win over supporters and get money and get support is going to be really critical. i think the reason why she's announcing what is kind of i would say kind of an odd time is for a simple reason. she wants to come out of the gate early part of next year and really start hitting those early states.

elizabeth warren, he has a nickname for her. i will let him use it.nced an exploratory committee. we asked him about it and this is what he had to say. >> elizabeth warren will be the first. she did very badly and proving that she was of indian heritage. that didn't work out too well. i think you have more than she does and maybe i do too and i have nothing. so we'll see how she does. i wish her well. i hope she does well. i'd love to run against her. >> she says she is in the fight all the way, mr. president. do you really think she believes she can win? >> well, that i don't know. you'd have to ask her psychiatrist. >> we have a question in with her psychiatrist, no answer yet. a new wrinkle in this relationship that will clearly get more contentious as we move into 2019. >> ed: social media ablaze with that comment. we are looking forward to seeing the rest of it at 10:00 p.m. eastern tonight. it's going to be a long night for you. i know you are prepared. yesterday we were on sat together and you had a lot of bacon. i put it on twitter. it was nat

that should be elizabeth warren country, in many ways. she's the populist. she's the fire brand.inly well known. she probably has really high name i.d., had more name incht i.d. than beto o'rourke did. people want someone new. six in ten democrats, independent sort of leaning democrats want someone new. that poll also showed that elizabeth warren didn't do too well in terms of whether or not people thought she should or shouldn't run. it's essentially split down the middle. what's interesting about this ad she's put out, this video, the way she's doing it with the twitter and social media push also if you look at the people in that ad, right, she knows that the democratic party is essentially a rainbow coalition. she's there, marching in what looks like an lgbt parade or something like that. lots of black and brown faces, particularly black women in that ad. that is the path to the democratic nomination that we've seen obama, certainly, chart in 2008. clinton did it also in 2016. didn't end up netting her the nomination -- or the presidency, obviously. if you look more broadly at

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it says, warren missed her moment in 2016. there's reason to be skeptical of her perspective candidacy in 2020. she has become a divisive figure. a unifying voice is what the country needs right now, after the polarizing politics of donald trump. is the "boston globe" right? >> i don't think they're right. i think this is a moment when we're going to have as many as 20 different democratic -- 20 different democrats running for office. i don't think ultimately that many will make it to iowa and new hampshire, but this is a moment with an open primary that wasn't the case in 2016 with hillary clinton as a fund-raiser. the advantage that elizabeth warren has is she not only has the strong populist anti-wall street message. she has a record of accomplishment she can put behind it, whether it's helping to start the consumer financial protection bureau or a lot of others, dodd/frank, her efforts on that as well. the challenges, she has the right message. is she the right messenger? she has higher negatives than some of the other can

warren said she never thought she would be in public office.r of a john tore. she comes from a different blue blood background. lot of the trump supporters from blue blood backgrounds despite the fact that he is an elite. i'm wondering how she will appeal to the anti-elite? >> a lot of things haven't been sensed, like you said. president trump is a new york social aoeut who wouldn't have been caught dead in mississippi or alabama before he ran for president. but now you have elizabeth warren, who does come from a working class background. but she may have a difficult time because she is viewed as an intellectual, someone who taught at harvard university. so i think she may not be able to connect with certain parts of the country. i think what is going to connect are her ideas ab medicare. we know that so many people go broke trying to pay for medical expense and medical bills and lose their homes. if she sticks to the issues she will connect with working class voteder. >> julie: did her dna test results, she didn't bring that up. do you think t

. >>> warren's run. elizabeth warren announces splo exploratory committee for a presidential run. could she be the democrat to take on president trump? >>> and securing times square. thousands of police, assault units and bomb-sniffing dogs will be working to keep new year's eve revelers safe in new york's times square. for the first time, a drone will provide eyes in the sky. >>> wolf blitzer is off. i'm brianna keilar. this is a "the situation room" special report. >>> it's new year's eve, and day ten of the government shutdown. president trump is again home alone for the holiday. he began his celebration with a twitter tirade, contradicting his outgoing chief of staff by saying he never abandoned the idea of a concrete border wall. calling the southern border an open wound and saying democrats should come back from vacation and fix it. democrats are planning votes to reopen the government without offering new funding for a wall. the president also suggests he should be hailed as a national hero for his stance on syria, attacking what he calls failed generals who have criticized

warren: opportunity f many of our young people is shrinking. so i am in this fight all the way. >> celebrations around the world taking place to welcome newar 2019. karin: hello, welcome to "bbc world news." let's take you to the new year 2019 is dawning right now. th is the scene in athens. fireworks lighting up the sky over the ancient site of the acropolis. let's listen to a little of the atmosphe. karin: there we are, two minutes past midnight in the greek capital, athens. the fireworks having to struggle ragainst challenging weat conditions and heavy rain right now. they still look beautiful over the ancient skyline. let's turn to the day's news. the world foodrogram says food aid in yemen is being stolen and s underly sold in ar the control of houthi rebels. a survey by the u.n. agency said that some people in the capital, sanaa, have not received the rations to which they were titled. more than 15 million yemenis are facing severe shortages of food. a worker for the food program in cairo told me what the investigation found. >> we have s

now we know it's elizabeth warren. what can you tell us? >> that's right, with all due respect to john delaney and julio castro who have already taken more of this for 2020. it's not a surprise she's announcing today. we've expected this for some time. but when she says in her announcement video the american middle class is under attack, that political corruption is poisoning our democracy. in an e-mail to supporters, she says the american people deserve a debate about how to restore the middle class and who best to lead that debate. they say she wanted to make this announcement today for two reasons. one is, it's actually a technical reason, she doesn't have a leadership pact like some others do. this allows her to start raising money. and maybe doing some political travel which we might see in less than a week. the other point they want to send is warren is really going to run her own campaign on her own terms. they're going to stick to their playbook and run the kind of campaign they want to do. warren of course was just re-elected to a

warren has been in office in congress for just under six years and in that relatively short time she has built a national reputation for herself as a dog critic and reformer of wall street and back she says the reason she entered politics in the first place was because of that two thousand and eight stock market crash and you see that theme in full sized in this announcement video along with other liberal firebrands like gay marriage and the rights of minorities but her singular and main message that she is concentrating on is said waiting her success of reforming wall street and tackling the corruption there to what she says is the corruption in washington that's headed by none other than president trump who she has had no fear of criticizing during his administration felicity you heidi she's a big name she's a woman what are the chances of her winning the democratic candidate see who's she likely to be up against. well she has a very large field of possible contenders as many as thirty people weighing the possibility of throwing their hats in the ring and that may be one reason she

here is what one of them said about warren.r coat anything, but my question is will she keep black issues on the forefront asked a 39-year-old woman who backed senator bernie sanders of vermont in the primary. she warned against white politician who is talk about their black friends when around black audiences and move on. the take away here is that black voters, at least the ones you talked to want white politicians with who talk openly about the discrimination that many black voters experienced. >> exactly. you have a diverse set of interests, but unifying things. the black voters at this event and throughout the mid-term season throughout the country want politicians who speak to issues that are not just racism and justice, but the same kitchen table issues we talked about all across the board and may affect black voters in a unique way. things like minimum wage and job increases and a housing crisis and also have a racial component to them. they affect black communities and black voters in separate fashions and want politic

pocahontas, elizabeth warren. pocahontas. pocahontas.lizabeth warren, sometimes referred to, affectionately, of course, as pocahontas. >> stephen: see? it may be racist, but it's affectionate. because trump has great affection for racism. ( laughter ) ( cheers and applause ) well, guess what?! guess what! >> jon: that's right. lay it on the line. lay it on the line. >> stephen: guess what? elizabeth warren is pushing back by rolling out of something she calls a "fact squad." you know you're a democratic harvard professor when that's the toughest name you can think of. was "dork brigade" taken? ( laughter ) well, today, the fact squad released this video: >> in the senator's genome, we did find five segments of native american ancestry with very high confidence where we believe the error rate is less than 1 in >> now, e call my mom a li t facts suggesu absolutely have a native american ancestor in your pedigree. >> stephen: you heard them right. this test accurately reveals with a high confidence that elizabeth warren is running for presi

every expectation now is that senator elizabeth warren will run for president. now we also have a pretty good blueprint of what her campaign will look like and sound like in a 4 1/2-minute video. she talked about some of the themes she has talked about for so many years like fighting economic inequality, taking on big banks and big corporations, and as you said, she also talked about her personal childhood stories and how her own family was able to overcome a lot of hardships. now, she also had in this video a very pointed message about what she said was an echo chamber of bigotry and hatred. take a listen to this. >> our government is supposed to work for all of us, but instead, it has become a tool for the wealthy and well connected. the whole scam is propped up by an echo chamber of fear and hate designed to distract and divide us. people who will do or say anything to hang on to power, point the finger at anyone who looks, thinks, prays, or loves differently than they do. >> now, it is not an accident that we see images of president trump in this video messa

heidi tell us more about the elizabeth warren and more about what we can expect from her campaign. sure this is a very significant moment as we lead up to the two thousand and twenty election because elizabeth warren is the first major democratic name to announce herself or move very close to announcing herself as a contender in the democratic primaries which will of course result in the person that the party puts up to confront trump in november two thousand and twenty so what we know about elizabeth warren is that she is a senator from massachusetts most political analysts place her a slightly to the left of hillary clinton on the political spectrum and she's a relative newcomer to congress she's only served for six years but in that time she has built this national reputation of being an ardent critic of big banking she says that that's in fact the reason that she ran for office after the wall street collapse of two thousand and eight and in that announcement video we watched you see that she's trying to emphasize her home bill roots she strikes on many of these messages that ha

can we read into anything about the timing of this announcement for warren? clearly, among the favorites, not at the top of this list. and the other problem she has is that she's not the only progressive in this field, either. >> that's exactly right. and i think that she felt a little bit of pressure. she was thinking perhaps bernie sanders is, in fact, going to run. someone like sherrod brown. sherrod brown's press people putting out stuff today saying, look at all the stuff the senator's been doing from ohio. but i went back from 1972 and found that the median date of entry for primary entrants when no incumbents are running is march 12th. it's march 12th. so it shouldn't be a huge surprise that we're getting the first person in at this particular point. >> now, warren has certainly had her share of missteps, right? she had this dna test thing that she did in the fall, a video about her her native american ancestry that sparked quite a bit of backlash. but there's another cnn poll that shows about a third of the poll is unsure about her. does she have an o

elizabeth warren didn't seize the moment.ernie almost seized the moment and then hillary rigged the primary against him. chris christie had it in 2012. he stayed in new jersey and then bridgegate happened. you have to go for the gold immediately. i like kamala harris too and i think gillum is talented. they are both young and attractive candidates. the morning joe ticket, the unity ticket, it's like with people who used to work for john mccain pitched just to get on msnbc. it will never happen. this country is so divided along

it's no surprise that elizabeth warren was going to form an exploratory committee.he's been expected to run in 2020 for some time. she's not quite making that announcement but what is she doing here? >> reporter: yeah and happy new year to you. when we talked to some of the advisers here for senator warren and the days leading up to today's announcement and you ask them why now, you'll get some logistical reasons having to do with wanting to start raising money, start building out those early state operations. the key line was in a letter -- an e-mail that she sent to her supporters. she said the american people deserve a real debate about how to restore fairness for working families and about who to lead that fight. what she wants to do is jump start that debate and make it clear she's the best person to lead that debate. she will be sworn in for a second term here on thursday. when she returns to washington she'll be in a room with a lot of other senators running for president. she's running a race now about how kamala harris or cory booker is positioning themselv

the democratic senator elizabeth warren gives the clearest signal yet that she wants to run for the usresidency in 2020. we can win. we can and we will. new year's celebrations in the middle east — this is the scene live in dubai, the latest place to welcome in 2019. this is moscow, the latest place to welcome in 2019. hello and welcome to world news today. let's go straight to where the new year 2019 is dawning, and to moscow where festivities are under way to celebrate the new year. the kremlin, the red square and saint background. it is all below freezing but the crowds are huge. and more than 1,000 ice rinks have been opened for merrymakers. let's get it out of the atmosphere. doesn't that look absolutely beautiful? it is about minus five celsius. the walls eliminated so beautifully. we will be bringing all the very latest fireworks and celebrations through the various times on bbc news. moscow three hours ahead of the uk but we will bring you what happens in europe and the uk and of course the united states as we get to 2019 throughout the world. states as we get to 2019 throughou

on in warren court but over brown vs. board, he was anxious. ry gallon if you thaw. worried but the pace of change. afraid that the south would explode in resistance to decision, and he guess what? he was right. hi was anxious but that. did he throw warren under the base and say the brown decision is their worst thing? i found that's not the case i. found he was actually -- praised warren after the decision in a number of instances. did eisenhower maintain racial prejudice? yes. nuts flash. mores white americans in his position and of his background also did. did he say a number of regrettable things theft have been reported in the historyam record? yes, he did. but on this case i think he made a number of crucial decisions that pushed the course of history forward and i have said -- i've tried not to oversell him as a great hero of the civil rights movement. that is too much. but it's a fascinating transitional moment. youd. >> i can't resister with a followup. you make the case quite convincingly that eisenhower is a co

warren denied wanting to run. what do you think changed her mind and frankly why now? >> i don't think anyone really changed her mind. i think she's wanted to run for president for a rather long time. i mean, obviously, she's been saying publicly on the record different things but now with a launching of the exploratory committee that's enough of an underscore over her actual intentions as anything else we have seen so far and coming to the trump white house and the trump campaign and trump's allies, funny thing is, they may be completely wrong about this and regretting the wish if it actually does come to this but warren is a kind of candidate that team trump would prefer to run against. at least according to the officials i have been speaking to recently coming the democratic nomination. >> because she provides a foyle to the president? >> yes. 100%. and also, they think that they can have the upper hand on portraying her as, for instance, something mark clotter who used to be the president's press secretary and now a member of the 2020 advisory board told me earlier

elizabeth warren, years ago, had the progressive field to herself. that's not going to happen once more democrats get into the field. there's going to be an intense battle for that side of the democratic party. whether she can prevail or they look for a newer face, we'll have to see. again, i think donald trump is certainly beatable. >> so, let's go with that for a moment, this conversation about the progressive wing of the democratic party. we have a progressive group, the progressive change campaign committee. they are responding to her announcement. they told nbc news they aren't endorsing her yet, but a thumbs up. is she the type of candidate the progressive wing could get behind? >> she has been one of the original progressive democrats in the senate and is one of the most well known democratic senators. that is going for her. we have seen this divide in the democratic party the past few years during the midterms where we are seeing this more progressive wing and a lot of young candidates coming forward and winning the election. we have seen a l

pretty crazy timing from elizabeth warren.nk she wanted to get an early onset of the a national infrastructure and try to re-correct or sword of readership to the narrative that has been going around, swirling around specifically when it comes to her native american claims. she claimed to be native american. in a book called powwow child and of course donald trump put her in the national conversation regarding that issue. then of course he released a dna test. it didn't really work in her favor. i think she's trying to shift the narrative then come back and reestablish the pillar for the progressive left. david: john, maybe that's a bonus, maybe a minus because when you start adding up everything she wants in terms of big government policies from universal income, she's a proponent of that at least in one of the plans to medicare for all. she's talking about big bucks aired already $22 trillion in debt. is that a weakness quarter? >> is certainly a weakness in the general election, but heart and soul doesn't care if they tax a

with more to tell us more heidi about elizabeth warren those of us outside the u.s. and what we can expect from her campaign will it be more of the kind of things she said in that video message. sure elizabeth warren is seen as a firebrand of the liberal wing of the democratic party some analysts put her just to the left of hillary clinton and in her tenure of six years in congress which is a relatively short period she has made a national reputation for herself as a staff watchdog of big banking that is a very popular position among the left and you saw that highlighted in warren's announcement video along with the other liberal firebrands of equality minority rights but you saw also that her perhaps most unifying rallying cry for the democratic party is her attempt to segue from her success of championed reforms on wall street to tackling corruption there to washington d.c. and being the watchdog and tackling donald trump and his administration which she has not been shy to criticize and she has already received the wrath of donald trump how is she looking in this

what is elizabeth warren doing now?right, and new year's eve could be seen as a strange timeo ake a campaign announcement, but she does have the stage to hersf for the time being, the first big announcement from a democrat for 2020, and making very clear with that very v populieo and its imagery what she's going for, she will protect the middle class. she's going to have a very crowdd field to join going forward, but we'll seif she separates herself out by going firstand going big with this video.k >> so this is y to be a crowded feel. what do we know about the field. >> first, in that video, abeth warren is clearly running from the left. nhat's what we expected but she's taking an o shot to ronald reagan, who most of america admire, butve progres think many of his policies lead to what we have now. but asou and erica said, the issue is this giant field, there are almost as many ways to slicet as people in it. let's talk about the declared presidential candidates. three democrats have rec themself. john delaney of maryl

warren is the first high profile democrat to take formal action towards a campaign. she's expected to continue with her attack on corporate america. take a listen. >> these aren't cracks that families are falling into. they're traps. america's middle class is under attack. how did we get here? billionaires in big corporations decided they wanted more of the pie and they enlisted politicians to cut them a fatter slice. david: of course it's big business' fault. how far will her message get with voters, gang. >> i don't think very far at all, david. and what she fails to forget is that most of the billionaires, the richest men and women in the world, definitely in the country are in silicon valley. they're probably some of her biggest backers. so a war against the wealthy right now might not be ideal for her as a winning strategy. >> i hate to admit it but heather has a point there. look. >> it's okay. david: don't need to admit it. >> she has a lot of good points. it was a smart thing politically to be the first in, this early she's attract some donors sooner than oth

elizabeth warren has decided to travel down that rabbit hole, and good luck with that. i'm not sure where she's going with this. earlier this year she spoke before a gathering of native american s and told the story of pocahont pocahontas. these groups don't need lectures from elizabeth warren about their painful histories in the united states. i'm sure blacks would much rather hear why liberal democrats like warren have been unable to do much for the black poor in terms of education and jobs and public safety and so forth. i think she would be -- do much better to focus on those practical issues instead of trying to somehow identify with these groups when she finds it politically convenient. >> well, she's got at least a year, maybe two, depending honor how she does in the primaries, to talk about those things. she may be facing off against kamala harris out of california. so now we have this case that keeps coming up, a $400,000 settlement. there's questions about whether or not when she could have known about this. he was working in a top position there. dan walters

watchdog of big banking that is a very popular position among the left and you saw that highlighted in warren's announcement video along with the other liberal firebrands of equality minority rights but you saw also that her perhaps most unifying rallying cry for the democratic party is her attempt to segue from her success of championed reforms on wall street to tackling corruption there to washington d.c. and being the watchdog and tackling donald trump and his administration which she has not been shy to criticize and she has already received the wrath of donald trump how is she looking in this field of democrats heidi that we are expecting to announce candidacy and how is the policy looking can they mount a real challenge to president. right this is still very early in the season of course and elizabeth warren she's garnering this attention because she is the first of many democrats who are expected to announce their intention to run in this in may in fact may be a calculation on warren's part to get ahead of the field of as many as thirty possible candidates contemplating that option and s

no, it does not go as far as kamala harris and warren claim, it called first step. >> right.step. not perfect, i would like to see it go further, i would like to see where all drugs are legal, and everyone freed who commit aa victimless crime, that not going to happen, i would support this to make it better, like you order a sandwich, and you want tomato, and they forget your tomato, you don't throw the sandwich away, you eat it, it better than no sandwich at ale,, they should eat the sandwich. kennedy: better to eat a sandwich than an entire big. >> true. it is welcome for kamala harris and -- not for kamala, she is a prosecutor, she is the problem about criminal justice, she has been jeff sessions in a dress. kennedy: how come people don't realize that. she is so -- awful. >> she started too change her tune, they want their democratic candidates to be good on this issue, they are playing with fire in not doing this. it is a good idea, this is a demonstration project that says no matter what happens, fact that president campaigned to big law and order, and appointed jeff ses

what's your message to a lot of democratic voters who say, i love where senator warren stands on the issues, but i worry about accountability. i worry about a campaign more about native american ancestry than the middle class. >> look, i'm in this fight because i understand what's happeninging happening to working faemgs. i grew up in a paycheck-paycheck family. i run for office because i'm grateful down to my toes for the opportunities that were given to me and i am determined that we will give those same opportunities, not just to some of our kids, but to all of our kids. i think when we fight for something positive, something big. when we tell, not just tell, but show what democrats will get out there and make happen, i think that's how we win. >> senator, do you think your politics are too polarizing for a national audience? >> you know, the way i see it right now, washington works great for giant drug companies, but just not for people who are trying to get a precipitation filled. washington works great for for-profit colleges, but not for young people who are getting crushed by

we're all here talking about elizabeth warren right now.ina: exactly but let's focus maybe what can she bring to the table as a candidate? there are many people that will come forward. what can she bring compared to others? >> well one thing that people don't know about elizabeth warren, she has been spending the previous three or four years going around the country helping elect democratic candidates and supporting them, not just the marquee candidates, senate and house levels but lower level in state governments. elizabeth warren has network of democratic people across the country, who she expects to be able to call on to support her. she will start putting that in motion. she can raise money for her campaign. she already has 12 1/2 million dollars on hand. kristina: she can take the money use it for this presidential campaign as well? >> that's right. momentum propelled by supporters working for her, the money she can attract, will give her a bit of a head start against a extremely crowded field. kristina: speaking of the crowded field,

she is not here to respond. >> we got the just of his comments defending warren. the new york times article says her aides are concerned she damaged her relationship with native americans. perhaps a way to not damage your relationship with that community is not to claim to be a native american based on family folklore for the period of time professionally you found it useful to be a native american and stop classifying yourself as a native american as soon as you get harvard 10 year. that is my armchair quarterbacking of that situation. i think identity politics is a huge thing on the left in this could be an issue for her. it is a real one and her own advisor believes it is a real problem. shannon: we talked about the case involving kamala harris and the top aid resigned, $400,000, the victim here, the alleged victim says, working under california attorney general harris, she was no longer the attorney general. and and she accepted it. and her prominent place during the brett kavanaugh hearing, a lot of folks have questions. >> hypocrisy is what they are saying t

i sent on this issue is that people who like elizabeth warren will use this to bolster their case forpeople who don't look at a negative way. i don't think it changes anyone's mind in terms of how they already feel about her and i don't think it will be a big issue. there will be 20 or 30 democrats running in this next election cycle and the primary. i just don't think this will be one of the big issues. there are plenty of other things to go after her on. >> martha: people would agree with that. she is the one who made a big point of it. the only reason we talked about it is because she brought it up in a very dramatic video for her she looked very moved and touched. she received information that she is perhaps as most native american as most americans. >> identity politics is very potent on the left, this could be a problem for her. the headpiece as we have seen cropping up, some of them certainly are planted by other democrats who want her out of the way. i am pretty gratified to see her have this as an ongoing problem because she richly deserves to have this problem. it is a self-

i mean, the elizabeth warren standard is the diversity standard.identity politics, it's self identity politics. and god bless her, i love her for that. only in america can elizabeth warren be the first woman of color. the american dream in a nutshell. >> tucker: all the dreams come true in this country. mark stein, great to see you as well. as always. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: we will be right back my mom washes the dishes... ...before she puts them in the dishwasher. so what does the dishwasher do? cascade platinum does the work for you, prewashing and removing stuck-on foods, the first time. wow, that's clean! cascade platinum. the zip code you're born into can determine your future. your school. your job. your dreams. your problems. (indistinct shouting) but at the y, we create opportunities for everyone, no matter who you are or where you're from. for a better us, donate to your local y today. little things can be a big deal. that's why there's otezla. otezla is not a cream. it's a pill that treats moderate to severe plaque psoriasis dif

when it comes to elizabeth warren, popular in massachusetts, her video was very classic elizabeth warrene little guy on the big banks and the institutions, and the big question is so much will she be popular with democrats but will she appeal to a broader spectrum of americans? can she actually beat president trump? >> i don't think that she will be the nominee and i do not think that she can appeal to a wide base. watching that video, the thing that really struck me is that it concerned i thought that she is kind of yesterdays person, her time has already come and gone. she struck all of the themes that bernie sanders and she have been striking for the last five or ten years, but there are a lot of younger guns in the democratic party now. she does not stand out as being more left-wing or more bernie-like than others, cory booker, kamala harris, a lot of people on the left, what struck me about the video was that she tried to talk about the middle class, she did not emphasize massachusetts. she actually entered her oklahoma upbringing. and mentions her military connections, it was all s

elizabeth warren has said she took a test because she was interested in her ancestry.for people to make a decision on the basis of the record as it is. but she has is focused on doing her job. i think the reason that we are seeing the knives, for elizabeth warm is it because of how incredibly strong -- >> shannon: i think we lost dave. we'll get him back. in the meantime, god, i wanted to talk you about senator harris. >> i don't get to talk about elizabeth warren? >> shannon: you can do that but then we did talk about senator harris. go ahead. i know you can't resist. dave is not here to respond, poor thing. >> we got the gist of his comments defending warren. i think this "new york times" story that says, her aides are concerned that she may have damaged her relationship with native americans, well, spitball and, perhaps a way to not damage your relationship with that community is not to claim to ben family folklore for exactly the amount of time professional you found it useful to be native american and then stop classifying yourself as a native american just as soo

it will be interesting if she ends up departing the warren camp. warren has a very seasoned team.s she has. people like roger lau in massachusetts, she has a top flight team. you've noticed it because we keep getting these readouts of these political calls elizabeth warren has been making. a team is putting her in the right positions reaching out to the right people. >> is "politico," you're talking about how warren has contacted some 100 people in these early presidential states. as you point out, making those calls, getting her staff together, how important is it now for that to be happening? or do you think people have more time? they can go into the first quarter of 2019 if they need to? >> you want to be starting to do those touches now. beto o'rourke doing outreach to key leaders on the african-american side, and let me be very clear about this. the democratic primary runs through african-american voters. s that a lesson hillary clinton learned, and that was the decisive factor for her in racking up that delegate win with bernie sanders. bernie outdid her with a lot of o'you

that is elizabeth warren's problem. she is liberal enough.entify with progressives. it doesn't fly with publicans. that is five beto o'rourke is raising so much money. he is a losing senate candidate, but he created so much pause and so much authenticity and his campaign but he is not being talked about. >> bret: at both o'rourke and andrew gillum, the candidate down in florida met with barack obama in recent days. that is usually the path in which someone gets anointed. >> it is like barack obama is donald trump and circa 2,000. it might be this way with barack obama. i will say you mentioned authenticity which i thought was interesting. joe biden, definitely authentic to the point where he can be there. he said it himself. in the way he made a gaffe already this week saying i'm the most qualified person to run for president. last time i checked, that is what hillary clinton said. >> bret: thank you so much. when we come back, a final tribute to the 41st president. ♪ ♪ the greatest wish of all... is one that brings us together. the lincoln w

>> i said elizabeth warren.cism about biden running and the way biden has talked about his run has focused on his family and that will be a big consideration for him. elizabeth warren has the money, i'm not sure she's going to be the nominee. >> you guys all said none. >> i can be quick here. i think the front r-runner stat is the kiss of death. >> they need the next generation. >> you thought sanders and warren would be in by the 31st? >> yeah. i think that they've done the work. i think that they might not be front-runners, but they'll still be in. >> sanders runs, he ain't getting out until the convention. >> they're going to make it through iowa. >> the other thing that will happen in 2019 is the surprise senate retirement. it always happens. probably more than one. so leeann give me your one. >> i wanted to say mcconnell, but i went with ben sass. >> some democrat is going to raise a ton of money raising against him. >> susan collins. she just does not seem to enjoy this end of the year chaos, and the whole

i mean, the elizabeth warren standard is the diversity standard.ity politics, w it's self identity politics. that's the beauty of it. and god bless her. i love her for that. only in america can elizabeth warren be the harvard law school first woman of color. the american dream in a nutshell. >> tucker: all the dreams come true in this country. mark steyn, great to see you as well. >> thank you, tucker. [music begins] researcher 1: some say e-cigarettes aren't dangerous. researcher 2: but science shows nicotine can harm teens' developing brains- researcher 1: no matter how they're exposed. researcher 2: let's do an experiment to find out. researcher 1: here's a teen who won't be using e-cigarettes. researcher 2: now, we need one willing to risk their brain development. researcher 1: anyone care to volunteer your kid? researcher 2: anyone? narrator: your kids are not an experiment. protect them from e-cigarettes. [music ends] >> tucker: the hour is over, like sand through an hourglass. like all good things, it ends before you think it will. the only

but elizabeth warren does not look too great for her.arly on, the polls are largely name i.d. polls across the board anyway. we all know that caucus states is all about organization, organization, organization. that's how you get the caucus goers out. so you may see pulling that eventually does not relate the results, because it is the term based on your ability to organize your caucus goers. but it is interesting to see these numbers, and i think that, harris has a lot of room to gro grow. >> harris: i want to comment on data and how critically important you pointed out is, just more so than interesting and local news they do the quadrants, and we are always taught that you want, even if it is lowered recognition, you want the gap between recognition and that gap between you to be tight. if 80% of people know you, 71% of them have decided apparently that they do not like you. and that is hard to turn around. that is hard to fix. >> adrienne: it is, it is a reminder that a lot of these with so many people running on the democratic side,

we were there we his beth warren. tiffany cross here and one of the editors, john is here. >> it is clearly trying on today's new cycle to get that out there in front of the 2020 race. where does she land among potential 2020 democrats. or what challenges is she likely to face? >> this little press conference was a test of her early message discipline. i think we have seen her pass with flying colors. no matter what the question she faced here about her elect blt, about how she differentiates herself from others in this case she kept on about democrats needs to show they need to walk the walk and fight the fights about a system towards the special interests against the middle and working class. she was asked about the dna test, whether it was a mistake given some of the backlash she faces. she said it is all about transparency. i put it out there and she returned to this idea of fighting on behalf of the working class. and so i should mention that in terms of it's a little too early for running mates early but she did

this has not been the fall elizabeth warren hope for.easing a dna test showing that she might have had a lone american indian ancestor not necessarily from the continent a few years ago would silence the president and give her momentum going into the primaries next year.wo instead, even the left is turning on her. the two pieces in "the washington post," "the new york times" in the past week suggest that her campaign has been deeply, maybe even fatally wounded by the blunder of the dna test. it looks almost like an effort to kill elizabeth warren's campaign before she can embarrass her party, the one to which everyone inn the media belongs before she actually runs. mark steyn is an author and columnist, not a conspiracy, and what we will run this by him anyway. what is going on? she has a media creation, not as genius, but she has been theio subject of endless profiles in the press particularly by "the boston globe" that has promoted her for years.su and now they are attacking her, why? >> that is interesting, "the boston globe" is sayin