ALSO FORMER CONGRESSWOMAN, DONNA
EDWARDS IS BACK AND BRANDING AND
MARKETING EXPERT DONNY DEUTSCH
IS IN THE HOUSE.
JOHN HEILEMANN, I MUST START
WITH YOU BECAUSE YOU’RE NOW OUT
AND ABOUT.
THERE IS SOMETHING ABOUT
PRESIDENT OBAMA ON THE TRAIL IN
2020.
THERE IS A FEELING OF PENT-UP
DISGUST AT ALL OF DONALD TRUMP’S
SORT OF ABDICATION OF ANY EFFORT
TO LEAD THIS COUNTRY.
THERE SEEMS TO BE A PENT-UP
DESIRE TO WHACK HIM IN A WAY
THAT NO DEMOCRAT HAS BEEN ABLE
TO DO.
AND DONALD TRUMP RESPONDING IN
KIND, LITERALLY LIVE TWEETING
THE OBAMA RALLY.
>> YEAH, HEY, NICOLLE, GOOD TO
SEE YOU AND DONNY AND DONNA.
IT’S GOOD TO BE WITH YOU ONE
WEEK OUT.
WE’VE GOT ONE WEEK TO GO, KIDS.
KEEP IT UP, KEEP IT UP, KEEP IT
UP.
WE CAN MAKE IT ALTOGETHER.
LET’S HOLD HANDS AND STAY PLUG.
I’M GOING TO PLUG SOMETHING BUT
FOR A GOOD REASON.
THE NEW EPISODE OF MY NEW PODCAST HAS ME TALKING TO DAVID
PODCAST HAS ME TALKING TO DAVID
AXELROD, DAVID PLOUFFE AND
ALYSSA MASSTROMONACO.
AND WE WERE TALKING ABOUT WHAT
IT WAS LIKE TO SEE THEIR BOSS
BACK ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL.
THE THING THEY ALL POINTED TO IS
THAT ALYSSA USED TO OCCASIONALLY
REFER TO HIMSELF WHEN HE TALKED
ABOUT WHAT IT WAS LIKE WHEN HE
WAS PENT UP FOR A WHILE AND
FINALLY LIBERATED, HE WOULD SAY
THE BEAR IS OFF THE LEASH.
THEY ALL CITED THAT LINE SAYING
THE BEAR IS OFF THE LEASH.
HE IS HAVING A BALL TO BEGIN
WITH.
AND ONE OF THE OTHER THINGS THEY
POINTED OUT AND I CHIMED IN WITH
IS OBAMA LOVES HUMOR.
WE THINK OF HIM AS THIS
ASPIRATIONAL, INSPIRING SPEAKER
AND HE WAS AT HIS BEST AS A
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE AND AS
PRESIDENT, BUT HE KNOWS HOW TO
WIELD THE KNIFE.
HE LOVES TO ENGAGE IN NEGATIVE
POLITICS WHEN HE FEELS LIKE HE’S
ON THE CALL OF RIGHTEOUSNESS AND
HE CAN BE FUNNY AS HELL.
HUMOR IS WHAT HE USES IN A LOT
OF THOSE CASES AND YOU CAN SEE
WHEN HE’S DELIGHTED WITH HIMSELF
WITH A LINE THAT HE’S WRITTEN
THAT HE KNOWS WILL NAIL TRUMP.
HE SMILES AND HAS THE SENSE OF
DELIGHTED SELF-SATISFACTION.
HE OBVIOUSLY THINKS THE STAKES
OF THE ELECTION ARE AS HIGH AS
THEY EVER COULD BE.
HE OBVIOUSLY THINKS HE NEEDS TO
DO SOMETHING IN THIS ELECTION
THAN HE DID IN 2016, THOUGH HE
CAMPAIGNED FORCEFULLY FOR
HILLARY CLINTON.
HE’S GOING TO THE WALL.
AND THE LAST THING I’LL SAY IS
IN ORDER TO ALLOW JOE BIDEN TO
CONTINUE TO PITCH THE MESSAGE OF
UNITY THAT WE HEARD FROM HIM IN
WARM SPRINGS TODAY AND WE’VE
HEARD FROM HIM THROUGHOUT THE
CAMPAIGN, OBAMA IS BASICALLY
STANDING IN AND SAYING I’LL BE
YOUR BAD COP.
I’LL DO THIS WORK.
I’LL EVEN LET KAMALA HARRIS NOT
HAVE TO DO IT.
I’M TAKE ON THE NEGATIVE
MESSAGING BECAUSE I CAN DO IT
BETTER THAN ANYONE ELSE ABOUT
THIS PRESIDENT WHO I THREAT TO
THIS DEMOCRACY.
LET ME IN, COACH, I’LL PLAY.
AND THAT’S WHAT WE’RE SEEING
FROM BARACK OBAMA RIGHT NOW.
>> LET’S STAY WITH THE UNLEERKD
BEAR, DONNA.
JARED KUSHNER TROTTED OUT HIS
EXTRAORDINARY MIX OF IDIOCY,
RACISM AND INCOMPETENCE.
I DON’T WANT TO PLAY IT BUT LET
ME JUST GIVE FOLKS THE GIST OF
WHAT JARED KUSHNER SAID.
IT WAS ALONG THE LINES OF --
HERE’S WHAT HE SAID.
THERE’S BEEN A LOT OF DISCUSSION
ABOUT THE ISSUES THAT WERE
NEEDED IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY
FOR THE LAST FEW YEARS BUT
INTENSIFIED AFTER THE GEORGE
FLOYD SITUATION.
YOU SAW A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO WERE
VIRTUE SIGNALING.
BIG WORDS FOR JARED.
THEY GO ON INSTAGRAM AND CRY OUT
OR, YOU KNOW, PUT A SLOGAN ON
THEIR JERSEY OR WRITE SOMETHING
ON A BASKETBALL COURT.
ONE THING WE’VE SEEN A LOT OF,
THE BLACK COMMUNITY, WHICH IS
MOSTLY DEMOCRAT, IS THAT
PRESIDENT TRUMP’S POLICIES ARE
THE POLICIES THAT CAN HELP
PEOPLE BREAK OUT, BLAH, BLAH,
BLAH, AND THEN HE SAYS SOMETHING
OBNOXIOUS ABOUT HOW -- HE SAYS
THEY CAN’T WANT THEM TO BE
SUCCESSFUL MORE THAN THEY WANT
TO BE SUCCESSFUL.
HERE’S WHAT PRESIDENT OBAMA HAD
TO SAY ABOUT THAT.
LET’S WATCH AND WE’LL TALK ABOUT
IT ON THE OTHER SIDE.
>> HIS SON-IN-LAW SAYS BLACK
FOLKS HAVE TO WANT TO BE
SUCCESSFUL.
THAT’S THE PROBLEM.
WHO ARE THESE FOLKS?
WHAT HISTORY BOOKS DO THEY READ?
WHO DO THEY TALK TO?
DON’T READ, IS THAT WHAT IS
GOING ON?
BLACK UNEMPLOYMENT HIT ALMOST
17% DURING THE GREAT RECESSION
TEN YEARS AGO.
AND THROUGH A LOT OF HARD WORK,
JOE BIDEN AND I HELPED GET IT
DOWN.
AND IT KEPT ON GOING DOWN, NOT
BECAUSE TRUMP DID ANYTHING.
AND THEN THIS YEAR BECAUSE THEY
SCREWED UP THE PANDEMIC
RESPONSE, IT SOARED BACK UP TO
ABOVE 17% HERE IN FLORIDA, BUT
IT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE THAT WAY,
FLORIDA, IF YOU GO OUT AND VOTE.
>> SO, DONNA AND DONNY, I WANT
TO GET YOU BOTH IN ON THIS ON
BOTH PIECES OF THAT.
OBVIOUSLY THE ECONOMIC FACT
CHECK WAS INCORPORATE,MPORTANT,
FIRST THING HE SAID, DONNA, WHO
ARE THESE PEOPLE.
I THINK A LOT OF REPUBLICANS WHO
SUPPORT DONALD TRUMP THINK WHO
THE HELL JARED KUSHNER IS AND
WHAT HE’S DOING RUNNING THE
GOVERNMENT AND THE CAMPAIGN.
>> THESE PEOPLE ARE EXACTLY WHO
WE THINK THEY ARE AND WHO THEY
HAVE DEMONSTRATED THEMSELVES TO
BE.
YOU KNOW WHEN, I LISTEN TO
PRESIDENT OBAMA, FIRST OF ALL, I
SAY HIDE THE LEASH.
WE DON’T WANT THE LEASH BACK
BETWEEN NOW AND NOVEMBER 3rd.
BUT I ALSO THINK THAT HE HAS A
WAY OF SAYING THINGS, KIND OF
DRAWS YOU IN AND DRAWS YOU IN.
AND THEN YOU REALIZE THAT THE
KNIFE IS BEING WIELDED.
AND I THINK THAT MAKES PEOPLE
THINK ABOUT WHAT THIS
ADMINISTRATION HAS BROUGHT ON
ALL OF US AND REALLY INSPIRING
PEOPLE TO GO OUT THERE AND VOTE.
I LOVE -- I COULD LISTEN TO HIM
ALL DAY LONG.
IF HE COULD JUST RIFF ALL DAY
LONG ABOUT THIS ADMINISTRATION,
I MIGHT HAVE TO VOTE SEVERAL
TIMES, ALTHOUGH WE KNOW WE CAN’T
DO THAT.
YOU KNOW, NICOLLE, I’VE BEEN
THINKING OVER THESE LAST SEVERAL
DAYS THAT, YOU KNOW, WE SEE A
CAMPAIGN WHERE JOE BIDEN IS
ALLOWED TO BE HIMSELF AND TO BE
A UNIFIER BECAUSE HE HAS SUCH A
STRONG ALLY AND SURROGATE IN
BARACK OBAMA.
AND THAT HAS PROVEN EVEN IN JUST
A FEW DAYS MORE USEFUL THAN
ALMOST ANYTHING ELSE THAT COULD
HAVE BEEN DEPLOYED IN THESE LAST
FEW DAYS, TO REALLY MAKE THE
CASE AGAINST DONALD TRUMP BUT
REALLY FOR JOE BIDEN.
AND SO, YOU KNOW, REALLY I’M