>> I'm suspending my campaign for president.
I say this with a deep sense of gratitude for every single person who got in this fight.
>> That's Elizabeth Warren speaking right in front of her home in Massachusetts and
letting everyone know in an announcement that she is no longer running for president in
the Democratic primary.
This was a decision that people have been waiting for, and she finally made it.
Now, we're gonna get to whether she's gonna endorse anyone in just a minute.
But before we do, I wanna go to the next clip where she kind of describes what she's feeling
and what she sees herself doing moving forward.
>> I was told at the beginning of this whole undertaking that there are two lanes, a Progressive
lane that Bernie Sanders is the incumbent for, and a moderate lane that Joe Biden is
the incumbent for, and there's no room for anyone else in this.
I thought that wasn't right, but evidently, I was wrong.
I thought it was possible that that wasn't the case, that there was more room, and more
room to run another kind of campaign.
But evidently, that wasn't the case.
>> So that's a really interesting take, because she positioned herself as a strong Progressive
in the beginning of the primary, and then she moved to the center.
And the way that she kind of framed it was that she was always somewhere in between Bernie
Sanders and Joe Biden.
And now, to be honest with you, many people had suspected that in the beginning of the
race.
But she didn't position herself that way in the beginning of the race.
She went from Progressive to a little more moderate, right?
And that tends to upset people who bought into the Progressive identification.
You get what I'm saying?
>> Yeah, I do.
Look, first of all, there is no joy in this.
I was excited when some of the other moderates dropped out.
I should theoretically, politically speaking, be more excited Elizabeth Warren is dropping
out, cuz some of her supporters, or a larger portion of her supporters, might go to Bernie
Sanders.
But a lot of them already did, and so whereas the moderates were more split up.
But it isn't about that.
Look, I've said this 1,000 times and I have gotten plenty of criticism for it, too, that
I really support and admire Elizabeth Warren.
I think she's done great, great work, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Wall Street reform,
you name it, okay?
So At the end of the day, I back Bernie Sanders, I want Bernie Sanders to win.
I think that the correct lane for Elizabeth Warren was right next to Bernie Sanders.
Same policies, but for whatever reason, the establishment and moderates in the party found
her to be a little bit safer than Bernie Sanders.
And I think a good strategy was saying, hey, I could better, more effectively carry out
those plans.
And she was on that road, and that's exactly when she was winning.
She veered off that road to try to get moderate voters and that did not turn out well.
The mainstream media has their own spin.
They claim that she became more Progressive, but that's just counterfactual, it's just
not true, not remotely true.
>> You are right.
Generally speaking, that is how the media has covered her campaign.
They refused to acknowledge the fact that she started losing support as soon as she
started to position herself as more of a moderate.
But I do wanna give credit to some of the writers on cnn dot com because this was the
first time I came across a mainstream media source that accurately depicted what happened,
okay?
So they write, her standing began to slip in the fall when her support for Medicare
for All came under stricter scrutiny from moderate rivals like Biden, Klobuchar, and
Buttigieg.
In response, she released a pair of proposals, one to finance Medicare for All, and another
that would have effectively broken up the bill into two pieces.
Warren's attempts to quiet the critics backfired.
Opponents of Medicare for All, boosted by an industry spending campaign designed to
drive down its popularity, continued their attacks.
Progressives, too, became dissatisfied, voicing concerns over the Senator's commitment to
passing the legislation.
So I think that that's the best depiction of what actually happened, at least in the
mainstream media.
>> I think that that's fair.
It gives you both sides of it, and I think it's relatively accurate.
Certainly, I hear it from the Progressive side.
And the first portion where she explained how she's gonna pay for it, Anna and I disagreed.
That's where she began to lose Anna.
I was still fine with it.
The second portion where she split it into two is where she lost me.
But clearly, those are both in the more moderate to conservative direction, and not in the
progressive direction.
That's an obvious fact, that's indisputable.
So and that's when she started to slide.
So those are the facts.
Now, guys, we got more clips for you guys, and it's important that you hear out her stories
here, and I wanna add to them.
But right now, Elizabeth Warren can change the entire dynamic of this race.
>> Yes.
>> And we need Elizabeth Warren.
We need her right now.
So I know some of you out there my thing like, no, we don't need her, okay, we're gonna take
care of this on our own.
No, you have to change the media dynamic.
Right now, the media is piling onto Bernie Sanders in a way that is impressive, that
is making a big, big difference.
I can see it in the upcoming polls or the states, right?
So right now, Sanders and Biden are tied, but the media is playing it like it’s all
over and Biden’s already won, which is preposterous.
But if Warren were to come in super strong on behalf of Bernie Sanders, it would make
all the difference here.
Cuz it would basically stop that momentum that Biden has in the media, which is so critical.
So if she doesn't do that, an unbelievable missed opportunity.
But if she does do it, in a sense, she could become the hero of the story.
>> Okay, so I disagree with you slightly.
I think the media is gonna pile on Bernie no matter what, right?
However, I also agree that Warren endorsing Bernie would be a game changer because it
would help him considerably, right?
>> Yes, game changer.
>> So, look, and I get the frustration among Bernie supporters.
I'm a Bernie supporter.
I certainly feel the frustration because she should have endorsed, in my opinion, immediately,
Bernie Sanders.
Because remember, the whole reason why she got involved in politics is because she wanted
to fight Joe Biden specifically.
Because of his bankruptcy bill.
And the fact that she's waiting on this is frustrating.
And by the way, I just jumped ahead myself.
She has decided that she's gonna hold off on endorsing right now.
She is likely to endorse, but the big question is is she going to endorse during the primary
or is she gonna endorse during the general election, which is what she did last time
around.
Now, let me go to the- >> No, that's not an endorsement.
Let's be super clear.
>> No, of course, it's not, but that's what she did last time.
>> No, no, no, that's a little different situation.
Waiting til the general election is the most useless thing in history.
Elizabeth Warren is too smart to not know that.
She she knows that, okay?
There's a reason why she held last time.
And I don't agree with that decision, but this time it's time for redemption.
And so, I mean, you can't even consider endorsing Biden when you got into politics to defeat
but Biden's bankruptcy bill.
I don't know why we're having that conversation.
I hope we're not having that conversation.
>> That conversation is definitely being held.
>> Well, no, to be fair to Warren, we don't know what she's listening to.
Her advisors can say anything they want, it's her decision.
But in terms of endorsing Bernie, forget the general election.
The states that are coming up on this Tuesday are critical, and the ones next Tuesday, critical.
This is it, this is it, these two sets of states.
So waiting longer than before those elections, that is generally pointless.
>> So let's hear what she has to say- >> It's gotta go, not today, but it's gotta
happen before Tuesday.
It's got to, otherwise there's no point.