ED:ED: WE HAVE CALLED TOGETHER ARE SUNDAY ROUNDTABLE.
JOINING US IS OUR REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRATIC POLITICAL ANALYST WE ARE CURIOUS.
YOU HEARD MAYOR CURTATONE THIS MORNING, IN HE SAID, FOCUSED ON COVID-19.
DOES HE HAVE A POLITICAL FUTURE OUTSIDE SOMERVILLE?
>> I THINK IT IS PRETTY CLEAR HE HOPE SO.
HE HAS BEEN PRETTY CRITICAL OF THE BAKER ADMINISTRATION.
I WAS SURPRISED AT HIS TEMPERATE TOWN TODAY.
HIS MISTAKE IS THAT SOMERVILLE IS NOT AN ISLAND.
HE SHOULD NOT MAKE DECISIONS FOR THE FUTURE OF HIS ECONOMY AND STUDENTS IN A VACUUM.
I ALSO DO THINK THAT BAKER ADMINISTRATION NEEDED TO BE TOUGHER AND MAKE SURE KIDS ACROSS THE STATE ARE TREATED SIMILARLY, THAT EACH MAYOR WAS NOT MAKING DECISIONS BY
THEMSELVES.
>> POLITICS OF BORES A VACUUM.
AND MAYOR CURTATONE IS FEELING IT.
NO QUESTION HE IS LOOKING TO MOVE UP THE POLITICAL LADDER.
HE HAS BEEN A VERY AGGRESSIVE MAYOR.
HE IS DOING WHAT IS BEST FOR THE PEOPLE OF SOMERVILLE, THE MOST DENSELY POPULATED CITY AND NEW ENGLAND.
HE HAS MADE THE RIGHT CALLS AND GOOD FOR HIM.
JANET: WE ARE DOWN TO THE LAST TWO WEEKS.
SENATOR ED MARKEY AND JOE KENNEDY COMPLETED THEIR LAST DEBATE.
IT WAS CONTENTIOUS.
WHAT IS THEIR INDIVIDUAL MISSION?
A DISCLOSURE THAT ONE OF YOUR COLLEAGUES IS WORKING FOR KENNEDY.
>> I HAVE SEVERAL COLLEAGUES WHO SUPPORT MARKEY INCLUDING THE FOUNDER OF THE FOUR.
I APPROVE THIS MESSAGE.
RECLAIMING MY TIME.
YOU CAN TELL IN THE DEBATE BOTH WHERE KENNEDY AND MARKEY STAND.
EITHER WAY THEY CONDUCTED THEMSELVES.
IT LOOKED LIKE KENNEDY WAS PLAYING TO WIN AND MARKEY WAS TRYING TO PROTECT.
KENNEDY WAS THE AGGRESSOR.
MARKEY WAS TRYING TO NOT MAKE ANY MISTAKES.
JOE KENNEDY BARNSTORMING THE STATE, RACKING UP ENDORSES.
MARKEY TAKING A MORE TEMPERATE APPROACH, MORE CONCILIATORY.
ESPECIALLY IN THE WAKE OF THE PELOSI ENDORSE MEANT.
THAT IS TRYING TO OFFSET THE BEHAVIOR OF THE MARKEY CAMPAIGN AND THE ONLINE BULLYING THAT HAS GONE ON.
THE REACTION TO THE PELOSI ENDORSEMENT.
VOLUNTEERS TAKING DOWN KENNEDY DOOR KNOCKERS AND PUTTING IT ONLINE.
AND PUTTING THEM IN THE RECYCLING BIN.
AS A NOD TO THE GREEN NEW DEAL.
THERE IS A LOT AT STAKE.
IT SEEMS THAT KENNEDY BELIEVES HE IS BEHIND AND TRYING TO CATCH UP.
HIS TRYING NOT TO BLOW THE WIN.
MARKEY IS TRYING NOT TO BLOW AWAY.
WHERE DO THEY NEED TO GO IN THE NEXT TWO WEEKS> >> YOU DID A GREAT JOB AT NEITHER OF THEM DID A GREAT JOB.
ONE SPOKE TOO FAST AND ONE SPOKE TOO SLOW AND NEITHER MADE A COMPELLING CASE.
THEY NEED TO MAKE THE CLOSING ARGUMENT.
WHY FIRE ED MARKEY, CONGRESSMAN KENNEDY?
MARKEY WHAT WILL YOU DO IN THE SIX USUAL HAVE BEEN THERE.
? GETTING YOUR VOTERS TO MAIL IN THEIR BALLOT.
BOTH OF THEM GOT VALUABLE CAMPAIGN AD HELP.
ELIZABETH MORNING -- ELIZABETH WARREN FORM -- FOR MARKEY.
>> THE ENDORSEMENT BY PELOSI SENDS THE MESSAGE THAT KENNEDY IS THE ESTABLISHMENT CANDIDATE.
>> NANCY PELOSI IS A LONG TIME POLITICAL ACTOR IN SAN FRANCISCO.
MUCH OF THE ENDORSEMENT WAS IN RESPONSE TO THE MARKEY CAMPAIGN’S GROWING OF PEOPLE IN THE FAMILY AND OTHERS.
THAT SPOKE VOLUMES.
AND YOU LOOK AT THE REACTION TO HER ENDORSEMENT, IT WAS HEADSHAKING.
I THINK THE PELOSI ENDORSEMENT HELPS JOE KENNEDY.
IS IT ENOUGH TO GET HIM ACROSS THE FINISH LINE?
ED: LET’S TALK ABOUT ELIZABETH WARREN.
SHE SPOKE OF THE VIRTUAL CONVENTION.
IS SHE LOOKING MORE LIKE AN EXECUTIVE LEADER IN THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION THAT A LEGISLATIVE ONE?
>> I WAS SKEPTICAL A WEEK OR TWO AGO.
IN THIS PAST WEEK THERE IS RENEWED DISCUSSION ABOUT ELIZABETH WARREN BEING OPEN TO A CABINET POSITION, LOOKING FOR A CABINET POSITION AND CONCERNS THE BAKER APPOINTMENT IF SHE GOT
ONE WOULD HURT HER FROM GETTING ONE.
SHE IS CLEARLY MUCH MORE OPEN TO GETTING A CABINET PICK DID SHE HAS DOUBLED DOWN ON HER ENDORSEMENT OF MARKEY TO SHOW SHE CAN BE A TEAM PLAYER.
THAT IS ALSO A CONCERN.
MAKE NO MISTAKE.
ELIZABETH WARREN HAS RENEWED INTEREST IN A CABINET POSITION IF I WINDS.
ED: WILL WE SEE HER CAMPAIGNING MORE?
>> THE LEOPARD DOES NOT CHANGE ITS SPOTS.
SHE WAS VERY LOW KEY, VERY SOLID AND NOT ARGUMENTATIVE AND ANGRY LIKE SHE HAS BEEN IN THE PAST.
THAT IS NOT REALLY HER.
SHE IS A FIGHTER THAT HAS PUT PEOPLE ON EDGE FOR GOOD OR BAD.
IF SHE CAN KEEP IT TOGETHER LIKE SHE DID IN THAT SPEECH MAY BE.
JANET: WE HAVE NOT TALKED ABOUT THE FOURTH CONGRESSIONAL FOR A WHILE.
IT IS THE SEE THE JOE KENNEDY IS VACATING.
>> THIS HAS GRABBED EVERY BIT OF ATTENTION YOU CAN GET IN THE LAST FEW WEEKS.
EVEN TO THE POINT WHERE TALKING CLOTH GOT AN ENDORSEMENT FROM A MAYOR WHO IS NOT EVEN IN THE DISTRICT.
IT IS ALL ABOUT WHO CAN GET THE ATTENTION.
SO VOTERS WERE CONFUSED ABOUT THE WIDE BREADTH OF CHOICES PICK THEM.
JANET: WHAT DO WE HAVE TO LOOK FOR.
>> OCHTENCLAUS GOT ENDORSE.
IT HURT HIM MORE THAN IT HELPED HIM.
DEFENDANT MAY CONFEDERATE FLAG AND ARRESTING -- DEFENDING STEVE BANNON WHO WAS ARRESTED THIS WEEK.
THE BIG X FACTOR IS THE KENNEDY -MARKEY RACE.
THEY ARE PULLING UP AGGRESSIVE INCLUDING JOE KENNEDY’S DISTANT.
IT IS SOMETHING TO WATCH OUT