>> START WITH DONALD TRUMP.
RESENTMENTS THAT POLITICIANS
HAVE BEEN FANNING FOR YEARS.
MELISSA: RESENTMENTS THEY HAVE
BEEN FANNING OR RESENTMENTS OF
THOSE POLITICIANS?
THAT IS MY QUESTION.
PRESIDENT OBAMA CALLING
PRESIDENT TRUMP OUT BY NAME AND
DIVING INTO THE MIDTERMS IN THE
2018 ELECTION, LOOKING TO HELP
DEMOCRATS REGAIN SOME OF THEIR
CIVIC FORUM PAC, ROBIN BIRO,
FORMER REGIONAL FIELD DIRECTOR
FOR THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN JOIN US
NOW.
>> I THINK HE GAVE A EFFECTIVE
SPEECH TODAY.
WE NEEDED HIS VOICE.
TO BE HONEST I'M NOT SEEING A
WHOLE LOT OF LEADERSHIP FROM THE
DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
HE DID A GOOD JOB ATTACKING
POLLS STILL SHOW WE HAVE
TROUBLES AS DEMOCRATS HEADED TO
THE MIDTERMS WITH TRYING TO TURN
OUT THE YOUNG VOTE.
AND I WAS REALLY GLAD HE LAID
OUT SOME COHESIVE, COHERENT
ISSUES BECAUSE RIGHT NOW THE
PARTY HAS 435 OFFICIAL
PLATFORMS.
MELISSA: YEAH.
>> YOU KNOW WHAT, ROBIN, HERE IS
THE THING.
YOU GUYS REALLY ONLY HAVE ONE
ISSUE.
THAT IS DONALD TRUMP.
TO BE PERFECTLY HONEST, MELISSA,
ENTHUSIASM GAP.
LOOK AT LATEST "FOX NEWS POLL,"
76% OF CLINTON VOTERS ARE
CERTAIN THEY WILL TURN OUT IN
NOVEMBER.
ONLY 67% OF TRUMP VOTERS ARE
CERTAIN THEY WILL TURN OUT.
THE NUMBER NEEDS TO BE CLOSER TO
EVEN BETWEEN THE TWO PARTIES IF
THE REPUBLICANS TAKE BACK OR
HOLD THE HOUSE.
MELISSA: LET ME ASK YOU ABOUT
THE ARGUMENT HE WAS MAKING
AND BREAKING THE DEATH GRIP THE
RULING CLASS HAS PROTECTING ITS
POWER IN THIS COUNTRY AND
PRESIDENT OBAMA TALKING ABOUT
HIMSELF AS A STEP FORWARD AND
PRESIDENT TRUMP AS A STEP BACK,
A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO VOTED FOR
PRESIDENT TRUMP HEAR WHAT
PRESIDENT OBAMA WAS SAYING
THINK, THE RULING CLASS THAT HAS
PRESIDENT OBAMA ARE THAT RULING
CLASS THAT HAS A DEATH GRIP AND
THE REVOLUTION WAS ABOUT PEOPLE
LIKE THEM.
ROBIN, I MEAN DO DEMOCRATS
REALIZE THAT HALF OF AMERICA
HEARS THAT TALK AND THINKS OF
CLASS WHO HAVE THE DEATH GRIP?
>> MELISSA, YES, YOU JUST NAILED
IT.
I WANT TO BE CLEAR.
THE SWAMP IS ON BOTH SIDES.
WE HAVE A SWAMP IN OUR, ON THE
SOMEONE REPLACE NANCY PELOSI AS
SPEAKER, FOR EXAMPLE.
I THINK SHE IS A MASTERFUL
DOING A WONDERFUL JOB OF USING
HER NAME VERY EFFECTIVELY TO
ATTACK DEMOCRATS AS BEING PELOSI
SIDE.
OBAMA RIGHTFULLY CALLED THE
DEMOCRATIC PARTY OUT ON SEVERAL
OF THOSE.
THINK?
>> YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND
PRESIDENT TRUMP WAS SWEPT INTO
POWER PRECISELY BECAUSE OF THE
OBAMA AGENDA, AND ESSENTIALLY HE
IS BACK ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL
WILL REMIND A LOT OF REPUBLICANS
OF CONSEQUENCES GIVING DEMOCRATS
IN WASHINGTON BACK THE POWER,
THEREFORE WHAT IT IS LIKE UNDER
THE STATUS QUO.
SO THEREFORE I THINK THIS IS A
GREAT THING THAT HE IS OUT
THERE.
CALL DEMOCRATIC FRIENDLY
TERRITORY, CALIFORNIA, NEW YORK,
OHIO.
BECAUSE I KNOW THE REPUBLICAN
WILL WIN THAT SENATE RACE.
MELISSA: WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT
THAT, ROBIN?
>> TODAY WAS ACTUALLY A
REPUBLICAN STRONG HOLD, SPECIFIC
DISTRICT THAT HE WAS IN, AND
THEY LAID OUT A VERY CLEAR PLAN,
THAT HE DOES PLAN ON GOING TO
THOSE.
HE SAID HIMSELF IN THE SPEECH
TODAY WE HAVE TO FIGHT FOR EVERY
SINGLE VOTE BECAUSE WHAT WE DID
IN 2016 OBVIOUSLY DIDN'T WORK.
>> ROBIN, LET'S BE HONEST, HEIDI
HEITKAMP DOESN'T WANT PRESIDENT
OBAMA OUTSIDE OF FUND-RAISING IN
NORTH DAKOTA.
JOHN TESTER IS SAYING NOT COME