>>> THE DEMOCRATS ARE BRUISED AND BATTERED, BUT STARTING TO FIGHT BACK.

THERE HAS BEEN WIDESPREAD FRUSTRATION THAT ITS NATIONAL LEADERSHIP HAS NOT FORMULATED A MORE EFFECTIVE OPPOSITION TO TRUMP, BUT ALSO, NEW WIND IN THEIR SALES FROM A NEW WIN IN WISCONSIN THIS WEEK, AND CORY BOOKER'S RECORD-BREAKING SPEECH TO CONGRESS ON ALL THE ILLS THEY SEE COMING FROM TRUMP.

ONE PARTY'S STALWART IS POSITIONING HIMSELF AS THE ONE TO PUSH BACK HARD AGAINST TRUMPISM.

RAHM EMANUEL PRETTY WORKED FOR PRESIDENT CLINTON, WAS PRESIDENT OBAMA'S CHIEF OF STAFF, MAYOR OF CHICAGO, AND MOST RECENTLY, AMBASSADOR TO JAPAN, AND HE IS JOINING WALTER ISAACSON.

>> THANK YOU, CHRISTIANE AND RAHM EMANUEL.

WELCOME TO THE SHOW.

THIS WEEK IN WISCONSIN, WE SAW THE MORE PROGRESSIVE CANDIDATE FOR THE SUPREME COURT BEAT THE ONE THAT WAS SUPPORTED BY ELON MUSK AND DONALD TRUMP.

DO YOU THINK THIS IS A BIT OF A TURNING POINT IN TRUMP'S POPULARITY?

A PUSHBACK ON HIM, AND HOW DO YOU ANALYZE IT?

>> OBVIOUSLY, THEY MADE ELON MUSK THE TARGET FOR DEMOCRATS, AND REPUBLICANS MADE THEIR ARGUMENT FOR TRUMP THERE CALLING CARD, AND THEY LOST, NOT JUST IN A CLOSE STATE.

THEY LOST NOT CLOSE, BY 10 POINTS.

THAT IS A BLOWOUT BY ANY IMAGINATION ANYWHERE IN THE COUNTRY IN POLITICS, ESPECIALLY, IN A BATTLEGROUND STATE LIKE THAT.

IF YOU LOOK A LITTLE BELOW THE HOOD, IS THE DEPTH OF THE DEMOCRATS ISOLATED TO MILWAUKEE AND MADISON?

THIS WAS A STATEWIDE VICTORY.

IT WAS NOT A COUNTYWIDE VICTORY, SO THAT IS SIGNIFICANT, AND THE MONEY FOR THE SUPREME COURT IN WISCONSIN WAS SIGNIFICANT.

>> DESPITE THE VICTORY FOR THE DEMOCRATS IN WISCONSIN, A LOT OF PEOPLE, INCLUDING A LOT OF DEMOCRATS, HAVE SAID THAT THE DEMOCRATIC BRAND HAS BECOME SOMEWHAT TOXIC.

IS THERE SOME TRUTH TO THAT?

AND, WHY?

>> I WOULD TAKE THE WORD, SOMEWHAT, OUT.

IT IS TOXIC.

I DON'T THINK YOU HAVE TO PUT A DISCLAIMER ON IT.

THE WAY I WOULD SEE IT IS, THERE ARE TWO WORDS THAT DEFINED THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY FOR THE PUBLIC.

WEAK AND WOKE, AND NEITHER ONE OF THEM ARE FAVORABLE.

THAT HAS BEEN A PROCESS OF THE DEMOCRATS, IDENTIFYING BEING SEEN AS WEAK IN A PERIOD OF TIME , WHERE PEOPLE PREFER STRENGTH, AND WOKE BEING NOT JUST WOKE ON THE CULTURAL LEFT SET OF ISSUES, BUT FOCUSED ALMOST ENTIRELY IN DROWNING OUT EVERYTHING ELSE YOU WANT TO SAY.

THAT IS WHY THE BRAND HAS TAKEN MORE THAN JUST A BRUISING.

IT IS DOWN IN THE DUMPS.

THE WAY I DESCRIBED THIS, WALTER, AND THE WAY I LOOK AT THIS IS, IF YOU ARE ANTI-TRUMP IN THIS MOMENT IN TIME, THAT IS GOING TO GET YOU POLITICAL POINTS.

AND, TRUMP'S JOB APPROVAL IS NOW DOWN TO 42, AND NO REASON THAT IT DOES NOT CONTINUE TO SLIDE AS THE ECONOMY CONTINUES TO SLIDE.

AS HE FOCUSES MORE ON GREENLAND THAN THE PRICE OF GROCERIES.

THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, TO GIVE US MORE THAN A VOTE AGAINST TRUMP, AN AFFIRMATIVE VOTE FOR THE DEMOCRATS.

WE NEED AN AGENDA BUILT ON WHAT I BELIEVE IS THE COST OF THE AMERICAN DREAM.

IT HAS MADE IT UNAFFORDABLE FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.

YOU AND I GREW UP IN A TIME WHERE OWNING A HOME, SAVING FOR YOUR RETIREMENT, SAVING FOR YOUR KIDS EDUCATION, AND HEALTHCARE AND A HOLIDAY, THAT IS THE BULWARK, THE PILLARS OF THE AMERICAN DREAM.

YOUR KIDS, MY KIDS, THEY WILL HAVE ACCESS TO IT, BUT, IF ONLY 10% OF THE CHILDREN IN AMERICA HAVE ACCESS, IT'S NOT THE AMERICAN DREAM, AND IT'S UNAFFORDABLE AND WE SHOULD BE ANGRY ABOUT IT.

THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WANT A SHOT AND THEY WANT THEIR CHILDREN TO HAVE A SHOT AT THE AMERICAN DREAM, AND ALL THEY HAVE GOTTEN OUT OF WASHINGTON IS THE SHAFT, AND WE HAVE TO ACKNOWLEDGE IT.

>> BUT, THE PARTY HAS BECOME PERCEIVED -- IN FACT, THERE IS TRUTH TO THIS PERCEPTION, AS A PARTY OF THE ELITES AS OPPOSED TO THE WORKING CLASS.

HOW DO YOU GET TALKING TO REGULAR, ORDINARY WORKING PEOPLE AGAIN?

>> THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION.

A LOT OF TIMES, WALTER, AND YOU WERE THERE.

I AM A DISCIPLE.

MY POLITICAL MATURATION HAPPENED WORKING FOR THE CLINTON '92 ELECTION.

A LOT OF PEOPLE FOCUSED ON JAMES CARVILLE'S, OH, IT'S THE ECONOMY, STUPID.

TO HAVE THAT ECONOMY PIECE HEARD, YOU HAD TO HAVE A WHOLE SERIES OF ISSUES ON WHAT I WOULD CALL THE CULTURAL PLANE ON PRIME, DRUGS, IMMIGRATION, X- ACTO -- ET CETERA.

YOU HAVE TO BE RIGHT, NOT JUST WITH THEIR TOLERANCE, BUT NOT LET THAT TOLERANCE BECOME -- YOU LOOK AT DEFUNDING THE PUT -- POLICE, OR OPEN BORDER POLICY, NOBODY IS ILLEGAL, THEY ARE ONLY UNDOCUMENTED.

A WHOLE HOST OF ISSUES.

THEY WILL TURN THE VOLUME DOWN AND PUT US ON MUTE.

YOU WILL NEVER GET TO THE ECONOMIC ARGUMENT IF YOU ARE CULTURALLY ADRIFT AND OFT HERE.

IF YOU GO BACK 30 YEARS IN POLITICS, WHICH I HAVE, WE USED TO BE A PARTY OF LIBERALS, MODERATES AND CONSERVATIVES, WHO MADE UP MORE, SELF IDENTIFIED DEMOCRATS.

AFRICAN AMERICAN, HISPANIC.

THE MORE WE HAVE BECOME LIBERAL, WHITE, COASTAL, HIGHLY EDUCATED, THOSE MODERATES AND CONSERVATIVES WERE WALKING OUT THE BACK DOOR BECAUSE THAT'S NOT THE PARTY THEY IDENTIFIED WITH ANYMORE, AND IT WAS NOT JUST ECONOMICS.

IT WAS BEING RIGHT ON A SERIES OF ISSUES THAT THEY, THEN, WERE OPEN TO A WHOLE SET OF OTHER ARGUMENTS.

IF YOU GO THROUGH THE TWO MOST SUCCESSFUL PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES SINCE FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT, ELECT TOUR LEE, PRESIDENT CLINTON AND BARACK OBAMA BOTH GET ELECTED AND GET RE-ELECTED, AND THAT IS THE TEST OF ELECTORAL SUCCESS.

NOT ONE TERM, TWO TERMS.

THEY TOOK ON, WHETHER IT WAS PRESIDENT OBAMA ON THE ISSUE OF FATHERHOOD AND BEING A RESPONSIBLE FATHER, AND HE WAS ATTACKED FOR BEING A DEPORT ARE IN CHIEF, OR PRESIDENT CLINTON, WHEN HE WAS RUNNING, DEALING WITH THE ISSUE OF CRIME.

DEALING WITH THE ISSUE OF WELFARE, AND SAYING, ENDING WELFARE AS WE KNOW IT, THE VERY INFAMOUS SPEECH THAT HAS BECOME A SHORTHAND FOR WHAT I AM DISCUSSING, WHICH IS THE SISTER SOULJA MOMENT.

PRESIDENT CLINTON STOOD UP FOR MORE PROGRESSIVE WING OF THE PARTY.

GIVE ME THE SISTER SOULJA MOMENT YOU WOULD SAY RIGHT NOW.

>> WHEN YOU ARE RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT, YOU HAVE TO PROJECT THREE QUALITIES.

STRENGTH, CONFIDENCE AND OPTIMISM.

YOU CAN'T ALLOW ONE INDIVIDUAL CONSTITUENCY TO LOOK LIKE THEY ARE BIGGER THAN THE REST OF THE TEAM.

AND, ONLY ONE PERSON IS THE COACH AND THE QUARTERBACK, AND THAT IS THE PRESIDENT.

TO ME, WHEN YOU SAY PICKET, IT'S KIND OF A CALCULATION.

I WILL TELL YOU, HAVING BEEN THERE, SPECIFICALLY, FOR PRESIDENT CLINTON, IT WAS NOT LIKE -- THE MOMENT ARRIVED AND THERE WAS A DECISION TO MAKE, GIVEN THAT WE WERE RUNNING ON THE BASIC THEORY OF THE CASE, THAT PRESIDENT CLINTON'S CANDIDACY.

THE ARGUMENTS CALLING FOR KILLING PEOPLE THAT WERE WHITE, FOR RETRIBUTION FOR WHAT WAS GOING ON POST RODNEY KING.

IT PRESENTED ITSELF IN THE SAME WAY THAT OTHER MOMENTS, WHETHER IT WAS ON PARENTING, FATHERHOOD, OBAMA PRESENTED THEMSELVES.

I HAVE SPOKEN AS IT RELATES TO -- I THINK WE HAVE LOST FOCUS ON, WHY DOES THE PARENTS AND THEIR KID TO A SCHOOL?

IT'S NOT BECAUSE, OH, I'M HAPPY THAT IT'S NOT GEORGE WASHINGTON ANYMORE, WHATEVER THE NAME OF THE SCHOOL IS, OR BATHROOM AND LOCKER ROOM DISCUSSION.

YOU PICK A NEIGHBORHOOD OR COMMUNITY.

THAT'S A GOOD SCHOOL FOR YOUR CHILD.

THAT'S WHERE WE SHOULD BE LASER FOCUSED, CONSISTENT WITH RAISING READING AND MATH SCORES, BUT MORE PORTLY, NOT GET SIDETRACKED INTO A DEBATE THAT IS FRIVOLOUS, NOT TO THE PARENTS OF THE CHILD, BUT IT DOES NOT DOMINATE THE ENTIRE AGENDA OF EDUCATION.

WHEN YOU LOOK AT IT, WALTER, TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT'S HAPPENING.

WE ARE HAVING ARGUMENTS ABOUT BATHROOMS AND FOUR WEEKS AGO, THE NAPE SCORES CAME OUT, WHICH IS THE NATIONAL REPORT CARD, AND IT CAME AND WENT THAT WE HAVE HAD THE WORST READING SCORES IN 30 YEARS.

DO YOU SEE A LARGE DEBATE GOING ON IN THE COUNTRY?

DO YOU SEE GOVERNORS, MAYORS LEADING THAT DEBATE NOW?

THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE NOT GOING TO GIVE YOU A LOT OF CREDIBILITY IF THEY DON'T HEAR YOU SPEAKING ABOUT SOMETHING THAT IS REALLY INTIMATE TO THEM, WHICH IS, THE QUALITY OF THE EDUCATION THEIR CHILD IS GETTING.

>> WHY IS IT THAT THE EDUCATION IS GOING DOWN?

WHY ARE CLASSROOMS GETTING WORSE?

>> THERE ARE SOME BASIC, COMMON THEMES THAT I THINK ARE VERY IMPORTANT.

ONE IS, MORE TIME IN THE CLASSROOM ON TOPIC.

THE TIME IN THE CLASSROOM ON TOPIC IS ALSO BASICS.

THERE IS ALSO, WHETHER IT IS THIRD-GRADE ON READING OR FRESHMAN YEAR OF HIGH SCHOOL ON MATH, THERE ARE EARLY SIGNS WHERE YOU GET THE CANARY IN THE COAL MINE, AND YOU HAVE TO THEN, EARLY ON, DO EARLY INTERVENTION WITH ONE-ON-ONE TUTORING, AND THE LAST THING, AND THIS IS WHERE I GOT MY CHOPS WHEN I WAS MAYOR.

CHICAGO, WHEN I BECAME MAYOR, HAD THE SHORTEST SCHOOL DAY AND SHORTEST SCHOOL YEAR IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

IF WE JUST WENT TO AVERAGE, BY WAY OF EXAMPLE, KIDS IN EASTON, GOT THROUGHOUT THEIR LIFETIME, 2.5 MORE YEARS OF EDUCATION, JUST BECAUSE THE CLASS TIME WAS MORE THAN A KID IN CHICAGO.

WE ADDED AN HOUR AND 15 MINUTES FOR ELEMENTARY KIDS.

45 MINUTES FOR HIGH SCHOOL KIDS.

TWO WEEKS TO THE YEAR, 10 MORE DAYS.

THAT EQUALED TWO YEARS FROM KINDERGARTEN TO HIGH SCHOOL.

JUST BY ADDING THAT TIME.

KIDS, POST-COVID, R, BASICALLY, TRIPLE ABSENTEE RATES THAN THEY ARE PRE-COVID.

I THINK WE NEED A NATIONAL NUMBER.

YOU GET NORTH OF 7% AS A CHILD FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR, YOU ARE NOT MATRICULATING FROM FOURTH AND FIFTH GRADE.

FORGET ABOUT IT.

WE NEED A NATIONAL, ABSOLUTE STANDARD.

PARENTS AND KIDS, HAVE MADE A FOUR DAY SCHOOL.

KIDS NEED TO BE IN SCHOOL, AT MINIMUM, FIVE.

YOU NEED EARLY INTERVENTION, YOU NEED MORE TIME ON TOPIC, AND YOU NEED TO GO BACK TO THE BASICS OF TEACHING READING, WRITING AND ARITHMETIC.

THAT IS NOT COMPLICATED.

POOR KIDS NEED, ACTUALLY, MORE THAN YOUR CHILDREN AND MY CHILDREN.

IT IS JUST A FACT.

>> DID WE MAKE A MISTAKE ON THE COVID LOCKDOWNS IN SCHOOLS?

>> YES, 100%, DEMOCRATS HAVE TO STOP LOOKING AT THEIR SHOES HOPING NOBODY NOTICES.

THERE IS DATA THAT KIDS IN RED STATES, I HATE USING THAT, THEY GOT BACK TO SCHOOL BETTER.

WHILE THEY SAW DECLINES, THEY DID NOT SEE DECLINES LIKE THEY SAW IN BLUE STATES, AND WE PERMITTED A TWO YEAR LOCKDOWN WHEN IT WAS VERY EVIDENT -- AND I UNDERSTAND, WITHIN THE SWIRL OF THE FIRST FOUR MONTHS, YOU ARE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT UPSIDE FROM DOWN.

WE DID THIS ARGUMENT, FOLLOW THE SCIENCE.

THE SCIENCE WAS PRETTY CLEAR AND WE DECIDED NOT TO FOLLOW SCIENCE BECAUSE OF POLITICS.

>> PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS BEEN TALKING THIS WEEK ABOUT TARIFFS, TRYING TO IMPOSE IT.

DO YOU THINK TARIFFS MAKE SOME SENSE NOW, IN TERMS OF AN ECONOMIC POPULISM, TO BRING MANUFACTURING BACK TO THE UNITED STATES?

>> NO.

NOT AS IT'S BEING EXECUTED BY THE PRESIDENT.

LOOK, AS TARIFFS GO UP, YOUR 401(K) AND YOUR LIFE SAVINGS GO DOWN.

AND, TWO, TARIFFS ARE ABOUT TO GO UP, AND EUROPEAN COUNTRIES, THE CANADIANS ARE RETHINKING WHETHER THEY WANT TO BUY U.S. DEFENSE WEAPONS.

THAT MEANS THE MANUFACTURING JOBS IN THE UNITED STATES WILL DECLINE.

PRESIDENT XI JINPING HAS MADE A MISTAKE, ECONOMICALLY, IN CHINA.

THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU WERE READING THREE MACKEREL FOUR MONTHS AGO ABOUT THE ECONOMY IN CHINA.

FOR THE FIRST TIME, BECAUSE OF WHAT HE DID TO THE PRIVATE SECTOR, WHAT HAPPENED WITH THE HOUSING BUBBLE HE BURST, HE ISOLATED CHINA WITHIN THE REGION.

HE LOST EUROPE BECAUSE OF HIS ALIGNMENT WITH RUSSIA.

WE HAD CHINA AS GOOD AS CORNERED AS WE HAD IN A DECADE.

NOW, CHINA'S ECONOMY IS SEEN AS THE ENVY, AND AMERICA IS SEEN AS THE PEOPLE, MONEY IS FLOWING FROM AMERICA AND THERE IS LESS INVESTMENT.

I THINK THE TARIFFS HAVE BEEN ONE OF THE WORST YOU HAVE SEEN.

THE DEMOCRATIC SENSIBILITY WAS BEING SEEN AS WEAK AND WOKE.

I WOULD SAY THAT THE REPUBLICANS UNDER TRUMP ARE CORRUPT.

BETRAYAL.

THE THING THAT IS HAPPENING IS NOT ONLY THE TYPE OF POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL CORRUPTION GOING ON, BUT ALSO THE BETRAYAL.

HAVING TOLD YOU I WOULD FOCUS ON THE PRICE OF GROCERIES, I'M FIXATED WITH THE PRICE OF GREENLAND.

I THINK THAT IS BECOMING EVER MORE APPARENT.

>> YOU SAY THAT OUR ALLIES AROUND THE WORLD -- YOU JUST CAME BACK FROM BEING AMBASSADOR OF JAPAN -- CAN'T TRUST US ANYMORE.

ONE OF THE BIG THINGS THEY TRUSTED US ON WAS DEFENSE, AND THE NUCLEAR UMBRELLA WE WOULD PROVIDE.

WHAT DO YOU SEE THE CONSEQUENCES OF THIS BEING?

>> IF YOU THINK NONPROLIFERATION WAS EXPENSIVE, YOU ARE GOING TO GET STICKER SHOCK WHEN IT COMES TO PROLIFERATION.

GERMANY IS ALREADY THINKING, OF ACQUIRING A NUCLEAR, INDEPENDENT NUCLEAR UMBRELLA FOR THEMSELVES.

POLAND IS THINKING ABOUT IT.

OUTSIDE OF FRANCE, ENGLAND AND RUSSIA -- IN THE REGION I JUST CAME FROM, CHINA HAS NUCLEAR WEAPONS.

INDIA HAS NUCLEAR WEAPONS.

PAKISTAN HAS NUCLEAR WEAPONS.

NORTH KOREA HAS NUCLEAR WEAPONS.

WE SPENT A YEAR AND A HALF -- I WAS MORE ON THE MARGIN OF THIS, PARTICIPATING IN ENSURING THAT SOUTH KOREA DID NOT ACQUIRE AND DEVELOP, AND PRODUCE AN INDEPENDENT NUCLEAR CAPABILITY FROM THE UNITED STATES.

SOUTH KOREA.

THERE IS NO WAY NOW YOU WILL BE ABLE TO PREVENT THAT.

NO WAY.

THEY MAY LOOK AT YOU AND SAY, OKAY, NO WAY.

THAT MEANS THE KOREAN PENINSULA, NORTH AND SOUTH KOREA, WILL BOTH HAVE NUCLEAR WEAPONS.

CHINA WILL HAVE NUCLEAR WEAPONS.

AND, THERE IS NO WAY JAPAN WILL LOOK AT THIS, IN MY VIEW AND SAY, OKAY, WE WILL STAY NONNUCLEAR.

IT HAS A HUGE TABOO IN JAPAN.

A HUGE TABOO GOING BACK TO HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI, THAT THEY WILL NOT LOOK AT THE REGION, LOOK AT THE UNITED STATES, THEIR TRADITIONAL ALLY AND SIT ON THE SIDELINES.

HOW IT MANIFESTS ITSELF, HOW IT EVOLVES, THAT IS ANOTHER DISCUSSION, AND NOT ENOUGH TIME HERE TODAY.

IN THE REGION, I SEE A PERIOD OF TIME, IF AMERICA CONTINUES TO BE NOT A RELIABLE ALLY, WITH NO CREDIBILITY THAT IT BACKS UP ITS WORD, I SEE A REGION THAT IS GOING TO BECOME EMBEDDED WITH A PROLIFERATION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS, AND MUCH MORE UNSTABLE.

EVER SINCE THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES HAS BEEN COZYING UP TO PUTIN, TALKING THE WAY HE'S TALKING, DOWN TALKING UKRAINE, LEGITIMIZING THE IDEA OF TAKING LAND MILITARILY, CHINA HAS BEEN MUCH MORE AGGRESSIVE IN THE NAVAL AREAS AROUND JAPAN, AUSTRALIA, AROUND VIETNAM, AND IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA, THE PHILIPPINES, AND AS RECENTLY AS THE OTHER DAY IN TAIWAN, WITH A ZERO RESPONSE FROM THE UNITED STATES AND ZERO CREDIBILITY OF DETERRENCE.

ZERO.

>> WHEN PEOPLE ASK YOU, WHY DID YOU RUN FOR PRESIDENT?

YOU ALWAYS SAY, I HOPE PUBLIC SERVICE, I AM NOT FINISHED WITH PUBLIC SERVICE AND I HOPE PUBLIC SERVICES NOT FINISHED WITH ME.

TELL ME, WHAT WILL BE THE FACTORS?

WHAT WILL BE THE THINGS YOU THINK ABOUT IN DECIDING WHETHER TO RUN FOR HIGHER OFFICE?

>> I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE WILL BE DISCUSSING AND LIVING AND FIGHTING AND ARGUING AND PUSHING AGAINST TRUMP, AND I DON'T DISMISS THAT, BECAUSE I THINK HE IS A CURRENT, REAL, PRESENT DANGER ON A WHOLE HOST OF FRONTS, BUT I DON'T WANT TO BE THE PERSON ONLY FIGHTING AGAINST TRUMP.

I WANT TO BE FIGHTING FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, AND I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT IN MY SOUL OF SOULS, I THINK THE THINGS WE DID LIKE BEING THE FIRST CITY THAT IF YOU GOT A B AVERAGE, WE MADE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FREE.

WE EXPANDED EDUCATION TO BOTH KINDERGARTEN AND PRE-K FOR ALL KIDS.

WE MADE IT THAT YOU COULD NOT GET A DIPLOMA FOR HIGH SCHOOL, UNLESS YOU SHOWED US A LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE FROM A COLLEGE, COMMUNITY COLLEGE, BRANCH OF THE ARMED FORCES OR VOCATIONAL SCHOOL.

WE MADE POST-HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION UNIVERSAL.

I HAVE SOMETHING THAT IS DISTINCT AND DIFFERENT TO OFFER , AND IF I FEEL I HAVE THAT, I WILL MAKE THAT DECISION.

I JOKE SOMETIMES.

I WAS A RAGING MODERATE BEFORE IT BECAME CHIC TO BE A MODERATE.

AND NOW, I DECIDED, THAT IS WHERE I WANT TO BE, PHILOSOPHICALLY.

MAYBE, AT MINIMUM, I WILL MAKE SURE THE PARTY DOES NOT DO A THELMA AND LOUISE AND DRIVE OFF THE CLIFF AGAIN AT 80 MILES AN HOUR.

AND, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HANG THEIR HAT ON US.

WE'VE GOT TO ANSWER THE CALL.

>> RAHM EMANUEL, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US.