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