RUSH EXCERPT:ZELENY: "It absolutely has. And that quilt actually came from his 1984 convention speech in San Francisco, when he talked about the broad coalition of the Democratic Party. But look, when you consider the bridge that that reverend Jackson was from being with a doctor, Martin Luther King, in 1968, 20 years later delivering that speech, 20 years after that Barack Obama being elected no, progress is not a straight line. But reverend Jackson is a towering consequential figure of 20th century American politics. I mean, there is just no one who stands with him. And to your point, he did say in his speech, I‘m not a perfect servant, but I‘m a public servant. He acknowledged his shortcomings. There were many. He loved to. He was a showman by some. He was, chased the spotlight. In fact, after the assassination of Dr. King, he was running to be to basically assume that mantle. And it was not necessarily a smooth transition, but his presidential runs first in 84, he was a protest candidate in 1988 a serious candidate. And the reason that people say that Barack Obama would not have been elected without him, it‘s because of what changed with how Democrats elect their nominees. It went away from the winner take all. Smoke filled rooms at conventions to delegates and grassroots support. And that is how Barack Obama defeated Hillary Clinton in 2007 and 2008. By winning that grassroots support. So yes there were a lot of tensions between the jacksons and President Obama, most of which have been reconciled over the years. They had a meeting not that long ago, as last year but there is no doubt that without Jesse Jackson without what he did to the party, that President Obama would not have been elected in 2008."
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