what she says democrats -- what she says motivates democrats. that is from nancy pelosi's op-ed this morning. chuck schumer also with one nancy pelosi in the boston post. want to hear from you, the democrats another country. what the think the democratic party stands for? washington, go ahead. .aller: thank you very much in the past i always voted democratic because they have always been -- they need cooperation and unity. the last tell you election, i was disgusted with both. clinton and trump campaign with all of the slurs against each other. division, quit the the citizens of the u.s. and have a bipartisan go to. democrat,publican or we need unity globally. we all want clean water and sustainable food to eat. democrats and republicans want a safe, warm place to live and raise a family. all of us want something productive and purposeful to do. -- : on twitter today on the day that democrats are announcing their new agenda, the new better deal agenda. want to hear from democrats only . what do you think the democratic party stands for? ebony, g

democratic party. how do you reach out for those in the crowd said voted for president trump? guest: people want to feel like people care about what is going on in their daily lives and in the economy in their area, and they feel like democrats have been really focused on urban on the coast, and not places that have struggled in the new economy. they want to make sure that whoever they've vote for is focusing on jobs and their economic struggles and daily lives, and really making things better for them and not just concentrated on those other things. host: we will look at these areas across the country and what it means for democrats in my be interested in taking back the house. 202-748-8000 for democrats. for republicans, it is 202-748-8001. .ndependents, 202-748-8002 if you are a democrat who voted for president from and you want to tell us why, 202-748-8003. we saw the democrats last week go down to virginia and talk about this better way forward, and message of economics. thatis the kind of message

there were a lot of things of the democratic party -- there is a lot of things the democratic party will have to do if they want to win, and they are not doing that now, like picking kamala harris up in the hamptons as the chosen candidate. we need to work on our primaries, have fair primaries. our last primary was completely rigged, and you guys know that. you don't cover that, and you make sure to keep that out of the news. now i am in online groups with hundreds of thousands of sanders supporters, and you guys better listen to what -- this is basically their message -- we do not get our primaries together and allow the people to pick the candidate, instead of the candidates being picked in back rooms smoking cigars like they are arguing in the dnc lawsuit they have the right to do, then the democratic party will be destroyed. laid: i think the caller into something a lot of folks are concerned about right now, which is that our political system is broken and some way. when people say the system is rigged, when you dig deeper and you say, what do you mean by that, they say the politica

democrats are good for business. i run into more wealthy people who have said they made more money out of -- under bill clinton than any other president . we know what it is this. republicans have proven themselves unable to govern. you can be progressive and still be for growth. do can be progressive ends -- you can be progressive and still be for opportunity, for a simplified tax code and making ane businesses have opportunity to innovate and grow and support entrepreneurs. one fear i have is that we do sometimes, a party, as hostile to business. it is one thing to be focused on the greedy wall street group, whatever percentage that may be, that led to the subprime mortgage crisis we had. greed, in all its forms, we should take on, and people should be punished for cheating the system. but when you look at the system, the small business person, he or she pays the full corporate tax rate. it is the big dogs who find their way and have the lawyers, they don't pay anything. we need to be advocating as democrats for th

no doubt that the to tion is over, we need stop blaming democrats, stop for ng democrats obstructing legislation. mcconnell, one day on t.v. said, we don't want to work with we don't at at all, have interest in working with the democrats. john kasich said, we'd like to work with the democrats, they are probably not with us, so you can't have it both ways. you can't blame the democrats. over.ection is the republicans are in charge. he republicans also need to stop blaming leaks. leaks, they like leaks when they them, don't like leak when is they hurt them. top blaming the leaks, stop blaming president obama, he has nothing to do with this investigation. while everything he could he was president to try to make weren't the russians meddling in the election. uest: i would say i agree with the gentleman. and, you know, i would like to do, i think we should go back to order. say what you will about, for example, the health care bill. when it was initially passed, the fact of the matter was there an open process and hearings. it wasn't meetings in closed nobodybehind the scenes, knew what

democrats and republicans need to listen. there is a growing frustration with the building that stands behind you with both political parties. number seeing a growing decline. i believe that is why we have president trump. he was the effect of dissatisfaction. we need to talk to roughly two people in here with exactly what is said. our job isunderstand to get things done and do it together. we will continue to push back on president trump especially when it comes to his dealings with russia, making sure that is appropriate and fully investigated. could never just stand up in court and say someone is guilty in and sit down. you prove your case. you present evidence, clear and concise evidence, that people can [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] we're going take you now to a discussion on russia's vladimir putin. his geopolitical goals and interests. it's being held by the

as democrats, we helped work on that. i believe democrats and republicans need to come together and work on this in a bipartisan way. i believe that is the only way to have long-lasting legislation where you can affect people's lives. the aca has sherman is the health people but at the same time, i've heard from people in my district on the central coast and they have said how it can be improved. we need to come together and stop talking about repeal and huge cats -- tax cuts for the rich. i we can comeways together. i look forward to working on it with republicans and democrats. host: welcome to the conversation. caller: good morning. i am concerned about health care. if it were not for my health care.", i would be dead today. i did not know i had a hernia. i look up three days later and i icu.ou -- in tennessee, no one is talking about this, people getting killed every day, even helping the people of in iraq and other countries, what about us? think that is some of that frustration your hearing with someone who may be f

but i will say also the democratic process is a long process. and the next 24 hours, the next week, democrats will crow exaltedly. they'll claim total victory for a collapsing and failing law that is obamacare. and the media will write story after story about how obamacare will remain, even though it is failing and hurting millions of americans. but after all of the chest-beating, after all of the proud victory laps on the left, i believe this congress will come back and in time, we will honor our promises. you know, senators are going to go home the next few weeks. they're going to go home to their states. they're going to face their constituents. they're going to have hard questions of people who look them in the eyes and say, why did you lie to me? it's not just going to be the senators who voted "no." the senators who voted "yes" are going to be asked, why did you lie to me, because the voters are not going to distinguish. they're going to say, you guys promised to do this and you failed. i understand the frustration and anger of the america

>> i would say democrats. they're -- >> but they're in the minority. >> they're responsible for passing obamacare. they're responsible for creating the mess we're n they're responsible for being unwilling to work with republicans in any capacity to help fishgs a system that they know is completely flawed and publicly said so. i think that it's pretty clear, i think the responsibility lies on their shoulders. >> just a quick followup, bipartisan group of governors including the republican john kasich, brian sandoval and others are calling for a bipartisan healthcare reform. is the president open to that, specifically sort of starting woefer a by partisan look at this, bringing governors to the table? >> the president has met with a large number of governors, talked to them regularly, that certainly won't stop at this point in the process, not just on healthcare but on a wide variety of issues. in terms of bipartisan, i think the president laid out clearly from the beginning of the process, he was more than will

their democratic colleague senator ron wyden got 186,000. he sits on the finance committee on healthcare. with elected officials of both parties accepting large donations, whether we have obamacare or gop, the health insurance companies win either way. their donations, the democrat in charge of the obamacare nomination were particularly good investment. what better way to increase your revenue to and to get the federal government to force consumers to buy your product to the individual mandate. nice work by liz fowler who you met a couple weeks ago. as you will recall she went on to become the head of johnson & johnson. marilyn is another example of someone who has passed through the revolving door. she is the current president and ceo of the industry's trade association. before she started advocating, she was the director for the center of medicaid or medicare services or cms. when she had cuts turned into increases in the medicare advantage program directly benefiting the industry, she now represents. before her job, turns out she was an e

democrats are trying to figure out how to turn those numbers around. >> joining us now is senate democratic leader chuck schumer of new york. senator, thank you so much for joining us. you're huddling with democrats in barryville, virginia, trying to rebrand yourself going forward. i know you haven't been following along what's going on in politics, jared kushner and the president's tweets, so i won't ask you about that. let me ask you what you did say, when you lose an election with someone who has 40% popularity, you look at america and say, what did we do wrong? what do you think democrats did wrong in 2016? >> it's not just 2016, it's 2014 as well. the blame goes all around. and the bottom line is people didn't know what we stood for. they knew we were against donald trump in 2016, for instance, but they didn't know. my wages are going down, i'm worried about my pension, my costs are going up. i'm worried my kids won't have a future. so we democrats today, pelosi and i, going to elizabeth warren and mark warner, announced our better deal. a better deal simply put, it's a better deal for

other democrats said similar things. such acknowledgements of the obvious seemed to many of us like progress, but they turned out to be just rhetoric. in the last election, voters delivered congress the opportunity to finally address the obamacare status quo. and yet, democrats made clear early on that they did not want to work with us in a serious bipartisan way to actually do so. i wish they made a different choice. i wish the sudden calls for bipartisanship now were even somewhat serious, but this is the reality before us. we must accept it because that's where we are. and as my republicans know, this is the charge we must accept as well. the american people are looking to us for a better way. that's why despite the headwinds, i chose to keep working toward a better solution than obamacare. i've seen the pain in the eyes of too many of my constituents because of this law. i think they deserve better than what obamacare has given them. and i hope in the end that a majority of the senate will agree. we've been continuin

the democrats stand for. polls show that most believe that democrats stand for just opposing trump. >> we'll raise people's wages. and create better paying jobs. we'll cut down on their every day expenses they have to pay. and we'll give them the tools they need to compete in the 20th century. liz: no details on how the delegates pl -- democrats plan to do that. they reject big tax, big government spending big government regulation, in 2010 through 2016. even chuck schumer said, a few years ago, obama should not have focused on big want spending on the stimulus plan. he should have focused on jobs and growth. and government data showing 863 thousand jobs have been added since president trump took office, u.s. labor market rebounds in june. let's go to west virginia coal miner who confronted hillary clinton about trying to get rid of coal jobs during the last elect, bo copley is joining me now, what do you think of what schumer is saying? >> thank you, for having us on. i think it is interesting that i guess t

he wants to know there is a democratic party and republican party and folks are democrats. gingrich initiates -- defeatto defeats reagan's budget tax proposal. they are negotiating for republican leaders in the senate to raise taxes and gingrich opposes that and gets in enough votes to defeat it. it is a pretty bold move for a second term republican in the house of representatives to cope against her -- against ronald reagan. it's about party differentiation. also this would muddle the picture. so he tries to defeat them. for the remainder of the time i want to talk about gingrich's third congress in 1983 to 1984. this is a period when gingrich takes some initiatives to expand his resources or strength and resources in order to achieve his strategic objectives. in 1983 he forms the conservative opportunity society, which is a group of a dozen like-minded republicans who agreed that the party needs to take more assertive action to differentiate the parties and embarrass democrats in the coal of winning control. a few things to say, the first is a key strategic resource for g

it's what the democrats do. it is their tactic in terms of creating this enormous fear without talking about the specifics of the policy. i tell the democrats to look at the veterans affairs and how that was so managed by president obama and his team where you saw veterans die. that's where you've seen people die. when you see government run programs that failed the american people. i think there is a sense from the democrats, but they push the envelope too far. fine, you might disagree with the policy, but to say people are going to die, i think that takes it overboard. eric: what do you think west might do agree with her. >> republican representative and wagner had a diane on her front lawn. they have actually protested her at church but i think those tactics are repellent. look, democrats have no credibility when it comes to healthcare. they lied to the american people, they paid the price at the election in 2016, they said they were going to lower premiums, americans are paying twice as much. providers have

democrats need to wake up and realize. from michigan, to pennsylvania, people voted for president trump to drain the swamp. they didn't vote for him because of the kremlin. they have to realize they lost and get behind him. hillary clinton auditioned and the country overwhelmingly said nyet. >> and thank you for all for buying my book, "the scamp", it's on the best sellers list for the second straight week. it's everywhere books are sold. have a great week. elizabeth: president trump is back in the u.s. after visiting france and facing new revelations who was in the room with donald trump, jr. in june of last year. and the u.s. golf tournament is again today. leland: and the president's travel ban, this time, whoever who is considered immediate family. now the trump administration wants the supreme court to weigh in. elizabeth: the clock is ticking down on g.o.p. efforts to repeal and replace obamacare with brand new cbo numbers next week. can senate majority leader mitch mccon

i have seen republican bills that democrats would never vote for. so i understand that some of my colleagues may disagree with certain parts of the affordable care act, but what i can't understand is why anyone would ignore real-life stories of their own constituents whose lives have changed and even been saved by this law. for one, that's not how you have a serious policy debate, ignoring your constituents in facts and fudging the numbers, but more importantly, that's not what we were sent here to do by the people we represent. they rightly expect and deserve better. and, mr. president, what we have seen for the last seven years and since republican leadership began their efforts to repeal the a.c.a. has been truly unprecedented. in january of this year, republican leadership kicked democrats out of the process entirely under reconciliation, and since then, they have done just about everything possible to prevent not just democrats but anyone including some in their own party from being involved in that process. no hearings, no scrutiny, no public

looks like the democrats on the hill. chuck schumer and senate and nancy pelosi in the house released their new slogan. the slogan is, drum roll, please, a better deal, better skills, better jobs, better wages. i saw sonline. sound look a papa john's commercial. better ingredients, better pizza. what do you make of the slogan. better deal. belter jo better jobs, better wages. >> the democratic party fought for a better future for every boat, fighting during the social security debate in the 30s. the medicare medicaid debate of the 60s. during the debate on affordable care act under president obama. always fighting for a better future for everyone. not just a few at the top. that's what senator schumer and, nancy pelosi and all democrats are talking about. what we stand for. we are fighting for you. we want to make sure that health care is right for all not a privilege for a few. we want to make sure you have a good job that pays a middle-class wage. dignity of work is about being able to retire with dignity. about being a

it's interesting when the democrats passed obamacare, the democratic leader at the time harry reid said that we all get what you describe as an earful of wonderment and happiness. those are his words. an earful of wonderment and home was. mr. president, as you begin at home in wyoming and i'm sure in your case in north carolina we get an earful, too, and it's not about wonderment and it's not about happiness over obamacare. what i hear from patients and doctors at home and nurses is that obamacare is hurting them, hurting them. i state. i hear about the rising premiums. o i hear about the declining number of options, the collapse of obamacare. and we have one choice inth wyoming. we used to have it too. both lost money, even in spite of very high premiums. and what we saw is the one ended up going out of business. the other that is still in business, the only one we have is still losing money and we're fortunate because we have at least one provider who is providing coverage. there are now 40 counties across america where no one come no one will selling obamacare insurancn next year. an

the american people are sick of russia again the democrats keep on talking about it that's what they're focusing on but i think this headline here shows that it's kind of just a distraction from what's really going on behind the scenes prominent democratic fundraisers realigned to lobby for trump's agenda there may not have been a continuity of government remember that's all the democratic process is about the continuity of government and you're suppose i handed over it cleanly but that was never really done the whole trump administration was hit by all this a deep state the continuity of the deep state the continuity of the kleptocrats and after president upset election victory democratic insiders who worked on hillary clinton's failed presidential bid weren't necessarily relegated to the sidelines many in fact are cashing in as lobbyist by working to advance agenda the interest of one through the lobbying records and i found many very prominent hillary campaigners that are actually now lobbying government on behalf of the very agenda that hillary said she was against like deregulation

governors both republican and democrat alike. over the weekend, top health care officials and vice president mike pence lobbied over at the national governance association meeting up in rhode island. the administration trying to convince gov governors changes in federal funding would not translate to cuts at the state level. bringing in asa hutchinson joining us. thanks for joining us. >> great to be with you, wolf. >> you expressed, governor, deep concerns over the senate republican health care bill, but your opposition based on possible cuts to medicaid and how that would impact folks in arkansas? >> well, it was based upon a shift of cost to the states. we can do reform. we can have cost saving measures that help the federal government and state government, but what the last plan was, was a, too heavy of a shift of cost to the states we could not absorb without having significant changes and cutbacks. so, you know, i met with the vice president. our senators. they really accomplished some very substantive changes in the last v

politically harmed' t democrats. and now once again, democrats turned to politically bludgeont republicans. whether this bill passes or not, the fact the republicans walkedt out on the plank with a partisan piece of legislation that takes insurance from 23 million people across the country in ms every poll shows is widely unpopular will be a political liability for republicans. what if we decided to stop tossing health care back and forth? what if we decided to jointly on one fifth of our economy? what if we decided to sit down and give a little bit from our site to yours, from your side powers. what if i said that i understood you cared about flexibility in the marketplaces, that i understood your desire for more flexibility for governors in eight legislatures under medicaid. what if you said you understood our interest in providing long-term stability in these marketplaces, that you understood to get some of those costs at the actual service devices and drugs that are sold. what if we sat down and fix the things th

thank you. >> melissa: longtime democratic strategist casting doubts on democrats ability to regain the senate in the 2018 midterm elections, watch. >> i would say that we have a pretty good chance of taking the house back, the senate is very, very good though. there is a good chance may be 50% chance that the democrats would make the house. the problem in the senate is that we have a large number of seats that we have to hold that donald trump carries. >> melissa: here are the democratic senators that were referred to in that clip. all ten are up for reelection in 2018, immigrants would have to pick up another three seats in order to contribute -- regain control in the senate whereas in the house, democrats need to flip 24 seats to get to the majority. congressman, i will ask you. i assume that congressional math is one of your specialty is. what do you think about this? >> ron: i think it is too early to know what the political environment will be like next year. i've been there for seven months this year since trump has been inaugurated, i have not seen the democrats offering any new

added influence of both the republicans democrats for decades if you just over if you just look over the last sixteen years alone the democrats have supported the iraq war they change their mind because it became politically expedient to do so they supported the afghan war they were they remain silent when that when obama struck the libyans and hillary clinton led state department created the migrant crisis going to libya and had the regime change coverage of gadhafi and then the democrats celebrated president trump when he was bombing syria so this isn't anything new this isn't just out of nowhere but i would say that there have been we look at this to a bit too negatively at the same time because there are many people within the republican party and the democratic party who are trying to fight back against the neo con persuasion recently congresswoman tulsi gabbert and kentucky senator rand paul the co-sponsored legislation that aims to prevent the u.s. government from funding rebel and terrorist groups which is a step in the right direction it's the top leadership of both parties

but also house democrats. >> become lash from both sides, democrats and republicans. it really could happen, especially as muller continues to dig in to his investigation. and it could lead to a final disclosure of donald trump's tax returns or at least add to a little bit that has dripped out over the last couple of years people have been looking for them. david kay johnson, richard painter, chief white house ethics lawyer under george w. bush. and steffi pinkel. david, if i recall correctly how it came to you, what would bob mueller be looking for specifically in going through trump's tax records? >> well, donald trump has had dealings with the so-called red mafia, former russians who are criminals in new york, going back to 1983 and has been looked at repeatedly by law enforcement over those connections. more recently he's done several real estate deals that make no economic sense whatsoever as commercial transactions. make a lot of sense if you think that he was being bought. muller is of course going to dig into it the flow of money going to trump and trump busin

can he offer them a better deal than the democrats are offering? ohio's former democratic senate minority leader and youngstown native, thank you for coming on. >> talking about the home turf. i am from trumbull county. rob: democrats yesterday, chuck schumer had a levelheaded message to win back some support in a party that has been disillusioned in the last couple years. am i crazy to think that message is a knockoff of how the president won this election. >> the trump message was a knockoff of the democratic message that had been lost. this is the reason why for generations in the rust belt, in the industrial midwest voted for democrats because they believed the economic message, the concern over fair trade, unions etc.. what happened was in the past election, mahoney county and trumbull county put their faith in donald trump, the first republican, herbert hoover in 1928, barely went for hillary clinton, 49%. rob: you will see a lot of red in ohio which donald trump won and check out mahoney county where youngstown is. one of the blues is that y

one of three democrats charged with crafting the party's message for the house democratic caucus. and she was named the "chairwoman of heartland engagement" by the democratic congressional campaign co pick up 24 seats to win back the house of representatives next year. what exactly is that job, head of engagement for the heartland? congresswoman bustos: we have the huge section in the central part of the united states where democrats haven't done so well. i represent a district in northwestern illinois that donald trump won, but i won by 20 points. so many of my colleagues said, how in the heck do you do something like that? soledad: it is a bad sign that democrats need someone to explain to them how to engage voters in the heartland? congresswoman bustos: we know how to talk to people. so i think that is somewhat oversimplifying it. we're doing some things at work. i go to super markets on saturday when we have labeled that super market saturday where it's as g up and down the aisles and talking to grandparents when they're buying their oatmeal or dads when they're buying tangeri

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so when the middle class and democratic leader of the senate has said that stagnation of wages sets in, that is the stagnation also of our community and of the country that we are. >> so essential to the success of the middle class, is financial stability in america's working families. and essential to that are bigger paychecks to create demand to inject the man into the economy, to help create jobs and grow the economy for everybody. >> disconnection between financial stability, a strong middle-class and our democracy is a very direct one. and i want to recognize that in this great state of virginia. >> that is whytoday , democrats are unveiling an ambitious, aggressive new economic agenda and a bold new promise to american families. >> from the heartland, these senators from the heartland to the suburbs, to the cities, democrats are offering better deals. jobs, better wages, better students. a better deal is founded on strong values. and strong values still buy fresh ideas. >> in the house it has been through many months in the engagement and arecautious to the leadership of our peop

have a whole lot of democrats, congressional democrats, who don't feel comfortable with the bill payer approach. beyond that, i would be very interested in knowing and i personally sat down with congressional democrats on this particular topic. i would love to have more details on where they would like to help repair the individual market, i come from an area where on june 30th, people who ghi, they get a note that ghi is pulling out the individual market. there are other options to move to. but for a lot of other parts of the country, you're down to one or even zero options left under their exchange. we have ideas on our side. you see them in the house passed version. the versions that weren't able to pass over on the senate side as far as changes to make to the individual market. i'd love to hear democratic feedback on which of those ideas they support, which ones they don't. and how they think it could be improved. i'm all for that. >> let's hope we get back to normal and get the hearings. i know john mccain agrees. thanks so much. mornineciate your time this >> okay, take care. >>

most journalists are democrats. or democratic leaning. republican presidents have a higher threshold, a higher obstacle in dealing with the press for. i think that is a given. is if yought dissent are a republican president or press secretary, you have to acknowledge that and understand it and deal with it. i think in the long-term you do trying to get along with the press, trying to manipulate the press, trying to schmooze the press. your fundamental job is to help your boss. you don't help the president by making the press corps a daily foil for public argument. -- it doesnk it does not do i decide very much good. i agree with you. there is this behavior on the side of the press in these matters and they do get carried am -- my although i feelings about president trump he has unquestionably encountered in unprecedentedly hostile press. although most presidents have problems. a harvard study that came out in the first 100 days and found that most of the press coverage of the trump administration was entirely negative. the white house pre

democrats will talk about buying state exchanges. there's definitely plan for democrat support. we accept that there's improvements that need to be made to obamacare, i think republicans and democrats can come together and get this behind us so we can move forward and start focusing on things like infrastructure. lauren: patrice, he said one of the mayor failures was that it was ran through congress by democrats and he doesn't want to do the same here. do you see to cheryl's questions in -- do you see democrats and republicans working together? >> i think there's difference in policy side. buying insurance across state line could be a bridge. that's just a small piece of the major challenges with obamacare. i do think that it's important that republicans and democrats can work together and get things done that actually help americans. i'm locking ahead to tax reform and that's a big area where democrats would want to come to the table and support what the administration wants to do. cheryl: we are all looking forward to tax reform, patrice, michael, we appreciate your time this

those are not democratic values. those are american values. >> our pollsters said they were doing a focus group, and said what is a common america value that both parties would share and the room went silent. the room went silent. there is the belief that democrats and republicans don't share any common values anymore. how did we get to that point? go ahead. >> i think we do share common values. we care about everyone and there is a different way to get those things. i don't think bigger government is the way to get things better. i don't think a failing obamacare or insurance pulled out of the marketplace is a way to do it. everybody wants better life and wages and national security and strong country for our kids. >> the debate on the trump care bill is a perfect example of our differences. we believe in democrats and the affordable care act cuts the rate of the uninsured by 50%. t are we helping people to get quality affordable healthcare. can we do better? >> the challenge that we have now, trump care is not a he

it's a gamble by democrats. all they could do was introduce the bill saying we want it to pass, but the house majority wants to change that procedural issue to take power away from house democrats and potentially change other elements of the bill raising concern among the private sector dealing with energy, debt, and loan servicing. you have got some k street folks saying wait, we don't want our ability to deal with russia-connected businesses unfairly infringed upon indirectly because of this bill. rachel: the problems are mounting and it is likely the house tries to make changes. greta: what is the political pressure for these folks as they delay and there is more of a drumbeat from democrats who say they don't want to punish russia for meddling? rachel: it is not a drumbeat just from democrats. you have high-profile republicans like john mccain going on about this amid more and more revelations about how deep the entanglements went between campaign folks in the white house and russian-linked folks. it makes i

and event today and very bill virginia democratic leadership unveiled a set of policies that they're collectively calling a better deal as minority leader chuck schumer went out of his way to point out the goal of this new agenda is to show every day working americans that the democratic party. he's actually looking out for. american families deserve a better deal so this country works for everyone again not just the elites not just the special interests to date democrats start presenting that better deal to the american people so it looks like democrats have finally found their message but is it a winning one and do the actual policies of this better deal go far enough to reverse our slide into oligarchy employed takhar see joining me now is richard s. co-host of the zero hour and senior fellow at the campaign for america's future richard welcome welcome back to the program great to be parents great to have you and thanks for being with us through the whole half hour here first things first it really does seem like the democrats at least understand that just being the party of not t

does democratic leadership agree? >> one of the things i've talked about a lot is the public option. there are people talking about allowing people to buy into medicare at a younger age. and of course there are other options as well. again none of those have had public hearing or debates, so we know what impact to the market would be, what the cost to families would be and that is what i'm hoping that we can focus on as we move forward because health compare is so important to families. >> but you say that there are a numbermpare is so important to families. >> but you say that there are a numberpare is so important to families. >> but you say that there are a numberare is so important to families. >> but you say that there are a number of people with a number of options. but my question was does democratic leadership agree with the more progressive wing of the democratic party right now, remember, that they are wing getting a lot of attention at the moment about having single payor health care? >> i think we are all

that's great for democrats. >> i'm sure democrats besides li what's going on, need to do more than probably just attack obviously. i mean, it's an easy target for them. what do you think the democrats need to focus on in order to kind of take things moving forward and kind of push their agenda >> i think on policy, i think democrats acknowledge there are flaws in the affordable care act. there are improvements and i think democrats need to be clear with their constituents that they're not just interested in beating the republicans in legislative fight. they want to fix the affordable care act. they want premiums to decrease or at least not to rise as quickly as they've been rising, that's part one. part two is showcasing the talent, like corey booker, harris you just showed. a lot of great young leaders >> let's talk about the special elections we've had. honest some of these cases, you saw democrats make gains, but there's no still 0 for 5. so how do you move forward >> a little historical perspective. after obamacare was elected. democrats got pretty well wiped out in congress. seven stra

proving once again how i don't out of touch the democrats are. president trumps criticism of the nato allies for not investing in the military is paying off. nato secretary-general announced plans to boost defense spending by 4.3% this year. looks like tough love works. here's your fake news story of the week. if you been watching cable news this year, you have seen dozens of democrats that all 17 intelligence agencies agreed the russians hacked the election. this has come from the highest levels of the russian government. clearly from putin himself, in an effort a 17 of our intelligence agencies have confirmed to influence our election. >> 17 agencies came to a consensus conclusion that we took the extraordinary step of making public. >> we have 17 u.s. intelligence agencies have said that russia attempted to influence our election. >> 17 u.s. intelligence agencies issued a statement expressing their unanimous assessment. >> jesse: that was fake news. ironic susan rice was in it again. the new york times buried a correction at the bottom of the

do you think democrats feed a better message? do they have work to do? >> again, the messaging might be an issue but to me, the substance is what's important. you have democrats, in fact, me and senator sanders put forward legislation, senator franken, as well to lower prescription drug costs. it should get republican support. we put forth ideas to pix problems with obamacare. especially with those 18 -- 15% of people that don't get subsidies in the individual markets. i can go through the great ideas that i personally have put forgot. i put forgot with many of my colleagues. i know they're ideas that are favorable to republicans on the merits. >> senator, i want to talk about russia. there's new information now about an eighth person confirmed at this trump tower meeting with donald trump jr. jared kushner and paul manafort, a russian immigrant doing russian development. what questions do you have about this meeting and the people involved? >> so before we get to the question, let's just understand with clarity what this is. these are people who were ru

democrats made to pass that bill turned out to be a lie. it was a big, fat ugly lie. the first rule of medicine is do no harm. but obamacare's lies have caused this and throughout the whole country nothing but pain >> the internet was also quick to point out that the president misspoke saying obamacare had reeked havoc 17 years. the affordable care act is only seven and with the turmoil with trying to pass healthcare there's a lot of blame, but no one said it quite like gop blake far told of texas. he told the radio station he believes, this is his quote, some females senators from the northeast are the reason the senate can't pass the healthcare bill. he went on to say if those senators were men he might ask them to step outside and settle this aaron burr style. if you read the history book burr shot and killed hamilton in a dual in 1804 sc. >> the target this time, the "washington post" or as the president calls it the amazon "washington post." jeff the last hour, the amazon "washington post" fabricated facts on my ending massive dangerou

democrats have they finally get it. they know why they lost to the last election, and it was not actually because of russian saboteurs. chuck schumer put his day in "the new york times" op-ed, they lost because they failed to articulate an economic message that the middle class cared about. to underscore that point, he and nancy pelosi have their noses and ventured out into rural clark county virginia today, place they'd probably never been, but a place that voted for trump by almost 20 points in november. while there, they build a plan they call a better deal. it's the soft economic populism trump ran on in the fall, pretty successfully. lowering prescription drug prices, more attention to blue-collar jobs, and infrastructure plan for rural america. interestingly, there is the single word about global warming, transgender bathrooms, bombing moscow. it doesn't look very crazy, and it might work if democrats meant it. but do they? we can check that. we have the tape. here's what leading democrats have a talk about in pub

a democratic state. democratic appointment here. and does that in and of itself? look, you have to look at a conflict in the totality of circumstances. i've been practicing law for 38 years. in every case i'm involved in. i've been involved at the supreme court of the united states. i've argued cases in international tribunals. i've handled congressional investigations before the house and senate. here's what happens. you look at these issues, and you make a determination based on looking at those issues, whether it is something that has to be raised within the appropriate venue. so again. what is happening here is the president is recognizing apparent conflicts as a nonlawyer right off the -- just evaluating the situation. and you don't ignore those. anything like this has to be evaluated. and we'll do that. >> i don't understand how being from baltimore, serving from baltimore, he's from pennsylvania, is a conflict. but i want to bring up one final tweet from the president. this was yesterday, as well. he said so many people are asking why isn't the ag or specia

democrats.00 for 202-748-8001 for republicans. independents.or we'll take the calls when "washington journal" continues. >> tonight on the communicators. >> what they're doing there was trials and i tell you what, peter, it was gigabit fast i eless, that is something never thought i'd see in my career in my lifetime. broadbad fast, fiber to your house fast. exciting.y, really >> ctia president mered ith on what 5g will look like to consumers and talk about in ding out of broadband rural areas. interviewed by technology margaret harding mcgill. >> what is the case for 5g? costs that much to invest how do carriers make a return on this? 500 billion to e the economy and 3 million jobs, person willvery 100 have a 5g job. again, it is only if we get it and that really does mean we've got to move on spectrum, get a pipeline of low, medium we've got to and get this infrastructure right. need to l forward, we build 300,000 small cell sites few years. what a small cell looks like is aybe a pizza box, it's small and it is going to be attach

democrats were part of the effort. and we wrote a bipartisan bill that had air tight, loop loophoe free protection for those with preexisting conditions. got it in the affordable care act. all the senators would joined in on that bill ought to feel pretty good for taking a big step to move america away from health care that's just for the healthy and wealthy. now we're talking about the prospect of policies that will walk that back. so it's my view that the clear choice for my colleagues who don't like the risks in skinny repeal and don't like trumpcare is to reject the process. seems to me the surest way to prevent a bill you don't like from becoming law is to vote against it. quaint idea, just vote against it. now, i want to turn also to another bit of breaking news which comes from our parliamentarians who do so much good work and it's an extraordinarily stressful job. another key part of the republican plan has been deemed ineligible in. last few hours to move forward via the partisan approach reconciliation. the d

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one strongly supported by house and senate democrats who can see, i'm flight by members of the democratic party from both houses , both from different states with sometimes different points of view. the fact that we are all standing here together today sends a powerful statement across our country. [applause] >> there's been a debate about whether democratsshould spend all our energy focusing on the obama coalition or the blue-collar american in the heartland who voted for trump . it's a false choice. there doesn't have to be a division. in fact, there must not be a division. the divisions they're laying out tonight both coalitions, unifies the democratic party. we will have a larger, stronger appeal to americans of all economic levels and all political stripes. >> we will appeal to the young woman who just graduated from college in los angeles. a factory worker in akron is now making $11 an hour. >> a mom in buffalo paying unemployment on minimum wage. the party exists to work on behalf of the wealthy corporate interests. furthering their dream of lower taxes for the top, fewer consumer

they say they believe right-leaning candidates could capture the voters that democrats lost to democrat. blue dogs say karen handle could have been beaten by more conservative democrats. and making it the most expensive house race in history but it did come close and raise the numbers and hopes there in georgia. joining me now from the blue dog coalition, henry kuar. and as you are from texas and know republican party politics, as a democrat, how do you think the party could get behind more conservative democratic candidates for a shot at seats for 2018? >> well, a couple of ways. first of all, we spend a lot of time with the dccc and at the very beginning at the year, i went out and sat down with them and said listen, we have to make sure we have people that are running in seats that blue dogs can win because if you remember, last time we had a majority, when nancy pelosi was speaker of the house, and that is because we had 54 democrats, when we lost all of those democrats in 2010, we lost the majority, we lost nancy pelosi and from there our numbers went down and we went down to about

why are democrats not working with republicans? >> it is not an issue of democrats not working with republicans, it is an issue of republicans trying to pass this bill under cover of night without democrats or their fellow republicans knowing what is in it. the specifics of the skinny repeal, there were a couple hours of debate and they had to vote in the middle of the night and in order to pass the bill it is an enormous amount of the economy, there needs to be more time for consideration, and an issue of republicans not spending a good bill and trying to pass the bill for some shallow political victory and doing so without proper leadtime. >> that is normal washington. first democrats sit on their hands and say we are ready to be involved in this discussion. america and americans are frustrated. they want good jobs, affordable healthcare. obamacare is unsustainable and the cost of obamacare are increasingly unaffordable for consumers and businesses. we can put our heads in the stand and play politics while we know with certainty