we really welcome democratic leader nancy pelosi. [applause] mr. gray: congresswoman, smithsonian regent, and our board member doris matsui. [applause] mr. gray: congresswoman katherine mcmorris rodgers. [applause] mr. gray: anchor and managing editor of pbs newshour and our board member judy woodruff. [applause] mr. gray: smithsonian regents john fahey and steve case. [applause] mr. gray: secretary david skorton of the smithsonian. [applause] mr. gray: and provost john davis. [applause] mr. gray: and so many members of congress and distinguished guests. [applause] mr. gray: today, we are adding new firsts to the national collection. the suit, gavel, and other important objects from the swearing-in ceremony where representative nancy pelosi became the first woman speaker of the house of representatives. here at the national museum, we preserve and share a collection of national treasures on behalf of the american people, and indeed the world, to demonstrate the power of american history, to help us make sense of this complicated present, and shape

and it's not republicans bleeding, it's nancy pelosi. lamb actively campaigned against her knowing it would resonate with voters who elected donald trump last year. dems could take back the house and put nancy pelosi back up on her speaker perch. that's not sitting well with members of her own party. nancy pelosi and her whipping boy steny hoyer have a combined age that is far higher than my best bowling score or donald trump's genius i.q. nancy pelosi has been stumbling and bumbling through press conferences forgetting names and don't forget the crumbs comment. conor lamb and tim ryan aren't the only ones who want to push nancy off the leadership ledge. pelosi is a gift to republicans who gleefully point to her wacky statist limousine liberalism as out of touch representing the worst in washington. at this point they are the upon ones want to go maintain her status quo, while democrats want to give leader pelosi and her tired me first agenda the permanent hito. earlier today nancy pelosi claimed conor lamb didn't run against her, even t

nancy pelosi doesn't become speakfer she's in the minority. if she has a number against her, but won the seat because they were seen as being didn't, now kowtowing to democratic leadership in washington, then she has a chance of becoming speaker again. i don't think the numbers will be so huge that her speakership would be in danger if they were able to recapture the house. the first order of business for democrats, dana, they get the majority. the second is does nancy pelosi win. i think they understand that. i think they're pushing for those centrist democrats. we'll see if they can win those primaries. >> dana: i guess the republicans will see if they vote as centrist democrats. jamie, why know that they might run that way, but then when people get in office, they tend to vote with their party. >> absolutely. one name that i'm surprised we're not hearing more of, mudcat saunders. he's the -- >> dana: a great name. >> nancy pelosi should be meeting with him. he helped jim web get elected, mark warner in virginia. i'm surprised you not hear m

he ran against nancy pelosi and said he would not vote with nancy pelosi. >> in this particular case, the lesson was run away from nancy pelosi and run -- with donald trump. >> to be clear, that is what you say when you are worried about moral and retirement and to be clear, conor lamb is not a trump republican but did run as a centralist democrat and democrats do have something of a crisis on their hands because of it. because the first headline from conor lamb's post eliection interview was him saying nancy pelosi needs to go. >> i will say and continue to say, that i think we need new leadership at the top of both parties in the house and so i would like to see someone besides nancy pelosi run and that is who i would support so i think we need to sweep new people in there. >> that is nothing new for lamb. and a notable part of the campaign was opposing pelosi and he won. what signal does that send to other democrat running in the now swing-ish red districts. what signal does that send before pelosi's future if democrats want their blue wave to wash through trump country and take ba

but he also ran away from nancy pelosi. how do you deal with that moving forward, some candidates may say, run from nancy pelosi and you've got a better chance of winning. >> conor lamb did an incredible job of touting his record of service to both the country, as a veteran, and community as a federal prosecutor. that took him out of the partisan frame. it had less to do with exactly what issues he talked about and more about his record of service that is so appealing to democrats, independence indepe, especially when you compare that with rick saccone who, despite millions, over $10 million in super pac money -- >> ed: but both parties spent a lot of money like any race. money is spent by both sides. the nrcc is saying this is too close to call, as is the associated press. they gave you one more chance on that point. how confident are you on that point when even the associated press, nonpartisan news organization, is saying it's too close to call. >> like i said, we take these things seriously. we would not have declared t

-- what is nancy pelosi's future? she is not going to tell you. they had an extremely rough time in 2016 and a lot of the younger generations are blaming her. the effectiveness is unclear, but it does force some candidates to go on the defensive. lamb in pennsylvania had to take staringd where he is into the camera saying i am not going to support nancy pelosi. you are spending money attacking your own party leader. lamb is not the first to do that. there are a lot of purple district candidates who have attacked nancy pelosi in the passed and they run on a campaign -- in the past and pelosi endorses those things. it is with her blessing they are attacking nancy pelosi because she would rather have a democrat in the house. new last year was a direct challenge to her leadership -- that happened in 2010, smaller challenge. bigger challenge. there's a younger generation angry that she is -- has been there so long and they are not anning, four cycles in minority, but they are angry there is this bottleneck at the top of th

a lot of turmoil for the country if nancy pelosi became the speaker again? >> vice president pence: the only thing at stake is everything. if you like a growing economy, if you like 3 million new jobs, if you like a president rebuilding the military. standing tall and the world again. fighting for the free, fair and reciprocal trade to appoint conservative to the court and cutting taxes what happens tomorrow is more than the two candidates on the ballot. the president and i both campaigned for rick saccone. he would be a fantastic member of congress. wore the uniform of the united states for nearly two decades. he was endorsed by the "pittsburgh post gazette" sunday morning. that election to me and this fall election are more about the direction of the country. people of pennsylvania have an opportunity to send a message they support the direction of president trump. >> sean: it's also about the crumbs that nancy pelosi talks about? >> vice president pence: it really is. if the democrats took over the congress in this fall's election nancy pelosi would be sp

nancy pelosi actually said that conor lamb did not run against nancy pelosi. well, we've got a bone to pick with that, because if you take a look at this ad from conor lamb, it's quite clear that he did run against nancy pelosi. roll it. >> my opponent wants you to believe the biggest issue in this campaign is nancy pelosi. it's all a big lie. i've already said on the front page of the newspaper that i don't support nancy pelosi. stuart: okay, i think you got the message there. [laughter] there is a contradiction going on here. let's move on from that. >>> reports of more possible changes in president trump's cabinet. now, those are reports, and they're out there. earlier this hour the president addressed that. he said, look, there's no chaos. roll tape. >> well, the story was very false. i mean, they wrote a story about staff changes today that was very false. we made a wonderful change. i think mike pompeo's going to be an incredible secretary of state. we have some wonderful ideas. i've gotten to know a lot of people over the last year. you know, i've been

nancy pelosi first taunted the tax cuts saying that they were just amounted to crumbs. she's trying to walk that back a little bit now, but do you think she and the democratic party are labeled with calling these tax cuts that seem to be so successful just crumbs? >> yes, the democratic party has always been against the taxpayer s, so this tax cut is helping the taxpayers that goes over very well in this district. every day it seems people are still coming up to me and telling me about how its benefit ing them, single moms and small businesses that are expanding. i just had another business tell me about they're going to blowout a wall and move into the next room and expand their business, other businesses are adding to their employees healthcare, or giving bonuses to them. some are buying some equipment they've been holding off on for a while but now they feel like they can afford it. some are going to hire new employees. the tax cut is still, it's just getting started. we've got, you know, we've got a whole year ahead of us to see what happens. i was just talking to a

the attempts to use nancy pelosi are failing them at this point. and i think quite frankly it's sexist. >> trish: why not blame sexism, right? >> katie what's your reaction? >> katie: i can't roll high eyes enough. she can either do the job or not. is conor lamb a sexist then he is the one throughout his entire campaign ran against nancy pelosi and said he wouldn't vote for her for leadership. there are a number of people in the democratic party now and for years quite frankly have said it's time for nancy pelosi to go for new people to be leading the party. i think that based on what she said she is pretty nervous about the fact that she might lose the leadership. >> trish: she is like, no, no, no. he didn't run against me. >> maria: if the democrats take the house, which i think we will, nancy pelosi, i predict, is not going to be speaker. there are a lot of democrats even joe crowley the person who made the sexist comment. he is a rising star. he is a moderate democrat. he has raised a ton of money for candidates this cycle. a lot of these democ

that's not civilized society to nancy pelosi. ainsley: what's offensive is crime, drug flow, welfare fraud, ms-13. a wall would not be needed. the $25 billion of your taxpayers would not be needed to pay for the wall if all those problems were not in the united states of america. and this president is trying to prevent it. steve: when he was running for president, donald trump highlighted the case of kate steinle who was killed by jose garcia zer zarate: his attorneys are coming out and saying hey, he accidently killed her, but the president and the federal government have used my client as a national punching bag. pete: yes. steve: he said this case was highly publicized both locally and nationally after the death of kate steinle. then donald trump began to use mr. zarate as the symbol of the dangers of illegal immigrants and need for a wall between the united states and mexico. you know what? he is right about that. pete: one man's symbol is another man's example this is what he tweeted in june of 2017 about the steinle verdict

stuart: if i'm a political candidate and i run an ad attacking nancy pelosi and i'm a guy and nancy pelosi is a lady, am i a sexist? >> no, you're not. thisis the issue. as women, women can do most of what men can. on the other hand, they say that if you are in the arena, you have to be provided a safe space or you can't handle the criticism or that it's too hot in the kitchen, the fact of the matter is nancy pelosi seems to be enjoying herself. she's not going anywhere, she thinks she can handle it. the fact of the matter as women we do know with certain jobs, dynamics, certainly in politics there will be attacks and suggest it's because of gender, of course, it's absurd and keep her from trying to be criticized. liz: isn't that kind of a sexist thing to begin with for crowely to say that that women shouldn't be criticized? stuart: a way of silencing the debate, isn't it? call somebody a sexist, you have to shut up, you're a racist shut up. >> they don't have answers on policy. i don't know what her problem is, the president thinks it's low iq. what we do know complaining about the presid

nancy pelosi is the political gift that continues to keep on giving. as a republican, i want her in front of the camera all the time, as much as possible. her favorability ratings are historically low, one of the reasons why the democrats in pennsylvania, conor lamb, he did so, try to distance himself from speaker pelosi. he goes to show the democratic party is the minority because te america and president trump communicated so effectively towards it. someone like nancy pelosi that is going to continue to rule from her ivory tower, from san francisco, more power to you, going to keep the republicans in charge of the house and the senate. >> ed: capri, another democrat who is not a coastal elite -- >> my member of congress. >> ed: your member of congress, he says there has been pushed back against that, that despite conor lamb was about, that is why donald trump got elected. you believe he can't enact some of these things quick enough, he doesn't drain the swamp, it may turn on him. >> i think we will see what happens. i don't think that it is going to

that agenda and supporting nancy pelosi for speaker if they came up here. at then you look philosophically where our country is and a lot of these primaries -- there were able to pick conor lamb. in most of the primaries the candidates are running to the left of each other and running to the left of bernie sanders and elizabeth warren. that is the agenda that has taken over the democratic party. shery: you mentioned the tax cuts, but having seen what happened in the pennsylvania elections, but they show they weren't a boost enough for the gop? how confident are you the american public will actually come around and embrace those tax cuts by november? rep. scalise: the case of that of incumbents in swing districts they did vote to cut taxes for families. families are seeing benefits of tax cuts and are also familiar with the work being done by those incumbent members of congress representing their districts well and getting around and getting to know people. that is an important factor that those members in swing states have been a great job to represent thei

they paint him as one of nancy pelosi is a shiva. says he will not support a nancy pelosi, actually he said that he wouldn't vote for her. watch. >> his name is connor lam, but he is one of nancy pelosi is sheba. he would follow her lead, for her extreme agenda. >> harris: of that name is unfortunate. and in ada from lamb paints him as just another typical politician. >> he talks tough on spending, but now, we find out he has spent over $400,000 on per diem and lease payments to a political donor, all from an expense account paid for by the taxpayers. >> harris: congressman, your thoughts? >> sean: well, i would say that special elections are special. this is about enthusiasm, can you turn your voters out. this raises happening, we are not losing republican voters, but republican voters are content, and when their content, they don't show up at the polls. every democrat is going to come out and vote, and that enthusiasm is why we have a race that is so tight. i don't think we should mistake the fact that conor lamb will get in line u

there is not only one challenger for nancy pelosi. there could be a challenger in the democratic party in washington. the democrat in pennsylvania said she is not the right person to lead. a great debate to have though, is who should be speaker. has dedicated her life to the democratic party and raised a lot of money. , bringing it up on saturday at the rally, shows you how much of a stretch that they democraticto schlack candidates, with something so inside baseball. hishe confirmed that with ly trying attention to maxine waters. but this is not rubbing off on other people, luther strange, it may not rub off tomorrow. shery: talk about the appeal of the democratic party. they have yet to see a victory they can take to their constituents. what will they be campaigning on? president trump has basically said he has given up on raising the age limit for purchasing guns, such as what happened in parkland. it is not that the democrats don't have a forward-thinking agenda that is positive, but they are the minority. thatis going to happen i

elected to congress i won't vote for nancy pelosi so nancy pelosi asked today are you okay with this? what if other candidates start popping up saying i'm not for pelosi. >> one candidate in texas came out and said he would not be for me and he came in fourth. so let's not read too much into this. i feel pretty confident about the -- my ability to -- first and foremost the master legislator for the good of the american people. i have a strong following in the country and i don't think that the koch brothers should decide who the leader of the democratic party is in the house. >> oh, that's not going to play so well among some democrats. >> in massachusetts we have congressman seth moulton who was -- is close with conor lamb, campaigned there over the weekend, raised money for him and they both were sending the message out in pennsylvania saying we -- not only send conor lamb to washington because he's against trump but also because he's against nancy pelosi. there is a wing foo that feels good coming out of this pennsylvania election that, kind of anti-establishment rhetoric coming fr

and many were running against nancy pelosi. you have to show your independence. >> so they didn't like her either then? >> no. and i think we would -- we have seen this on the republican side as well. >> you know what is interesting about what adrian is saying, that's how long apparently some within the democratic party that thought that they needed change. barack obama said they needed new car smell. he was talking about hillary clinton. what does that say? >> the wanting change in the democratic party started when barack obama came out of nowhere to beat hillary clinton in 2008. it's been a long time coming for nancy pelosi. she's been able to hold on to power because she has the purse strings. to say this district is something that should be going to republican isn't actually right. there's more registered democrat voters in this district than they are republicans. as josh already said, democrats are very motivated to come out and vote. the other thing, too, that i find interesting is this democratic candidate, connor lamb,

i think voters want to hear about that more than they want to hear about nancy pelosi. ms. peterson: if you had to place a bet today, do you think democrats take back the house, and how confident are you? rep. yarmuth: i am getting more and more confident every day. i would place a bet that we would take the majority back. i think if the election were held today, i could see us winning 35 to 40 seats. we need to win 24 -- well, now, 23 with conor lamb, although we have to win that one again so it is still 24. yeah, i think the election will be an overwhelming victory for democrats. the energy that i see, and i travel around kentucky a fair amount since i'm the only democrat. and there are democrats who want to be engaged -- everywhere i go, every event i go to, there's a record crowd. most importantly they say there are many, many new people coming to these events, and i seen the same thing across the river in indiana, and my colleagues have seen the same thing just about everywhere. i do not think the energy we are seeing on our side is going to dissipate between now and n

and other twitter user says how tall is the wall around nancy pelosi's house, retire, nancy, your time is past. that played out as we expected it would. not just conservatives calling for her to retire. thanks a lot. we will check in with steve dooh see why. >> i'm wearing the green. get ready, we are going to do that in 45 minutes. coming up on the show, we talk about all things legal. we have a great couple folks lined up. judicial watch joining us, prof. alan dershowitz from harvard. geraldo will be with us. in addition to me wearing the green tie and rob kicking himself. we are going to have dolly parton on the program. dollywould is going to open up. rob: i have one green tie and don't like it and this is the one day of the year i should have worn it and i forgot. >> you get 14 minutes left in your show. that is all i have to say. rob: we will be right back. jillian: 5-time deported illegal immigrant acquitted of murdering kate steinle is suing the federal government claiming federal charges against him are vindictive and not valid and it shows collusion between federal and state

so i think it's a great contrast to show that if nancy pelosi is elected speaker, their plan is to take that money out of your pocket that nine out of 10 americans are enjoying right now. give it back to washington, and raise taxes on hardworking families and businesses. so i think it's a great contrast to show people what is at stake this november as we continue to move legislation forward with this republican majority to solve real problems, working with president trump to get that job done. mr. mccarthy: good morning. i dwoont to thank the sheriff. if you ever spent time with him down in jacksonville, he knows almost every single person there. the person that's handling the door on a first-name basis. that also knew he knew the principals, he knew the teachers and students as well. the bill he is bringing to the floor that he worked with, students, teachers, officers prevention act. it includes all to make sure we never have this tragic situation again. i want to thank him for his work and the other members. as mentioned, sandy hook promise supports this bill, and i want to thank the

very non-nancy pelosi like. i don't think it's a consistent picture of what you are going to have in all the other races but i think republicans need to take the lesson that they have got to be prepared for every one of them. >> jon: conor lamb did run against nancy pelosi and you have to wonder if he does get the seat how that is going to go over in the democratic caucus. is that a strategy for some democrats? >> well, i think what the strategy is for republicans is to demonize nancy pelosi. they made her the centerpiece of their advertising. >> jon: but this is a democrat who went after nancy pelosi. >> he didn't go after her. he simply said he wouldn't vote for her to lead the caucus. then he brought in tim ryan the congressman in ohio who ran against nancy pelosi last time. so clearly he is identifying with the anti-pelosi contingent. >> jon: still a big slap in the face for the minority leader. >> the slap in the face is if it sets a precedent, jon, and then you start to see this as a wave. remember, nancy

will you and party chairs -- to step away from nancy pelosi? >> democrats are going to do what they think is best to win the races. and conor lamb is talking about the issues, and talking about health care because so many people are suffering from opioid addiction and his opponent wants to talk about things on washington. >> you don't think nancy pelosi is a drag? >> conor lamb is poised to win tonight because he is focused on the issues. fighting for health care and fighting for pension security and fighting for good jobs that pay a decent wage and his opponents was supporting bills to expand outsourcing of jobs. supporting to have foreign steel be used to build buildings. and conor lamb has been standing up to the issues that matter most to people and that is why we are winning. >> throwing it to wolf blitzer. >> key race. barely 1% of the votes are in. and conor lamb is in 52% to rick saccone. he is ahead 452 votes to 411 votes. these are the first votes that are coming in. we expect the trickle to explode soon. let's go to john king at the

so he was able to say very early, look, i'm not going store nancy pelosi. support nancy pelosi. now, other democrats could potentially run into trouble if they have to face a primary where they would say something like that and be punished by the base of their party. so that's what republicans are kind of counting on. in places where that's not the case, i think, you know, democrats here and if you talk to people close to nancy pelosi, familiar with her thinking, she just wants to win. she wants to be back in charge here in the house of representatives. i don't think she really cares one way or the other if her candidates have to attack her on the way there. >> all right. thanks so much, kasie. we've got breaking news coming up. >>> the administration about to announce new sanctions on russia. our reporters just getting off a conference call with administration officials. we'll take a quick break and have that for you on the other side. wemost familiar companies,'s but we make more than our name suggests. we're an organic tea company. a premium juice company. a coconut water com

one area where he took a different path was on nancy pelosi. he said he would vote against her for speaker. this is going to be a big issue for democrats. and for nancy pelosi personally. what is her decision going to be? republicans spent a huge amount of money in this campaign trying to link conor lamb to pelosi, even though he didn't support her. they're going to do that all over the country. imagine if nancy pelosi says in september or october after she's raised a ton of money, you know what? i'm not going to be a candidate for speaker. then she knocks the struts out. >> you think that's possible? >> possible, not probable. but possible. there's been a fair amount of talk about it in her circle. >> what do you think? >> i mean, she is a huge liability still. democrats are saying, well, look, if conor lamb wins, that proves he was able to separate himself from her. but you talk to republicans and look at the polling that they're seeing. she is a negative weight on democrats in other areas where they're not going to have the kind of candidate

i say this, this is important about nancy pelosi and her symbolism. if you're the kind of voter animated by animus of nancy pelosi, you're going to vote for the republican candidate. and even if nancy pelosi wasn't there, donald trump has made it clear, he's got maxine waters, chuck schumer, plenty of other democrats he can throw out there as red meat. >> even if it ends up the case that the democrats don't need to put it together as a clear message, they probably do in 2020. >> yeah, i think they do. i think jason and i disagree a rill bit little bit on both of these points. you always need a message in politics. it doesn't have to be a one-size-fits-all message. but you've got to focus the people om tn the issues that arf importance to you. if you run a lackadaisical spain or depending on animus on trump, you're going to pick up some seats, but to get to 24, 25, more seats than that, you've got to have something more going for you. as far as pelosi goes, i think she was a great speaker in many ways, and she was very much responsible for the affordab

>>er time nancy pelosi opens her mouth it's a gift to lup cans. first secretary tillerson is too close to russia, then he's too tough, the tax cut would lead to armageddon and the raises and bonuses are nothing but crumbs. it shows how out of touch they are. i think the american people are starting to see through their rhetoric. it has no basis in reality. charles: i thinker time nancy pelosi opens her mouth it's a gift to psychologists. >> this is one day after the guy in pennsylvania lamb said he doesn't want anything to do with her. and a day after oprah says how about democrats focus on their own issues. america hired a man who fired people for a living. let that sing in, opposition, and learn something from it. he fired people until he gets to the best person which allows no one to ever rest on their laurels and keeps our enemies on guard. charles: no sitting back washington, d.c. style with a cushy job and no accountability. what do you make now that perhaps there will be republican opposition with the confirmation process? rand paul has spo

he ran away from nancy pelosi. if that is what alouse democrats to be more successful at the polls, i'm kind of okay with that. i'd like to see a democratic party that is more moderate than the elizabeth warren, bernie sanders wing. >> dana: the cook political report tweeted this. democrats don't have a clear leader. that's also one of the best things going for them in 2018. the base of the party becomes who ever is running in each state and district, while gop candidates are tied to trump. is nancy pelosi still the boogy man the republicans have tried to use in the past? >> i don't think that it's working. i think the republicans were trying to hang their hat on that. remember, dana, they started advertising this district ten weeks out from the election. had a huge financial advantage. the bulk of their ads were all about nancy pelosi. they saw it wasn't moving the needle so they quickly pivoted. i don't think it's going to have the juice they think it will have. >> dana: what happens i guess, matt, to other repub

we saw in the pennsylvania race the democratic candidate said i'm not supporting nancy pelosi and he was able to win. i will also say she still remains among the democrats she's an amazing fundraiser and legislature. she remains a strong powerful leader despite the challenges and she will face challenges from her own ring. >> guest: every few years we have this debate. it is what is the future she's not going to tell you. you a lot of the younger generations are blaming her because the republicans are able to run these. a lot of people think that it's just all about it. but i should mention there are a lot of these districtth candidas that have attacked nancy pelosi the past and then nancy pelosi endorses those things with her blessing they are attacking because she would have a democrat in the house and republican, so this is not a new dynamic. last year it was a direct challenge to the leadership in the smalle,smaller challenge 20s a bigger challenge to the. they are moving on and going to the senate and the governor's races and nowhere to go to. it's too radioactive to win or is n

one area where he, you know, took a different path was on nancy pelosi. and he said he would vote against her for speaker. this is going to be a big issue for democrats and for nancy pelosi personally. what is her decision going to be? republicans spent a huge amount of money in this campaign trying to link conor lamb to pelosi, even though he didn't support her. they're going to do that all over the country. imagine if nancy pelosi says in september or october after she's raised a ton of money, you know what? i'm not going to be a candidate for speaker. then she knocks the struts out. >> do you think that's possible? >> it's possible. not probable but very possible. there's been a fair amount of talk about it in their circle. >> what do you think about it? >> she is a huge liability still, and democrats are saying, look, if conor lamb wins, it proves he was able to separate himself from her. but you talk to republicans and look at the polling they're seeing, she is a negative weight on democrats in other areas where they're not going to have the kind of

house minority leader nancy pelosi released this statement. secretary tillerson's firing sets a profoundly disturbing precedent where standing up for russian aggression is grounds for a humiliating dismissal. president trump's actions show that every official in his administration is at mercy of his personal wins and worship of putin. it's no wonder that the president has trouble attracting high caliber people to his administration when he undercuts and humiliates those that he supposedly respects. john roberts now at the white house with the latest. john, big morning. it's only noon in the east. >> this all happened by 8:30. i'm just surprised that it didn't happen at 5:30 p.m. as it does most times. this has been brewing for a long time. back in the fall, we had reported quite widely that rex tillerson was not expected to stay long in the new year. the president told us you're all nuts. he's staying. guess what? he's leaving. the president made the decision last week we're told. according to sources here at the white house, tillerson was inf

and the threat of not supporting nancy pelosi no longer exists in the democratic party. it's quite telling. tonight, i think you'll see president trump try to whip people into a frenzy, get that enthusiasm gap shortened a bit. i will concede this, as a republican, i am concerned about this enthusiasm gap. 63% of the voters who are backing lamb are democrats. shea say they're very excited to get to the polls. compare that to only 53% of republicans. i think that is something that the gop really has to be mindful of heading into had midterms. >> adrienne, i want to get your response to that. nancy pelosi, i talked to many members in the last few months, and some are less enthusiastic about her than they have been in the past. what's your sense of how much support she enjoys from democratic members of the caucus right now? >> she enjoys a lot of support from democratic caucus members. look, this is not a race about nancy pelosi. this is a referendum against donald trump. he won this district by 20 points, which is hard to really, you know, underestimate the fact that you ca

he's not for a lot of things nancy pelosi is for. republicans say don't let him get away with it. >> conor lamb. another two-faced liberal. he'll say anything to get elected. >> lamb sides with pelosi and now her liberal friends are spending big on his campaign. >> my opponent wants you to believe the biggest issue in this campaign is nancy pelosi. it's all a big lie. i've already said on the front page of the newspaper that i don't support nancy pelosi. >> this is an early test of a lot of things, including democrats won a national referendum on trump, republicans think we have to make nancy pelosi the issue. >> and one of the lessons of 2016, democratic enthusiasm, or lack of enthusiasm, was the attacks to the left, how many wanted like a bernie sanders type of candidate. what you see here is not a bernie sanders type of candidate. if the democrats are able to prevail in this district, it says a lot about decreased enthusiasm in trump country and says a lot about increased momentum on the democratic side. but it also says in the ra

pelosi conservative. that's the candidate that's going to win this race. so this is something that you're not going to see repeated because they didn't have a primary. they were able to pick a candidate who could run as a conservative. who ran against the minority leader. who ran on a conservative agenda. you will have primaries in all these other races and the primaries bring them to the left. so i just don't think this is something that we'll see a repeat of. reporter: what's the message to your candidates, all your incumbents who will be out and running? they don't get caught sleeping, essentially. speaker ryan: we have a great track record. i think focusing on the accomplishments we have and how it's improved people's lives i think it's something we should be focusing on. also, we got more work to do and we're in the middle of negotiating a budget agreement or appropriations that will finally rebuild our military, that will make good on our promises to fight the opioid epidemic, to help find a cure fo

now, to the point of nancy pelosi, i look at it slightly differently. i don't think it's an electoral problem. bear with me, precisely because they ran against him because he didn't work. a lot of democrats say i don't support her, an easy way to take the issue off the table. if they were to take back the house, yeah, you do have a legitimate problem on the floor if they elect another speaker because you have all these people on the record saying, i can't do it. >> to your point, she may be the right person for that job. >> she's incredible at it. call me crazy, i don't see the math as democrats the way they say, i see a lot of seats in play and they have to run a perfect election and in the primaries and specials hasn't been great for the establishment wing of democrats in texas 7 and pennsylvania in 18. they ran against them. so they're going to have huge problems regardless. i also just think i don't know if they get there. they have to run a perfect election. they have history on their side, but as umbc taught us the other night- >> you're crazy, yo

they went with a republican lite moderate who watched the district, who ran away from nancy pelosi, who had to sound not like anything you hear out of the democrats in washington to win. lessons here, if you have a suburb in your district, watch out, there's no way to put mayonnaise on that crap sandw h sandwich. candidate quality matters. >> he's not wrong. politically, there was not much difference between them. there is not much difference between saccone and lamb -- >> i appreciate all three of my colleagues tonight for just painting this picture that is as rosy as possible for the republican party. the fact is it's amazing how saccone all of a sudden isn't a great candidate. relatively speaking he may not be a great candidate compared to others, but compared to todd akin, compared to a roy moore? he is a legitimate candidate. he actually served in our armed forces. he actually was an elected official prior to this. it's not as if he ran against -- >> it doesn't make you a good candidate. >> congratulations on the bar. >> regardless, it may not be a 10-alarm fire, i hope republicans

nancy pelosi in the future of the democratic party. would las. how long do you think we'll keep -- oooooohhh! you stopped! you're gonna leave me back here at year 9? how did this happen? it turned out, a lot of people fell short, of even the average length of retirement. we have to think about not when we expect to live to, but when we could live to. let's plan for income that lasts all our years in retirement. prudential. bring your challenges. ♪ >> they are coming after me because of my city and they are against lgbt end against poor children. that's been my mantra, the poor children in america i am here to support. yes, i am a liberal. republicans are saying he ran like a conservative. i wanted him to win. i don't think it had that much impact on the race. >> i have already set on the front page of the newspaper that i don't support nancy pelosi. >> bret: okay, the democrat looks like he's winning. conor lamb, the special election. if you look at the generic ballot as you get ready to head towards the midterms, the real clear politics averag

the attempts to use nancy pelosi are failing them at this point. i think quite frankly it is sexist. trish: come on, sexist? it is not sexist to call out a party lead foreridiculous comments. in fact it might be sexist if i can't call her out because she's a woman. she made ridiculous comments. it is fair and justifiable that people call her out on it, just as they would a man. joining me right now, republican strategist. they keep throwing these terms around, someone's sexist, someone's racist, these pretty horrible things to be calling for someone, saying it is sexist for anyone to criticize nancy pelosi for the marie antoinette-like comments she made regarding 1000-dollar bonus people are getting, is bizarre. that is how desperate they are? >> that is absolutely bizarre. that is what democrats are good at, they run out of their bullet points, they run out of facts, they resort to name-calling, whether it be sexism, genderrism, start mocking your parents, they are kings and queens of identity politics. sexism is a real thing, nothing to joke abou

she was honored with remarks on the house floor by speaker paul ryan and nancy pelosi. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlelady is recognized. ms. pelosi: mr. speaker, today we in congress have the honor of recognizing an outstanding leader and esteemed colleague, ongresswoman marcy kaptur. we have the esteemed honor of recognizing marcy kaptur as she becomes the longest serving woman in the history of the ouse of representatives. and it's not just about the longevity of her service but the quality of her leadership in the house of representatives in so many ways. it's fitting that we should recognize her outstanding leadership during women's history month. thank you for giving us the privilege of doing that. and i know that the people of ohio and our colleagues from ohio here take great pride and their association with marcy kaptur as with the rest of us in honor to call her colleague. she has left her mark in so many ways. she is the first woman ever to be assigned to serve on the subcommittee of appropriations on defense, and in addition to protecti

ran as pro-gun, pro-life, anti-nancy pelosi conservatives. and i think that's the takeaway we see here. >> if it is truly a wake-up call, as we understand you told your members this morning, isn't it also a wake-up call for the role the president should play from your opinion in the upcoming midterm? >> look, i think the president helped close this race. i think you saw the public polling. the public polling wasn't looking so good and the president came in and helped close this race and got it to where it is right now, which is within a few hundred votes. >> so, jonathan, unless i don't really -- if i'm not keeping up with what paul ryan and all those republican house members and everybody else that was talking there, unless i'm not keeping up with where they are ideologically win mean, if they ran has -- if conor lamb now shares their views and donald trump's views, then they now are pro-choice. they now support roe v. wade. paul ryan and all of those republicans are now against a 20-week ban on abortion. paul ryan and all those republicans

nancy pelosi doesn't have time for such things. she thinks get out is the title of the plan her staff wrote about paul ryan. and what about the love-hate relationship with president trump? by the way, madam leader, i'm talking about you not melania. by the way, steve scalise, how'd that meeting last week with the president go? got shutdown faster than you can say covfefe. your headlines for the evening are democratic senator chris coons of delaware and little known fact, they are cochairs of the bipartisan bicameral, wow you're really that short caucus. i can say that because they're both way taller than i am. i spent time with senator coons and his twin 18-year-old sons this past weekend on a civil rights pilgrimage led by congressman john lewis. it was an incredible life changing experience, but i have to say i was a little stressed thinking about tonight. so i planted myself next to the senator on a bus trip, and i said, senator, i have to tell you i'm sitting here with you to try to get material from you for tuesday night. and

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