1 00:00:00,0 --> 00:00:05,704 WE TRIED TO GIVE THEM CHOICES FOR HOW THEY CAN MAKE A 2 00:00:05,705 --> 00:00:07,306 CONTRIBUTION AND LEAD THEM IN THAT DIRECTION THAT WE NEED 3 00:00:07,308 --> 00:00:18,49 PEOPLE TO FOLLOW AND IT'S AN IMPORTANT PART OF MY JOB TO TALK 4 00:00:18,52 --> 00:00:18,989 TO THE COUNTERPARTS AND SAY WE NEED EVERYBODY IN THE GAME IF WE 5 00:00:18,991 --> 00:00:21,455 ARE GOING TO HAVE A PEACEFUL WORLD. 6 00:00:21,457 --> 00:00:23,521 YOU'VE GOT TO GET IN THE GAME. LET ME ASK THE CHAIRMAN. 7 00:00:23,523 --> 00:00:23,306 I CHAIR MAN. I WOULD EMPHASIZE WHAT THE 8 00:00:23,308 --> 00:00:28,710 SECRETARY SAID. THE KEY PART I WENT TO THE 9 00:00:28,712 --> 00:00:33,82 REGION AND MATCH WITH 30 OF THE CHIEFS OF DEFENSE FROM THE 10 00:00:33,84 --> 00:00:36,621 COALITION PARTNERS AND ENCOURAGED PARTICIPATION THAT 11 00:00:36,623 --> 00:00:41,95 ONE OF THE THINGS WE DO HARD IS LOOK AT WHERE THEY CAN MAKE THE 12 00:00:41,97 --> 00:00:44,366 CONTRIBUTION AND THAT IS AN ONGOING PROCESS WHERE WE ARE 13 00:00:44,368 --> 00:00:53,157 SATISFIED WITH WHERE WE ARE, NEVER. 14 00:00:53,159 --> 00:00:48,194 THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE AND ON BEHALF OF THE CHAIR MAN 15 00:00:48,196 --> 00:01:04,277 LET ME DECLARE THE HEARING ADJOURNED. 16 00:01:04,279 --> 00:01:22,28 [INAUDIBLE] [LAUGHTER] 17 00:01:22,30 --> 00:02:31,697 READ TIDE ARRIVES AT DONALD TRUMP TO THE REPUBLICAN 18 00:02:31,699 --> 00:02:42,17 LEADERSHIP IN A SPEECH AT THE CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS IN 19 00:02:42,19 --> 00:02:47,824 WASHINGTON, D.C.. HE SAID REPUBLICAN LEADERS 20 00:02:47,826 --> 00:02:51,311 CREATED THE DROUGHT CONDITIONS DONALD TRUMP SIMPLY STRUCK THE 21 00:02:51,313 --> 00:03:03,899 MATCH. THIS IS ABOUT 15 MINUTES. 22 00:03:03,901 --> 00:03:05,543 GOOD MORNING, EVERYONE. HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY. 23 00:03:05,545 --> 00:03:13,837 WE ARE HONORED TO HAVE YOU HERE FOR AN IMPORTANT EVENT FOR WHAT 24 00:03:13,839 --> 00:03:16,309 IS HAPPENING IN THE POLITICS TODAY. 25 00:03:16,311 --> 00:03:23,105 JUST BEFORE PRESIDENT OBAMA'S SECOND INAUGURATION, AND THE 26 00:03:23,107 --> 00:03:25,1 BERLITZ PUBLISHED THIS FITTING HEADLINE, QUOTE, REPUBLICANS 27 00:03:25,3 --> 00:03:29,119 ACCUSE OBAMA OF USING POSITIONED TO LEAD THE COUNTRY. 28 00:03:29,121 --> 00:03:34,749 AND THIS SUMS UP WHERE WE'VE BEEN THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS. 29 00:03:34,751 --> 00:03:36,768 WE HAVE HAD A YEAR AFTER HIS YEAR IN WHICH REPUBLICAN 30 00:03:36,770 --> 00:03:40,590 POLITICS HAS BEEN A CONTEST FOR WHO CAN SEE NO THE SAY NO THE 31 00:03:40,592 --> 00:03:45,247 FASTEST, THE LOUDEST AND THE LONGEST WITH NO REGARD TO REASON 32 00:03:45,249 --> 00:03:49,183 OR THE BEST INTEREST OF THE COUNTRY PARTICULARLY OVER THE 33 00:03:49,185 --> 00:03:52,968 PAST 24 HOURS IN RESPONSE TO THE SUPREME COURT. 34 00:03:52,970 --> 00:03:57,519 TRUTHFULLY, WE'VE SEEN THAT THE MOMENT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE 35 00:03:57,521 --> 00:04:04,550 ELECTED BARACK OBAMA THEY MADE IT THERE REASON FOR EVERYTHING 36 00:04:04,552 --> 00:04:07,416 THE PRESIDENT PROPOSED FOR YOU TO BE MISLED THE AMERICAN PEOPLE 37 00:04:07,418 --> 00:04:09,282 ABOUT THE POLICIES AND OVER THE LAST YEAR WE HAVE SEEN 38 00:04:09,284 --> 00:04:14,927 INCREDIBLY HEATED RHETORIC AROUND THE PRESIDENT AND THE 39 00:04:14,929 --> 00:04:17,149 COUNTRY'S FUTURE. TODAY DONALD TRUMP IS THE 40 00:04:17,151 --> 00:04:22,651 REPUBLICAN PARTY FRONTRUNNER COMING AND PEOPLE ARE SURPRISED 41 00:04:22,653 --> 00:04:27,504 THAT THE HATEFUL DIVISIVE RHETORIC HAS CONTRIBUTED TO A 42 00:04:27,506 --> 00:04:30,750 CANDIDACY THAT MIRRORS ALL OF THOSE. 43 00:04:30,752 --> 00:04:39,457 WE ARE PARTICULARLY HONORED TO HAVE THE SENATOR HERE. 44 00:04:39,459 --> 00:04:43,733 HE'S BEEN A CHAMPION FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE CITING THE 45 00:04:43,735 --> 00:04:46,485 AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS WORKING TO HELP ALL AMERICANS ON ALMOST 46 00:04:46,487 --> 00:04:52,374 EVERY ISSUE THAT I'VE WORKED ON OVER THE LAST SEVERAL DECADES 47 00:04:52,376 --> 00:04:56,296 BUT HE'S WORKING TO HELP FAMILIES ACHIEVE THE AMERICAN 48 00:04:56,298 --> 00:05:01,63 DREAM, CITING HIS HEART OUT AND PROTECTING THE ENVIRONMENT FOR 49 00:05:01,65 --> 00:05:07,204 FUTURE GENERATIONS HAS BEEN AN INCREDIBLE VOICE FOR ALL OF US 50 00:05:07,206 --> 00:05:11,405 SO I'M HONORED TO HAVE HIM HERE TO TALK ABOUT WHAT'S HAPPENING 51 00:05:11,407 --> 00:05:15,81 WITH THE AMERICAN ELECTORATE AND WHAT'S HAPPENING IN POLITICS, 52 00:05:15,83 --> 00:05:20,779 WHERE THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS GOING. 53 00:05:20,781 --> 00:05:26,64 PLEASE JOIN ME IN WELCOMING SENATOR HARRY REID. 54 00:05:26,66 --> 00:05:40,746 [APPLAUSE] SORRY I WAS A LITTLE LATE THERE 55 00:05:40,748 --> 00:05:48,720 WAS AN ACCIDENT THAT HELD US UP. I WANT TO TAKE A MINUTE TO 56 00:05:48,722 --> 00:05:53,202 PUBLICLY ACKNOWLEDGE JOHN PODESTA. 57 00:05:53,204 --> 00:05:59,671 WHEN JOHN PODESTA CAME TO ME WITH THIS IDEA I WAS 58 00:05:59,673 --> 00:06:00,853 UNDERWHELMED. I COULDN'T BELIEF THAT HE SAID 59 00:06:00,855 --> 00:06:05,249 WHAT HE WAS GOING TO DO. I WAS RIGHT -- HE WAS RIGHT AND 60 00:06:05,251 --> 00:06:16,663 I WAS WRONG. YOU ARE STEPPING INTO THOSE 61 00:06:16,665 --> 00:06:17,80 SHOES AND YOU'VE DONE AN OUTSTANDING JOB. 62 00:06:17,82 --> 00:06:19,234 THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME TO BE HERE TODAY. 63 00:06:19,236 --> 00:06:26,46 MANY AMERICANS ARE SCRATCHING THEIR HEADS ABOUT DONALD TRUMP. 64 00:06:26,48 --> 00:06:29,811 I KNOW THAT I HAVE ON MORE THAN ONE OCCASION. 65 00:06:29,813 --> 00:06:35,891 MOST OF US CANNOT HAVE THEM HOW HE ROSE SO FAR AND SO FAST. 66 00:06:35,893 --> 00:06:42,98 HIS VILE RHETORIC AS EMBARRASSING, HIS PROPOSALS ARE 67 00:06:42,100 --> 00:06:46,385 DANGEROUS. REPUBLICAN ESTABLISHMENT ACTS 68 00:06:46,387 --> 00:06:50,884 BEWILDERED THAT BUT THEY SHOULD NOT BE BEWILDERED AS MUCH AS I 69 00:06:50,886 --> 00:06:57,748 TRY TO DISTANCE FROM TRUMP NOW FOR EIGHT YEARS THEY DREAMED OF 70 00:06:57,750 --> 00:07:03,143 THE POLICY DEBATE BY REPLACING ENGAGEMENT WITH RESENTMENT AND 71 00:07:03,145 --> 00:07:18,565 HATRED. WE ARE SEEING IT RIGHT NOW. 72 00:07:18,567 --> 00:07:18,911 THEY ALREADY TREAT HIM OR HER LIKE A PIÑATA AND THAT'S THE 73 00:07:18,913 --> 00:07:23,65 KIND OF MINDLESS BEHAVIOR THAT HAS HOLLOWED OUT THE POLITICAL 74 00:07:23,67 --> 00:07:29,319 DEBATE AND CREATED THE CONDITIONS FOR DONALD TRUMP TO 75 00:07:29,321 --> 00:07:31,124 RISE. THEY CREATED THE DROUGHT 76 00:07:31,126 --> 00:07:38,982 CONDITIONS DONALD TRUMP'S TURN TO BE -- SIMPLY STRUCK THE MATCH 77 00:07:38,984 --> 00:07:46,339 FROM EIGHT YEARS AGO. THE NATIONS AT THE END OF 2008. 78 00:07:46,341 --> 00:07:49,451 PRESIDENT BUSH WAS ON HIS WAY OUT OF OFFICE AFTER A FAILED 79 00:07:49,454 --> 00:07:53,411 PRESIDENCY TEETERING ON THE BRINK OF DISASTER. 80 00:07:53,413 --> 00:07:57,448 PRESIDENT OBAMA CAME TO OFFICE WITH A BROAD MANDATE PROMISING 81 00:07:57,450 --> 00:08:07,867 THE NATION REALLY NEEDED. SADLY THE REPUBLICAN LEADERS 82 00:08:07,869 --> 00:08:10,53 CHOSE THE OPPOSITE PATH INSTEAD OF COOPERATING ON COMMONSENSE 83 00:08:10,55 --> 00:08:14,825 SOLUTIONS FOR THOSE STILL SUFFERING IN THE GREAT RECESSION 84 00:08:14,827 --> 00:08:21,56 THEY CHOSE OBSTRUCTION AND POLICIES. 85 00:08:21,58 --> 00:08:31,689 PRESIDENT OBAMA'S FIRST INAUGURATION. 86 00:08:31,691 --> 00:08:27,843 THEY'VE DECIDED ON THE MISSION FIRST THEY WILL DO EVERYTHING IN 87 00:08:27,845 --> 00:08:31,526 THEIR POWER TO KEEP PRESIDENT OBAMA FROM BEING ELECTED AND 88 00:08:31,528 --> 00:08:37,488 SECOND THEY WOULD PREVENT HIM FROM ACHIEVING ANY OF THE 89 00:08:37,490 --> 00:08:45,122 LEGISLATIVE PRIORITY IS. THE REJECTION OF PRESIDENT 90 00:08:45,124 --> 00:08:50,361 OBAMA'S MANIFESTED ITSELF IN ONE BIG LIE. 91 00:08:50,363 --> 00:08:58,552 THEY REPEATED IT IN DIFFERENT WAYS OVER AND OVER AGAIN. 92 00:08:58,554 --> 00:09:01,596 THE ECONOMIC HARDSHIPS COULD BE ADDRESSED BY SMART POLICY 93 00:09:01,598 --> 00:09:17,846 SOLUTIONS IF THE SOLUTIONS WERE PULLED BY OBAMA. 94 00:09:17,848 --> 00:09:22,53 WE HAVE SEEN THIS LIE IN THE LAST 24 HOURS NOMINATED TO THE 95 00:09:22,55 --> 00:09:30,848 SUPREME COURT AND THE CIRCUIT COURT OVERWHELMINGLY MOVED 96 00:09:30,850 --> 00:09:34,488 SOMEWHERE IN THE SENATE WITH A LARGE VOTE APPOINTED HIM INTO 97 00:09:34,490 --> 00:09:38,476 SELECTED HIM AS THE COURT OF APPEALS TO THE DC CIRCUIT FOR 98 00:09:38,479 --> 00:09:57,290 THE HIGHEST COURT IN THE LAND. HERE'S WHAT THE SENATORS HAVE 99 00:09:57,292 --> 00:10:04,963 GARLAND. SHE SAID VERY COMPLIANT RATINGS. 100 00:10:04,965 --> 00:10:10,461 THEY SLAM THE DOOR ON A GOOD MAN SIMPLY WHY? 101 00:10:10,463 --> 00:10:14,489 BECAUSE PRESIDENT OBAMA NOMINATED HIM. 102 00:10:14,491 --> 00:10:21,273 THAT'S HOW THEY TREATED HIM OVER HIS ENTIRE PRESIDENCY FOR SEVEN 103 00:10:21,275 --> 00:10:26,393 AND A HALF YEARS. IT DIDN'T MATTER WHERE THESE 104 00:10:26,395 --> 00:10:35,596 IDEAS CAME FROM A. IT WAS OVER AND OVER IN MANY 105 00:10:35,598 --> 00:10:43,621 DIFFERENT WAYS THEY SAID IT CANNOT HELP YOU AND IT WILL HURT 106 00:10:43,623 --> 00:10:48,825 YOU. LOOK AT THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT. 107 00:10:48,827 --> 00:10:52,105 50 MILLION WERE SUFFERING WITHOUT HEALTH INSURANCE. 108 00:10:52,107 --> 00:10:55,247 THE CENTERPIECE PERFORMED BY DEMOCRATS AS THE INDIVIDUAL 109 00:10:55,250 --> 00:11:02,163 MANDATE. IT CAME FROM THE CONSERVATIVE 110 00:11:02,165 --> 00:11:02,910 HERITAGE. ESSENTIALLY BECAME SOCIALISM IN 111 00:11:02,912 --> 00:11:06,752 THEIR EYES BUT IT'S NOT JUST THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT. 112 00:11:06,754 --> 00:11:11,162 IT WAS ONE POLICY AFTER ANOTHER TO ADDRESS THE ECONOMIC 113 00:11:11,164 --> 00:11:15,540 HARDSHIPS. MANY IDEAS ORIGINATED WITH 114 00:11:15,542 --> 00:11:24,394 REPUBLICANS AND ENJOYED BIPARTISAN SUPPORT YET ONE BY 115 00:11:24,396 --> 00:11:28,271 ONE THEY REPEATED THE BIG BLIND OBAMA SUPPORTS IT, IT WON'T HELP 116 00:11:28,273 --> 00:11:35,744 YOU. THE LIST IS VERY LONG. 117 00:11:35,746 --> 00:11:39,418 UNEMPLOYMENT, REFORM, ISSUE AFTER ISSUE REPUBLICAN LEADERS 118 00:11:39,420 --> 00:11:47,493 FACED A CHOICE AND THEY PUT FOOD ON THE TABLE EARLY. 119 00:11:47,495 --> 00:11:52,61 REPUBLICANS CHOSE TO STICK IT TO PRESIDENT OBAMA INSTEAD OF 120 00:11:52,63 --> 00:11:55,817 HELPING THEIR OWN CONSTITUENTS. THE EXAMPLES CONTINUE THE 121 00:11:55,819 --> 00:12:01,618 PAYROLL TAX CUTS WITH STUDENT LOANS, IMMIGRATION REFORM, 122 00:12:01,620 --> 00:12:04,733 AUTOMOBILE BAILOUTS. ALL THE POLICIES USED TO ENJOY 123 00:12:04,735 --> 00:12:14,817 BIPARTISAN SUPPORT. PRESIDENT OBAMA SUPPORTS IT AT 124 00:12:14,819 --> 00:12:11,823 HOME HELP YOU. LIKE ANY, MAINTAINING THIS ONE 125 00:12:11,825 --> 00:12:18,926 THAT REPUBLICANS ARE DEEPER AND DEEPER INTO THIS HONESTY. 126 00:12:18,928 --> 00:12:26,871 REPUBLICANS WHO FOUND THAT PROPPING UP THE LINE THEY HAD TO 127 00:12:26,873 --> 00:12:31,572 QUESTION ANY INDEPENDENT AUTHORITY THAT MIGHT CONTRADICT 128 00:12:31,574 --> 00:12:35,65 IT SO THEY STARTED ROUTINELY QUESTIONING SCIENCE OR ANY OTHER 129 00:12:35,67 --> 00:12:44,341 RESEARCH THAT SUPPORTED THE DEMOCRATIC POLICIES. 130 00:12:44,343 --> 00:12:47,447 IN THE FACE OF SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS I DON'T BELIEVE THE 131 00:12:47,450 --> 00:12:52,354 SCIENCE AND PREVENTING GUN VIOLENCE IN THE EPIDEMIC OF MASS 132 00:12:52,356 --> 00:12:58,346 SHOOTING THEY REJECT COMMONSENSE SOLUTIONS AND BACKGROUND CHECKS. 133 00:12:58,348 --> 00:13:03,780 REPUBLICANS CLAIM THAT MORE GUNS ARE THE ANSWER. 134 00:13:03,782 --> 00:13:09,768 THEY'VE EVEN PUT OBJECTIVE FACTS ABOUT THE BASIC ECONOMY AND THE 135 00:13:09,770 --> 00:13:12,395 RECENT POLL SHOWED 53% OF REPUBLICANS THINK THE 136 00:13:12,397 --> 00:13:16,526 UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IS HIGHER NOW THAN WHEN PRESIDENT OBAMA TOOK 137 00:13:16,528 --> 00:13:22,662 OFFICE. THIS STATISTIC IS SAD BUT IT'S 138 00:13:22,664 --> 00:13:26,175 NOT SHOCKING. DESPITE 72 CONSECUTIVE MONTHS OF 139 00:13:26,177 --> 00:13:31,269 JOB GROWTH AND THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE BELOW 5% THEY ARE STILL 140 00:13:31,271 --> 00:13:33,20 TELLING MILLIONS OF AMERICANS PRESIDENT OBAMA HAS BEEN A 141 00:13:33,22 --> 00:13:38,283 DISASTER FOR THE ECONOMY. ONE AFTER ANOTHER COMMONSENSE 142 00:13:38,286 --> 00:13:41,947 FACTS ARE BROUGHT DOWN BY REPUBLICAN LEADERS HAVE TOSSED 143 00:13:41,949 --> 00:13:45,982 ASIDE AS COLLATERAL DAMAGE FOR THEIR ONE BIG LIE IS NOT WONDER 144 00:13:45,984 --> 00:13:53,208 LAND'S FEEL POWERLESS REPUBLICANS SPENT EIGHT YEARS TO 145 00:13:53,210 --> 00:13:57,449 HELP THEM FACE THE CHALLENGES. INSTEAD OF ENGAGING ON POLICY 146 00:13:57,451 --> 00:14:04,391 THEY SIMPLY TOLD AMERICANS THERE'S NOTHING TO BE DONE SO 147 00:14:04,393 --> 00:14:08,900 WHAT HAVE THE REPUBLICANS CREATED? 148 00:14:08,902 --> 00:14:13,205 PRESENTIMENT, HATRED THAT THEY WERE TOO COWARD TO RENOUNCE. 149 00:14:13,207 --> 00:14:19,332 THE GROUPS LIKE THE TEA PARTY WERE FIRST WITH MONEY FROM THE 150 00:14:19,334 --> 00:14:21,668 COMPETITORS. THE IDEOLOGIES AND OBJECTIVES OF 151 00:14:21,670 --> 00:14:28,669 THE GROUP VARIED BUT THEY ALL HAD ONE THING IN COMMON WHO WAS 152 00:14:28,671 --> 00:14:32,691 CONSIDERED AN ILLEGITIMATE PRESIDENT IT'S OBVIOUS EVEN THE 153 00:14:32,693 --> 00:14:36,954 MOST CASUAL OBSERVER WAS DRIVEN FORWARD BY SOME OF THE DARKEST 154 00:14:36,956 --> 00:14:44,188 FORCES IN THE CULTURE BUT REPUBLICAN LEADERS TRIED. 155 00:14:44,190 --> 00:14:48,759 THIS RESENTMENT AND HATRED TOOK THREE FORMS FIRST, IT RENDERED 156 00:14:48,761 --> 00:14:52,615 PRESIDENT OBAMA ILLEGITIMATE AND SECOND, FEAR MONGERING, THIRD, 157 00:14:52,617 --> 00:14:57,100 HATRED AMONG LATINOS. THE FORCES THAT ARE NOW 158 00:14:57,102 --> 00:15:02,984 SYNONYMOUS IN THE CANDIDACY OR BY REPUBLICAN LEADERS THE PAST 159 00:15:02,986 --> 00:15:07,531 EIGHT YEARS. THE MOST RECOGNIZABLE ATTEMPT TO 160 00:15:07,533 --> 00:15:10,636 DECLARE PRESIDENT OBAMA WAS THE MOVEMENT. 161 00:15:10,638 --> 00:15:17,171 IT ALL STARTED ON A WEBSITE THAT ASKED WHERE IS THE BIRTH 162 00:15:17,173 --> 00:15:19,159 CERTIFICATE. BEFORE LONG MORE AND MORE 163 00:15:19,161 --> 00:15:24,883 OUTLETS WERE DISCUSSING THIS ABSURD CONSPIRACY THEORY. 164 00:15:24,885 --> 00:15:27,463 REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS DID NOTHING. 165 00:15:27,465 --> 00:15:30,345 REPUBLICANS IN THE HOUSE AND LEGISLATURE WERE SUGGESTING THE 166 00:15:30,347 --> 00:15:35,23 PRESIDENT WASN'T WARNING AMERICA AND WHO WAS THE MOST PROMINENT 167 00:15:35,25 --> 00:15:40,516 TO GIVE THE MOVEMENT A PLATFORM? DONALD TRUMP. 168 00:15:40,518 --> 00:15:43,705 I FIND IT IRONIC MITT ROMNEY THAT ROMNEY IS SPEAKING OUT IN 169 00:15:43,707 --> 00:15:46,868 HIS EXTREMISM. HE KNEW HOW RIDICULOUS THE 170 00:15:46,870 --> 00:15:50,792 CLAIMS WERE AND GET WHAT DID HE DO XPS FOR DONALD TRUMP'S 171 00:15:50,794 --> 00:15:54,487 ENDORSEMENT. THAT ROMNEY HELPED FAN THE 172 00:15:54,489 --> 00:15:58,898 FLAMES OF RESENTMENT. HOWEVER MORE INSIDIOUS TO RENDER 173 00:15:58,900 --> 00:16:05,585 HIM WAS WAGED BY THE COUNTERPART MITCH MCCONNELL AS WAS REPORTED 174 00:16:05,587 --> 00:16:11,378 IN "THE NEW YORK TIMES" ONLY SIX YEARS AGO AND HERE'S WHAT IT 175 00:16:11,380 --> 00:16:13,736 SAID. BEFORE THE HEALTH CARE FIGHT 176 00:16:13,738 --> 00:16:17,363 HEALTHCARE FIGHT AND THE ECONOMICS TO ME WAS PACKAGE 177 00:16:17,365 --> 00:16:22,427 BEFORE PRESIDENT OBAMA TOOK OFFICE, SENATOR MITCH MCCONNELL 178 00:16:22,429 --> 00:16:27,248 HAD A STRATEGY FOR THE PARTY PRETTY EXTENSIVE KNOWLEDGE TO 179 00:16:27,250 --> 00:16:30,949 SLOW THINGS DOWN AND TAKE ADVANTAGE DEMOCRATS WOULD HAVE 180 00:16:30,951 --> 00:16:36,786 BEEN GOVERNING ENTITY NIGHT AND HE REPUBLICAN SUPPORT, THE 181 00:16:36,788 --> 00:16:42,20 LEGISLATION. NO PRESIDENT IN HISTORY TASTE 182 00:16:42,22 --> 00:16:46,471 THE NUMBER OF FILIBUSTERS PRESIDENT OBAMA HAS BASED. 183 00:16:46,473 --> 00:16:49,731 TODAY SOME ARE WAGING MORE THAN 500 FILIBUSTERS DESPITE THE FACT 184 00:16:49,733 --> 00:16:56,878 MANY ARE AGAINST THINGS THEY THOUGHT WERE A GOOD IDEA. 185 00:16:56,880 --> 00:17:04,548 DURING THE FIRST SIX YEARS THAT LBJ SERVED AS THE MAJORITY 186 00:17:04,550 --> 00:17:14,278 LEADER BY SIX YEARS IN THE HUNDREDS IT GOT WORSE AFTER MY 187 00:17:14,280 --> 00:17:16,41 FIRST SIX YEARS IT IS BLIND OPPOSITION TO THE CONSENT THAT 188 00:17:16,43 --> 00:17:20,267 THIS PRESIDENT AND HIS IDEAS ARE ILLEGITIMATE. 189 00:17:20,269 --> 00:17:27,954 INDEED THE BLIND REJECTION OF ANY POLICY REGARDLESS OF THE 190 00:17:27,956 --> 00:17:34,848 MERIT. THE NO HOLDS BARRED POLITICS WAS 191 00:17:34,849 --> 00:17:39,908 IN THE REPUBLICAN CAUCUS AND NO PEOPLE HAVE THE DEBATE OVER THE 192 00:17:39,910 --> 00:17:43,704 SUPREME COURT. MOMENTS AFTER THE DEATH OF 193 00:17:43,706 --> 00:17:46,304 REPUBLICAN LEADER LEADERS DECIDED TO ABANDON THE 194 00:17:46,306 --> 00:17:51,336 CONSTITUTION AND BIPARTISANSHIP TO APPEASE THE RADICAL BASE. 195 00:17:51,338 --> 00:18:01,770 THAT NIGHT HE FOLLOWED IN THIS REPUBLICANS MUST DELAY. 196 00:18:01,772 --> 00:18:05,924 THEY DIDN'T KNOW WHO THE NOMINEE WOULD BE YET REPUBLICANS WERE 197 00:18:05,926 --> 00:18:15,565 UNDERMINED AGAIN. IF SENATOR MCCONNELL WONDERS 198 00:18:15,567 --> 00:18:25,170 WHERE DONALD TRUMP CAME HE SHOULD TAKE A LOOK IN THE 199 00:18:25,172 --> 00:18:28,793 MIRROR. NO ONE IS WORKING HARDER TO 200 00:18:28,795 --> 00:18:36,323 SUPPORT HIM MCCONNELL WHO SACRIFICED THE MAJORITY AND 201 00:18:36,325 --> 00:18:46,869 ALLOWED HIM TO PICK THE NOMINEE. THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS ANOTHER. 202 00:18:46,871 --> 00:18:45,425 THE OUTLETS LIKE FOX NEWS BEGAN EFFORTS THAT PRESIDENT OBAMA IS 203 00:18:45,427 --> 00:18:52,231 A SECRET MUSLIM. THEY WOULD STOKE THE FLAMES OF 204 00:18:52,233 --> 00:18:56,793 HATE TRADE. SOME WERE WORKING THE OBAMA 205 00:18:56,795 --> 00:19:01,68 ADMINISTRATION AND OTHERS SUGGESTED SHARIA LAW WAS TAKING 206 00:19:01,70 --> 00:19:06,323 OVER AMERICA AND ONCE WE AGAIN THEY DID NOTHING TO ADDRESS THE 207 00:19:06,325 --> 00:19:13,15 HATE COMING FROM THE PARTY. NOW BECAUSE OF THE REACTION THEY 208 00:19:13,16 --> 00:19:17,964 ARE LEAVING THE CANDIDACY OF STOPS ON THE HATE SPEECH AND 209 00:19:17,966 --> 00:19:23,459 WANTS TO BLOCK ALL IN THE COUNTRY. 210 00:19:23,461 --> 00:19:27,77 THE REPUBLICAN PARTY'S ANTI-IMMIGRANT UNDERBELLY IS THE 211 00:19:27,78 --> 00:20:02,110 MOST SALIENT EXAMPLE. THEY USE REPUGNANCE LANGUAGE. 212 00:20:02,112 --> 00:20:06,916 THE DEPORTATION AS JEB BUSH SPOKE AND MARCO RUBIO CALLED FOR 213 00:20:06,918 --> 00:20:11,978 DEPORTING ALL THE DREAMERS NOW THEY SAY NOTHING IS DONALD TRUMP 214 00:20:11,980 --> 00:20:17,219 SAYS THEY WANT TO WIND UP 11 MILLION WITH A MILITARISTIC 215 00:20:17,221 --> 00:20:30,244 MASSIVE DEPORTATION FORCE. THEY WALK OUTSIDE WITHOUT THEIR 216 00:20:30,245 --> 00:20:32,838 IMMIGRATION PAPERS. IN THIS HATRED THE LEADERS 217 00:20:32,840 --> 00:20:39,22 ADOPTED THESE POSITIONS AS PART OF THEIR PLATFORM. 218 00:20:39,24 --> 00:20:42,183 THE HATE WITH THE POLICY AND IN THE SENATE DEMOCRATS WERE WORK 219 00:20:42,185 --> 00:20:44,338 WITH A HANDFUL OF REPUBLICANS TO CRAFT A GOOD COMPREHENSIVE 220 00:20:44,340 --> 00:20:49,537 IMMIGRATION REFORM BILL BUT THEN WE WATCH AS THE SPEAKER 221 00:20:49,539 --> 00:20:52,465 CAPITULATED TO KEEP READY RADICALS AND REFUSED THE VOTE TO 222 00:20:52,467 --> 00:21:19,798 THIS DAY INSERT AFTER OVERWHELMINGLY. 223 00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:14,353 THEY CAME WITHIN MINUTES OF THAT. 224 00:21:14,354 --> 00:21:18,158 THE DONALD TRUMP WAS WATCHING HE SAW THE EXTREMISM COMES OWNED BY 225 00:21:18,160 --> 00:21:30,952 THE LEADERS OF TOO COWARDLY TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT SO WHEN HE 226 00:21:30,954 --> 00:21:38,456 GOES THAN RAPISTS AND MURDERS HE'S DOING WHAT HE LEARNED FROM 227 00:21:38,458 --> 00:21:44,95 GENERATIONS OF CONSERVATIVES. THE PARTY HAS BECOME WITHOUT 228 00:21:44,97 --> 00:21:51,848 QUESTION THE PARTY OF TRUMP. THE QUESTION NOW IS THIS WHAT DO 229 00:21:51,850 --> 00:21:53,544 THEY SAY THAT THE STATE OF THE PUBLIC POLICY DEBATE AND HOW 230 00:21:53,546 --> 00:21:58,627 SHOULD AMERICA RESPOND. THE ANSWER IS SIMPLE THEY HAVE 231 00:21:58,629 --> 00:22:04,839 THE SUPPORT OF DONALD TRUMP AND DO IT NOW. 232 00:22:04,841 --> 00:22:06,442 FOR FOR TOO LONG THEY WILL SPEAK THE LANGUAGE OF TRYING TO HAVE 233 00:22:06,444 --> 00:22:25,913 IT BOTH WAYS. AFTER YEARS THEY ARE NOT 234 00:22:25,915 --> 00:22:29,681 SPLITTING THE MOST PROMINENT IN THE NATION'S. 235 00:22:29,683 --> 00:22:42,632 HE IS INSULTED VETERANS, IMMIGRANTS WITH DISABILITIES. 236 00:22:42,634 --> 00:22:50,151 AMERICANS ARE BEING ASSAULTED AS RACIAL SLURS IN THE RALLIES. 237 00:22:50,152 --> 00:22:55,623 THERE IS NO GREAT AREA HERE IT IS TIME FOR SOME TO FIND THE 238 00:22:55,625 --> 00:23:08,98 BACKGROUND TO SAY ENOUGH. IF THEY THINK DONALD CHUMP IS 239 00:23:08,100 --> 00:23:09,364 RACIST, THEY SHOULDN'T SUPPORT HIM, PERIOD. 240 00:23:09,365 --> 00:23:14,796 IF THEY REFUSE TO SUPPORT THEY SHOULD PUT SHOULD'VE PUT ON MAKE 241 00:23:14,798 --> 00:23:21,93 AMERICA GREAT AGAIN HAS IN STAND BY HIM AT HIS NEXT PRESS 242 00:23:21,95 --> 00:23:26,805 CONFERENCE. THE NATION CANNOT RELY ON 243 00:23:26,807 --> 00:23:34,491 CONSERVATIVES. WE SHOULD DOUBLE DOWN ON OUR 244 00:23:34,493 --> 00:23:40,87 IDEAS TO RECTIFY THE DAMAGE THAT THE DONALD TRUMP IS DOING WE 245 00:23:40,89 --> 00:23:41,688 MUST CHALLENGE HIM BOLDLY WITH THE STRENGTH OF THE IDEAS THAT 246 00:23:41,690 --> 00:23:44,323 WE SHOULD DO IT NOW AND WE SHOULD CONTINUE TO BE THE AGENTS 247 00:23:44,325 --> 00:23:50,103 OF CHANGE. WE SHOULD REMEMBER THE LIE IS 248 00:23:50,105 --> 00:23:56,364 TRUST THAT AND THE TRUTH IS THAT SOLUTIONS HELP ALL OF THOSE HIT 249 00:23:56,366 --> 00:24:00,980 HARDEST IN THE DISLOCATION CAUSED BY THE GREAT RECESSION 250 00:24:00,982 --> 00:24:03,941 REQUIRING THEM TO OFFER PAID SICK LEAVE WILL HELP MILLIONS OF 251 00:24:03,943 --> 00:24:08,623 FAMILIES MAKE THE BUSINESSES STRONGER AND MAKING COLLEGE MORE 252 00:24:08,625 --> 00:24:15,431 AFFORDABLE. RAISING THE MINIMUM WAGE TO $15 253 00:24:15,433 --> 00:24:18,543 AN HOUR WILL PUT MORE IN THE POCKETS OF WORKERS AND TO 254 00:24:18,545 --> 00:24:22,291 STIMULATE THE ECONOMY. FIXING THE NATION'S ROADS AND 255 00:24:22,293 --> 00:24:31,731 BRIDGES WILL CREATE JOBS. THEY WERE CREATED IN OTHER JOBS 256 00:24:31,733 --> 00:24:33,472 WERE SPENT OFF FROM THAT. ENSURING THAT THE WOMEN ARE 257 00:24:33,474 --> 00:24:35,528 BEING FAIRLY COMPENSATED IN THE WORKPLACE AND RECEIVING EQUAL 258 00:24:35,530 --> 00:24:40,675 PAY FOR THE WORK THAT MEN DO. IF THEY DO THE WORK THEY SHOULD 259 00:24:40,677 --> 00:24:45,60 GET PAID THE SAME WE SHOULD RESTORE THE FAITH IN THE 260 00:24:45,62 --> 00:24:49,263 DEMOCRATIC PROCESS. WE CAN DO THAT BY FIGHTING FOR 261 00:24:49,265 --> 00:24:50,824 THE SUPREME SUPREME COURT TO OVERTURN CITIZENS UNITED AND GET 262 00:24:50,826 --> 00:25:06,826 THAT MONEY OUT OF THE POLITICAL SYSTEM YOU THIS IS WHAT THE 263 00:25:06,828 --> 00:25:09,618 DEMOCRATS DID WITH THE NUCLEAR OPTION AND WHEN WE BROKE THE 264 00:25:09,620 --> 00:25:13,479 MOLD JIM OF HISTORIC PROPORTIONS AND ENABLED THE TRADITIONAL 265 00:25:13,481 --> 00:25:17,106 NOMINEES AND THE EMERGENCIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY THEY WANTED 266 00:25:17,108 --> 00:25:26,825 TO GET RID OF THEM BECAUSE OF CHANGING THE RULE AND THE 267 00:25:26,827 --> 00:25:36,402 PRINCIPLE WOULD BE RESPONDING TO THE DEPARTING AMERICANS. 268 00:25:36,404 --> 00:25:34,952 WE WOULD INSPIRE A NEW GENERATION TO GET INVOLVED IN 269 00:25:34,954 --> 00:25:40,394 PUBLIC SERVICE. WE CAN ONLY AFFECT THEM TO SHOW 270 00:25:40,396 --> 00:25:44,296 NEW IDEAS DELIVERY NEW RESULTS TO NEW PEOPLE. 271 00:25:44,298 --> 00:25:49,980 MOST OF ALL WE SHOULD RESIST THE URGE TO WATER DOWN THE WATERWAY 272 00:25:49,982 --> 00:25:52,33 FOREIGN-POLICY. WE SHOULD RESIST THE URGE TO 273 00:25:52,35 --> 00:25:56,419 MOVE TO THE RIGHT. A FEW MONTHS AGO I MET WITH THE 274 00:25:56,421 --> 00:26:22,604 NEW GOVERNOR OF LOUISIANA. I SAID YES. 275 00:26:22,606 --> 00:26:28,84 HE ADDED IF YOU ARE A PROGRESSIVE AND THEN PEOPLE JUST 276 00:26:28,86 --> 00:26:33,507 THINK YOU ARE A LIBERAL THEY THINK YOU ARE A LIAR. 277 00:26:33,509 --> 00:26:37,140 SO LET'S BE PROUD OF WHO WE ARE AND LET'S NOT BE SHY ABOUT WHAT 278 00:26:37,142 --> 00:26:41,781 THEY CAN ACCOMPLISH. THEY ARE IN THE LAST SEVEN YEARS 279 00:26:41,783 --> 00:26:54,691 CREATED 14 MILLION JOBS IN THE DROP DOWN TO LESS THAN 5%. 280 00:26:54,693 --> 00:27:02,670 DONALD TRUMP SAYS HE WANTS TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN THEY 281 00:27:02,672 --> 00:27:08,156 OBTAIN CIVIL RIGHTS OR BEFORE THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TO VOTE WERE 282 00:27:08,158 --> 00:27:13,985 BEFORE THE CHILD LABOR LAWS MAY BE AT ONCE TO GO BACK BEFORE THE 283 00:27:13,987 --> 00:27:17,328 TIME OF MEDICARE OR SOCIAL SECURITY OR THE LABOUR RELATIONS 284 00:27:17,329 --> 00:27:25,320 ACT OR THE CLEAN AIR ACT. UNLIKE DONALD TRUMP WE KNOW WHAT 285 00:27:25,322 --> 00:27:22,250 NEEDS TO BE DONE TO MAKE IT EVEN GREATER AND FINALLY THE ANGER 286 00:27:22,252 --> 00:27:47,134 WITH THE IDEAS WOULD MOVE THE POWER IDEAS FOR TRUMP. 287 00:27:47,136 --> 00:27:53,646 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THOSE REMARKS ON THE WHOLE RANGE OF 288 00:27:53,648 --> 00:28:02,927 TOPICS. THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE AT THE 289 00:28:02,929 --> 00:28:07,742 ACTION. I WANTED TO ASK YOU ONE 290 00:28:07,744 --> 00:28:11,937 PARTICULAR QUESTION ABOUT THE SUPREME COURT NOMINATION 291 00:28:11,939 --> 00:28:17,822 PROCESS. THE MAJORITY LEADER SAID 292 00:28:17,824 --> 00:28:24,653 YESTERDAY OR THIS MORNING HE WANTS TO LET THE PUBLIC DECIDE 293 00:28:24,655 --> 00:28:29,854 ABOUT THE CONFIRMATION OF THE JUSTICE. 294 00:28:29,856 --> 00:28:35,217 WHAT IS YOUR RESPONSE TO THIS? HERE'S WHAT HE SAID 295 00:28:35,219 --> 00:28:39,255 YESTERDAY, THIS IS A QUOTE THAT IT'S ALL ABOUT. 296 00:28:39,257 --> 00:28:45,220 THE REPORTER SAID IF YOUR GOAL IS TO ALLOW TO HAVE INPUT INTO 297 00:28:45,222 --> 00:28:49,313 THIS PAPER TO NOMINATION WHY NOT HOLD HEARINGS TO HIGHLIGHT THESE 298 00:28:49,315 --> 00:28:56,681 ISSUES AND HERE IS WHAT HE SAID THE GOAL IS TO LET THE AMERICAN 299 00:28:56,683 --> 00:29:02,560 PEOPLE PICK THE NEXT PRESIDENT TO MAKE THE DECISIONS OF THAT IS 300 00:29:02,562 --> 00:29:13,280 WHAT THAT IS WHAT THIS IS ALL ABOUT FOR THEM. 301 00:29:13,282 --> 00:29:15,424 IT'S OBVIOUS THAT WE HAVE DONE THIS WE PICKED THE SUPREME COURT 302 00:29:15,426 --> 00:29:29,4 JUSTICES IN THE LAME-DUCK SESSION IN THE PRESIDENCY. 303 00:29:29,6 --> 00:29:30,492 IT IS UNFAIR TO THE COUNTRY AND TO THE LITIGANTS TO GET THE 304 00:29:30,494 --> 00:29:38,513 SUPREME COURT. NOW THEY WILL HAVE TO WAIT 305 00:29:38,515 --> 00:29:47,284 ANOTHER FEW DECADES. WE DID A REPORT THIS WEEK 306 00:29:47,286 --> 00:29:50,225 THAT SHOWS LITERALLY TENS OF MILLIONS WITH THE EFFECT THAT BY 307 00:29:50,227 --> 00:29:54,761 THE COURT BEING STUCK FOR SO LONG FROM IMMIGRATION CASES TO 308 00:29:54,763 --> 00:29:59,4 WOMEN'S HEALTH CASES AND VOTING RIGHTS CASES NOT JUST A HANDFUL 309 00:29:59,5 --> 00:30:03,342 OF PEOPLE THAT HAVE AN IMPACT ON EVERYONE. 310 00:30:03,344 --> 00:30:07,638 JUST TO FOLLOW-UP FOLLOW UP ON THAT, WHERE DO YOU SEE THE 311 00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:09,487 DEBATE GOING ON THE SUPREME COURT? 312 00:30:09,489 --> 00:30:13,726 WE HEARD SOME REPUBLICAN SENATORS WILL ACTUALLY MEET WITH 313 00:30:13,728 --> 00:30:15,764 THE NOMINEES. IS THAT THE A BREAKTHROUGH BUT 314 00:30:15,766 --> 00:30:22,958 NEVERTHELESS IT IS? HELL DO YOU SEE THIS PLAYING 315 00:30:22,959 --> 00:30:27,517 OUT, AND TO FOLLOW UP IN YOUR REMARKS, YOU SAID MCCONNELL WAS 316 00:30:27,519 --> 00:30:34,591 THREATENING HIS MAJORITY IN ORDER TO TAKE THIS INTRANSIGENT 317 00:30:34,593 --> 00:30:36,803 POSITION. WHY DO YOU THINK THAT HE IS 318 00:30:36,805 --> 00:30:39,710 DOING WHAT HE IS DOING? I THINK THAT THEY ARE DOING 319 00:30:39,712 --> 00:30:47,977 THIS TO SATISFY THE VERY LOUD AND RICH RIGHT-WING PEOPLE. 320 00:30:47,979 --> 00:30:49,813 I THINK THAT'S WHAT THEY WANT TO DO. 321 00:30:49,815 --> 00:30:55,159 THIS IS A BIG ISSUE WITH THEM AND I THINK THAT TIM WILL ONLY 322 00:30:55,161 --> 00:30:59,689 TELL THAT BUT I CAN'T IMAGINE HOW THIS IS GOING TO HELP THE 323 00:30:59,691 --> 00:31:05,752 REPUBLICANS RUNNING FOR THE SENATE TO HAVE A STRAIGHT FACE 324 00:31:05,754 --> 00:31:09,473 TO SAY WE WERE GOING TO MEET WITH THIS PERSON, WE ARE NOT 325 00:31:09,475 --> 00:31:12,848 GOING TO HOLD HEARINGS OR HAVE A VOTE. 326 00:31:12,850 --> 00:31:16,9 IT'S HARD FOR ME. WHO CAME UP WITH THIS AND THEY 327 00:31:16,11 --> 00:31:25,927 DID IT QUICKLY. SCALIA HAD JUST DIED WITHIN 328 00:31:25,929 --> 00:31:31,587 HOURS. WHAT IMPACT DO YOU SEE TO 329 00:31:31,589 --> 00:31:41,600 HAVE ON THE SENATE FINANCE COMMITTEE? 330 00:31:41,602 --> 00:31:47,216 WHILE, MY STAFF TOLD ME NOT TO SAY THIS BUT I CAN'T RESIST. 331 00:31:47,218 --> 00:31:51,292 [LAUGHTER] I'VE BEEN THERE. 332 00:31:51,294 --> 00:31:58,943 [LAUGHTER] HE MAY BE RIGHT ABOUT THIS 333 00:31:58,945 --> 00:32:03,62 BECAUSE THEY WILL BUILD ONE TO KEEP US FROM GOING INTO MEXICO. 334 00:32:03,64 --> 00:32:08,14 THEY WILL BE HAPPY TO DO THAT. DO YOU SEE HIM HAVING A 335 00:32:08,16 --> 00:32:13,260 PARTICULAR IMPACT IN THE SENATE RACES? 336 00:32:13,261 --> 00:32:21,924 I DON'T KNOW HOW SOME OF THESE PEOPLE ARE RUNNING WHILE 337 00:32:21,926 --> 00:32:29,189 PORTMAN COME I DON'T GET HOW THEY COULD RUN AND SAY WHY ARE 338 00:32:29,191 --> 00:32:26,794 WE SUPPORTING HIM FOR PRESIDENT HE CAN'T PRESIDENT HE CAN'T RUN 339 00:32:26,796 --> 00:32:33,498 AWAY FROM IT, HE'S THE NOMINEE. I DON'T KNOW IF THEY GET MUCH 340 00:32:33,500 --> 00:32:37,802 BETTER. I WANT TO ASK YOU ABOUT THAT. 341 00:32:37,804 --> 00:32:43,842 YOUR REMARKS FOCUSED ON DONALD TRUMP BUT WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS 342 00:32:43,843 --> 00:33:08,799 ON TED CRUZ? AS I HAVE BEEN IN PUBLIC 343 00:33:08,801 --> 00:33:11,160 SERVICE, I DISAGREED WITH HIM ON EVERYTHING POLITICALLY BUT I 344 00:33:11,162 --> 00:33:22,114 ALWAYS APPRECIATED HE TOLD EVERYBODY HOW HE FELT. 345 00:33:22,116 --> 00:33:24,146 THERE WAS NO SURPRISE. HE WROTE A BOOK AND TALKED ABOUT 346 00:33:24,148 --> 00:33:29,183 WHAT HE WANTED TO BE AND I HAVE TO SAY THIS ABOUT HIM HE AT 347 00:33:29,185 --> 00:33:33,579 LEAST HAS SOME PRINCIPLES. I DON'T LIKE WHAT HE STANDS FOR 348 00:33:33,581 --> 00:33:40,264 THE P. STANDS FOR SOMETHING VERY LITTLE OF WHICH I AGREE WITH 349 00:33:40,266 --> 00:33:43,489 ABOUT A GUY AND NOT AS TURNED OFF BY HIM. 350 00:33:43,490 --> 00:33:49,95 DONALD TRUMP STANDS FOR NOTHING AND THAT'S WHY IT'S SO UPSET FOR 351 00:33:49,97 --> 00:33:53,852 MARCO RUBIO, HE DIDN'T STAND FOR ANYTHING. 352 00:33:53,854 --> 00:33:58,77 I THINK THAT YOU REALLY LAY OUT THE LEVEL OF DISTRACTION AND 353 00:33:58,79 --> 00:34:03,595 THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE INSTRUCTION AND THE RISE OF 354 00:34:03,597 --> 00:34:08,996 DONALD TRUMP. DO YOU EXPECT OR HEAR OF ANY 355 00:34:08,998 --> 00:34:12,20 REPUBLICANS EVALUATING THE STANCE THAT THEY'VE TAKEN AND IS 356 00:34:12,22 --> 00:34:19,111 THERE A CHANCE THAT THIS PAST NOVEMBER DEMOCRATS WIN THE WHITE 357 00:34:19,113 --> 00:34:25,37 HOUSE AND TAKE THE SENATE WE COULD SEE SOME REEVALUATION? 358 00:34:25,39 --> 00:34:29,6 I'VE SEEN PEOPLE WRITING BOOKS ABOUT WHO HAD BEEN MEMBERS 359 00:34:29,8 --> 00:34:32,673 OF THE SENATE AND LEADERSHIP AND THINGS THAT COULD BE DONE TO 360 00:34:32,675 --> 00:34:37,453 CORRECT THE SENATE. I HAD A NICE CONVERSATION WITH 361 00:34:37,455 --> 00:34:44,762 TOM DASCHLE THIS WEEK. HE HAS NO IDEA WHAT HAPPENED 362 00:34:44,764 --> 00:34:47,896 SINCE HE LEFT. HE HAS NO IDEA. 363 00:34:47,898 --> 00:34:52,875 THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE I SAID AND IT'S TRUE A FILIBUSTER OF MOST 364 00:34:52,877 --> 00:34:54,786 TO PROCEED THE THINGS THEY WANTED TO GET IT DONE TO STALL 365 00:34:54,788 --> 00:34:59,186 FOR TIME AND EACH FILIBUSTER TAKES A LONG TIME. 366 00:34:59,188 --> 00:35:02,847 YOU HAVE TO FILE IT FOR TWO DAYS AND THEN HAVE A VOTE AND THEN 367 00:35:02,849 --> 00:35:08,250 HAVE A VOTE FOR THREE HOURS WASTED THEN YOU ARE ONLY ON THE 368 00:35:08,252 --> 00:35:10,516 LEGISLATION AND TO GET GET OFF OF IT YOU OF THAT UNITY CLOTURE 369 00:35:10,518 --> 00:35:13,85 AGAIN FOR TWO MORE DAYS AND DEVOTE. 370 00:35:13,87 --> 00:35:21,147 IT'S UNBELIEVABLE THE TIME THAT WE HAVE WASTED SO PEOPLE DO NOT 371 00:35:21,149 --> 00:35:28,186 UNDERSTAND THE ENDS TO WHICH THEY'VE GONE TO STOP OBAMA SPEAK 372 00:35:28,188 --> 00:35:29,243 TO I APPRECIATE THAT YOU CAN'T 373 00:35:29,245 --> 00:35:37,76 SAY THESE THINGS PUBLICLY BUT IF YOU HAVE A CANDIDACY THAT IS 374 00:35:37,78 --> 00:35:45,978 VERY INEFFECTIVE, DO YOU THINK WE COULD HAVE THE HOPE WE COULD 375 00:35:45,980 --> 00:35:49,870 RETURN TO A PERIOD EVEN 15 YEARS AGO WHERE WERE TEN YEARS AGO, 376 00:35:49,872 --> 00:35:57,858 NINE YEARS AT A THERE WERE FILIBUSTERS OCCASIONALLY BUT NOT 377 00:35:57,860 --> 00:36:00,776 THOSE THAT WE ARE DEALING WITH NOW. 378 00:36:00,778 --> 00:36:04,107 I WOULD LOOK BACK WITH NOSTALGIA HAVING WORKED WITH 379 00:36:04,109 --> 00:36:07,308 TRENT LOTT HE WAS EXTREMELY CONSERVATIVE BUT PRAGMATIC. 380 00:36:07,310 --> 00:36:13,664 HE KNEW THINGS HAD TO HAPPEN FOR THE COUNTRY. 381 00:36:13,666 --> 00:36:14,469 BILL FRIST WAS THE ONLY PRESIDENT I KNOW THAT WAS CHOSEN 382 00:36:14,471 --> 00:36:19,900 BY THE PRESIDENT RATHER THAN FOR THE CAUCUS BUT HE WAS A SUPER 383 00:36:19,902 --> 00:36:23,387 NICE GUY THAT WANTED TO DO THINGS FOR THE COUNTRY. 384 00:36:23,389 --> 00:36:27,977 I LAMENT NOT HAVING PEOPLE TO WORK WITH IN THAT REGARD. 385 00:36:27,979 --> 00:36:39,840 I DON'T DISLIKE MITCH MCCONNELL. I'M JUST TERRIBLY AWARE AS I 386 00:36:39,842 --> 00:36:43,25 TRIED TO OUTLINE IN THESE REMARKS WHAT HE HAS BEEN A PART 387 00:36:43,27 --> 00:36:50,680 OF TO ALLOW PEOPLE LIKE DONALD TRUMP TO BE AROUND AND BECAUSE 388 00:36:50,682 --> 00:37:00,448 OF WHAT THEY'VE DONE, THERE'S TREMENDOUS CONCERN BY THE 389 00:37:00,450 --> 00:37:04,473 AMERICAN PEOPLE. THEY THINK THE SYSTEM IS BROKEN. 390 00:37:04,475 --> 00:37:11,419 SO, I HAVE HOPE THAT THE NEXT CONGRESS CAN BE BETTER THAT IT 391 00:37:11,421 --> 00:37:16,519 WILL ONLY COME ABOUT IF THERE'S A RETURN TO COLLEGIALITY AND AS 392 00:37:16,520 --> 00:37:24,560 WE SEE IN THE HOUSE SO WE CAN GET THINGS DONE. 393 00:37:24,562 --> 00:37:27,25 RIGHT NOW THERE'S THE PATH OF GETTING NOTHING DONE AND I CAN'T 394 00:37:27,27 --> 00:37:31,19 CONTINUE THAT. IT'S GOING TO CHANGE REMARKABLY. 395 00:37:31,20 --> 00:37:33,556 DO YOU THINK THERE IS A PLACE FOR THE MODERATES IN THE 396 00:37:33,558 --> 00:37:43,448 REPUBLICAN PARTY TODAY? WELL, DAVE PRIMARY -- THEM. 397 00:37:43,450 --> 00:37:55,709 BUT THE MODERATES WE DID PLENTY YESTERDAY FOR THE BIRTHDAY AND 398 00:37:55,711 --> 00:37:57,352 HE HAD BEEN IN THE HOUSE FOR A LONG TIME AND SAID I'M GOING TO 399 00:37:57,354 --> 00:38:01,541 START A HISPANIC CAUCUS AND HE SAID TO YOU TO BE TRUE TO HIM 400 00:38:01,543 --> 00:38:07,264 ARE YOU GOING TO MEET IN A PHONE BOOTH AND THAT'S WHAT I SAY THAT 401 00:38:07,266 --> 00:38:10,484 THE MODERATES IN THE SENATE ARE THEY GOING TO NEED A PHONE BOOTH 402 00:38:10,486 --> 00:38:14,481 CLICKS IT BETTER BE SMALL BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE MANY 403 00:38:14,483 --> 00:38:16,723 RIGHT NOW. THE REASON WE WERE ABLE TO GET A 404 00:38:16,725 --> 00:38:21,256 FEW THINGS DONE WITH ALL THEIR OBSTRUCTION IN THE FIRST 405 00:38:21,258 --> 00:38:26,562 CONGRESS I WOULD SEE A FEW THINGS WE GOT A LOT DONE. 406 00:38:26,564 --> 00:38:31,872 IN THE FIRST CONGRESS MOST OF THEM IT WAS THE BEST EVER. 407 00:38:31,874 --> 00:38:32,728 AND WE GET PEOPLE TO HAVE PEOPLE TO WORK WITH. 408 00:38:32,729 --> 00:38:37,397 WE HAD SUSAN COLLINS, OLYMPIA SNOWE AND ARLEN SPECTER. 409 00:38:37,399 --> 00:38:43,224 THOSE WERE THE THREE SUSPECTS WE USED MOST OFTEN BECAUSE THE 57, 410 00:38:43,226 --> 00:38:44,142 58, 59. BUT KENNEDY WAS SICK AS WE 411 00:38:44,144 --> 00:38:50,341 LEARNED LATER SO THAT'S HOW WE WOULD GET THINGS DONE. 412 00:38:50,343 --> 00:38:56,548 RIGHT NOW YOU HAVE SUSAN COLLINS. 413 00:38:56,550 --> 00:38:58,683 WE HAVE TIME FOR QUESTIONS IF YOU COULD PLEASE IDENTIFY 414 00:38:58,685 --> 00:39:09,291 YOURSELF AND PEOPLE GIVE YOU THE MICROPHONE. 415 00:39:09,292 --> 00:39:17,101 I'VE BEEN HERE A FEW TIMES AND I KNOW YOU WILL DO WHATEVER 416 00:39:17,103 --> 00:39:21,823 YOU WANT. [LAUGHTER] 417 00:39:21,825 --> 00:39:27,787 SPINET IN 2013 YOU BROKE THE LOGJAM FOR THE APPELLATE COURTS 418 00:39:27,789 --> 00:39:33,311 BUT YOU DIDN'T TRIGGER THE FILIBUSTER FOR THE NOMINEE. 419 00:39:33,313 --> 00:39:36,613 DO YOU REGRET NOT DOING THAT AND GOING FORWARD SEEING THERE IS A 420 00:39:36,615 --> 00:39:41,843 NEW PRECEDENT BEING SET IT LOOKS LIKE THERE WILL BE A HIGH BAR. 421 00:39:41,845 --> 00:39:46,960 DO YOU THINK THAT THE CHANGE OF RULE SHOULD BE CONSIDERED FOR 422 00:39:46,962 --> 00:39:50,312 THE SUPREME COURT NOMINEE? I DID THAT ON PURPOSE. 423 00:39:50,314 --> 00:39:58,798 I LOOK BACK ON MY EXPERIENCE. FOR EXAMPLE, CLARENCE THOMAS. 424 00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:05,683 IF YOU LOOK BACK, HE HAD A LOT OF SUPPORT FOR HIM. 425 00:40:05,685 --> 00:40:14,76 AND I DECIDED -- I WILL BE AS QUICK AS I CAN, I CALLED HOME TO 426 00:40:14,78 --> 00:40:17,930 SEE HOW THE KIDS WERE DOING IT TALK TO MY WIFE AT FIVE OR 6:00 427 00:40:17,932 --> 00:40:23,333 IN THE EVENING AND I HAD TO GO VOTE FOR SOMEBODY I DIDN'T WANT 428 00:40:23,334 --> 00:40:23,336 TO VOTE FOR SHE SAID THEN WHY ARE YOU GOING TO VOTE FOR THEM 429 00:40:23,338 --> 00:40:29,397 AND I THOUGHT TO MYSELF SHE'S RIGHT BY SHOULD I VOTE FOR 430 00:40:29,399 --> 00:40:33,444 CLARENCE THOMAS, THERE'S A COUNTERPART FROM NEVADA AND I 431 00:40:33,446 --> 00:40:32,177 SAID I'M NOT ACQUAINTED WITH FOR THOMAS. 432 00:40:32,179 --> 00:40:32,999 HE SAID COME ON OVER AND WE WILL TALK. 433 00:40:33,1 --> 00:40:39,507 SO I DIDN'T VOTE FOR HIM. THOMAS GOT 52 VOTES. 434 00:40:39,509 --> 00:40:48,437 THERE WASN'T A SUGGESTION OR WHISPER IN CONGRESS THAT HE 435 00:40:48,438 --> 00:40:59,508 WOULD VOTE AGAINST HIM. NOW REMEMBER, IF YOU LOOK AT THE 436 00:40:59,510 --> 00:41:01,499 PEOPLE WHO COME TO HIM AS AN EXAMPLE, DIDN'T GET A MAJORITY 437 00:41:01,501 --> 00:41:08,791 OF THE VOTES IN THE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE. 438 00:41:08,793 --> 00:41:13,487 HE DIDN'T GET TO VOTE IN THE COMMITTEE SO I SAVED THE SUPER 439 00:41:13,489 --> 00:41:21,898 MAJORITY SUPREME COURT ON PURPOSE TO RETURN TO THOSE DAYS 440 00:41:21,900 --> 00:41:25,506 WHERE WE DO WHAT'S THE RIGHT THING. 441 00:41:25,508 --> 00:41:30,606 TO BE A BETTER COUNTRY TO ANSWER IF WE FILIBUSTERED THOMAS BUT 442 00:41:30,608 --> 00:41:41,926 THE DECISION WAS MADE NOT TO AND THE TIME WAS RIGHT. 443 00:41:41,928 --> 00:41:45,183 YOU SAID REPEATEDLY THINK SENATOR MCCONNELL IS GOING TO 444 00:41:45,185 --> 00:41:49,759 CAVE ON THE SECOND PART. SEVERAL SENATORS YESTERDAY 445 00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:55,345 INCLUDING SENATOR HATCH SAID THAT THEY WOULD BE OPEN TO 446 00:41:55,347 --> 00:41:57,120 CONSIDERING THE NOMINATION AFTER THE ELECTION IN THE EVENT A 447 00:41:57,122 --> 00:42:01,235 DEMOCRAT WOULD WIN. DO YOU THINK THAT IS THE MOST 448 00:42:01,237 --> 00:42:07,547 LIKELY OPTION FOR THIS? YOU CAN DESCRIBE IT IN ANY 449 00:42:07,549 --> 00:42:15,787 WAY THAT WE FEEL APPROPRIATE. HERE'S HOW I FEEL ABOUT IT. 450 00:42:15,789 --> 00:42:18,393 IT'S ALREADY STARTED AND THIS MAY NOT SOUND LIKE A GREAT 451 00:42:18,395 --> 00:42:22,253 BREAKTHROUGH BUT WE HAVE A SIGNIFICANT NUMBER THAT THEY ALL 452 00:42:22,255 --> 00:42:26,930 MEET WITH. MAYBE THEY WILL BE BROWBEATEN BY 453 00:42:26,932 --> 00:42:32,516 THE LEADERSHIP OF THE SENATE AND BACK OFF BUT YOU CAN IMAGINE IT 454 00:42:32,518 --> 00:42:36,635 IS A BREAKTHROUGH THAT THEY WILL SIT DOWN AND TALK BUT THAT IS A 455 00:42:36,636 --> 00:42:42,12 BREAKTHROUGH. NOW I DON'T THINK WE SHOULD CUT 456 00:42:42,14 --> 00:42:44,849 ANY SLACK TO ANYBODY'S SAYING LET'S WAIT. 457 00:42:44,851 --> 00:42:47,204 I DON'T AGREE. I THINK WE SHOULD DO IT NOW. 458 00:42:47,206 --> 00:42:54,258 IT IS UNFAIR TO HAVE THIS THE SPAM TREATED DIFFERENTLY THAN 459 00:42:54,260 --> 00:42:56,745 ANYBODY ELSE. LET'S HAVE HIM COME TO THE 460 00:42:56,747 --> 00:43:00,615 SENATE FLOOR AND HAVE A DEBATE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE CAN WATCH ON 461 00:43:00,617 --> 00:43:07,324 THE COMMITTEE AND ON THE FLOOR. [INAUDIBLE] 462 00:43:07,326 --> 00:43:09,171 OF COURSE IT IS POSSIBLE. THAT'S WHY IT IS A GOOD 463 00:43:09,173 --> 00:43:29,361 PRECEDENT THAT WE RUN FOR THE SUPREME COURT NOMINEE. 464 00:43:29,363 --> 00:43:39,224 EVERYBODY KEEPS TALKING ABOUT THE -- EVERYBODY TALKS ABOUT THE 465 00:43:39,226 --> 00:43:48,987 COURT SEAT BEING VACATED FOR A YEAR. 466 00:43:48,989 --> 00:43:56,153 ACTUALLY MORE THAN THAT. THE REALITY IS THAT WOULD MEAN 467 00:43:56,155 --> 00:43:58,615 THAT THE NEW PRESIDENT WOULD BE COMING IN WHO WOULD HAVE 468 00:43:58,617 --> 00:44:03,572 HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS OF CABINET APPOINTMENTS AND SUBCABINET 469 00:44:03,574 --> 00:44:08,533 APPOINTMENTS TO MAKE AND EVERY TIME THE NEW PRESIDENT COMES IN 470 00:44:08,535 --> 00:44:12,170 THERE IS A NEW BACKLOG OF THESE APPOINTMENTS. 471 00:44:12,172 --> 00:44:14,97 IF YOU ADD A SUPREME HAVE A SUPREME COURT NOMINEE ON TOP OF 472 00:44:14,99 --> 00:44:20,0 ALL OF THAT, IT COULD GO A YEAR AND A HALF OR TWO YEARS AND 473 00:44:20,2 --> 00:44:26,755 BLOCK THE NOMINATIONS OF OTHER CABINET. 474 00:44:26,757 --> 00:44:28,93 YOUR EXPERIENCE WORKING IN THE FEDERAL BEER WALKER C. IS 475 00:44:28,95 --> 00:44:36,144 VERY IMPORTANT TO THIS ISSUE WE HAVE BEFORE US. 476 00:44:36,145 --> 00:44:40,52 WE HAVE HAD SCORES AND SCORES OF NOMINATIONS THAT HAVE BEEN HELD 477 00:44:40,54 --> 00:44:49,603 UP. IT'S REALLY HARD TO COMPREHEND. 478 00:44:49,605 --> 00:44:53,640 AMBASSADORS EVEN HELD UP BY SERVICE OFFICERS, THE MOST 479 00:44:53,642 --> 00:45:01,40 NONPOLITICAL PEOPLE IN THE WORLD AND ALL WE HAD TO DO UNDER THE 480 00:45:01,41 --> 00:45:07,270 STATUTE IS PASS AN APPROVED A PAY RAISE. 481 00:45:07,272 --> 00:45:07,318 THESE ARE PEOPLE THAT WORK IN SOME OF THE MOST REMOTE AND 482 00:45:07,320 --> 00:45:12,530 DIFFICULT PLACES IN THE WORLD AND THEY'VE HELD UP PAST THEIR 483 00:45:12,531 --> 00:45:18,436 PAY RAISE. SO HE'S HE IS ABSOLUTELY RIGHT. 484 00:45:18,438 --> 00:45:27,674 WE ALREADY HAVE SO MANY PEOPLE THAT SHOULD BE WORKING IN THE 485 00:45:27,676 --> 00:45:31,581 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT THAT AREN'T. A LOT OF THEM GO BACK TO THEIR 486 00:45:31,583 --> 00:45:39,472 REGULAR JOBS, SO YOUR POINT IS VERY WELL TAKEN. 487 00:45:39,474 --> 00:45:43,384 MY NAME IS JEFF AND I'M WITH IB CAPITAL. 488 00:45:43,386 --> 00:45:50,890 I COULDN'T HEAR THAT. IB CAPITAL. 489 00:45:50,892 --> 00:45:54,507 LAST WEEK THERE WAS A PRESS CONFERENCE WITH THE PRE- 490 00:45:54,509 --> 00:46:00,844 MINISTERS OF CANADA AND PRESIDENT OBAMA AT THIS POINT 491 00:46:00,846 --> 00:46:08,315 WAS TALKING ABOUT NEGOTIATIONS AND SAID AT TIMES YOU ONLY GET 492 00:46:08,317 --> 00:46:13,981 ABOUT 60% OF WHAT YOU LIKE AND IF YOU GET 60% OF WHAT YOU LIKE 493 00:46:13,983 --> 00:46:17,457 YOU SORT OF HOLD YOUR NOSE BUT THE OTHER PARTY HOLDS THEIRS AS 494 00:46:17,459 --> 00:46:21,86 WELL THAT YOU GET A NEGOTIATION OUT OF IT SO I AM KIND OF 495 00:46:21,88 --> 00:46:26,734 CURIOUS RATHER THAN CREATING THIS ADVERSARIAL APPROACH IF YOU 496 00:46:26,736 --> 00:46:34,147 COULD SOMEHOW TAKE A STEP, BE MAGNANIMOUS, TAKE THAT ACROSS 497 00:46:34,149 --> 00:46:42,120 THE RUBICON IN SOME RESPECTS BY HAVING AN ISSUE THAT LET'S SAY 498 00:46:42,122 --> 00:46:45,78 ABOUT THE LEADER THAT HE SPECIFICALLY WANTS AND NEGOTIATE 499 00:46:45,80 --> 00:46:49,388 WITH RESPECT TO THAT PARTICULAR ISSUES SUCH AS STANDING BACK 500 00:46:49,390 --> 00:46:55,516 FROM GUANTÁNAMO BAY FOR INSTANT, GIVEN A PARTICULAR ISSUE TO HIM 501 00:46:55,518 --> 00:47:00,279 WITH RESPECT TO THE AGREEMENT THE SUPREME COURT'S -- 502 00:47:00,281 --> 00:47:07,419 HERE'S THE PROBLEM WE HAVE. I DON'T MEAN THIS IN A NEGATIVE 503 00:47:07,421 --> 00:47:19,896 SENSE BUT IN THE PAST THAT'S THE WAY TO DO THINGS. 504 00:47:19,898 --> 00:47:19,464 I'VE BEEN FORTUNATE TO GET A NUMBER OF THINGS IN THE WALL BUT 505 00:47:19,466 --> 00:47:25,940 I LAW BUT I NEVER GOT WHAT I WANTED. 506 00:47:25,942 --> 00:47:40,974 WE ALWAYS HAVE TO CHANGE THINGS AND COMPROMISE THINGS. 507 00:47:40,976 --> 00:47:45,408 THEY THE FELLA START THINGS THEY WANTED. 508 00:47:45,410 --> 00:47:51,129 I THINK SOMETHING WE WORKED ON HERE A GREAT DEAL ON 509 00:47:51,131 --> 00:47:53,608 INFRASTRUCTURE WE HAVE REPUBLICANS IN THE 510 00:47:53,610 --> 00:48:01,641 INFRASTRUCTURE BILL IN 2007 AND THEN 20 OF EIGHT AND 2009. 511 00:48:01,643 --> 00:48:05,628 WE COULDN'T GET THE BILL PASSED AGAIN AND ALL THAT WOULD CHANGE 512 00:48:05,630 --> 00:48:07,318 IS THAT HE HAD A DIFFERENT PRESIDENT. 513 00:48:07,320 --> 00:48:11,414 THE THINGS WE HAVE DONE FOR EXAMPLE WE LOST A MILLION 514 00:48:11,416 --> 00:48:17,554 TEACHERS AND POLICE OFFICERS AND FIREFIGHTERS DURING THE FIRST 515 00:48:17,556 --> 00:48:25,784 YEAR OF THE MELTDOWN SO IT WAS OFFERED ON THE SENATE FLOOR 516 00:48:25,786 --> 00:48:27,128 SAYING LET'S GET ALL THOSE PEOPLE BACK. 517 00:48:27,130 --> 00:48:29,690 WOULD BE GREAT FOR THE ECONOMY AND THE SAFETY OF THE COUNTRY 518 00:48:29,692 --> 00:48:34,935 AND HERE'S HOW WE'RE GOING TO PAY FOR IT. 519 00:48:34,937 --> 00:48:35,831 THEY WOULD PAY EXCESS OF TWO TENTHS OF 1% WHICH PEOPLE DIDN'T 520 00:48:35,833 --> 00:49:01,762 CARE THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN HAPPY TO DO THAT. 521 00:49:01,764 --> 00:48:58,250 I RAN THE FLOOR FOR SIX YEARS. I DID THE FLOOR AND HE DID THE 522 00:48:58,252 --> 00:49:03,477 POLITICAL STUFF AND THAT'S WHERE I GOT TO KNOW TRENT LOTT IS A 523 00:49:03,479 --> 00:49:09,285 WELL. I WAS ON THE FLOOR FROM THE 524 00:49:09,287 --> 00:49:18,220 MOMENT THEY CAME IN AND I TOOK CARE OF THE REPUBLICANS AND I 525 00:49:18,222 --> 00:49:29,732 WOULD MAKE SURE THERE WAS A UNANIMOUS CONSENT REQUEST. 526 00:49:29,734 --> 00:49:24,998 BUT IF THEY DID NOTHING THERE IS NO ONE TO WORK WITH ANYMORE. 527 00:49:25,0 --> 00:49:31,271 THEY ARE AFRAID. WHAT THEY WILL DO IS DEMOCRATS 528 00:49:31,273 --> 00:49:35,744 AND REPUBLICANS WILL INTRODUCE A BILL KNOWING THAT IT IS GOING 529 00:49:35,746 --> 00:49:40,229 NOWHERE SO THE ISSUE A PRESS RELEASE.COM. 530 00:49:40,231 --> 00:49:52,514 ONE LAST QUESTION. SENATOR, I WANTED TO SEE HOW 531 00:49:52,516 --> 00:49:56,977 CONCERNED ARE YOU THAT DEMOCRATIC TURNOUT IN THE 532 00:49:56,979 --> 00:49:58,244 PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY HAS BEEN BEEN LOWER THAN THE REPUBLICAN 533 00:49:58,246 --> 00:50:01,569 TURNOUT? YOU TALKED ABOUT DOUBLING DOWN 534 00:50:01,571 --> 00:50:07,753 ON IDEAS IDEAS BUT HOW DOES THAT TRANSLATE INTO VOTES? 535 00:50:07,755 --> 00:50:12,568 IT'S SOMETHING WE CAN'T IGNORE THAT MOST PUNDITS AND 536 00:50:12,570 --> 00:50:17,485 POLITICAL SCIENTISTS BELIEVE THAT THE MASSIVE TURNOUTS HAVE 537 00:50:17,487 --> 00:50:25,778 BEEN AS A RESULT OF THE RIVALRY WITHIN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. 538 00:50:25,780 --> 00:50:30,421 WITH THE DEMOCRATS WE'VE HAD THIS GOING WITH HILLARY AND 539 00:50:30,423 --> 00:50:36,510 BERNIE FOR A LONG TIME AND IT WAS KIND OF A LOVEFEST IN THE 540 00:50:36,512 --> 00:50:44,652 LAST MONTH OR SO THEY HAD A LITTLE NEGATIVE STUFF BACK AND 541 00:50:44,654 --> 00:50:49,746 FORTH SO NOT AS MUCH INTEREST IN THE DEMOCRATS AS REPUBLICANS.