1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:03,000 YOUR WALLET. 2 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:05,000 WE TRIED TO GIVE THEM CHOICES 3 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:06,000 FOR HOW THEY CAN MAKE A 4 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:07,000 CONTRIBUTION AND LEAD THEM IN 5 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:08,000 THAT DIRECTION THAT WE NEED 6 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 PEOPLE TO FOLLOW AND IT'S AN 7 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:19,000 IMPORTANT PART OF MY JOB TO TALK 8 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:21,000 TO THE COUNTERPARTS AND SAY WE 9 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:23,000 NEED EVERYBODY IN THE GAME IF WE 10 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:26,000 ARE GOING TO HAVE A PEACEFUL 11 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:27,000 WORLD. 12 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:31,000 YOU'VE GOT TO GET IN THE GAME. 13 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:32,000 LET ME ASK THE CHAIRMAN. 14 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:33,000 >> I CHAIR MAN. 15 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:34,000 >> I WOULD EMPHASIZE WHAT THE 16 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:38,000 SECRETARY SAID. THE KEY PART I WENT TO THE 17 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:39,000 REGION AND MATCH WITH 30 OF THE 18 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:40,000 CHIEFS OF DEFENSE FROM THE 19 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:42,000 COALITION PARTNERS AND 20 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:44,000 ENCOURAGED PARTICIPATION THAT 21 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:46,000 ONE OF THE THINGS WE DO HARD IS 22 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:48,000 LOOK AT WHERE THEY CAN MAKE THE 23 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:49,000 CONTRIBUTION AND THAT IS AN 24 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:52,000 ONGOING PROCESS WHERE WE ARE 25 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:56,000 SATISFIED WITH WHERE WE ARE 26 00:00:56,000 --> 00:01:01,000 NEVER. 27 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:03,000 >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE 28 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:04,000 AND ON BEHALF OF THE CHAIR MAN 29 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:08,000 LET ME DECLARE THE HEARING 30 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:13,000 ADJOURNED. 31 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:23,000 >> [INAUDIBLE] 32 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:28,000 [LAUGHTER] 33 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:46,000 READ TIDE ARRIVES AT DONALD 34 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:47,000 TRUMP TO THE REPUBLICAN 35 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:49,000 LEADERSHIP IN A SPEECH AT THE 36 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:51,000 CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS IN 37 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:54,000 WASHINGTON, D.C.. 38 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:55,000 HE SAID REPUBLICAN LEADERS 39 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:57,000 CREATED THE DROUGHT CONDITIONS 40 00:02:57,000 --> 00:02:58,000 DONALD TRUMP SIMPLY STRUCK THE 41 00:02:58,000 --> 00:02:59,000 MATCH. 42 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:04,000 THIS IS ABOUT 15 MINUTES. 43 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:13,000 >> GOOD MORNING, EVERYONE. 44 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:17,000 HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY. 45 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:18,000 WE ARE HONORED TO HAVE YOU HERE 46 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:22,000 FOR AN IMPORTANT EVENT FOR WHAT 47 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:23,000 IS HAPPENING IN THE POLITICS 48 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:24,000 TODAY. 49 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:27,000 JUST BEFORE PRESIDENT OBAMA'S 50 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:30,000 SECOND INAUGURATION, AND THE 51 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:32,000 BERLITZ PUBLISHED THIS FITTING 52 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:33,000 HEADLINE, QUOTE, REPUBLICANS 53 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:34,000 ACCUSE OBAMA OF USING POSITIONED 54 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:37,000 TO LEAD THE COUNTRY. 55 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:38,000 AND THIS SUMS UP WHERE WE'VE 56 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:42,000 BEEN THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS. 57 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:43,000 WE HAVE HAD A YEAR AFTER HIS YEAR IN WHICH REPUBLICAN 58 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:46,000 POLITICS HAS BEEN A CONTEST FOR 59 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:47,000 WHO CAN SEE NO THE SAY NO THE 60 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:48,000 FASTEST, THE LOUDEST AND THE 61 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:51,000 LONGEST WITH NO REGARD TO REASON 62 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:54,000 OR THE BEST INTEREST OF THE 63 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:56,000 COUNTRY PARTICULARLY OVER THE 64 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:58,000 PAST 24 HOURS IN RESPONSE TO THE 65 00:03:58,000 --> 00:03:59,000 SUPREME COURT. 66 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:03,000 TRUTHFULLY, WE'VE SEEN THAT THE 67 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:04,000 MOMENT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE 68 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:08,000 ELECTED BARACK OBAMA THEY MADE 69 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:11,000 IT THERE REASON FOR EVERYTHING 70 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:12,000 THE PRESIDENT PROPOSED FOR YOU 71 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:14,000 TO BE MISLED THE AMERICAN PEOPLE 72 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:15,000 ABOUT THE POLICIES AND OVER THE 73 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:16,000 LAST YEAR WE HAVE SEEN 74 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:18,000 INCREDIBLY HEATED RHETORIC 75 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:21,000 AROUND THE PRESIDENT AND THE 76 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:22,000 COUNTRY'S FUTURE. 77 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:23,000 TODAY DONALD TRUMP IS THE 78 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:26,000 REPUBLICAN PARTY FRONTRUNNER 79 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:29,000 COMING AND PEOPLE ARE SURPRISED 80 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:30,000 THAT THE HATEFUL DIVISIVE 81 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:33,000 RHETORIC HAS CONTRIBUTED TO A 82 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:37,000 CANDIDACY THAT MIRRORS ALL OF 83 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:38,000 THOSE. WE ARE PARTICULARLY HONORED TO 84 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:43,000 HAVE THE SENATOR HERE. 85 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:48,000 HE'S BEEN A CHAMPION FOR THE 86 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:51,000 AMERICAN PEOPLE CITING THE 87 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:52,000 AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS WORKING TO 88 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:54,000 HELP ALL AMERICANS ON ALMOST 89 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:56,000 EVERY ISSUE THAT I'VE WORKED ON 90 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:59,000 OVER THE LAST SEVERAL DECADES 91 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:01,000 BUT HE'S WORKING TO HELP 92 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:03,000 FAMILIES ACHIEVE THE AMERICAN 93 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:07,000 DREAM, CITING HIS HEART OUT AND 94 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:08,000 PROTECTING THE ENVIRONMENT FOR 95 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:13,000 FUTURE GENERATIONS HAS BEEN AN 96 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:14,000 INCREDIBLE VOICE FOR ALL OF US 97 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:18,000 SO I'M HONORED TO HAVE HIM HERE TO TALK ABOUT WHAT'S HAPPENING 98 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:19,000 WITH THE AMERICAN ELECTORATE AND 99 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:22,000 WHAT'S HAPPENING IN POLITICS 100 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:26,000 WHERE THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS 101 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:28,000 GOING. 102 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:30,000 PLEASE JOIN ME IN WELCOMING 103 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:35,000 SENATOR HARRY REID. 104 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:40,000 [APPLAUSE] 105 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:46,000 SORRY I WAS A LITTLE LATE THERE 106 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:51,000 WAS AN ACCIDENT THAT HELD US UP. 107 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:53,000 I WANT TO TAKE A MINUTE TO 108 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:57,000 PUBLICLY ACKNOWLEDGE JOHN 109 00:05:57,000 --> 00:05:58,000 PODESTA. 110 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:01,000 WHEN JOHN PODESTA CAME TO ME 111 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:05,000 WITH THIS IDEA I WAS 112 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:07,000 UNDERWHELMED. 113 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:09,000 I COULDN'T BELIEF THAT HE SAID 114 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:10,000 WHAT HE WAS GOING TO DO. 115 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:14,000 I WAS RIGHT -- HE WAS RIGHT AND 116 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:19,000 I WAS WRONG. 117 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:25,000 YOU ARE STEPPING INTO THOSE 118 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:26,000 SHOES AND YOU'VE DONE AN 119 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:28,000 OUTSTANDING JOB. 120 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:30,000 THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME TO BE HERE TODAY. 121 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:31,000 >> MANY AMERICANS ARE SCRATCHING 122 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:35,000 THEIR HEADS ABOUT DONALD TRUMP. 123 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:36,000 I KNOW THAT I HAVE ON MORE THAN 124 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:37,000 ONE OCCASION. 125 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:39,000 MOST OF US CANNOT HAVE THEM HOW 126 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:43,000 HE ROSE SO FAR AND SO FAST. 127 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:46,000 HIS VILE RHETORIC AS 128 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:49,000 EMBARRASSING, HIS PROPOSALS ARE 129 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:50,000 DANGEROUS. 130 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:53,000 REPUBLICAN ESTABLISHMENT ACTS 131 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:54,000 BEWILDERED THAT BUT THEY SHOULD 132 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:57,000 NOT BE BEWILDERED AS MUCH AS I 133 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:02,000 TRY TO DISTANCE FROM TRUMP NOW 134 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:05,000 FOR EIGHT YEARS THEY DREAMED OF 135 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:08,000 THE POLICY DEBATE BY REPLACING 136 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:10,000 ENGAGEMENT WITH RESENTMENT AND 137 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:11,000 HATRED. 138 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:16,000 WE ARE SEEING IT RIGHT NOW. 139 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:25,000 THEY ALREADY TREAT HIM OR HER 140 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:27,000 LIKE A PIÑATA AND THAT'S THE 141 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:29,000 KIND OF MINDLESS BEHAVIOR THAT 142 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:32,000 HAS HOLLOWED OUT THE POLITICAL 143 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:33,000 DEBATE AND CREATED THE 144 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:36,000 CONDITIONS FOR DONALD TRUMP TO 145 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:37,000 RISE. 146 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:38,000 THEY CREATED THE DROUGHT 147 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:39,000 CONDITIONS DONALD TRUMP'S TURN 148 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:44,000 TO BE -- SIMPLY STRUCK THE MATCH 149 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:48,000 FROM EIGHT YEARS AGO. 150 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:53,000 THE NATIONS AT THE END OF 2008. 151 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:54,000 PRESIDENT BUSH WAS ON HIS WAY 152 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:56,000 OUT OF OFFICE AFTER A FAILED 153 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:58,000 PRESIDENCY TEETERING ON THE 154 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:00,000 BRINK OF DISASTER. 155 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:01,000 PRESIDENT OBAMA CAME TO OFFICE 156 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:05,000 WITH A BROAD MANDATE PROMISING 157 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:10,000 THE NATION REALLY NEEDED. 158 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:15,000 SADLY THE REPUBLICAN LEADERS 159 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:17,000 CHOSE THE OPPOSITE PATH INSTEAD 160 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:19,000 OF COOPERATING ON COMMONSENSE 161 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:20,000 SOLUTIONS FOR THOSE STILL 162 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:23,000 SUFFERING IN THE GREAT RECESSION 163 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:27,000 THEY CHOSE OBSTRUCTION AND 164 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:28,000 POLICIES. 165 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:30,000 PRESIDENT OBAMA'S FIRST 166 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:35,000 INAUGURATION. 167 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:42,000 THEY'VE DECIDED ON THE MISSION 168 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:43,000 FIRST THEY WILL DO EVERYTHING IN 169 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:44,000 THEIR POWER TO KEEP PRESIDENT 170 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:47,000 OBAMA FROM BEING ELECTED AND 171 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:48,000 SECOND THEY WOULD PREVENT HIM 172 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:49,000 FROM ACHIEVING ANY OF THE 173 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:53,000 LEGISLATIVE PRIORITY IS. 174 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:54,000 THE REJECTION OF PRESIDENT 175 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:56,000 OBAMA'S MANIFESTED ITSELF IN ONE 176 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:57,000 BIG LIE. 177 00:08:57,000 --> 00:08:59,000 THEY REPEATED IT IN DIFFERENT 178 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:04,000 WAYS OVER AND OVER AGAIN. 179 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:08,000 THE ECONOMIC HARDSHIPS COULD BE 180 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:09,000 ADDRESSED BY SMART POLICY 181 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:12,000 SOLUTIONS IF THE SOLUTIONS WERE 182 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:17,000 PULLED BY OBAMA. 183 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:27,000 WE HAVE SEEN THIS LIE IN THE 184 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:31,000 LAST 24 HOURS NOMINATED TO THE 185 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:32,000 SUPREME COURT AND THE CIRCUIT 186 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:37,000 COURT OVERWHELMINGLY MOVED 187 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:39,000 SOMEWHERE IN THE SENATE WITH A 188 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:41,000 LARGE VOTE APPOINTED HIM INTO 189 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:42,000 SELECTED HIM AS THE COURT OF 190 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:45,000 APPEALS TO THE DC CIRCUIT FOR 191 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:50,000 THE HIGHEST COURT IN THE LAND. 192 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:04,000 HERE'S WHAT THE SENATORS HAVE 193 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:09,000 GARLAND. 194 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:14,000 SHE SAID VERY COMPLIANT RATINGS. 195 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:17,000 THEY SLAM THE DOOR ON A GOOD MAN 196 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:18,000 SIMPLY WHY? 197 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:20,000 BECAUSE PRESIDENT OBAMA 198 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:22,000 NOMINATED HIM. 199 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:25,000 THAT'S HOW THEY TREATED HIM OVER 200 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:28,000 HIS ENTIRE PRESIDENCY FOR SEVEN 201 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:31,000 AND A HALF YEARS. 202 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:32,000 IT DIDN'T MATTER WHERE THESE 203 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:37,000 IDEAS CAME FROM A. 204 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:42,000 IT WAS OVER AND OVER IN MANY 205 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:46,000 DIFFERENT WAYS THEY SAID IT 206 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:50,000 CANNOT HELP YOU AND IT WILL HURT 207 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:52,000 YOU. 208 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:54,000 LOOK AT THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT. 209 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:55,000 50 MILLION WERE SUFFERING 210 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:58,000 WITHOUT HEALTH INSURANCE. 211 00:10:58,000 --> 00:10:59,000 THE CENTERPIECE PERFORMED BY 212 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:02,000 DEMOCRATS AS THE INDIVIDUAL 213 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:03,000 MANDATE. 214 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:08,000 IT CAME FROM THE CONSERVATIVE 215 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:10,000 HERITAGE. 216 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:12,000 ESSENTIALLY BECAME SOCIALISM IN 217 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:14,000 THEIR EYES BUT IT'S NOT JUST THE 218 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:17,000 AFFORDABLE CARE ACT. 219 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:18,000 IT WAS ONE POLICY AFTER ANOTHER 220 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:20,000 TO ADDRESS THE ECONOMIC 221 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:22,000 HARDSHIPS. 222 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:23,000 MANY IDEAS ORIGINATED WITH 223 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:27,000 REPUBLICANS AND ENJOYED 224 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:31,000 BIPARTISAN SUPPORT YET ONE BY 225 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:35,000 ONE THEY REPEATED THE BIG BLIND 226 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:36,000 OBAMA SUPPORTS IT, IT WON'T HELP 227 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:37,000 YOU. 228 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:42,000 THE LIST IS VERY LONG. 229 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:45,000 UNEMPLOYMENT, REFORM, ISSUE 230 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:47,000 AFTER ISSUE REPUBLICAN LEADERS 231 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:50,000 FACED A CHOICE AND THEY PUT FOOD 232 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:54,000 ON THE TABLE EARLY. 233 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:57,000 REPUBLICANS CHOSE TO STICK IT TO 234 00:11:57,000 --> 00:11:58,000 PRESIDENT OBAMA INSTEAD OF 235 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:00,000 HELPING THEIR OWN CONSTITUENTS. 236 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:02,000 THE EXAMPLES CONTINUE THE 237 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:05,000 PAYROLL TAX CUTS WITH STUDENT 238 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:08,000 LOANS, IMMIGRATION REFORM, 239 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:09,000 AUTOMOBILE BAILOUTS. 240 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:12,000 ALL THE POLICIES USED TO ENJOY 241 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:17,000 BIPARTISAN SUPPORT. 242 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:22,000 PRESIDENT OBAMA SUPPORTS IT AT 243 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:26,000 HOME HELP YOU. 244 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:27,000 LIKE ANY, MAINTAINING THIS ONE THAT REPUBLICANS ARE DEEPER AND 245 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:30,000 DEEPER INTO THIS HONESTY. 246 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:33,000 REPUBLICANS WHO FOUND THAT 247 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:35,000 PROPPING UP THE LINE THEY HAD TO QUESTION ANY INDEPENDENT 248 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:38,000 AUTHORITY THAT MIGHT CONTRADICT 249 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:40,000 IT SO THEY STARTED ROUTINELY 250 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:41,000 QUESTIONING SCIENCE OR ANY OTHER 251 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:42,000 RESEARCH THAT SUPPORTED THE 252 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:47,000 DEMOCRATIC POLICIES. 253 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:56,000 IN THE FACE OF SCIENTIFIC 254 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:57,000 CONSENSUS I DON'T BELIEVE THE 255 00:12:57,000 --> 00:12:58,000 SCIENCE AND PREVENTING GUN 256 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:01,000 VIOLENCE IN THE EPIDEMIC OF MASS 257 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:02,000 SHOOTING THEY REJECT COMMONSENSE 258 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:05,000 SOLUTIONS AND BACKGROUND CHECKS. 259 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:07,000 REPUBLICANS CLAIM THAT MORE GUNS 260 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:10,000 ARE THE ANSWER. 261 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:12,000 THEY'VE EVEN PUT OBJECTIVE FACTS 262 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:16,000 ABOUT THE BASIC ECONOMY AND THE 263 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:18,000 RECENT POLL SHOWED 53% OF 264 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:19,000 REPUBLICANS THINK THE 265 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:22,000 UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IS HIGHER NOW 266 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:23,000 THAN WHEN PRESIDENT OBAMA TOOK 267 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:24,000 OFFICE. 268 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:29,000 THIS STATISTIC IS SAD BUT IT'S 269 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:30,000 NOT SHOCKING. 270 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:32,000 DESPITE 72 CONSECUTIVE MONTHS OF 271 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:34,000 JOB GROWTH AND THE UNEMPLOYMENT 272 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:38,000 RATE BELOW 5% THEY ARE STILL 273 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:39,000 TELLING MILLIONS OF AMERICANS 274 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:40,000 PRESIDENT OBAMA HAS BEEN A 275 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:43,000 DISASTER FOR THE ECONOMY. 276 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:45,000 ONE AFTER ANOTHER COMMONSENSE 277 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:47,000 FACTS ARE BROUGHT DOWN BY 278 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:49,000 REPUBLICAN LEADERS HAVE TOSSED 279 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:51,000 ASIDE AS COLLATERAL DAMAGE FOR 280 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:53,000 THEIR ONE BIG LIE IS NOT WONDER 281 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:56,000 LAND'S FEEL POWERLESS 282 00:13:56,000 --> 00:14:00,000 REPUBLICANS SPENT EIGHT YEARS TO 283 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:03,000 HELP THEM FACE THE CHALLENGES. 284 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:05,000 INSTEAD OF ENGAGING ON POLICY 285 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:06,000 THEY SIMPLY TOLD AMERICANS 286 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:11,000 THERE'S NOTHING TO BE DONE SO 287 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:14,000 WHAT HAVE THE REPUBLICANS 288 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:16,000 CREATED? 289 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:18,000 PRESENTIMENT, HATRED THAT THEY 290 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:20,000 WERE TOO COWARD TO RENOUNCE. 291 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:23,000 THE GROUPS LIKE THE TEA PARTY 292 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:26,000 WERE FIRST WITH MONEY FROM THE 293 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:27,000 COMPETITORS. 294 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:28,000 THE IDEOLOGIES AND OBJECTIVES OF 295 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:31,000 THE GROUP VARIED BUT THEY ALL 296 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:35,000 HAD ONE THING IN COMMON WHO WAS 297 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:37,000 CONSIDERED AN ILLEGITIMATE 298 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:38,000 PRESIDENT IT'S OBVIOUS EVEN THE 299 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:41,000 MOST CASUAL OBSERVER WAS DRIVEN 300 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:42,000 FORWARD BY SOME OF THE DARKEST 301 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:46,000 FORCES IN THE CULTURE BUT 302 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:50,000 REPUBLICAN LEADERS TRIED. 303 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:52,000 THIS RESENTMENT AND HATRED TOOK 304 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:56,000 THREE FORMS FIRST, IT RENDERED 305 00:14:56,000 --> 00:14:59,000 PRESIDENT OBAMA ILLEGITIMATE AND 306 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:00,000 SECOND, FEAR MONGERING, THIRD, 307 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:02,000 HATRED AMONG LATINOS. 308 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:04,000 THE FORCES THAT ARE NOW 309 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:07,000 SYNONYMOUS IN THE CANDIDACY OR 310 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:09,000 BY REPUBLICAN LEADERS THE PAST 311 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:11,000 EIGHT YEARS. 312 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:14,000 THE MOST RECOGNIZABLE ATTEMPT TO 313 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:15,000 DECLARE PRESIDENT OBAMA WAS THE 314 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:17,000 MOVEMENT. 315 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:20,000 IT ALL STARTED ON A WEBSITE THAT 316 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:23,000 ASKED WHERE IS THE BIRTH 317 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:25,000 CERTIFICATE. BEFORE LONG MORE AND MORE 318 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:27,000 OUTLETS WERE DISCUSSING THIS 319 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:31,000 ABSURD CONSPIRACY THEORY. 320 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:34,000 REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS DID 321 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:36,000 NOTHING. REPUBLICANS IN THE HOUSE AND 322 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:37,000 LEGISLATURE WERE SUGGESTING THE 323 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:39,000 PRESIDENT WASN'T WARNING AMERICA 324 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:42,000 AND WHO WAS THE MOST PROMINENT 325 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:46,000 TO GIVE THE MOVEMENT A PLATFORM? 326 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:47,000 DONALD TRUMP. 327 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:49,000 I FIND IT IRONIC MITT ROMNEY 328 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:51,000 THAT ROMNEY IS SPEAKING OUT IN 329 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:52,000 HIS EXTREMISM. 330 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:54,000 HE KNEW HOW RIDICULOUS THE 331 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:57,000 CLAIMS WERE AND GET WHAT DID HE 332 00:15:57,000 --> 00:15:58,000 DO XPS FOR DONALD TRUMP'S ENDORSEMENT. 333 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:01,000 THAT ROMNEY HELPED FAN THE 334 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:02,000 FLAMES OF RESENTMENT. 335 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:06,000 HOWEVER MORE INSIDIOUS TO RENDER 336 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:08,000 HIM WAS WAGED BY THE COUNTERPART 337 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:12,000 MITCH MCCONNELL AS WAS REPORTED 338 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:15,000 IN "THE NEW YORK TIMES" ONLY SIX 339 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:18,000 YEARS AGO AND HERE'S WHAT IT 340 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:19,000 SAID. 341 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:20,000 BEFORE THE HEALTH CARE FIGHT 342 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:21,000 HEALTHCARE FIGHT AND THE 343 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:23,000 ECONOMICS TO ME WAS PACKAGE 344 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:26,000 BEFORE PRESIDENT OBAMA TOOK 345 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:29,000 OFFICE, SENATOR MITCH MCCONNELL 346 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:32,000 HAD A STRATEGY FOR THE PARTY 347 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:34,000 PRETTY EXTENSIVE KNOWLEDGE TO 348 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:35,000 SLOW THINGS DOWN AND TAKE 349 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:37,000 ADVANTAGE DEMOCRATS WOULD HAVE 350 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:40,000 BEEN GOVERNING ENTITY NIGHT AND 351 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:43,000 HE REPUBLICAN SUPPORT, THE 352 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:47,000 LEGISLATION. 353 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:48,000 NO PRESIDENT IN HISTORY TASTE 354 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:49,000 THE NUMBER OF FILIBUSTERS 355 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:54,000 PRESIDENT OBAMA HAS BASED. 356 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:55,000 TODAY SOME ARE WAGING MORE THAN 357 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:58,000 500 FILIBUSTERS DESPITE THE FACT 358 00:16:58,000 --> 00:16:59,000 MANY ARE AGAINST THINGS THEY 359 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:04,000 THOUGHT WERE A GOOD IDEA. 360 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:09,000 DURING THE FIRST SIX YEARS THAT 361 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:13,000 LBJ SERVED AS THE MAJORITY 362 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:18,000 LEADER BY SIX YEARS IN THE 363 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:22,000 HUNDREDS IT GOT WORSE AFTER MY 364 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:23,000 FIRST SIX YEARS IT IS BLIND 365 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:24,000 OPPOSITION TO THE CONSENT THAT 366 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:27,000 THIS PRESIDENT AND HIS IDEAS ARE 367 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:28,000 ILLEGITIMATE. 368 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:31,000 INDEED THE BLIND REJECTION OF 369 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:35,000 ANY POLICY REGARDLESS OF THE 370 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:38,000 MERIT. 371 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:41,000 THE NO HOLDS BARRED POLITICS WAS 372 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:45,000 IN THE REPUBLICAN CAUCUS AND NO 373 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:46,000 PEOPLE HAVE THE DEBATE OVER THE 374 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:47,000 SUPREME COURT. 375 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:50,000 MOMENTS AFTER THE DEATH OF 376 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:52,000 REPUBLICAN LEADER LEADERS 377 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:54,000 DECIDED TO ABANDON THE 378 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:55,000 CONSTITUTION AND BIPARTISANSHIP 379 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:59,000 TO APPEASE THE RADICAL BASE. 380 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:02,000 THAT NIGHT HE FOLLOWED IN THIS 381 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:07,000 REPUBLICANS MUST DELAY. 382 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:11,000 THEY DIDN'T KNOW WHO THE NOMINEE 383 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:16,000 WOULD BE YET REPUBLICANS WERE 384 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:21,000 UNDERMINED AGAIN. 385 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:25,000 IF SENATOR MCCONNELL WONDERS 386 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:28,000 WHERE DONALD TRUMP CAME HE 387 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:31,000 SHOULD TAKE A LOOK IN THE 388 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:32,000 MIRROR. 389 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:34,000 NO ONE IS WORKING HARDER TO 390 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:35,000 SUPPORT HIM MCCONNELL WHO 391 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:38,000 SACRIFICED THE MAJORITY AND 392 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:42,000 ALLOWED HIM TO PICK THE NOMINEE. 393 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:47,000 THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS ANOTHER. 394 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:50,000 THE OUTLETS LIKE FOX NEWS BEGAN 395 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:51,000 EFFORTS THAT PRESIDENT OBAMA IS 396 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:56,000 A SECRET MUSLIM. 397 00:18:57,000 --> 00:18:59,000 THEY WOULD STOKE THE FLAMES OF 398 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:02,000 HATE TRADE. 399 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:03,000 SOME WERE WORKING THE OBAMA 400 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:06,000 ADMINISTRATION AND OTHERS 401 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:07,000 SUGGESTED SHARIA LAW WAS TAKING 402 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:11,000 OVER AMERICA AND ONCE WE AGAIN 403 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:13,000 THEY DID NOTHING TO ADDRESS THE 404 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:16,000 HATE COMING FROM THE PARTY. 405 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:20,000 NOW BECAUSE OF THE REACTION THEY 406 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:23,000 ARE LEAVING THE CANDIDACY OF 407 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:25,000 STOPS ON THE HATE SPEECH AND 408 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:29,000 WANTS TO BLOCK ALL IN THE 409 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:31,000 COUNTRY. 410 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:32,000 THE REPUBLICAN PARTY'S 411 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:34,000 ANTI-IMMIGRANT UNDERBELLY IS THE 412 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:39,000 MOST SALIENT EXAMPLE. 413 00:19:55,000 --> 00:20:00,000 THEY USE REPUGNANCE LANGUAGE. 414 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:11,000 THE DEPORTATION AS JEB BUSH 415 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:12,000 SPOKE AND MARCO RUBIO CALLED FOR 416 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:16,000 DEPORTING ALL THE DREAMERS NOW 417 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:17,000 THEY SAY NOTHING IS DONALD TRUMP 418 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:21,000 SAYS THEY WANT TO WIND UP 419 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:23,000 11 MILLION WITH A MILITARISTIC 420 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:28,000 MASSIVE DEPORTATION FORCE. 421 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:36,000 THEY WALK OUTSIDE WITHOUT THEIR 422 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:39,000 IMMIGRATION PAPERS. 423 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:41,000 IN THIS HATRED THE LEADERS ADOPTED THESE POSITIONS AS PART 424 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:46,000 OF THEIR PLATFORM. 425 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:48,000 THE HATE WITH THE POLICY AND IN 426 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:49,000 THE SENATE DEMOCRATS WERE WORK 427 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:50,000 WITH A HANDFUL OF REPUBLICANS TO 428 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:51,000 CRAFT A GOOD COMPREHENSIVE 429 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:55,000 IMMIGRATION REFORM BILL BUT THEN 430 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:56,000 WE WATCH AS THE SPEAKER 431 00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:57,000 CAPITULATED TO KEEP READY 432 00:20:57,000 --> 00:21:01,000 RADICALS AND REFUSED THE VOTE TO 433 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:06,000 THIS DAY INSERT AFTER 434 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:14,000 OVERWHELMINGLY. 435 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:29,000 THEY CAME WITHIN MINUTES OF 436 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:30,000 THAT. 437 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:32,000 THE DONALD TRUMP WAS WATCHING HE 438 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:34,000 SAW THE EXTREMISM COMES OWNED BY 439 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:37,000 THE LEADERS OF TOO COWARDLY TO 440 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:42,000 DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT SO WHEN HE 441 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:43,000 GOES THAN RAPISTS AND MURDERS 442 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:44,000 HE'S DOING WHAT HE LEARNED FROM 443 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:48,000 GENERATIONS OF CONSERVATIVES. 444 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:49,000 THE PARTY HAS BECOME WITHOUT 445 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:53,000 QUESTION THE PARTY OF TRUMP. 446 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:57,000 THE QUESTION NOW IS THIS WHAT DO 447 00:21:57,000 --> 00:21:58,000 THEY SAY THAT THE STATE OF THE 448 00:21:58,000 --> 00:21:59,000 PUBLIC POLICY DEBATE AND HOW 449 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:01,000 SHOULD AMERICA RESPOND. 450 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:05,000 THE ANSWER IS SIMPLE THEY HAVE 451 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:06,000 THE SUPPORT OF DONALD TRUMP AND 452 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:11,000 DO IT NOW. 453 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:12,000 FOR FOR TOO LONG THEY WILL SPEAK 454 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:13,000 THE LANGUAGE OF TRYING TO HAVE 455 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:18,000 IT BOTH WAYS. 456 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:33,000 AFTER YEARS THEY ARE NOT 457 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:35,000 SPLITTING THE MOST PROMINENT IN 458 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:40,000 THE NATION'S. 459 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:46,000 HE IS INSULTED VETERANS, 460 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:49,000 IMMIGRANTS WITH DISABILITIES. 461 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:50,000 AMERICANS ARE BEING ASSAULTED AS 462 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:55,000 RACIAL SLURS IN THE RALLIES. 463 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:00,000 THERE IS NO GREAT AREA HERE IT 464 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:03,000 IS TIME FOR SOME TO FIND THE 465 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:08,000 BACKGROUND TO SAY ENOUGH. 466 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:14,000 IF THEY THINK DONALD CHUMP IS 467 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:15,000 RACIST, THEY SHOULDN'T SUPPORT 468 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:17,000 HIM, PERIOD. 469 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:20,000 IF THEY REFUSE TO SUPPORT THEY 470 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:22,000 SHOULD PUT SHOULD'VE PUT ON MAKE 471 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:25,000 AMERICA GREAT AGAIN HAS IN STAND 472 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:27,000 BY HIM AT HIS NEXT PRESS 473 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:31,000 CONFERENCE. 474 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:32,000 THE NATION CANNOT RELY ON 475 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:37,000 CONSERVATIVES. 476 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:40,000 WE SHOULD DOUBLE DOWN ON OUR 477 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:44,000 IDEAS TO RECTIFY THE DAMAGE THAT 478 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:45,000 THE DONALD TRUMP IS DOING WE 479 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:47,000 MUST CHALLENGE HIM BOLDLY WITH 480 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:48,000 THE STRENGTH OF THE IDEAS THAT 481 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:49,000 WE SHOULD DO IT NOW AND WE 482 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:50,000 SHOULD CONTINUE TO BE THE AGENTS 483 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:53,000 OF CHANGE. 484 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:56,000 WE SHOULD REMEMBER THE LIE IS 485 00:23:56,000 --> 00:24:01,000 TRUST THAT AND THE TRUTH IS THAT 486 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:03,000 SOLUTIONS HELP ALL OF THOSE HIT 487 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:04,000 HARDEST IN THE DISLOCATION 488 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:09,000 CAUSED BY THE GREAT RECESSION 489 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:11,000 REQUIRING THEM TO OFFER PAID SICK LEAVE WILL HELP MILLIONS OF 490 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:13,000 FAMILIES MAKE THE BUSINESSES 491 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:15,000 STRONGER AND MAKING COLLEGE MORE 492 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:20,000 AFFORDABLE. 493 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:21,000 RAISING THE MINIMUM WAGE TO $15 494 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:22,000 AN HOUR WILL PUT MORE IN THE 495 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:24,000 POCKETS OF WORKERS AND TO 496 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:26,000 STIMULATE THE ECONOMY. 497 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:27,000 FIXING THE NATION'S ROADS AND 498 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:32,000 BRIDGES WILL CREATE JOBS. 499 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:37,000 THEY WERE CREATED IN OTHER JOBS 500 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:40,000 WERE SPENT OFF FROM THAT. 501 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:42,000 ENSURING THAT THE WOMEN ARE 502 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:44,000 BEING FAIRLY COMPENSATED IN THE WORKPLACE AND RECEIVING EQUAL 503 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:45,000 PAY FOR THE WORK THAT MEN DO. 504 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:48,000 IF THEY DO THE WORK THEY SHOULD 505 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:50,000 GET PAID THE SAME WE SHOULD 506 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:51,000 RESTORE THE FAITH IN THE 507 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:53,000 DEMOCRATIC PROCESS. 508 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:55,000 WE CAN DO THAT BY FIGHTING FOR 509 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:56,000 THE SUPREME SUPREME COURT TO 510 00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:57,000 OVERTURN CITIZENS UNITED AND GET 511 00:24:57,000 --> 00:25:01,000 THAT MONEY OUT OF THE POLITICAL 512 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:06,000 SYSTEM YOU THIS IS WHAT THE 513 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:14,000 DEMOCRATS DID WITH THE NUCLEAR 514 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:15,000 OPTION AND WHEN WE BROKE THE 515 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:18,000 MOLD JIM OF HISTORIC PROPORTIONS 516 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:19,000 AND ENABLED THE TRADITIONAL 517 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:21,000 NOMINEES AND THE EMERGENCIES 518 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:23,000 ACROSS THE COUNTRY THEY WANTED 519 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:27,000 TO GET RID OF THEM BECAUSE OF 520 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:28,000 CHANGING THE RULE AND THE 521 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:30,000 PRINCIPLE WOULD BE RESPONDING TO 522 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:35,000 THE DEPARTING AMERICANS. 523 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:40,000 WE WOULD INSPIRE A NEW 524 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:43,000 GENERATION TO GET INVOLVED IN 525 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:44,000 PUBLIC SERVICE. 526 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:47,000 WE CAN ONLY AFFECT THEM TO SHOW 527 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:48,000 NEW IDEAS DELIVERY NEW RESULTS 528 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:50,000 TO NEW PEOPLE. 529 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:52,000 MOST OF ALL WE SHOULD RESIST THE 530 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:56,000 URGE TO WATER DOWN THE WATERWAY 531 00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:57,000 FOREIGN-POLICY. 532 00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:58,000 WE SHOULD RESIST THE URGE TO 533 00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:01,000 MOVE TO THE RIGHT. 534 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:02,000 A FEW MONTHS AGO I MET WITH THE 535 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:07,000 NEW GOVERNOR OF LOUISIANA. 536 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:28,000 I SAID YES. 537 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:30,000 HE ADDED IF YOU ARE A 538 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:34,000 PROGRESSIVE AND THEN PEOPLE JUST 539 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:36,000 THINK YOU ARE A LIBERAL THEY 540 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:40,000 THINK YOU ARE A LIAR. 541 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:42,000 SO LET'S BE PROUD OF WHO WE ARE 542 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:44,000 AND LET'S NOT BE SHY ABOUT WHAT 543 00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:47,000 THEY CAN ACCOMPLISH. 544 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:49,000 THEY ARE IN THE LAST SEVEN YEARS 545 00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:50,000 CREATED 14 MILLION JOBS IN THE 546 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:55,000 DROP DOWN TO LESS THAN 5%. 547 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:04,000 DONALD TRUMP SAYS HE WANTS TO 548 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:09,000 MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN THEY 549 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:13,000 OBTAIN CIVIL RIGHTS OR BEFORE 550 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:14,000 THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TO VOTE WERE 551 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:19,000 BEFORE THE CHILD LABOR LAWS MAY 552 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:20,000 BE AT ONCE TO GO BACK BEFORE THE 553 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:21,000 TIME OF MEDICARE OR SOCIAL 554 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:23,000 SECURITY OR THE LABOUR RELATIONS 555 00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:28,000 ACT OR THE CLEAN AIR ACT. 556 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:31,000 UNLIKE DONALD TRUMP WE KNOW WHAT 557 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:33,000 NEEDS TO BE DONE TO MAKE IT EVEN 558 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:35,000 GREATER AND FINALLY THE ANGER 559 00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:37,000 WITH THE IDEAS WOULD MOVE THE 560 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:42,000 POWER IDEAS FOR TRUMP. 561 00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:58,000 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THOSE 562 00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:02,000 REMARKS ON THE WHOLE RANGE OF 563 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:07,000 TOPICS. 564 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:11,000 THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE AT THE 565 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:16,000 ACTION. 566 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:17,000 I WANTED TO ASK YOU ONE PARTICULAR QUESTION ABOUT THE 567 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:19,000 SUPREME COURT NOMINATION 568 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:21,000 PROCESS. 569 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:25,000 THE MAJORITY LEADER SAID 570 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:28,000 YESTERDAY OR THIS MORNING HE 571 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:32,000 WANTS TO LET THE PUBLIC DECIDE 572 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:36,000 ABOUT THE CONFIRMATION OF THE 573 00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:37,000 JUSTICE. 574 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:42,000 WHAT IS YOUR RESPONSE TO THIS? 575 00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:44,000 >> HERE'S WHAT HE SAID YESTERDAY, THIS IS A QUOTE THAT 576 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:47,000 IT'S ALL ABOUT. 577 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:48,000 THE REPORTER SAID IF YOUR GOAL 578 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:52,000 IS TO ALLOW TO HAVE INPUT INTO 579 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:54,000 THIS PAPER TO NOMINATION WHY NOT 580 00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:56,000 HOLD HEARINGS TO HIGHLIGHT THESE 581 00:28:56,000 --> 00:29:01,000 ISSUES AND HERE IS WHAT HE SAID 582 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:03,000 THE GOAL IS TO LET THE AMERICAN 583 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:06,000 PEOPLE PICK THE NEXT PRESIDENT 584 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:07,000 TO MAKE THE DECISIONS OF THAT IS 585 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:08,000 WHAT THAT IS WHAT THIS IS ALL 586 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:13,000 ABOUT FOR THEM. 587 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:21,000 IT'S OBVIOUS THAT WE HAVE DONE 588 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:23,000 THIS WE PICKED THE SUPREME COURT 589 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:25,000 JUSTICES IN THE LAME-DUCK 590 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:30,000 SESSION IN THE PRESIDENCY. 591 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:38,000 IT IS UNFAIR TO THE COUNTRY AND 592 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:42,000 TO THE LITIGANTS TO GET THE 593 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:43,000 SUPREME COURT. 594 00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:45,000 NOW THEY WILL HAVE TO WAIT 595 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:50,000 ANOTHER FEW DECADES. 596 00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:54,000 >> WE DID A REPORT THIS WEEK THAT SHOWS LITERALLY TENS OF 597 00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:56,000 MILLIONS WITH THE EFFECT THAT BY 598 00:29:56,000 --> 00:30:00,000 THE COURT BEING STUCK FOR SO 599 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:01,000 LONG FROM IMMIGRATION CASES TO 600 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:04,000 WOMEN'S HEALTH CASES AND VOTING 601 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:05,000 RIGHTS CASES NOT JUST A HANDFUL 602 00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:09,000 OF PEOPLE THAT HAVE AN IMPACT ON 603 00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:10,000 EVERYONE. 604 00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:11,000 JUST TO FOLLOW-UP FOLLOW UP ON 605 00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:14,000 THAT, WHERE DO YOU SEE THE 606 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:16,000 DEBATE GOING ON THE SUPREME 607 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:17,000 COURT? WE HEARD SOME REPUBLICAN 608 00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:20,000 SENATORS WILL ACTUALLY MEET WITH 609 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:21,000 THE NOMINEES. 610 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:22,000 IS THAT THE A BREAKTHROUGH BUT 611 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:27,000 NEVERTHELESS IT IS? 612 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:29,000 HELL DO YOU SEE THIS PLAYING 613 00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:33,000 OUT, AND TO FOLLOW UP IN YOUR 614 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:35,000 REMARKS, YOU SAID MCCONNELL WAS 615 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:38,000 THREATENING HIS MAJORITY IN 616 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:41,000 ORDER TO TAKE THIS INTRANSIGENT 617 00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:42,000 POSITION. 618 00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:43,000 WHY DO YOU THINK THAT HE IS 619 00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:45,000 DOING WHAT HE IS DOING? 620 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:46,000 >> I THINK THAT THEY ARE DOING 621 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:51,000 THIS TO SATISFY THE VERY LOUD 622 00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:55,000 AND RICH RIGHT-WING PEOPLE. 623 00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:56,000 I THINK THAT'S WHAT THEY WANT TO 624 00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:59,000 DO. THIS IS A BIG ISSUE WITH THEM 625 00:30:59,000 --> 00:31:02,000 AND I THINK THAT TIM WILL ONLY 626 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:03,000 TELL THAT BUT I CAN'T IMAGINE 627 00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:06,000 HOW THIS IS GOING TO HELP THE 628 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:10,000 REPUBLICANS RUNNING FOR THE 629 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:13,000 SENATE TO HAVE A STRAIGHT FACE 630 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:15,000 TO SAY WE WERE GOING TO MEET 631 00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:16,000 WITH THIS PERSON, WE ARE NOT 632 00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:18,000 GOING TO HOLD HEARINGS OR HAVE A 633 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:20,000 VOTE. 634 00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:22,000 IT'S HARD FOR ME. 635 00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:23,000 WHO CAME UP WITH THIS AND THEY 636 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:28,000 DID IT QUICKLY. 637 00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:34,000 SCALIA HAD JUST DIED WITHIN 638 00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:35,000 HOURS. 639 00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:40,000 >> WHAT IMPACT DO YOU SEE TO 640 00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:44,000 HAVE ON THE SENATE FINANCE 641 00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:49,000 COMMITTEE? 642 00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:54,000 >> WHILE MY STAFF TOLD ME NOT 643 00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:55,000 TO SAY THIS BUT I CAN'T RESIST. 644 00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:56,000 [LAUGHTER] 645 00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:57,000 >> I'VE BEEN THERE. 646 00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:59,000 [LAUGHTER] 647 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:04,000 HE MAY BE RIGHT ABOUT THIS 648 00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:07,000 BECAUSE THEY WILL BUILD ONE TO 649 00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:11,000 KEEP US FROM GOING INTO MEXICO. 650 00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:15,000 THEY WILL BE HAPPY TO DO THAT. 651 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:16,000 >> DO YOU SEE HIM HAVING A 652 00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:21,000 PARTICULAR IMPACT IN THE SENATE 653 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:22,000 RACES? >> I DON'T KNOW HOW SOME OF 654 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:27,000 THESE PEOPLE ARE RUNNING WHILE 655 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:35,000 PORTMAN COME I DON'T GET HOW 656 00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:39,000 THEY COULD RUN AND SAY WHY ARE 657 00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:40,000 WE SUPPORTING HIM FOR PRESIDENT 658 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:42,000 HE CAN'T PRESIDENT HE CAN'T RUN 659 00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:47,000 AWAY FROM IT, HE'S THE NOMINEE. 660 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:49,000 I DON'T KNOW IF THEY GET MUCH 661 00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:51,000 BETTER. 662 00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:53,000 >> I WANT TO ASK YOU ABOUT THAT. 663 00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:58,000 YOUR REMARKS FOCUSED ON DONALD 664 00:32:58,000 --> 00:32:59,000 TRUMP BUT WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS 665 00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:04,000 ON TED CRUZ? 666 00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:14,000 >> AS I HAVE BEEN IN PUBLIC 667 00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:15,000 SERVICE, I DISAGREED WITH HIM ON 668 00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:19,000 EVERYTHING POLITICALLY BUT I 669 00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:24,000 ALWAYS APPRECIATED HE TOLD 670 00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:28,000 EVERYBODY HOW HE FELT. 671 00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:29,000 THERE WAS NO SURPRISE. 672 00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:30,000 HE WROTE A BOOK AND TALKED ABOUT 673 00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:32,000 WHAT HE WANTED TO BE AND I HAVE 674 00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:35,000 TO SAY THIS ABOUT HIM HE AT 675 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:38,000 LEAST HAS SOME PRINCIPLES. 676 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:39,000 I DON'T LIKE WHAT HE STANDS FOR 677 00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:43,000 THE P. STANDS FOR SOMETHING VERY 678 00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:47,000 LITTLE OF WHICH I AGREE WITH 679 00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:48,000 ABOUT A GUY AND NOT AS TURNED 680 00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:51,000 OFF BY HIM. 681 00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:55,000 DONALD TRUMP STANDS FOR NOTHING 682 00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:57,000 AND THAT'S WHY IT'S SO UPSET FOR 683 00:33:57,000 --> 00:33:59,000 MARCO RUBIO, HE DIDN'T STAND FOR 684 00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:00,000 ANYTHING. 685 00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:02,000 >> I THINK THAT YOU REALLY LAY 686 00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:04,000 OUT THE LEVEL OF DISTRACTION AND 687 00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:08,000 THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE 688 00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:09,000 INSTRUCTION AND THE RISE OF 689 00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:10,000 DONALD TRUMP. 690 00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:15,000 DO YOU EXPECT OR HEAR OF ANY 691 00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:16,000 REPUBLICANS EVALUATING THE 692 00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:19,000 STANCE THAT THEY'VE TAKEN AND IS 693 00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:23,000 THERE A CHANCE THAT THIS PAST 694 00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:25,000 NOVEMBER DEMOCRATS WIN THE WHITE 695 00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:27,000 HOUSE AND TAKE THE SENATE WE 696 00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:31,000 COULD SEE SOME REEVALUATION? 697 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:34,000 >> I'VE SEEN PEOPLE WRITING 698 00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:35,000 BOOKS ABOUT WHO HAD BEEN MEMBERS 699 00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:37,000 OF THE SENATE AND LEADERSHIP AND 700 00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:39,000 THINGS THAT COULD BE DONE TO 701 00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:42,000 CORRECT THE SENATE. 702 00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:43,000 I HAD A NICE CONVERSATION WITH 703 00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:48,000 TOM DASCHLE THIS WEEK. 704 00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:51,000 HE HAS NO IDEA WHAT HAPPENED 705 00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:54,000 SINCE HE LEFT. HE HAS NO IDEA. 706 00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:57,000 THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE I SAID AND 707 00:34:57,000 --> 00:34:59,000 IT'S TRUE A FILIBUSTER OF MOST 708 00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:00,000 TO PROCEED THE THINGS THEY 709 00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:01,000 WANTED TO GET IT DONE TO STALL 710 00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:04,000 FOR TIME AND EACH FILIBUSTER 711 00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:05,000 TAKES A LONG TIME. 712 00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:07,000 YOU HAVE TO FILE IT FOR TWO DAYS 713 00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:09,000 AND THEN HAVE A VOTE AND THEN 714 00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:12,000 HAVE A VOTE FOR THREE HOURS 715 00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:15,000 WASTED THEN YOU ARE ONLY ON THE 716 00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:16,000 LEGISLATION AND TO GET GET OFF 717 00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:17,000 OF IT YOU OF THAT UNITY CLOTURE 718 00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:18,000 AGAIN FOR TWO MORE DAYS AND 719 00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:20,000 DEVOTE. 720 00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:25,000 IT'S UNBELIEVABLE THE TIME THAT 721 00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:27,000 WE HAVE WASTED SO PEOPLE DO NOT 722 00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:30,000 UNDERSTAND THE ENDS TO WHICH 723 00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:35,000 THEY'VE GONE TO STOP OBAMA SPEAK 724 00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:37,000 TO >> I APPRECIATE THAT YOU CAN'T 725 00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:40,000 SAY THESE THINGS PUBLICLY BUT IF 726 00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:45,000 YOU HAVE A CANDIDACY THAT IS 727 00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:47,000 VERY INEFFECTIVE, DO YOU THINK 728 00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:52,000 WE COULD HAVE THE HOPE WE COULD 729 00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:55,000 RETURN TO A PERIOD EVEN 15 YEARS 730 00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:56,000 AGO WHERE WERE TEN YEARS AGO 731 00:35:56,000 --> 00:36:01,000 NINE YEARS AT A THERE WERE 732 00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:04,000 FILIBUSTERS OCCASIONALLY BUT NOT 733 00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:05,000 THOSE THAT WE ARE DEALING WITH 734 00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:08,000 NOW. 735 00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:11,000 >> I WOULD LOOK BACK WITH 736 00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:12,000 NOSTALGIA HAVING WORKED WITH 737 00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:13,000 TRENT LOTT HE WAS EXTREMELY 738 00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:15,000 CONSERVATIVE BUT PRAGMATIC. 739 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:16,000 HE KNEW THINGS HAD TO HAPPEN FOR 740 00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:21,000 THE COUNTRY. 741 00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:22,000 BILL FRIST WAS THE ONLY 742 00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:23,000 PRESIDENT I KNOW THAT WAS CHOSEN 743 00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:27,000 BY THE PRESIDENT RATHER THAN FOR 744 00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:28,000 THE CAUCUS BUT HE WAS A SUPER 745 00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:30,000 NICE GUY THAT WANTED TO DO 746 00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:31,000 THINGS FOR THE COUNTRY. 747 00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:33,000 I LAMENT NOT HAVING PEOPLE TO 748 00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:36,000 WORK WITH IN THAT REGARD. 749 00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:41,000 I DON'T DISLIKE MITCH MCCONNELL. 750 00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:47,000 I'M JUST TERRIBLY AWARE AS I 751 00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:50,000 TRIED TO OUTLINE IN THESE 752 00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:53,000 REMARKS WHAT HE HAS BEEN A PART 753 00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:58,000 OF TO ALLOW PEOPLE LIKE DONALD 754 00:36:58,000 --> 00:36:59,000 TRUMP TO BE AROUND AND BECAUSE 755 00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:04,000 OF WHAT THEY'VE DONE, THERE'S 756 00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:07,000 TREMENDOUS CONCERN BY THE 757 00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:09,000 AMERICAN PEOPLE. 758 00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:11,000 THEY THINK THE SYSTEM IS BROKEN. 759 00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:14,000 SO, I HAVE HOPE THAT THE NEXT 760 00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:17,000 CONGRESS CAN BE BETTER THAT IT 761 00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:19,000 WILL ONLY COME ABOUT IF THERE'S 762 00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:22,000 A RETURN TO COLLEGIALITY AND AS 763 00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:27,000 WE SEE IN THE HOUSE SO WE CAN 764 00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:30,000 GET THINGS DONE. 765 00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:32,000 RIGHT NOW THERE'S THE PATH OF 766 00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:35,000 GETTING NOTHING DONE AND I CAN'T 767 00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:36,000 CONTINUE THAT. 768 00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:39,000 IT'S GOING TO CHANGE REMARKABLY. 769 00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:40,000 >> DO YOU THINK THERE IS A PLACE 770 00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:41,000 FOR THE MODERATES IN THE 771 00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:46,000 REPUBLICAN PARTY TODAY? 772 00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:51,000 >> WELL, DAVE PRIMARY -- THEM. 773 00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:56,000 BUT THE MODERATES WE DID PLENTY 774 00:37:56,000 --> 00:38:01,000 YESTERDAY FOR THE BIRTHDAY AND 775 00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:07,000 HE HAD BEEN IN THE HOUSE FOR A 776 00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:08,000 LONG TIME AND SAID I'M GOING TO 777 00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:09,000 START A HISPANIC CAUCUS AND HE 778 00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:13,000 SAID TO YOU TO BE TRUE TO HIM 779 00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:14,000 ARE YOU GOING TO MEET IN A PHONE 780 00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:15,000 BOOTH AND THAT'S WHAT I SAY THAT 781 00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:16,000 THE MODERATES IN THE SENATE ARE 782 00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:17,000 THEY GOING TO NEED A PHONE BOOTH 783 00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:20,000 CLICKS IT BETTER BE SMALL 784 00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:21,000 BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE MANY 785 00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:22,000 RIGHT NOW. THE REASON WE WERE ABLE TO GET A 786 00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:25,000 FEW THINGS DONE WITH ALL THEIR 787 00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:27,000 OBSTRUCTION IN THE FIRST 788 00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:28,000 CONGRESS I WOULD SEE A FEW 789 00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:32,000 THINGS WE GOT A LOT DONE. 790 00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:37,000 >> IN THE FIRST CONGRESS MOST OF 791 00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:38,000 THEM IT WAS THE BEST EVER. 792 00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:39,000 AND WE GET PEOPLE TO HAVE PEOPLE 793 00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:40,000 TO WORK WITH. 794 00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:43,000 WE HAD SUSAN COLLINS, OLYMPIA 795 00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:44,000 SNOWE AND ARLEN SPECTER. 796 00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:49,000 THOSE WERE THE THREE SUSPECTS WE 797 00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:51,000 USED MOST OFTEN BECAUSE THE 57 798 00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:53,000 58, 59. 799 00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:55,000 BUT KENNEDY WAS SICK AS WE 800 00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:57,000 LEARNED LATER SO THAT'S HOW WE 801 00:38:57,000 --> 00:39:02,000 WOULD GET THINGS DONE. 802 00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:08,000 RIGHT NOW YOU HAVE SUSAN 803 00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:12,000 COLLINS. 804 00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:13,000 >> WE HAVE TIME FOR QUESTIONS IF 805 00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:14,000 YOU COULD PLEASE IDENTIFY 806 00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:16,000 YOURSELF AND PEOPLE GIVE YOU THE 807 00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:21,000 MICROPHONE. 808 00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:23,000 >> I'VE BEEN HERE A FEW TIMES 809 00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:24,000 AND I KNOW YOU WILL DO WHATEVER 810 00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:28,000 YOU WANT. [LAUGHTER] 811 00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:33,000 SPINET IN 2013 YOU BROKE THE 812 00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:34,000 LOGJAM FOR THE APPELLATE COURTS 813 00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:38,000 BUT YOU DIDN'T TRIGGER THE 814 00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:40,000 FILIBUSTER FOR THE NOMINEE. 815 00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:42,000 DO YOU REGRET NOT DOING THAT AND 816 00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:44,000 GOING FORWARD SEEING THERE IS A 817 00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:47,000 NEW PRECEDENT BEING SET IT LOOKS 818 00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:49,000 LIKE THERE WILL BE A HIGH BAR. 819 00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:51,000 DO YOU THINK THAT THE CHANGE OF 820 00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:54,000 RULE SHOULD BE CONSIDERED FOR 821 00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:56,000 THE SUPREME COURT NOMINEE? 822 00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:58,000 >> I DID THAT ON PURPOSE. 823 00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:02,000 I LOOK BACK ON MY EXPERIENCE. 824 00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:06,000 FOR EXAMPLE, CLARENCE THOMAS. 825 00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:10,000 IF YOU LOOK BACK, HE HAD A LOT 826 00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:14,000 OF SUPPORT FOR HIM. 827 00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:17,000 AND I DECIDED -- I WILL BE AS 828 00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:20,000 QUICK AS I CAN, I CALLED HOME TO 829 00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:22,000 SEE HOW THE KIDS WERE DOING IT 830 00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:23,000 TALK TO MY WIFE AT FIVE OR 6:00 831 00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:27,000 IN THE EVENING AND I HAD TO GO 832 00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:29,000 VOTE FOR SOMEBODY I DIDN'T WANT 833 00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:30,000 TO VOTE FOR SHE SAID THEN WHY 834 00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:31,000 ARE YOU GOING TO VOTE FOR THEM 835 00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:34,000 AND I THOUGHT TO MYSELF SHE'S 836 00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:36,000 RIGHT BY SHOULD I VOTE FOR 837 00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:39,000 CLARENCE THOMAS, THERE'S A 838 00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:42,000 COUNTERPART FROM NEVADA AND I 839 00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:43,000 SAID I'M NOT ACQUAINTED WITH FOR 840 00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:45,000 THOMAS. 841 00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:46,000 HE SAID COME ON OVER AND WE WILL 842 00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:47,000 TALK. 843 00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:50,000 SO I DIDN'T VOTE FOR HIM. 844 00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:53,000 THOMAS GOT 52 VOTES. 845 00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:55,000 THERE WASN'T A SUGGESTION OR 846 00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:56,000 WHISPER IN CONGRESS THAT HE 847 00:40:56,000 --> 00:40:59,000 WOULD VOTE AGAINST HIM. 848 00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:04,000 NOW REMEMBER, IF YOU LOOK AT THE 849 00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:08,000 PEOPLE WHO COME TO HIM AS AN 850 00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:09,000 EXAMPLE, DIDN'T GET A MAJORITY 851 00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:14,000 OF THE VOTES IN THE JUDICIARY 852 00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:16,000 COMMITTEE. 853 00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:19,000 HE DIDN'T GET TO VOTE IN THE 854 00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:22,000 COMMITTEE SO I SAVED THE SUPER 855 00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:24,000 MAJORITY SUPREME COURT ON 856 00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:29,000 PURPOSE TO RETURN TO THOSE DAYS 857 00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:32,000 WHERE WE DO WHAT'S THE RIGHT 858 00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:34,000 THING. 859 00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:36,000 TO BE A BETTER COUNTRY TO ANSWER 860 00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:39,000 IF WE FILIBUSTERED THOMAS BUT 861 00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:41,000 THE DECISION WAS MADE NOT TO AND 862 00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:46,000 THE TIME WAS RIGHT. 863 00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:51,000 >> YOU SAID REPEATEDLY THINK 864 00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:55,000 SENATOR MCCONNELL IS GOING TO 865 00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:56,000 CAVE ON THE SECOND PART. 866 00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:57,000 SEVERAL SENATORS YESTERDAY 867 00:41:57,000 --> 00:42:01,000 INCLUDING SENATOR HATCH SAID 868 00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:02,000 THAT THEY WOULD BE OPEN TO 869 00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:03,000 CONSIDERING THE NOMINATION AFTER 870 00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:04,000 THE ELECTION IN THE EVENT A 871 00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:06,000 DEMOCRAT WOULD WIN. 872 00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:08,000 DO YOU THINK THAT IS THE MOST 873 00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:11,000 LIKELY OPTION FOR THIS? 874 00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:14,000 >> YOU CAN DESCRIBE IT IN ANY 875 00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:17,000 WAY THAT WE FEEL APPROPRIATE. 876 00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:22,000 HERE'S HOW I FEEL ABOUT IT. 877 00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:25,000 IT'S ALREADY STARTED AND THIS 878 00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:26,000 MAY NOT SOUND LIKE A GREAT 879 00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:28,000 BREAKTHROUGH BUT WE HAVE A 880 00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:30,000 SIGNIFICANT NUMBER THAT THEY ALL 881 00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:34,000 MEET WITH. 882 00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:35,000 MAYBE THEY WILL BE BROWBEATEN BY 883 00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:38,000 THE LEADERSHIP OF THE SENATE AND 884 00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:39,000 BACK OFF BUT YOU CAN IMAGINE IT 885 00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:40,000 IS A BREAKTHROUGH THAT THEY WILL 886 00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:43,000 SIT DOWN AND TALK BUT THAT IS A 887 00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:44,000 BREAKTHROUGH. 888 00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:48,000 NOW I DON'T THINK WE SHOULD CUT 889 00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:50,000 ANY SLACK TO ANYBODY'S SAYING 890 00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:51,000 LET'S WAIT. 891 00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:53,000 I DON'T AGREE. 892 00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:54,000 I THINK WE SHOULD DO IT NOW. 893 00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:59,000 IT IS UNFAIR TO HAVE THIS THE 894 00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:01,000 SPAM TREATED DIFFERENTLY THAN 895 00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:03,000 ANYBODY ELSE. 896 00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:04,000 LET'S HAVE HIM COME TO THE 897 00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:07,000 SENATE FLOOR AND HAVE A DEBATE 898 00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:08,000 THE AMERICAN PEOPLE CAN WATCH ON 899 00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:13,000 THE COMMITTEE AND ON THE FLOOR. 900 00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:14,000 >> [INAUDIBLE] 901 00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:19,000 >> OF COURSE IT IS POSSIBLE. 902 00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:22,000 THAT'S WHY IT IS A GOOD PRECEDENT THAT WE RUN FOR THE 903 00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:27,000 SUPREME COURT NOMINEE. 904 00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:42,000 >> EVERYBODY KEEPS TALKING ABOUT 905 00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:47,000 THE -- EVERYBODY TALKS ABOUT THE 906 00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:54,000 COURT SEAT BEING VACATED FOR A 907 00:43:54,000 --> 00:43:56,000 YEAR. 908 00:43:56,000 --> 00:43:59,000 >> ACTUALLY MORE THAN THAT. 909 00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:02,000 THE REALITY IS THAT WOULD MEAN 910 00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:04,000 THAT THE NEW PRESIDENT WOULD BE 911 00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:05,000 COMING IN WHO WOULD HAVE 912 00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:08,000 HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS OF CABINET 913 00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:10,000 APPOINTMENTS AND SUBCABINET 914 00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:14,000 APPOINTMENTS TO MAKE AND EVERY 915 00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:15,000 TIME THE NEW PRESIDENT COMES IN 916 00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:17,000 THERE IS A NEW BACKLOG OF THESE 917 00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:18,000 APPOINTMENTS. 918 00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:19,000 IF YOU ADD A SUPREME HAVE A 919 00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:20,000 SUPREME COURT NOMINEE ON TOP OF 920 00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:23,000 ALL OF THAT, IT COULD GO A YEAR 921 00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:26,000 AND A HALF OR TWO YEARS AND 922 00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:29,000 BLOCK THE NOMINATIONS OF OTHER 923 00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:33,000 CABINET. 924 00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:35,000 >> YOUR EXPERIENCE WORKING IN 925 00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:36,000 THE FEDERAL BEER WALKER C. IS 926 00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:37,000 VERY IMPORTANT TO THIS ISSUE WE 927 00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:42,000 HAVE BEFORE US. 928 00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:45,000 WE HAVE HAD SCORES AND SCORES OF 929 00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:49,000 NOMINATIONS THAT HAVE BEEN HELD 930 00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:53,000 UP. 931 00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:56,000 IT'S REALLY HARD TO COMPREHEND. 932 00:44:56,000 --> 00:45:01,000 AMBASSADORS EVEN HELD UP BY 933 00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:03,000 SERVICE OFFICERS, THE MOST 934 00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:05,000 NONPOLITICAL PEOPLE IN THE WORLD 935 00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:08,000 AND ALL WE HAD TO DO UNDER THE 936 00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:12,000 STATUTE IS PASS AN APPROVED A 937 00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:16,000 PAY RAISE. 938 00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:17,000 THESE ARE PEOPLE THAT WORK IN SOME OF THE MOST REMOTE AND 939 00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:20,000 DIFFICULT PLACES IN THE WORLD 940 00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:22,000 AND THEY'VE HELD UP PAST THEIR 941 00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:25,000 PAY RAISE. 942 00:45:25,000 --> 00:45:26,000 SO HE'S HE IS ABSOLUTELY RIGHT. 943 00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:30,000 WE ALREADY HAVE SO MANY PEOPLE 944 00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:35,000 THAT SHOULD BE WORKING IN THE 945 00:45:35,000 --> 00:45:36,000 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT THAT AREN'T. 946 00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:39,000 A LOT OF THEM GO BACK TO THEIR 947 00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:41,000 REGULAR JOBS, SO YOUR POINT IS 948 00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:46,000 VERY WELL TAKEN. 949 00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:51,000 >> MY NAME IS JEFF AND I'M WITH 950 00:45:51,000 --> 00:45:53,000 IB CAPITAL. 951 00:45:53,000 --> 00:45:56,000 >> I COULDN'T HEAR THAT. 952 00:45:56,000 --> 00:45:58,000 >> IB CAPITAL. 953 00:45:58,000 --> 00:46:00,000 LAST WEEK THERE WAS A PRESS 954 00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:01,000 CONFERENCE WITH THE PRE- 955 00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:05,000 MINISTERS OF CANADA AND 956 00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:07,000 PRESIDENT OBAMA AT THIS POINT 957 00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:10,000 WAS TALKING ABOUT NEGOTIATIONS 958 00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:14,000 AND SAID AT TIMES YOU ONLY GET 959 00:46:14,000 --> 00:46:15,000 ABOUT 60% OF WHAT YOU LIKE AND 960 00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:20,000 IF YOU GET 60% OF WHAT YOU LIKE 961 00:46:20,000 --> 00:46:21,000 YOU SORT OF HOLD YOUR NOSE BUT 962 00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:24,000 THE OTHER PARTY HOLDS THEIRS AS 963 00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:26,000 WELL THAT YOU GET A NEGOTIATION 964 00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:28,000 OUT OF IT SO I AM KIND OF 965 00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:31,000 CURIOUS RATHER THAN CREATING 966 00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:33,000 THIS ADVERSARIAL APPROACH IF YOU 967 00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:38,000 COULD SOMEHOW TAKE A STEP, BE 968 00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:40,000 MAGNANIMOUS, TAKE THAT ACROSS 969 00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:44,000 THE RUBICON IN SOME RESPECTS BY 970 00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:49,000 HAVING AN ISSUE THAT LET'S SAY 971 00:46:49,000 --> 00:46:52,000 ABOUT THE LEADER THAT HE 972 00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:55,000 SPECIFICALLY WANTS AND NEGOTIATE WITH RESPECT TO THAT PARTICULAR 973 00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:57,000 ISSUES SUCH AS STANDING BACK 974 00:46:57,000 --> 00:46:59,000 FROM GUANTÁNAMO BAY FOR INSTANT 975 00:46:59,000 --> 00:47:03,000 GIVEN A PARTICULAR ISSUE TO HIM 976 00:47:03,000 --> 00:47:06,000 WITH RESPECT TO THE AGREEMENT 977 00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:07,000 THE SUPREME COURT'S -- 978 00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:12,000 >> HERE'S THE PROBLEM WE HAVE. 979 00:47:13,000 --> 00:47:14,000 I DON'T MEAN THIS IN A NEGATIVE 980 00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:15,000 SENSE BUT IN THE PAST THAT'S THE 981 00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:20,000 WAY TO DO THINGS. 982 00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:30,000 I'VE BEEN FORTUNATE TO GET A 983 00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:31,000 NUMBER OF THINGS IN THE WALL BUT 984 00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:33,000 I LAW BUT I NEVER GOT WHAT I 985 00:47:33,000 --> 00:47:34,000 WANTED. WE ALWAYS HAVE TO CHANGE THINGS 986 00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:39,000 AND COMPROMISE THINGS. 987 00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:51,000 >> THEY THE FELLA START THINGS 988 00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:55,000 THEY WANTED. 989 00:47:55,000 --> 00:47:57,000 >> I THINK SOMETHING WE WORKED 990 00:47:57,000 --> 00:47:59,000 ON HERE A GREAT DEAL ON 991 00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:00,000 INFRASTRUCTURE WE HAVE 992 00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:01,000 REPUBLICANS IN THE 993 00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:03,000 INFRASTRUCTURE BILL IN 2007 AND 994 00:48:03,000 --> 00:48:08,000 THEN 20 OF EIGHT AND 2009. 995 00:48:09,000 --> 00:48:10,000 WE COULDN'T GET THE BILL PASSED 996 00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:13,000 AGAIN AND ALL THAT WOULD CHANGE 997 00:48:13,000 --> 00:48:14,000 IS THAT HE HAD A DIFFERENT PRESIDENT. 998 00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:17,000 >> THE THINGS WE HAVE DONE FOR 999 00:48:17,000 --> 00:48:18,000 EXAMPLE WE LOST A MILLION 1000 00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:23,000 TEACHERS AND POLICE OFFICERS AND 1001 00:48:23,000 --> 00:48:24,000 FIREFIGHTERS DURING THE FIRST 1002 00:48:24,000 --> 00:48:28,000 YEAR OF THE MELTDOWN SO IT WAS 1003 00:48:28,000 --> 00:48:32,000 OFFERED ON THE SENATE FLOOR 1004 00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:34,000 SAYING LET'S GET ALL THOSE PEOPLE BACK. 1005 00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:36,000 WOULD BE GREAT FOR THE ECONOMY 1006 00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:38,000 AND THE SAFETY OF THE COUNTRY AND HERE'S HOW WE'RE GOING TO 1007 00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:43,000 PAY FOR IT. 1008 00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:45,000 THEY WOULD PAY EXCESS OF TWO 1009 00:48:45,000 --> 00:48:48,000 TENTHS OF 1% WHICH PEOPLE DIDN'T 1010 00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:50,000 CARE THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN HAPPY 1011 00:48:50,000 --> 00:48:55,000 TO DO THAT. 1012 00:49:08,000 --> 00:49:12,000 I RAN THE FLOOR FOR SIX YEARS. 1013 00:49:12,000 --> 00:49:13,000 I DID THE FLOOR AND HE DID THE 1014 00:49:13,000 --> 00:49:15,000 POLITICAL STUFF AND THAT'S WHERE 1015 00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:17,000 I GOT TO KNOW TRENT LOTT IS A 1016 00:49:17,000 --> 00:49:18,000 WELL. I WAS ON THE FLOOR FROM THE 1017 00:49:18,000 --> 00:49:22,000 MOMENT THEY CAME IN AND I TOOK 1018 00:49:22,000 --> 00:49:23,000 CARE OF THE REPUBLICANS AND I 1019 00:49:23,000 --> 00:49:26,000 WOULD MAKE SURE THERE WAS A 1020 00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:31,000 UNANIMOUS CONSENT REQUEST. 1021 00:49:35,000 --> 00:49:36,000 BUT IF THEY DID NOTHING THERE IS 1022 00:49:36,000 --> 00:49:37,000 NO ONE TO WORK WITH ANYMORE. 1023 00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:40,000 THEY ARE AFRAID. 1024 00:49:40,000 --> 00:49:44,000 WHAT THEY WILL DO IS DEMOCRATS 1025 00:49:44,000 --> 00:49:45,000 AND REPUBLICANS WILL INTRODUCE A 1026 00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:47,000 BILL KNOWING THAT IT IS GOING 1027 00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:50,000 NOWHERE SO THE ISSUE A PRESS 1028 00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:52,000 RELEASE.COM. 1029 00:49:52,000 --> 00:49:56,000 >> ONE LAST QUESTION. 1030 00:49:56,000 --> 00:49:57,000 >> SENATOR, I WANTED TO SEE HOW 1031 00:49:57,000 --> 00:50:00,000 CONCERNED ARE YOU THAT 1032 00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:03,000 DEMOCRATIC TURNOUT IN THE 1033 00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:04,000 PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY HAS BEEN 1034 00:50:04,000 --> 00:50:05,000 BEEN LOWER THAN THE REPUBLICAN TURNOUT? 1035 00:50:05,000 --> 00:50:08,000 YOU TALKED ABOUT DOUBLING DOWN 1036 00:50:08,000 --> 00:50:09,000 ON IDEAS IDEAS BUT HOW DOES THAT 1037 00:50:09,000 --> 00:50:14,000 TRANSLATE INTO VOTES? 1038 00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:17,000 >> IT'S SOMETHING WE CAN'T 1039 00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:21,000 IGNORE THAT MOST PUNDITS AND 1040 00:50:21,000 --> 00:50:22,000 POLITICAL SCIENTISTS BELIEVE 1041 00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:25,000 THAT THE MASSIVE TURNOUTS HAVE 1042 00:50:25,000 --> 00:50:30,000 BEEN AS A RESULT OF THE RIVALRY 1043 00:50:30,000 --> 00:50:32,000 WITHIN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. 1044 00:50:32,000 --> 00:50:34,000 WITH THE DEMOCRATS WE'VE HAD 1045 00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:36,000 THIS GOING WITH HILLARY AND 1046 00:50:36,000 --> 00:50:39,000 BERNIE FOR A LONG TIME AND IT 1047 00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:43,000 WAS KIND OF A LOVEFEST IN THE 1048 00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:48,000 LAST MONTH OR SO THEY HAD A 1049 00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:50,000 LITTLE NEGATIVE STUFF BACK AND 1050 00:50:50,000 --> 00:50:51,000 FORTH SO NOT AS MUCH INTEREST IN 1051 00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:55,000 THE DEMOCRATS AS REPUBLICANS. 1052 00:50:55,000 --> 00:50:57,000 I THINK DONALD TRUMP BROUGHT 1053 00:50:57,000 --> 00:51:00,000 PEOPLE OUT