is there any indication of how or when authorities are going to actually get to an area like this? >> reporter: no. and i'll tell you something amazing, anderson, the first help that arrived came from bahamians are abaco which has been destroyed. how people come in a boat with water and gas from abaco, it's amazing and speaks to the strength of bahamians. why is it that these people are coming first rather than the government. i can we get there but the government can't get there. >> thanks. we want to hear from chris. >> i am chris cuomo. welcome to prime time. look who's finally back. congress. impeachment drums beating again. time to test a yjudiciary membe about this. what about waking on speaker pelosi, what she said about the new push.

did president trump put one of our top spies at risk with loose lips? did his tweets and talks about what was going to happen at camp david blow a cover? valerie blaine is with us. she knows a bunch about deals with bad guys in the middle east and what can ruin someone's cover. she's now running for congress. wait until you see her ad. she says she has some scores to settle. new week, same call to action. what do you say? let's get after it. latest word tonight is that speaker nancy pelosi will not say if the house is conducting an impeachment inquiry or just investigating. she keeps saying that impeachment as an outcome is, quote, a possibility. she appears to be down playing the judiciary committee's new moves to ready the rules that

would guide potential impeachment hearings. chairman nadler has scheduled a vote thursday to define parameters. one of the members on that committee, steve cohen, has been itching to get this going since the beginning of time, it feels to me. he joins us now. good to see you congressman. welcome back. >> thank you, chris. good to be with you. >> let's test this. first, what is this vote we expect somewhere around thursday? why does it matter? >> it matters because it formally sets up ai house judiciary inquiry into impeachment of donald j. trump and sets out the same parameters existent under the republican team that had the clinton impeachment and when the nixon impeachment came up. same rules. >> two rules not to do it to test the idea. first is nancy pelosi doesn't seem happy about it. she says investigating is enough. the people have not said overwhelmingly that that is what they want. and she seems to have a

sensitivity about whether or not this works for you guys going into the election. >> well, first of all, my newspaper in memphis used to be owned by scripts howard and they had a motto about give light and the people will see the way. the congress needs to give light and the people will see the way. we saw it in the nixon impeachment hearings. 17% approval when they started, over 60% when they firned. we need to investigate. we have a responsibility. we have a duty. we're going to pursue that now. >> we were flooded with the lights of the mueller probe and all kinds of things going on. it's not apples to apples where people were during the nixon administration. maybe a little in the weeds but not for this audience is that you by formalizing it and centralizing it in the judiciary committee, you wind up having a lot of these other committees that are looking into all of these different roots of intrigue surrounding this white house. they have to stop. are you winding up centralizing

it and therefore stopping efficiency? >> i don't know if that's necessarily true and i don't think they have to stop. and i don't think that we can -- that we can't incorporate their hearings into an impeachment report. the bottom line is there is a cornucopia of instances of corruption and violations of the constitution. we have a president who shreds the constitution, has no rule, no law, no commandment that moses passed down, nothing that will stop him from doing whatever he wants. >> no crimes, not an agent of russia says mr. mueller who everybody was supposed to respect. >> not a direct agent, but they had over 150 contacts with his campaign with russians. they welcomed the interference. trump even went on television, russia if you're listening -- there was a reason he said that, because he knew they were

listening. they had people who could contact different places. we'll find out. what's in the grand jury testimony that was redacted by barr? trump's roy cone. may be the smoking gun or the arsenal or the garrison that breaks this thing free. there's a reason barr redacted certain testimony. some of it i think to protect trump's sons. others, we don't know. but he took it upon himself. >> grand jury is very sensitive. >> grand jury sensitive, but every instance of the past the attorney general has joined with the committee in these instances saying let them have it. this time they're not going to do it. >> eric holder didn't join about turning certain things over either. it's not unheard of for an ag to not want to -- >> there was not impeachment of obama. this will be impeachment inquiry. >> fair point. this is another thing that is not as pressing but to me every bit as important. the more you guys go down the

road of impeachment -- forget it's never going to happen in the senate. it's almost impossible that anything happens. i know nancy pelosi is saying you're legislating and getting things done, but you won't get anything done with the senate if this happens happening or maybe not at all. do you believe there's any chance that any meaningful legislation happens in this session that started today? >> not as long as mitch mcconnell is the leader of the senate. he's said he's the grim reaper. he said that's the graveyard. he's not passed or put on the floor for consideration two gun bills we passed, one on background checks, one on the charleston loophole which is close to 90% as well. he won't even let people vote on it. mcconnell wants nothing to happen. he's happy the way things are. he's an aider and abetter of trump. and someday down the line there's going to be a reckoning and people will see this is not only the worst president of the united states but one of the

worst human beings to grace this earth. >> the idea of if there's one thing you can say about this president, he is transactional. but based on what you just said, there's 0 chance he will be working with you on anything because you just broke one of the main rules. you take a shot at this president, there will be no swallowing of any type of bile. he's going to come at you. the democrats, you seem to be saying, have zero interest in working with this president? >> there's no way to work with him. he hasn't worked with us on anything. he lies about everything. his word is zero. i didn't go his inauguration. the man is despicable. there's no way you can negotiation just like china faux hads and north korea knows that you can't negotiate with a person who lies and has no credibility. the united states is not seen on the globe with other world leaders the same way it used to be. people don't have respect for trump. they like americans. they can't understand how we elected such an unusual character as our president.

>> what is the point? hold on a second. what is the point of having a session then? is it just about impeachment for you guys? pelosi says she's legislating. how can she legislate if you guys won't work with the president to get a job. enough with the grim reaper bit, it's time to breathe life into laws. bring me stuff. >> we passed ethics preform bills to clean up with swamp. the swamp is him, not us. we passed health care legislation. we passed legislation on all kind of subjects. guns, you name it. they won't touch any of it. they're not going to touch anything at all. all they want to do is approve judges who will be right wing conservative judges. >> but aren't you supposed to be down there to cut deals? isn't that what you're supposed to do? debate, get angry at each other, but then find common ground. that's why you're put there, isn't it?

>> to some extent, but that's when you had a president you had common ground with. nancy has gone to him, wanted common ground on the transportation bill, infrastructure bill. as soon as we said we're going to consider discussions about impeachment, he said there will be nothing about infrastructure because he comes first on everything, not the country. anything we've had, he wants to repeal the affordable care act. he doesn't have anything to replace it with. he wants people not to have insurance. we want to keep the affordable care act and reform it. you can't work with the man. there's no place he goes. he wants to destroy environmental laws. took us out of paris climate accord, the iran nuclear agreement. we don't show leadership to the world on climate chak. we don't work with iran that's working on a nuclear capability. i was just in australia not long ago. everybody said you don't go about deals with china unilaterally. you go with your allies as a group and you go to the world

trade organization for relief. this man doesn't know what the world trade organization is or he doesn't care. >> here's the thing. i hear your criticisms. however, if you do not win control of the senate, if you do not win this next election, you guys are going to have some burden on your hands because you're going to have to figure out somehow to justify being in office if your goal is to get something done. i hear what you're saying. i understand your arguments. i appreciate you making them to my audience. we'll see what happens in this vote maybe thursday. >> you know this better than me, i think mario cuomo would be with me. he would stand up to justice and speak the truth to power. >> i'm not much in the business of guessing what my dearly departed man would think. he was a good man, but he said don't put a label on me except i'm a progressive pragmatist. he knew he had to get things done. he taught it to his son. you can say bad things about my brother in politics, the man

knows how to get a deal done. steve cohen, appreciate the good word about my father. be well. >> he was one of my heroes. >> mine too. i don't know what he would think. often i feel it would be condemning of me and my actions. the eve of a very important election for the president for 2020. that's why the president was down in north carolina tonight doing what he can to increase the odds, what are the odds? what's going on in the third and the ninth district? the diz a the wizard, seeing red or blue and why do i care? next. at t-mobile, we can't give you unlimited summer, but we can give you unlimited talk, text and data for just $30 a line for 4 lines. and that comes on our newest signal. no signal reaches farther or is more reliable.

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troops for the north carolina ninth district. this is a redo. remember there was a scheme uncovered and this had to be redone. democrat dan mccreed i did is on the ballot. the republican he was running against goeb. there's a new one there. dan bishop, could be a squeaker, could be, but why does it matter. let's bring in the "wizard of oz." one, third district and ninths district we're not talking about the third because the representative there died, best to his family. it is highly republican should go republican. ninth is as to up, you say. convince me. >> this is a really republican district. trump won it by 12 in 2016. >> so the story is over. they're going to win. why are you taking my time? >> okay. why am i taking your time? i think this is a key reason i'm taking your time. take a look at the special election results between january

2017 and october of 2018. the average democrat outperformed clinton by 12 per seine tanl points. what was going on here? this was the same margin that trump won the detective by. if that same trend that you saw all the way back in these special elections holds for what's going on in north carolina's 9ths district, we'll have a very tight race on our hands. >> what else can you tell me how it looks? >> another thing to keep in mind and why i think the republican is perhaps slightly favored, dems representing districts where trump won biggest. there are only four districts currently represented by democrats in which trump won by a larger margin than he won in north carolina. >> if he wins by a significant number, it's more likely the republicans will win but you're balancing that with what happened in the midterms where there's an outperformance because there's a negative reflex on him, so that may balance out the disputed edge. >> right. we're essentially looking at

votes for the house are very much driven by trump. look at what happened in the midterm elections in 2018. if you approved of donald trump's job performance, republicans won that vote by 77 percentage points. but if you disapproved of trump's job performance, democrats won that by 82 points. we know trump is in very negative territory nationally he's a little bit more positive in north carolina. but in the limited polling i've seen, he's about breaking even in that district. to me what you're seeing is a national trend away from trump and in a district as republican as north carolina's 9th district, you have even ground. >> obviously he agrees with you. he picked that place. in terms of who is running, does that change the calculus? >> i don't think so because in this day and age, it's all about the president of the united states. >> even with the stink on this race, there has been ballot screwing around? >> if mark harris was still on the ballot, i would agree with you. they got a new republican dan

bishop in there. i don't think he has the stink on him. the polling indicates a very tight race. i keep going back to this, it's very much in line with the trend we saw in the 2017-'18 elections. and trump's approval ratings have stayed strong year on year. that's bad news for republicans because remember what happened when we saw that special election advantage for the democrats in 2017-2018, democrats were able to win the house overwhelmingly in 2018. >> so, success for republicans you're kind of arguing is failure averted, that they don't want to lose this one because it will start a narrative they don't want to hear. >> right. this is just bad news. >> always a pleasure. >> my pleasure to be with you. >> shalom. >> shalom. >> a big cnn scoop. the president may have put a top u.s. spy in jeopardy, prompting the cia to take drastic measures and remove a source. is this really there or is it just about timing? we've learned some new details.

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a cnn exclusive. here is where this removed story, this story about this removed spy from russia, here's why the story is resonating. do you remember that weird meeting back in may of 2017 in the oval office? the president seemed all palsy-walsy with the russians? then we learned that this president surprised our intel folks by discussing highly classified information? we do know that there was a successful covert mission to extract one of america's top spies from russia. we're learning more tonight about just how critical that spy was. sources tell our jim sciutto that the spy was our highest level informant inside the

kremlin, even providing images of documents on vladimir putin's desk. the intel went back more than a decade. was this about what the president said? if you look at the reporting, it also could have been a long decision tree. who better to discuss this with than a former operative. former cia covert operations officer valerie plame joins us. today plame launched her bid for congress in new mexico as a democrat. i want to discuss that, but i want to discuss this story first. good luck to you in your race and thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> i know you've looked at the reporting on this. more importantly you understand this from the perspective of the inside. there are two versions here. one is things got a little dicey. they thought maybe they had to remove the source. the source didn't want to do it and they questioned the source and they were really nervous and prevailed upon the source to be extracted. and that's all that ever

happened, had nothing to do with the president. the other one is that the timeline lines up that when the president said those things in that meeting that we're not even really sure what he said but we know intel people didn't look it and they didn't like it in the context of russia, this covert mission to remove the source happened. coincidence or relevant? >> recruiting a source with key access is really, really difficult. it happens particularly in difficult climates, in difficult environments like russia maybe once in a generation. so having something go wrong is -- can be catastrophic. the cia takes as a sacred obligation protecting our sources. so if something has gone wrong, we have an obligation to exfiltrate them out safely. do the best we can. and it seems as though this particular source was one of our highest placed. he was providing all sorts of

information. although he wasn't in putin's inner circle, he did provide a great deal of intelligence that was useful to us and helped our national security. and then that just -- with him gone or her, that just dried up. >> you know, there's an interesting line in the "new york times" i'll read through. former intelligence officials said there was no public evidence that mr. trump directly endangered the source. i know there's no public evidence. otherwise we wouldn't be asking people the question. what do you think the likelihood is that this president said something that made this happen? >> well, we know that trump has made a habit actually of giving classified information when he shouldn't. there was just recently the issue with the classified satellite image of iran. there are other ones as well. so it possibly could have happened.

we do know that in the run-up to the election and then following afterwards, there was deep concern among the intelligence community that the elections had been compromised, that the elections were seeking to meddle. so, of course -- you know, you're right. there's no public confirmation, but it is certainly open to speculation. >> we have heard from other people in your position who were once inside now outside that they've heard from people about concerns with this administration. have people you knew when you were working for the government said this white house is of any particular concern, this president? >> without question. i mean, there is a lot of daylight between the intelligence community and the president and that is never good for our national security. between the time as a campaigner -- >> is there concern he would compromise his own country? >> well, he might do it by not exactly understanding the role of intelligence because it's clear he has disdain for them.

and if he feels that they are somehow getting in his way, he has no compunction about pushing back. and we do know without question that the russians interfered with our elections. so, i think investigations are still going on, and as we know from the mueller report, he was not exonerated. >> there's no question about that. one of the things that would have been nice to know going into the mueller probe was that he was accepting the understanding within the d.o.j. that you cannot indict a sitting president. i think that would have helped manage expectations much better. that's not your concern. let me ask you something else. the president is trying to cut a deal with the taliban. the taliban is in place there. the people have a level of acceptance. the government has not been effective there and maybe they were going around to get this done. the president hears about it, he wants to bring them in, meet, take ownership of the deal, celebrate it getting down, have the guys come to camp david.

what's your feeling about doing a deal with the taliban in the first place? >> chris, so my twins were toddlers when 9/11 happened. they're now in college, and we are still on combat footing in afghanistan. this is an endless war. i am always in favor of diplomacy, whether camp david then and there was the right choice, it's hard to say. we were not privy to the discussions leading up to it, but it is an endless war and i'm against that. >> the president has also said he is not about having america blood and treasure abroad. he doesn't see advantage for it. so he would want to get this deal done would seem like something. so, now he's getting criticism that he screwed it up by talking about it too much. do you think that's fair criticism, or do you think that whatever gets the deal done is

fine? >> he likes to fashion himself as the deal maker and so far he's not batting too well on any, whether it's north korea or iran or anywhere else. i think our credibility -- his credibility around the world has plummeted and as a result the united states is in a much weaker position. the foreign policy of this administration seems to be by tweet, and it is both reckless and feckless. >> he was saying at his rally tonight that the reason president obama is more popular in europe than he is is that he's actually doing his job, not just kissing up to everybody over there. i want to take a break and you've come to a conclusion that you believe these things strongly enough about foreign policy a you want to get in to politics and you have some campaign ad that people are talking about. let's take a break, show the ad and talk about why you're doing this and how you will fare. it's time to be tested, valerie plame. stick around after the commercial. >> thank you.

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all right. we're back with former u.s. operative valerie plame who today launched a bid for congress in new mexico as a democrat. her dramatic new commercial is getting a lot of reviews. here's a look. >> i was an undercover cia operative. my assignment was preventing

rogue states and terrorists from getting nuclear weapons. you name a hot spot, i lived it. then dick cheney's chief of staff took revenge against my husband and leaked my identity. his name, scooter libby. guess who pardoned him last year. i come from ukrainian jewish immigrants. dad was in the air force. my brother almost died in vietnam. my service was cut short when my own government betrayed me. we left washington to raise our kids in new mexico, one of the best places on earth. now i'm running for congress because we're going backwards on national security, health care and women's rights. we need to turn our country around. and, yes, the cia really does teach us how to drive like this. you've probably heard my name.

and, mr. president, i've got a few scores to settle. >> all right. there's the ad. let's talk to the person who wants to represent congress from that district there in new mexico. the ad getting a lot of talk. that's why you did it. good. now why do you want to run? what do you want to do for the men and women who would put new you in office in the new mexico? >> my district is northern new mexico. i'm running because i want to take a searing life experience of being outed and take the judgment i had to display every day in the cia, my knowledge of washington and put it to good work, good use right away for northern new mexico. i -- this opportunity presented itself. it doesn't happen too often. i thought i can do that, and i can do it well. >> are you being driven by a particular agenda or animus? you say in the ad i've got scores i want to settle, mr. president. that's kind of ominous, right?

>> well, i think -- mm-hm. i think the ad is a great metaphor. i believe we are going backwards on things like women's rights, on health care, on national security. so i have a record of speaking truth to power, and i have a loud, clear voice. i want to go to washington and on day one get to work. >> what are the scores you want to settle? >> i want to work for the people of northern new mexico. the scores i want to settle are get us back on track in ways -- the house as you know has passed so much legislation on gun control, health care, women's rights, and yet none of this has been taken up by the senate. so, i hope the election of november 2020 helps right that. >> so you got ben ray luhan in the senate. that creates the opening. i get that. there's a new level of scrutiny for you here. in the ad you tell your story about how you got outed and you finger scooter libby.

but it wasn't him. it was armitage reportedly that told bob novak, may he rest in peace, your identity. yes, libby got in trouble for things, he got a felony conviction and it was bush that gave him the first break. trump gave him the second break. why name him? >> scooter libby was convicted of obstruction of justice among four other counts, which means he lied, they couldn't get to the bottom of everything. we do know that senior bush white house officials pushed the story and my name to at least half a dozen reporters. and we know that scooter libby spoke to "new york times" reporter judith miller. so, you know, it's an ad. we're condensing it down. but i think it's fair to say that scooter libby was one of those who was pushing this false narrative. >> all right. here's the other stick you're getting hit with right now is that you've retweeted or shown interest in articles that are put out by a website that is a

platform for extremist thought and anti-semitism. what are you doing having anything to do with a site like that if you want to represent new mexico as a democrat? >> when i retweeted that, i apologized profusely and multiple times. it's not who i am and it's not what i believe. i told my twins when they were growing up many, many times when you apologize, you have to say it with sincerity so that it's meaningful and it was sincere. so people can only judge me from my words and actions going forward. >> why did you do it? >> because i didn't read the article all the way through and i was simply focused with the mistake i thought of getting out of the iran nuclear deal, which i thought was a really bad idea and that's proven to be true. >> if it were one to be one and done, but you've shown other interest in that website before. why would you have anything to do with a web site that is operated or at least provided by a guy who is a holocaust denier?

>> because social media and twitter can be a pretty hateful environment, and it doesn't exactly lend itself to thoughtful discussion or reading all the way through. i made a terrible mistake, and i hurt people whose beliefs i respect. and i apologized for it. >> i get it. i'm not beating you over the head with that one instance. i'm saying there was more than one. is there something about that site that you like or that you are think is relevant for people? >> sometimes all sorts of things come across, as you know, in social media that you don't read all the way through and, you know, and that's why i'm not on twitter anymore. >> so let me ask you this. you get into congress. you get through this scrutiny and it's going to be coming because that's the nature of the game right now, especially when you give people easy things to reach out and judge you by. you make it through, you get in. what do you expect you bring to the job that no one can match?

>> i know what i can do, which is on day one i hit the ground running. it's a blessing and a curse. people know my name. i expect that i don't have to wait around for years to have that seniority so that people return my phone calls. new mexico is my home. it's where we moved when we left washington, d.c., and i have lived and worked and traveled all over the world, and this is the only place, the first place, that really feels like home. so i want to be able to give back. we were very warmly welcomed when we arrived here. i dove into the community, and this opportunity allows me, hopefully, to serve my country again. and it's something i would love to do. i'm going all over this district, which is huge, and i believe -- i'm very concerned about my country right now, and i want to be able to say i tried. >> valerie plame, thank you very much for giving us your insight into these other stories and

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you know kids, right. god forbid they be nice to somebody in this situation but they mocked the homemade version. he is teacher saw him crying and shared the story online. ide love to know what she said to the other kids. now our story is what the university did. they did this -- that drawing inspired an official tennessee tee. d. lemon, come on. gotta love it. that's us on our best and worst story. >> they didn't realize there's always the bright side. what you can't do for yourself, most times god will do for you. so this, his t-shirt, will probably be more popular than anything those kids who teased him will do in their lives. probably. maybe not but probably. and that is the coolest looking college t-shirt i've ever seen. i'm going to do that with mine, my lsu shirt. make my own. it won't be that popular. but, you know, good for him. i hope he gets proceeds from

that, by the way. >> i hope the validation gives him something that is more valuable currency than anything else. i mean what i said. i would love to know what the teacher said to those in the class. i'm so happy she put the story out there. kids have to be taught at that age, i know you think it's funny and i know you think it's fun and you'd rather be a a group making fun of this kid than be part of the group that's being made fun of. thank god he was celebrated for doing what others mocked him for. >> they kept his information, his identity private, right. >> yeah. >> i've love to see the kid. i'd love to have him and his family on. i'd love to know because he did a great thing. are you know, the vols did a great thing, too. >> i love it. and good for them for doing it. >> how you feeling? >> better than i deserve. how you feeling? >> i'm feeling all right. i'm excited. >> what are you excited about? i knew this question was leading somewhere. >> no, no.

no, no, no. it is not about you. >> i know you were asking me that as a setup. what's going on? >> because i'm going to talk about a lot of things. i'm going to talk about obviously what's happening in politics and the world. i'm also going to talk a lit about -- >> i have. >> it's drawing controversy, from critics. >> a lot of people love it. i don't want to give away your story. the act is out there already. he talks about people, about kids, who were victimized with michael jackson. and he makes a joke out of the surprise of that. and a lot of people don't like it. >> right. he talks about the lgbtq community. he talks about all kinds of things. he talks about political correctness and what have you. so i'm just wondering what it means for a society that the average person loves it, right, and then the critics hate it.

and then i'm wondering if it's a turning point with political correctness. that's it. the person who is going to share his opinion about it really is charlamagne tha god. that's why i'm excited. i have charlamagne tha god coming on. that's one of the subjects we'll talk about. >> good cause for excitement. i'll see you in a second. >> see you. all right. now, he's talking about what's happening. i'm going to be talking about what i think isn't going to happen. i have a message for congress, or actually i think you should have a message for congress. they just got back in session. you heard steve cohen today. they're not there to tick off a list of items for you necessarily, so what is it about? the idea of doing their job, what does that mean to you, and what does it have to start meaning? it could be the key to a lot of things we need, next. all right. that's the only circumstance to which you would separate. can't imagine doing it any other way. this is caitlin dickerson from the new york times. this isn't the only case. very little documentation. lo que yo quiero estar con mi hijo. i know that's not true. and the shelters really don't know what to do with them. i just got another person at d.h.s. to confirm this.

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all right. so after six weeks at home, congress is back in session for now. can you believe the house only

has 13 working days on the schedule this month? then after that, they're going to take another two weeks off again. we're told these long recesses are needed so they can go home and better understand what you, the voter, wants. the senate majority leader said the right words today. >> we come here to fight for our neighbors, for the places we love, and are proud to hail from. >> now, maybe but it kind of feels like b.s. and i would argue that mcconnell is at the heart of the inaction. i would argue they go home and raise money as often as to do anything else. and too often these days that means pitching opposition to the other side. and that's because of a couple of things. fringe elements of right and left seem to have huge sway over this white house and this president and even the top of the field to replace him. the radical left versus the rabid right. but what if instead of the hate

parade, you voted on what got done? not only would that get more done for you, it would also reflect reality. we are not these fringes. we are not our extremes. people have to work to divide us. think about it this way. major social issues, like access to weapons, intractable in washington, d.c. the president even double-speaks all the time on this. i'll do it, i don't want to do it, yes, no, phone call, forget it. background checks, universally, all gun purchases, 90% of you are in favor of it in this country. red flag laws, 76% of you. the climate crisis, a solid majority wants a plan to reduce the use of fossil fuels. look, there are the numbers. plans for both have already passed the house, going nowhere in the senate. same for election security. lowering prescription drug costs, equal pay. an overwhelming majority of you say you want these things.

see, people agree. it's special interests, it's fringes. they all appear to have zero chance of going anywhere in the little time that congress actually has. what happened to the power of the majority? one problem is, of course, concentration of opposition in the senate, which has become the land of no unless the president says yes. you could argue he should be tweeting and rallying folks to do something on these issues. tell mitch mcconnell stop being the grim reaper. breathe life into these laws. but he isn't. the one thing both sides agree are going to get done in this fortnight session, they really believe -- this is what they're going to do. they're going to vote to delay doing the job of keeping the government funded and open. i mean the irony of it. there are some 12 annual spending bills they need to pass. the house has done 10 or 12 of them. all right, so fine. the senate has done zero. this nation was founded on the idea of fierce debate. we welcome it. we actively participate on this

show. we do it all the time. but the point of debate is what? it's to find common ground. yet more and more opposition is what seems to keep people in office. what they stand against is more operative than what they get done. i know this president can rally a crowd and drive a news cycle by saying who and what he's against, and his party stands quiet and waits for his direction. but you are the ones who put all of them there, right, left, and reasonable. you have to remember these men and women work for you. so many of you say to me here on the show and social media and on my radio show, so sick of the division and the toxic negativity. i'm so sick of it. so change it. start calling your representatives tomorrow. email them. say, get things done in this session, or i'm not going to vote for you, man or woman. then reward that progress. tell them.

you didn't put them there to tear the other side down. you put them there to build this country up. tell them to do their damn job. and if they don't, remember and vote. and i'm telling you, you will see if they see that progress keeps them in, progress will come. thank you for watching. "cnn tonight" with d. lemon starts right now. >> you really think we're a majority rule country when you look at the electoral college, you look at the polling when it comes to guns, when you look at what happens in social media? part of my conversation i'm going to have, as i said, later on with charlamagne, it's the smaller group, the loudest or most influential. >> i think that you have to separate what happens in elections and what happens in certain discreet cultural issues and debates that get picked up by the media. yes, i think the majority matters a lot. i think it's what the majority wants in this country thatou