pierce and talk with people experiencing a changing environment gradually the ice disappears earlier and it keeps retreating our future depends on what happens here. is unlike. the arctic circle starts december 21st t.w. . 4 years ago i predicted the damage from could when nobody wanted to do it since me too many politicians from from both sides of the aisle benefit from loopholes so they don't want to see closed and your party is just as bad as the republicans in that business barring unforeseen events joe biden will take the white house next month but with his party deeply divided other democrats really celebrating my guest this week from washington is democratic congresswoman debbie dingell is biden a man with a vision over the struggle simply to control his party and the urgent crises. will

be fucking. everything go welcome to comfort zone you're in on the usual party joe biden wins the most powerful job in the world and you all kick off a blame game about why you didn't do better what's the matter with you well i'm one of those people that says we need to stop pointing fingers and we need to take a deep breath in trying to understand why so many people for donald trump as well i think that people are disappointed that we have to close this majority we've had in the house in decades and that's going to make it a challenge at times we don't know where the senate is going to end out quite frankly i'm of a mood it's going to force us to work together you don't want to point fingers but a lot of your colleagues seem. one of the 1st shots in this war was fired by your

colleague in the house of representatives abigail spam bugs she was one of the moderates heaping blame on the left wing of the party for losing seats in the house of representatives we need she said to not ever use the word socialist or socialism mccain we lost members we shouldn't have lost if we're classifying tuesday that election day as a success we'll get torn apart in 2022 that really kicked it off didn't it. well it did in some ways but you know i would encourage i'm one of the culture is our policy and messaging committee for the house of representatives and i think we really have to take time to understand everybody's perspectives very early on 4 years ago are predicted that donald trump could win nobody wanted to listen to me. but i believe the democrats are doing a very bad jump of talking about tree and that donald trump recognize the fear that

workers had in their heart about how our trade policies have ship jobs overseas and that is one of the recent times we've done trump one into 60 early on in this campaign probably buy it probably mayor this year i said to the biden campaign we have to deal with. this defund the police issue it matters in communities cleese are the backbone of many of our communities and some perv's we do have a real problem in this country that if you're a young black man you are being treated differently by market forces meant but not a law enforcement is bad and that we need to be prepared to have uncomfortable conversations but to deal with this and i do believe it was an issue in many districts across the country. the messaging was an issue wasn't it because it didn't fit all areas it wasn't a one size fits all 11 house member mickey cheryl seemed to be speaking for many

others when she said she'd managed to overcome the national messaging that have been so that her mental to so many candidates it's pretty bad isn't that when candidates find their own party's messaging is something that they have to overcome and you you paid for that in rural areas and also among blue collar workers them to . well you know this is what i'm going to say i have a very diverse district i actually have one of the most diverse districts in the country i'm very proud of the fact that i represent u.n. deputy workers steelworkers teamsters are a significant part. what we call the down river sit in my district but i also represent one of the muslim proper except this country in ann arbor michigan where the home of the university of michigan is and many progressives i say the same thing no matter where i am and what i'm trying to do is to get both sides to listen to each other i think each it's incumbent upon each member you were running to

represent your district to talk to your gesture to talk about the issues that matter and to just be very straightforward i'm not i think too many how in titian's talk galilee. i think that's one of the reasons to jump on 4 years ago too because he lied because he's out of every google didn't he talk to in simple terms that people could understand and or and you didn't it's seems clear that he didn't go that one thing joe biden will not be is a powerful president not only does he have to worry about keeping the various wings of his party together but if he fails to pick up 2 senate seats in georgia that have a runoff next month most of the big ticket items that he wants to pass will die in the senate over and even make it on to capitol hill will they that's a narrow space to maneuver in i'm going to very much disagree with you i think you know by who is the president of the times and i think he could be a very powerful president he's someone that has the ability to bring people

together the last 4 years have seen this country torn apart we've been divided quiz fear and hatred just times not afraid to reach across the aisle he knows how to bring people together he compromise isn't a dirty word there are a lot of things that need to get done in this country and i think i'm samantha. but i want to ask about your notion of where things the country should be going after 4 years of donald trump biden promised in a thanksgiving speech life is going to return to normal but that doesn't sound like much of an ambition does it i don't bother you so robert reich the former labor secretary pointed out the normal would be a disaster and that's because normal led to trump normal is 4 decades of stagnant wages and widening inequality normal is 40 years of shredded safety nets he said and the most expensive least adequate health care system in the world no more is worsening police brutality why on earth does your leadership want to go back to

normal. you know i think it depends on what you're taking the word normal to me i mean we tend nothing but trama nothing but being torn apart for 4 years in the ability to get nothing done unless you're a billionaire i think that when joe biden says normal we're going to have a national strategy plan for checking code with and nothing is going to be ok and you know we are doing something called the east coast it's stopping its spread how can those that have been impacted helping our small businesses their restaurants the people that have been unemployed helping with more testing in tracing and getting the vaccine out there that's the 1st step of normality you know we need i'm one of the authors of medicare for all it's one of the things that means the most to me it's most important public policy for me to pursue i will be a pain in the bazooka quite frankly to joe biden now on the subject but i believe

we will take steps i believe my father in law was the author of social security in this country and my has for once one of the chief my father in law and my husband grew chief architects of medicare i think that the time comes from those kinds of changes when you've come out of very difficult moments like we are out of code that i think the time now is for us to talk about those issues i think people understand what when we talk about i want to bring jobs back here i want to make national security one of the critical component something any procurement strategy when people do not understand what a supply chain was until suddenly we're in the midst of cold it and we saw what was happening with p.p. equipment and had pendent we were on other countries and that we didn't have called the goods to make a van built or nurses and doctors but then we did the head of deal how do you deal with the fact that there's some little trust in government for years public trust

in the federal government has hovered near record. blows hasn't hit trust in congress is very low just just 20 percent of us adults say they trust the government to do the right thing or ways or even most of the time just 20 percent arguably america is angrier and more divided than ever isn't it. coming out in front of ministration no question and by the way it's not just government there were only you see your own country's seed it throughout europe people are mad in institutions they don't trust institutions we have to be built the foundations and we have to rebuild that trust and it doesn't come overnight but since the divisions in your own party a staring people in the face again how can you be in any way qualified to deal with those divisions in the country at large but. don't stop working and i think i've got a pretty good record finding that common ground between people. and the squad and more moderate is what you mean though the left wing of the party well

this quote is a don't see reshoot to even their friends alexander because they were points yeah yeah yes but what we must do. it's have labor at the table the progress that's have to build a table that's large enough to have everybody had it i'm very committed to doing that and quite frankly already doing it but half the country debbie dingell simply doesn't believe the same truths that you do trump supporters believe overwhelmingly that your party stole the election it's not a fact it's an article of faith isn't it which makes you in the uncharted waters now joe biden talks about finding that sweet spot where democrats and republicans can the goshi 8 to gether and i'm wondering where exactly that sweet spot would be with such people you have a staggering 220 out of 249 republicans in congress that have failed to give either a clear answer or any on sort of talk about who won the presidential election how

do you find a sweet spot with people like that. professionally i know many of those people and i know i wish that they would have the courage to speak up a little more. but they do you know many of those people know that donald trump has lost the election one of the things that i'm the angriest about right now is this extended period by rudy giuliani and the president is not resulting in anybody showing that the election was rigged or not handle in very ethical manner but it is undermining people's confidence in the election outcome in the in the integrity we have to rebuild it well i didn't say this was going to be easy but i'm not going to be as negative as you are i know that i'm not naive but you don't start something by thinking it's not fixable i believe it's fixable and i'm going to work to do that when when you talk about truth and the truth deficit in american

politics it's pretty difficult for joe biden to claim the moral high ground there isn't it the fact checking group allah defect compared a scorecard of some of his statements this year and the results why although no means comparable to donald trump was somewhat less than stellar weren't they does that matter to you. well i don't know that they were someone less than stellar r.a.z.r. care somebody tells the truth and i want somebody to tell the truth you want me to tell you what really bothers me is social media which was founded in both ears in my lifetime to help bring people together and it's dividing us further because we don't have accountability i think you seem countries across the world trying to figure out how do we hold social media accountable so it does stop spreading some of these myths truce these lies and is actually factually accurate as an impacts are people think when joe biden according to politico fact has 1000 examples of

false statements that he'd made during the campaign this year and a number of other statements were labeled harf true or mostly false that's not a proud record is it if if the only choice in america is between politicians who lie a little and those who lie a lot it's not surprising that the public doesn't trust any of you as a. i haven't seen this report and no it's not surprising but we have to live that we have to tell people the truth if you know we've you know our record announcer saying and as if it doesn't make you popular every single day but i will tell people exactly what i think and i think and what i believe and what the truth is whether they like it or not and that's what we've got to do as elected officials to rebuild confidence in government so you've got to get rid of the lies and the liars having to well i'm not quite prepared to conjure up

by not a liar the way you are i need to go look at this report but i do know donald trump is trying a lot of florida so a lot of them have been in the last month. you just have america's most expensive election ever what i've seen one estimate a whacking $14000000000.00 taking in both white house and congressional races you support campaign finance report you co-sponsored last year's for the people at that would have introduced some reforms to the system it cleared the house of representatives but you must have known it would die on its way to the senate so was this anything more than just a symbolic gesture the 1st time you don't get anything done if you don't start if you don't try. and we're going to try again if you want to get something done the fact of the matter is some things take more time than any of us want to see we were i mean well sanjay i'm a railroad track more will be and more will to do it more you have to keep people

you've got to build the coalition so if you have a piece of legislation that is passed and you're talking about it in states with republican senators but you create the demand by the people that elected them to do something you can offend surely get something that but your aim is to get money out of american politics i think this is what i say that i love and that's just not going to happen though is it because the fact is that too many politicians from from both sides of they are benefit from loopholes that they don't want to see closed. well i and your partner is just as navajo republicanism that is and i want to tell you something i think that there's nothing worse than fundraising i hate it i despise it everybody tells me i can t. so much more i've no desire to be the highest fundraiser i get when i have to do to get reelected i think i'll have people that feel like me and wish we could have a public option so that everybody had similar money and had to run in their record

in who they are and what their prescriptions are you know this is negative you are every single day of the week i get nothing done but if you want to see change you start a fine print i work with many groups are trying on the ground to bring about their change and i think we will look at change at some point more than the literally dozens scores hundreds of occasions on which people have have come into power saying we're going to reform campaign finance we're going to reform the political action committees it's been said by so many of your politicians over the years 203040 years i remember hearing about this it never happens do you seriously think you can get the money what was it to pony of the former speaker who said money is the mother's milk of american politics it was then still isn't it. you know i could go through things in life that people said that would never change that

they are changing i mean it is you have to stay at it you have to be willing to bring about change women were not allowed to vote it took hundreds of beer a 100 years of women growing to bring about the change now we've been allowed to vote for a 100 years blacks were reluctant it wasn't right you know change doesn't i'd makes me hungry i'd like to change a lot of things every night but if i have your attitude not in some going to change nothing will change that's not the way our approach life i approach life these things need to change and this is how we're going to go try to get out let's look if we made everything good some of biden's early choices for senior jobs in his administration there seems to be some concern that in foreign policy at least there may be too many old faces from the obama years coming about like john kerry for instance who's going to be the administration's point man on climate change his mantra like biden just be normal steady unflashy decent but that didn't work

so well last time around in foreign policy that it. how it depends who you're talking to i quite frankly think that our form our says that it was asked are we nobody and when you come when you talk to other countries we haven't had normal diplomatic relations ships in almost 4 years and steady calm dependable foreign power diplomatic relations is something we need we need to rebuild that respect the trust and confidence that other countries have and us i think it's just fine but it didn't work so well with a bomber biden administration did it i didn't agree with them on some things but it did work on a number of many other things so i mean they're not caught napping when the russians seize crimea and 2014 the kremlin then told the us to get out of the way in the eastern mediterranean the kids of the arab spring were thrown under the bus when a bomb about egypt's military leaders who regularly tortured bare opponents if all

that's normal then you really don't want to go back to that do i would young want to go back to that and i'm someone who's very active been released issues and. will be paying a great deal of attention but i certainly hope you don't think that things have been normal trumpets we've withdrawn from the world health organization as we've drawn was drawn from the paris peace accord when you look at what our relationship is with china and russia a president that would meet and not tell us what he discussed was. with putin that's not normal so sorry i i am ready for what you might call doubt i call steady income one of one of the big issues involved in policy always is israel and the supply being jerusalem's closest ally the obama biden team last time around failed spectacularly to advance the peace process stop the growth of settlements or in the

occupation. you wouldn't want to repeat any of that would you. incidentally your party's election platform conspicuously failed to mention the occupation then that was that despite pressure from the progressive one is a 2 state solution it was once very much on the table and working for it many things have made them more pragmatic we need to deal with their human rights violations and palestine there are a lot of issues that need to be. dealt with i want peace in the middle east i'm going to be someone who is going to push this administration to deal with it very significantly one is 1st thing so we have a commitment for history feel good muslim travel and as just an aside as well so you know i i think there's a lot of hope. for the way that some things may be and may be handled and

this is an area especially in the mideast i will be playing a great deal of attention to their rainy and situation is another. situation of great concern only the u.s. has the power to change policy in israel if you're serious about doing that and helping palestinians to get a viable state then you're going to have to use a lot more of that power than you've ever done in the past that's a fact ability through because it's guys on tough enough to do that yes yes you talked about the allies the biden team has indicated they would like to rebuild relations with america's allies after the turmoil of the trump years the rudeness the unpredictability the orders and threats do you think you can paper over the diplomatic damage done by trump no we're not going to be full of paper over it we're going to have to restructure our integrity we have to restore people's confidence in us we're going to have to act so that we build and regain their

trust. but they are liars it's not something you do the way that we've handled a number of diplomatic relationships of the 4 years now and there were great mistakes made and you're trying to deal back that but those allies have learned an uncomfortable lesson from the trump years haven't there is anger merkel said in 2017 there were good reasons to continue fighting for the transatlantic relationship but she said we can't count on it anymore the fact is the europeans can't be sure that trump or someone like him won't be coming back in 4 years time and frankly you can't be sure that either kenya. i'm going to do everything i can to make sure that it doesn't happen and the congress republicans and democrats need to find a way to send a message to europe that they can count on us as things stand debbie dingell trumbo is leaving you to pick up the pieces from a pandemic that he failed disastrously to control thousands more may die before the

vaccine gets to work one in 3 adults say their families are hungry one in 4 small businesses can't stay open. a united party would struggle to get any kind of handle on the situation a divided one like yours will struggle even more won't it look nobody thinks of me as this i'm known as debbie downer ok let's just because i say it as it is i don't try to be down competent very serious problem we have failed to have a leader that stent we might get or have any kind of national plan but i think that people are tired and fatigued and they're dying and they're scared and they're ready to have a leader. you're going to see joe biden come in could together a national plan put people in charge it's not going to happen overnight all of us around the world are going to have a very difficult winter that if we listen to the scientists we listen to the

experts we know that mass save lives then hopefully with a vaccine which we need to make sure is available globally to everybody then this is going to get under control and i think i don't think the pari i don't know how many nasty came so political and so debate about the certainly not in other countries but i think joe biden will inspire people to wear their masks for the 1st 100 days will see numbers go down that seems will become available we have to build people's confidence up in that seems and i'm hoping next christmas life's going to be more normal for many people if you look at the difficulty now of agreeing a stimulus package with the republicans in congress you can't expect much help from them can you even in this process i'm donald trump hasn't exactly shown much empathy for the suffering in the bereavement that's taken place in such large

numbers across america i think was the right leader you will you will get enough votes to be able to do what we have to do i think you've even. it seems senator mcconnell recognized that people in kentucky are you can't be how you can be in any of your states and with some people that you represent and not understand how scared people are how much doubt they need but they're playing politics tell you they are they will want you to fail so they can come back in 4 years time and say hey look what a lousy job the democrats did you know i'm not a cynic like you are i actually think that there are people that want to get elected and both parties because they want to help the people they represent so there may be a few that are oh you can't let them win but i think that there are a lot of people that have seen the human suffering in their districts and more to do something to help the people they represent their dental let's hope you're right thanks very much for being on conference so thank you thank you.

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